Version 6.86
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Version 6.86
Version Information
Release:
2015-12-16
Highlights
- Balance Changes
- Hero Reworks
- New Items
Chronology
General[edit]
Runes[edit]
- Added Arcane Rune
- Causes all spell cooldowns to be reduced by 30% and mana costs to be reduced by 50%
- Lasts 50 seconds
Game Modes[edit]
- Random Draft hero pool increased from 24 to 50
- Added Random Draft to Ranked Matchmaking
- Random Draft now uses the same picking mechanics as Ranked All Pick
- Ranked All Pick initial pre-picking time reduced from 15 to 5
Lane Creeps[edit]
- Creep bounty increases by 1 gold per normal upgrade cycle
- I.e. every 7 minutes 30 seconds
- Creeps now arrive slightly closer to the top Dire tower and bottom Radiant tower
Neutral Creeps[edit]
- Centaur Courser now has a stacking magic resistance aura (20% for units, 5% for heroes)
- Hellbear now has a stacking magic resistance aura (20% for units, 5% for heroes)
- Dragonhide Aura's stackable armor increased from 2 to 3
- Ancient Dragons armor reduced by 1
- Ancient neutrals now behave like normal neutrals and split experience with all heroes in the AoE
- Added a new ability to Ancient Black Dragon, Fireball
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- Ancient Thunderhide's Frenzy is now unit targetable
- Hill Troll Priest's Mana Aura increased from 2 to 3
- Satyr Banisher's Purge cooldown reduced from 5 to 3 seconds
- Satyr Tormenter's Unholy Aura HP regen increased from 4 to 6
- Satyr Tormenter's Shockwave distance increased from 800 to 1200
- Satyr Tormenter's Shockwave speed reduced from 1050 to 900
- Satyr Tormenter's Shockwave damage increased 125 to 160
- Dark Troll Summoner's and Hill Troll's attack range reduced from 500 to 400
- Dark Troll Summoner's attack damage increased by 6
Roshan[edit]
- Roshan's base armor increased by 1
- Roshan's Base Attack Time increased from 1 to 2
- Roshan now has +100 Attack Speed
- He still attacks at the same rate, but is affected less by negative attack speed
Controls[edit]
- Added a Patrol command
- You are now able to bring up the targeting cursor when silenced, and instead get the error upon targeting rather than clicking the button
- Single Target spells with AoE effects now have a new targeting UI
- Abilities like Frost Nova, Storm Bolt, etc.
Gameplay Mechanics[edit]
- Siege damage against heroes increased from 75% to 85%
- Towers and Siege units do approximately 13% more damage to heroes
- E.g. Level 1 tower damage against heroes effectively increased from 82.5 to 93.5
- Towers no longer have a very minor experience bounty (previously was 25 XP that split evenly in an area)
- Hero base HP increased from 150 to 180
- Simplified some minor damage and armor types
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Removed the Light attack type and moved the following units to the Standard attack type (effectively 40%➜50% vs structures): Centaur Conqueror, Hellbear, Hellbear Smasher, Wildwing Ripper, Satyr Tormenter, Ancient Granite Golem, Ancient Black Dragon, Forged Spirits, Spiderlings, and Warlock's Golems. Removed the Weak armor type and moved the following unit to the Soft armor type (same as creeps): Beastmaster's Hawk Combined the Basic and Strong Armor types (like various other neutrals use): Kobold Soldier, Vhoul Assassin, Ghost, Hill Troll Berserker, Hill Troll Priest, Harpy Scout, Harpy Stormcrafter, Beastmaster's Boar, Undying's Tombstone, Pugna's Nether Ward, Templar Assassin's Psionic Trap, Techies' Land Mine, Techies' Stasis Trap, and Techies' Remote Mine. |
Terrain[edit]
- Added a new neutral hard camp for each team, near their respective Secret Shops
- Added a small ramp from the Radiant Secret Shop to the ward spot right above it
