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Change Log
Heroes
Added a new hero (Wisp)
Added a new hero (Thrall)
Added a new hero (Eredar)
Added a new hero (Gyrocopter) Alchemist
Unstable Concoction manacost from 90 to 120
Unstable Concoction damage rescaled from 150/200/250/300 to 120/180/240/300
Anti-Mage
Spell Shield increased from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45
Axe
Battle Hunger now slows the target by 8% until it runs out or kills another unit
Bane Elemental
Brain Sap cooldown from 20 to 16
Fiend's Grip Scepter upgrade now drains 10% mana per second instead of 5%
Blood Seeker
Agility gain increased from 2.6 to 3.0
Bounty Hunter
Jinada cooldown from 21/16/11/6 to 15/12/9/6
Track now gives 50 bonus bounty to all units affected by the track aura of that target
Track bonus gold is treated as Reliable Gold
Broodmother
Armor decreased by 2
Chaos Knight
Reality Rift manacost increased from 50 to 70
Starting str decreased by 4 and increased base damage by 4 to keep it constant
Clockwerk
Armor increased by 1
Battery Assault damage increased from 10/30/50/70 to 15/35/55/75
Hookshot cooldown rescaled from 80/60/40 to 70/55/40
Dirge
Tombstone cast range increased from 250 to 600
Doom Bringer
LVL? Death mana cost rescaled from 85/105/125/145 to 110
Scorched Earth mana cost increased from 60 to 60/65/70/75
Scorched Earth movement speed bonus reduced from 20% to 16%
Starting intelligence reduced from 16 to 13
Drow Ranger
No longer has full night vision (same as the other heroes now, 800)
Invoker
Strength gain increased from 1.4 to 1.7
Jakiro
Macropyre travel range from 600/750/900 to 900
Juggernaut
Healing Ward manacost rescaled from 140 to 80/100/120/140
Healing Ward regeneration increased from 1/2/3/4% to 1/2/4/5%
Kaldr
Armor reduced by 1
Ice Blast cooldown from 44/32/20 to 45
Krobelus
Carrion Swarm cooldown decreased from 9 base to 8 base (5->4 when fully upgraded)
Lanaya
Psi Blades spill range from 320 to 320/340/360/380
Leoric
Vampiric Aura lifesteal improved from 10/16/22/28% to 15/20/25/30%
Reincarnation manacost increased from 100 to 140
Reworked Hellfire Blast
Leshrac
Split Earth stun duration increased from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 to a constant 2
Lich
Movement speed increased by 10
Starting damage rescaled from 37-56 to 42-51
Lina Inverse
Laguna Blade level 1 cooldown from 150 to 120
Light Strike Array cooldown from 8 to 7
Luna
Eclipse now turns day into night for 10 seconds
Lunar Blessing bonus damage increased from 6/12/18/24 to 8/16/24/32
Lunar Blessing now always provides full night vision
Medusa
Movement speed decreased from 300 to 290
Strength gain decreased from 1.85 to 1.65
Furion
Teleport now has a tp scroll style indicator displayed for your allies
Agility increased from 15 + 1.5 to 18 + 1.9
Meepo
Movement speed increased from 300 to 305
Poof manacost from 140/120/100/80 to 80
Naix
Base damage improved by 5
Casting Open Wounds no longer loses attack focus
Nerubian Weaver
Shukuchi now has a 0.25 second fade time
The Swarm manacost increased from 75 to 100
The Swarm vision reduced from to 500 to 250
Nightstalker
Base damage increased by 10
Crippling Fear's miss chance from 10/20/30/40% to 40%
Ogre Magi
Int gain increased from 1.9 to 2.4
Fireblast rescaled from 75/125/175/275 to 80/145/210/275 (146745)
Multi Cast manacost increase for Firebalst rescaled from 30/80/110 to 30/70/110 (146745)
Obsidian Destroyer
Astral Imprisonment no longer causes the target to lose vision over that area
Added Aghanim's Scepter to Obsidian Destroyer (along with a new visual effect) - Damage Multiplier from 8/9/10 to 9/10/11 and cast range from 600/650/700 to 700/750/800
Omni Knight
Movement speed increased by 5
Pandarean Brewmaster
Drunken Haze slow increased from 10/14/18/22 to 14/18/22/26
Priestess of the Moon
Moonlight Shadow's cooldown rescaled from 160 to 180/160/140,
Moonlight Shadow's duration rescaled from 7/9/11 to 11.
