Version NY.3

General

• New shop page that allows access to the Goblin Laboratory.
• Mending Generator's heal cast range reduced to avoid wasting the heal.
• Kills from red or blue player should now tell how they split the bounty
• [Bugfix] Outposts should correctly detect dead heroes
• [Bugfix] Possible bugfix for movespeed glitch when heroes are polymorphed

Perks

• [Bugfix] Gifted would grant extra crystal from kills in Verdant Falls

AI

• Heroes owned by red or blue should now be able to cast their barrage-type spells. Ex: Stormweaver's Thunderstorm.
• Evocation-based heroes now take Evoker perk

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

• Hold Person's base damage reduced by 10

Arcane Archer

• [Bugfix] Did not add True Strike to Familiar

Blazing Priest

• Chasten
  • Now affects fliers
  • [Bugfix] Base physical damage now matches tooltip
  • Base physical damage increased by 5
  • Hot Pursuit now doesn't factor in the hero's strength to work
• Firestorm's cooldown reduces by 20 seconds per level

Infiltrator

• Blitz's duration increased to 20 seconds (up from 15)
• Attack of Opportunity
  • Now hurts fliers
  • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds (down from 11)
  • [Talent] Stealth Strike changed to now grant invisibility after a successful use of Attack of Opportunity
• Explosives
  • Now hurts fliers
  • Casting time reduced by 0.1 seconds for each level
  • Now explodes within 2 seconds instead of 2.5 seconds (0.5 seconds was due to the delay)
  • Short Fuse talent reduces the delay by 0.2 seconds (up from 0.1)
• Elusive Flair
  • Cooldown reduced by 15 seconds
  • Range scaling reduced to 100 (down from 150)
  • Invisibility duration increased by 0.5 seconds
• Smoke Cloud
  • Now slows enemies by 25%
  • Cooldown now decreases with level by 1.8 seconds
  • Duration scaling of cloud changed to 1 second (down from 2.4)
  • Miss chance scaling decreased to 5% (down from 8%)
  • Mana cost scaling reduced to 6 (down from 12)
  • Concussion talent now makes the slow stronger

Mystic Swashbuckler

• Demoralizing Blow
  • now has a delayed attack
  • Sheepstrike crystal cost reduced by 6
• Dash
  • Now hurts fliers
  • Speed increases with level

Rune Knight

• Siphon Glyph
  • Drains mana faster at 0.1 seconds instead of 1 second
  • Deals 100% damage to heroes (instead of 75%)
  • Area increased to 400 (up from 325)
  • Glyph is now created closer to the target
  • Now comboes with Chasten
• Catapulting Sigil cooldown decreases by 5 seconds for each level (up from 4)

Soul Binder

• Vehement's Grasp now grants bonus area
• Soul Strike now has a mini-stun of 0.1 seconds on each missile
• [Bugfix] Decoy's Soul Strike was never using the original hero to calculate damage
• Decoy now dies if the hero ports

Tactician

• Neutralize
  • Area is now a constant 250 across levels (changed from 200/30)
  • Duration on heroes reduced to 2/0.4 (down from 3/0.6)

Time Cleric

• Echoing Strike
  • Now affects fliers
  • Echo damage is now physical based
  • Duration changed to 4 seconds (from 3/1)
  • [AI] Forks now lose 0.5% of their max health per second (up from 0.33%)

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

• Feeds on Fear no longer removes injuries
• Acid Sheath only debuffs attacks
• Impale
  • Stun duration on heroes reduced to 1 second (down from 1.5)
  • No longer works on ethereal units

Arcane Mistress

• Infernal Binding
  • Cooldown increased to 18 seconds (up from 15)
  • range reduced to 500 (down from 600)
• Mind Fog
  • Casting range increased to 400 (up from 300)
  • Casting range now increases by 50 with each level
• Haunt: Number of wraiths when cast on units increased to 4/4 (up from 3/3)
• Wail
  • Now can kill magic immune units
  • Uses the built-in stun system

Colossus

• Boulderstorm's cooldown now decreases by 15 per level

Dread Shaman

• Twist of Fate's cooldown reduction decreased to 10 seconds (down from 20)

Elder Treant

• Grasping Tree
  • Can now affect fliers
  • Ranged reduced to 600 (down from 700)
• Taunting Treants
  • Thorns now constantly return 40% damage to melee attackers instead of scaling
  • Regeneration rate cut by 50%
  • Duration cut in half to 150 seconds
  • [Bugfix] Splinter was calculated on lower mana costs

Grim Hag

• Blade Rain's casting range reduced to constant 200
• Chaos Rift now hurts magic immune units

Icespinner

• Chill Sacrifice now grants a web for first use

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Sentinel
  • now affects fliers
  • Stun duration reduced to 2.5 seconds (down from 3)
• Terra Smash hurts fliers
• Ravenous Dive
  • Uses the stun system
  • Now ends when the target is no longer stunned instead of a specific stun buff
  • Casting range is now infinite
• [Bugfix] Units should now be able to cast the spells they gained from Aberration (Hurl Boulder and Stomp)

