Version 1.14b

Version 1.14b9

Includes all changes since 1.14b1

General

• Attempting to pick or ban a hero in draft mode during the other team's turn will now give an error message
• Walking over/near certain items will automatically pick them up
• [Bugfix] If using draft against only computer players, it will properly skip its the first ban if it is selected to go first
• [Bugfix] Various memory leaks of varying degree
• [Bugfix] The gold bounty reduction for repeated hero kills was permanent unless certain AI heroes were active
• [AI Bugfix] AIs usualy thought teleportation was always on cooldown
• [AI Bugfix] AIs weren't correctly detecting other heroes for spellcasting

Commands

• New command '-notips' (shortcut: '-nt') which disables display of tips

Battlefields

Kedge's Landing

• Changed the structures around the shrine to make pathing in the area easier
  • Note: This messes up shadows in that area, which will be fixed in a future version
• [Bugfix] The Moontear spawn warning will no longer occur after the game has ended

Gloomreap Mire

• Moved the Fountains of Health slightly away from the ridges near them so it should not be possible to heal from the top of them
• Summoned units no longer prevent starting a dig

Stormwail Peak

• Some minor terrain beautification for some particularly ugly spots

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

• Mana Storm's graphic changed, should be far more transparent
• [Bugfix] Tempest's graphic should always appear now

Arcane Archer

• Ethereal Healing
  • Cooldown greatly increased, now decreases with level
  • Mana cost greatly increased, now decreases with level
  • Healing values are a flat (9 x Int)

Mystic Swashbuckler

• [Bugfix] Cluster Bombs no longer hurt allies

Rune Knight

• Sigil of Stunning replaced with Catapulting Sigil
• Imbued Equipment hotkey changed to E from C
• [Bugfix] Talent Mana Residue was reducing magic damage taken to near 0

Time Cleric

• Hotkeys & Icon placement rearranged
• Expire replaced with Echoing Strike
• Rapid Healing
  • Initial healing amount reduced
  • Heal over time amount increased
  • Mana cost increased
  • Cooldown increased to 15 seconds from 14
• [Bugfix] When switching between Fork clones, mana was being set to their health value
• [AI Bugfix] Now uses Fork
• [AI Bugfix] Wasn't properly leveling Fork or Ebb and Flow

United Creeps

Arboreal Crusader

• Agility gain per level increased to 2 from 1.65
• Intelligence gain per level increased to 2.2 from 1.85
• Cure Wounds
  • Cooldown greatly increased, now decreases with level
  • Mana cost greatly increased, now decreases with level
  • Range greatly increased
  • Healing values are a flat (9 x Int)
  • Healing done is now reduced based on distance to target
  • Talent Propitiate increased in cost
  • Now instantly heals when used on herself
• Gale
  • Damage loss per unit hit removed
  • Talent Sustaining Winds removed

Dread Shaman

• Ancestral Fury is now the active part of his inniate, while retaining the bouncing attacks
• New ultimate: Twist of Fate

Scarab

• Lifewave
  • Targeted units no longer receive an instant/guarunteed heal
  • [Bugfix] Had no per unit limit for healing except on the primary target

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Ravenous Dive
  • No longer does damage while pushing
  • Restores a set amount of health per second while a unit is held
  • Held units take 6% damage per second
  • Held heroes will take a set amount of damage over the duration held
  • Units held will be dropped if the hero teleports to another location
  • Duration for holding units greatly increased
  • Held units now block 75% of damage taken
• Terra Smash
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 10
  • Mana cost scaling reduced
  • Damage increased, but damage distribution more centered
• Stonegaze: Now instantly petrifies (stuns) units in a cone area. Petrified units instantly shatter and die when attacked by a hero, and petrified heroes take 15% of their current health as damage
  • New talent: Stoneskin
• Shimmer replaced with Sentinel

