Version NY.6

General

• Shock Generator
  • Attack range increased to 800
  • Energy cost reduced to 10 (down from 12)
  • Now has fortified armor
  • Sight radius increased to 800 (up from 600)
• Attack Generator
  • Increased sight radius to 800 (up from 600)
• Units that are shelled (ex: Twister) will reappear after 0.5 seconds (up from 0.1)

Perks

• Focus
  • No longer gives bonus max mana
  • Increased mana regeneration to 50% (up from 33%)
  • no longer disrupted by workers

Battlefields

Kedge's Landing

• Moved middle Cannon Tower closer to the south so that Blue's tower captains prioritizes the Sentry Tower

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Arcane Archer

• Familiar
  • No longer gains damage from bonus Intelligence; instead it just gains 50% more Intelligence
  • Level 2 roots no longer has a cooldown decrease of 10 seconds

Blazing Priest

• [Hotkey fix] Alluring Flame talent's hotkey was R instead of T
• Chasten
  • Duration increased to 12 seconds (up from 10)
  • Base damage of physical damage increased to 25/12 (up from 20/10)
• Flame of the Devout
  • Reduced cooldown to 30 seconds (down from 45)
  • Reduced mana cost scaling to 12 (down from 17)
• Firestorm: now has Int scaling, though base damage has been slightly lowered

Divine Wizard

• [Talent] Blessing was inadvertently restoring max mana.
• Holy Strike cooldown increased to 0.9 (up from 0.5)

Infiltrator

• [Talent] Stealth Strike crystal cost is now 8 and 20 for Levels 1 and 2

Mystic Swashbuckler

• [Talent] Sheepstrike duration reduced to 3 seconds (down from 3)
• Mockery cooldown increased to 90 seconds (up from 75)

Rune Knight

• Catapulting Sigil
  • Channeling time reduced to 0.25 seconds per level (down from 0.5)
  • Cooldown changed to 30/-3 (from 45/-4)
  • Mana cost now reduces by 10 per level

Soul Binder

• Decoy
  • No longer has an inventory
  • [AI] The AI will now perceive the Decoy as a threat

Tactician

• Blast Arrow will no longer hit ethereal units

Time Cleric

• Rapid Heal's heal over time is now part of the system heals
• [Talent] Deadline Extension crystal cost increased by 8

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

• Acid Sheath
  • Level 1 cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (down from 45) and still scales to 15 by Level 6
  • Damage reduction on melee attackers reduced to 50% (down from 85%)
• [Talent] Pool of Acid replaced with Acidic Corruption due to graphical lag. This talent reduces the armor of nearby enemies by 0.5 per level of Acid Sheath every second

Arboreal Crusader

• Gale
  • No longer pushes magic immune units
  • Radius reduced to 125 (down from 150)
• Giant Growth
  • The effect now bounces to units of the same type as the target
  • 25% of the health granted will now stack on a unit with Giant Growth
  • Mana cost increased to 45/18 (up from 30/4)

Arcane Mistress

• Necrotic Shot
  • No longer hits ethereal units
  • Mana cost increased by 10, scaling increased to 5 (up from 3)
  • Agility scaling increased to 0.15 (up from 0.1)
• [bugfix] Haunt should no longer be castable on magic immune units
• Wail now shakes the camera!

Colossus

• Reduced cast backswing to 0.8 (down from 2)
• [Talent] Adrenaline removed
• Boulderstorm
  • Duration reduced to a constant 12 seconds (instead of 24/-4)
  • Damage adjusted to do about 1500/750 damage
  • Number of rocks spawned increased by 1 per level
  • Cooldown reduced to 90 instead of 120/-15

