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=Version 1.14h2=
Includes all changes since 1.14e1
==General==
* Various performance enhancing optimizations
* New feature: [[Perks]]!
** Located at your altar, perks are available at levels 1, 30, and 50
* Energy
** Unused energy no longer provides an experience bonus
** Energy is only enabled in Stormwail Peak and Gloomreap Mire
** Energy is now gained based on your hero level, 1 energy per 2 levels
* Generators
** Time requirement removed
** Crystal generators removed
** Base Generators
*** Cost incresaed to 250 gold from 150
*** Health reduced to 900 from 1800
*** Build time reduced to 30 seconds from 180
*** Repair time reduced to 30 seconds from 120
** Arcane Generator
*** Upgrade time decreased to 30 seconds from 60
*** Maximum mana reduced to 300
*** Missle Storm and Impaling Field removed
*** New spells: Thump and Rain of Chaos
*** Shockwave
**** Mana cost reduced to 180 from 450
**** Damage reduced to 350 from 700
**** No longer hits buildings
**** Damage size reduced by 33%
**** Speed reduced by 25%
** Defense Generator
*** Energy cost increased to 5 from 3
** Devestation Generator
*** Energy cost increased to 7 from 4
*** Upgrade time increased to 120 seconds from 60
*** Range reduced to 500 from 600
** Execution Generator
*** Energy cost increased to 10 from 5
*** Upgrade time increased to 120 seconds from 60
*** Charged attack damage reduced to 35 from 60
*** Attack speed cooldown increased to 0.5 seconds from 0.35
** Explosive Generator
*** Energy cost decreased to 6 from 12
*** Detonation charge time reduced to 180 seconds from 240
*** Now deals half damage to allies
*** Damage dealt is a percentage of maximum health
**** Generators: 100%
**** Structures 25%
**** Heroes: 25%
**** Units: 50%
** Replenishment Generator
*** Energy cost increased to 5 from 3
*** Upgrade time increased to 30 seconds from 3
*** Maximum mana reduced to 400 from 500
** Siege Generator
*** Energy cost increased to 12 from 9
*** Upgrade time increased to 120 seconds from 60
*** Base damage reduced to 70 from 94
* Command Towers
** Cost reduced to 250 gold from 500
** Health increased to 900 from 500
** Effect range increased to 800 from 500
** Repair time increased to 60 seconds from 10
** Build time incresaed to 90 seconds from 10
** [Bugfix] Spawning next to a command tower would sometimes ignore the tower's orders
* [Bugfix] Some skills or items would trigger attack procs
* [Bugfix] Physical spells would not damage magic immune units
* Lots of undocumented tooltip fixes
===AI===
* Lots of tweaks to various behaviors
* Should be less prone to sometimes run into enemy waves alone, particularly early game
* Can now port within the first 20 seconds of a game
* Now builds generators
* Normal and Insane AIs will build defense towers and upgrade outposts with excess gold
* Normal and Insane AIs will take over destroyed outposts
* Insane AIs will now use command towers
* AIs will now pool their money together for all purchases
* Added code to improve detection of when the AI is stuck and attempts to remedy it
* AI will now focus on the artifact wagon and capture it if possible
* Hero kills of human players by AI teams now grant 50% additional crystal to normal computers and 100% additional crystal to insane computers
* AI players are now listed in the team status board
* [Bugfix] AIs wouldn't receive their starting gold
* [Bugfix] Allied spawn towers were being counted twice when trying to decide what to build
* [Bugfix] Code intending to prevent AI heroes from chasing fleeing heroes was not functioning as intended
* [Bugfix] Found a bug that can cause an AI player to loose all their gold
* [Bugfix] Purchasing items sometimes cost the AI no gold
* [Bugfix] Many units had an unintended 8% magic damage reduction
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===Commands===
* [Bugfix] -spawnrate now works properly in single player
* HCL option 'i': Improved Insanes
** All types of computers gain the default insane benefits
** Grants an additional +1 to all attributes per level for easy computers, and +2 for normal and insanes
** Insane computers also get full skills enabled

==Battlefields==
===[[Kedge's Landing]]===
* Moved Red's equipment shop closer to the main hall
* Moved Red's item shop to the equipment shop's former location

===[[Stormwail Peak]]===
* Moved Blue's equipment shop closer to the main hall

==[[Heroes]]==
===[[Elven Battalion]]===
====[[Aeromancess]]====
* Maelstrom's effect has been redesigned
* Tempest
** Damage reduced
** Talent Buffet's damage reduced

====[[Arcane Archer]]====
* Scout size significantly reduced
* Meteor Swarm
** Cooldown decreased to 15 seconds from 18
** Damage increased

====[[Blazing Priest]]====
* New talent: Fiery Rebirth

====[[Divine Wizard]]====
* [Bugfix] Empower's evocation damage bonus was not being applied properly
* [Technical] Vengeance's ability has been changed so that the AI stops autocasting it and wasting it