Behemoth

• Maw of Death
  • Target radius increased by 20%
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 14
• Miasma
  • To reduce lag, when spawning Bloodflies, there is a 50% chance it will instead increase the damage of all other bloodflies by 10%
  • [Bugfix] Bloodflies will no longer sometimes try to move to locations outside the miasma
• Anchor
  • Increased chance for it to pull heroes back
• R.I.P.tide
  • New talent: Stability

Defiler

• Devouring Plague replaces Trap Corpse as the inniate
  • Duration reduced to 6 seconds, but duration is refreshed whenever the target takes damage
  • Also heals the caster of 30% of any damage taken by the target
  • Now classified as an Injury instead of a Debuff
• Pestilence
  • Decreased bounce delay to 0.25 seconds from 0.5
  • New Talent: Corpse Trap - Creates a Corpse Trap when Pestilence kills a unit
• New Spell: Vile Infusion
• Frailty replaced with Flesh Eating Cloud

Emberwraith

• Molten Cage
  • Duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4
  • Torture talent bonus damage reduced
• Cauterize replaced with Erupt
• Smolder replaced with Cinderfury
• Flare replaced with Slag Spray
• Pyroclasm
  • No longer channeled
  • Damage reduced
  • Graphical effect changed slightly

Forlorn Martyr

• Static Charge
  • Now only discharges against hero attacks
  • Attacking now adds to the static charge
• Streak is now the new ultimate
• Stormspire and Polarize have been merged together
  • Stormspire looses its aura abilities
  • Stormspire now polarizes surrounding all enemy units when placed and whenever it reaches maximum mana
  • Polarize will not strike other units with polarize
• New skill: Whirl
• Ion Surge cast range reduced to 150 from 400
• Thunderstrike
  • Time between lightning strikes when cast on structures reduced to 2 seconds from 4
  • Number of additional strikes reduced

High Oracle

• Clairvoyance now has a 20 second cooldown
• Zen Archery
  • Damage bonus is now a passive and dependant upon your current mana percentage
  • Now has active Zen Shot
  • Talent Zen Force reduced to 5% of Intelligence from 15%
• Ki Blitz
  • Now heals heroes for 150% of the amount it does a normal unit
  • Orb speed increased
  • New talent: Ki Storm
• Befuddle has been changed to Mindstab
• Geyser is now channeled

Incarnation

• Rend Soul base damage reduced
• Gravebind's Entombed Skeletons remade
• Avatar replaced with Bonestorm
  • (Yes, BONE STOOOOOOOOORM!!!!!)

Putrid Eidolon

• Fungal Armor
  • Healing rate increased, particularly for lower levels
  • Shield strength reduced at lower levels but higher at higher levels
  • Mana scaling lowered
• Wilting
  • Mana cost reduced
  • Base damage increased
• Rotting Grove build time reduced to 4 seconds from 8
• Spore Cloud mana cost reduced
• Entangling Seed's delay before sprouting reduced

Sorrow Liege

• Mortal Strike
  • Cooldown decreased to 8 seconds from 11
  • New talents: Gushing Wound, Devastating Strike
• Royal Guard
  • Now has familiar-like AI
  • Health now scales with strength, base health reduced
  • Damage increased
  • Armor and weapon types changed to hero class
  • Now benefits from hero weapon and armor upgrades
  • Cooldown increased to 30 seconds from 15
• Shadow Bastion
  • Malignant Chapel talent removed
• Forlorn Crown
  • Auras of Decrepitude, Focus, and Warding have had their ranges reduced, increasing with level, but power increased

Combos

• Two new (secret) combos!

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

• [Bugfix] -s would display only his Strength stats

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• [AI Bugfix] Will now cast Fiend

Items

• Angelstone changed to 700 health restored over 30 seconds from 1000 over 20 seconds
• [Bugfix] Items giving evocation damage were actualy increasing magic damage taken instead
• [Bugfix] Items giving magic resistance were being applied twice
• [Bugfix] Some items would have some of their effects linger after dropping the item
• [Bugfix] AI heroes with Glacial Wall would sometimes be able to arbitrarily freeze enemy heroes
• [Bugfix] Trying to move a stackable item onto itself would dlete the item