- Moved the Radiant hard camp closer to the Dire offlane
- Swapped Medium and Hard camp in Radiant Jungle
- Added a new pathway from Radiant mid to Radiant jungle
- Added a ramp connecting the Radiant jungle to the area near Roshan
- Created a walkable pathway to the Radiant rune ward
- Created a new juke spot behind the Dire Secret Shop
- Expanded Terrain around the top Tier 2 Radiant tower
- Moved the bottom rune up a little bit
- Radiant middle tier 1 tower has been moved back
- Adjusted Radiant small camp spawn box
- Added a new ward spot near the Radiant ancients (does not reveal top rune)
- Created a new pathway leading to the wardspot below the Radiant Secret Shop
- Moved the Radiant ramp leading to the top rune further away from the rune (slightly closer to mid lane)
- Moved the Dire ramp leading to the top rune closer up
- Adjusted the terrain and the ramp going down from the Radiant Ancients slightly
- Improved jukability in the terrain around the Dire side shop
- Added a path through the trees at Radiant offlane sideshop moving south and added juke paths
- Added a new ward spot to the right of the top tier 1 Radiant tower
- Added a couple of trees to right of the ramp leading down from the Radiant ancients (covering some vision to the left of it)
- Dire is now able to enter the jungle through the middle Radiant ramp and walk to the side without being in range to dispel their smoke
- Added a new pathway above the top Dire side shop
- Created a new pathway in the middle of the long column of trees at the bottom Radiant Tier 2 area
- Added a walkable path to the ward spot near bottom rune
- Reduced the size of the pull camp box on the Dire safelane hard camp
- Added a pathable walkway from the cliff above the top rune to the Dire area to the right of it
- Added a new pathway to the south of the bottom side shop
- Added a couple of trees in the Dire base between the mid and top towers along the ledge
- Adjusted juke paths near the Radiant ward spot near the hard camp
- Added a new juke spot to the south of the bottom Radiant hard camp
- Added a hiding spot in the Dire middle lane near the edge of the Secret Shop
- Added some trees below the top Radiant T2 tower
- Adjusted trees to the left of the Dire offlane (affecting visibility of heroes coming from the left)
- Added a pathway above the Radiant Ancient (leading up to the new ward spot)
- Adjusted Dire secret shop location slightly
- Adjusted the terrain pathing a little bit around the loop where the Radiant bottom left ward spot is
- Adjusted tree layout of the high ground to the right of the Radiant middle camp
- Moved Radiant ramp to the bottom rune back a little bit
- Added hiding spots in the clump of trees above the formerly Radiant hard camp (now the Radiant medium camp)
- Nudged the Radiant small camp down very slightly
- Moved the Radiant mid medium camp down slightly and adjusted nearby trees
- Added a new hiding spot on the Dire bottom lane, in the area higher ground to the right of the Dire Ancients
- Adjusted the position of the Radiant middle ramp slightly
- Added a new juke spot to the terrain to the right of the Radiant small camp
- Adjusted tree pathway and added a couple of hiding spots above the top Dire T2 tower
Heroes[edit]
Alchemist[edit]
- Greevil's Greed Bounty Rune multiplier rescaled from 5× to 3/4/5/6×
- Fixed Greevil's Greed granting full gold during Buyback gold penalty phase
Arc Warden[edit]
Undocumented Changes
- Spark Wraith mana cost increased from 50 to 100/110/120/130
Bane[edit]
- Movement speed reduced from 315 to 310
Batrider[edit]
- Base HP regeneration increased from 0.25 to 2
- Flamebreak mana cost reduced from 140 to 110/120/130/140
Beastmaster[edit]
- Wild Axes no longer has unit targeting
