Version NY.1

A branch beginning from the official version (v. 1.17b2)

General

• Arcane Wagon has Spell Immunity
• Defense Generator's repair rate reduced to 12 (down from 16)
• Itemhozing (Black Globe and Frozen Treasure) should now always itemhoze a random valid item.

AI

• Various tweaks to skill builds of different heroes

Battlefields

Stormwail Peak

• The left cliff in Blue's base is no longer buildable.

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

• [Bugfix] Hold Person was dealing reduced damage to heroes.

Arcane Archer

• Meteor Swarm now stuns fliers
• Familiar
  • Now takes magical damage from Familiar's death. Also takes full damage from it.
  • [Textfix] Tooltip updated with abilities that the Familiar learns.

Divine Wizard

• Holy Strike base damage scaling reduced to 30 (down from 40)

Infiltrator

• Attack of Opportunity
  • Randomness has been removed.
  • Damage has been adjusted:
    • Base damage scaling reduced to 48 (down from 80)
    • Agility modifier decreased to 1.5/0.5 (down from 1.9/0.7)
• Smoke Cloud
  • Miss chance scaling changed to 50%/8% (previous was 15%/15%).
  • Duration scales as 4/2.4 seconds (changed from a constant duration of 16 seconds).
  • [Textfix]Tooltip updated to remove ranged units

Mystic Swashbuckler

• Pilfer mana cost decreased to 40/10 (down from 80/20).
• [Textfix] Demoralizing Blow -s displayed a "+"

Rune Knight

• Catapulting Sigil had distance scaling changed to 200. (Prior distances were 600, 1000, 1600, 2500, 4500, 7000) Toss time has been adjusted accordingly.

Soul Binder

• Now starts with full mana
• Soul Strike:
  • Base damage changed to 25/13 (up from 20/10)
  • Intelligence modifier changed to 0.25/0.07 (up from 0.2/0.05)

Tactician

• Neutralize now damages fliers

Time Cleric

• Degeneration
  • Mana cost scaling decreased to 11 (down from 18)
  • Base damage scaling increased to 10 (up from 8)
• [AI] Forks now suffer 0.25% of their max health in damage per second.

United Creeps

Arcane Mistress

• Infernal Binding's base damage has been reduced to 60/20 (down from 83/22)

Crest Witch

• Tidal Curse
  • Waves reduced to 12 (down from 16)
  • Duration reduced to 5 seconds (down from 8)

Dread Shaman

• Spiritwatcher Totem now gives unrestricted sight

Grim Hag

• Moving evasion reduced to 30%

Icespinner

• Chill Sacrifice's healing reduced to 10% (down from 15%)
• Brain Freeze's range has been reduced to 800 and now scales by 80 (changed from constant 1200)

Scarab

• Retribution
  • [Bugfix] Correctly removes special effect upon being silenced
  • [Textfix] Tooltip states constant duration

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Sentinel
  • Evasion while flying reduced to 40% (down from 60%)

Defiler

• [Bugfix] Devouring Plague's buff has been changed to address the bug of the debuff going away before killing the hero (previous bug was based on Spirit Link)
• Pestilence mana cost scaling reduced to 11 (down from 21)

High Oracle

• Now plays a sound when picked
• Ki Blitz
  • Mana cost reduced by 20.
  • The crystal cost of talents (Ki Storm and Ki Strike) has been reduced to 10/12/14 (down from 12/16/20)
  • [Bugfix] Priority code was changed to make it correctly prioritize wounded units
• Mindstab bonus damage per Intelligence increased to 2.5% (up from 2%)
• Zen Shot attack damage per Intelligence increased to (22.5%/10.5%) up from (15%, 7%)

Incarnation

• [Bugfix] Removed slight pause from Reaper's Boon
• Rend Soul's cooldown decreased by 3 seconds

Nephilim

• False Alliance
  • Now lasts for 4 seconds
  • No longer removed upon damage
  • Cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (down from 60)
• Scorch, Duskslash, Vampiric Bite, and Pain now deal 100% damage to heroes.

 A side effect is that these spells now deal increased damage to non-hero units, can remove this if too strong.

• Plunder
  • Now works on non-hero units, stealing for half the gold
  • Mana cost reduced by 16
• [Bugfix] Scintillate was not levelling up Permanent Immolation due to WC3 bug

Sorrow Liege

• Now plays a sound when picked
• Aura of Fatality
  • Now deals indirect damage
  • [Bugfix] Changed buff as old buff based on Thorns Aura caused retaliation damage
  • [Bugfix] Buff AoE was showing 600 when it was actually 900.

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

• Crash's casting now fails if the hero is disabled

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• [Bugfix] Unwilling Sacrifice when used on the Skeleton was taking the maximum of 30% of the skeleton's max life or the skeleton's current life instead of taking the minimum.

Fire Knight

• Flashfire's casting now fails if the hero is disabled

Stormweaver

• Movement speed lowered to 300 (down from 320)
• Elusive Mead can no longer blink while disabled
• Snowblast
  • Delay between blasts increased to 0.5 (up from 0.25)
  • Duration to shoot increased to 9 seconds(up from 6)
• Thunderstorm
  • Damage scaling reduced
    • Base damage is 15 (down from 30)
    • Intelligence Modifier is 0.05 (down from 0.15)

Units

Grim Brigade

• Necromancer's Death and Decay upgrade no longer affects heroes

Items

• Fixed Offhands hotkey

Equipment

• Mindgem's Sleep duration reduced to 3 seconds (down from 4). Range reduced to 300 (down from 500).