Why does potions sometimes disappear without healing?

[Keth]

Happened very often to me, I healed myself and there was the animation, however sometimes it stops after few seconds. It supposed to heal for like 30 seconds (does but rarely).

I noticed it has to do something with moving, for example when I heal and press on the map or attack someone then it stops healing.

Is that a bug or I cannot do any movement while healing?

I would really love to see some replies because this is really annoying. Each potion is 100 gold and each game I waste like 400 gold on potions that didn't worked.

[gadabyte]

i think if you take damage, it stops.

[Keth]

i think if you take damage, it stops.

And why is that? Is that a bug? I probably used potions while attacking creeps.
As far as I remember there is no such thing/bug in real DotA.

[rapscallioN_]

Happened very often to me, I healed myself and there was the animation, however sometimes it stops after few seconds. It supposed to heal for like 30 seconds (does but rarely).

I noticed it has to do something with moving, for example when I heal and press on the map or attack someone then it stops healing.

Is that a bug or I cannot do any movement while healing?

I would really love to see some replies because this is really annoying. Each potion is 100 gold and each game I waste like 400 gold on potions that didn't worked.

Perhaps you should read item descriptions.

[Soulspawn]

exactly the same in dota, it is to stop people poting in fight making them that much longer and boring

[Keth]

I see. I haven't played real DotA for ages, probably I forgot or I haven't used potions that often as I do right now.

Thanks guys.

[Gabe]

The potion you are using is exactly the same as the healing salve that can be found in DotA.

What you might be used to using are Tangos (90 gold, 3 charges) which can be found in HoN with the same effects, the item is called Rune of Blight. These do not stop working upon taking damage.

[Desirable]

Potions, be they health or mana, are dispelled upon damage.
Hence when using them, be sure to hang back behind your creep wave abit.

[Juular]

the tooltip description for Healing Potion, Mana Potion, Bottle, and Rune of Regeneration all say "dispel upon damage".