- Call of the Wild cooldown rescaled from 40 to 42/38/34/30
Bloodseeker[edit]
- Blood Rite cooldown rescaled from 29/26/23/20 to 30/25/20/15
Bounty Hunter[edit]
- Jinada movement and attack speed reduction increased from 25% to 25/27/29/31%
Brewmaster[edit]
- Drunken Haze cooldown reduced from 8 to 8/7/6/5
- Primal Split's Dispel Magic damage to summons increased from 200 to 500
- Primal Split's Dispel Magic cooldown reduced from 6 to 4
- Primal Split's Wind Walk cooldown reduced from 7 to 5
Bristleback[edit]
- Added Scepter to Bristleback
- Nasal Goo is no longer targeted, instead it applies Goo to all enemies around you in 600 AoE when cast
- Viscous Nasal Goo mana cost reduced from 30 to 25
- Quill Spray max damage increased from 400 to 450
Broodmother[edit]
- Spawn Spiderlings damage reduced from 75/150/225/300 to 70/140/210/280
Centaur Warrunner[edit]
- Return damage increased from 30/42/54/66 to 30/45/60/75%
Chaos Knight[edit]
- Reality Rift bonus damage increased from 60/80/100/120 to 60/100/140/180
Chen[edit]
- Base strength increased from 20 to 23
- Penitence mana cost reduced from 100 to 70
- Penitence duration increased from 5/6/7/8 to 8
Clinkz[edit]
- Agility growth increased from 3 to 3.3
Clockwerk[edit]
- Strength growth increased from 2.7 to 2.9
- Power Cogs now spawn in a circle rather than a rectangle
Crystal Maiden[edit]
- Crystal Nova cooldown reduced from 13 to 12
- Arcane Aura level 4 mana regen increased from 2.5/5 (allies/self) to 3/6
Dark Seer[edit]
Dazzle[edit]
- Poison Touch mana cost reduced from 100 to 70
- Shallow Grave cast point increased from 0.3 to 0.35
- Shallow Grave mana cost increased from 140/130/120/110 to 150
- Weave no longer provides 800 flying vision. Now provides ground vision for the AoE of the ability for 3 seconds
Death Prophet[edit]
- Temporarily removed from Captains Mode
- Replaced Witchcraft with a new ability, Spirit Siphon
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- Base movement speed increased from 280 to 310
- Crypt Swarm cooldown reduced from 8 to 8/7/6/5
- Silence cooldown reduced from 15 to 15/14/13/12
- Exorcism spirit count increased from 8/14/21 to 8/16/24
- Exorcism spawn rate decreased from 1 ghost per 0.1 seconds to 0.3 seconds
Doom[edit]
- Temporarily removed from Captains Mode
- Replaced Level Death with a new ability, Infernal Blade
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Infernal Blade |
- Base Attack Time increased from 1.7 to 2
- Scorched Earth damage/heal reduced from 12/23/34/45 to 10/20/30/40
- Scorched Earth movement speed from 16% to 14%
- Doom cooldown increased from 100 to 125
Dragon Knight[edit]
- Dragon Blood HP regen increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/6/9/12
- Elder Dragon Form Frost AoE increased from 250 to 300
- Same AoE as the splash damage
Drow Ranger[edit]
- Added Scepter to Drow Ranger
- Marksmanship now causes her attacks to splinter on the target and split into two arrows affecting two random units in a 375 radius
- The splintered arrows deal 50% damage each
- Primary target still takes full damage
- The split arrows act as normal attacks, carrying all attack modifiers
Earth Spirit[edit]
- Enabled Earth Spirit in Captains Mode
- Intelligence growth reduced from 2.4 to 2.1
- Boulder Smash stun AoE reduced from 200 to 160
- Geomagnetic Grip can now only pull allied heroes when using Scepter
Elder Titan[edit]
- Earth Splitter damage rescaled from 35% to 30/40/50%
- Earth Splitter mana cost rescaled from 175 to 125/175/225
- Earth Splitter's physical damage component is no longer reduced by Damage Block
Ember Spirit[edit]
- Fire Remnants no longer give vision
Enchantress[edit]
- Enchant cooldown reduced from 30/25/20/15 to 30/24/18/12
Enigma[edit]
