Valve dropped Dota 2 patch 7.41a on 27th March 2026, a quick follow-up to the 7.41 gameplay update. It's a tighter patch, focused on balance adjustments rather than sweeping changes, but there are a few things worth flagging before you queue up.
On the bug fix side, several miscellaneous client and server crashes have been resolved over the past few days. The option to display Hero Facet Names above the health bar has been removed entirely, along with spectator options and hotkey settings tied to Facets. A fix also went in for an incorrect notification message related to assist gold. None of that is headline stuff, but crashing mid-game is always the worst kind of loss, so credit where it's due for the quick turnaround.
The Facet display removal is the one change that'll actually affect how you read the screen in a live game, so if you were relying on that overhead label to track enemy Facets at a glance, you'll need to adjust. Full patch notes below.
Patch 7.41a is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.
In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues:
- Fixed a number of miscellaneous client and server crashes
- Option for displaying Hero Facet Names above health bar has been removed
- Spectator options and hotkey settings for Facets have been removed
- Fixed incorrect notification message when messaging who got gold for an assist
- Fixed high amounts of incoming heal amplification not stacking correctly with high amounts of health restoration
- Fixed a spot near the Dire fountain that could be teleported to but not exited from without cutting trees
- Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst reacting to damage that is reacting to damage from Conjurer's Catalyst
- Fixed Mage Slayer being mitigated by innate physical block on melee heroes
- Fixed Shiva's Guard not piercing debuff immunity
- Fixed Anti-Mage's scepter bonuses for Mana Break Max Mana Burned sometimes not being applied
- Fixed Arc Warden's Tempest Double receiving copies of foraged items
- Fixed Bloodseeker's Blood Rite dealing more damage than intended
- Fixed Bloodseeker Aghanim's Shard not piercing BKB
- Fixed Chaos Knight being able to get the Nimble enchantment
- Fixed bad interaction between Granite Golem and Chen's Holy Persuasion causing creeps to have escalating amounts of HP
- Fixed Chen's Holy Persuasion not having a reduced cooldown when cast on a persuaded creep
- Fixed Chen's Holy Persuasion lowering the Zealot's HP in some scenarios
- Fixed Chen unsummoning a Zealot causing it to not respawn until Chen died
- Fixed Chen's Zealots sometimes dying when using Holy Persuasion
- Fixed Dragon Knight applying Wyrm's Wrath damage twice in Dragon Form
- Fixed Elder Dragon Form frost breath not piercing debuff immunity
- Fixed Drow Ranger's Marksmanship triggering on Specialist's Array or Hydra's Breath attacks
- Fixed Elder Titan's Move Spirit ability not updating its keybinding when set in the settings
- Fixed Elder Titan Split Earth being cast in the wrong direction if the move spirit command was issued before the Split Earth went off
- Fixed Grimstroke's Dark Portrait Illusions not having 95% magic resistance
- Fixed Grimstroke's Ink Trail not always applying
- Fixed Grimstroke's Ink Trail visual stopping early when the debuff is still applied
- Fixed Jakiro Liquid Fire not benefitting from AoE increases. Jakiro's Liquid Fire Area of Effect can now be visualized when casting
- Fixed Lich losing all of his mana when casting Sinister Gaze on a Huskar who has recently been attacked by Silencer's Glaives of Wisdom
- Fixed Legion Commander's Duel not ending when winning against an illusion or reincarnating hero
- Fixed Legion Commander being able to move during Duel with specific order combinations
- Fixed Mars being able to create immobile spears
- Fixed active item shared cooldown not being shared across Meepos if he has multiple items with the same shared cooldown in his inventory
- Fixed Meepo being able to crash the server with two armlets
- Fixed Meepo being able to crash the server with observer/sentry wards
- Fixed Meepo being able to use many Hands of Midas
- Fixed Meepo clones being able to receive sentry and observer wards
- Fixed several exploits with Meepo having multiple copies of the same item
- Fixed Monkey King not having his untransform ability after using Mischief
- Fixed Morphling Replicate not replicating the innate ability of the target
- Fixed Morphling having incorrect hotkeys when replicating
- Fixed Muerta losing Supernatural stacks when respawning with Aegis
- Fixed Night Stalker not refreshing basic abilities with Aghanim's Scepter when killing Spirit Bear
- Fixed Ogre's Fireblast and Unrefined Fireblast not multicasting correctly if there is an existing multicasting Fireblast already occurring
- Fixed Omniknight's +75% Hammer of Purity Bonus Base Damage giving +80 AoE bonus to Purification
- Fixed Primal Beast getting moved if his Pulverize was reflected by Lotus Orb
- Fixed Primal Beast Pulverize not ending correctly if he targets a Soulbound hero, if his secondary target is out of world
- Fixed Rubick abilities getting removed when stealing Largo Amphibian Rhapsody and Monkey King's Wukong's Command at the same time
- Added a tooltip for Spirit Breaker's scepter specifying it increases Nether Strike's knockback as well
- Fixed Tiny's Tree Volley dealing different amounts of damage if he was holding a tree or not after buying Aghanim's Shard
- Fixed some values not incrementing correctly when using Eldwurm's Edda in Ability Draft
- Fixed an issue with Winter Wyvern Winter's Curse kill sometimes counting as a deny if a previously unaffected enemy entered the effect of the winters curse after it initially started
- Fixed Zeus's Lightning Hands not starting in the toggle on state when acquiring acquiring a shard while dead
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