Version NY.5

General

• Allied hero icons now show up on the left side if an ally hero is within 1200 range of the player's hero
• The minimum attack notification range has been increased to 2000 (up from 1250)
• The selection tooltip now indicates if a hero has a secondary magic attack

Commands

• Added -show command which toggles the display of allied hero icons

Battlefields

Candleburg

• Explosives Laden Zeppelin
  • Should no longer explode on dead buildings
  • Behavior of oscillating between two buildings should be reduced

Kedge's Landing

• Towers now take a minimum of 1 damage
• The middle Sentry Tower has been moved north more
• The period between a tower commander taking control of a tower has been increased to 3 seconds (up from 6)

Gloomreap Mire

• [AI] Digmasters no longer gain the stat benefits from i mode AI
• Invisible enemies will no longer disrupt hiring a Digmaster

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Blazing Priest

• Phoenix Touch
  • Kaboom!
    • Base damage has been reduced by roughly 50%
  • Phoenixes have been changed to Burning Skeleton Mages which are grounded units with lowered movespeed (down to 300 from 320) and a secondary siege attack
  • Burning Bones (the ability that damages melee attackers) now levels up with Phoenix Touch
• [Talent] Fiery Rebirth has been removed

Mystic Swashbuckler

• Fixed AoE enumeration for Dash and Mockery

Rune Knight

• Fixed AoE enumeration for Grand Rune

Tactician

• Banner
  • [Bugfix] Infiltrator's combo was not setting the correct amount of damage

Time Cleric

• Forks no longer have Phase and cannot carry items

United Creeps

Arcane Mistress

• Raise: Skeletons now attack as part of the lane they're in unless they are under the control of the player
• [Talent Bugfix] Afterlife was only boosting the chance to raise units by 2% instead of 4%

Crest Witch

• Tidal Curse is now considered a debuff

Dread Shaman

• Bouncing Attack
  • Damage lowered to 10 + 0.2 x Agi (down from 0.4 x Agi)
  • Extra bounce damage is no longer applied on allied units
  • [Bugfix] Will no longer bounce on invulnerable units
  • [Bugfix] Bounce damage was much lower than intended
• Voodoo Doll
  • The AoE distributed damage from Ancestral Fury now increases by 5% per level
  • Cast range increased to 600 (up from 500)
  • A texttag now displays the target's name to the player and allies
• Expunge
  • [Bugfix] Was not dealing the correct amount of damage with Ancestral Fury
• Cleansing Totem
  • Fixed AoE enumeration
  • [Text] Mentioned that the dispel damages shields

Elder Treant

• Forestlord
  • Reduced cooldown for switching auras to 5 seconds (down from 7.5)
    • Rubber Tree
      • Distance bounced back now scales on Strength
      • Now affects ranged attackers

Grim Hag

• [Talent] Assassin's Talon damage bonus reduced to 10%/10% (down from 15%/15%)
• Blade Rain's base duration reduced to 5/0 (down from 6/1)

Icespinner

• Brain Freeze (Silence) is now considered a debuff
• Fixed AoE enumeration for Frost Spire and Blizzard

Grim Brigade

Behemoth

• [Bugfix] RIPTide duration was not 10 seconds

Defiler

• Reverted Exhaustion to a cast on point spell (it had targeting issues when it was both unit and point)

Forlorn Martyr

• Primary attack can now be used against fliers
• Whirl
  • Mana cost scaling reduced to 2 (down from 12)
  • Can now be cast instantly
  • Agility bonus decreased to 4/1 (down from 6/3)
• Thunderstrike
  • Cooldown reduced to 25 (down from 28)
• Stormspire
  • Mana cost reduced by 10
  • Increased cast range to 300 (up from 250)

Nephilim

• Vampiric Bite now heals for 50% of the damage dealt

Putrid Eidolon

• Infestation
  • The older stump is now removed
  • [Talent] Venomous Bites crystal cost lowered by 5
• Fungal Armor
  • Invulnerable duration is now removed
  • Chance to sleep units changed to 10%/5% (from 5%/8%)
  • Heroes now have half the chance to fall asleep instead of a quarter of the chance
  • Duration of sleep increased
    • Scaling for heroes increased to 0.5 (up from 0.3)
    • Scaling for units increased to 1.5 (up from 1)
• Spore Cloud
  • Removed invisibility
  • Sleep duration on units reduced to 4 seconds (down from 6)
  • Chance to sleep units is now doubled that of heroes
  • Units that are asleep can fall asleep again
  • Now affects fliers
  • Duration of cloud is now kept at 20 + 0.1 x Str instead of scaling up

Sorrow Liege

• Royal Guard
  • Can now attack air
  • Movespeed increased to 330 (up from 290)
• [Talent Bugfix] Gushing Wound was decreasing the healing reduction instead of increasing it

Fel Horde

Scarlet Maiden

• Mesmerize
  • Removed invulnerable duration
• Soulmate
  • There is now a delay for breaking Soulmate when used on an ally

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• Desecrated Corpse is now considered a summoned unit

Stormweaver

• [AI] Hopeful fix to lag from using Thunderstorm (this was introduced by a stupid change on my part)

Wretched Chef

• Feast and Horrifying Stew are now considered summoned units
• Nausea
  • Movespeed reduction decreased by 5%

Units

Elven Battalion

• Druid's Starblast should now longer affect heroes