- Eidolon movement speed increased from 250/250/260/260 to 260/280/300/320
- Malefice damage increased from 25/40/55/70 to 30/50/70/90
- Black Hole cooldown reduced from 200/190/180 to 200/180/160
Faceless Void[edit]
- Temporarily removed from Captains Mode
- Replaced Backtrack with a new ability, Time Dilation
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Time Dilation |
- Time Walk no longer slows units
- Time Walk now undoes any damage taken in the last 2 seconds
- Time Walk cooldown rescaled from 19/17/15/13 to 24/18/12/6
- Time Walk mana cost reduced from 90 to 40
- Time Walk range reduced from 700/900/1100/1300 to 550
- Time Walk cast point reduced from 0.35 to 0.2
Gyrocopter[edit]
- Call Down's first missile damage reduced from 250/300/350 to 220/285/350
Huskar[edit]
- Berserker's Blood bonuses are provided linearly from full until 10% HP (rather than stepwise at 7% increments)
- Berserker's Blood maximum magic resistance reduced from 42/56/70/84% to 20/30/40/50%
Invoker[edit]
- Invoker now starts with Invoke Level 1 at the beginning of the game
- Invoke now has the standard 6/11/16 leveling
- Level 25 invoker (since he is now missing an ability level) has an attribute bonus ability that grants 6 all stats
Jakiro[edit]
- Base damage increased by 7
Keeper of the Light[edit]
- Chakra Magic cooldown reduction increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6
- Chakra Magic buff duration increased from 12 to 15 seconds
- Chakra Magic now restores and increases mana capacity by 75/150/225/300
Kunkka[edit]
- Added Scepter to Kunkka
- Ghost Ship now drags enemies within a 200 AoE of it towards the crash site
- It now starts from where you are, rather than behind you, lands in the same position it normally would have
- Enemies are still able to perform actions while being pulled by the Ghost Ship
- Works similar to Drow Ranger's Gust knockback
- Torrent now gives your team vision over target area immediately upon cast, rather than just when triggering
- Tidebringer is now an autocast ability, will only trigger if turned on or cast directly on the target
- Tidebringer damage bonus increased from 20/35/50/65 to 25/40/55/70
- Tidebringer AoE from rescaled 500/500/500/600 to 450/500/550/600
- Ghost Ship mana cost reduced from 150/200/250 to 125/175/225
Legion Commander[edit]
- Moment of Courage cooldown reduced from 2.7/2.1/1.5/0.9 to 2.6/2/1.4/0.8
- Legion Commander's Scepter now makes you and your target immune to all damage unless the source is between the Duel participants.
- Legion Commander's Scepter duration is now 4.75/5.5/6.25
Lifestealer[edit]
- Rage attack speed bonus increased from 30/45/60/80 to 50/60/70/80
- Feast damage and lifesteal increased from 4/5/6/7% to 4.5/5.5/6.5/7.5%
- Infest cooldown reduced from 100 to 100/75/50
Lion[edit]
- Earth Spike mana cost reduced from 100/120/145/170 to 100/120/140/160
- Earth Spike duration increased from 1.02/1.52/2.02/2.52 to 1.1/1.6/2.1/2.6
- Mana Drain reduced cooldown from 20/15/10/5 to 16/12/8/4
Lone Druid[edit]
- Temporarily removed from Captains Mode
- Replaced Synergy with a new ability for Lone Druid, Savage Roar
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Savage Roar |
- Spirit Bear attack damage increased from 33 to 35/45/55/65
- Spirit Bear movement speed increased from 320/320/330/340 to 320/330/340/350
- Rabid duration increased from 10 to 18/22/26/30
- Rabid movement speed increased from 5/10/15/20% to 10/15/20/25%
- True Form Health Bonus increased from 250/400/600 to 300/600/900
Luna[edit]
Lycan[edit]
- Lycan Wolves and Shapeshift no longer grant critical strike
- Lycan Wolves now gain Cripple at level 2, granting a 20% chance to cripple the target, causing it to take 8 damage per second and lose 40 Attack Speed for 4 seconds.
