Version NY.4

General

• Spells should now more accurately reflect their AoE.
• Item of Upgrade Instructions is no longer given
• The default camera zoom is now 2000.
• [Bugfix] Certain mercenary heroes had their armor increase by 8 instead of the standard 10 from Hero Armor (Blackguard and his Fiend, Fire Knight, and Stormweaver)
• [Bugfix] Units that were temporarily transformed into other units would cease to spawn
• Take Charge
  • No longer has a distance requirement that breaks Take Charge if the hero gets too far away from the units
  • Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (down from 60)
  • Mana cost removed

Perks

• Almighty now grants an extra +1 to all stats every 5 levels
• Bounty Hunter additional effect: If the hero is near a dying enemy hero (900 range) and isn't the killer, the player will gain 100 gold.
• Focus additional effect: If the hero is not near any visible enemy attacker (1200 range), the hero will regenerate 1% of its max mana per second
• Insight experience bonus increased to 17.5% (up from 15%)

AI

• Hopeful fix to some of the AI failing to cast point spells

Commands

• -s states the charges for Orb of Falling Ash

Battlefields

Stormwail Peak

• Rockin' Arthas now gains 60 hit points per level of the hero who bought him (up from 30)

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

• Soar cooldown reduced to 4 seconds (down from 5)
• Maelstrom: Heroes get pushed at 50% of the speed of tornadoes

Arcane Archer

• Gained a secondary magic attack
• Owl Scouts should no longer run away (would get scared off by getting "damaged" although it wouldn't hurt them)
• Familiar
  • Recasting while Familiar is alive will now heal part of the Familiar's max health and compensate half of the mana cost
  • Now has a secondary magic attack
• Ice Wall
  • cooldown reduced by 60 seconds
  • Removed cooldown reduction from level scaling (from prior version)
  • Now slows down enemies who are near the ice walls when they are created

Divine Wizard

• Empower
  • Duration now increases by 1 second for each level
  • AoE now increases by 100 for each level
  • Evocation boost
    • Base reduced by 3%
  • Scaling reduced to 3% (down from 6%)
  • Mana cost increased
    • Base increased by 15
    • Scaling increased to 12 (up from 6)

Rune Knight

• Siphon Glyph
  • AoE reduced to 325 (down from 400)
  • Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (up from 12)
• Hazard Slash
  • Cooldown decreased to 30 seconds (down from 35)

Soul Binder

• [Bugfix] Decoy should now activate when the spell takes effect instead of waiting for the spell to finish

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

• Acid Sheath cooldown reduced by 15 seconds
• Pool of Acid talent
  • Reduced crystal cost by 6
  • Crystal cost scaling reduced to 10 (down from 11)
  • [Bugfix] Acid Pool was not using the right level of Acid Sheath for its duration
  • [Bugfix] Also was not levelling the ability correctly due to the Warcraft 3 bug with Permanent Immolation
• Charge
  • Stun duration scaling reduced to 0.1 (down from 0.25)
  • [Talent] Trample crystal cost increased by 3
• Storm of Malice
  • Now deals damage to magic immune units

Arboreal Crusader

• [Talent] Ultravision crystal cost reduced by 2
• Geomancy
  • Bog Gas
    • Sleep duration scaling increased
    • on heroes up to 1 (up from 0.5)
    • on units, up to 2 (up from 1)
  • Sunburn
    • Armor decrease scaling increased to 3 (up from 2)

Dread Shaman

• Bouncing attack is now triggered and deals damage based on his Agility
• [Talent] Relentless crystal cost reduced by 10
• Ancestral Fury
  • Duration reduced to 15 seconds (down from 20)
  • Cooldown reduced to 60 seconds (down from 120)
  • Mana cost reduced to 80 (down from 120)
  • Movespeed boost increased to 10% (up from 5%)
  • [Text] Moved the Ancestral Fury combo effects to the learn tooltip of each spells.

