The Price Is Right

What do I get with the TI8 Battle Pass with how much I spend?

“So hot, it was banned in Belgium!”

Part 1: How Many Levels Can I Get For Playing Dota?

It depends, and you will most likely not complete all of the challenges before the time runs out. Here’s a breakdown of what is available.

Cavern Crawl — There are 49 rewards in here that give points, meaning at minimum you will need to win 49 games with a different hero each time — if you’re lucky. Most likely you will find a good amount of points here — let’s say five of the nine big battle point rewards and about 20 of the smaller ones for a total of 17 levels. Max is 32 levels.

Tipping –While tipping is fun, the amount of points gained is hilariously small. On average you’ll probably need 20–30 tips for 1 level. Let’s say you get 1 level out of this.

Wagering — Wagers are back and as always it can be either a great success or a complete frustration. Most likely you will end up with 1 level a week with the base wagers, ignoring Tribute Tokens. This ends up being 15 levels for 15 weeks.

Tribute Tokens — These rely on you having teammates during your games who have spent around and are confident, or you yourself spending the extra money to get the tokens to wager. We’ll say you get the occasional game or two each week, for a total of 15 levels.

Pro Circuit Predictions — We currently have no idea how much these will give out for predicting correctly. We’ll take a guess and say you can randomly gain 5 levels, give or take.

The Underhollow — Yet again, we don’t currently have an idea of how much it will give out, but at this stage we can take the previous year’s rewards as a guess and say around 10 levels.

Ranked Team Challenge Tokens — Only give 150 battle points and requires you to be in a team. Expect no levels out of this.

Achievements — You’ll finish a few achievements easily such as Wagering (3250 pts), Tips (1050 pts), Trivia (1750 pts), Second Rank of Predictions (3500 pts), Mutation Games (1600 pts), Second Rank of Cavern Rooms (1500), Arcana Vote (1100 pts), Group Stage predictions (1000 pts) and second stage of Main Sage Predictions (3000 pts). This make a total of 17 levels.

Fantasy Challenge — While the Fantasy Challenge does give points, it will be at the end of the event and is only 4 levels for top 50%.

Expect a total of 80 levels from playing the game as normal without buying more than the base Battle Pass, at minimum. Good players that play regularly will most likely get around 100 levels.

Part 2: The Tiers

I Want To Have Fun — $9.99 for the Base Battle Pass

Sweet! You’re the sanest of us and will have a lot of fun unlocking all the content at your own time. You’ll be getting around Level 80–100 in most circumstances, which gives you this -

All six Immortals from Treasure 1

An Immortal from Treasure 2

An Immortal from Treasure 3

TI8 Ward

TI8 Cursor

TI8 Music Pack

TI8 Courier (+ Borehole Unlock)

Phoenix Taunt

Enigma Taunt

Weaver Taunt

Meepo Announcer Pack

5 Spins of the Rylai Wheel

If you push yourself — Level 80–100

Trust of the Benefactor (aka Another Immortal)

Pugna Taunt

Another Immortal from Treasure 2

Dota 2 Should Be A Full Price Game — $36.99 for the Upgraded Battle Pass, plus $20 when the Summer Sale bundle happens for a total of $56.99.

For the savvy spender! There’s a lot in this club (including me), and I think this is the most important one to point out as it’s a big sweet spot. With this you’ll have bought 155 levels and a few treasures too. We’ll need to break down all duplicates into an extra 2 levels each, plus you’ll also get a small High Roller increase which is around another 5 levels. I’ll also assume you have Dota Plus at this rank for an extra 5 levels every time you hit a century. Summing that up, it’s level 250 before the immortals breakdowns:

All six Immortals from Treasure 1 + 3 spare (broken down)

All six Immortals from Treasure 2 + 1 spare (broken down)

All six Immortals from Treasure 3 + 1 spare (not broken down as these are gonna be expensive next year)

TI8 Ward

TI8 Cursor

TI8 Music Pack

TI8 Courier (+ Candlehead Unlock)

Phoenix Taunt

Enigma Taunt

Weaver Taunt

Meepo Announcer Pack

2x Trust of the Benefactor (aka Another Immortal)

Pugna Taunt

Riki Taunt

Emerald Abyss Terrain

Mirana Taunt

TI8 Creeps

Phantom Assassin Taunt

8 Spins of the Rylai Wheel

10k Dota Plus Shards

Summer Sale Bundle:

Four Immortals from Treasure 1 (broken down)

Four Immortals from Treasure 2 (broken down)

All Breakdowns of your extra 12 regular immortals equal another 24 levels for a total of Level 274.

Lion Prestige Item

Another Immortal 2

Another Immortal 3

Death Prophet Taunt

Under 100 — Add 4x 24 level bundles to the previous account please!

Welp, that’s $96.99 you’ve spent there. In addition to what you got before is another 101 levels for a total of 375.

You’ll get the above plus an extra:

4 Immortal Treasure I

3 Immortal Treasure II

3 Immortal Treasure III

2 Trust of the Benefactor (aka Another Immortal)

1 Spin of the Rylai Wheel

5k Dota Plus Shards

Wraith King Taunt

Phoenix Taunt Upgrade

3 spins on the Rylai Wheel (11 total)

The Level 375 Treasure Pack which is 4 Treasure I, 3 Treasure II, and 3 Treasure III.

Breaking down the common Immortals from all these give you another 40 levels to get you to 420 (including Dota Plus level up).

1 Treasure I

2 Treasure II

2 Treasure III

1 Trust of the Benefactor (aka Another Immortal)

5k Dota Plus Shards

Tusk Taunt

Finally, breaking down those five remaining immortals will give you only 1 Treasure I in exchange.

This is probably the worst pricepoint and doesn’t give you much apart from the sprays and voicelines which only last for three months.

How much for the Promise of Eminent Revival?

That’s at Level 615. We’ll assume you buy up to 500 levels then do quests and breakdown for the rest — which is $56.99 for the 155 levels, then continuing with regular puchases of fifteen 24 level packs for $10. That’s $206 USD plus a little bit of grinding. This seems to be Valve’s choice for the “I don’t want a physical Aegis, just give me the best digital stuff” tier — five arcana-level immortals for $200 seems to be the deal they’re giving.

And the Aegis?

Well, that’s a little harder to calculate — at level 755 you will get 20x 1000 point wager tokens which add at least 20 levels, plus the extra points from Dota Plus and all the immortals along the way. Let’s say you buy up to 755 and make your way up from there with the breakdown and wagers. You’ll need to buy 600 levels, or $250 worth. This makes your total cost around $306 for that Aegis of the Immortal (plus 195 levels worth of grind, which is rather easy with that amount of wagering you have). A full $100 upgrade from the previous tier.

Oooh! And Roshan?

Wait, they’re doing that again- wow, they are. Greaaat. There’s almost nothing worth that much up here apart from tossing loads and loads of treasures at you. Most at this point will just buy the 2000 levels outright — that’ll be $800 USD for your nice Golden Roshan. Hey, if you get lucky on a chest and get the Emblem you might be able to get up here.

Part 3: Conclusion?

If you don’t want to drop $300 on Dota 2, remember the two most important things; Patience & Acceptance.