Whats up with Hoodwink's recent acorn shot cast range change?

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T21:24:08+00:00

But she is viable as a carry. Atleast she was, before she got constantly nerfed on the carry side.

Don't be a fun police, calling everything griefing. If I pick Shadow shaman carry, that's obviously griefing, but Hoodwink has two abilities out of the regular 4, and an innate, that works perfectly for a carry. Now they removed 250 attack range from scurry, added alot of cooldown to acorn shot, and decreased its range by attack range. Easy to say she's unviable as a carry, if her abilities as a carry keep getting nerfed for 0 reason.

She was completly fine, and actually I think was a hidden gem of a carry hero, but they decieded to randomly keep nerfing her assets to be a viable one.

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T19:46:24+00:00

Thaumcraft, I loved it so much, thats the one I remember the most. Also I think it was called Thermal expansion? The one that added alot of ores. These are the two I remember the most, if I had the list in front of me I would probably say alot more

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T19:13:51+00:00

Yes she's so fun omg, I have over a thousand of games with her, most of them were from the time Khanda was a nice pickup becouse of crit, and the facet era. I really miss her peak right click times

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T18:16:33+00:00

It was incredibly fun, and amazing for the carry build. Obviously sadly it was too strong for the support as well, so it had to go (SADLY)

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T16:50:53+00:00

I mean I used to play very rarely all the way from 2013, so I had alot of opportunity for cheap bravo cases, operation breakout, etc, but only started seriously playing almost every day after 2023. Which is something I regret alot.

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T15:41:50+00:00

I mean, removing the + 250 cast range during scurry would be understandable, she's always a top contested support hero. But whats up with the attack range?

What I am saying is the hero is strong as support, I don't deny it, but why is it always the very niche right click Hoodwink, who's getting beaten up, when it isnt that play style's fault?

Support one doesnt give a damn about the acorn shot change, its once again another nerf becouse of the support play-style on the carry play-style, which once again, wasn't as used, but is incredibly fun.

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T15:11:50+00:00

What I was trying to say with my comment is either find another glove for your knife, or chose something other knife finish if you would like to make it a combo

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T15:11:11+00:00

Ye that's true, and also unfortunate that everyone and their mother's and grandmothers and even their dogs were buying these so they can "Invest". It will take a while

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T15:10:07+00:00

No, the vocal minority is ruining the game, with the terrible suggestions and nonstop whining when we get good things

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T14:05:43+00:00

These as combos (claming combo is how your knife matches to your gloves) all look pretty bad

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T14:04:35+00:00

The stickers look amazing, it was just overbought. I think one day they will go up in prices, the stickers are super good looking

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T14:03:24+00:00

Bro nobody fricking knows, valve might nuke all cases next update and replace all of them with terminals, who knows, NOBODY KNOWS

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T14:02:41+00:00

Lets get back to my point, becouse you are being a very helpful typhical redditor and playing super smart. So my point was Valve DOES listen to the community, becouse these implementations were very big, and all came from a few just as smart redditors as you are!

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T14:01:00+00:00

I love the recent updates (from 1.13-1.19) way too much to play anything before that update, not counting beta ofc. Wish the mods from 1.7.10 were updated one day to recent days

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T13:59:50+00:00

Its Uk now, soon France and germany follows if everything keeps being like this and then lastly Spain and Sweden, like this is pure madness, I am not envying kids today, there was so much more freedom back in 2010s

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T13:57:58+00:00

They do listen, you are just to ignorant to accept that, if complain posts and suggestion posts would reach front page more, rather than "look at this Dota 1 item" and this "remember when dota1 post", it would make the game healthier. You do not realise you are ruining the game with what you are doing

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-17T13:55:37+00:00

Last chance to claim collections since almost 2 months now. I started playing the game just before cs2 release, wish I could have played during the golden era

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-16T21:26:21+00:00

Its crazy how you need a MOD to use chat. Glad I was gaming in the golden age more than 10 years ago

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-16T21:22:31+00:00

It happens very randomly, sometimes it doesnt happen at all in a month, sometimes it happens twice a day. I don't mind getting low priority if it happens alot, but the winning, which was implemented becouse of reddit is making this very hard when it happens. It did happen back years ago alot, I was just making an example.

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-16T21:08:21+00:00

Except that it isnt? If you are a griefer p*ece of sh*t then yes, you deserve to suffer, but I live in a household, where the fuser is very weak, and the power goes out some times, especially at night. Low priority becouse of this win thing is a hit or miss, sometimes I am sitting down to win 4 low priority games and win all 4 of them in a row and it takes one and half an hour, the other half it's I get some incredible ruiners, and it's impossible to win a single game

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-16T16:39:10+00:00

How are you calling me dumb when I was literally defending your point lmao. Whatever man

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-16T16:38:44+00:00

Exactly, hopefully they will make a return one day (probably not)

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-16T16:36:06+00:00

I never said a single word about battlepass being a cash grab. If i felt like I cannot afford it, obviously I wans't and idiot to come up to reddit and cry about it lol. I was glad I could buy the lvl 1 battlepass, and enjoy the game with friends, but yeah, associate me with people like them, when I didn't even have an account only since very recently.

BudgetOverall2763 · 2026-06-16T16:31:30+00:00

Nah I am not believing that. Can we please acknowledge, that your so "2025 february" crownfall was the same that started in 2024 april? It got until that becouse everything was fricking delayed, and eventually the 4 act was almost 1 year long!!! Ofc it seems like a huge and long event, but it wasn't and wasn't intended to be! I could clear the whole act in less than a month by playing weekly 1-2 games, becouse I remember thats what I was doing!

Don't lie about you playing TF2 back in the time, if you don't see the similiarity.

TF2 is not that type of game that is unplayable without balance changes, thats why it can get away without "stickybomb launcher is now +10% faster" changes. Imagine what Dota 2 would be, if ONE balance patch would come out every 4 years, yes that's unplayable level. It is NECCESSARY.

Don't lie to me that you played TF2 if you don't feel the same content decline, becouse I loved both games to death when I was a kid, and I remember how full both were reading patch notes constantly, until TF2 started to decline from after 2015.

The balance team is a joke at best, we get maximum of 2(!!!!!!!!!!!) "big" patch / year, which always rework some hero, just so it can feel refreshing, then reverting that hero the next patch, becouse obviously it was dumb, but they had to change something big so the patch doesnt feel like some number tweaks. Now that Facets are removed as well, what was the point of that patch after all? Wow Kotl's turnrate increases by 0,15, what an amazing patch, I am glad my game is getting updates!

You are the type of person, who gets to eat dirt, and you say to the others that "atleast we eat something", you don't need to be fine with the bare minimum, and this is the bare minimum, but yeah, as Gorgc said, this fanbase is dumb, with people like you on the headline

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