Neutral items in Dota2

Neutral items are artifacts, which drop from neutral creeps. They can’t be bought, sold, or destroyed but can be given to an ally.

Every player can use only one neutral item in a special slot. The unused ones can be put in a stash, which is located near the fountain.

The first neutral items appeared in patch 7.23 on 26.11.2019. Since then, there have been many changes both in the drop system and the list of items.

So, neutral items are divided into five tiers. Each of them drops during particular periods.

Unlike the first two patches, the actual version organized the drop system and it is under control of certain conditions now:

• To drop a neutral item, a hero has to stay near a creep within a radius of 750 but there must be no enemy hero within a radius of 1200
• Also, an item will not drop if the hero, which has killed a creep, is using Town Portal Scroll
• One particular item can drop for one team only once.
• A team can drop 5 neutral items of each tier during a match. What will it be? The pseudorandom system decides.
• When an item is dropped, it lands near the hero who dropped it. So, if you are playing Ember Spirit and you are flying on remnant at the moment of killing, a neutral item will drop in the place you land.

Time limits and the drop rate

Five tiers of items and five time periods of item dropping:

• 7-17 minutes – the first-tier neutral items drop during this period
• 17-27 minutes – the second-tier neutral items drop during this period, if not all five neutral items of the first-tier have dropped, the first tier will also keep dropping
• 27-37 minutes – similar to the previous description, the third tier and the previous ones are dropped
• 37-60 minutes – the fourth tier and the previous ones, which have not dropped
• 60+ minutes – the fifth tier and all the previous ones, which have not dropped

The stash for neutral items

Each team has its own stash of neutral items near the fountain, which is available for all team players. There are two ways to put a neutral item into the stash:

• put it on the ground near the fountain
• teleport it to the stash by using the right click on the item

Teleporting to the stash is available all over the map, the process is instant.

Only up to 5 neutral items of each tier and the items found by your team can be stored in the stash. Because there is an ability to steal a neutral item from your enemy but you can’t put it in your stash. The teleportation of this item will just move it to the fountain.

Besides storing items, the stash also displays the current status of all neutral items found by a team:

• an item is in the stash - the icon of the item is displayed
• an item is in the player’s active slot (the hero icon is displayed)
• an item is in the player’s backpack (the shadowed hero icon is displayed)
• an item is in the player’s stash (the shadowed hero icon is also displayed)
• an item is in the player’s courier (the shadowed hero icon is also displayed)
• an item is on the ground or stolen by the enemy (the shadowed icon “unknown” is displayed)

Tier 1

Relevant:

• Arcane Ring

Once a prized heirloom of a minor lord's house.

+8 Intelligence

+2 Armor

Active Ability: Replenish Mana

Cooldown 45 sec.

Restores 75 mana to all nearby allies.

Radius: 1200

• Broom Handle

The surprisingly dangerous creation of an apprentice sorcerer with a strange fondness for brooms.

+50 Attack Range (melee)

+8 Attack Damage

+4 Armor

• Chipped Vest

It doesn't look like much, but it's oddly comfy.

+4 Health Regeneration

Passive Ability

Everytime you are attacked, you return 30 damage to heroes and 20 damage to creeps.

• Fairy's Trinket

A small token imbued with the fortune of the fae in recognition of an intriguing display of mortal kindness.

+75 Health

+5% Spell Damage

+5% Mana Loss Reduction

• Keen Optic

Stolen from a tinker's shop ages ago, this handy lens has seen service to many owners.

+75 Cast Range

+1,25 Mana Regeneration

• Ocean Heart

A charm blessed by the Council of the Brine.

+5 All Attributes

Passive Ability: Water Regen

Provides you with 10 HP regen and 5 mana regen while in the river.

• Pig Pole

A makeshift charm misplaced by a peace-loving, addlebrained enchanter.

+6 All Attributes

Active Ability: Pig, Out!

Cooldown: 25 sec. Mana cost: 50 points

Turns your hero into a critter for 4 seconds and gives them +10% Movement Speed.