- Shapeshift now grants all units under your control a 40% chance for 1.4/1.6/1.8x critical strike
Magnus[edit]
- Added Scepter to Magnus
- Changes Empower to be an allied hero aura
- Affects ranged heroes for half values and causes them to deal splash damage around the target in a 200 AoE
- Can still be cast on units, but does not stack
- Skewer distance increased from 750/900/1050/1200 to 900/1000/1100/1200
- Skewer slow reduced from 40% to 25/30/35/40%
- Skewer slow duration increased from 2.5 to 2.5/2.75/3/3.25 seconds
Medusa[edit]
- Mystic Snake no longer increases manasteal per jump
- Mystic Snake manasteal is now 11/14/17/20% of total mana
Meepo[edit]
- Double Damage no longer affects all Meepo units
Mirana[edit]
- Attack range increased from 600 to 630
- Starstorm radius increased from 625 to 650
- Sacred Arrow now instantly kills the first unit it hits if it is a non-ancient creep
Morphling[edit]
- Adaptive Strike base damage increased from 50/60/70/80 to 100
- Adaptive Strike mana cost reduced from 100 to 100/90/80/70
- Morph rate increased from 2/4/6/10 per second to 2/4/8/16
- Morph now shifts in intervals of 1 rather than 2
- This doesn't affect the rate of change, just smoothness
- Hybrid cooldown reduced from 140 to 120
Naga Siren[edit]
- Base Intelligence increased from 18 + 1.95 to 21 + 2
Nature's Prophet[edit]
- Base intelligence increased by 4
- Treant damage increased from 28 to 32
- This means Greater Treant damage is increased from 84 to 96
Necrophos[edit]
- Base armor increased by 1
Night Stalker[edit]
- Void slow at night reduced from 4 to 2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds
Nyx Assassin[edit]
- Nyx Impale duration increased from 1.27/1.77/2.27/2.77 to 1.6/2/2.4/2.8
- Spiked Carapace cooldown reduced from 23/20/17/14 to 22/18/14/10
Ogre Magi[edit]
- Base health regen increased from 2.5 to 3.5
Oracle[edit]
- Enabled Oracle in Captains Mode
- Fate's Edict cooldown rescaled from 12 to 16/13/10/7
- Fate's Edict duration reduced from 3/4/5/6 to 3/3.5/4/4.5
- Fate's Edict cast range rescaled from 700 to 500/600/700/800
- Fortune's End mana cost reduced from 130 to 110
- Fortune's End can now target allies
- Does not root or hurt the ally, but purges and applies the effect in the area
- False Promise no longer continuously dispels after the initial cast
- It previously continuously removed all debuffs including stuns
- False Promise duration increased from 6/7/8 to 7/8/9
- False Promise cooldown rescaled from 80/60/40 to 90/60/30
- False Promise mana cost reduced from 200 to 100
Outworld Devourer[edit]
- Reworked how Astral Imprisonment works
- Astral Imprisonment now deals damage to enemies in an area around the target when it ends
- The target itself will also take damage, if it is an enemy
- Deals 75/150/225/300 magic damage
- Affects a 400 area
- You are only hurt once by this AoE with Scepter
- No longer steals intelligence
- Can now be targeted on creeps
- Astral Imprisonment cooldown rescaled from 18/16/14/12 to 20/17/14/11
- Astral Imprisonment cast range rescaled from 500 to 450/500/550/600
- Astral Imprisonment duration increased from 1/2/3/4 to 4
- Essence Aura AoE reduced from 1000 to the standard 900 aura radius
- Arcane Orb now steals 0/1/2/3 intelligence per hit for 40 seconds (heroes only)
- Outworld Devourer intelligence growth reduced from 3.3 to 2.7
Phantom Assassin[edit]
- Base Intelligence increased from 13 + 1 to 15 + 1.4
Phoenix[edit]
- Sun Ray turn rate increased from 20 to 25
- Supernova damage per second increased from 60/80/100 to 60/90/120
Puck[edit]
- Illusory Orb mana cost reduced from 150 to 80/100/120/140
- Illusory Orb cooldown increased from 11 to 14/13/12/11
- Waning Rift cooldown reduced from 16 to 16/15/14/13
- Waning Rift no longer only silences heroes
Pudge[edit]
- Reworked Scepter on Pudge
- Reduces cooldown of Meat Hook to 4 seconds and increases damage from 360 to 475
- Note: No longer grants previous Scepter bonuses
- Dismember damage from 75/125/175 to 60/90/120 +30/40/50% of strength
- Dismember now heals you for the damage it does
Pugna[edit]
- Decrepify no longer slows allies
Queen of Pain[edit]
- Scream of Pain damage reduced from 85/165/225/300 to 75/150/225/300
- Sonic Wave travel speed reduced from 1100 to 900
Riki[edit]
- Temporarily removed from Captains Mode
