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The new season 3 of Ability Arena is here! Join us as we break down the tons of changes to spells, new gods and more!
A new season of Sunsfan’s game mode is here! Season 3 ofAbility Arenamade its debut on December 1. The new season comes with tons of updates to the game mode. From six brand new spells to seven new Gods, Season 3 has a lot to offer players. Now you’re able to rope your friends into Ability Arena with its brand new gifting system as well! Let’s go over the various offerings.
New and Old Gods of Season 3 of Ability Arena
The Gods got both new additions and changes in Season 3 of Ability Arena. There are 8 new Gods with brand new abilities. While on the other hand, the existing Gods got a bit of an update.
Changes to the old Gods
The changes are relatively minor, but are still nonetheless noteworthy.
You can check out the rest of the changes to the old Gods on the blog post here.
The 8 new Gods of Ability Arena Season 3
There are eight brand new Gods coming to the new season of Ability Arena. The new Gods are both iconic Dota Lore Heroes or references to Valve titles. The new Gods are as follows: Santa Greevil, Glados, Boneless Aghanim, Lifestealer, Chaos God S3, Cave Johnson, Bathtime Aghanim and Techies.
Ability Arena Season 3 Spell changes.
There are tons of spell changes and new spells in Ability Arena season 3. Specifically, there are six new spells, three benched spells and 19 changes to existing spells
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New spells
There are a total of six new spells in Season 3 of Ability Arena. Typically, support spells go a long way in Ability Arena, but the new spell additions are mainly core hero spells. The new spells are:
The new spells at first glance are phenomenal. For example, Essence Shift: The right clicking hero’s dream passive ability gives both agility per attack, but also drains the attack targets' attributes. Additionally, with the Gaben level upgrades, spells also proc Essence Shift on a two second cooldown. There is some crazy damage and synergy potential with the new spell sets.
Existing spell changes
On top of the new spells there are a total of 21 changes to existing spells in Ability Arena. There have been three spells that have been “benched” or temporarily removed. While the remaining 19 of them have been updated for a bunch of different reasons. Some of which Sunsfan says are because “cause it’s cool” or “What were we thinking”. The three currently benched spells are: Elder Dragon Form, Moon Glaives and Omnislash.
In terms of specific spell changes, there are a lot of changes both major and minor. The changes are listed below:
Additional changes
There are also some quality of life changes in the new season of Ability Arena. The changes are relatively minor outside of the new God chests. Gods now come in God Chests that costs 10,000 gold, which is a bit of a grind to work up to. But with the new Ability Arena Season 3 getting to that gold requirement should not be that much of an issue. Additionally, there are streak bonuses for wins, but that lies more in the cosmetic side of things. You can check out the full blog posthere.
Regardless, the changes fromSeason 2to Season 3 of Ability Arena are worlds apart. But in a good way. It really goes to show how the team behind Ability Arena care about the game mode and want to keep improving it. Keep an eye onesports.gg for more infoon this new season of Ability Arena!