• Possessed Mask

Even when discarded with specific purpose and great care, this frightening mask always finds its way onto the face of a new owner.

+7 Primary Attribute

Passive Ability: Lifesteal

Heals the attacker for 7 HP on each attack.

• Trusty Shovel

Former plaything of a young deity, received as a gift from his uncle.

+75 Health

Active Ability: Dig

Channel Time: 1 sec. Cooldown: 50 sec.

Can find a Bounty Rune, a Flask, an Enchanted Mango, or an enemy Kobold.

• Tumbler's Toy

An antique plaything found in the ruins of an Ozenja circus bazaar.

+200 Mana

Active Ability: Vault

Cooldown: 15 sec.

Propels your hero forward 300 units. Tumbler's Toy gets disabled for 3 seconds if its owner receives damage from a player source.

Irrelevant:

• Elixir

Active Ability: Consume

Restores 500 health and 250 mana to the target over 6 seconds.

If the unit is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost.

• Faded Broach

A life-saving jewel bestowed upon a young queen by a kindly vizier.

+20 Movement Speed

+200 Mana

• Iron Talon

A simple but effective weapon devised to quell a great Hellbear uprising.

+2 Armor

+15 Attack Speed

Active Ability: Chop

Cooldown: Targeting a tree puts the item on a 4 second cooldown, instead of 25 seconds..

Targets a non-player enemy unit to remove 40% of its current HP.

If cast on a tree, instantly destroys it.

• Royal Jelly

To those who harvest olgru jelly, success serves more than mere profit--it's often the means to survival--for only the jelly itself can cure the ravages that follow a sting from the vigilant denizens of the giant hives.

Active Ability: Consume

Cast Range: Global

Grants a target allied unit a permanent buff that provides +2.25 Health Regen and +1.25 Mana Regen.

• Ironwood Tree

Precious. And hearty as a weed.

+6 Strength

+6 Agility

+6 Intelligence

Active Ability: Plant Tree

Cooldown: 20 sec. Cast Range: 800

Targets the ground to plant a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds.

• Mango Tree

Active Ability: Plant a Mango Tree

Targets the ground to plant a mango tree that provides unlimited mango power. The tree generates Enchanted Mangoes every 60 seconds, and provides unobstructed vision in the area.

• Poor Man's Shield

A busted old shield that seems to block more than it should.

+8 Agility

Passive Ability: Damage Block

Gives a 100% chance to block 30 damage from incoming attacks on melee heroes, and 20 damage on ranged.

Has a 50% chance to block damage from creeps.

Tier 2

Relevant:

• Brigand's Blade

An infamous assassin's blade stolen and smuggled out of White Spire after its owner's mysterious demise.

+10 Attack Damage

+10 Attack Speed

Passive Ability: Dark Mercy

Your attacks deal 10 more damage to enemies for each 10% HP they are missing.

• Bullwhip

Once the favored lash of an infamous broker of pit fighters and other live trade.

+3 Health Regeneration

+2.5 Mana Regeneration

Active Ability: Whip

Cooldown: 11 sec.

Grants 18% movement speed when cast on allies, and slows by 18% when cast on enemies. Lasts 4 seconds.

• Dragon Scale

The remains of a dragon always outvalue the wealth of even the most prodigious hoard.

+5 Health Regeneration

+5 Armor

Passive Ability: Afterburn

Causes attacks to burn the enemy, dealing 18 damage per second for 3 seconds.

Affects buildings.

• Essence Ring

An ancient bauble blessed by the breath of Verodicia.

+6 Intelligence

+2 Mana Regeneration

Active Ability: Life Essence

Cooldown: 25 sec. Mana cost: 200

Increases your current and maximum health by 400 for 15 seconds.

• Fae Grenade

Those marked for death by the fae shine brightly to all manner of creatures in the shadow realm.

+20 Movement Speed

Active Ability: Shadow Brand

Cooldown: 20 sec. Mana cost: 25

Throws a Mark towards an enemy within 900 range applying a debuff that deals 40 damage every second and provides vision of the unit for 7 seconds.

• Grove Bow

A gift from the moon goddess to one of her prized disciples many memories ago.