- Reworked Permanent Invisibility to include Backstab
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Permanent Invisibility |
- Blink Strike back to basic ability without charges
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- Added a new ultimate for Riki, Tricks of the Trade
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Tricks of the Trade |
- Strength growth reduced from 2 to 1.6
- Agility growth reduced from 2.9 to 2.2
- Base armor reduced by 1
- Smoke Screen no longer slows turn rates
Rubick[edit]
- Fade Bolt attack damage reduction increased from 14/20/26/32 to 20/25/30/35
Sand King[edit]
- Reworked Scepter on Sand King
- Doubles Burrowstrike cast range and applies Caustic Finale poison to heroes
- Note: No longer grants previous Scepter bonuses
- Base strength increased from 18 to 21
- Caustic Finale slow increased from 25% to 30%
Shadow Demon[edit]
- Disruption illusions duration from 5/6/7/8 to 6/8/10/12 seconds
Shadow Fiend[edit]
- Added Scepter to Shadow Fiend
- Requiem of Souls waves now return back to Shadow Fiend dealing 40% damage on the way back
- All of the damage the Requiem does to heroes on its way back heals you
- Base armor reduced by 1
- Shadowraze mana cost increased from 75 to 90
Shadow Shaman[edit]
- Shackles total damage increased from 120/180/240/300 to 120/200/280/360
- Mass Serpent Wards require 2 hits to destroy
- Previously had 135/150/150 hp
Silencer[edit]
- Replaced Curse of the Silent with a new ability, Arcane Curse
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- Glaives of Wisdom is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier
Skywrath Mage[edit]
- Concussive Shot mana cost reduced from 110 to 95
Slardar[edit]
- Amplify Damage now only reveals the target rather than the area around it
Storm Spirit[edit]
- Electric Vortex mana cost reduced from 100/110/120/130 to 85
Sven[edit]
- Base damage increased by 4
- God's Strength Scepter aura bonus damage increased from 50/75/100% to 75/100/125%
Templar Assassin[edit]
- Refraction is now always visible
Terrorblade[edit]
- Enabled Terrorblade in Captains Mode
Tidehunter[edit]
- Added Scepter to Tidehunter
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- Anchor Smash cast time reduced from 0.5 to 0.4
- Ravage stun duration rescaled from 2.02/2.32/2.77 to 2/2.4/2.8
Timbersaw[edit]
- Whirling Death debuff duration increased from 7 to 11
- Whirling Death mana cost decreased from 70/80/90/100 to 70
- Reactive Armor duration rescaled from 16 to 14/16/18/20
Tinker[edit]
- Laser cast time improved from 0.53 to 0.4
- Laser cast range increased from 550 to 650
Tiny[edit]
- Craggy Exterior now triggers on attacks landing, rather than on start
Treant Protector[edit]
- Leech Seed mana cost reduced from 100/110/120/130 to 80/95/110/125
- Overgrowth AoE increased from 675 to 800
- Scepter Overgrowth damage and vision AoE increased from 700 to 800
Troll Warlord[edit]
- Fervor reduced from 20/25/30/35 to 15/20/25/30
- Fervor max stacks increased from 4 to 6
- Ranged Whirling Axes cooldown reduced from 20/19/18/17 to 20/18/16/14
Tusk[edit]
- Movement speed reduced from 305 to 300
- Ice Shards damage reduced from 70/140/210/280 to 60/120/180/240
- Snowball can no longer pull units out of Black Hole or Chronosphere
- Snowball gather radius reduced from 400 to 350
Undying[edit]
- Tombstone Zombie damage reduced from 35 to 33
- Tombstone bounty increased from 75/100/125/150 to 125/150/175/200
- Tombstone no longer grants 44 XP
Ursa[edit]
- Scepter added to Ursa
- Allows you to cast your ultimate while disabled and reduces cooldown from 50/40/30 to 30/24/18 seconds
- Enrage is no longer purgeable
Vengeful Spirit[edit]
- Added Scepter bonus to Vengeful Spirit
- Causes you to spawn a Vengeance Illusion when you die
- The Vengeance Illusion deals 50% damage, takes 150% damage, and is able to use all of your abilities (but not items)
- The Vengeance Illusion lasts until she revives
- Note: Still grants previous Scepter bonuses to Nether Swap
Venomancer[edit]
- Venomous Gale cooldown reduced from 22 to 21/20/19/18
Visage[edit]
- Stone Form AoE increased from 340 to 350
Warlock[edit]
- Base strength increased by 4
- Shadow Word duration increased from 11 to 12 seconds
Weaver[edit]
- Base damage increased by 3
