Item Survey 1 Results
The most popular items overall in the survey were Blink Dagger, Phase Boots, and Force Staff, which did well in all categories. These are all items that provide mobility and have a strong Dota identity. Mobility items dominating the list matches our belief that we haven't quite reached the right amount of that mechanic in the game yet.
The biggest losers were Claszureme Hourglass, Hooked Net, and Demolishing Warhammer. Hourglass is in a particularly bad spot. Locked cards can be a frustrating mechanic on the receiving end, but the card also barely manages to ever lock anything at the moment so it scores badly both as a card that doesn't do much and also as a card that is frustrating to play against. We'll be looking at changing the mechanic.
Hooked Net also scored poorly - it's not powerful and doesn't create interesting situations. Perhaps it could use a more effective, more positional effect to tie it more strongly to the placement of the casting hero.
Plain items such as Broadsword and Demolishing Warhammer had low scores as well, which is somewhat expected. There's a place for some vanilla items but there shouldn't be too many of them, and there are currently a lot of variations stats-only items at this tier.
20, 25, and 30 cost Item Survey
We've read some great discussion in the Artifact Discord and in our email feedback about the higher tier items. Let us know how you feel about this tier of items over in the Survey. Below are the item cards for reference.
20 Cost Items
25 Cost Items
30 Cost Items
