6.90RC6
Bugfixes
Fixed one secret very abusable bug, totally gamebreaking
Fixed at least one of crashes on exit
Fixed critical bug with MS caused by poison from Devoured Gnoll
Fixed Battle Scythe being unpurchasable (reported by everyone)
Fixed HP regeneration of most structures being incorrect after being modified
Fixed possibility to pick hero before tavern reveal
Fixed another bug with sentry and observer wards
Fixed Fury Swipes, Frost Arrows, Tidebringer, Backstab, Jinada, Essence Shift grants double damage bonus
Fixed hero movespeed recalculation after death in polymorph
Fixed Open Wounds not provides heal as intended
Fixed minor bug with Doom silence (reported by debug messages)
Fixed small inconsistency in first Omnislash attack instance
Fixed illusions being able to use Echo Saber without delay
Fixed Diffusal Blade and Sublimal Blade still being clickable even tho they don't have active ability
Fixed Mechanical Turtle not providing kill exp and gold
Fixed Spectral Dagger damages creeps multiple times
Fixed Poof being not rootable
Fixed Shadow Dance Upgraded giving MS forever (reported by meatbaii, oldchiken)
Fixed Firewall visual effect placement
Fixed dispel of Fission Doll
Fixed bug with unit tinting by pseudo hiding
Fixed Mjollnir being not registered correctly if bought with skipping Maelstrom
Fixed timer on ground gains wrong color in middle of pick
Fixed Ghost Scepter and Chaotic Voodoo buff effect on panel lasts longer than actual effect (reported by LeArnHowToWiN)
Fixed casting Bloodstone sends Magic Stick based items on cooldown
Fixed Infest acts incorrectly if ends via timeover
Fixed Sentinel's creeps stucking in mid in very rare cases
Fixed Roshan being attackable from one specific tree (Reported by Mighty)
Fixed Primal Insanity Evasion bonus not working
Fixed False Promise makes unit unkillable if he dies under it's buff, e.g. dies in Supernova or via Culling Blade (happened with Hitohito.)
Fixed bugs in Caustic Finale which caused it deal more total damage than intended and bugs which caused wrong visual effect
Fixed lvl 4 Spiderlings poison stacks infinitely
Fixed Nether Swap being usable on couriers
Fixed Glaives of Wisdom dealing slightly more damage than intended
Fixed Shadow Word giving +heal for enemies and -for allies instead of the opposite
Fixed Living Armor damage block not working at all
Fixed minor bug in Shuriken Toss
Fixed Backstab not takes angles precisely if attacker turns before attack
Fixed Greater Bash deals bonus damage twice
Fixed Electric Vortex incorrect duration and effect positioning
Fixed Impales visual effect missing some ticks
Fixed Torrent deals slightly less damage over time than intended and even less if victim has status resistance
Fixed Heartstopper Aura deals too much DPS (reported by Paco, WeedWack)
Fixed Scorched Earth heals too much (reported by WeedWack)
Fixed DamageCount counts damage equal to 0 when it's turned off instead of not showing anything
Fixed Brain Sap being treated as disable (reported by Mighty)
"Fixed" interaction of Chronosphere and Blackhole with Phase Shift and Tricks of the Trade (reported by FantasticBee)
Interface
Decreased Dota2HPBars wideness by 25%
Turtles death and alive info is now displayed for enemy as well if killer or turtle is visible
Turtle respawn message now appears even for enemy forest turtle
-disablehelp now affects Tether
Balance
Very slightly increased xp gain for hero kills, which snowballing so should be enough
Very slightly increased xp gain growth and gold gain growth for neutral kills over time, which was a joke-like
Decreased xp requirements for hero levels above 25: 2740, 3000, 3500, 4200, 5000 -> 2690, 2800, 2950, 3130, 3370
Spells
Abilities
Mechanical Organs (Buff from Mechanical Turtle)
20% Status Resistance -> 15% Magic Resistance, 15% status resistance
Pocket Nuclear Charge
Cast Range 1000 -> 700/800/900/1000
Base max damage decreased by 100
Intelligence bonus 1.0/1.5/2.0/2.5 -> 1.2/1.8/2.4/3.0
This should make ability weaker in early game but not weaker later on
Self damage 66% -> 75%
Now pierces owner's magic immunity
Guardian Veins
Reflected damage source is now Wisp (caster) instead of buffed target
Thus buffing creeps becomes more viable, and damage is amplified by Wisp spell amplification
Torrent
Located on river victims now receives by 35% more damage, 35% longer stun and 35% longer slow
Kinetic Field
Now interrupts more mobility spells, including Charge and Dive
Windrun
No longer requires moving evade attacks or slow enemies
But stun or root will still prevent evading and disable slowing aura
Lightning Bolt
Target seeking radius slightly increased 200 -> 250 (before nerfs it was 375)
Glimpse
Damage 60/90/120/150 -> 75/100/125/150
Blade Fury
Damage radius 250 -> 275 (mostly to match visual AoE)
Visual AoE no longer scales with hero model scale
Vampiric Aura
Lifesteal increased by 33%
Inferno
Damage reduction no longer pierced magic immunity, but it do not dispel already laid stacks
Poof
Cooldown 18/15/12/9 -> 14/12/10/8
Tidebringer
Bonus damage increased by 5
Backstab
Bonus damage x0.7/1.05/1.4 of main attribute -> x1.0/1.5/2.0
Much needed buff after we realised that bonus damage was doubled
Goblin's Greed
No longer gains gold for killing allies
Stack duration 20/22/24/26 -> 21/24/27/30
Gold per kill 4 + 2 per stack -> 3 + 3 per stack
Max bonus 12/16/20/24 -> 15/18/21/24
Silencing Stream
Target seeking AoE 350 -> 400
Cast range increased by 300 so effect range would be matched better with including secondary projectiles
Berserker's Call
Duration slightly increased at higher levels
Doppelganger
Damaging illusion damage deals 20% -> 30%
Defender illusion damage dealt 1% -> 5%
Bonus duration for illusions 1 sec -> 2 sec
Forest Ambush
Cooldown 19/16/13/10 -> 14/12/10/8
Is no longer halved if jumped on ground
Cast range 330/365/400/435 -> 370/405/440/475
Jump off distance 225 -> 275
Ether Shock
Manacost decreased by 10
Cooldown decreased by 1
Chilling Touch
Cooldown 48/40/32/24 -> 35/30/25/20
Poof
Cast time 2.0 -> 1.5
Enchant Totem
Cooldown reverted to normal condition
Bonus damage 100/150/200/250% -> 60/90/120/150%
Area damage 50/75/100/125 -> 40/60/80/100
Manacost 36/44/52/60 -> 30/40/50/60
Brilliance Aura
Slightly increased bonus regeneration at higher ability levels
Thundergod's Wrath
Damage 240/360/480 -> 250/375/500
Battle Blink
Max range 540/580/620/660 -> 550/600/650/700
Illusion duration 3.8/4.2/4.6/5.0 -> 4.0/4.5/5.0/5.5
Illusion damage dealt 21/24/27/30% -> 24/27/30/33%
Illusion damage received 700/650/600/550% -> 650/600/550/500%
Fixed interaction of damage protection with Doppelganger's prolonged lifetime
Energy Drain
Cooldown 28/22/16/10 -> 25/20/15/10 (it was mentioned before but not actually updated)
Mana drain per second 40/60/80/100 -> 60/80/100/120
SAmp drain per second 2/3/4/5% -> 3/4/5/6%
Max duration 5 -> 3.5/4.0/4.5/5.0
Grave Chill
MS modifier decreased by 6% and AS modifier by 12 at all levels
Cooldown 16/14/12/10 -> 12
Manacost 100 -> 70/80/90/100
Swoop Down
Damage 125/200/275 -> 150/225/300
Additional stun on main target upon return 0.75 -> 1.0
Cooldown 70/60/50 -> 60/50/40
Nether Swap
Buff/Debuff duration 3/4/5 -> 4/5/6
Cooldown 50/40/30 -> 30/26/22
Thunder Strike
Slow efficiency grows per level instead of slow duration
Slow duration increased to 0.3
AS slow doubled
Kinetic Field
Now grants vision around whole circle instead of only in middle
Magnetic Field
Pushing speed 100/120/140/160 -> 125/150/175/200
Lightning Storm
Cast range 650 -> 700
Damage 85/130/185/220 -> 90/145/200/255
Electric Vortex
Pull distance 180/220/260/300 -> 180/240/300/360
Overload
Slow duration 0.5/0.6/0.7/0.8 -> 0.55/0.7/0.85/1.0
Purification
Cast range 500 -> 600
Heavenly Grace
Cast range 500 -> 600
Sleight of Fist
Cast Range 450 -> 500
Voodoo Restoration
Slightly decreased manacost
Anchor Smash
Very slightly nerfed in manacost, AoE and damage reduction
Mana Void
Removed aura buff after kill
Now stuns all affected units instead of main target only
Ion Shell
No longer modifies magic resistance of target unit
Damage AoE 275 -> 300
Surge
Duration 3.9/5.1/6.3/7.5 -> 4.5/5.5/6.5/7.5
Now grants 35/40/45/50% bonus magic resistance to target unit
Craggy Exterior
Range limitation of 500 removed
Telekinesis
Now deals small magical damage of 60/90/120/150 to affected units including main target at landing moment
Impales (both)
Cast range decreased by 50 to properly match effect range
Laser Aim
Manaburn from spell damage dealt 14/22/30% -> 16/24/32%
Adaptiveness
All bonuses increased by 2% at all levels
Fixed spell lifesteal from ability being less than intended, so it's increased more
Wave of Terror
Damage increased by 10
Cooldown decreased by 3
Nature's Defender
Owl move speed 200 -> 240
Owl attack range increased by 50% to be 75% of guarded area radius
Attack reload 1.0 -> 1.2 (as it's mentioned on tooltip)
Ice Shards
Cooldown 19/16/13/10 -> 16/14/12/10
Fissure
Cooldown decreased by 1 sec
Damage 110/170/230/290 -> 120/180/240/300
Maledict
Burst damage 20/30/40/50% -> 16/24/32/40% of lost HP
Infest
Now applies strong positive dispel to target when infested (removes stuns and other debuffs)
Death Coil
Manacost 25 -> 25/30/35/40
Brain Sap
Now provides short stun of 0.15/0.20/0.25/0.30 sec (not treated as disable)
Cold Snap
Cooldown 11 -> 10
Damage limit to proc 15 -> 12
Astral Imprisonment
Cast Range 300/400/500/600 -> 400/500/600/700
Mystic Snake
Base Mana Steal increased by 5
Warcry
Cooldown 27/24/21/18 -> 18
Wolven Howl
Cooldown 27/24/21/18 -> 18
Lucent Beam
Stun 0.5/0.6/0.7/0.8 -> 0.55/0.7/0.85/1
Manacost 70/85/100/115 -> 80/95/110/125
Cooldown 5.5 -> 7
Void (Balanar 1st)
Cast range 525 -> 625
Manacost 80/90/100/110 -> 80/95/110/125
Shrapnel
Duration 6.0 -> 7.0
Neurotoxin
Manacost 120/130/140/150 -> 105/120/135/150
Battle Hunger
Manacost 110/115/120/125 -> 100/110/120/130
Sonic Wave
Cooldown 130/110/90 -> 120/100/80
Upgraded cooldown 65/55/45 -> 90/70/50
Mortal Wounds
Slightly increased damage
Fury Swipes
Damage slightly increased to compensate it becoming too low after bugfix
Spark Wraith
Slow duration 1.0 -> 1.25
Psionic Trap
Max charging time 10/8/6 -> 8/6/4
Maximum damage and manaburn 160/200/240 -> 160/220/280
Wild Axes
Damage per axe increased by 0/5/10/15
Spirit Bear
Synergy bonus AS and MS 20/30/40/50 -> 30/45/60/75
Living Armor
Damage Block instances 4/5/6/7 -> 7
Frost Shield
Slightly increased MS slow and effect radius
Heal (neutral troll, doom)
Slightly increased heal and slightly decreased manacost
Items
Combined Observer and Sentry wards can now be swapped between each other without revealing owner's Wind Walk
Bounty Rune
Gold per rune decreased by 10
Now provides experience bonus for picker only, which is equal to x2 gold (so 60 / 80 / 100, etc)
Not boosted via XP bonuses (Null Field)
Tome of Knowledge
Experience bonus 700 + 135x -> 750 + 150x
Smelly Cheese
Actively now affects only enemies
Martyric Boots
Max damage into heal convertation 33% -> 55%
Is no longer usable on illusions
Jackboots
Slow duration 1.55 -> 3.72 (5 ticks -> 12 ticks)
Slow efficiency 50% -> 60%
AoE 125-400 -> 125-450
Cast Range 600 -> 750
Gleipnir
Now casts on ground instead of on unit (like it was in .89)
Cast time 0.1 -> 0.2
Cooldown 18 -> 16
Damage 225 -> 250
Duration 2.25 -> 2.5
AoE 275
Rod of Atos
Now casts on ground instead of on unit (like Gleipnir)
Cooldown 18 -> 16
Manacost 75 -> 100
Duration 2.25 -> 2
AoE 325
Cast time reduction modifying items all buffed:
Eul CTR 12% -> 15%
Force Staff CTR 8% -> 10%
Echo Lance, Hurricane Pike CTR 12% -> 15%
Hurricane Pike recipe cost decreased by 200
Bloodstone
Recipe cost decreased by 200
Stolen Spell Amplification per 100 hp and mp 3% -> 4%
Spell Lifesteal bonus 10% + up to 30% from lost health -> 10% + up to 40%
Dagon
Spell Lifesteal bonus 12/14/16/18% -> 14/18/22/26%
No longer instagibs illusions as kinda nobody has been using this feature :)
Nerubian's Scepter
Status resistance reduction 18% -> 20%
Debuff's Manaburn from spell damage received 15% -> 25%
Heaven's Halberd
Recipe cost decreased by 300
Removed attack range bonus
Armlet of Mordiggian
Recipe cost decreased by 100
Armor bonus increased by 1
Cranium Basher, Abyssal Blade
Bash cooldown 2.0 -> 1.8
Solar Crest
Recipe cost decreased by 150
All Attributes bonus 5 -> 6
MS modifier 14% -> 15%
Monkey King Bar
Damage bonus 45 -> 50
AS bonus 40 -> 45
Proc 40% for 180 dmg -> 35% for 200 dmg
True Strike aura 12% -> 15%
Excalibur
SAmp reduction per hit 8% -> 10%
Max reduction remains 40%
Bloodthorn
SAmp reduction per hit 10% -> 15%
Max reduction 40% -> 60%
Heart of Tarrasque
STR bonus 40 -> 35 (reverted, it become too little too much)
Units
Towers starting armor 15 20 20 25 -> 15 18 18 20
Rearranged courier special orders positions
Courier Resume Delivery option removed, as it's not needed at all
Applied minor fixes in couriers behaviour
Collect and drop items cooldowns decreased to 2 sec
Big neutral camps near lanes updated to be pulled just slightly easier
Spiderling and Spiderite damage increased by 2
6.90RC4
Fixed critical bug which caused "random" errors over game
Fixed Acolytes sometimes remains on place of Tombstone
Fixed levelup visual effects being created on -ardm during hero replacement
Fixed incorrect interaction of Ice Blast and Status Resistance
Fixed Skeleton Walk having incorrect cooldown of one charge if leveled up at max charges
Fixed Nether Blast affects wards
Runes no longer blocks movement of phased units.
Note: other items still does, as otherwise this will cause bugs with item positioning
Improved Ice Blast aghanim detection (important for Spell Steal or -ardm cases)
Jackboots
Active changed to slow victims in target area instead of being around caster
No longer usable during wind walks or channelings
No longer affects units in very middle of effect
6.90RC3
Fixed Spawn Spiderlings creates spiders of wrong player
Fire Jump now turns hero into direction of him traveling
6.90RC2
Fixed Fire Remnants malfunction
Fixed Forest Ambush, Sleight of Fist, Tricks of the Trade, Phase Shift cooldown being unaffected by CDR
6.90RC1
Bugfixes
Fixed Berserker's Call duration
Fixed Culling Blade counts allies for it's new effect display
Fixed Craggy Exterion deals full damage against towers instead of 1/3
Fixed Splinter Blast slow
Fixed Chaotic Voodoo disarm effect
Fixed second Starfall wave slowing wrong unit
Fixed Starfall slow always being lvl 1
Spells
Fixed Torrent slow being affected by status resistance twice (in duration and in efficiency)
Torrent slow duration 1/2/3/4 -> 1.6/2.4/3.2/4.0
Cold Embrace
Slightly increased heal
Cooldown reduced by 1 sec
Meld
Damage bonus 40/80/120/160 -> 55/90/125/160
Neutrals
Turtle buff duration 120 -> 150
6.90z
Fixed one critical bug
Fixed Phantom Rush follow duration being 12.5s instead of 5s
Fixed bug with Echo Lance giving AS to wrong unit
Fixed Echo Saber / Echo lancer provides slow via illusions
Fixed Battle Trance AS
Fixed Ethereal Blade active effect
Fixed order of damage and debuff in Pocket Nuclear Charge
Fixed several minor bugs in Spawn Spiderlings
Fixed Roshan Bash doing no bonus damage
Relocate
No longer tries to teleport completely hidden units (these are effects from Infest, Supernova, Primal Split)
Also hiding unit before first teleportation will interrupt returning
Partial hides now blocks Relocate if were used by an enemy (Disruption, Astral Imprisonment)
Thus these can counter Relocate teleportation in any of 2 sides if timed properly
Use on main caster to prevent teleportaion of both him and ethered unit or on tethered unit to prevent only his teleportation
6.90y
Bugfixes
Fixed (finally!) crashes on -ardm
Fixed (?) crashes on exiting game (BIG thanks for karaulov for the assistance!)