- The Swarm Beetles' Base Attack Time improved from 1.4/1.25/1.1/0.95 to 1.25/1.1/0.95/0.8
Windranger[edit]
- Shackleshot is now disjointable
- Shackleshot speed increased from 1515 to 1650
- Shackleshot angle reduced from 26 degrees to 23 degrees
- Powershot speed no longer decreases by a small amount as it goes through units
Winter Wyvern[edit]
- Temporarily removed from Captains Mode
- Cold Embrace cooldown increased from 17/16/15/14 to 24/21/18/15
- Arctic Burn slow reduced from 25/30/35/40% to 19/26/33/40%
- Winter's Curse primary and secondary units are now immune to all damage from their enemies
- Winter's Curse secondary units now have 50 attack speed bonus
- Winter's Curse AoE increased increased from 400 to 500
- Winter's Curse cooldown increased from 110/100/90 to 120/110/100
- Winter's Curse duration increased from 2.5/3/3.5 to 3.25/4/4.75
- Fixed Winter's Curse lingering if the primary target died
Witch Doctor[edit]
- Maledict mana cost reduced from 120 to 105/110/115/120
- Maledict cast range increased from 525 to 575
Wraith King[edit]
- Vampiric Aura can now be toggled to make the lifesteal for heroes only
New Items[edit]
Faerie Fire[edit]
- New consumable item, Faerie Fire
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Dragon Lance[edit]
- New item formed from Ogre Club and Quarterstaff
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Aether Lens[edit]
- New item formed from Energy Booster, Ring of Health, and Cloak
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Requires: Cast range improvement affects targeted spells and distance related spells, such as Venomous Gale. |
Iron Talon[edit]
- New item formed from Quelling Blade, Ring of Protection, and a Recipe
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Item Changes[edit]
Abyssal Blade[edit]
- Bash damage increased from 60 to 120
- Damage bonus decreased from 85 to 70
- The following items are related in their changes with bonus damage and proc damage being modified:
Animal Courier[edit]
- Courier purchase cooldown increased from 7 seconds to 2 minutes
- Animal Courier cost decreased from 120 to 100
Arcane Boots[edit]
- Movement speed reduced by 5 and total cost reduced by 50 (see Boots of Speed changes)
- This applies to the following:
Assault Cuirass[edit]
- Attack speed aura bonus now affects buildings
- Armor portion already affects buildings
Blade Mail[edit]
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 13
Boots of Speed[edit]
- Cost reduced from 450 to 400
- Movement speed reduced by 5
- This applies to the following:
Bottle[edit]
- Cost reduced from 700 to 660
- Health regen per charge reduced from 110 to 90
- Mana regen per charge reduced from 70 to 60
- A charge now heals over 2.5 seconds instead of 3 seconds (total amount is still 90/60)
- Added Bottle to Side Shop, starts with only 1 charge
- As usual, if you use the item, you cannot sell it back for full price
Butterfly[edit]
- Flutter movement speed increased from 25 to 35%
- Flutter duration reduced from 6 to 4 seconds
Clarity[edit]
- Mana regeneration increased from 170 over 45 seconds to 190 over 50 seconds
- Same mana regen per second
Cloak[edit]
- Magic resistance reduced from 20% to 15%
Crimson Guard[edit]
- Crimson Guard chance from 75% to block 40/20 to 100% to block 32/16
- Cooldown reduced from 70 to 60
Daedalus[edit]
- Critical Strike from 25% chance for 2.4× to 30% chance for 2.2×
- Average damage increase from 35% to 36%
Diffusal Blade[edit]
- Agility bonus increased from 20/35 to 25/35
- Intelligence bonus increased from 6/10 to 10/15
Drum of Endurance[edit]
- Endurance bonus movement speed increased from 10% to 13%
- Endurance is the active ability
Ethereal Blade[edit]
- Mana cost reduced from 150 to 100
Flying Courier[edit]
- Cost reduced from 220 to 200
Glimmer Cape[edit]
- Base magic resistance reduced from 20% to 15%
Heart of Tarrasque[edit]
- HP regeneration increased from 4% to 4.75%
Helm of the Dominator[edit]
- Dominate now sets the dominated creeps' base movement speed to 350
Hood of Defiance[edit]
- Hood of Defiance now has an active ability
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Creates a spell shield on your hero that absorbs up to 325 magical damage. |
Iron Branch[edit]
- Can now be used by targeting the ground, planting a happy little tree that lasts 20 seconds. 200 Cast Range.
