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

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