Fixed kill gold being too much
Fixed Grow Rune working incorrectly
Fixed turtle timer having special info on -nn mode instead of -np more
Fixed taverns getting transparency instead of certain dummy unit
Fixed message when selling item on -ardm (it has 60 seconds to sell item for the most part of it's cost unlike other modes where it's only full return in 10 seconds)
Fixed buyback working incorrectly
Fixed incorect positioning of some spells
Fixed Firefly fire duration
Fixed Laguna Blade default visual version effect was reverted for upgraded and non-upgraded versions (upgraded used to be thicker, not vise versa)
Fixed Accurate Shot not provides attack range for illusions
Fixed Nether Ward damage bonus per leveling not working, thus damage was too low
Quality of life
Recreated -sddon command, now is called and toggled via -damagecount chat command
It will display received by main hero damage at death (in game message box) and just over time (on top part of screen)
Counter resets after 18 seconds of not taking damage (same time as assist timer)
Can be toggled off via config:
DamageCount=false
Option is ENABLED by default
Balance
Battle Trance
AS bonus 60/120/180 -> 90/135/180
Duration 7 -> 5/6/7
Cooldown 30 -> 40/35/30
Manacost 75 -> 100
Illuminate
Manacost 150/160/170/180 -> 100/125/150/175
Chakra Magic
MP regen bonus 4/8/12/16 -> 3/6/9/12
Waveform
Manacost decreased by 15
March of the Machines
Cooldown increased by 2
Burrowstrike
Cooldown reduced by 1
Sand Storm
Fixed tooltip telling incorrect DPS
DPS 20/40/60/80 -> 30/50/70/90
Dragon Tail
Stun decreased by 0.25 sec
Damage increased by 30
Ancestral Spirit
Buff duration 10 sec -> 12 sec
Frozen Sigil
HP 12/12/16/16 -> 16
Sprint
Manacost increased by 10
Deafening Blast
Cooldown decreased by 10
Death Coil
Cooldown 4.5 -> 8/7/6/5
Damage/heal 100/150/200/250 -> 100/160/220/280
Self damage remains 50%
Spin Web
Cooldown 30 -> 30/28/26/24
Whirling Axes
Melee damage 75/125/175/225 -> 75/130/185/240
Ranged damage 50/65/80/95 -> 50/75/100/125
Chaotic Voodoo
Cooldown increased by 1
Malefice
Damage per tick increased by 5
Stun increased by 0.05
Soul Catcher
AoE 175/200/225/250 -> 185/215/245/275
Decay
Cooldown 9.5/8.0/6.5/5.0 -> 9/8/7/6
STR steal 4 (7) -> 3/4/5/6 (6/7/8/9)
Cold Snap
Damage per proc 26/34/42/50 -> 30/40/50/60
Blink Strike
Damage 25/50/75/100 -> 40/60/80/100
Reaper's Scythe
Scepter upgrade now additionally increases respawn penalty from 20 to 30
Items
Jackboots
Can now be used during wind walks and channelings
Active duration increased by 0.31 sec to 1.55 total
Units
Spiderling
Damage increased by 2 (partial compensation for nerfed poison)
6.90x
Fixed Turtle Red buff decreases HP restoration incorrectly
Impales (Anubarak, Lion)
Radius 125 -> 140
6.90w
Fixed ability at 5th slot changes it position after all abilities learned
6.90v
Applied correct fix on Elder Dragon Form with illusions (they can use poison and splash but not slow)
Previous fix was incorrect, so it broke everything
6.90u
Bugfixes
Fixed -EP-based shortmodes actually not included ep in them (lol)
Fixed creep still stucking on lane in certain conditions
Fixed Splinter Blast causing game crash (reported by PNt.)
Fixed bug with Inferno damage reduction (reported by w1w4w2w3, Ki113r)
Fixed Spectral Dagger semi-malfunction
Fixed Overgrowth malfunction (reported by Starnival)
Fixed Battle Scythe having incorrect icon in statistic (reported by w1w4w2w3)
Fixed (?) Mystic Snake sometimes stops jumping prematurely without reasons (e.g. after hitting only one target when not blocked)
Fixed -wff displays incorrect player names (reported by w1w4w2w3)
Fixed -st showing incorrect info about Greed gold
Fixed Chaotic Voodoo being not removed properly upon death
Fixed Observer and Sentry wards changes their slot to highest possible when combined from single to doubled type of item (Reported by Mighty)
Fixed Firefly flight duration being slightly less than polymorph duration
Fixed Firewall having by 1 less dmg tick than intended (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Earth Splitter upgraded lacking disarm visual effect (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Focus Fire not showing cooldown in multiboard
Fixed Decrepify acting sligthly incorrectly when used on allies
Fixed Reflection (Terrorblade) and, technically, Disruption not working correctly against non-visible units
Fixed False Promise acting incorrectly at levels 2 and 3
Fixed Attribute shift being incorrect on non-agi heroes (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Poof applies damage on incorrect locations (reported by LHTW)
Fixed polymorphed illusions not getting proper movespeed until it's next change from any source
Fixed error caused by dying under Doom modified by Status Resistance
Fixed dying to non-player (sentinel/scourge/neutral) causes Turtle bonus remain on hero forever, unless killed by hero (reported by Heca)
Fixed burning Spears having slightly higher healthcost than intended
Fixed winter trees having too big selection circle (FiLlaD1N)
Fixed selection circle height on some units
Fixed Infest lasts forever
Fixed Infest lacking sound
Fixed Sanity's Eclipse doing less damage than intended
Fixed mode -ss working incorrectly
Fixed Berserker Rage being fake-pickable on -ep mode
Fixed Linken's Sphere not providing it's attribute bonus
Fixed Dancing Spirits malfunction
Fixed weird bug with casting certain things under disabled unit control
Fixed Jinada not uses ability repositioning to picked position (reported by LHTW)
Fixed a couple of incorrect hero body settings of Talon Queen
Fixed Soul Ring buff remains forever
Fixed inheritasion of Observer and Sentry wards on -ardm mode
Fixed incorrect behaviour of 0-damage dealing illusions (doppelganger defender), now they doing 1% damage
Fixed Elder Dragon Form acting incorrectly with illusions
Fixed incorrect timing of Moonlight Shadow movespeed bonus
Fixed heroes sometimes lacking spells on -rd mode
Fixed couriers sometimes just going on place where hero was instead of delivering items (happened when already ordered to deliver courier combined items via doubleclick)
Fixed Shuriken Toss not jumps against ancients
Attempted to fix crash on -ardm mode (need tests)
Attempted to fix that game continues after !ff if there's leaver in team
Quality of Life
Replay names now includes "LoD" and version name
Feelably improved performance of hero replacing act on -ardm
Greatly improved visibility through Crippling Fear of Balanar's Malganis set
Improved clickability of model Leoric Death Knight
Ethereal Blade projectile animation speed decreased in 3 times (it wont "disappear" visually before reaching far target
Cyclones effect is now slightly red when it's debuff (dispelable as debuff) and slightly blue when it's buff (currently only caused by euling self)
Restored old item chest model, new was hadrly clickable
Given AoE indicator on Poof pointer
Chat commands
Added chat command -mute kill / -mute kills (and, of course, same with -unmute)
Removes sounds of kill streaks for local player
Game mechanics
All Break effects attached to timed effects changed to be identical: breaks applies BEFORE calculating ability duration, thus ability which applied break is not affected by removed resist (e.g. Adaptiveness)
This is also similar to dispeling abilities, which dispels before calculating duration
Skills
Spectral Dagger
Slightly rebalanced
Stifling Dagger
No longer pierces magic immunity
Battle Trance
Can now be used during channelings (thus does not reset current attack animation too)
Death Pulse
Removed heal reduction effect
Flesh Golem
Fixed DPS being slightly less than intended
Maledict
Cast range 575 -> 625
Cast time 0.35 -> 0.3
Reflection (Soul Keeper)
Now requires visibility over target again
Sand Storm
Cooldown 26/22/18/14 -> 21/18/15/12
Flamebreak
Cooldown 14 -> 15/14/13/12
Firefly
Duration increased to 16 at all levels
Fire Stomp
Cooldown 16 -> 16/15/14/13
Untouchable
AS slow 20/30/40% -> 30/45/60%
Now heroes will really require some Status Resistance to counter this slow
Adaptiveness
Now grants turning speed bonus in addition to cast speed (thus on agility and intelligence based heroes)
Silencing Stream
Target seeking AoE 325 -> 350
Blur
Active duration increased by 0.2 sec
Firestorm
Damage per wave increased by 20%
Waves amount 8 -> 7
Strafe
Attackspeed bonus 130 -> 120/140/160/180
Pounce
Cooldown increased by 1 second
Rage
Attackspeed bonus increased by 5
Cooldown reduced by 2 seconds
Painful Blink
Max range increased by 50
Now applies debuff on enemies around both starting and destination points
AoE 425 -> 400
Spirit Lance
Illusion duration 3/4/5/6 -> 4/5/6/7
Doppelganger
Cooldown 20/16/12/8 -> 16/13/10/7
Leap
Buff duration 2.6 -> 3.0
Charge cooldown 46/39/32/25 -> 38/32/26/20
Blade Fury
Duration 2.5 -> 3.0 (+20%)
DPS remained the same, thus total damage increased by 20%
MS bonus 30/45/60/75 -> 40/60/80/100
Now deals first damage instance with 0.1 sec delay instead of instantly
Infest
Duration 15/20/25 -> 18/24/30
AS bonus 30/45/60 -> 40/60/80
MS bonus 30/45/60 -> 80/120/160
False Promise
Cooldown 60/50/40 -> 75/60/45
Duration 7/8/9 -> 7.0/8.5/10.0
Manacost 100 -> 150/175/200
Poison Touch
Additional MS slow per hit 2% -> 2/3/4/5%
Voodoo Restoration
Now deals magical DPS equal to healing amounts
Heal/Damage numbers 16...40 / sec -> 14...35 / sec
Manacost slightly decreased
Does not pierce magic immunity or invulnerability of enemies
Nature's Defender
Slightly reduced guarded area radius, also owl needs to come closer to a unit to begin attacking it, to half of area radius
Mana Burn (Nerubian Assassin)
Cooldown 22/16/10/4 -> 20/15/10/5
Intelligence multiplier 3.6/4.2/4.8/5.4 -> 3.5/4.0/4.5/5.0
Dark Ascension
Night vision 1800 -> 1500 (now requires Moon Shard or Lunar Blessing to reach max vision)
Essence Shift
Now gains 2 attributes per hit instead of 3 (enemy still loses 1 point of each)
Moon Glaive
No longer jumps toward not visible units
Ball Lightning
Damage per 100 distance 8/12/16 -> 8/11/14
Damage radius 200 -> 225
Boulder Smash
Stun 0.75/1.25/1.75/2.25 -> 1.2/1.55/1.9/2.25
Damage 50/100/150/200 -> 100/160/220/280
Geomagnetic Grip
Damage 50/100/150/200 -> 85/140/195/250
Cooldown 13 -> 12
Stone Caller
Duration 120 -> 60
Fortune's End
Now dispels allies in effect area even if they were not main target of spell (simply affects all units around)
Thus allies getting positive dispel, enemies getting negative dispel, and if they become vulnerable after dispel, receives damage and root
Items
Grow Rune
No longer grants +35% experience gain for the duration
Now grants +1 Attribute Bonus level forever, making it more interesting to be "stolen" by sidelaners
Aegis, Cheese and Smelly Cheese are no longer destroyable
Diffusal Blade changed again
Now requires Blade of Alacrity, Staff of Wizardry and Recipe for total 2800 gold cost
Active ability removed
Agility bonus 15 -> 12
Intelligence bonus 0 -> 12
Now has 2 passive effects:
Manabreak unchanged
Cooldown reduction 10%
Sublimal Blade changed again
Still requires Diffusal Blade, Mask of Death and recipe for total 4900 cost
Active ability removed
Agility bonus 20
Intelligence bonus 20
Now has 3 passive effects:
Lifesteal and Manabreak unchaged
Cooldown reduction 15%
Jackboots
Active ability replaced by simple MS slow
Slows enemies MS by 50% in 400 radius
Lasts 0.5 sec, ticks every 0.31 sec for 4 ticks or 1.25 sec in total, thus last slow instance will end after 1.75 sec from cast
Buff is dispelable from caster, thus ends prematurely
Debuff is dispelable from victims, thus slow instance ends prematurely
Manacost 100 -> 75
Sange, Kaya and their upgrades:
HP and MP restoration bonuses increased in 1.5 times:
16% -> 24% for tier 1 (sange, kaya)
20% -> 30% for tier 2 (all their straight upgrades)
24% -> 36% for tier 3 (triforce blade)
Mjollnir
Buff proc is now based in Luck of caster instead of Luck of target
Holy Beads
Recipe cost 550 -> 650
Status Resistance bonus 20% -> 15%
Creeps and Neutrals
Added some waypoints for hardlane creeps to make them not avoid their purposes
Pull distance slightly increased for all camps (return delay 1.75 -> 1.85)
Pullable big camps near lanes updated to be more equal: slightly easier for topleft camp and slightly harder for bottomright camp
Turtles buff duration 180 -> 120
Red Turtle buff DPS 6+3% of max hp -> 30+3% of max hp
Blue Turtle buff damage reflection 25% -> 33%
Gray Turtle buff status resistance bonus 25% -> 20%
Couriers base HP 75 -> 65
Couriers base HP Regen 0 -> 0.5
6.90t
Bugfixes
Fixed crash on -ardm. However, no idea if it's fixed completely or something still may go wrong
Attempted to fix crashes on non-ardm game. Once again, cannot be sure that it's solved
Fixed players lacking 1 hero in each tavern below last on modes d2, d3, d4, d5: they have been granted 21/31/41/51 heroes but one was not shown; however now they gains exactly 20/30/40/50 heroes
Fixed Fire Spirits returning to hero when already launched if hero dies and improved ability code
Fixed Spirit Vessel debuff having incorrect duration
Fixed Exorcism heal acting like straight hp adding instead of being actual Heal, thus modified with heal amps
Fixed Thunder Strike semi-malfunction
Fixed neutral Troll Priest sometimes heals his enemies
Fixed Feast damage and heal numbers being doubled
Fixed Hurricane Pike bonus works incorrctly in some rare circumstances
Fixed Hurricane Pike attacks begin tracked incorrectly if recasted before end of previous buff
Quality of life
Heroes are now strictily attached to their positions in local player's tavern and so they no longer moves when other player picks somebody
Several performance improvements
Modes
Combination of modes -ar, -dm, -om and -nn will now provide double experience from lane creeps
Draft-1 tavern now grants 10 heroes pool instead of 11
This means some non-banned heroes will still not appear in game
DM max lifes 666 -> 160 (this fixes crash on ARDM when there are too many heroes enters on map
Turtles do no longer spawn on mode -np (they're counted as powerups more than as neutrals)
Spells
Primal Split aghanim is reworked
Now grants +100 MS, +30% Evasion and +30% magic resistance for each spirit
Ball Lightning
Slightly rebalanced starting manacost, it become higher for heroes below 950 max mp and less for heroest with more max mp
Glimpse
Stun duration upon returning 0 sec -> 0.2 sec
Charge of Darkness
Fixed bonus base speed counted twice
Manacost increased by 20
Become Enraged
Bonus damage decreased by 5%
Aghanim version
Duration decreased by 0.5 sec
Bonus Status Resistance decreased by 5%
Vendetta
Cooldown 90/70/50 -> 90/75/60
Manacost 140/200/260 -> 150/225/300
Feast
Heal 2.0/2.8/3.6/4.4% -> 2.0/3.0/4.0/5.0%
Damage bonus 1.0/1.4/1.8/2.2% -> 1.0/1.5/2.0/2.5%
Items
Heaven's Halberd
Bonus attack range is now given for both melee and range instead of melee only
Spirit Vessel
Active duration 10 -> 8
Holy Beads
Now also grants +20% Status Resistance
Slightly reduced other bonuses
Other
-help command is now recommended at start of the game
Improved some typos
Glimpse now shows visual effect when instantly kills illusions
Diabolic Edict effects now appears on ground even when hits unit, effectively shows invisible units position. As downside, if there are no units at all, they still shows on random positions around
6.90r
Fixed all memory leaks and improved game performance overall, cleaned unused trash from map
Fixed GPM was not actually increased in last patches
Fixed Avalanche stun was slightly longer than intended
Fixed Stone Gaze keeps damage for whole stun duration bonus even if dispeled
Fixed castrange bonus being applied on The Swarm incorrectly
Fixed Drunken Haze not slowing at all
Flesh Golem
Fixed debuff always stays at lvl 1
MS slow 30% -> 20/30/40%
AS slow 30 -> 20/30/40
DPS feelably decreased
Corrosive Skin
Debuff duration 4 -> 3 (less punishable for the single damage instance against Viper)
Shadow Strike
Impact damage 50/75/100/125 -> 30/50/70/90
6.90q
Abilities leveling become more free
Any of 4 basic abilities can be chosen at any level instead of being forced to learn ability at 5th slot
Second ultimate is still forced to be learned at levels 9, 15, 21, thus skiping ability point decision
Instead attribute bonusea are no longer selectable but instead learns automatically at levels on which hero is unable to choose new ability
These levels are: 23-30 for all modes, additionally 20-22 at S5 and 15, 16, 17, 19 at S4
Thus hero can receive 8 levels in attribute points ability at S6, 11 at S5 and 15 at S4
Each level grants +1 to strength, agility, intelligence, +1% movespeed, +1% turnspeed, +1% cast time reduction and 1% status resistance
Also information about it's bonuses can be received via -attribute chat command
6.90p
Bugfixes
Fixed Attack Speed modifiers acting weird (thx Dracol1ch)
Fixed Inferno lasting forever (Reported by MasterPog)
Fixed Turtles never respawn (Reported by LHTW)
Fixed War Terror and Fission Doll lacking sound
Fixed Freezing Field slow being undispelable
Fixed Dual Breathe slow always being lvl 1
Fixed Acid Spray Aoe being slightly less than intended
Fixed agha upgraded abilities being not learned in stun
Fixed Primal Split Earth's Hurl Boulder hotkey not working
Config & Chat commands
Default minimap changed from detailed to simple (after multiple requests)
Reminder
Config option: goodminimap=true, goodminimap=false
Chat option: -minimap 1, minimap 2
You will probably still need to modify config option to have constant effect
Added chat command -help which shows other possible commands to receive basic hints about new stuff
Currently available commands: -help (show other commands), -rune (shows info about runes placement), -turtle (turtles placement and specifics)
Why is it not in map info? Because there cannot be too much information for comfortable reading
Added players color into message from -swap action
Turtles
Basic HP reduced by 1
Now has small HP regen, preventing them from being pre-damaged
Spells
Blinding Light
Cast Time 0.3 -> 0.4 (more relates on castspeed modifiers, e.g. from Chakra Magic)
Radius 600 -> 550
Cast Range 500/575/650/725 -> 625/700/775/850
Damage 65/110/155/200 -> 75/125/175/225
Push duration 0.4 -> 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6
Push distance 350 -> 240/320/400/480
Natural Order
Now affects total unit armor instead of basic armor
This means it becomes less effective with other armor reducing abilities
Armor reduction 30/45/60/75% -> 16/24/32/40% (to compare, e.g. Marksmanship pierces 50% of total armor)
Magical damage bonus remains 10/15/20/25%
Weave
Removed scepter upgrade because with fixed tick frequency ability already become stronger
In other words: improved non-upgraded version but removed upgrade
Will-o-Wisp
Cast Time 0.2 -> 0.5
Activation delay 1 -> 0.6
Chemical Rage
Cooldown 60 -> 70
Metamorphosis
Base MS increased by 10 at all levels
Lightning Bolt
Target seeking range when targeting ground 375 -> 200
Avalanche, Storm Bolt:
Slightly increased damage
Frost Arrows
Bonus damage 6/12/18/24 -> 8/16/24/32
Slow duration 2 -> 2.5
Note: use -abind for setting comfortable toggling on/off key for any of ability slots you need
Items
Nerubian Scepter
Partially reworked debuff
Old: grants enemies -25 mp/sec mana regeneration
New: enemies loses mana equal to 20% of spell damage they receive (similar to Laser Aim effect)
Note: Yes, this means that already manaburning spells will be even more crucial with that :^ although by themself they're more effective if boosted via Spell Amplification
Blade Mail
Can now be used during wind walks and channelings
6.90n
Bugfixes
Fixed (?) desynches. At least one of them, not sure about existing of others. Gem and Raier on ground are not alt-clickable again.