Javelin[edit]
- Pierce improved from 20% to deal 40 damage to 25% to deal 85 bonus damage
- Damage bonus reduced from 21 to 10
- The following items are related in their changes with bonus damage and proc damage being modified:
Linken's Sphere[edit]
- Cooldown reduced from 16 to 13
- Damage bonus increased from 10 to 15
Mantle of Intelligence[edit]
- Removed from Side Shop
Monkey King Bar[edit]
- Mini-Bash proc damage increased from 100 to 160
- Damage bonus reduced from 88 to 66
- The following items are related in their changes with bonus damage and proc damage being modified:
Necronomicon[edit]
- Recipe cost reduced from 1250 to 1200
- Necronomicon Archer attack range increased from 350/450/550 to 450/500/550
Observer and Sentry Wards[edit]
- Observer and Sentry Wards now have an AoE indicator before placing
- They also use a new UI for placement
Observer Ward[edit]
- Experience bounty increased from 50 to 100
Octarine Core[edit]
- Now affects the replenish time of charged abilities
Orb of Venom[edit]
- Orb of Venom is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier
Phase Boots[edit]
- Phase active no longer cancels when casting
- Movement speed reduced by 5 and total cost reduced by 50 (see Boots of Speed changes)
- This applies to the following:
Power Treads[edit]
- Movement speed reduced by 5 and total cost reduced by 50 (see Boots of Speed changes)
- This applies to the following:
Quelling Blade[edit]
- Cost reduced from 225 to 200
Ring of Protection[edit]
- Cost reduced from 200 to 175
- Armor bonus reduced from 3 to 2
Rod of Atos[edit]
- Cripple cooldown increased from 10 to 12
- Cripple now grants units that attack the target 40% accuracy
- This means that targets attacking that unit will not miss 40% of the time
Sange[edit]
- Maim no longer pierces Spell Immunity
Sange and Yasha[edit]
- Greater Maim no longer pierces Spell Immunity
Satanic[edit]
- Duration increased from 4 to 4.5
Scythe of Vyse[edit]
- Hex cooldown reduced from 30 to 25
Silver Edge[edit]
- Silver Edge debuff is no longer dispellable
Skull Basher[edit]
- Strength bonus increased from 8 to 10
- Bash damage increased from 60 to 120
- Damage reduced from 25 to 10
- The following items are related in their changes with bonus damage and proc damage being modified:
Smoke of Deceit[edit]
- Cost reduced from 100 to 50
Tango[edit]
- Boosted Tangoes now last for double the duration instead of providing double the healing rate
- Using Tango on Iron Branch trees provides double healing duration
Tranquil Boots[edit]
- Tranquil Boots armor reduced from 4 to 3
- Movement speed reduced by 5 (see Boots of Speed changes)
- This applies to the following:
Vanguard[edit]
- Vanguard chance from 75% to block 40/20 to 100% to block 32/16
Veil of Discord[edit]
- Now requires 2× Robe of the Magi instead of a 900 gold recipe (Int bonus increased by 12)
Vitality Booster[edit]
- Added to Side Shop
Ultimate Orb[edit]
- Removed from Side Shop
Yasha[edit]
- Movement speed bonus reduced from 10% to 8%
- Sange and Yasha and Manta are unchanged