====[[Infiltrator]]====
* Attack of Opportunity
** [Bugfix] Now properly hits stunned units
** [Bugfix] Damage calculation was too high for side hits
* New talent: Subtility
* AI updated

====[[Rune Knight]]====
* Rune Shell
** Mana scaling reduced
** Increased shield's health intelligence scaling
* Imbued Equipment - Hazard Slash's mana scaling reduced
* [Bugfix] Catapulting Rune would throw spell-immune units

====[[Soul Binder]]====
* Soul Strike
** Duration reduced to 6 seconds from 8
** Damage increased
** Mana cost scaling reduced
** Cooldown increased to 20 seconds from 17
** Range increased by 30%
* Incinerate mana cost increased

====[[Tactician]]====
* Order Attack replaced with Take Command
* New Skill: Military Regalia, a result of merging Banner with Great Bow
** Place Banner is now the active ability, replacing Impaling Shot
** Now passively grants the Banner aura with a shorter range, which is temporarily disabled when Place Banner is used
** Passive bonuses reduced
** Place Banner
*** Now has a generic racial powerup from non-elven heroes
**** United Creep: Bloodlusts units
**** Grim Brigade: Slows enemies
**** Fel Horde: Drains enemy's mana
**** Mercenary: Vulnerability, heavily reduces a single enemy units armor for a short time
*** [Bugfix] Mystic Swashbuckler's Mocking Aura would not level past 1
* New Skill: Blast Arrow
** Knocks units back from the center of the targeted area, doing damage and causing a chance to miss for a short period
* Ensnare renamed to Neutralize
** Now also bombards the targeted area dealing damage over time
* Flank
** Reduced time between each spawn to 1 second from 2
* Promote
** Melee promotions given higher damage and armor
** [Bugfix] Melee promotions weren't receiving the proper upgrades

====[[Time Cleric]]====
* [Bugfix] Ebb and Flow's Only Time Can Heal talent rank 1 was always being applied to enemy units, regardless of having the talent or not
* [Bugfix] Forks no longer award experience upon death
* [AI] Merged back into the default AI

====Combos====
===[[United Creeps]]===
====[[Acid Reaver]]====
* Charge cooldown increased to 30 seconds
* Caustic Breath
** Base damage increased
** Damage strength modifier decreased
* [Bugfix] Acid Sheath's damage reduction duration was only being applied at level 1

====[[Arboreal Crusader]]====
* Force of Nature
** Turning speed reduced
** Acceleration reduced
* [Technical] Cure Wound's ability has been changed so that the AI stops autocasting it and wasting it

====[[Colossus]]====
* War Club armor reduction changed to (2 + 0.1 x Level) from 4

====[[Crest Witch]]====
* New hero!
====[[Elder Treant]]====
* Forestlord
** Highwood Pixies should be less prone to all grouping up on a single unit, even when that unit is the only one in range
* Timbercurse
** Mana cost increased
** Duration against heroes reduced to 8 seconds from 30

====[[Grim Hag]]====
* Swoop's impact throwback speed increased, but deceleration significantly increased
* Blade Rain bleed now only lasts 5 seconds, damage scaled similarly

====[[Icespinner]]====
* Chill Sacrifice now only produces a spider web on every third cast
* [AI Bugfix] Wasn't properly using crystal

====[[Master of the Hunt]]====
* Base movement speed increased
* Stalkers are now magic immune while invisible
* Lunge mana cost reduced
* Hamstring
** May now target air units
** Duration increased to 15 seconds from 10
** Movement speed reduction reduced
** Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 16
* Dire Howl
** Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 16
** Miss chance scaling improved for lower levels
** Miss chance duration reduced
** Damage and life steal duration increased to 20 seconds
** Life steal increased to 50% from 30%

====[[Scarab]]====
* Smite's percentage damage now scales up to 30% over its levels
* Retribution now mitigates 90% of damage from non-heroes and 50% from heroes. This is applied before any shielding but after Sacred Bulwark. This damage reduction does not reduce the damage reflected.

===[[Grim Brigade]]===
====[[Ascendant]]====
* Stonegaze
** Effect speed greatly reduced
** Area reduced
** [Bugfix] Petrified heroes were taking higher than intended damage
* Terra Smash
** Duration against heroes reduced by half
** Duration against units reduced to 6 seconds across all levels
** Attack speed reduction increased
** Movement speed reduction now scales from 30% to 50% from 20% to 70%

====[[Behemoth]]====
* Brainlust: Same name, brand new effect!
* Miasma
** Blood fly swarms no longer stack damage
** Corpses will now contribute to miasma for the first 10 seconds of its duration
* Maw of Death
** Reworded tooltip in hopes of clearing up confusion
** Spitting units now deals half damage to structures
** [Bugfix] Can no longer eat ethereal units

====[[Defiler]]====
* Devouring Plague
** Cooldown increased to 60 seconds from 30
** Duration increased to 8 seconds from 6
* Flesh Eating Cloud
** Damage scaling reduced
** Damage radius reduced
* [Bugfix] Exhaustion only applied level 1's stun chance