Fixed Mode EP not working correctly
Fixed Counterspell and Shiva being not usable without breaking invisibility (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Arctic Burn and Call Down debuffs causes bugged movespeed
Fixed Dispel working incorrectly with Urn and Vessel debuffs (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Potions (salve, clarity, bottle, urn, vessel, regenrune) not been removed by taking damage (reported by Mighty)
Fixed Jackboots affecting invulnerable units
Fixed Corrosive Skin working incorrectly (reported by Mighty)
Fixed Exorcism being affected by Spell Amplification
Fixed Exorcism not providing it's heal at end of duration
Fixed Spiderlings still uses old poison, updated their ability icon to be passive
Fixed Scourge ancient camp position
Fixed Ion Shell level of buff/debuff being delayed in display (reported by LHTW)
Fixed all lane creeps behaviour once and forever because there was trash (old waypoints) from super old map versions, so no more
Fixed Cranium Basher proc not provides stun (reported by ztimur12), proc chance on ranged attackers 10% -> 12%
Fixed item transfering on DM mode not working (reported by ztimur12)
Fixed item transfering on DM mode not starting cooldown on items and teleport ability
Fixed Scan reacts on dead heroes
Fixed slow from Arrow Shower
Fixed Attackspeed being not restored instantly upon respawn (reported by Etuken)
Fixed Fervor attackspeed renewing was slightly delayed (reported by Mighty)
Fixed Paralyzing Cask and Chain Frost jumping infinitely
Fixed auras obtained via Devour not working and AS aura from Furbolg stucked at level 1
Fixed Eagle level 1 lives forever (reported by w1w4w2w3)
Fixed Flesh Golem debuff affecting wards and structures (reported by w1w4w2w3)
Fixed Helm of Overlord aura affects enemy structures (reported by w1w4w2w3)
Fixed Infest always lasting 15 seconds (reported by Ki113r)
Fixed Splinter Blast missing an icon (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Iceblast incorrectly affecting HP regen for it's first victim
Fixed Iceblast trigger being not renewed when debuff is relayed
Modes
Completely removed game modes: -sp, -so, -ul
Units
Couriers
Slightly decreased HP grow per level
Turtles
Added displayed timers and death info, but each side has only info about respawn of turtle on their side
Spells
Silence Banshee reworked
Silencing Stream
Launches main projectile toward target location which seeks for targets in 325 radius, 1 target per tick
Has 0.1 second pause between shots and ignores units it already tried to hit, as well as magic immune, invulnerable, not visible for caster units and units which cannot be silenced by their nature (not having spells)
When target is found, launches small projectiles toward target, which can be evaded
On small projectile hit it silences target for 3/4/5/6 seconds
Cast range and main projectile travel distance 700/800/900/1000
Cooldown and manacost unchanged
Note 1: Pause between shots means that if at previous tick possible target was not found, it will seek for new target as soon as possible, similarly to attack reload
Note 2: This rework makes ability easier to hit enemy right after he would lose protective source, eg. avatar or invulnerability
Exorcism
Now provides small amount of heal every time when spirit returns to caster instead of healing at the end
Is now officially affected by spell amplification (in previous minipatches it was bug)
Ghosts damage reduced to 40-50
Note: this makes ability less opressive in early-to-mid game and in general more oriented on carrying it on spellcaster with added survivability rather than bulky hero by itself
Fission Doll
Damage and castrange slightly increased
Cooldown slightly decreased
Added sound on hitting unit first time
Chaotic Voodoo
Ticks amount 2/3/4/5 -> 3/4/5/6
Ticks frequency 2.25 -> 2.0
Cooldown 13 -> 12
Natures Defender
Attack reload 1.0 -> 1.2
Guarded area radius 900 -> 750
Attack range is now limited at 425
Cooldown 16/14/12/10 -> 21/18/15/12
Manacost 100/115/130/145 -> 100/120/140/160
Note: it's used to be supportive option, not the main nuking ability
Spirits -> Dancing Spirits
Cooldown 20/19/18/17 -> 20/18/16/14
Ice Shards
Ground reveal time 2 -> 6/7/8/9
Impetus
Range steal duration 26/34/42/50 -> 35/40/45/50
Inferno
Now renews duration when refreshed, not stacking from multiple uses from one carrier
Earthbind
Projectile speed increased by 11%
Battle Hunger
Cast Range 650 -> 725
AoE 450 -> 400
Sanity's Eclipse
Cast range 700 -> 725
Minimum damage and manaburn 20/30/40/50 -> 30/45/60/75
Cooldown 18/16/14/12 -> 16/14/12/10
Fire Show
Atrribute sum multiplier 0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7 -> 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6
Epicenter
Cast Time 2.0 basic / 1.25 upg -> 1.5 both
Now has 0.5 sec activation delay after cast, which used to provide time to reposition after finishing it without wasting pulses
Painful Blink
Cast Range and debuff AoE increased by 25
Debuff bonus 8/10/12/14% -> 9/12/15/18%
Manacost 90 -> 75/80/85/90
Battle Blink
Cast range 500/550/600/650 -> 540/580/620/660
Illusion duration 3.6/3.9/4.2/4.5 -> 3.8/4.2/4.6/5.0
Illusion damage 15/18/21/24% -> 21/24/27/30%
Manacost 80 -> 65/70/75/80
Forest Ambush
Cast range 300/340/380/420 -> 330/365/400/435
Items
Jackboots
Duration 1.25 -> 1.55
Cooldown 20 -> 16
6.90g
Fixed neutrals camps being not blocked by wards
Aura range on Neutral units 1050 -> 600 (becomes 1050 when owned by player)
6.90f
Fixed new Lion 2nd still counts as Disable
Fixed all upgraded daggers displayed as Bull's Dagger in statistic (reported by PogChamp-xD?)
Fixed Primal Roar modifies AS of dead primary target
Fixed attacks on ward grants bonus attack range for melee unit forever
Fixed Couriers not receiving regeneration from Fountains
Fixed Melee/Ranged restrictions on -ep mode
Fixed small bug in hero leveling
Fixed Medallion lays debuff on allies (Reported by Alyptrzy)
Fixed impossbility to tranfer ward to ally if he has that type of ward but no free slots
Fixed planting and killing Wards having no sound (sounds will be still not played for enemy on death of ward tho)
Fixed Marksmanship and Synergy not having it's position set correctly
Fixed Splinter Blast malfunction
Fixed Arrow Shower counts invulnerable units
Fixed Enrage acting slightly incorrectly
Slightly updated creep waypoints to reduce changes of stuciking or moving around forest
Added chat command to change Minimap during game
"-minimap 1" for new style and "-minimap 2" for old style
Note: it still may be changed in config in string "GoodMinimap=" via option "false"
Default Natural Lighting changed to more dark version at nighttime
Thus -light 1 and -light 2 options swaped as well
Reverted change tavern swap; they will change positions like before as it feels weird for swaping players
Changed levels of obtaining 5th ability from 4/7/10/13 to 4/10/16/22
This will allow to levelup "main" abilities more freely since 5th and 6th skills requires learning points as well
This also means that non-ultimative ability at 5th slot will be obtained early, at lvl 4, but maximised by 1 level later than ultmative at 6th slot
Skill points required to maximize everything remains at 22
Scourge T1 on mid moved slightly further away from river (by 64 units up and 64 units right)
Decreased area occupied by 2 neutral medium camps
Neutrals pulling distance increased again, so it become just still slightly less than in previous patches
Neutrals aggroing distance decreased (i guess?)
Recoded neutral Troll Priest healing behaviour, no longer prevents camp from pulling
Power runes moves slightly further from middle lane
Observer and Sentry Wards
Can now be combined in single item slot
Couriers cannot put wards again
Amplify Damage
Visual effect now disappears instantly when removed
EMP
Now shows amount of burned and stolen mana
Atrophy Aura
Dying hero bonus damage x5 -> x2 (it was too much)
Dying hero bonus duration x1 -> x2
Swoop Down
Damage 100/150/200 -> 125/200/275
Mass Serpent Ward
Damage 28/46/64 -> 26/48/70
Nightmare
Duration 8 -> 9
Drunken Haze
Duration 8 -> 9
Upgraded Daggers attribute bonus 30 -> 33
Shiva's Guard
Heal and regen reduction 25% -> 20%
Mud Golem stun 0.6 -> 1.0, damage 125 -> 150
Shard Golem stun 0.6 -> 0.4, damage 125 -> 60
6.90e (another fix)
Fixed Tango regen being in 10000 times higher than should be
Fixed Bounty Runes not spawns at 00:00
Fixed Scourge Black Market has been shared vision with Sentinels
Fixed Stone Form being slightly shorter than used to be
Flesh Golem debuff duration reduced by 17%
6.90d (hotfix)
Fixed alt-clicking runes causes desynch
Fixed alt-click message about power rune spawns always showing 0 seconds after first runespawn
Fixed alt-clicking power runes tells about 0 seconds remaining if clicked before creepspawn (there's no power rune spawn nearby at all)
Fixed Impetus shows bonus range incorrectly
Fixed Battle Hunger debuff lasts forever
Fixed Battle Hunger trying to lay debuff on dead units, thus achieving bonus movespeed for 8 sec for free
Fixed Sentinel tier 2 and 3 towers attack speed being messed up (actually very small difference)
Fixed some typos
Added message about successful swap from tavern swap
Player name at -disablehelp command now shows more correctly
Slightly nerfed tier 2 towers damage and slightly increased tier 4 towers attack speed
Devour will now obtain new ability even on toggled off autocast if there's no ability obtained at all
Devour and Phantom Rush toggle icons updated to be proper toggleable icons
Homing Missile
Increased starting speed by 5% and acceleration by 25%
Overwhelming Odds
Added buff visual effect
Slightly nerfed cooldown and manacost
Primal Split
Rebalanced units HP
Weaker at lvl 1 and grows more over leveling (x1.5 from previous level)
Earth HP decreased
Fire HP increased
Added small exp and gold bounty for each brewling
Cooldown 140/120/100 -> 150/125/100
Cast time 0.5 -> 0.6
Earth Hurl Bounder stun 2 -> 1.5/1.75/2.0, dmg 50/100/150 -> 80/120/160
Frost Arrows
Bonus damage 5/10/15/20 -> 6/12/18/24
Manacost 12 -> 9/10/11/12
Sumon Wolves
Cripple DPS 8 physical -> 10 magical (tooltip now is incorrect, yes), MS slow 12% -> 15%, TR slow 24% -> 25%
Shiva Guard, Ethereal Blade and Heaven's Halberd are no longer disassembleable
6.90c (Minor fix)
Fixed AlwaysDisplayRangeMarkers=true acting incorrectly
Fixed Blink Dagger visual effect behaviour if casting unit is not visible
Fixed interaction of Geminate Attack and Moment of Courage
Fixed Geminate Attack and Moment of Courage procs against invulnerable units
Sentry Wards now starts with amount of 5 in shop, halved from max just like Observer Wards
6.90b (Terrain update)
Terrain
Featuring new battlefield!
Shake hand of Roshan right before your rune spot, catch fearsome dragons, find new pathways through terrain!
Picking
Pick time reduced by 30s
Pick delay after entering mode 5s -> 0.5s
Fixed displayed picked abilities on -ap mode messing up if they're picked too fast
Runes
Bounty runes now spawns every 3 minutes separately from power runes
First spawn at 00:00 and then every 3 minutes (03:00, 06:00, etc.)
Bonus gold 40 + 2 per minute -> 40 + 3 per minute
New rune!
Grow Rune
It spawns on both sides of river at 02:00 and 04:00 and never after
After that power runes spawns normally only on 1 side of river just like before (06:00, 08:00, etc.)
Grow Rune provides +35% experience gain for 45 seconds (stacks linearly with other bonuses, currently only with Null Field)
Grow Rune and Bounty Rune charges bottle only with 2 additional charges
Thus if you hero had bottle with 0, it will be charged to 2, otherwise to 3
Pickip up these runes with only 1 charge in bottle will not trigger bottle heal automatically to not waste charge in case it's not needed
Side Shops are unchanged
Lane creeps
Now will stand on place while disarmed instead of rushing forward
Fixed (?) creeps stucking on point sometimes
Neutrals
Creeps will return to camp faster than before (2 sec -> 1.5 sec)
Non-ancient neutral creeps gold and experience bounty decreased by 8-12%
Ancient camp smaller creeps damage slightly increased
Neutral troll priest healing ability changed:
Heals for 60 + 6% of target's max hp
Manacost 100
Cooldown 10
Cast Time 0.5
Can be autocasted
Devoured version
Heals for 40/60/80/100 + 4/6/8/10% of target's max hp
Manacost 75/100/125/150 (yes, it's less mana effective in early game than heals from innate abilities)
Cooldown 10
Cast Time 0.5
Cannot be autocasted
Harpies, Black Dragons and Familiars will no longer try to take further positions with each other
First neutral camp will now spawn at 01:00 instead of 00:30
New special neutral camp - Turtles
It spawns near middle lane tier 2 towers
First spawn happens at 05:00 and every following happens in 5 minutes after killing previous
Turtle type decides randomly but do not repeat previous type
Killing turtle provides low gold and exp but grants unique bonuses for killer
Not affecting illusions, summons, etc.
