Dota 2 Update 7.09: Time for Support to Get Items?

Two weeks after updates Spring Cleaning, Valve announces updates 7.09. This is updates first since Ice Frog announced that he would give updates small every week, instead of giving one updates massive after a few months.

Even though it’s not much and doesn’t give at all nerf or buff against heroes, updates this is quite significant. But the ones who benefit the most are heroes and players support.

Courier price reduced from 200 to 50 gold
Gold initial reduced from 625 to 600 gold
Tango price reduced to 90 gold, but only has 3 charge
The first Bounty Rune will give 40 gold to all team members who took it. No longer giving 100 gold to the hero who took. The appearance of this rune has also changed slightly.
Kill stack forest will now give 15 percent gold to whoever made stack the. This bonus will not be given if stack is taken by the enemy team or the hero is taken by the hero who did it stack.
Tier 1 tower mid now a little closer to the river

One tree in the Radiant forest area was removed (see image below)

Distance attack acquisition creep long distance reduced from 800 to 600

Cheaper courier prices are a significant change. The only thing that reduces the effect of this price change is if you have to buy two sets of Tango because you gave two Shared Tango to mid as well as gold less start. But you should still have a surplus of 50 gold, enough for one Branch or Clarity.Also read: Guide to playing support in Dota 2

The first Bounty Rune interaction change may change the team formation in taking or seizing this Rune. But one thing is clear, now anyone can do creep block in mid because he will still get gold.

One change that I find very interesting is the bonus gold for heroes who do stacking. This clearly encourages the support to do stacking, even stacking small though. That way they will get more gold and items.

The question is whether with this change the strategy and line-up with heroes like Sven, Medusa, Templar Assassin, melee carry plus Magnus, or Battle Fury? We will see later.

What do you think? Do you like updates this time?