Elder Treant

• Timbercurse manually removes the buffs that it conflicts with (Glyph of Fortification, Heart of Mountain, Kindle Faith, Dire Howl)

Grim Hag

• Swoop
  • Collision increased to 100 (up from 30)
  • Issuing point/target orders should no longer artificially shorten Swoop's duration if it doesn't get spammed
• Featherfall
  • now stuns fliers
  • Delay before strike occurs reduced to 1.5 seconds (down from 2)
• Blade Rain
  • Blade Rain now deals damage to magic immune units within the area
  • [Bugfix] Bleed duration was 9 seconds instead of 5
  • Duration of rain
    • Base duration now increases by 1 for each level
    • Int modifier increased by 0.05
  • [Talent]Blood Tears crystal cost reduced by 7

Icespinner

• Ice Lance:
  • Damage is now spread over an increased duration of 20 seconds (up from 15 seconds)
  • Attack rate slow has been decreased
    • Base reduction decreased by 5%
    • Scaling reduced to 5% (down from 8%)
  • [Talent] Icy Blast toss now occurs at cast instead of afterwards
• Glaciate
  • Number of illusions decreased to 3 (down from 4)
  • Illusions damage dealt changed to 10%/13% (from 0%/15%)
  • Damage taken multiiplier remains constant at 200% (instead of decreasing by 20%)
  • Animation delay reduced to 0.25 (down from 0.5)
• [AI Bugfix] Would give webs with 0 charges if the AI was surrounded by multiple allied heroes

Master of the Hunt

• Dire Howl
  • mana cost reduced
    • base decreased by 10
    • scaling changed to 6 (down from 10)
• Hamstring: mana cost scaling reduced to 7 (down from 12)
• Dream Run: Base ability has been changed for the AI
• [Talent] Dream Run's instant blink crystal cost reduced by 5

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Ravenous Dive should no longer have its duration extended by other stuns

Behemoth

• [Bugfix] Anchor Toss talent now works

High Oracle

• Ki Blitz
  • [Talents] Ki Strike and Ki Storm go up to level 5 (up from level 3)
  • [Talent] Ki Strike no longer targets invulnerable units
• Purge Malice
  • Damage taken multiplier for illusions reverted (increased by 50%)
  • No longer affects fliers (the Pacify ability cannot pacify fliers)
  • Mana cost increased by 15
  • Mana cost scaling increased to 12 (up from 6)

Incarnation

• Rend Soul
  • Now a deathblow against heroes
  • AoE from Mark of Reaper now increases by 30 per level, up to 350
• Gravebind's skeletons with Mark of Reaper are now magic-immune
• New talent, Closer to Death, which increases the chance for Mark of Reaper when the target has more missing life

Nephilim

• Lots of changes no one cares about.

Putrid Eidolon

• Spore Cloud invisibility fade duration increased to 4 seconds (up from 3)

Sorrow Liege

• [Bugfix] The special effect from the combo of Thunderstrike and Mortal Strike should now properly be removed when used.
• [Bugfix] Royal Guard: Should no longer consider Royal Guard illusions from Purge Malice to be a Royal Guard
• Forlorn Crown
  • Aura of Focus evocation bonus reduced by 10%
  • Aura of Fatality
    • base damage scaling is now 1 (up from 0.5)
    • area reduced to 600 and now scales up to the original 900
  • [Bugfix] Aura of Warding was most likely broken and stayed at Level 1
• Despair
  • Mana cost scaling reduced to 4 (down from 9
  • Cooldown now decreases by 2 seconds per level
  • Duration scaling has been halved
  • [Talents] Panic and Paralyzing Terror now affect speed by a percentage instead of a constant value
• Shadow Bastion
  • Defenses
    • now damages mechanical units
    • Area expanded to 600 (up from 550)

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

• Surge (Str)'s Cleave is now triggered and deals damage based on his Strength

Scarlet Maiden

• Mesmerize's base range scaling increased to 30 (up from 20)

Mercenaries

Fire Knight

• Flashfire - When Fire Knight is hit by an ally Stormweaver's Twister, Flashfire deals damage to enemies on his next use

Items

Equipment

• Runebreaker
  • Effect no longer works on magic immune units (Cause of Arcane Wagon speedup bug)
  • Armor decrease duration increased to 5 seconds (up from 4)
• Blooming Wreath now has a radius of flowers showing its range