Version 1.14d

Version 1.14d8

Includes all changes since 1.14c1

General

• Attribute reduction can no longer reduce attributes to below half their base value
• [Bugfix] Fixed Goblin Laboratories' Reveal hotkey

AI

• [Bugfix] Wasn't hiring mercenaries to defend
• [Bugfix] Wasn't targetting units with higher kill priorities
• [Bugfix] Multi-cast spells (ie R.I.P.tide) would get canceled before they began, producing unpredictable results

Commands

• New HCL option 'C' - Enables capture mode

Battlefields

Kedge's Landing

• Red's foward left base
  • Moved the neutral tower and the red guard tower sightly closer together
  • Moved the cannon tower forward and to the right slightly

Stormwail Peak

• The streams running through north/south lanes no longer use ramps
  

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Rune Knight

• [Textfix] Fixed selection tooltip mentioning Sigil of Stunning

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

• Changed his spell animation timings to make him more responsive (but it might look weird)
• [Textfix] Caustic Breath's damage text wasn't reflecting the actual damage done
• Dragonfear
  • Units now have a higher chance (up to 100%) to be feared based on the closeness to the casting direction and the distance from bane
  • Base range reduced, now scales with strength
  • Cooldown increased to 30 seconds from 26
  • Mana cost increased to 80 from 59
  • New Talent: Feeds on Fear, each enemy affected restores health
• Acid Sheath
  • Cooldown increased to 60 second base, decreasing with level, from 9 seconds
  • Mana cost increased
  • Duration decreased to 15 seconds from 60
  • Corroded weapon is now a flat rate of 85% across all levels, but duration increases with level
  • Damage from being attacked removed
  • Damage per second greatly increased
  • Damage is now Strength based instead of Intelligence
  • Damage range increased
• Charge
  • Now can target a unit or a point on the ground
  • Now knocks back enemies hit along his path
  • Now grants an aura granting attack and movement speed for a short period, equivalent in strength to Encouragement
  • Cooldown decreased to 15 seconds from 22
• New Spell: Impale, replacing Encouragement
  • Tosses a spear in a line, impaling all units hit. When it reaches the end, it yanks all affected units back to the hero.
• Storm of Malice
  • Maximum armor loss increased
  • Armor Loss rate doubled
  • Duration reduced to 30 seconds from 45
  • Damage increased by roughly 30%
  • Pool of Acid talent now works from units killed by Acid Sheath

Arboreal Crusader

• Gale
  • Base damage increased by 25
  • New Talent: Supercell
• Cure Wounds now heals 30% at maximum range, up from 10%
• Tangleweed
  • Cast range increaed to 400
  • Mana cost reduced
• New skill: Geomancy, replaces Nature's Balance
  • Grants different abilities, depending on what tile the hero is standing on
• New skill: Force of Nature, replaces Mana Surge
  • Summons a giant wisp that charges at the nearest enemy. When it hits an enemy, there is an explosion dealing damage and knocking back the units and the wisp.

Arcane Mistress

• Aura of Undeath has become Necromancy
  • Passive remains the same
  • New active skill: Raise
    • Summons 6 Skeleton Warriors at targetted location
  • Skeleton Warriors
    • Collision size reduced
    • Now have magic immunity
• Black Arrow has become Necroarchy
  • Previous Black Arrow effective is now passive
    • Explosions and damage bonus are now Intelligence based
    • Black Arrow explosions now trigger chain explosions in all units hit under the debuff's effect, but clearing the debuff
  • New active skill: Necrotic Shot
    • Steals life and reducing healing received
• Mind Fog
  • Now lasts 50 seconds across all levels
  • Casting range reduced to 300 from 400
  • Size is now equal across all levels, slightly smaller than its prior level 1 size (250 from 300)
  • Cooldown and mana cost now decrease with level
• Haunt may now be cast on heroes and units for different effects
  • Casting on heroes will have ghosts randomly appear and charge at that hero, dealing damage if they hit
  • Casting on units will summon wraiths similar to the Wraith talent when used on buildings
  • Casting on buildings retains its previous effects
    • Damage per second is now 12 across all levels
  • New talent: Spectral Assault

Colossus

• May now melee air units regardless of weilding a war club (he's that tall)
• Attack sound changed when not weilding a war club
• War Club
  • No longer costs mana
  • No longer directly increases attack damage
  • Now deals area damage around the target and cumulatively decreases armor with each strike
  • While not weilding a war club, attacks will stun units and have a 15% chance to stun heroes for 2 seconds
  • Cooldown increased to 60 seconds from 15
• New skill: Smash!, replaces Tremor
  • Deals damage in a small area. If no heroes are hit, it significantly slows all units in a large area for a brief period
• Heart of the Mountain
  • Now splits damage done to heroes by non-heroes with all affected nearby units
  • New talent: Rockskin
• New skill: Enrage, replaces Crumble
  • Increases Strength for a short duration. Effect increases as time elapses since the previous use.
  • New talent: Adrenaline