All bonuses lasts for 3 minutes each and can only be removed by killing carrier, what will transfer bonus to hero of killer for estimated duration
In general bonuses lasts longer than runes and harder to be removed, but more limited and are easier to be stolen from enemy, which is highly recommended to do
Each Red Turtle grants Hot Hands: attacks getting 30% chance to ignite enemies in 300 AoE
Each Green Turtle grants Evolving Processes : +30% HP and 30% MP restoration
Each Blue Turtle grants Crystal Leather: +25% damage reflection
Each Mechanical Turtle grants Mechanical Organs: +25% Status Resistance
Hot Hands specific:
Dealing DPS as 6+3% of victims max HP per second (or 2+1% if they're structures) for 3 seconds
Reduces victims HP restoration by 50%
Do not pierce magic immunity
Dispellable normally
Crystal Leather specifics
Fully stackable with other sources of damage reflection
Do not affect structures
Do not pierce magic immunity
Turtle stats:
Attack: no
MS: 250
HP: 4 + 1 per every next spawn. Receives 1 damage per hit from heroes and cannot be attacked by anybody else
Passive Damage Reflection ("Civilian"): deals 5% of attacker max HP as pure HP Removal damage (cannot be blocked or avoided, can be modified by damage received modifier e.g. Veil)
Couriers
Can no longer pickup enemy owned items nearby their fountain (distance 3000 or below)
Skills
TP Scroll
No longer destroys trees on arriving
Teleportation to tower max distance away 575 -> 525
Lvl 1 TP delay 3 -> 4, penalties 5+0.5 per attempt -> 4+0.5
Lvl 2 TP delay 3 -> 3.25 (and removes penalties)
Lvl 3 TP delay stays 2.5
MS bonus 35/60 -> 30/50
Maledict
Bonus damage depending on hp difference now counts from previous burst tick instead of starting hp during whole curse
Thus there are 3 independent burst instances, which not boosts each other by it's own damage
Base DPS 7/14/21/28 -> 12/18/24/30
Bonus damage 16/24/32/40% of hp difference between current and starting hp -> 20/30/40/50% of hp difference between current hp and hp after previous burst tick (or starting hp if it's first tick)
Very slightly increased AoE
Death Ward
Cast Range 600 -> 450
Tether
Will now update it's bonuses when leveled up without requiring to break the link
Regeneration transfer is no longer affected by caster's hpmp reg amplifications, but only by target's amplifications
HP and mp restoration were already not affected
Hookshot
Can now drag toward runes
Rupture
Can now only target (not just "be used" but "cursor only allows to click on heroes")
Chronosphere
Scepter upgrade removed
Reverse Polarity
Damage slightly increased
Scepter upgrade removed
Snowball
Effect AoE very slightly reduced
6.90a (Main Patch)
Bugfixes
Attempted to fix that game with leaver does not end as usual
Fixed Fireblast lacking animation
Fixed Martyric Boots revealing Wind Walk even tho they're made to not do so (innate wc3 bug, not my fault, w/e)
Fixed Searing Arrows not affects structures (reported by plenty of peoples)
Fixed Searing Arrows not renews correctly when used against same target after leveling it up
Fixed Kelen's Dagger still having unit targeting instead of ground only
Fixed Thug Walk applying it's effects even if attack misses
Fixed Warpath shows missing tooltip on control panel (should not have this thing at all)
Fixed Flesh Golem retaliating effect works only against heroes instead of all units
Fixed Poison Attack providing poison sound even if attack missed
Fixed Supernova and Ignis Fatuus been deniable
Fixed EMP not stealing mana at all (reported by LHTW, Adrian)
Fixed Ward Attack bonus range been checked and removed in case of non-related orders
Fixed small neutral camp having 17% chance to not spawn at all (6th camp option has been deleted some time ago but it still randoms up to 6)
Fixed Rocket Flare flight never ends in rare cases due to dividing by zero (reported by w1w4w2w3)
Fixed Rocket Flare blocks neutral camps (reported by w1w4w2w3)
Fixed Arrow Shower damage being in ~1.5 times more than expected
Fixed visual effect from Captain Pudge's Dismember stays "forever" if dismember got dispelled (reported by v3n0m)
Fixed Frost Armor Slow being undispellable
Fixed Ancestral Spirit buff indication removing been delayed
Fixed Earthbind not affecting Roshan (it was a restriction which stayed from normal Dota i suppose :v)
Fixed (was it bugged?) Elder Dragon Form and Arctic Burn effects behaviour if attack was avoided
Fixed Ranged only poison arrow type abilities (e.g. Flaming Arrows) interaction with forced melee attack abilities. These arrows will do nothing instead of wasting mana without effect (instantly toggled off/on)
Fixed Tornado been "Blinking" in fog instead of been fully visible
Fixed Mystic Snake always uses model from set (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Pocket Nuclear Charge still acts incorrectly if flight becomes disrupted anyhow
Fixed Pocket Nuclear Charge been wasted if used too close. Also added minimum distance equal to 96 (reported by MetakaRU)
Fixed Exorcism from Krobelus skin pack not having proper spawn and death sounds
Fixed Fire Spirits from Icenix skin pack creates some orange fire effects on hit (which are not just incorrect but simply excessive)
Fixed Lightning Bolt not aggroing targets if casted via spelling onto ground
Fixed one of Attribute Shift subspells been still silensable
Fixed Infest + Gem bug (reported by MetakaRU)
Fixed Spirit Lance slow been slightly different from tooltip, slow and illusion damage very slightly increased
Fixed mode SS allowing to see enemy items via -ii command
Fixed (?) possibility to pick hero by some seconds before it's been allowed
Fixed consuming aghanim's scepter from courier not providing visual effect
Fixed Flaming Lasso debuff uses wrong icon and been not removed instantly upon end
Fixed Fiend's Grip cancels victim's forced movements (it's not Dismember with it's own moving to cancel anything)
Fixed interaction of unit capturing and bonus hp aura from Emerald Golem
Fixed behaviour of Glaives of Wisdom and Essence Shift in certain conditions
Fixed reflected Glimpse doing much less damage than intended
Fixed Doom Hatchlings stun been too weak
Fixed Primal Split not moving caster correctly after Earth (spirit) death, some other updates in ability
Fixed Ice Circles slow efficiency and debuff duration been slightly stronger than intended
Fixed Tether interaction with some forced movement which breaks both of them if happens
Fixed Icarus Dive been stopped by very special cases of triggered instant interruption of unit (e.g. "toss has no possible targets") as well was still cancelled by polymorphs for the same reason
Fixed Ignite and Liquid Fire interaction with evading projectile anyhow (recoded both)
Fixed behaviour of leaver's BKB
Fixed Skewer acting incorrectly on attempt to interrupt victim's forced movement
Fixed Kelen's Dagger cast being not interrupted if hero becomes rooted while already casting Kelen's Dagger
Fixed (?) Eyes in the Forest visual blinking glitch
Fixed Pit of Malice been applied slightly more often than it used to (Reported by Lovely~Queen)
Fixed Primal Split Storm Mass Dispell damages Strong illusion
Fixed "Owning" sounds appears after being killed by neutrals
Fixed Ogre Powa and Adaptiveness not losing their buff indicator effect under Break
Fixed Ogre Powa affecting cooldowns slightly incorrect
Fixed all tooltips which has been saying about percentage modifier in attackspeed to simple numerical
Fixed Familiars not always uses their stone form automatically (reported by LHTW)
Fixed Fountain regeneration was 5% hp and 6% mp instead of 6% both
Fixed Solid Granite aura provides double bonus for illusions if existed on hero at moment of illusion creation
Fixed small bug in Hookshot (barely affects game tho)
Fixed unit has not been turning instantly in proper direction as it meant to be in abilities: Riki Blink Strike, Reality Rift, Nether Strike, Haunt illusions, Reflection illusions, Fire Jump, Disruption Illusions, Snowball (release units)
Fixed Roshan status resistance being incorrect after modifying by debuffs
Fixed gold for killing cours being counted as feeded by killer instead of feeded by owner
Fixed (?) rare problem with Spell Steal (reported by LHTW)
Fixed bug with Spirit Bear
Fixed Tricks of the Trade not providing flying vision around aoe as it used to do (reported by Pogchamp)
Fixed fast puchasing items not provides notification for team as if they were comboed normally
Fixed Arctic Burn and Elder Dragon Form debuffs may affect wrong target in specific circumstances
Fixed Hurricane Pike allied cast manacost being 50 instead of 100
Fixed some crash
Fixed some shit in Exorcism in it's effect and performance
Fixed Stampede Aghanim bonus damage resistance not working
Fixed Haunt illusions being capturable (enchant, mind control)
Fixed Venomous Gale doing by 1 less damage instance than should do (even tho it was showing damage number)
Fixed Kraken Shell was displayed silenced under Silence
Fixed Force Staff and all it's upgrades pushing distance being by 25 higher than it says (thus +50 on hurricane pike against enemy because of doublepush, which is already big difference)
Fixed Smoke of Deceit being not cencelled nearby Tree of Life and Frozen Throne
Fixed Splinter Blast main projectile disappears if target dies beforereaching it (as main projectile has no effect by itself except reflection and block checks, it should ignore target death)
Fixed Life Break getting cancelled by casting polymorph in mid-way (reported by Heca)
Fixed Degen Aura and Shiva's Aura still working on illusions when it has been said that illusions are unable to slow
Fixed Crippling Fear visual effect stays for too long
Fixed destroying towers resets all circle of power abilities instead of only Glyph
Fixed Homing Missile deals stun after damage instead of before
Fixed creep aggro on unit attacking other hero briefly breaks if attack order was given from fog of war or invisibility
Fixed status resistance interaction with turnrate slows
Fixed "Doom Purge" not dispeling enemy
Fixed Moon Glaive jump distance between stuctures was by 50 less than used to be
Fixed Sentry Ward timed vision stays for it's 12 seconds even if ward dies faster
Fixed Astral Imprisonment / Disruption effects were not moved together with target when it moves (via Nether Swap or Vacuum, none else can do that rn)
Fixed mindcontrolled forest creeps Acquire Range stays too low
Fixed Chain Frost cooldown being 100 90 60 instead of 100 80 60
Fixed Relocate teleportations interrupts active Primal Split
Fixed multiple instances of Rupture on unit being stackable (reported by Ki113r)
Fixed unit immortality getting lost in rare cases
Fixed synchronisation between time displayed on panel, ground timers and real remaining time
Fixed limited consumables bought near enemy shops being not tracked in statistic
Fixed Fountains being unaffected by auras which affects buildings
Fixed (?) killing Primal Split still being counted as suicide in rare cases
Fixed Gravekeeper's Cloak effect being shown under Break
Fixed Become Enraged bonus damage being always lvl 1
Fixed Spark Wraith slow being always lvl 1
Fixed "Save Game" being not disabled correctly, game is no longer saveable at all
Updates in Teleport code; hopefully this will also fix Teleport bug (tho it's too rare that i couldn't repeat it intentionally)
Performance
Optimised Fountain regeneration bonus, and as it happens always, should positively affect game performance
Optimised dispells by cleaning excessive actions in them
Optimised Assist code and some other minor things
Assist counter is now nullified at death thus wont be counted again for rebuy-death cases
Improved selection box of icenix's set supernova (reported by Heca)
Improved selection box of Healing Ward from Juggernaut Slasher set, it was enormously big
Improved performance of item picking up actions, including toggling items or drinking bottles: it won't be checked anymore if clearly has no upgrades
E.g. for my wooden PC it's sometimes feelable when simply drinking bottle or toggling pt or armlet with full slots
Also this means that disassembled items wont be comboed back together after drinking bottle or so
Timer on picking stage now changes color depending on time left: red (unavailable yet) -> green -> yellow -> red
Fixed positions for letters being slightly incorrect for 3 digit numbers and whole number position
Quality of Life
Ban stage updates:
Alt+click message "I want to pick xx" replaced by "I want to ban"
Ctrl+Alt+click message "We need xx" replaced by "We need to ban xx"
Pick stage updates:
Alt+click message "xx is ready" replaced by "we need to pick xx"
Swap during pick stage updated to swap tavern positions as well, so each player will have his tavern on same place in result of swap
Picked abilities can be seen after pick via -si by the similar fashion as on -ss mode
"Runes spawns soon" can now be clicked on runespawn positions (works only 30 seconds or less before rune spawn)
Gem of Truesight and Divine Rapier on ground can now be highlighted via alt-click
Enabled skins which were temporary unavailable in last patches:
Dota 2 Antimage (+fixed it's animations)
Dark Moon Rider
Real Night Stalker
Deepwater Void
Updated Pseudo Consumable items (Consumable Aghanim's Scepter, Teleport Upgrade, Consumable Gem) to act properly if hero does not have free slots for item
They will no longer require to open slot to consume them
+ Will be instantly consumed when purchased if hero is nearby
+ Can be picked up from ground
+ Can now be transferred from courier to hero
Added "-abind" chat command
This stands for toggling abilities with autocast (e.g. Frost Arrows, Impetus)
Why? Because usually you don't need to have them all binded, as you can have only one of them and for a couple spells on neutrals
But setting this in config is weird because you cannot set one key for multiple actions
Note:
If you have binded ASkillSlot binded in config and planninng to use -abind, it's recommended to clean them from config
Added config and chat commands for camera options:
Angle of view:
Config: "CameraAngle = " (possible numbers are between 0 and 90, default 56)
Chat: "-anglecam x" (again, x should be between 0 and 90)
Camera flip:
A couple of peoples asked to do so for playing as Scourge
Config: "CameraFlip = " (false/true, default false)
Chat: "-flipcam" (every time written it turns camera by 180 degrees, so type again to return to normal)
CameraAngle = 56
CameraFlip = false
Donated couries can now be switched as normal couriers just between only these models
Sentinel and Scourge players got different levelup effects on their heroes
Changed BKB visual effect for better visibility
It also differs for allies and enemies (blue and yellow)
Game Modes
Added shortmode "!mode tour11" which is equal to "!mode mdomnpnnde" (yes, 4 skills)
Added secondary game mode "-de" (aka duel)
Supposed to be used in 1v1 and 2v2 only mid tour games
It includes following limitations:
First creep wave is not blockable anyhow until 17.5 seconds of match
Disallows picking Spin Web (Broodmother 2)
Disallows buying Dagon, Hood, Vanguard, Blade Mail and their upgrades
Limitations may be updated in future
Added new secondary game mode:
-ep "enemy pick": players picking abilities for their mirror opponent instead of self (player 1 for 6, 2 for 7, etc)
Abilities are swaped before hero pick in this case, thus players decides hero body for themselves
After pick enemy abilities can be seen anytime via -si command like on mode SS (actually turns on SS mode automatically)
Does not work with DM or RD modes (RD or DM takes priority)
Tavern swap is disabled, however heroes still can be swapped after pick if "noswap" mode is not enabled
Shortmodes for "enemy pick" mode:
-ep1 stands for "sd + s6 + it"
-ep2 stands for "md + s6 + du"
-ep3 stands for "md + s6 + d2 + du + os"
-ep4 stands for -ep1 + noswap
-ep5 stands for -ep2 + noswap
-ep6 stands for -ep3 + noswap
Note 1: This mode used to show weakest abilities and combinations by players opinion
Note 2: Idea of this mode has been existing for at least last 6 years, and so we played by this rule back in time, but was ot supported by map to make using it simple
Note 3: If mode is not mirror draft, at hero pick stage players receives hero pool from which their opponent was choosing to them, so there will not happen that no heroes available
Note 4: At this mode Synergy, Overload, Static Field, Fiery Soul, Warpath and multiple polymorphs on single hero are unavalable to be picked
Global game mechanics
Proc Chance modifier added in game, called Luck
Positive modifiers stacks linearly; e.g. 20% chance +35% (or x1.35) +20% (or x1.20) will turn 20*1.55 = 31% chance to proc
Negative multiplies (deminishing return); e.g. -20% (x0.8) and -10% (x0.9) will turn 20% to 20 * 0.8 * 0.9 = 14.4% chance to proc
Positive + negative: 20 * (1+1.35+1.2) * (0.8 * 0.9) = 22.32%
Evasions updated to be pseudo-random based, granting more accurate numbers.
Also this allows to modify them via Luck modifier (cannot go above 100%, of course)
Evasions counts Luck of evading unit, including misses from blinding of attackers
Chance-based Truestrikes depends on Luck of attacker, however
Antibackdoor regeneration was much faster than i think it should be
It changed to be in 10 times slower depending on damage dealt, but maximum amount doubled
Limit of total hp regenerated increased from 75% to 80% of received damage
Statistic counting fixed to count actual dealt damage from 75% to 20% (as 80% are regenerated)
Maximum hero level 25 -> 30
Reaching these levels may be hard, however, e.g. level 25 requires 31560 total exp, but level 30 requires 50000 total
Gold and experience for them bounties keeps slightly growing a levels 26-30, respawn time stays 90 seconds
Hero respawn random location size increased to reduce chances of fishing
Slightly rebalanced experience required to gain hero levels
Slightly rebalanced experience gained for hero kills
Attribute Bonus changed:
Old: 10 levels, increasing attributes grow
New: 8 levels, +1 to all attributes, +1% movement speed, +1% turning speed, +1% status resistance, +1% cast time reduction per level up to 8% each
These bonuses works for illusions as well (except CTR, as illusions are unable to use active abilities)
Non-ultimative 5th skill mechanics changed:
They are now added at levels 4 7 10 13 (down from 5 8 11 14)
Obtaining them now consumes ability point (yes, this will disallow to max one ability at level 7 without saving points at level 5 or 6)
Ultimates are now learned at levels:
6 12 18 for first ultimate (up from 6 11 16)
9 15 21 for second ultimate (up from 8 13 18)
Heroes at max level does no longer leech experience from others
Status Resistance
Negative modifiers now stacks linearly instead of multiplicatively
E.g. Enfeeble lvl 4 + Divergence aura will provide
old: 1 * 1.35 * 1.18 = 1.593 (+59.3% debuff duration / TR slow efficiency)
new: 1 + 0.35 + 0.18 = 1.53 (+53% stun duration / AS MS TR slow efficiency)
Updated Cast Range bonus modifier
Now is customisable with multiplie possible sources
Aether Lens cast range bonus 200 -> 150
Octarine bonus remains 200 (overlaps Lens bonus)
Cast Range bonus is now halved for non-ultimative escaping abilities
Escaping Ultimates will have full range bonus
Now this halved bonus works also on: Earthshock, Pounce, Leap, Icarus Dive, Illusory Orb, Omnislash
Recoded all attack and movement speed modifiers
Most of negative effects on AS and MS will be affected by status resistance by modifying their efficiency instead of modifying duration (with a very few exceptions)
This means that poisons and auras are affected as well
This also means that negative status resistance will decrease efficiency of slows
So unlike stuns and several other debuffs which checks status resistance only on laying, changing stutus resistance will instantly modify slow efficiencies
Limits update:
Maximum attack speed 500 -> 700 (maximum AS bonus 400 -> 600)
Maximum movement speed 522 (unlocked unlimited) -> 1000 (1044 is an actualy engine limitation, MS above works extremely bad even with technical fixes)
Note: unlock is granted by 2 abilities currently: Thirst and Shadow Dance with Aghanim's scepter upgrade)
Changed the idea how several "stable" movespeed bonuses works:
Old: sets unit movespeed to a fixed amount, unchangeable by anything except rooting
New: sets unit movespeed to a fixed amount, but if his "normal" movespeed, counting his default speed, bonuses and penalties is higher, it will overlap ability feature
Ensnares and other things which turns movespeed to 0 will be ignored in counting unit movespeed for several purposes (infesting unit, ancestral spirit speed, charge of darkness speed, greater bash)
Greater Bash now properly counts movespeed with Charge bonus
Thus changed abilities:
Phantom Rush
MS 800 -> minimum 710/740/770/800
AS bonus 20/30/40/50 -> 30/40/50/60
AS bonus is now dispelable
Stampede
Movespeed 522 -> minimum 550 (non-upgraded) / minimum 600 (upgraded)
Shapeshift
MS 550 -> minimum 550/625/700
Grants Phased Movement for affected units
Critical Strike removed (!)
