Corplen’s Blog

Ring of Basilus is formed from two cheap items, Sobi Mask(provides 50% extra mana regen) and Ring of Protection(provides 2 bonus armor to the hero only)

It automatically forms itself when you buy these two items, and provides a good boost to certain heroes, such as heroes with low intelligence such as Earthshaker and Moonrider as it provides a static 0.65 mana regen per second(meaning that it gives 0.65 mana regen without taking your intelligence statistic into account, intelligence heroes get more mana regen from Sobi Mask (in fact, any hero that reaches 33 INT and above will get more mana regen than 0.65 per second from the 50% provided by Sobi Mask)

In the most recent Dota version, ring of basilus can be clicked, when it is clicked it changes the aura from +3 armor to surrounding units (including creeps) to a +3 armor to hero only aura (without the +3 armor, creeps will push less further due to the fact that their damage reduction has not been boosted by the + 3 armor aura)

The 0.65 mana regen per second is very handy for teammates and it gives them the mana regen also, and chen especially will benefit from the fact that his creeps will get 0.65 mana regen per second (all neutral creeps have no mana regen normally if i recall correctly)

Pusher heroes such as Keeper of the Light and Prophet will also benefit from buying this nice little item since it increases the armor of their creeps by 3 which increases their survivability

As an additonal boon, ring of basilus provides a decent +6 damage for free

Ring of Basilus can be disassembled or further combined into Vladmir’s Offering

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 7:07 pm and is filed under Dota. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.