+20 Attack Speed

+100 Attack Range (ranged)

Passive Ability: Magic Amp

Reduces magic resistance of the attacked enemy by 15%.

• Nether Shawl

An otherworldly garment tethered to our plane by unknown means.

+20% Magic Resistance

+6% Spell Damage

-2 Armor

• Philosopher's Stone

A weightless charm created by an enchanter with a powerful scorn for brute force.

+80 Gold per minute

+200 Mana

-30 Attack Damage

• Pupil's Gift

An astounding plate of ever-replenishing, fortifying fruit.

+15 Secondary Attributes

Increases both secondary attributes

• Quicksilver Amulet

An enchanted talisman brimming with a mysterious substance.

+4% Movement Speed

+10 Attack Speed

+40% Attack Animation Speed

+40% Projectile Speed

Passive Ability: Quicksilver

Grants you a bonus 4% movement speed and 20 attack speed anytime one of your abilities are on cooldown.

• Ring of Aquila

The ring of the fallen Warlord Aquila continues to support armies in battle.

+3 Attack Damage

+3 Strength

+9 Agility

+3 Intelligence

Passive Ability: Aquila Aura

Grants 1.25 mana regeneration and 2 armor to nearby allies.

Radius 1200

Switchable Aura

Deactivate to stop affecting non-hero units.

• Vambrace

The coveted treasure that divided the heirs of Queen Raiya upon her death, resulting in the eventual downfall of her kingdom.

+10 Item’s Main Attribute

+5 Other Attributes

It also provides one of the following bonuses depending on the item’s main attribute:

Strength: +10% Magic ResistanceAgility: +10 Attack SpeedIntelligence: +6% Spell Damage

Irrelevant:

• Clumsy Net

+5 Strength

+5 Agility

+5 Intelligence

+2 Mana Regeneration

Active Ability: Ensnare

Cooldown: 25 sec.

Ensnares the target enemy and yourself for 1.75 seconds.

• Imp Claw

Though their tasks are largely thankless, demon hunters can often turn a profit bartering parts in Weeping Rose.

+26 Attack Damage

Passive Ability: Critical Strike

Cooldown: 7 sec.

Empowers your next attack, causing it to be a critical strike dealing 130% damage.

• Tome of Aghanim

Active Ability: Consume

Temporarily grants an allied target the Aghanim's Scepter buff for 3 minutes.

• Vampire Fangs

+15% Lifesteal

+6% Spell Lifesteal

+300 Night Vision

Tier 3

Relevant:

• Blast Rig

One of a set of custom rigs once worn by infamous road agents in the Outlands, its siblings have been lost to misfires and the various tides of time.

+7 Armor

Passive Ability: Hair Trigger

Cooldown: 20 sec.

The next time you get attacked by a hero within 400 range, explode dealing 250 damage to all enemies within a 400 radius and causing them to miss 100% of their attacks for 2 seconds.

• Ceremonial Robe

One of many items lost in the looting of Zelenwyr's sacred reliquary.

+250 Mana

Passive Ability: Ceremonial Aura

Lowers enemy Status Resistance by 10% and Magic Resistance by 10% within a radius of 1200.

• Cloak of Flames

A very fine cloak that plays host to an overly-protective living flame.

+4 Armor

+10% Magic Resistance

Passive Ability: Immolate

Burns enemy units for 45 damage per second. Illusions deal 30 damage per second.

• Elven Tunic

Even simple items of elven make it seem imbued with inexplicable efficacy.

+26 Attack Speed

+16% Evasion

+7% Movement Speed

• Enchanted Quiver

A graceful gift blessed by the goddess of the hunt.

Passive Ability: Certain Strike

Empowers your next attack with 225 bonus magical damage and True Strike. Ranged Attackers have +350 bonus range for the attack.

• Mind Breaker

A bewitching blade of indeterminate form capable of piercing the psyche of even the most willful foe.

+25 Magic Attack Damage

+25 Attack Speed

Passive Ability: Silence Strike

Cooldown: 12 sec.

