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Dota 2’s new wizard is a giant lady with a giant hammerDawnbreaker is the latest in a golden age of giant women
Dawnbreaker is the latest in a golden age of giant women
While everyone’s still thirsting overResident Evil Village’s Lady DimitrescuandAssassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Olympians, Valve have introduced a giant lady of their own asDota 2’s new hero. Dawnbreaker is her name, and clonking enemies with a huge hammer is her game. Personally beingtoo tall to love, I welcome this golden age of Amazons.
Valora, the Dawnbreaker, arrived in Update 7.29 on Friday. Story-wise, she’s a cosmic warrior forged from the heart of a star, who fought against chaos but got duffed up and spent thousands of years drifting in the void before crash-landing on a new planet. For someone who failed her gods and has lost everything she knew, she seems pretty chipper.
Seeher hero pagefor more, and this vid from the fans at DotaCinema for a demonstration:
Dawnbreaker Hero Spotlight Dota 2 7.29Watch on YouTube
Dawnbreaker Hero Spotlight Dota 2 7.29
A big balance pass arrived alongside the new wizard. It tweaked the layout of many trees and paths on the map, changed so very many numbers on skills, talents, and items, reworked lots of Aghanim’s Shard upgrades, outright removed Necromonicon, and more. Seethe Dawnbreaker update pagefor full patch notes, orwatch people discuss the patch for NINE HOURSif you really want.
Dawnbreaker has She-Ra vibes, which does remind me how weird the tone ofthe new animated Netflix seriesis. While Dota does have dark elements in the backstory of its world and wizards, in-game it’s all quite silly and lighthearted. The Dota: Dragon’s Blood series is an edgefest with war crimes and orgies. Doesn’t feel anything like the game I’ve played for thousands of hours. It feels especially weird when you realise the studio who animated Dragon’s Blood also did Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts, a show about post-apocalyptic slavery and genocide which is still friendly, colourful, funny, and warm (though they wrote neither, obvs). I guess Netflix want more edgy fantasy in the vein of their Castelevania. Or maybe it’s meant to capture the harrowing experience of playing Dota with strangers while having voice chat enabled. Dunno. Didn’t like it. How about you, gang?
