Since you last played
Tuned 8 times14 lines of changes across 8 patches, condensed below to the ones that still matter.
4 buffs and 3 nerfs in total: roughly even.
Cost and recipe
- ▼Recipe cost increased from 250 to 300. Total cost unchanged at 2775g (due to Chainmail cost decrease)changed 5 times across 3 patches, net nerf
Biggest changes
- ▼Damage per tick reduced from 1x int to 0.75x int
- ◆Intelligence decreased from +14 to +12adjusted 2 times across 2 patches, roughly even
- ▲Duration increased from 3s to 4s
- ▼Armor bonus decreased from +6 to +5
- ▲Attack Speed bonus increased from +35 to +40
- ◆Poison attack now has True Strike
- ◆Fixed interaction that caused Witch Blade to give permanent True Strike against magic immune targets
- ▲Now provides +1.5 Mana Regen
Most recent change patch 7.41, Mar 2026
- ▼Recipe cost increased from 250 to 300. Total cost unchanged at 2775g (due to Chainmail cost decrease)
What it does now
- + 40 Attack Speed
- + 12 Intelligence
- + 1.5 Mana Regeneration
- + 5 Armor
- + 300 Projectile Speed
Cooldown: 9s
- Witch Blade PassiveCauses your next attack to apply a poison for 4 seconds, slowing by 25% and dealing 0.75x your intelligence as damage every second. This attack has True Strike.
Built from Oblivion Staff, Chainmail, Orb of Venom plus a 300 gold recipe.
Heroes that buy Witch Blade
Most bought first, from item purchases in recent professional matches (OpenDota). Public games can differ.