====[[Forlorn Martyr]]====
* Streak
** Cooldown reduction from leveling reduced to 2 seconds per level from 3
** Chaining range reduced
* Stormspire
** Range for trigging damage reduced
** Cooldown increased to 30 seconds from 15
* Whirl
** Damage reduced
** Agility bonus now capped to the hero's base agility

====[[High Oracle]]====
* Befuddle now decreases evocation damage by 30% across all levels
* Nemesis replaced with Purge Malice
* Mindstab
** Damage bonus reduced to 2% per point of intelligence over the target, from 3%
** Damage bonus now capped at 300%
* Zen Archery
** Damage bonus from Intelligent reduced by half
** [Bugfix] Zen Shot would throw spell-immune units
* [AI Bugfix] Wasn't effectively taking Ki Strike talent

====[[Incarnation]]====
* Attack damage increased
* Dark Altar
** Souls should travel to the altar quicker
** New graphical effect to indicate heals
** Units dying in range of multiple altars will now trigger only one heal instead of one per altar

====[[Nephilim]]====
* Reordered the skill sets
* Blood Mastery
** Adrenaline cooldown decreased to 5 seconds from 7
** Close Wounds no longer uses the rejuvenation buff
** Vampiric Bite
*** Damage increased
*** No longer hits air
*** Mana cost reduced
** Pain
*** Now gains range with higher levels
*** Cooldown incresed to 9 seconds from 7
* Fire Mastery
** Blastwave
*** Damage increased
*** Mana cost reduced
*** Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 6
** Scintilate
*** Immolation damage and range increased by 33%
*** Mana cost reduced
*** [Bugfix] Immolation effect should now properly gain levels
** Conflagrate mana cost reduced
** Scorch
*** Mana cost reduced
*** Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 6
* Shadow Mastery
** Dusklash
*** Cooldown increased to 7 seconds from 4
*** Damage reduced
** Evasion mana cost scaling reduced
** Shadowveil
*** Mana cost increased
*** Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 4
** Spellbind
*** Area reduced
*** Range increases with level
*** Cooldown incresaed to 9 seconds from 4
* War Mastery
** Distract
*** Mana cost removed
*** Cooldown decreased to 1 second from 3
** Plunder
*** [Bugfix] Now removes helpful buffs from the target instead of debuffs
** Retaliate
*** Will now only respond to damage from normal attacks
*** No longer works against structures
*** Damage reduced
*** Duration reduced
** Shred mana cost reduced
** Swipe
*** Mana cost reduced
*** Area of effect increased
* Power Mastery
** Betrayal
*** Duration increased by 3 seconds across all levels
*** Cast range increased
** Execute
*** Damage reduced to reflect values prior to the following bugfix
*** [Bugfix] Damage was improperly receiving the default hero reduction
** Ignis Salvo
*** Mana cost reduced
** Immortal's Breath
*** Mana cost reduced
*** Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds from 60
** Night's Eye
*** Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 15
*** Mana cost significantly reduced

====[[Putrid Eidolon]]====
* [Bugfix] Spore Cloud's evocation damage reduction was not applied properly
* [Bugfix] Rotting Grove's Prolonged Decay talent usually didn't work

====[[Sorrow Liege]]====
* [Bugfix] Forlorn Crown's Aura of Focus evocation damage bonus was not being applied properly
* [Bugfix] Royal Guard's Duty talent was not being applied past level 1

====Combos====

===[[Fel Horde]]===
====[[Crimson Squall]]====
* Mana costs increased
* Surge
** Agility's damage range increased

====[[Glacial Tyrant]]====
* Artic Cataclysm
** Damage reduced
** [Bugfix] Only applied level 1 of the debuff
* [Bugfix] Frigid Blast wasn't giving the intended amount when picked up by Glacial Tyrant

===[[Mercenaries]]===
====[[Blackguard]]====
* Air attack range reduced to 300 from 600
* Fiend
** Cooldown decreased to 120 seconds from 180
** Base armor increased to 15 from 8
* Shadowclap
** Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 11
** New talent: Building Shadows, increases the damage by the delay
* Darkstride
** Agility bonus and duration increased
* Demonic Weapon
** Damage bonus is now based on the lowest health the hero has during the activation

====[[Fire Knight]]====
* Redesigned & now a playable hero!
====[[Stormweaver]]====
* Redesigned & now a playable hero!
====[[Wretched Chef]]====
* New playable & hirable hero!

==[[Units]]==

===[[Fel Horde]]===
* Axe Thrower health reduced to 505 from 565
* Warlock attack speed increased to 2 seconds from 1.85
* Diabloist base damage decreased to 15 from 19

==[[Items]]==
* Gloves of Evocation bonus increased by 50%
* Felskin Gauntlet's cooldown decreased to 45 seconds from 180
* [Bugfix] Storm Hammer upgrade prices were inconsistent
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