Crest Witch

• Tidal Curse
  • [Bugfix] Was using the old duration of 8 seconds to calculate the wave rate instead of 5 seconds, thus resulting in less waves
  • Cast range now increases by 80 per level
  • Cooldown now decreases by 2 seconds per level
  • Tidegoons now have a Frenzy and Avatar ability (not sure if they properly use them though)
  • Mana cost increased by 20 and scaling increased to 10 (up from 5)
• [Talent] Headwaves crystal cost scaling reduced to 1 (down from 2)
• Drown
  • Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds (down from 120)
  • Magic damage reduction per second lowered to 5% (down from 10%)

Dread Shaman

• Bouncing attack
  • Now carries 100% of the damage dealt to the target in addition to the bouncing damage
  • Bouncing damage agility modifier reduced to 0.1 (down from 0.2)
• Totems
  • Cleansing Totem no longer damages shields
  • [Bugfix] Fire Nova Totem was stunning regardless of having the innate active
  • [Talent] Elemental Binding elementals are now considered summoned units
• [Talent] Never to be See Again... crystal cost reduced by 10

Elder Treant

• Eat Tree
  • Heal is now part of the system heal
  • Now heals up to a maximum of 30% max health
• [Talent] Splinter radius increased to 300 (up from 200)
• Timbercurse
  • Duration on heroes changed to 4/1 instead of a constant 8
  • Duration on units changed to 15/3 instead of a constant 30
  • Mana cost reduced to 70/12 (down from 80/23)
• [Bugfix] Mana Willow should now stop when the hero is dead
• [Bugfix] Grove of Eternity should no longer revive units with full health and mana if the tree dies before the units revive

Grim Hag

• Swoop now hurts fliers

Master of the Hunt

• Dream Run now fails upon cast if the hero is disabled

Scarab

• [Talent] Overwhelming Radiance
  • Crystal cost reduced by 2 and scaling reduced to 12 (down from 18)
  • Damage increased to 7.5%/7.5% (up from 5%/5%)
• Retribution
  • [Bugfix] Will no longer get removed by silences
  • Increased duration to 15 seconds (up from 12)
  • Reduced cooldown to 90 seconds (down from 120)

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Sentinels no longer activates on ethereal units
• [Talent] Petrify's threshold for an instant kill has been doubled
• [Talent] Stoneskin crystal cost reduced by 4
• Ravenous Dive
  • Will fail to push enemy heroes that have higher strength
  • Now works and pushes fliers
• Hell's Fury now deals damage based on the unit's distance to the bolt, to a minimum of 25% of the bolt's original damage (not including the building modifier)

Behemoth

• Anchor now fails on ethereal units (also gets removed if the unit becomes ethereal)
• Maw of Death's AoE for spitting
  • Agi scaling reduced to 0.5/0.15 (down from 1/0.25)

Defiler

• Flesh-Eating Cloud is no longer selectable

Emberwraith

• Cinderfury should no longer collide with magic immune or invulnerable units

High Oracle

• Ki Blitz
  • no longer heals full health units
  • -s now reflects Ki Storm and the individual heal
• [Talent] New talent Ki Surge that converts any unused Ki Ball into a negative Ki Ball that hits for 50% of the heal; needs 3 levels of both Ki Strike and Ki Storm
• Zen Shot
  • Now considered magical instead of physical
  • Cooldown now reduces by 3 seconds per level
• Geyser now stuns units for 2 seconds when tossing them

Incarnation

• Reduced cast backswing to 0.8 (down from 1.1)
• Bonestorm's range to raise units reduced to 9999 (down from 99999)

Nephilim

• [Bugfix] False Alliance should no longer reduce the bounty and prevent a crystal reward when used by an AI hero against a human team

Sorrow Liege

• Mortal Strike
  • Strength damage scaling increased to 0.17 (up from 0.15)
• Fatality Aura
  • Range reverted to 900 instead of scaling up from 600
  • Damage scaling by hero level increased to 0.04 (up from 0.03)
• Royal Guards' Vigilance area of detection increased to 300 (up from 150)
• Shadow Bastion
  • Now provides minor healing for allies
  • Mana cost increased by 100
  • Increased cooldown for Shadow Defenses of the level 4 to 0.3 seconds
  • [Talent] Accelerated Summon -> Expedited Delivery
    • Crystal cost scaling reduced to 10