Surge
Duration 3.0/4.5/6.0/7.5 -> 3.9/5.1/6.3/7.5
MS 522 -> +50/55/60/65%
Changed to default bonus, so can be slowed. You would really like to dispel it, tho
Greater Bash now properly counts movespeed with Charge bonus
Other mechanics and visuals
New feature
Rare, nearly unique percentage attack speed bonus / penalty
Used on Butterfly, Eye of Skadi and Untouchable
All percentage attack speed bonuses and penalties stacks linearly with each other (e.g. +15% and -35% will be -20% in total)
Penalties are resistable with status resistance
How calculation goes:
Basic attack speed of each unit is 100
Then he has e.g. +250 attack speed from agility and other bonuses, so total AS is 350. And then it's multiplied by bonus, in case of Butterfly bonus AS updates to 350*1.15 = 402.5
Recoded all HP and MP regenerations
HP regenenrations will be affected by HP restoring bonuses, and so more modifiers for this will be added
MP regenerations will not bug with by insane regen anymore (when it has been doubling till death without any logical reasons)
All items got numerical MP regen bonus instead of percentage
Percentage bonus will be in game but it will be sort of special and will affect bonuses from mana regenerating auras and from mana steals as well
All positive heal and regen amplifications stacks linearly.
All negative stacks multiplicatively
Same applies for mana restore and regen amplifications
Recoded Truesights
Hopefully this will fix bug when units turns invisible and thus avoids attack projectiles even tho he was staying under revealing sources
Devour and Phantom Rush can now be toggled on and off
Devour will not change ability when toggled off
Devour digestion string will now be shown only for hero owner
Phantom Rush will not proc when toggled off (illusions still always procs it)
Both will be turned on when learned
Note: use ASkillSlot (1-6) in config or -abind # for more comfortable toggling of any togglable abilities
Updates in HP removal damage type:
It is now fully affected by damage amplifying stuff, not just by spell amplification, thus:
Wild Axes
Veil of Discord and Nerubian's Scepter
Stone Gaze and Enrage (for physical damage)
Sticky Napalm
Just as with common damage, this is firstly blocked by magic or physical damage blocks if possible, and the rest is multiplied by received damage modifiers
Note: before it felt kinda unfair that e.g. Kaya works for Heartstopper Aura but Veil of Discord does not
Lifesteal (physical)
Is now halved (50%) against non-heroes, including illusions
Basic amounts are slightly increased for some abilities and items
Spell Amplification debuffs now stacks multiplicatively instead of linearly
This makes alone debuff more effective against positive spell amplification of victim but less effective when have multiple of them, and will never reach 0
Multiboard info will now display gold related on possibility of player to buyback his hero (in case of death if alive, right now if dead)
Golden color if able to buyback
Red if cannot
This also works for enemy players under Track effect
Bonus armor per Agility increased from 0.16 to 0.2
This also removed hundredths points of armor from game and so from tooltips
Base armor of most heroes decreased by 1 to compensate
Recoded night imitation, thus fixed bug where multiple imitated nights (e.g. dark ascension + eclipse or just 2 of same abilities) would shift daytime forever on some seconds
Added day imitation, which overlaps nights. Supernova changed to provide midday daytime, no matter what
All day and night imitations changed to toggle instead of been strictly limited by time, thus:
Supernova day effect will end as soon as Supernova ends or dies
Eclipse night effect will end together with eclipse end effect, prematurely if beam carrier dies
Dark Ascension night effect will end prematurely if hero dies
Dark Ascension hero form day vision distance decreased from 1800 to 900. It will not change anything by itself but Superova will make him seeing worse
Added visual effect for Tidebringer hit (similar to Great Cleave, just recolored and resized)
Cyan / Light blue for default and first admiral skin, Dark red / bloody red for vampire admiral skin
Changed visual effects for disarms
Added new type of attack reaction:
X happens when attack misses (not avoided by blink or so but avoided via Blinding or Evasion)
Used in Robber Coat
Illusions now receives armor bonus from all sources
Illusions damage vs Roshan 25% -> 50%
Most auras and paired with them active abilities (e.g. Mekansm active) AoE 1200 -> 1050
Track and Drums of War active auras are the only exception which remains with 1200 AoE
Couriers
Couriers of leavers will now be sent home, drop items and disappear
Does no longer receive any bonuses from items (regen, hp, armor, magic resistance, etc.)
Flying couriers MS, HP and armor are no longer better than on ground couriers
Instead couriers growing with level of their hero:
Base stats: 325 speed, 75 HP, 0 armor
MS: +6 per level, except for level 30 where courier receives +7 MS; up to +175 in total, resulting 500 speed
HP: +15 per level, except for level 30 where courier receives +30 HP; up to +375 in total, resulting 525 HP
Armor: +0.5 per level except for level 30 where courier receives +1.0 armor; up to +15 in total, resulting 15 armor
Certain abilities will still affect enemy couriers, e.g. Dismember, Fiend's Grip, Culling Blade, Abyssal Blade, Amplify Damage, etc.
Couriers behavious updated:
1) If cour receives damage
Courier Burst
MS 650 -> 510...750, depenging on owning hero level (thus +12 per level)
Cooldown 120 -> 90
Courier Shield
Cooldown 200 -> 175
Kill bounties per couriers changed:
Old:
Gold 150 (ground) / 175 (flying) gold to each player in team
Exp 0 / 349 to killing hero only
New:
Gold 100 + 10 * owning hero level to each player in team, thus up to 400 per player
Exp 75 + 15 * owning hero level to killing hero only, thus up to 525
Respawn time (in seconds)
Old:
140 ground, 180 flying
New:
80+4*lvl; resulting 80-200
Couriers can now use Tome of Knowledge, granting experience to their owning hero if he's in close enough (distance below 400)
Following abilities now works against couriers:
Rupture (can be used and deals damage)
Vendetta (deals bonus damage)
Greed owners can now use Aghanim's Upgrader Giftable straightly from their courier, just like couriers can gift Moonshards
At level 25 couriers unlocks ability to place Observer and Sentry wards
In case of impossibility to put newly purchased item from secret shop in hero game will try to put it in nearby courier (range 1300 from shop) instead of droping it onto ground
When couriers trasferring items to hero, there's certain distance around courier or hero on which they checks for items on ground
This distance increased 300 -> 650
Items of allied leavers will be given to ordering hero upon Transfer Items command just like own items
Observer Wards, Sentry Wards, Dust of Appearance, Smoke of Deceit and Tome of Knowledge will be always transferred
Leaver's item will be "claimed" when picked up by hero or spirit bear of another player so it cannot be transferred further. Works only with allied items.
Leaver's heroes will provide x4 gold bounty upon death
Passive GPM (gold per minute) increased by 20% (from ~100 per minute to 120 per minute)
Tower Stats in endgame statistic replaced by Twr&Rax K/D, so includes barracks too
Mode AR DM OM updates:
Magic Stick, Magic Wand, Holy beads unavailable
Hand of Midas unavailable
GPM (gold per minute) doubled
Items will be now put in same slots where they were when hero changes
Fixed Teleport upgrade been not transferred when hero changes
Runes updates
Rune types will not repeat not only with last rune type but with 2 last types
Regeneration rune
+Does no longer ends when hero reaches full hp and mp and
+Undispellable (by dispel, damage still removes it)
-Duration decreased from 30 to 20 seconds
-Regen per second decreased from 6% of max hp and max mp to 5% (total possible regen 180% -> 100%)
Haste rune
Movespeed 522 -> 700
Duration 25 -> 18
Grants Phased Movement
Invisibility rune
Changed again
No longer provides phased movement
Now is permanent invisibility with 30 seconds duration and 2 seconds fade time
Now dispelable
Ghost Forms update: Ghost Scepter, Ethereal Blade, Decrepify
All Ghost Forms now provides +100% turning rate and flying movement for allies
Enemies not receives bonuses
Note: this used to make ghost forms more "ghostly" and more different from simple physical damage protection like Guardian Angel and Cold Embrace and so giving them own upsides
Multiple streak sounds which used to happen at once will now stop previous and play new instead of not playing at all (e.g. multiple double kills in short time)
Reason is why they don't play all together is to not make too much noise
Skills
Infest
Much simplified in code and behaviour
Is no longer castable on Illusions, Ancients or Siege units at all
Is no longer castable on already infested unit
Has now max time limit of 15/20/25 seconds
Infested unit (Host) is now clearly shown for enemies
Host creep refills HP and MP to maximum
Host now becomes angry, increases all his speeds: attack, movement, turn, cast and creep receives feel no pain damage reduction
Manual or time limit leaving Host creep now provides gold and experience bounty for unit to Infest caster
AS bonus 30/45/60
MS bonus 30/45/60
TR bonus 30/45/60%
CTR bonus 10/15/20%
Damage reduction bonus 30/45/60% (creep only)
Cast Range 150 -> 200
Cooldown (after leaving host body) 100/75/50 -> 50/40/30
Manacost 50 -> 150
Damage dealt on going out 150/275/400 -> 150/225/300
New ability: Laser Aim
Tinker ultimate, Passive
Allows hero to cast his spells further and so accurately that they damages even enemy souls.
Grants 100/200/300 bonus cast range (50% for escape spells)
Burns victims mana equal to 14/22/30% of spell damage dealt by hero to them
Includes spells which burns mana themself
Illusions has buff indicator on them but not receives an effect
Trueshot Aura: removed
Replacing ability: Forest Ambush
Ranged only!
Hero jumps on tree (closest to "area of effect") to guard area
Can jump on ground as common escaping ability
On tree hero receives:
Able to use any other spells
Not missing via height difference
1000 range flying vision
+160/240/320/400 attack range
Reduced turning speed (x0.35/0.4/0.45/0.5)
Lasts up to 7.5/9.0/10.5/12.0 seconds
Cooldown 24/20/16/12 if hero has jumped on tree, 12/10/8/6 if jumped on ground
300/330/360/390 cast range
60 manacost
He may leave tree any time by:
Killing tree under him (then hero is stunned for 2 seconds, resistable)
Using subability (instant cast, jumps off into currently looknig direction)
Pushing or pulling hero
Hiding hero
Dying
Timeover (identical to automatical usage of jumping off ability)
Main ability is rootable
Subability is not rootable and not silensable
Subability does not cancel current actions
Note: if tree was cut before hero has landed on it, hero won't be stunned, instead he will just continue like if he's jumped on ground from beginning
Nature's Guise (Treant Protector 1) removed
Replacing ability: Nature's Defender
Summons an owl to assist hero in battle. Owl guards targeted area.
Owl is invulnerable and exist up to 40 seconds or some attacks.
Attacks nearby enemies with attack cooldown of 1 second, prioritises heroes and illusions while hanging around in distance of 450 from them.
Always chooses nearest targets of all possible when changes target
Completely ignores magic immune, invulnerable and not visible units (either hidden in fog or invisible)
Each attacks deals:
30/40/50/60 against hero or 60/80/100/120 against non-hero magical damage
0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6 sec MS slow
Owl has it's own sight range of 600, thus to attack at max possible distance it need assistance in vision
Cast range 1000
Cooldown 16/14/12/10
Manacost 100/115/130/145
Cast time 0.3
Overcharge (Wisp 3) removed
Replacing ability: Guardian Veins
Connects self and ally to mental network for what allows each of connected units to heal each other on each attack and reflect physical damage on taken hit.
Recasting ability renews duration on self
Cannot be cast straigtly on self!
Requires at least 2 units in network to provide effects
Charge based, max charges grows per level: 2/3/4/5
Charge cooldown 30/28/26/24
Duration 40
Manacost 50
Cast range 800
Cast time 0.2
Every time any of connected units hits an enemy, all of them getting healed
Every time any of connected units taking hit from enemy, enemy receives damage
Heals by 15/18/21/24 per each unit in network
Reflected damage type physical, 15/18/21/24 per each unit in network
Dispell interaction: can be dispeled from unit by an enemy or by death, instantly removes unit from network
Ability icon is unchanged, visual effect is mostly unchanged
Note: Does not work with towers and wards neither buffing them or when they attacks
Poof reworked
Now it's simple blink-type ability with long cast time and long range (does not require another unit to jump on it)
Just as blink it avoids projectiles
Deals damage in both starting and arrival location but not doubled if they overlap each other
Has visual indication of target location for caster and his allies at beginning of cast
Max distance 925/1150/1375/1600 (x0.5 modifier for castrange bonuses)
Damage 80/140/200/260 in 375 AoE
Manacost 80/100/120/140
Cooldown 18/15/12/9
Cast time 2.0
Culling Blade
Improved technically so it will not go on 0 seconds cooldown when killing enemy. Instead it will not have cooldown at all when killing enemy
Thus becomes more comfortable to make multiple casts with pre-ordering or shifting orders
Will now highlight with best victims with low hp (heroes and, to not reveal real hero that easily, illusions) for Culling Blade owner
Highlight happens with bloody visual effect on victim and sound effect on Culling Blade owner
Highlight range is 1200, of course, only on visible units
Killing buff
Speed 30% MS, 30 AS for 6 sec -> 30/35/40 for 5/6/7 sec
AoE 900 -> 1200
Blink AM -> Battle Blink
Slightly behind destination point creates short living illusion which receives 75% of damage instead of antimage (after most of reductions)
Illusion lifetime 3.6/3.9/4.2/4.5 sec
Illusion Damage dealt 15/18/21/24% (10/12/14/16% ranged)
Illusion Damage received 700/650/600/550% (including shared damage)
Cooldown 22/18/14/10 -> 15/12/9/6
Max distance 875/950/1025/1100 -> 500/550/600/650 (x0.5 modifier for castrange bonuses)
Cast time 0.4 -> 0.3
Manacost 80
Blink QoP -> Painful Blink
Nearby enemies within 400 distance of destination point will receive debuff which increases spell damage then receive for short time
Debuff duration 4 (resistable)
Debuff bonus spell damage received +8/10/12/14% (stacks linearly with other similar bonuses)
Debuff is dispelable, affects invulnerable but ignores magic immune units
Cooldown 20/16/12/8
Max distance 875/950/1025/1100 -> 575/650/725/800 (x0.5 modifier for castrange bonuses)
Cast time 0.4
Manacost 90
Voodoo (Shadow Shaman) reworked
Chaotic Voodoo
Curses an enemy unit with very bad Voodoo magic.
Victim will struggle of 2 random debuffs from following: Disarm, Root, Silence, Mute, Break.
Debuffs lasts for 1.5 seconds (resistable), lays every 2.25 seconds for multiple ticks over duration.
Ticks amount 2/3/4/5
Cast Time 0.2
Projectile speed 900
Cooldown 13
Cast Range 525/600/675/750
Manacost 75/100/125/150
Spellblock interaction: normal block on projectile hit
Reflection interaction: normal reflection of projectile
Dispel interaction: dispells both main debuff and short debuffs
Voodoo (Lion) reworked
Fission Doll
Chips away parts of enemy unit's body, converting them into multiple suicidal frogs over duration.
Deals magical damage depending on it's of max HP and slows victim's MS for duration.
Frogs leaps toward position of nearest target, but not the same target as previous frog, dealing damage equal to main target damage and slows their MS for 0.5 seconds.
Main projectile speed 1600
Frogs speed 1200
10/15/20/25 instances over 3.5/4.0/4.5/5.0 seconds
Damage per instance 5/6/7/8 + 1% of main target max HP
New target seek distance 500
New target damage radius 225
Cast range 650
Cast time 0.3
Manacost 100/120/140/160
Cooldown 15/13/11/9
Projectile can be avoided, blocked and reflected
Main target is not affected again by side effects
Main debuff is dispelable, but continues if victim dies
Main debuff renews by removing previous debuff
Side debuff slow is dispelable
Note 1: in general this ability is more effective to be used on high hp units, can be deadly if enemies won't split up, or even for just main target, as curse DPS is feelably higher than e.g. Midnight Pulse
Note 2: frogs can leap toward invisible targets
Adaptiveness reworked
Still passive, but affected by break
No longer grants attributes
STR heroes gains status resistance and spell lifesteal (beefy bois goes forward)
AGI heroes gains status resistance and cast speed (elusive bois hard to catch uses evading and other abilities faster)
INT heroes gains spell lifesteal and cast speed (smart bois can be scratched but regenerate after that, avoids and nukes faster)
Status resist bonuses: 14/22/30%
Cast speed bonuses: 14/22/30%
Spell lifesteal bonuses: 14/22/30% (2.8/4.4/6.0% from creeps)
Conjure Image
Illusion damage received 320% -> 350/325/300/275%
Mirror Image
Illusion damage received 350% -> 405/370/335/300%
Phantasm
Duration 34 -> 36
Cooldown 110 -> 120/110/100
Illusion damage dealt 50/75/100% -> 50/70/90%
Illusion damage received 260% -> 280/265/250%
Essence Shift
Allowed to steal attributes from allies (which can be only triggered via Winter's Curse forced attacks)
Basic duration 15/30/60/100 -> 15/30/55/90 (small nerf because of Agility buff)
Blinding Light
Knockback duration 0.4 -> 0.6
Soul Rip
Cooldown 18/14/10/6 -> 15/12/9/6
Tornado
Manacost 150 -> 105/120/135/150
Castrange slightly increased to match effect range
Spectral Dagger
Pseudo debuff which spawns trails when victim moves is now dispellable.
