Next Version

This is a list of planned changes for the next version of Twilight.

General

• Attempting to pick or ban a hero in draft mode during the other team's turn will now give an error message
• [Bugfix] If using draft against only computer players, it will properly skip its the first ban if it is selected to go first
• [Bugfix] Various memory leaks of varying degree
• [Bugfix] The gold bounty reduction for repeated hero kills was permanent unless certain AI heroes were active
• [AI Bugfix] AIs usualy thought teleportation was always on cooldown
• [AI Bugfix] AIs weren't correctly detecting other heroes for spellcasting

Battlefields

Gloomreap Mire

• Moved the Fountains of Health slightly away from the ridges near them so it should not be possible to heal from the top of them
• Summoned units no longer prevent starting a dig

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Mystic Swashbuckler

• [Bugfix] Cluster Bombs no longer hurt allies

Rune Knight

• Sigil of Stunning replaced with Catapulting Sigil
• Imbued Equipment hotkey changed to E from C
• [Bugfix] Talent Mana Residue was reducing magic damage taken to near 0

Time Cleric

• Hotkeys & Icon placement rearranged
• Expire replaced with Echoing Strike
• [Bugfix] When switching between Fork clones, mana was being set to their health value
• [AI Bugfix] Now uses Fork
• [AI Bugfix] Wasn't properly leveling Fork or Ebb and Flow

United Creeps

Dread Shaman

• Ancestral Fury is now the active part of his inniate, while retaining the bouncing attacks
• New ultimate: Twist of Fate

Scarab

• [Bugfix] Lifewave had no per unit limit for healing except on the primary target

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Ravenous Dive
  • No longer does damage while pushing
  • Restores a set amount of health per second while a unit is held
  • Held units take 6% damage per second
  • Held heroes will take a set amount of damage over the duration held
  • Units held will be dropped if the hero teleports to another location
  • Duration for holding units greatly increased
  • Held units now block 75% of damage taken
• Terra Smash
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 10
  • Mana cost scaling reduced
  • Damage increased, but damage distribution more centered
• Stonegaze: Now instantly petrifies (stuns) units in a cone area. Petrified units instantly shatter and die when attacked by a hero, and petrified heroes take 15% of their current health as damage
• Shimmer replaced with Sentinel

Behemoth

• Maw of Death
  • Target radius increased by 20%
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 14
• Miasma
  • To reduce lag, when spawning Bloodflies, there is a 50% chance it will instead increase the damage of all other bloodflies by 10%
  • [Bugfix] Bloodflies will no longer sometimes try to move to locations outside the miasma

Defiler

• Devouring Plague replaces Trap Corpse as the inniate
  • Duration reduced to 6 seconds, but duration is refreshed whenever the target takes damage
  • Also heals the caster of 30% of any damage taken by the target
  • Now classified as an Injury instead of a Debuff
• Pestilence
  • Decreased bounce delay to 0.25 seconds from 0.5
• New Spell: Vile Infusion
• Frailty replaced with Flesh Eating Cloud
• New Talent: Corpse Trap - Creates a Corpse Trap when Pestilence kills a unit

Emberwraith

• Molten Cage
  • Duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4
  • Torture talent bonus damage reduced
• Cauterize replaced with Erupt
• Smolder replaced with Cinderfury
• Flare replaced with Slag Spray
• Pyroclasm
  • No longer channeled
  • Damage reduced
  • Graphical effect changed slightly

High Oracle

• Zen Archery now limits your mana to 25% of maximum while active instead of reducing mana to 0
• Ki Blitz now heals heroes for 150% of the amount it does a normal unit

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

• [Bugfix] -s would display only his Strength stats

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• [AI Bugfix] Will now cast Fiend

Items

• [Bugfix] AI heroes with Glacial Wall would sometimes be able to arbitrarily freeze enemy heroes