The next attack silences the hit enemy for 1.75 seconds.

• Paladin Sword

The sigil blade of the legendary Brother Yhols of Gausra, stripped from its scabbard on the day of his controversial excommunication.

+16 Attack Damage

+16% Lifesteal

+8% Spell Lifesteal

Passive Ability: Greater Healing

Amplifies the wearer's Regeneration, Healing, Lifesteal and Spell Lifesteal by 14%.

• Psychic Headband

A failed experiment in finer telekinetic control, still fit for other ends.

+15% Intelligence

+100 Cast Range

Active Ability: Psychic Push

Cooldown: 20 sec.

Pushes the target enemy unit away from you 400 distance.

• Quickening Charm

An evergreen amulet of druidic origins.

+10% Spell Cooldown Reduction

+10 Health Regeneration

Passive Ability: Cooldown Reduction

Reduces the cooldown time of all spells and items by 10%

• Spider Legs

A horrifying yet useful mixture of necromancy and artificing.

+25 Movement Speed

+50% Turn Rate

Active Ability: Skitter

Cooldown: 12 sec.

Grants you 18% movement speed and free pathing for 3.5 seconds. Walking over trees causes them to be destroyed.

• Titan Sliver

Though many desire this brilliant shard for its obvious qualities, a school of study exists to determine the true size and purpose of its incomprehensible whole.

+20% Main Attack Damage

+16% Magic Resistance

+12% Status Resistance

Irrelevant:

• Craggy Coat

+12 Armor

-35 Attack Speed

• Greater Faerie Fire

+40 Attack Damage

Passive Ability: Imbue

Cooldown: 10 sec.

Instantly restores 450 health.

• Helm of the Undying

+6 Armor

Passive Ability: Death Delay

Survive for extra 5 seconds after receiving a killing blow.

• Orb of Destruction

An ingot of chaos suspended in wizard's ether, housed within an arcanist's orb.

Passive Ability: Impeding Corruption

Attacks reduce the target's armor and movement speed. Slow amount varies based on whether the wearer is melee or ranged.

Armor Reduction: 4

Move Speed Slow (Melee): 25%

Move Speed Slow (Ranged): 15%

Duration: 4 sec.

• Repair Kit

+25 Health Regeneration

Passive Ability: Building Repair

Targets a building, restoring 40% of its health over 30 seconds. Also grants +10 armor during this period.

• Third Eye

+300 Vision

+7 All Attributes

Passive Ability: True Sight

Grants the ability to see invisible units and wards to any allied vision within 500 range of its carrier.

Passive Ability: Charge Loss

Third Eye loses a charge upon dying. Once all charges are used up, the item is destroyed.

Tier 4

Relevant:

• Ascetic's Cap

An austere hat thought to be of Turstarkuri origin.

+250 Health

+15 Health Regeneration

Passive Ability: Endurance

Cooldown: 30 sec.

Whenever a debuff would be applied to the owner, grant 40% Status resistance for 3 seconds.

• Flicker

The technically-true-to-his-word 'teleportation device' crafted by a notorious fae trickster.

+35 Movement Speed

Active Ability: Flicker

Cooldown: 5 sec.

Dispells debuffs and blinks you in a random forward direction for a random distance between 200 and 600. If cast within 3 seconds of receving player damage, it will blink in place.

• Ninja Gear

Valuable equipment recovered by a young explorer sifting through the flotsam and detritus drifting in the void.

+25 Agility

+25 Movement Speed

Active Ability: Solitary Disguise

Cooldown: 45 sec.

Casts Smoke of Deceit on yourself only.

• Penta-Edged Sword

The final, twisted work of a severely pious blacksmith, completed immediately before the taking of his own life.

+45 Attack Damage

+100 Attack Range (melee)

Passive Ability: Maim

Each attack has a 25% chance to reduce enemy hero movement speed by 20% and attack speed by 60 for 3 seconds.

• Spell Prism

Even the slightest flaw in the components of a spell prism can result in the death of its user.

+12% Spell Cooldown Reduction

+8 All Attributes

+4 Mana Regeneration

Passive Ability: Cooldown Reduction

Reduces the cooldown time of all spells and items by 12%.

