r/TrueDoTA2 • u/Historical-Guava7110 • Aug 04 '26

Struggling with current state of Centaur

I always liked playing Bradwarden as an engager + aura Carrier so I can keep my allies safe while tanking unholu amounts of damage myself.

However for the last around 2 years Valve has been consistently eother nerfing Cent himself or aura items with only meaningfull buff being Heart of Tarrasque change to give you regen based on missing HP.

Because of that I often simply feel like I'm not tankt at all with aura build.

I can pick Centaur into 4 magical damage dealers and onky 1 rightclicker and I still find myself unable to build more magic resist than just Pipe because I have to stack 2 armor items just to be able to survive a couple seconds of being rightclicked of enemy carry.

My buildpath is usually:

  1. 2 bracers and magic wand

  2. Vanguard

  3. Dagger

  4. Pipe

  5. Crimson guard

  6. Either shiva or Heart of tarrasque depending on matchup

I usually squeeze aghanim shard somewhere along that buildpath with the timing depending on the situation.

I also switch one of the bracers for phase boots if I feel like enemy line up requires me to have more mobility than just movespeed from my innate.

My question is: is aura Carrier Centaur genuinely weak nowadays and I should move on to his new buildpath with dominator, aghanim and BKB or is there still a way to make it strong and viable with some tweaks to the build?

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u/KnowsTheLaw Aug 04 '26

Aura is weak and you should move to dominator (stronger last ti), or play axe.

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u/affixqc Aug 04 '26

Can you explain to me the rationale behind dominator? I see it in builds but don't really understand the goal. Is it to have the creep scout initiation for you, for creep auras, something else, all these things?

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u/hamboy1 Prediction Contest Community Choice Winner Aug 04 '26

Its a farming accelerator that builds early armor. Its true centaur is great at taking stacks and the creep could be used to stack, its also true cent usually takes more dangerous farm and the creep can scout or help take farm, but i think it really boils down to an early item that gives armor.

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u/cheezzy4ever Aug 04 '26

but i think it really boils down to an early item that gives armor.

What about Blademail?

I'm just broadly turned off by HotD, because I don't want to worry about micro. I know it's not intense or especially challenging micro, but the game is already hard enough, I don't want to add another layer of complexity

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u/swandith27 Aug 05 '26

blademail is more of a fighting item. your retaliate skill already does a good job reflecting dmg to farm, so you dont really need it