Version 1.13d

Version 1.13d7

• Includes all changes from 1.13d1 to 1.13d7

General

• Hero bounties now scale from a base of 200 up to 600 at level 25
• Experience bonus for killing a higher leveled hero now only applies to kills of human controlled heroes
• Fixed a bunch of typos
• Most heroes have a new AI
  • Tavern purchased heroes haven't been upgraded yet
  • AI is still missing a few key features so there may be interesting side effects (particularly on full teams of AIs)
  • If an AI hero is doing something particularly odd, type '-debug', select the hero, take note of what the output spam is, then please post a bug report describing the behavior and text displayed
• Computer AI difficulty now has an effect
  • Insane: Gets 50% bonus experience and purchases items at 40% of cost
  • Normal: Gets 25% bonus experience and purchases items at 70% of cost
  • Easy: No bonuses
  • Players who left the game: No bonuses

Commands

• New command: -observe, allows a player to watch the game without having a hero
  • Note: Must be used before selecting or previewing a hero in the tavern
• HCL Support for GHost bots, options
  • Forced map selection
    • 1: Stormwail Peak
    • 2: Gloomreap Mire
    • 3: Kedge's Landing
    • 4: Candleburg
    • 5: Verdant Falls
  • K: Full Skills
  • D: Locks game to default settings (commands to change spawn rates, etc. can't be used)

Battlefields

Kedge's Landing

• Reduced the rate at which tears produce additional tower cores

Stormwail Peak

• Ancient of Wonders relocated into the main bases

Verdant Falls

• Increased the time between the warning and the start of the Font battles to 20 seconds from 15
• Added text saying who won after a Font battle
• Added text indicating what a Font battle is for low/no rank players

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

• Mana Rush is the new inniate spell, replacing Aiding Winds
• New Spell: Soar
• Mana Storm remade

Blazing Priest

• Inniate Blazing Hammer upgraded to have an active spell, Ignite
• Backfire replaced with Chasten

Divine Wizard

• Empower
  • Mana cost reduced
  • Self-only damage component is now based on Intelligence
  • [Bugfix] Blessing talent was non-functional
• Spellshift replaced with Displacement Field

Mystic Swashbuckler

• Flurry has been improved to include an active skill Evasion

Soul Binder

• Switched Decoy and Mend's hotkeys & icon placement
• May now use the decoy cast Entrap Souls, Mend, Incinerate, and Soul Strike
  • Ability levels are limited to level of decoy
  • Incinerate & Soul Strike use up the hero's mana, Entrap Souls will grant mana to the Hero
  • Mend will NOT consume the hero's mana or heal the primary hero
• Rend upgraded/replaced with Carnage

Tactician

• [Bugfix] Promoted Archers couldn't attack when Exploding Arrows was researched

Time Cleric

• Ebb upgraded to Ebb and Flow
• Echo replaced with Fork
• Degenerate now has a graphic, for the caster only, showing the outer border

Combos

• New: Casting Tempest while under the effects of Flow will increase the speed waves appear

United Creeps

Arcane Mistress

• [Bugfix] Restlessness will no longer sometimes continue raising units when the hero is dead

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Terra Smash - Changed how it's scaling in various ways

Behemoth

• Anchor
  • [Bugfix] The maximum slow rate was being improperly computed (units could actually move faster at higher levels)
  • Dragging speed has been reduced (so you can actually outrun it now)
  • A target with more Strength than the Behemoth will have increased flexibility with the chain
  • Model size increased by 33%
  • Is now a priority target for the AI
• R.I.P.tide
  • Zombie explosion damage range reduced from 200 to 150
  • Zombies will no longer explode untill they have completed their unburrow animation (takes 2.33 seconds)
  • Unburrowing zombies will not be killed by exploding zombies
  • Zombie explosion damage significantly reduced

Fel Horde

Glacial Tyrant

• After casting Shatter the hero will automatically attack the target

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• After casting Doom Hammer the hero will automatically attack the target if they are in close range
• Shadowclap Strength modifier reduced
• Doom Hammer base damage reduced
• Unwilling Sacrifice cooldown increased
• Fiend
  • Cooldown increased to 180 seconds from 90
  • Casting it while the Fiend is alive will fully heal it, up from a 25% heal
• [Bugfix] Casting Unwilling Sacrifice on the Fiend will no longer return more health than the Fiend has

Units

Elven Battalion

• [Bugfix] Upgrade Faerie Dust fixed

Items

• Potion of Greater Healing now restores 25% of maximum health, up to a maximum of 500