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

• [Textfix] Updated Surge(Str)'s tooltip

Glacial Tyrant

• Arctic Cataclysm radius reduced to 120 (down from 140)

Scarlet Maiden

• Fatal Attraction
  • Cast range increased to 600 (up from 500)
  • mana cost increased by 10
  • Increased base drain against stunned enemies by 5%
• Maiden Strike
  • Cooldown reduced to 12 seconds (down from 15)
  • Stun duration scaling reduced to 0.2 (down from 0.3)
• Mesmerize
  • Armor reduction now includes an intelligence modifier
  • Duration
    • Scaling against heroes reduced to to 0.5 (down from 0.75)
    • On non-heroes, changed to 10/1 (from 8/2)
  • Cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (down from 25)
• Fluster
  • Cooldown reduced to 25 seconds (down from 30)
  • Duration against heroes reduced by 1 second
  • Mana cost scaling increased to 8 (up from 3)

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• Demonic Weapon cooldown reduced to 90 (down from 120)

Fire Knight

• Fire Brandy's heal reverted to old mechanic of healing 30% of missing health at time of cast
• Phoenix Strike
  • Mana cost scaling increased to 12 (up from 8)
  • No longer collides with invulnerable units
• Inferno mana cost scaling increased to 9 (up from 3)
• Flashfire now stops if the hero gets stunned
• Mindburst
  • Added a special effect for when the detonation occurs
  • [Textfix] -s was including an evocation bonus that was not actually used
  • % modifier
    • Now based on agility instead of intelligence
    • Base reduced to 125/15 (down from 150/25)
    • Has a max cap of 300%

Stormweaver

• Elusive Mead mana cost increased to 80 (up from 60)
• Lightning Tether mana cost scaling increased to 19 (up from 13)
• Snowblast
  • Base range has been reverted to 500/40 (previous was 800/200)
  • Mana cost scaling increased to 12 (up from 9)
  • No longer hits invulnerable or magic immune units
• Twister
  • Mana cost scaling increased to 12 (up from 8)
  • Duration scaling reduced to 0.5 seconds (down from 1)
  • Twisters will now try to attack a random enemy unit and prioritize enemy heroes
  • Now has a Chaos attack instead of Magic to reflect that the damage done is Physical
  • Can now attack structures and air units (was already dealing damage to them anyway)
    • Deals 10% of the damage to structures
    • [Bugfix] Should no longer work on passive units like Gloomites
  • Combo with Flashfire
    • [Bugfix] Was hitting heroes multiple times instead of just once
    • Damage is now calculated as 0.5 x Duration of Twister x Damage per seconds (instead of just 2 x Damage per seconds)
  • New talent, Squall which increases the damage radius of Twisters
• Thunderstorm's mana cost increased by 100

Wretched Chef

• Potluck cooldown reduced to 180 (down from 240)

Units

• Workers can now transfer all carried items to a hero with an ability

Neutral

• Cargo Plane can now transfer all carried items to a hero with an ability

Items

Equipment

• Runebreaker
  • Armor decrease duration increased to 8 seconds (up from 5)
  • [Textfix] Changed the buff to reflect it being Runebreaker and not Berserk
• Menderstone will now force the caster to stop if the target is dead
• Experience offhand increased to 30% more experience (up from 20%)
• Dueling Bracer now increases attack damage
• Wallcrackers now work on magic immune buildings
• Bloodsoaked Gauntles
  • Drain now scales by 10% with each temper level
  • Now heals half of the drain on enemy heroes
  • Initial cost lowered by 500 gold (overall cost of tempering remains the same)
• Zealot's Cowl also gives 5 mana upon attacking a non-hero enemy