Behemoth

• High Tide forces affected enemies to stop
• R.I.P. tide's duration to create zombies increased to 10 seconds (up from 6)

Defiler

• Exhaustion can affect units that are not visible
• Trap Corpse now stores the damage taken instead of the attempted damage
• Flesh-Eating Cloud now moves to the caster if out of range and the caster has no enemies around him

Emberwraith

• Cast point reduced to 0.4
• Torture now deals 100% damage of the repeated damage to heroes instead of 75%
• Cinderfury now affects fliers
• Burning Embers (talent that restores mana based on killing units with Cinderfury) now restores a percentage of max mana instead of a constant mana point

Forlorn Martyr

• Discharge now deals full damage to heroes
• [Bugfix] Ion Surge was not dealing the correct damage to heroes
• Stormspire
  • Cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (down from 30)
  • Casting range reduced by 50%

High Oracle

• Cast point reduced to 0.4
• Clairvoyance cooldown reduced to 10 seconds (down from 20)
• Ki Blitz
  • No longer heals neutral passive units
  • Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (down from 20)

Incarnation

• Bonestorm
  • Skeletons now benefit from weapon and armor upgrades
  • Initial area to raise skeletons increased to 800 (up from 600)
  • The initial area to create skeletons is now part of the limit in summoning skeletons

Nephilim

• Lots of different adjustments to improve the scaling of his spells, such as increased modifiers from stats. Notable changes are listed below
• Shred, Swipe, Vampiric Bite, and Execute now affect fliers
• All spells in Shadow Mastery have their cooldown slightly reduced over the levels. Other spells that place buffs have similar reductions in cooldown with scaling
• Evasion is now a weaker effect of constant 15% evasion as it has become a group buff
• Shadowveil
  • Duration reduced to constant 10 seconds
  • Grants bonus movespeed of 5%/5%
  • Cooldown reduced to 4 seconds (down from 8)
• Black Globe's armor debuff lasts 30 seconds on heroes
• Scorch
  • Now deals 1/3 of the damage and the rest of the damage over 8 seconds
  • Range improved to 700 (up from 600)
  • Damage increased
• Blastwave
  • slow on heroes increased to 3 seconds (up from 2)
  • Damage ratio based on distance from Nephilim is now 60% minimum (up from 50%)
• Conflagrate
  • Treants now last 60 seconds
  • Hit points of Treants increased and hit point regeneration added
  • Attack damage type of Treants changed to Siege and attack damage lowered
• Close Wounds
  • Healing is now a constant 4 seconds and the overall heal has been weakened
  • Cooldown reduced to 4 seconds (down from 7)
• Night's Eye has been switched with Ignis Salvo
• Ignis Salvo
  • Now prioritizes heroes and structures
  • Cooldown reduced to 40 seconds (down from 50)

Putrid Eidolon

• Entangling Seed
  • Root duration on heroes reduced by 0.5 seconds
  • Sprouting talent now halves the level of the recurring seed instead of just decrementing by 1
• Rotting Grove
  • attack type changed back to Siege attack type (and lowered damage)
  • explosion now deals 100% damage to heroes (down from 125%)

Sorrow Liege

• Mortal Strike now affects fliers

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

• Dominant Blow (Intelligence)
  • The initial blow is now considered physical damage
  • Damage over time now deals full damage to heroes
• Surge (Agility)
  • Base duration increased by 3 seconds
  • Scaling of duration increased to 2 seconds (up from 1)
  • Strength modifier of duration now has a scaling of 0.01
  • Now hurts magic immune units and fliers
• Crash (Agility) now hurts magic immune units

Glacial Tyrant

• Casting point reduced to 0.4

Scarlet Maiden

• Maiden Strike now orders the hero to attack the target after the spell is done
• Mesmerize
  • Base range scaling decreased to 20 (down from 40)
  • No longer has range scaling from Strength

Mercenaries

Stormweaver

• Tether's range scaling from Agility is removed
• Healing Rain
  • Base heal reduced to 200 (down from 300)
  • Strength modifier reduced to 2 (down from 3)
  • Cooldown decreased to 30 seconds (down from 45)
• [bugfix] Snowblast's delay should work correctly now

Wretched Chef

• Blooddrinker talent no longer requires Level 40

Units

Fel Horde

• Fixed Wardrummer's Devour working on enemy heroes

Items

Equipment

• Runebreaker
  • shield break increased by 50%
  • cooldown of attack speed boost reduced to 30 seconds (down from 45)
• Tombstone's slow cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (down from 60)
• Dragonsteel Curiass
  • Stun duration reduced by 35% (up from 25%)
  • Now gives Strength instead of hit points
  • Armor bonus has been decreased