Puck
Illusory Orb cooldown decreased from 15 to 13
Pudge
Flesh Heap is now retroactive (Meaning it keeps track of your kills and is always updating your str based on your current level of flesh heap)
Reduced Flesh Heap aoe from 525 to 450
Meat Hook damage type changed from physical to pure
Meet Hook damage adjusted from 100/200/300/400 to 90/180/270/360
Queen of Pain
Scream of Pain manacost rescaled from 140 to 110/120/130/140
Razor
Static Link cooldown decreased from 45/40/35/30 to 35/30/25/20
Added Aghanim's Scepter to Razor (along with a new visual effect) - Increases striking speed from 0.85/0.75/0.60 to 0.7/0.6/0.5 and can target structures. Does not reduce structure's armor.
Sand King
Armor increased by 1
Sniper
Assassinate kills now give XP even if you are outside of range (208147)
Night vision increased from 800 to 1000 (197918)
Spectre
Desolate damage increased from 15/25/35/45 to 20/30/40/50
Dispersion reflection increased from 5/10/15/20 to 10/14/18/22
Spirit Breaker
Empowering haste from 4/6/8/10 to 6/8/10/12
Aghanim's Scepter Nether Strike now also increases cast range (400/550/700->550/700/850)
Charge of Darkness speed boost updates at smoother 0.5 intervals and displays a counter above your head (267094)
Added a button to make it more obvious how to initiate the charge earlier. You can still use the old move method though. (193994)
Stealth Assassin
Base agility increased by 10 - Base damage and armor decreased to remain the same overall after the extra agility
Tauren Chieftain
Natural Order aoe from 250 to 275
Techies
Remote mines now detonate when killed (145024)
Terrorblade
Soul Steal's secondary ability is now in the same position as the primary ability with the same hotkey (210124)
Tinker
Armor increased by 1
Tiny
Avalanche cooldown decreased from 20 to 17
Toss cast range from 500/700/900/1100 to 700/900/1100/1300
Added Aghanim's Scepter to Tiny - Can target trees to pick them up as weapons (same as Stone Giant from ladder). Makes your attack range longer, gives you bonus damage against buildings and 50% splash in a 300 aoe for 3 attacks. Adds an extra level of upgrade to your toss damage that your ultimate normally does.
Vengeful Spirit
Magic Missile manacost rescaled from 95/110/125/140 to 110/120/130/140
Venomancer
Poison Sting slow from 10 to 11/12/13/14
Viper
Added Aghanim's Scepter to Viper - Cast Range increased from 500 to 800 and cooldown from 80/50/30 to 12
Visage
Gravekeeper's Cloak armor bonus rescaled from 2/3/4/5 armor per layer to 1/2/4/5 per layer
Gravekeeper's Cloak magic resistance rescaled from 4/8/12/16% reduction per layer to 3/6/12/16 per layer
Familiars maximum damage rescaled from 84/105/126 to 56/98/154
Familiars cooldown from 160 to 180/160/140
Soul Assumption's mana cost increased from 100 to 150
Warlock
Fatal Bonds cooldown decreased from 30 to 25
Added Aghanim's Scepter to Warlock - With Aghanim's Warlock calls down two golems. HP, Attack and Bounty of each is halved to be roughly the same total as before. Deals twice the impact damage and lands 0.3 seconds apart.
Zeus
Arc Lightning cooldown from 2.5 to 2.25 seconds
Items
Added a new recipe item (Arcane Boots) - This item replaces Arcane Ring.
Added new basic item (Orb of Venom)
Costs 600 Gold.
Adds a poison effect to your attacks. Deals 3dps and lasts 3 seconds. 4% slow for ranged, 12% slow for melee.
Assault Cuirass
Attack Speed decreased from 40% to 35%
Aura Attack Speed increased from 15% to 20%
Animal Courier
Price decreased from 200 to 170
Blade Mail
Damage Return's duration increased from 3.5 to 4 seconds
Bloodstone
Heal on wielder's death increased from 25 per charge to 30
Now only loses a third of its charges on death (reduced from a half)
Buriza Do Kyanon
Damage increased by 6 (to equal the total of crystalys and demon edge)
Cranium Basher
Removed 25% chance to do 25 bonus damage (stun is still the same)
Cranium Basher bonus damage increased from 30 to 40
Dust of Appearance
Reduced AOE from 1250 to 1050
Ethereal Blade
Removed Wraith Band from recipe (same bonuses still though)
You can now target yourself
Eul's Scepter of Divinity
Cast range increased from 600 to 700
Added double click support for Euls (174341)
Eye of Skadi
Orb of Venom added as a component. Final bonuses are the same as before.
