Arcane Blink in Dota 2: cost, cooldown and who needs it

1 September 2026 · 6 min read

GameMapa editorial · how we check facts
Checked: Claude (AI) — fact-checked against the Ukrainian original; not proofread by a native speaker

Arcane Blink costs 6800 gold — a number straight from Valve’s official item feed, not from someone’s build guide. The same feed carries three more figures: item ID 604, a 9s cooldown, and a 1400 cast range.

Below is a breakdown of each of these numbers, what the shop hints say, and — in a section of its own — what we don’t claim about this item. That second part matters just as much as the first: the open feed doesn’t hold much data on Arcane Blink, and it’s more honest to show the edge of what we know than to fill in past it.

What the official feed says about Arcane Blink

Everything Valve’s data has on this item fits in one table:

This is the primary source — the same feed the game client itself and third-party sites pull from. If you see a different Arcane Blink price somewhere else, check it against this row, not against another website.

How to read these numbers

6800 gold. This is the item’s price in the feed. We’re not converting it into “so many minutes of farming” or “so many creeps” — no such coefficient exists in the official data, and inventing one would be easy and irresponsible. How long it takes you to gather 6800 gold depends on your position and lane — there’s a separate piece on the five positions in Dota 2.

9s cooldown. One value, no variations. That means the item goes silent for exactly this long between uses, and you need to plan your fight entries and exits with that interval in mind.

1400 cast range. That’s exactly what the field is called in the feed — cast range. The one practical takeaway is this: activating the item doesn’t work at any distance, only within this value. Valve doesn’t specify units in the feed, so neither do we.

Item ID 604. A technical number you’ll never need as a player — it exists purely to reference the item via the API or to confirm you’re looking at Arcane Blink and not something with a similar name.

Shop hints: why the item isn’t in the recommended list

Valve keeps three utility flags on the item list, and for Arcane Blink they read like this:

That’s straightforward to read. Arcane Blink won’t show up in the block of items the game suggests at the start, and it isn’t part of an early buy — if you’re currently figuring out what to get at the beginning of a match, you want the piece on starting items, not this one.

The “late game — yes” flag is the only thing the official data says about buy timing. Not “around minute forty,” not “as your third item,” not “after some specific artifact”: none of these details exist in the feed, and anyone stating them as fact from Valve is stating them as fact from themselves.

About the “tier 4294967295 neutral item” tag

This is the strangest line in the data, and we’re leaving it exactly as it is: by Valve’s classification, Arcane Blink is a tier 4294967295 neutral item.

What that value means for the game’s mechanics — we don’t know, and we’re not guessing. We’re not claiming that such a neutral item tier exists in Dota 2, and we’re not claiming the opposite either. We’re simply passing on what the official feed returns, with no rounding and no “this is probably a bug.”

If Valve ever changes this field, the change will land with a patch — we track that sort of thing in the piece on Dota 2 updates and patches.

What we don’t claim

This section matters more to an honest piece than everything above it. On Arcane Blink, we have no data on:

• The effect’s mechanics. The exact description of what the activation does lives in the game client and belongs to Valve. We won’t be paraphrasing it from memory or from another site — a mistake in that kind of paraphrase costs you a lost fight.
• Heroes. The feed has no hero list tied to this item at all. We do have individual hero guides — for Anti-Mage, for instance — but they’re not a claim that this hero buys Arcane Blink.
• Win rates and matchmaking statistics. We have none of these figures at all. Any number of that kind in this piece would be invented.
• Meta recommendations. “Best build,” “must-have item this patch,” “everyone picks it up” — these are opinions, not data. We don’t offer them.
• Build recipe and components. The parameters listed above are everything we pulled from the feed; we haven’t verified the components there, so we’re not naming them.
• Change history. What the price or cooldown used to be — we haven’t checked, and we’re not claiming anything about it.

How to check it yourself

The best thing you can do with any number about an item is look at the primary source with your own eyes. It’s open and free:

1. Open the item feed page for item ID 604 — the link is in the sources below this piece. The feed returns data in English if the request specifies that language.
2. Find the price, cooldown, and cast range fields in the text. These are the same numbers as in the table above.
3. For the shop hints — “recommended,” “early game,” “late game” — check the general item list, that’s the second source.
4. Compare it against what the shop shows in the client itself. If it ever diverges, the client is right after a patch, and the feed catches up.

This habit saves a lot of time: instead of hunting for which site is correct, you spend a minute checking the source they’re all copying from anyway.

In short

Arcane Blink costs 6800 gold, has a 9s cooldown and a 1400 cast range, and shop hints flag it as a late-game item — not an early one, and not a recommended one. Everything else — the effect, heroes, builds, statistics — is absent from the official data, so we don’t claim it.