A new gold-farming Dota 2 strategy has seriously backfired

Dota 2’s metagame changed overnight with patch 7.34, only two months before The International 2023. Hand of Midas was one of the items that saw tweaks in the update, and the item can now hold two charges. Shortly after reading the patch notes that dropped on Aug. 8, Dota 2 community members invented a new gold-farming strategy that looked better on paper.

Fans who loaded into the game’s Demo mode found out that Hand of Midas’ latest version didn’t share a cooldown with duplicate versions. This means that players could purchase more than one Hand of Midas, and they would all have separate cooldowns. As a result, Ogre Magi suddenly became everyone’s favorite hero, with players farming three or more copies of Hands of Midas on the hero.