DotA 6.71 Changelogs | Read DotA v6.71 Map Notes
IceFrog has released DotA 6.71 with a huge list of changelogs. This patch is focused on various hero balancing and a lot of bug fixes and a few changes on items. Read full DotA 6.71 changelog below:
Heroes
Abaddon
- Increased Aphotic Shield cast range by 50
Admiral
- Ghost Ship cooldown reduced from 100 to 90
- X Marks The Spot Return icon placement and hotkey adjusted
The return ability now takes the position of the main ability when it is active and uses the same hotkey as the primary spell
Alchemist
- Movement speed reduced by 5
- Chemical Rage bonus HP from 350/700/1050 to 300/600/900
Axe
- Battle Hunger cooldown reduced from 25/20/15/10 to 20/15/10/5
Bane Elemental
- Fiend's Grip Scepter duration from 5 to 6 seconds
Bloodseeker
- Bloodbath now gives 50% of its normal regeneration if he doesn't kill the target but is near it
This change does not affect creeps, it is hero only. By default you gain 10/20/30/40% of a dying hero's max HP if you get the killing blow. If you don't but are within 200 range of the dying hero, you gain 5/10/15/20% of the max HP.
Bounty Hunter
- Track team bonus gold from 50 to 50/100/150 (this is still considered Reliable Gold)
Bristleback
- Back damage prevention from 10/20/30/40 to 16/24/32/40
- Side damage prevention from 5/10/15/20 to 8/12/16/20
Broodmother
- Base movement speed reduced from 315 to 310
- Spawn Spiderlings manacost increased from 75/90/105/120 to 80/100/120/140
- Spawn Spiderlings buff duration increased from 0.9 seconds to 2
Chaos Knight
- Phantasm duration increased from 20 to 24
Chen
- Test of Faith cooldown rescaled from 30/28/26/24 to 24
Dragon Knight
- Dragon Blood regeneration increased from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5
Dwarven Sniper
- Shrapnel DPS increased from 10/20/30/40 to 12/24/36/48
Earthshaker
- Enchant Totem no longer dispels if you animation cancel
Faceless Void
- Chronosphere duration rescaled from 3/4/5 to 4/4.5/5
Furion
- Sprout can now target the ground again
Fixed a previous issue where it became harder to target a unit reliably
Sprout: A21E
Guardian Wisp
- Tether movement speed bonus reduced from 20/25/30/35 to 15/20/25/30
- Spirits cooldown rescaled from 14 to 20/18/16/14
Huskar
- Lifebreak HP cost rescaled from 40/33/25% to 35/30/25%
Invoker
- Cold Snap no longer triggers on self damage
Jakiro
- Macropyre damage increased from 75/125/175 to 100/140/180
Juggernaut
- Healing Ward regeneration rescaled from 1/2/4/5 to 2/3/4/5%
Keeper of the Light
- Manaleak now applies a stun instead of a slow when the target runs out of mana
Stun duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0 seconds
- Manaleak duration from 5/6/7/8 to 4/5/6/7
- Manaleak cooldown from 20 to 18
Leshrac
- Diabolic Edict is no longer reduced by damage block items(Stout, Vanguard, etc)
- Fixed Pulse Nova sometimes turning itself off after getting hit by certain ability types
Lina Inverse
- Attack range increased from 600 to 625
Lycanthrope
- Feral Impulse damage and attack speed bonus increased from 10/15/20/25% to 15/20/25/30%
Magnataur
- Skewer cooldown reduced from 45 to 35
Meepo
- He can now use cyclone on his other clones
Morphling
- Adaptive Strike damage rescaled
Original: Up to 0.75/1.5/2.25/3.0x Agility
New: 20/40/60/80 + up to 0.5/1/1.5/2.0x Agility
Nerubian Assassin
- Urna Swarm rebalanced
- Maximum summons reduced from 2/4/6/8 to 2/3/4/5
- Infestation dps increased from 20 to 40
- Infestation aoe increased from 275 to 300
- Cooldown rescaled from 14/11/8/5 to 26/19/12/5
- Manacost rescaled from 10 to 40/30/20/10
Obsidian Destroyer
- Arcane Orb cooldown removed
Ogre Magi
- Ignite rescaled
- Damage increased from 10/20/30/40 to 26/32/38/44
- Slow increased from 10/15/20/25% to 20/22/24/26%
- Duration from 7.5 seconds to 4/5/6/7
Phantom Assassin
- Coup de Grace critical strike rescaled from 2/3/4 to 2.5/3.25/4x
- Reworked Blur fade mechanism
Blur:
Note: Your hero is no longer always fully faded out. It now only gains partial transparency when the new secondary effect below is active. This still retains the permanent 20/25/30/35% evasion.
Passively blurs your hero when near enemy heroes, causing your model to fade out partially and become hidden on the minimap to enemy player.
Distance: 1600
Has a 1.5 second delay when adding or removing the effect.
Phoenix
- Base strength reduced from 22 to 19
- Sunray activation manacost increased from 10 to 35
- Sunray slow from 14/20/26/32 to 10/16/22/28%
- Fixed a bug that caused Sunray to always affect the first target regardless of magic immunity
- Reduced the duration Sunray slow lasts on you from 2 to 1 second
This is the duration that the slow lasts on you after you are no longer hit by the Sunray.
