Techies Day! A history of valve giving into the communities bad ideas for nerfs.

I've played techies since they came out. They aren't my favorite hero, or even my best hero, but they were MY hero. They played in a way that was most emblematic of my mind set and thoughts on the game. Outlast, Out think, pick your moment. That was the core of techies mindset and what they wanted to accomplish. Most of my games didn't go long, If the techies was turtling they either suck or the game was already going badly. Everyone expects uphill base mines.

So in honor of techies day I want to share a collection of things that have been removed, nerfed, gimped or changed about my little goblin bros since they came out. I'm not expecting to change anyone's mind but I think a lot of people don't realize just how much has already been taken from techies without ever really getting anything back in return.

These are from the top of my head I'm sure that I will miss some.

• Prox mines (formerly land mines) used to be to stackable.
• Prox mines used to have a much shorter activation window
• Prox mines used to be able to block camps
• Prox mines used to be able to kill couriers
• Prox mines used to not make any noises
• Prox mines used to not have a gold bounty
• Prox mines used to be COMPOSITE DAMAGE meaning they weren't affected as much by bkb but were effected by armor
• Prox mines used to do way more damage
• Prox mines used to do more damage to buildings.
• Prox mines used to have a cooldown not a charge limit
• Prox mines used to be triggered when destroyed
• Prox mines used to be able to move if you got a talent for it, same with remotes.
• Stasis Trap (The functional spell before the abomination that is taser) used to actually root people.
• Stasis Trap used to actually alert techies when it went off, this broke at one point and was never fixed.
• Stasis Trap used to be usable as an early warning system for an incoming gank
• Stasis Trap used to stun not root
• SUICIDE SQUAD, ATTACK! (the much better spell that came before blast off).
• Suicide Squad, Attack! was instantaneous
• Suicide Squad, Attack! actually denied techies
• Suicide Squad, Attack! Did a ton of damage
• Suicide Squad, Attack! didn't have a mobility component so if you wanted to kill others with it you need to be INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT, you know that thing everyone accused techies of not doing
• Suicide Squad, Attack! Used to reduce techies death timer
• Suicide Squad, Attack! wasn't reduced by damage block
• Remote Mines (You remember them)
• Remote Mines used to provide vision
• Remote Mines used to be able to block camps
• Remote mines with aghs could nuke a creep wave making it hard to push
• Remote mines with aghs and a mine sign could be placed in enemy base for vision
• Remote mines used to be an instant detonation
• Remote mines used to be able to take out an entire team if they group badly
• Techies Arcana (Swine of the Sunken Galley)
• Techies Arcana had a mini taunt upon getting kills this was broken and never fixed.
• Techies Arcana had a prismatic gem that worked with SSA to track kills, this was moved to blast off and doesn't really work all the time.
• Techies Arcana had a Prismatic gem that altered the color of your mines. This worked for the remotes but still doesn't work correctly for the sticky bombs

Like I said at the top, I'm not expecting to change anyone's mind. In my opinion the reason the hero has gotten dumpstered so many times is because of the public hate against the hero. I get that, but every hero in dota has some kind of garbage, OP, mechanic but hasn't been nerfed into the stone age.

At this point any kind of unique niche that techies excelled at (Mostly map control) has been stripped away and they are now a boring combo hero. I can even agree that certain elements of the hero should have been tweaked, instant deny on SSA was pretty busted, but the hero has been so neutered that they no longer resemble any vestige of their former selves which is honestly a shame because they did have a very fun unique play style.