Recipe price decreased from 750 to 300
Heart of the Tarrasque
Delay on regeneration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds
Maelstrom
Recipe cost decreased from 900 to 800
Mekansm
AoE of Restore increased from 450 to 750
HP aura regen increased from 3 to 4
Quelling Blade
Tree Chop cooldown decreased from 15 to 10
Sentry Wards
Increased truesight vision from 800 to 950
Reduced natural vision to just around itself
Urn of Shadows
Heal no longer dispels from neutral creep damage
Added a team notice when someone buys Urn of Shadows recipe
Vanguard
HP bonus from 300 to 275
Gameplay & Cosmetics
Added a new gold mechanic to the game
Support gold bounty gained for kills is now displayed ontop of each hero (not a change to bounty, but revealing the "extra" area bounty that was added a few patches ago, 16775)
Minor adjustment (+50) to the extra aoe XP bounty
Lane creeps vision from 1400/800 to 1100/800
Day-Night now cycles at 25% faster rate
The autozoom restore function in -zm is increased to give extra time to temporarily zoom in
Game now displays a message to your allies if you buy back
Added a -ub (-Unban) game mode to override the default -cm changed hero restrictions. You use this in combination with cm, -ubcm
Reworked the -CM Ban and Picks process - Instead of 4 bans and then 5 picks, now it is 3 bans and then 3 picks followed by 2 bans and 2 picks.
Added death animation for Throne (82594)
4 new Courier models (222933)
Added a Flying Courier morph ability (175819)
Added Mini Viper and Snow Owl flying courier models (175819)
Added a mini-goblin zeppelin flying courier model
Added a new ability to the courier that drops all the items that do not belong to you to their respective CoPs and then gathers all items that are yours onto the courier.
Changed the courier morph hotkey to G to avoid conflicts with the new ability
Game now displays a message when an ally purchases Dust, Observer Wards, Sentry Wards or Gem
Added -il as a shortcut for -invokelist (43834)
Increased Anti-Backdoor regeneration rate
Fixed some visual issues with ground textures of some scourge buildings (217304)
Fixed some buff icon inconsistencies (218840)
Added Hook and Arrow Accuracy information to replay data
New visual effect for Vengeful Spirit's scepter
New visual effect for Witch Doctor's Aghanim Scepter
New visual effect Puck's Scepter (206094)
Added an Aghanim's visual effect for Axe (264503)
Added an Aghanim's visual effect for Pudge (264503)
Added an Aghanim's visual effect for Spiritbreaker (264503)
Added an Aghanim's visual effect for Sand King (264503)
Added an Aghanim's visual effect for Jakiro (264503)
Added an Aghanim's visual effect for Night Stalker (264503)
Added an Aghanim's visual effect for Earthshaker (166075)
New Tidehunter hero story (244461)
Added flavor text for Phase Boots (19010)
Reworked when the visual effect is shown for Berserker's Blood (268354)
Improved Chaos Bolt animation (247368)
New Earthbind visual effect
Added an extra visual effect for Nether Swap
Added a visual damage indicator for Ethereal Blade (204930)
Added a Burst visual effect for flying courier (21388)
Added an aura visual for Leoric's Vampiric Aura (14145)
Fixed some visual issues with Soul Steal (210124)
New visual effect of Strafe (205629)
Added a visual effect for the int stealing event on Silencer's Last Word (9993)
Added temporary text overhead info for Sticky Napalm indicating stack counts
New Breathe Fire icon (208513)
New Earthbind Icon (202929)
New March of the Machines Icon (223523)
New Morph Icon (255633)
New Scourge Glyph Icon (217705)
New Strafe icon (205629)
New Toss Icon (238905)
New Torrent Icon (218829)
Fixed Familiars tooltip
Fixed Forge Spirit tooltip
Fixed a bug with Curse of the Silent
Fixed a bug with Charge of Darkness
Fixed Invoke from triggering last word
Fixed Rot dispelling curse of the silent
Fixed Flaming Lasso scoreboard timer
Fixed Batrider interaction bugs with Land Mines
Fixed a minor rare bug with the caster unit for primal roar
Fixed some visual glitches with passive Crystalys icon (208005)
Fixed some visual glitches with passive Attribute Bonus icon (208766)
Fixed a bug with the interaction of Ion Shell and Focus Fire
Fixed some areas where you could get stuck with TP Scroll
Fixed a bug that could allow courier to gain attack capability
Fixed a bug with Soul Ring when your mana capacity changes
Fixed some rare bugs with Hex interactions with some abilities
Fixed Dark Pact not properly dispelling Crippling Fear or Void
Fixed a bug with picking up Linken's Sphere while waveforming
Fixed the launch projectile location for Dragon Knight's Elder Form
Fixed X Marks The Spot when used on an ally carrying Linken Sphere
Fixed some AI bugs with attacking roshan while teleported close inside
Fixed a bug with moon wells water mechanic when you get stuck inside it
Fixed a minor rare bug that produced the "cannot construct unit" message
Fixed a very rare bug that could sometimes cause Toss to not throw anything