Dota 2

Diffusal Blade

Shop item, 2,500 gold. Built from Blade of Alacrity and Robe of the Magi plus a 1,050 gold recipe.

Diffusal Blade
2,500g

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Tuned 6 times

12 lines of changes across 6 patches, condensed below to the ones that still matter.

3 buffs and 7 nerfs in total: trending weaker.

Cost and recipe

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    Recipe reworked. Now requires Blade of Alacrity + Robe of the Magi + 1050g Recipe (total cost reduced from 3150 to 2500)

Biggest changes

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    Agility bonus reduced from 24 to 15
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    Inhibit now has a mana cost of 25adjusted 2 times across 2 patches, net nerf
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    Melee Illusion mana burn reduced from 12 to 8
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    Manabreak on melee illusions reduced from 16 to 12
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    Mana burnt per attack reduced from 50 to 40
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    Manabreak damage per mana burned increased from 80% to 100%

Most recent change patch 7.40, Dec 2025

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    Manabreak no longer applied by illusions
What it does now
  • + 15 Agility
  • + 10 Intelligence
  • Inhibit Active 15s cooldownTargets an enemy, slowing it for 4 seconds.
  • Manabreak PassiveEach attack burns 40 mana from the target, and deals 1 physical damage per burned mana. Illusions do not burn mana.

Built from Blade of Alacrity, Robe of the Magi plus a 1,050 gold recipe.

Heroes that buy Diffusal Blade

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Every Diffusal Blade change, patch by patch

All 12 changes Valve listed for Diffusal Blade since patch 7.24b, newest first. Last changed in 7.40 (Dec 2025).

Patch 7.40

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    Manabreak no longer applied by illusions

Patch 7.35c

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    Inhibit now has a mana cost of 25

Patch 7.34

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    Inhibit No longer roots creeps, instead applies normal slow

Patch 7.31

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    Recipe reworked. Now requires Blade of Alacrity + Robe of the Magi + 1050g Recipe (total cost reduced from 3150 to 2500)
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    Agility bonus reduced from 24 to 15
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    Intelligence bonus reduced from 12 to 10
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    Melee Illusion mana burn reduced from 12 to 8

Patch 7.29

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    Manabreak damage per mana burned increased from 80% to 100%
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    Manabreak on melee illusions reduced from 16 to 12
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    Agility increased from 20 to 24
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    Intelligence increased from 10 to 12

Patch 7.24b

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    Mana burnt per attack reduced from 50 to 40