Dread Shaman

• Mass Regeneration
  • [Bugfix] Wasn't properly removing injuries on the initial cast
• Expunge redesigned
  • Duration of the root/slow is now stat dependant
  • No longer dispels
  • Now displaces a percentage of the target's mana around the target, which will slowly float back into the target but may be picked up by enemy heroes
• New spell: Voodoo Doll, replaces Shared Pain
  • Creates a Voodoo Doll of targeted unit. Damage done to the doll will be propagated to the target and reduces the target's attributes randomly
• Twist of Fate
  • Mana cost reduced
  • Away time increased to 8 seconds from 4
  • Duration increased
  • Cooldown reduced
  • New Talent: Never to be Seen Again...
• Totemic Mastery
  • Fire Nova Totem
    • May now be cast at range
    • Damage area increased

Elder Treant

• New skill Forestlord, replaces Rebirth
  • Allows the hero to switch between the following aspects
    • Highwood: Surrounds the hero with pixie guardians
    • Frostpine: Menace that slows nearby enemy movement speed
    • Ghoulroot: Absorbs corpses to heal the hero
    • Rubber Tree: Knocks back melee attackers
    • Mana Willow: Absorbs a portion of mana lost or consumed by enemies
• New skill Timbercurse, replaces Nature's Balance
  • Reduces attack damage and armor
• Grove of Eternity, replaces Pixie Swarm
  • Summons a Tree of Eternity which automaticaly revives allies that die in its range

Grim Hag

• Raptor
  • Passive evasion reduced to 10% from 20%
  • Now grants 40% evasion while moving
  • Cooldown reduced to 45 seconds from 120
  • Duration reduced to 15 seconds from 20
  • Life steal increased to 75% from 40%
• Swoop
  • Will now automatically turn to aim at the targetted unit, if any
  • Can now target any point on the ground, if so it will hit the first hero she comes into contact with
  • You may now change directions mid flight by right clicking a new target, or stop with stop or hold position
  • Swoop's duration is now time limited instead of range limited
  • Mana cost decreased
  • Cooldown increased to 30 seconds from 22 seconds
  • New Talents: Cloud Cover, Assassin's Talon
• Blade Rain
  • No longer channeled
  • Now does its damage through a bleed effect on units hit by blade rain
  • New talent: Blood Tears
• New Spell: Featherfall (replaces Backlash)
  • Channeling spell that stuns enemies
  • The graphic is a placeholder and quite un-featherlike
• New Spell: Killing Fields
  • Summons 1 talon per enemy in targeted area that is stunned, bleeding, or below 50% health
    • Talons randomly cast their own version of swoop
  • Passive: Killing Spree - consecutive hits against the same target gives an increasing chance to critically hit
    • If the hero kills the target, the charges will be transfered to the next target
• Chaos Rift cooldown reduced to 90 seconds from 180
• [AI] Removed from the list of heroes the AI will never select

Icespinner

• Chill Sacrifice merged with Create Spider Web as the inniate
  • Consumes an allied unit to restore 15% of maximum health and produces a Spider Web
  • No longer restores mana
• Ice Lance
  • New talent: Icy Blast
• New Skill: Glaciate
  • Summons mirror images of the hero. If killed, they heal the hero for 10% of its maximum health and freeze everything around the target. Also buffs allied units to cause a lesser freeze upon death

Master of the Hunt

• Visual size increased by 10%
• New skill: Stalker, replaces Search
  • Summons a stalker which will follow around the first enemy hero it sees. It is invisible, has truesight, and will automatically attack if the hero drops below 25% health.
• Lunge
  • Damage increased
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 9
  • May now target units to do triple damage
• New skill: Furor, replaces Wolf Pack
  • While active, massively increases agility, attacks cause targets to bleed, and gives a chance to instantly kill units. Lasts a short duration, which is refreshed everytime the hero kills a unit.

Scarab

• New Inniate: Ankh, replacing Celestial Restoration
  • Summons a ward that heals the nearest ally by 2% per second
• Nighmare renamed to Penance
  • Graphic changed
• Smite
  • No longer consumes mana based on damage dealt
  • Mana cost is now 90 across all levels
• New skill: Indignation, replaces Hardened Carapace
  • Passively grants mana for every attack
  • When used grants damage reduction for a short duration
• New Skill: Retribution, replaces Divine Manifestation
  • Enemies that damage the hero while Retribution is active will share a portion of all damage taken by the hero for a short duration

Grim Brigade

Behemoth

• [Bugfix] Anchor should no longer be able to permanently stun a target

High Oracle

• Talent Zen Force's cost reduced

Nephilim

• Once again is available for use

Putrid Eidolon

• Fungal Armor
  • Shield health increased
  • [Bugfix] Depletion from healing done was being calculated incorrectly