• Stormcrafter

The accidental byproduct of a spell conjured to entrap a lesser god.

+4 Mana Regeneration

Active Ability: Whirlwind

Cooldown: 25 sec. Mana Cost: 50

Cyclones your hero for 0.75 seconds.

Passive Ability: Bottled Lightning

Zaps an enemy within 700 range, dealing 200 damage and a 40% slow for 0.3 seconds. Strikes every 3 seconds.

• Telescope

A handy tool that manages to make close what once was far.

Passive Ability: Prescient Aura

Lowers Scan cooldown by 50%. Increases attack and cast range of allies in a 1200 unit radius.

Scan Cooldown Reduction: 50%

Attack Range Bonus (Ranged): 100

Cast Range Bonus: 100

• The Leveller

A demonic blade that struck the final blow to crack the gates of the Sanctum of Solanas.

+40 Attack Speed

+5 Armor

Building Attack Damage Bonus: 25%

• Timeless Relic

An unmarred discovery from the excavated ruins of an ancient wizard's academy.

+20% Debuff Duration

+15% Spell Damage

Enhances the hero’s spells: increases spell damage and debuff duration.

• Trickster Cloak

A fantastic garment immediately misplaced by its creator upon completion.

+20% Magic Resistance

+20% Evasion

Active Ability: Cloak

Cooldown: 25 sec.

Causes you to become invisible for 6 seconds.

• Witchbane

With ready access to test subjects, untold cruelties have been dreamed up and loosed upon the world from within the walls of the Tyler Estate.

+20 Attack Speed

Active Ability: Cleanse

Purge Target Enemy or Ally.

Passive Ability: Subjugate

Your attacks deal bonus damage equal to 4% of your target Max Mana.

Irrelevant:

• Havoc Hammer

+18 Strength

+30 Attack Damage

Active Ability: Havoc

Knocks back enemies in 400 range around you, slowing them by 50% for 3 seconds and dealing 275 + 1x your str as magical damage.

• Illusionist's Cape

A dashing cape whose creator insists on calling 'Cloak of Apparition' as opposed to his assistant's 'Illusion' drivel.

+14 Agility

+14 Strength

Active Ability: Create Illusion

Cooldown: 30 sec.

Creates an image under your control.

Passive Ability: Illusion Mastery

Increases outgoing damage of all units and illusions controlled by the hero by 6%.

• Magic Lamp

+400 Health

Passive Ability: Rejuvenate

When the wearer's health falls below 20% they will receive a hard dispel and be healed for 400 health.

• Minotaur Horn

The trophy from a mighty beast ambushed and slain in the recesses of its own home.

+20 Strength

Active Ability: Lesser Avatar

Grants Spell Immunity for 2 seconds.

• Prince's Knife

+60 Projectile Speed

Active Ability: Hex Strike

The next attack hexes the hit enemy into a frog for 1.5 seconds.

• Witless Shako

+1200 Health

-400 Mana

Increases your health points by reducing mana points.

Tier 5

Relevant:

• Apex

Three orbs of remarkable power bound within a single scepter.

+75 Primary Attribute

• Arcanist's Armor

An exquisite piece commissioned by a paranoid monarch who choked on a piece of fruit long before the item saw its intended use.

+5 Armor

+20% Magic Resistance

Active Ability: Mega Shield

Cooldown: 20 sec.

Force Field Aura Grants 40% Damage Reflection for 5 seconds.

Passive Ability: Shield

Grants +5 armor and +20% Magic Resistance to all allies within 1200 radius.

• Book of Shadows

An impossible tome filled with unreadable prose of unknowable thoughts.

+13 All Attributes

+400 Night Vision

Active Ability: Shadows

Target an enemy, ally or self. Causes the target to become untargetable but also silenced, muted and disarmed for 4 seconds. Applies a basic dispel.

• Book of the Dead

A record of the final reckoning. With one page torn out.

+30 Strength

+30 Intelligence

Active Ability: Greater Demonic Summoning

Cooldown: 80 sec.