This does not affect already spawned trail pieces.
Demonic Conversion
Can no longer be cast on allies. Still can be cast on enemies and on own units
Eidolons damage very slightly increased
Manacost decreased by 10
Tether
Link's slowing width 100 -> 120 (it was nearly impossible to be used properly to slow down enemy)
Slow duration 0.2 -> 0.25
Shackles
Total damage 60/160/260/360 -> 90/180/270/360
Shadowraze
Very slightly increased damage radius and decreased manacost
Flak Cannon
Cooldown begins when charges expires (by either timer or all used)
Cooldown changed to 27/24/21/18
Overpower
Cooldown begins when charges expires (by either timer or all used or dispeled)
Cooldown decreased by 2 seconds to 12/10/8/6
Buff duration 8 -> 10
Enchant Totem
Cooldown begins when buff expires (by either timer or used or dispeled)
Cooldown 6 -> 5
Unstable Concoction
Cooldown begins when second projectile launches or selfblows (main ability becomes available for cast again)
Cooldown 16 -> 10
Ice Blast
Cooldown begins when second projectile launches (main ability becomes available for cast again)
Cooldown 60 -> 55
Tricks of the Trade
Cooldown now begins at end of cast
Cooldown 18/16/14/12 -> 15/13/11/9
Phase Shift
Duration 0.75/1.5/2.25/3.25 -> 0.8/1.6/2.4/3.2
Cooldown now begins at end of cast
Cooldown 7 -> 8/7/6/5
Sleight of Fist
Cooldown now begins at end of cast
Cooldown 20/16/12/8 -> 15/13/11/9
Cast range 700 -> 450
AoE 250/350/450/550 -> 300/350/400/450
Bonus damage against heroes 35/50/65/80 -> 15/30/45/60
Now grants x100 turning speed for spellcasting purposes (+99900% if you curious in percentages)
Omnislash
Now grants x100 turning speed for spellcasting purposes (+99900% if you curious in percentages)
Double Edge
No longer grants bonus STR per non-heroes
Bonus per hero 5/6/7/8% -> 6/8/10/12%
Bonus duration 18/22/26/30 -> 20/24/28/32
Bonuses changed to be granted before calculating actual damage
Chakram
Slow changed to be smoother
Old slow: 5% per 5% hp missing (+5%)
New slow: 1% per every 1% hp missing (no bonus, thus very small nerf)
Illuminate charging visual effect updated to be visible only when caster is visible
Frost Arrows
Slow duration 1.5 -> 2 sec
Viscous Nasal Goo
Duration 5 -> 6
Vendetta
Bonus damage changed to be part of bonus pure damage as single damage instance (as other bonus damages from previous update)
Soul Channel
Cast range 500 -> 475, link break range 650 -> 600
Manacost 60/65/70/75 -> 60/70/80/90
Exorcism
Ghost speed 522 -> 500
Ghosts damage 62-68 -> 54-60
Cooldown 145 -> 135
Time Walk
Cooldown 23/18/13/8 -> 20/16/12/8
Total heal slightly increased
Doppelganger
Cooldown 22/18/14/10 -> 20/16/12/8
Thug Walk
No longer leashes victim, instead Mutes it's inventory
Cooldown 15/14/13/12 -> 20/18/16/14
Wolven Howl AS modifier very slightly increased (enemy duration is still modified by status resist but AS debuff amount is not resistable)
Nature's Attentands
Cooldown 35 -> 32
Open Wounds
MS Slow changed from weird numbers to 40/48/56/64% basically and smoothly regaining it over 8 seconds of duration
Cast range 200/300/400/500 -> 350/400/450/500
Any damage lifesteal 25/35/45/55% -> 32/40/48/56%
Duration 8 -> 5/6/7/8
Cooldown 18/16/14/12 -> 12
Manacost 110 -> 80/90/100/110
Pulse Nova
Damage per second 80/110/140 -> 80/120/160
Manacost per second 40/55/70 -> 35/50/65
Thus damage per mana point 2/2/2 -> 2.28/2.4/2.46
Even with increased manapools Pulse Nova manacost in early-to-mid game seems to be too high
Aghanims upgrade removed
Shrapnel
Duration 10 -> 6
Charge Cooldown 50 -> 40
Ball Lightning
Starting manacost 24 + 9% of max -> 25 + 8%, thus slightly less for heroes with max mana above 100 :D
Rolling manacost 14 + 0.7% of max per 100 distance -> 13 + 0.65% (it's taken away not every 100 distance, but doesnt matter)
Rolling Boulder slow 80% MS, 80 AS -> 60% MS, 60 AS
Magnetize
Bonus stones amount 1 -> 2
Stone search radius 300 -> 400, starting radius 350 -> 400, starting stone search radius remains 600
Damage changed to pierce magic immunity
Untouchable does no long works on illusins (following global rule that it illusions cannot provide slow)
Splinter Blast
MS slow 30% -> 25/30/35/40%
Winter's Curse
AS bonus 55 -> 60
Firewall
Units inside the circle will also receive damage as 1/3 of original damage. They won't be slowed.
Arrow Shower
MS Slow progression for hitting 0/1/2/3/4/5 heroes changed from 40/40/48/56/64/72% to 32/40/48/56/64/72%
Spawn Spiderlings
Fixed it's dispeling (does no longer spawns spiders if was dispelled)
Debuff indicator duration 2, resistable -> 2 (hero, ancients, etc) / 4 (others), unresistable
Spawn Spiderites changed to be passive spider ability instead of togglable, can no longer be turned off
Fixed it's dispeling (does no longer spawns spiders if was dispelled)
Debuff indicator duration 2, resistable -> 2 (hero, ancients, etc) / 4 (others), unresistable
Does no longer spawn small spiders from allies
Does no longer spawn small spiders from units which spawns bigger spiders
Does no longer affect magic immune enemies
Slow is no longer stackable, changed to 8/11/14% ms slow from debuff
Poison DPS removed
Spiderite base hp 100 -> 120
Strygwyr's Thirst reworked
Old:
Gains movespeed and damage for every enemy hero below 30% HP and reveals them
MS bonus 5/15/25/35%, dmg 5/15/25/35
New:
Gains movespeed for every enemy hero below 40/50/60/70% HP, so bonus smoothly scales with falling down HP of heroes
Reveals heroes below 20/25/30/35% HP.
MS bonus limit is 24/30/36/42% but max bonus is actually reachable only from dead heroes (4 seconds mark after death)
This means that bonus grows by 6% MS by 10% lacking hp of enemy hero, but begins counting earlier with leveling up
Minuses compared to old: don't have damage bonus
Pluses compared to old: begins gaining MS bonus much easier and scales smoothly.
Notes:
Affected by Break
Ignores magic immune heroes
Ignores unrevealable (under effect of Smoke and Shadow Dance) units
Dying but not reincarnating heroes leaves 4 seconds mark so they still provides speed
Does not affect illusions
Windrun
Nerfs:
Now requires hero to move to provide evasion and slow effects.
This includes any sort of moving: on legs, blinking, teleporting, pushed or pulled anyhow, etc.
This means that stun or root will completely negate Windrun effect in addition to that it can be dispeled
Slow duration after last convergence with enemy 2.5 sec -> 1.0 sec
Buffs:
Slow efficiency 15/20/25/30% -> 20/25/30/35%
Can be used in Channelings and Wind Walks
Cooldown 15 -> 15/14/13/12
Mana Void
Does no longer burns percentage of victim's mana
Instead it grants an aura for Mana Void caster
Aura lasts for 20 seconds per each hero who died to Mana Void damage
Aura applies 10/15/20% penalty on enemy Cooldown Reduction and Spell Amplification
In other words, grants -10/15/20% CDR (longer cooldowns) and -10/15/20% Spell Amp
Does not affect magic immune enemies
Aura is instantly lost on death
Psiblade
Cleave width 100 -> 120
Psionic Trap
Now has charges indicator on ability, displays current amount of traps
When placing too many traps, oldest one explodes normally instead of just disappearing
Changed blowing effect
Old: 75 pure damage and 5 seconds of 40% MS slow
New: Damage type is magical, damage and MS slow depends on how long trap has been alive after creation, up to 10/8/6 seconds, starting with 10% of maximum efficiency
New also burns equal to damage amount of mana
Current charge is displayed above trap
Maximum damage and manaburn over duration is 160/200/240
Maximum MS slow is 40/50/60%
Debuff is dispelable
Cast Time 0.3 -> 0.35
Manacost 15 -> 75
Cast Range 2000 -> 1400/1700/2000
Trap HP 100 -> 4 (hit counter, requires 2 hits from heroes and towers or 4 from non-heroes)
Ability cursor changed to AoE cursor
Note 1: relaying effect completely renews dps, duration and slow
Note 2: debuff level depends on trap level at moment of placing
Nether Ward
Damage as percent of manacost 100/125/150/175% -> 100/130/160/190%
Description was incorrect, telling by 25% less than real
Description changed from "per every point of mana" to "x% of mana" (as it seem to be easier to understand)
Blur changed
No longer hides hero on minimap neither makes him transparent
The Phantom Assassin explodes small smoke bomb to hide self and completely avoid attacks and targeted spells for short time.
Furthermore, her dexterity allows her to avoid some attacks constantly.
Active
Evading projectiles on cast
Duration 0.5/0.6/0.7/0.8
Cooldown 20/16/12/8
Manacost 50
Provides truesight immunity
Passive
+16/24/32/40% evasion (old +18/27/36/45%)
Focus Fire
No longer reduces attack damage by a joke amounts
Simply grants bonus attack speed
Bonus AS 450 -> 200/300/400
Aghanim upgrade removed
Note: this used to balance ability between special attack bonuses and normal attack damage
Aghanim was too much tho
Blade Fury
Now completely disarms hero instead of doing weird stuff with his attacking abilities
No longer silences caster
Duration 5 -> 2.5
Total magical damage dealt 400/525/650/775 -> 180/240/300/360 + 180/240/300/360% of hero Agility
Cooldown 40/36/32/28 -> 25/22/19/16
MS bonus 20/30/40/50 -> 30/45/60/75
Omnislash
Attacks no longer overrides disarms (however counts attack delay same as before)
Rage
Cooldown 40/36/32/28 -> 38/34/30/26
Accurate Shot
Attack range bonus 50/100/150/200 -> 45/90/135/180
Now grants bonus attack range for melee heroes as well, which is equal to 15/30/45/60
Psi Blades
Now grants bonus attack range for melee heroes as well, which is equal to 15/30/45/60
Pounce cooldown 17/14/11/8 -> 14/12/10/8
Death Pulse
Heal 70/100/130/160 -> 54/90/126/162 (equal to dmg/1.67)
Now also reduces enemies hp restoration by 25/30/35/40% for 3.5 seconds
Debuff does not affect magic immune and invulnerable enemies
Debuff duration is resistable
Can be dispeled
Scream of Pain
Damage 100/175/250/325 -> 90/160/230/300
Cooldown 7 -> 6
Starfall
Manacost 80/105/130/155 -> 85/100/115/130
Now also slows enemies movespeed for short time
45/60/75/90% slow for 0.6 sec from first strike and for 0.45 sec from second strike
Debuff does not affect magic immune and invulnerable enemies
Slow efficiency is resistable
Can be dispeled
Leap
Max charges 3 -> 2
Charge cooldown 54/46/38/30 -> 43/36/29/22
Distance 575 -> 525/550/575/600
Leap time 0.368 -> 0.4
Bonus duration 2.5 -> 2.6
Rupture
Now deals 8/10/12% of victim's current HP as damage on cast
Distance in damage 30/45/60% -> 30/43/56%
Duration 10/11/12 -> 9/10/11
Fade Bolt
Jump distance 475 -> 500
Lightning Storm
Jump distance 475 -> 500
Brain Sap
Cooldown 14/13/12/11 -> 13/12/11/10
Manacost 100/120/140/160 -> 90/110/130/150
Acid Spray
AoE increased by 25
DPS increased by 4
Duration 16 -> 14
Soul Catcher
Cooldown 26/24/22/20 -> 22/20/18/16
Manacost 80/100/120/140 -> 80/95/110/125
Breathe Fire
Damage reduction 17/24/31/38% -> 18/26/34/42%
Craggy Exterior
Now affects towers, deals 33% damage but normal stun to them
Toss
Can now be blocked by spellblock by projectile unit at moment of grabbing
Snowball
Can now be blocked by spellblock at start (like Charge of Darkness)
Flux reworked
Engulfs an enemy units in area with swirling volatile energy for 9 seconds
Decreases magical damage dealt by victims
Discharges every time the victim is attacked by heroes or towers, deals bonus magical damage
Spell amplification reduction 12/16/20/24%
Bonus magical damage received from attacks by affected enemies 30/45/60/75
Duration 9 (modified by status resistance)
Cooldown 18/16/14/12
Cast Range 750
Manacost 90/100/110/120
AoE 400
Ignores magic immune and invulnerable units
Magnetic Field
Now pushes away non-hero enemy units too
Ion Shell
Damage frequency 0.1 -> 0.2
Damage per second 24/46/68/90 -> 20/35/50/65
Cooldown 9 -> 8
Cast time 0.3 -> 0.2
Manacost 85/100/115/130 -> 75/90/105/120
Additionally modifies buffed unit magic resistance:
+10/15/20/25% for ally
-10/15/20/25% for enemy
Can now be blocked and reflected by an enemy
Can now be cast on invulnerable units
Glaives of Wisdom
Now grants bonus damage to non-intelligence based heroes, similarly to Essence Shift
Now provides bonus attribute (or damage) to actual attack instead of adding it only to next
Nether Swap
Added support of -disablehelp #
Can now be rooted
Removed Aghanim's upgrade
Can be used on creeps without Aghanim's Upgrade
Can be used on Ancients as well (before could not ever), but not on Roshan
Removed 2 charges, reverted to normal ability
Cooldown changed to 50/40/30
Manacost 100/150/200 -> 200/225/250
Also grants bonus movement and turning speed for self and swaped ally and slows swaped enemy
20/25/30% MS modifier, 40/50/60% TR modifier for 3/4/5 seconds
Completely pierces magic immunity
Both buff and debuff can be dispeled
Debuff duration is not resistable, but efficiency is (for both movement and turn slows)
Spell reflection works the special way: it does not affect swaping effect but lays debuff on caster without checking on his spell block
Anchor Smash
Now affects structures
Manacost 50/60/70/80 -> 50/58/66/72
Damage 80/140/200/260 -> 80/145/210/275
Cast time 0.25 -> 0.2
Chain Frost
Bounces amount 10 -> 10/11/12
No longer counts bounce if next target died before projectile has reached it (similarly to Mystic Snake and Shuriken Toss)
Still counts this bounce toward damage and speed growth
Paralyzing Cask
No longer counts bounce if next target died before projectile has reached it
Blinding Light
Now affects ancients
Does not push Roshan
Kinetic Field activation delay 1.2 -> 1.0
Feral Impulse
Does no longer grant bonus hp regeneration
Grants bonus Max HP instead
+65/120/175/230 hp to owned units
Note: this change used to make ability less powerful in early game and more oriented on buffing summons rather than self
Degen Aura, Natural Order:
AoE 350 -> 400
Counter Helix
Damage decreased by 5
Moon Glaive
Jump distance 475 -> 400
Damage reduction per jump 50/44/38/32% -> 50/45/40/35%
Berserker's Call armor bonus 30 -> 20/24/28/32
Charge of Darkness
Now has speed limitation:
125/130/135/140 minimum and 1250/1300/1350/1400 maximum
Goblin's Greed
Stack duration 20/23/26/29 -> 20/22/24/26
Min bonus gold per kill 3/4/5/6 -> 4
Max bonus gold per kill 15/20/25/30 -> 12/16/20/24
Bounty grow per kill remains 2
In general this means that leveling ability is important only if hero is able to kill more units over time
Bounty rune modifier 1.5/2.0/2.5/3.0 -> 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0
Devour
Cooldown 70 -> 75
Track
Min bounty 24/48/72 -> 30/60/90
Max bounty 120/240/360 -> 150/300/450
Time to reach max bounty 6s -> 5s
Amplify damage armor reduction 8/13/18 -> 8/14/20
Necromastery
Max souls 12 -> 13
Static Storm
Cooldown 90/80/70 -> 80/65/50
Manacost 175/200/225 -> 175/225/275
Spit
Base damage 60/90/120/150 -> 50/75/100/125
Damage vs non-heroes changed to be double amount of normal, in total:
60/90/120/150 -> 100/150/200/250
Attributes reduction 9/10/11/12% -> 2/3/4/5 base + 4/6/8/10%
Drums of War
Manacost 150/175/200 -> 120/160/200
Enchant
Duration 30/60/90/120 -> 40/60/80/100
Max creep level 6 -> 4/4/5/6
Fatal Bonds
Damage type changed from non-returnable to HP removal (no dagger cancelling, no spell lifesteal, no reflection, etc.)
