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
• Deathblow now has its old special effect
• [Bugfix] Killing an allied hero should no longer grant gold
• [Bugfix] Killing an enemy hero while under False Alliance should now grant crystal and experience

Perks

• Insight: Reduced radius to disrupt the 1% mana regeneration to 900 (down from 1200)

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

Aeromancess

• Maelstrom: Number of initial tornadoes lowered to 6/0.5 (down from a constant 10)

Arcane Archer

• Familiar
  • Now shares the hero attributes that the hero gains from having items. Gets 50% of the Strength and 100% of the Agility and Intelligence
    • Gains 50% of the bonus Intelligence as attack damage
  • Abilities have been changed:
    • Each ability levels up every two levels after the Familiar has gained them. (Ex: Faerie Fire is level 3 when having Level 6 Familiar)
    • Feedback is now at level 3 and replaces True Strike
    • Spell Resistance is learned at level 5 and reduces damage taken from spells to 70%
    • Starfall cooldown reduced to 60 seconds (down from 90)
  • New Talent, Spiritbound in which the Familiar replenishes a fraction of the mana lost by the hero, using its own mana. This is done at a rate of 2 points of the Familiar's mana for 1 point of the hero's mana. This also occurs only when the Familiar has at least 25% of its max mana.

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

Infiltrator

• Now gains a movespeed boost whenever she is invisible (before she would only have this movespeed boost while cloaked from Shadow Cloak or Stealth Strike)
  • New talent, Shadowstep, which increases this movespeed boost
• Blitz
  • Movespeed boost has been adjusted so that it is approximately 30% with the previous change
  • Invisibility duration increased to 30 seconds (up from 20)
• Explosives' mana cost scaling reduced to 10 (down from 15)
• Smoke Cloud
  • Can now be dispelled
  • Duration of the cloud increased by 1 second
  • Cast range now increases by 50 per elvel
  • Cooldown decrease per level is now 2 seconds (up from 1.8)
  • Mana cost reduced by 10
  • Slow now scales by 5%
  • Slow duration changed to 3 seconds for both heroes and non-heroes (from 2 and 4 seconds respectively)
  • [Talent] Concussion Talent replaced with Under the Cover, giving allied units temporary invisibility
• Elusive Flair
  • Evasion has been removed
  • Magic resistance has increased by 10%
  • Critical strike chance increased by 10%
  • Duration of the magic resistance and critical strike
  • Now indicated by a small special effect on the hero's weapon
    • Now scales with Int
    • Base duration increased by 1 second
• Sabotage
  • Now has a texttag showing damage dealt to the building
  • Damage dealt to nearby enemies is now 30% of the damage dealt to buildings (up from 25%)

Mystic Swashbuckler

• Fixed AoE enumeration for Dash and Mockery

Rune Knight

• Fixed AoE enumeration for Grand Rune

Soul Binder

• Soul Strike: The mini-stun now has a 50% chance of occurring

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

Acid Reaver

• Impale cooldown increased to 20 seconds (up from 15)

Arboreal Crusader

• [Talent] Propitate now calculates the self-heal based on the distance to the target (rather than the actual amount healed)

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

• Eat Tree's rip delay reduced to 0.4 seconds (down from 0.8)
• Forestlord
  • Reduced cooldown for switching auras to 5 seconds (down from 7.5)
    • Rubber Tree: 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

Ascendant

• Ravenous Dive: should no longer hold a unit longer than its listed stun (would have been caused if the held unit got stunned from another source, like Stonegaze)

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)
  • Cooldown reduced to 4 seconds (down from 8)
• 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
  • Rip delay reduced to 0.4 seconds (down from 0.8)
  • The older stump is now removed, instead of the one with the least life
  • [Talent] Venomous Bites crystal cost lowered by 5
• Fungal Armor
  • Invulnerable duration is now removed from the sleep
  • 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

Glacial Tyrant

• Arctic Cataclysm
  • Now deals 50% damage to structures
  • Base damage adjusted to 60/20 (changed from 35/25)
  • Mana cost scaling reduced to 14 (down from 24)
  • Slow duration scaling on heroes reduced to 0.5 seconds (down from 1)
• [Talent] Absorption's crystal cost reduced by 5

Scarlet Maiden

• Maiden Strike has a new special effect to avoid conflicting with the Deathblow effect
• Mesmerize
  • Removed invulnerable duration
• Soulmate: There is now a delay for breaking Soulmate when used on an ally (to stop it from instantly breaking from just waygate teleportation)

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• Both him and his Fiend's model scaling increased to 1 (up from 0.8)
• Fiend
  • Now copies the target orders of the hero
  • Hero Armor upgrade reduced to 5 (down from 10)
  • [Talent] Skull Swarm cooldown reduced to 60 seconds (down from 90)
• Doom Hammer's stun duration scaling reduced to 0.2 (down from 0.3)
• Shadowclap
  • Movespeed reduction scaling decreased to 3% (down from 5%)
  • Attack rate reduction now scales up by 3%
  • Duration of agility bonus reduced by 10 seconds
  • [Bugfix] Duration of agility bonus was using Agility instead of the hero's Intelligence
• Shadowstride
  • Base agility bonus reduced to 20/6 (down from 30/10)
• Desecrated Corpse
  • Now considered a summoned unit
  • Chance to create a corpse is now 20%/4% instead of a constant 40%
  • A corpse will always be created if the hero kills an enemy hero in melee range
  • Range to create a corpse increased to 150 (up from 140)

Fire Knight

• Fire Brandy
  • Now heals 30% of his missing life throughout the whole duration (previously it healed 30% of his missing life at the initial cast of the spell)
  • Mana cost increased to 50 (up from 25)
• Phoenix Strike no longer collides with magic immune units
• [Talent] Burning Blade
  • Duration increased to 12 seconds (up from 10)
  • Now has an AoE effect
  • Now deals 50% damage to structures
• [Talent] Mindsear
  • Duration increased to a constant 20 seconds instead of 10/5
  • Intelligence reduction now scales by 2.5%
  • No longer has a cap of 15% reduction of intelligence
• [Talent] Drunken Haze revamped as On The House, which increases the duration of Fire Brandy

Stormweaver

• Snowblast
  • Increased damage against structures to 35% (up from 25%)
  • Chill duration reduced to 1 second
  • Chilled units now take 25% damage (down from 50%), but get chilled for 2 seconds
  • Distance
    • Base distance of snowblasts increased to 800/200 (up from 500/40)
    • Strength modifier increased to 1 (up from 0.5)
  • Lowered cooldown between strikes to 0.25 (down from 0.5)
• [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
• [Talent] Bloodrinker is now split into two levels at 20 crystal cost each: Level 1 heals 1%, while Level 2 heals 2% max mana. (changed from just one level of 2% at 40 crystal)
• Nausea's movespeed reduction decreased by 5%

Units

Elven Battalion

• Druid's Starblast should now longer affect heroes

Items

Equipment

• Hatchet: Cooldown reduced to 3 seconds (down from 4)
• Bravado: Now a passive effect, giving the wearer bonus Agility based on the number of enemies nearby
• Guise of the Witchdoctor: Now caps to the hero's missing mana and takes away that much health accordingly