Summons 4 level 3 Necronomicon Units that last 75 seconds. Units have 100% more health and 75% more damage.

• Ex Machina

The remains of an ancient universe, preserved within a single sphere.

+20 Armor

Active Ability: Reset Cooldowns

Cooldown: 25 sec.

Reset the cooldowns on all items (except Refresher Orb).

• Fallen Sky

One of the few surviving creations of the acolytes of the Wyrmforge.

+15 Strength

+15 Intelligence

+15 Health Regeneration

+10 Mana Regeneration

Active Ability: Fallen Sky

Transforms into a meteor that strikes down at the target area after 1 seconds in a 315 AoE, stunning enemies for 2 seconds and dealing impact damage. Continues to deal damage every 1 seconds to enemy units and buildings for 6 seconds.

Impact Damage (Buildings): 75

Damage per Second (Buildings): 60

Impact Damage (Units): 150

Damage per Second (Units): 60

Cast Range: 1200.

• Force Boots

Elusive marvels never successfully studied for proper classification in the archives.

+115 Movement Speed

+30 Health Regeneration

Active Ability: Force

Cooldown 8 sec. Mana Cost: 75

Dispels the user and pushes them 750 units in the direction they are facing.

Passive Ability: Speed Unlock

Completely removes the speed limit for the wearer.

Speed bonuses from a few boots do not combine.

• Giant's Ring

Prized procurement of an otherwise unremarkable ruler of Elze who abdicated his position and vanished.

+35 Strength

+50 Movement Speed

+60% Model Size

Passive Ability: Giant's FootCan path over any terrain and deals 100% of your strength per second to units you are standing ontop of.

• Mirror Shield

The shield that long ago robbed the old one of his first memories.

+10 All Attributes

Passive Ability: Echo ShieldBlock and reflect most targeted spells back to their caster once every 8 seconds.

• Pirate Hat

A salty skulltopper cursed with endless good fortune.

+150 Attack Speed

+15 Movement Speed

Active Ability: Dig

Cooldown: 40 sec. Channel Time: 1 sec.

Always finds a Bounty Rune!

• Seer Stone

The curious creation of a wizard who professed to hail from another time.

+350 Cast Range

+350 Vision

+10 Mana Regeneration

Active Ability: Reveal

Cooldown: 60 sec.

Reveal a target 800 area of the map for 6 seconds.

• Stygian Desolator

The original demonic favorite that served as basis for the beloved mortal design.

+60 Attack Damage

Passive Ability: Great Corruption

Your attacks reduce the target's armor by 10 for 7 seconds.

Armor reduction works against buildings.

Irrelevant:

• Ballista

A simple design much improved by a master smith's loving hand.

+250 Attack Range (ranged)

Passive Ability: Knockback

Knocks back enemies 50 distance and deals 50 pure damage with every attack.

• Fusion Rune

When activated, your hero receives all Power Rune effects for 50 seconds. It has 3 charges.

Active Ability: Consume

Cooldown: 120 seconds

Grants the target the bonuses of every Power Rune for 50 seconds. Each use consumes a charge.

• Phoenix Ash

Passive Ability: Rebirth

Lethal damage is prevented and instead the wearer is healed to half health and non-ultimate ability cooldowns reset. Gets consumed on trigger.

• Woodland Striders

+ 140 Movement Speed

+ 60 Health Regeneration

Active: Woodland Stride

Cooldown: 20 sec.

Create a path of trees behind you for 3 seconds. Trees last up to 15 seconds.

Passive: Tree Walking

Removes movement speed limit and allows free pathing through trees.

Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.

• Trident

The artifact recipe included Sange, Yasha, and Kaya.

+ 30 Strength

+ 30 Agility

+ 30 Intelligence

+ 30% Status Resistance

+ 30 Attack Speed

+ 10% Movement Speed

+ 30% Lifesteal Amplification

+ 30% Mana Regen Amplification

+ 30% Spell Damage

+ 30 Magic Attack Damage

This is the complete list of neutral items, which existed and exist in Dota2 at the moment.