Manacost 120 -> 110/120/130/140
Duration 25 -> 18
Next target search range 700 -> 600
Since this all is treated as nerf:
Max targets 7 -> 8
Cooldown 30/26/22/18 -> 28/24/20/16
Poison Touch
Removed bonus damage per every hero attack
Removed stacking of multiple Poison Touch instances (it just refreshes duration and increases debuff level if ability was leveled up)
Each hero attack now increases MS slow on victim by additional 2% on top of refreshing duration
Slow stacks infinitely until death or duration end or debuff dispelled
DPS increased by 2 at all levels
Energy Drain
Now provides vision and truesight over victim for channeling time, just like Life Drain
Healthcost 50+5% of max hp -> 35/40/45/50 + 3.5/4.0/4.5/5.0% of max hp
Raise Dead
Healthcost decreased by 1%
Manacost decreased by 10
Zombies BAT 1.6 -> 1.5
Phantom Strike
Cast Range 675/750/875/950 -> 600/700/800/900
Rexxar eagles are now ignored by Meat Hook, Hookshot and Elune's Arrow
Summon Familiars
Base Movespeed 430 -> 400
Stone Form cooldown 14 -> 16
Elune's Arrow
Speed 900 -> 1000
AoE 100 -> 110
Changed to be smoother
Spark Wraith
Lifetime 60 sec -> 60/70/80/90
Burning Spear
Healthcost 3.0% -> 2.4/2.6/2.8/3.0%
Enemy damage per stack 6/12/18/24 -> 6/9/12/15 + 0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5% of max hp (total magical damage per spear at lvl 4: 192 -> 120 + 4% of max hp)
Life Break
Cooldown 20 -> 20/18/16
Aghanim upgrade changed
Old: decreases cooldown to 10
New: grants bonus magic resistance if succesfully hits an enemy (not stopped, not blocked, not killed, etc)
Reflection interaction: reflector will receive bonus magic resistance as well
Dispell interaction: bonus resistance is dispelable
Magic resist bonus is 40/50/60% for 4/5/6 seconds
It is granted before doing self damage
Fiery Soul
Max stacks 3 -> 4
Bonus AS per stack 20/32/44/56% -> 16/24/32/40%
Bonus MS per stack 3/4/5/6% -> 2/3/4/5%
Infernal
Non-upgraded hp regen 25/50/75 -> 20/40/60
Upgraded hp regen 25/50/75 -> 30/50/70
Unstable Concoction
Changed from instant blowing in midair to reaching target position if it dies while projectiles flies
This also means that projectile will be reflected toward dead caster
Fortune's End
Will now be launched instantly when target dies, still affecting units around it, instead of been wasted
This also means that projectile will be reflected toward dead caster
Purifying Flames
Allied damage 50% -> 67%
Epicenter
Now also slows enemy turning rate by 35%
Moonlight Shadow
Fade time 2.5/2.0/1.5 -> 2.25/1.75/1.25 (this also affects movespeed bonus appearing faster as it working only when faded)
Thunder Strike
Added slow for all damaged victims MS by 100% and AS by 100 per each strike for 0.1/0.15/0.2/0.25 seconds
Dream Coil
Leash of non-upgraded version can now be avoided by magic immunity, changes it's state as soon as magic immunity getting obtained or lost)
Now deals part of it's damage on cast and part of breaking link
Damage:
old 0 + 200/300/400 (upgraded 0 + 300/450/600)
new 100/175/250 + 100/175/250 (upgraded no longer increases damage)
Cooldown 70/65/60 -> 80/65/50
Vital Strike
Changed damage progression
Old: damage percentage is equal to victim's hp percentage but minimal caps at 33%
New: damage percentage scales from 100% at max hp to 40% at 0% hp (thus 70% dmg at 50% hp, etc) (stronger than old)
Cooldown decreased by 1 sec
Slow duration 1 sec -> 0.8/1.0/1.2/1.4 sec
Frost Shield
Changed visual effect to be much cleaner
Does no longer grants slowing aura, instead it's blasts slows down affected enemies together with damage
Slow duration 0.5 seconds, pulses frequency 1 second
Affects units in ring instead of affecting all at once
Ring width 70
Untouchable
Changed to an ultimate ability
Pierces magic immunity
Reduces attackspeed by percentage
AS reduction 20/30/40% (stacks linearly with other AS reductions, thus with Skadi it goes up to -75%, which is resistable, however)
This used to make ability much stronger at any stage of game against heroes but not shut down non-heroes completely
Impetus
Changed to basic ability
Does not pierce magic immunity
Distance in damage 15/20/25% -> 6/10/14/18%
Manacost 55/60/65 -> 26/34/42/50 (thus damage per mana point ~0.23% / ~0.29% / ~0.33% / 0.36% of distance, mana-effective to be leveled up)
Cooldown remains 0
Successful Impetus hits against heroes steals 5/6/7/8 attack range for 26/34/42/50 seconds (affected by victim's status resistance)
Debuff applies for all heroes but works only for ranges
So if melee hero will transform into ranged, all stacked debuffs will work
Bonus and penalty ranges are capped at +300 and -300 respectively
Bonus and penalty are not connected with each other and instantly disappears on unit death
Nightmare reworked
Worst nightmares comes real, causing victims HP and MP restoration being reduced and makes them very unlucky
HP restoration reduction 40/52/64/76%
MP restoration reduction 40/52/64/76%
Luck reduction 40/50/60/70%
Duration 8 (resistable)
Casts on unit, thus can be blocked and reflected
Effect is instant, no projectile
Can be dispeled
Can be resisted
Ignores magic immune units
Cast range 850
Cast time 0.2
Manacost 50/55/60/65
Cooldown 7/6/5/4
Attribute Shift
Minimum attribute which cannot be switched increased to 5
Now requires having at least 19 HP to switch to Agility per tick
— Thus cannot free-heal via ability itself
— 18 to switch + 1 minimum, thus need 19
Battery Assault
Damage type Pure -> Magical
Damage 25/40/55/70 -> 30/50/70/90
Max ticks 10/12/14/16 -> 9/11/13/15
Pocket Nuclear Charge
Base damage reduced by 100
Self damage 50% -> 66%
Max Fear duration 1.8/2.2/2.6/3.0 -> 1.6/2.0/2.4/2.8
Ghost Walk
MS slow 12/18/24/30% -> 14/22/30/38%
Chronosphere movement bonus changed from phased to flying state (owner and his units may pass through any obstacles instead of only through units)
Rain of Chaos is no longer treated as disable
Note: it has been treated while stunning through magic immunity, but since it does not, disable counter removed as well
Sand Storm
Cast time 0.25 -> 0.2
Atrophy aura damage reduction increased by 2%
Spectral dagger ms slow/bonus increased by 2%
Spell Steal
Can now be used on invulnerable units
Upgraded version cooldown 5 -> 6
Splinter Blast
Updated to be sure that it's not wasted if initial target dies
Sticky Napalm
Damage percent bonus is now applied for all sources instead of only napalm caster
Changed to passive ability (takes slot 3, thus flamebreak goes on slot 1 and firefly goes on slot 2)
Procs with 20% chance when hero attacks (triggers around victim) and with 10% chance when hero attacked (triggers around attacker)
AoE 375
Cooldown 0.3 -> 0.2
Passive proc when attacked changed to be around of attacker instead of around of caster, still with reduced AoE compared to normal cast (was written here before)
Carrier buff is displayed on illusions but does nothing for them
Debuff duration 8 -> 6
Firefly
Duration 18 -> 14.5/15.0/15.5/16.0
Cooldown 40/38/36/34 -> 48/44/40/36
Fire Trail DPS 20/40/60/80 -> 22/38/54/70
Base movespeed 325 -> base movespeed 300 + 6/8/10/12%
Now has increased base turning speed, 0.6 -> 2.0
Feast rebalanced
Bonus damage is now equal to half of healed amount
Heal 1.4/2.1/2.8/3.5% of victim max hp -> 2.0/2.8/3.6/4.4%
Dmg 1.4/2.1/2.8/3.5% of victim max hp -> 1.0/1.4/1.8/2.2%
Now works against Roshan with 25% efficiency
Flaming Lasso
Cast Time 0.2 -> 0.25
DPS 75/100/125 -> 75/95/115
Note: increased CT used to provide some chances to avoid catch
Shackles
Max Duration 2.7/3.4/4.1/4.8 -> 2.4/3.0/3.6/4.2
Cast range 400 -> 450
Manacost 110/130/155/185 -> 110/130/150/170
Fiend's Grip
Duration 5/5/5 (7/7/7 upgraded) -> 5/6/7 (5/6/7 upgraded)
DPS 100/155/210/(265) -> 100/150/200/(250)
Venomous Gale
Very slightly increased AoE (by 5)
Poison Nova
Cast Time 0.01 -> 0.2
Duration 18 -> 16
Expanding speed 700 -> 900
Maximum AoE ~800 -> ~1000
Upgraded version
DPS 65/90/125 -> 50/75/100 (by 10 higher than usual)
Reduces not only heals but also regeneration of victims, so damage is reduced to compensate
Shadow Word
Duration and cooldown decreased by 1 sec
Heal and damage per second 15/25/35/45 -> 16/24/32/40
Reduces / Buffs not only heals but also regeneration of victims, so heal / damage are reduced to compensate
Multiple instances of Shadow Word are still completely stackable, so in heal amplification too
Freezing Field
Added AoE display for default animation
Damage 110/180/250 -> 100/160/220
Upgraded damage 170/240/310 -> 125/200/275
Thundergod's Wrath
Damage 300/400/500 -> 240/360/480
Upgraded
Damage 400/500/600 -> 240/360/480
Aghanim grants other feature instead: fully affects invisible heroes
Reveal duration stays 6 sec
Impale
Stun 1.5/1.8/2.1/2.4 -> 1.5/1.75/2.0/2.25
God's Strength
Duration 14/22/30 -> 18/24/30
Cooldown 100 -> 120/110/100
Death Pact
Cooldown 85 -> 80
Duration 65 -> 50
Rocket Flare
Reveal duration 6.5/8.0/9.5/11.0 -> 8/10/12/14, effectively allows to keep constant vision around place at higher levels
Arctic Burn
Debuff duration 3 -> 4 (it's an active ability after all, should be somewhat better than passive?)
Cooldown 45/40/35/30 -> 40/36/32/28
Winter's Curse
Damage reduction from enemies 100% -> 90%
Changed from damage negation which applies before damage blocks to common damage resistance
Moment of Courage and Geminate Attack attacks are no longer launched if target turns to be invisible for attacker
Shadow Dance
Cooldown 80/70/60 -> 90/75/60
Hookshot
Can now be rooted
Spell Steal
Projectile speed 1200 -> 1200/1500/1800
Blinding Light
Damage 50/100/150/200 -> 65/110/155/200
Cast Range increased by 25 at all levels
Cooldown reduced by 1 at all levels
Primal Storm dispel
Now scales with Primal Split level
Tooltip updated to explain effect way better
False Promise
Got an indicator of exact amount of HP of unit over duration in addition to estimated time (shown to allies only)
Renews only once per 0.5 seconds to keep it readable
Previous Owl (alive) and Grave (dead) indicators are still exist as they are shown to an enemies
Icarus Dive
Healthcost 15% -> 70/80/90/100 + 7/8/9/10% of current HP
Now grants -35% CTR on duration (slower spellcast)
Now grants x101 turning speed (+10000% if you curious in percentages)
Shuriken Toss
Jump does no longer counts jump if next target was not affected (blocked or immune or invulnerable or dead)
Fixed block and reflection works via non-primary target
Firestorm
AoE 400 -> 415
DPS now affects Roshan (but as hpremoval magical damage, thus not aggroing him)
Rocket Barrage
Recasting ability while active now renews duration instead of creating another salvo of rockets
Diabolic Edict
Recasting ability while active now renews duration
Items
Innate teleport is no longer modified by CDR but only by Teleport Upgrade
Divine Rapier
Damage bonus 333 -> 130
Doubled damage against hit-count armor
Now grants +130 (+65) Pure damage on attack
This damage specials:
Cannot be used by illusions
Pierces magic immunity
Half damage bonus against structures
Does not affect wards
Affected by spell amplification and spell lifesteal
Recipe active cooldown 2.0 -> 0.5
Added visual timer on bottle with rune, after which bottle will be used automatically.
Timer existed, just was not shown.
New item: Smelly Cheese
Replaces Cheese on Roshan with 50% chance
This cheese smells so awful that you would never like to eat it. Feed it to your enemy as soon as possible.
Cannot be droped once picked up, cannot be picked by couriers, cannot be sold, can only be used
Passive:
-50% HP and MP restoration for wearer
Active:
Throws very, very badly smelling cheese to the targeted area
Affects all units while they stands in area, including self and allies, ignores magic immune and invulnerable units
Decreases victims HP and MP restoration by 75%
Per second:
Deals 40+4% of max HP as Pure HP removal damage (cannot be blocked by most sources, cannot spell lifesteal for caster)
Burns 40+4% of max MP
Does not affect Roshan
Duration: 10 seconds
AoE: 600
Cast range: 800
Projectile speed: 800
Cooldown: 40 (if you will ever manage to get more than 1 of it)
Cast Time: 0
Claymore: Removed
Desolator now requires Broadsword instead, damage bonus 45 -> 40
Satanic requires Mithril Hammer instead, damage bonus 25 -> 30, lifesteal 25% -> 30%, active lifesteal +125% -> +120%
Battle Fury just removed Claymore from buildup, total cost 4130 -> 2800, damage bonus 55 -> 28, cleave 50% -> 35%, regen reduced to Perseverance regen (Upgrades into Battle Scythe)
Kelen's Dagger
Range 1100 -> 1000
New item: Bull's Dagger
Bull is hard to stop, blinking bull is unstoppable. Same happens with owner of this dagger, incrusted by bull horns.
Kelen's Dagger + Messershmidt Reaver + Recipe (total cost 6400)
+30 strength
For next 6 seconds caster receives damage reduction from any sources, including abilities with self-damage and HP cost
Bonus is equal to 20% of Strength (e.g. 100 STR will grant 20% resistance, 200 STR 40% resistance, etc., max 80%)
Armlet hp drain is affected too, but straight HP change (Sunder, Timelapse), strength modifiers (losing STR to anything) and HP Removal damage is not
New item: Leprechaun's Dagger
Leprechauns are the luckiest creatures ever existed. You will never regret asking one of them to enchant your dagger for fair price.
Kelen's Dagger + Eaglehorn + Recipe (total cost 6400)
+30 agility
For next 6 seconds caster receives +35% Luck, increases his positive proc chances
Bashes, crits, evasions, truestrikes, juxtapose, helix, etc, etc, etc...
New item: Genie's Dagger
Genie's unique ability to operate with magical power can be stored in such small relic. If any mortal is able to kill or imprison genie for that, of course.
Kelen's Dagger + Mystic Staff + Recipe (total cost 6400)
+30 intelligence
For next 6 seconds caster receives bonus spell lifesteal equal percentage of intelligence. 20% for heroes and 4% for non-heroes.
For all 3 daggers specials:
Buff is dispelable
1250 range
11 cooldown
Goes on 3 seconds cooldown after receiving damage
New item: Battle Scythe
Battle Fury + Crystalys + Recipe (total cost 5350)
+60 damage
+8 HP regen
+4 MP regen
30% chance for x1.75 critical strike
50% cleave (550 distance)
Chop Forest (higher AoE and Cast Range than on Battle Fury)
New Item: Excalibur (builds into Bloodthorn)
Oblivion Staff + Cloak + Recipe (total cost 2600)
+15 damage
+15 attack speed
+12 intelligence
+2 MP regen
+20% magic resistance
Passive: Lobotomy
Each hit on enemy decreases his spell amplification by 8% for 6 seconds
Stacks up to 40% and stacks with other items with this effect
Renews duration on each attack
Debuff is dispelable
Duration is resistable
New item: Robber Coat
Slicky coat from which sword and fire slide off equally effectively guaranties that it's carrier will leave clash if not unharmed then at least alive. And how fancifully it reflects the light from folds when dented by a weapon!
