Version NY.2

General

• Critical Strikes should never miss the target.

Perks

• Focus Perk's mana regeneration increased to 33%
• Gifted perk awards 2 extra crystal per team hero kill
• [Bugfix] Swift perk could get removed

Commands

• New "-ms" command, shows the movespeed of the unit currently selected
• "-o/-obelisks" now pings the Digmasters and Dig sites.

Battlefields

Stormwail Peak

• Removed trees around the Obelisk on Rock and Inn lane (prevent hiding the Obelisk tower behind trees on Rock's lane)

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

• Hold Person's range reduced to 600 (down from 800)
• Maelstrom's range is now kept constant at 300 across levels

Arcane Archer

• Familiar
  • Abolish Magic removed; now has True Strike at Level 3 and Faerie Fire at Level 2.
  • Feedback's mana drain has been increased against units to 15 (up from 10) and now deals more damage to summoned units (20)
  • Starfall's cooldown reduced to 90 (down from 120)
• Ice Wall's cooldown now decreases with level by 20

Divine Wizard

• Displacement Field
  • Now fails if the unit runs a certain distance from it, 1000/200 units.
  • Cooldown reduction scaling increased to 4 seconds (up from 3)
• Vengeance
  • [Bugfix] Base ability changed to allow targeting on full-health units
  • Now bypasses spell immunity

Infiltrator

• Blitz
  • Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (down from 45)
  • Duration reduced to 15 seconds (down from 180 seconds)
• Elusive Flair
  • Critical strike chance changed to 15%/3% (from 5%/5%)
  • Critical strike multiplier changed to 150%/20% (from constant 200%)
• Cloak of Shadows is only removed if it hasn't triggered in the last second

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

• Charge's stun duration scaling reduced to 0.25 (down from 0.5)

Arboreal Crusader

• Movespeed decreased to 330 (down from 340)
• Tangleweed's root duration reduced by 50%. Damage increased by 100%.

Arcane Mistress

• Mind Fog's movement set to Flying to remove pathing.
• Infernal Binding will no longer stun Undead heroes

Colossus

• Rockslide now hits fliers
• Smash's slow AoE has been reduced by 300.

Crest Witch

• Has forgotten how to swim
• Movespeed decreased to 300 (down from 330)

Dread Shaman

• Spiritwatcher Totem can now be cast at range

Elder Treant

• Eat Tree's healing now takes place over 20 seconds (up from 10)
• Grasping Tree's duration scaling reduced to 0.3 (down from 0.75)
• Forestlord
  • Cooldown reduced to 7.5 seconds (down from 15)
  • Mana Willow should spawn a missile if it restores 1% of the hero's max mana (down from 2%)
  • [Bugfix] Ghoulroot lasts after Elder Treant is dead.
• Grove of Eternity
  • Mana restored is now half of the percentage of health restored (instead of giving back full mana)
  • Movement removed
  • [Bugfix] Reincarnation's delay was 2 seconds instead of 3.

Icespinner

• Movespeed reduced to 300 (down from 320)

Master of the Hunt

• Stalkers
  • Now considered summoned units
  • Movespeed increased to 360 (up from 350)
  • Can now attack fliers
  • Benefits from hero weapon and armor upgrades

Grim Brigade

Behemoth

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

Defiler

• Pestilence
  • Retains damage if it kills a unit (instead of a 93% reduction)
  • Bounces are now calculated from the unit hit instead of the original target position
  • Damage scaling from Intelligence increased to 0.1 (up from 0.05)
• Vile Infusion
  • only removes injuries upon first cast
  • Stops if the target is dead
• Exhaustion
  • Duration changed to 30 seconds on heroes, 60 seconds on non-heroes
  • Stun on heroes reduced to 2 seconds (down from 3 seconds)
  • Attack speed reduction scaling increased to 4% (up from 3%)
  • Movement speed reduction scaling increased to 3% (up from 2%)

Emberwraith

• [Bugfix] Brain Boil was not scaling with level

High Oracle

• Ki Blitz
  • Now heals magic-immune units
  • There is now a chance to heal units with full health
  • Cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (down from 22)

Incarnation

• Movepeed increased to 270 (up from 260)
• Bonestorm
  • Cooldown reduced to 180 (down from 240)
  • Damage of skeletons increased by 3

Nephilim

• Added special effects to various spells
• Close Wounds only removes injuries upon first cast
• Life Tap now caps to the missing mana and takes away that much health accordingly
• [Bugfix] Changed targetting of physical spells to affect magic immune units.
• [Bugfix] Conflagrate would sometimes fail to create trees
• Pain mana cost scaling reduced to 10 (down from 15)
• [Bugfix] Ignis Salvos now fires on the target point instead of the hero's position
• Now has talents!

Putrid Eidolon

• Rotting Grove
  • Armor increases by 3 with each level
  • Cooldown reduced to 120 seconds (down from 150)
  • Attack type changed to normal from Siege
  • Attack damage now increases with level
  • Now has Spell Resistance
  • Explosion now deals 125% damage to heroes (instead of 75%)

Sorrow Liege

• Gushing Wound Talent crystal cost reduced by 5
• Aura of Fatality
  • Now affects magic immune units
  • Level scaling of damage increased to 0.03 (up from 0.02)
• Shadow Bastion
  • Cooldown reduced to 120 seconds (down from 240)
  • Defenses damage increased by 8

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

• Shift Tactics healing reduced to 15% if highest stat changed or to 10% (down from 30% and 20% respectively)
• Crash (STR)
  • Stun duration from Strength reduced to 0.01 (down from 0.02)
  • Stun base duration scaling reduced to 0.25 (down from 0.35)

Glacial Tyrant

• Icy Barrier now deals indirect damage

Scarlet Maiden

• [Bugfix] Was not benefiting from the Focus perk
• Movespeed increased to 320 (up from 310)
• Pathing size changed to default 25.60 (up from 18)
• Now heals 5% from attacking stunned units.
• Sadist
  • Increases the heal by 5% with each level (down from 10%)
  • Crystal cost reduced by 5.
• Mesmerize
  • Cooldown is now 25 seconds across all levels
  • Affects units that aren't visible to her
  • Range scaling reduced
    • Base is 40 (down from 85)
    • Strength modifier is 0.1 (down from 0.2)
  • Duration on heroes reduced by 2 seconds
  • Duration on non-heroes reduced by 1 second. Duration scaling reduced to 2 seconds (down from 3)
• Soulmate's attribute reduction duration scaling increased to 2 seconds (up from 1 second)

Mercenaries

Fire Knight

• Fire Brandy only removes injuries upon first cast
• Phoenix Strike's speed increased to 800 (up from 600)
• Mindburst
  • Enemy heroes now suffer the full damage
  • Allied heroes with unused mana will deal damage to those around them

Stormweaver

• Lightning Tether's range scaling reduced
  • Base range to 50 (down from 100)
  • Agi modifier down to 0.1 (down from 0.2)
• Healing Rain only removes injuries around the hero upon first cast
• Snowblast's freeze on heroes reduced to 2 seconds (down from 4 seconds)

Wretched Chef

• Nausea's chance to stun while moving reduced to 20% (down from 25%)

Items

Equipment

• Amulet of Detection
  • Added a cooldown of 5 seconds
  • Mana cost increased to 50 (up from 20)
  • Area of effect reduced to 800 (down from 1000)
• Guiding Gloves allow the wielder to never miss
• [Bugfix] Wallcrackers should not toss structures.
• Menderstone only removes injuries upon first cast.