Version NY.1

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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.
[Bugfix] Units should now be affected by silence effects.

AI

Various tweaks to skill builds

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.
Maelstrom's mana cost scaling increased to 14 (up from 6)

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

New talent: Stealth Strike which increases the backstab damage of Blitz
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 "+"
Pilfer now heals the hero if he has no inventory space (heal is based on what potion he could get based on Pilfer's level)

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)
[Textfix] Incinerate was listing wrong values for the duration at higher levels.

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.
Ebb and Flow now have movement type flying so that they don't block ground units.

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

Dragonfear's stun duration on heroes reduced to 1 second (down from 2 seconds)

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's bonus damage per Intelligence increased to 2.5% (up from 2%)
Zen Archery's 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
Dark Altar now provides 125% healing if the unit is killed by Incarnation
[AI] Was not levelling Dark Altar
[AI] Now casts Reaper's Boon

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.
Plunder
- Now works on non-hero units, stealing for half the gold
- Mana cost reduced by 16
[Bugfix] Retaliate at Level 1 was giving 20% movespeed
Distract now has scaling: range increases by 120 and area of effect increases by 25
[Bugfix] Scintillate was not levelling up the immolation properly due to a WC3 bug
[Textfix] Life Tap's -s shows the proper value
Ignis Salvo deals physical damage to magic-immune units

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
[Bugfix] Duel now tosses heroes to the center

Scarlet Maiden

[AI] Now uses Maiden Strike outside of ganks

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.
[AI] Now correctly levels Shadowclap

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)
- Duration to cast strikes increased by 3 seconds per level