Glimmer Cape + Talisman of Evasion + Recipe (total cost 3800)
Passive bonuses:
+25% magic resistance
+25% evasion
No attackspeed bonus (removed from glimmer too)
Active: Quiet Gait
Cast range 1000 (glimmer 800)
Cooldown 16 (glimmer 16)
Fade time 0.4 (glimmer 0.6)
Total duration 7.4 (7 actual effect duration + 0.4 first hide, while glimmer 5 + 0.6)
Manacost 90 (glimmer 90)
Grants target unit +50% magic resistance and +50% evasion (+62.5% both in total if used on self)
Both these bonuses are only working if unit is not attacking or casting spells, thus fade time should pass, just like with Glimmer Cape
Additionally, if protected target taking hit from enemy hero but attack misses, an illusion of protected unit spawns nearby and retaliates to attacker
Can proc only once per cast
Buff is dispelable
Casting Robber instantly removes previous Glimmer effect on unit and vise versa
New item: Echo Lance
Echo Saber + Force Staff + Recipe (total cost 5200)
+15 Strength
+20 Intelligence
+15 Damage
+15 Attack speed
+4 HP regen
+2.5 MP regen
+12% cast time reduction
Passive: Frequent Echo Strike (cooldown 4 while it's 6 on Echo Saber)
Effects are the same
Active: Unexpected Strike
When used on enemies, works oppositely to Hurricane Pike: pushes caster and target closer to each other, up to distance 150. Has no effect if distance is below 150 (cannot be used)
When used on allies or self, works like Force Staff
Cast range 650 (enemies) / 800 (allies)
Shares cooldown with Force Staff and Hurricane Pike
Note: as item has active ability, passive cooldown is not displayed
New item: Spirit Vessel
Urn of Shadows + Vitality Booster + Void Stone + Recipe (total cost 3100)
+300 HP
+4.5 MP regen
+2 All attributes
+2 Armor
Passive: receives charges the same fashion as Urn of Shadows
Still can charge only 1 item per dying hero
When multiple allies nearby to dying hero has Urns of Shadows and Spirit Vessels, charging Vessel takes priority, no matter distance
Active: Spirit Puppet
On enemy deals 35 + 3.5% of enemy's current hp as DPS during 10 seconds (Urn 31.75 DPS during 8 seconds)
Decreases all his hp restore (regeneration, received heal, lifesteal) by 50% (that's the one of strongest healing debuffs due to it's limitation)
Dispellable by normal dispel
Overlaps Urn debuff (so Urn debuff exist but doing nothing while Vessel debuff active)
On ally heals 50 hp + 1.5% of ally max hp as HPS during 10 seconds (Urn 46.875 HPS during 8)
Dispellable similarly to Urn removed by receiving damage above 0 (after reductions)
Overlaps Urn buff (so Urn buff exist but doing nothing while Vessel buff active)
New item: Bone Knuckles (basic)
Cost 1000
+35 attack speed
New item: Voodoo Mask (basic)
Cost 900
10% / 2% spell lifesteal
MKB
Javelin + Demon Edge + Gloves of Haste + Recipe -> Javelin + Demon Edge + Bone Knuckles (total cost 4400 -> 4450)
AS bonus 35 -> 40
Proc chance 50% -> 40%
Proc damage 150 -> 180
Grants True Strike aura with 12% chance
Thus +72 magical damage on hit in average, down from 75
And 47.2% True Strike for owner in total, down from 50%
Bloodstone reworked
Soul Booster + Voodoo Mask + Recipe (total cost 5050)
+425 HP
+425 MP
+10% / 2% spell lifesteal
+30% / 6% maximum bonus spell lifesteal depending on lacking hp similarly to how Berserker's Blood receives it's bonuses
Active: Blood Ritual
Targets enemy hero, instantly kills non-strong illusions, works against strong illusions (phantasm) like against hero.
Exchanges up to 15% of current HP and MP but leaves at least 10% of max HP and MP
Steals 3% of enemy spell amplification per each 100 exchanged point of HP and MP (0.04% spell amp per each point of HP and MP)
Duration 20, modifiable by victim's status resistance
Cooldown 60
Cast range 800
Cast time 0.2
Cannot target magic immune enemies
Can be blocked, and if so, still pays it's hp and mp cost
Can be reflected, and if so, triggers independently for victim, including consumed hp and mp
Buff and debuff can be dispeled by death only
Manacost reacts on mana operations (currently Nether Ward only)
Healthcost reacts on healthcost reductions (currently Bull's Dagger buff only)
Note: if both hp and mp are below 10%, cooldown is not wasted, instead goes on 0.5 seconds coooldown
Guinsoo's Sycthe of Vyse reworked
Shimmering Cane
The light cane which rends enemies helpless
Recipe and attribute bonuses remains the same
Now blocks victim attack, spellcasting, item usage and breaks passives but does NOT affect his moving possibilities neither changes victim's form.
Can be blocked and reflected, debuff can be dispeled, duration can be resisted
Cast range 800 -> 750
Manacost 250 -> 200
Projectile speed 1350 -> 1000
Cooldown 20 -> 18
Duration 3.5
Cast time 0.2
Note: debuff from this item shuts down Borrowed Time completely
Nullifier
Recipe changed
Demon Edge + Helm of Iron Will (total cost 4225 -> 3125)
Now pierces magic immunity
No longer slows victim when attacked, just dispells continiously
Damage bonus 70 -> 50
HP Reg bonus 6 -> 5
Mjollnir
Now requires Voodoo Mask instead of recipe (total cost 5650 -> 5750)
Grants 15 / 3% spell lifesteal
Damage bonus 25 -> 30
Dagon
Now requires Voodoo Mask instead of Staff of Wizardry (total cost decreased by 100)
Grants 12/14/16/18% spell lifesteal
Intelligence bonus is no longer higher than other attributes (6/8/10/12 all)
Cast time 0.4/0.35/0.3/0.25 -> 0.33/0.30/0.27/0.24
Rod of Atos
Now requires only 1 Crown to complete (total cost 2250)
Attribute bonuses 10/10/20 -> 5/5/15
Manacost 50 -> 75
Gleipnir
Total cost 5900
Attribute bonuses 10/10/20 -> 8/8/18
Now has unit targetting instead of ground to be closer to Rod of Atos
Has same block/reflect properties as Storm Bolt
Shadow Amulet
Cost 1400 -> 1000
Attack speed bonus removed
Glimmer Cape
Attack speed bonus removed
Now requires recipe to complete
Total cost 1850 -> 1950
Passive magic resistance bonus 15% -> 20%
Active magic resistance 45% -> 40%
Cannot be disassembled
Lothars Edge
Shadow Amulet + Broadsword + Bone Knuckles (total cost 2750 -> 3000)
DMG bonus 20 -> 15
AS bonus 20 -> 35
Silver Edge
Recipe cost 600 -> 500 (total cost 5400 -> 5550)
DMG bonus 25 -> 20
AS bonus 25 -> 40
Blade Mail
Requires recipe instead of Robe of Magi
Total cost 2000 -> 2100
Dmg bonus 18 -> 22
Armor bonus 6
Manacost 75 -> 50
Diffusal Blade
Blade of Alarity + Void Stone + Recipe, total cost 2575
Manabreak 45 -> 40
Attribute bonus 0/20/10 -> 15 agility
Mana regeneration +4.0
Active
Lasts 4 seconds
MS slow from 100% to 0%, decreases over time
Manacost 50 -> 75
Cast range 600 -> 800
Sublimal Blade
Diffusal Blade + Mask of Death + Recipe, total cost 4675
+20 Agility
+6 MP regen
+20% Lifesteal
Passive:
Manabreak 50 + 2.5% of current mp -> 50 + 1.25% of max mp
Active:
Lasts 6 seconds
MS slow from 100% to 0%, decreases over time
Reduces mana restoration by 75%
Cooldown 15
Manacost 75
Cast range 600 -> 800
Orchid
Mithril Hammer + Bone Knuckles + Void Stone (no recipe, total cost 3425)
+25 damage
+35 AS
+3 MP regen
Active ability unchanged
Bloodthorn
Orchid + Excalibur + Recipe (total cost 6400 -> 6950)
+20 Intelligence
+50 damage
+55 AS
+7 MP regen
+25% magic resistance
Active ability unchanged
Passive: Effective Lobotomy
Each hit on enemy decreases his spell amplification by 10% for 8 seconds
Stacks up to 40% and stacks with other items with this effect
Renews duration on each attack
Debuff is dispelable
Duration is resistable
Armlet of Mordiggian
No longer grants bonus strength and no bonus armor at max charge
Active no longer provides bonus HP for illusions
Instead grants bonus hp and damage
Time to reach max charge 0.6 -> 0.75
+10 hp and +1 dmg per tick
+500 hp and +50 dmg max (old 450 hp and and 55/25 dmg for str/other heroes)
HP degeneration 50 -> 45
The Butterfly
No longer grants bonus turn rate (it's gonna be on something else instead)
Instead granting rare, nearly unique percentage attack speed bonus
+25 AS -> +15% AS, +10 AS
Note: this used to make Butterfly more attractive for Agility heroes above Moonshard as they have higher innate AS and more likely has Agility granting items
Eye of Skadi
AS modifier -45 (numerical) -> -35% (percentage)
Heal modifier -33% -> -35%
MS modifier remains -35%
Martyric Boots
Recipe cost decreased, total cost 2750
HP regen 12 -> 10
MP regen 50% -> 2
No longer protects an ally from part of damage up to 55%
Instead it **heals caster by up to 35% of damage received by linked ally**, still depending on distance to him, the closer the stronger and not works above 1500 distance
Still linking to any of 2 linked units cancels previous link instantly
Note 1: this used to make active ability more attractive for thin heroes and let them stay closer to their tanks if needed as item is supposed to be carried by them anyway, while tanks most likely needs other boots
Note 2: not treated as Heal and so cannot be increased or reduced or transferred back via Tether
Jackboots
Power Treads + Oblivion Staff + recipe (total cost 3800)
+60 movement speed
+10 all attributes
+10 damage
+40 attack speed
+2 MP regen
Active ability changed
No longer shares cooldown with anything
Acts differently for melee and ranged carriers:
For melee pulls nearby enemies closer (but not inside of caster)
For ranges pushes nearby enemies away
Radius 400, speed 250, duration 1.25
"Forced movement" has low priority, does not overlap other forced movements
Does not pierce magic immunity and ignores Roshan
Effect is dispelable
Does not affect other heroes with currently active Jackboots buff
Cooldown 20
Manacost 100
Steamrollers
No longer requires Broadsword to build (total cost 3700)
No longer deals damage when active
Damage bonus 30 -> 15
Greaves
Recipe cost decreased, total cost 4900
HP percentage to get buff 25% -> 30%
Tranquil Boots
HP regen 9 -> 8
Martyric Boots and Steamrollers recipes are now doubleclickable
Phase Boots and Steamrollers buffs are now dispelable
Manta Style
Cooldown 45 -> 40
Force Staff
HP regen bonus 3 -> 2
Now grants 8% CTR (cast time reduction)
Overlapped by bonuses from it's upgrades (Hurricane Pike and Echo Lance)
Force effects are not reflectable anymore
No longer usable against enemies, thus:
— solves problem that interaction with enemy was changed after upgrade
— is no longer cheapest linkens remover
Hurricane Pike
HP regen bonus 5 -> 4
Attribute bonus 15/20/13 -> 13/20/13
Cast Range 500 / 1000 - > 500 / 800 (800 is same as Force Staff)
Now grants 12% CTR (cast time reduction)
Overlaps bonus from Force Staff and not stacks with bonus from Echo Lance (both are 12%)
Echo Saber
Damage bonus 15 -> 10
Cooldown 5 -> 6
Dragon Lance
Now requires Blade of Alacrity, Belt of Giant Strength and recipe. Total cost unchanged
Attribute bonus 12/15/0 -> 10/16/0
Blight Stone and Corrosive Pendant armor debuff duration 5 -> 3
Oblivion Staff
Damage bonus 15 -> 10
Radiance blind 10% -> 12%
Medallion, Solar Crest:
Cooldown 12 -> 8
Buff/debuff duration stays 12, thus 2 targets may be buffed or just more often
Duration is no longer modified by CDR of caster (this was made to be exact to dur not counting status resistance but no longer)
Solar Crest MS modifier 12% -> 14%
Armor debuffs does no longer stacks, neither 2 enemy debuffs or self and enemy debuff, only strongest one takes place
Drum of Endurance
Requires Ring of Regeneration instead of Sobi Mask
Grants 1.5 HP regen
Active MS bonus 13% -> 12%, AS bonus 45 -> 40
Heart of Tarrasque
No longer grants mp regen
STR bonus 35 -> 40
HP regen 1.2% -> 1.3%
Active MS bonus 13% -> 12%, AS bonus 45 -> 40
Hand of Midas
Growing bonus per amount of it's uses removed
Bonus per time doubled to +2% exp, +2 gold per game minute
Refresher Orb
No longer grants cast time reduction
Now grants 8% cooldown reduction aura
Cooldown 195 -> 180
It's own cooldown cannot be modified by anything
Can no longer be dropped when on cooldown
BKB
Now has 50 manacost
Minimum duration 5 -> 6
Cost increased by 50
Note: Drums of war will provide doubled bonus from as cost goes above 4000
Eul
Now grants 12% CTR (cast time reduction)
Recipe cost increased by (+275)
Intelligence bonus 10 -> 12
MS bonus 30 -> 25
Cooldown 23 -> 22
Enemy damage 50 -> 100
It remains the cheapest dispel item, however
Wraith Band and Elusive Band:
AS bonus 5 and 8 -> 6 and 10
Sange, Yasha, Kaya and upgrades bonuses changed:
Sange +16 strength, +16% status resistance, +16% HP restoration (all stacks with all other items, works on illusions!)
Yasha +16 agility, +8% Movement Speed, 8% chance to avoid damage (all stacks with all other items, works on illusions!)
Kaya +16 intelligence, +12% spell amplification, +16% MP restoration (all stacks with all other items, works on illusions!)
Sange and Yasha, Yasha and Kaya, Kaya and Sange:
Relative attributes +16
Following bonuses are 4 from 6, depending on item:
+20% status resistance
+20% HP restoration
+10% movement speed
+10% chance to avoid damage
+15% spell amplification
+20% MS restoration
All these bonuses are overlapped by Triforce Blade but not bonuses from basic Sange, Yasha and Kaya (to not break other itembuilds)
Triforce Blade
+16 all attributes
+24% status resistance
+24% hp restoration
+12% movement speed
+12% chance to avoid damage
+18% spell amplification
+24% MP restoration
All these bonuses overlap bonuses of S&Y, Y&K, K&S but not bonuses from basic Sange, Yasha and Kaya (to not break other itembuilds)
Halberd
Recipe cost 300 -> 700
+20 strength, +20% status resistance, +20% evasion, +20% HP restoration, active stays same
"Long Hands" passive: +50 attack range for melee heroes only
Manta Style
+10 strength, +26 agility, +10 intelligence, +10% Movement Speed, 10% chance to avoid damage, active stays same
Ethereal Blade
Kaya + Ghost Scepter + Recipe (total cost 4550)
+5 strength, +5 agility, +25 intelligence, +15% spell amplification, +20% MP restoration
Active damage tweaked from 75+x2 caster main attribute to 50+x1.5 victim main attribute
Abyssal Blade
Active updated to provide instant melee attack on target, thus applies all on-attack effects including bash bonus damage except that this bash has 1.8 seconds duration instead of 1.2 seconds
Another exception is this instant attack does not trigger Echo Saber, just like Stifling Dagger does not
Wind Walk additional effects on hit will be used on this attack
Magic Stick, Magic Wand:
Can now be used during channelings
Holy Beads:
Is no longer usable on allies, has instant cast (allied heal was barely used anyway, so it become like magic stick and magic wand)
Can now be used during channelings
Does no longer grants heal and regen amplification
This was going to make Holy Beads too similar to Hood but stronger and with additional bonuses
Bonus hp and mp restore of missing hp and mp per charge 0.6% -> 0.7%
Bonus attributes, HP, MP, resistance: 6, 200, 200, 20% -> 5, 250, 250, 25%
Vladmirs Offering
Recipe: Broadsword replaced by Claws of Attack, total cost 2750 -> 2200
Aura damage bonus 18% -> 13%
Helf of the Dominator
Recipe cost 975 -> 900, total cost 2350 -> 2275
Helm of the Overlord
Recipe cost 1000 -> 925, total cost 6100 -> 5400
Creep Attack Speed bonus 20 -> 30
Aura works on structures (armor, damage, lifesteal, not manareg obviously)
Lotus Orb
Requires Energy Booster again (total cost 3950 -> 4100)
Bonus +250 HP -> +250 MP
Manacost 125 -> 150
Buriza
Recipe cost 1000 -> 800
Damage bonus 90 -> 82
Sentry Wards
Now grants small bounty for kill
Both gold and experience bounty is in 5 times less than for Observer Ward and similarly grows over time
Geminate Attack and Moment of Courage are no longer pickable together (out of Balance Off mode)
Illusions can now use following abilities:
Geminate Attack (cooldown is not displayed on illusion control panel!)
Moment of Courage (cooldown is not displayed on illusion control panel!)
Echo Saber (attack speed bonus but not slow)
Echo Lance (attack speed bonus but not slow)
All of them will start with their normal cooldown (including reductions) on illusion once illusion created
And vise versa, Radiance no longer works for illusions
Note: it creates some mess with damage amplification coming from multiple new buffs, and also illusions are okay without it with new features working for them
Strong illusions are now treated as heroes against hit-count armor (except things which they are unable to attack: supernova and ignis fatuus)
Creeps and hero bodies
Glyph reset rule changed
Now it's reseted once per each tier tower except tier 4
Sniper, Gyrocopter turn rate 0.6 -> 0.45
Razor turnrate 0.5 -> 0.45
These numbers are slightly less than any other hero in game as a compensation for their fast attack animation and projectile speeds at once
Ranged lane creeps manapool 500 -> 200/300/400 for normal/super/mega creeps
Neutrals no longer has Critical Strike, neither provides it via Devour
Wolves and Sasquatch Warriors DPS slightly increased to compensate, wolves HP slightly increased too
Devoured wolf aura damage +10% / +15% -> +12% / +20%
Neutral Golems magic resistance 50% -> 40%
Golem Camp HP slightly decreased but damage slightly increased
Enraged Wildkin moved from level 5 to level 6 (has meaning for mindcontrolling/devouring abilities)
Roshan
HP 6000 + 125 per minute -> 5000 + 100 per minute
Armor 20 + 0.325 per minute -> 25 + 0.4 per minute
Magic resistance 55% -> 66.6%
Status resistance 20% + 0.5% per minute -> 20% + 0.4% per minute (still 80% max)
Bash duration 1.65 + 0.01 * game minutes -> 1.5 + 0.01 * game minutes
First Cheese or Smelly Cheese now appears on second Roshan instead of third
Cheese grants Roshan additional 10 HP/sec regeneration
Smelly Cheese grants Roshan bashes enchantment which decreases enemy hp and mp restoration by 50% for 5 seconds (not stacks with active debuff from Smelly Cheese)