Pitlord
- Dark Rift cooldown reduced from 180/160/140 to 130
Pugna
- Strength gain reduced from 1.45 to 1.2
Queen of Pain
- Shadow Strike duration damage rescaled from 15/30/45/60 to 30/40/50/60
Rhasta
- Ether Shock damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 80/160/240/320
Sand King
- Burrowstrike manacost rescaled from 140 to 110/120/130/140
Slark
- Pounce cooldown reduced from 16 to 12
Spirit Breaker
- Strength gain increased from 2.5 to 2.8
Tauren Chieftain
- Movement speed increased by 5
Thrall
- Static Storm cooldown increased from 75 to 85
Tidehunter
- Anchor Smash chance to proc increased from 20 to 25%
Tiny
- Grow bonus damage increased from 40/80/120 to 50/100/150
Tuskarr
- Snowball maximum roll duration reduced to 3 seconds
- Snowball movement speed per extra hero reduced from 100% to 50%
- Frozen Sigil HP reduced from 300 to 220/240/260/280
- Removed the extra landing damage from Walrus Punch
Undying
- Flesh Golem's Plague slow increased from 7% to 9%
Vengeful Spirit
- Removed the small attack damage reduction aspect of Wave of Terror
Viper
- Corrosive Skin damage, slow and magic resistance increased from 5/10/15/20 to 10/15/20/25
Warlock
- Rain of Chaos Aghanim Infernals HP and damage increased from 50% of original to 75%
Zeus
- Static Field aoe from 900 to 1000
- Thundergod's Wrath Scepter from 355/460/570 to 400/500/600
Items
Ancient Janggo of Endurance
- Attribute bonus and attack damage increased from 8 to 9
- Charges increased from 3 to 4
Ethereal Blade
- Ether Blast damage rescaled from 2.5x Agility to 75 + 2.0x Agility
Gem of True Sight
- Gem now has a stock cooldown of 6 minutes
Phase Boots
- Active boost increased from 15 to 16%
Smoke of Deceit
- Reduced detection area from 900 to 850
- Movement bonus increased from 10 to 15%
- Initial cast aoe increased from 900 to 1200
Gameplay & Cosmetics
* Allies are now notified when you purchase a Smoke of Deceit
* Swapped the attack projectile of Thrall and Chen (280542)
* Added a new visual effect for Omniknight's aura (393596)
* Enigma model now shows team colors (395228)
* Reduced Phoenix model size a little bit
* Added a test mode command to respawn roshan (-roshan)
* Added an ally only visual effect where Ghost Ship will land
* Improved Dark Ritual mana text display so it is easier to read
* Finger of Death and Laguna Blade no longer target magic immune (since they do 0 damage but waste spell)
* Illusory Orb flashes right before it is about to expire
* Added -disablehelp support for Disruption
* Some map size reductions (Unexpect3D)
* Medallion visual effect is played on the caster now as well
* Added a status buff icon for Shallow Grave (251251)
Bug Fixes
* Fixed Geomancer clones sometimes getting the wrong initial boots before pickup/drop
* Icarus Dive disarm now gets properly dispelled if you become magic immune while the debuff is on you
* Fixed various inconsistencies with Eredar's spell behaviors and Disruption
* Fixed Spawn Spiderlings failing to affect Ethereal units
* Fixed Bloodseeker model size issues with BKB
* Fixed Switch bugs with Strygwyr's Thirst
* Fixed various tooltips
* Fixed a bug with Illusions working against Supernova
* Fixed Empower status buff icon
* Fixed some rare bugs on Spirit Bear death
* Fixed Io and Harbinger icons moving in tavern
* Fixed Power Treads triggering Last Word
* Fixed enemies being able to see Ice Blast on the minimap when near towers
* Fixed lots of abilities/items having rare bugs during some hero transformation/morphing abilities
* Fixed a visual glitch with a magic immunity icon appearing on your ability list while Nether Striking
* Fixed Plague Wards instantly killing Homing Missile
* Fixed gem overhead visual with shared gem
* Fixed hero vision bugs after quick buybacks
* Fixed rare cases where a courier delivery would fail to give you an item and place it far away from you
* Fixed Requiem of Souls not adding charges to Necromastry
* Fixed Serpent Wards instantly killing The Swarm units
* Fixed a bug with batrider where he would sometimes lose his flying height
* Fixed Medallion triggering and ignoring Linken Sphere
* Fixed some small bugs with Power Cogs that can cause them to die prematurely
* Fixed minor inaccuracies when casting Ghost Ship near map edges
* Fixed a bug with Homing Missle not being able to hit a hero if he is standing near map edges
* Fixed a very rare bug with muted items being created in the center of the map
* Fixed an exploit with item manipulation
* Fixed Orchid triggering and ignoring Linken Sphere
* Fixed Scepter Infernals not being affected by Blackhole
* Fixed Visage's Familiars not being affected by Blackhole
* Fixed enemy Gem and Circle of Power interaction
* Fixed potential buggy interaction of some aoe spells with Kraken Shell
* Fixed interaction between Shrapnel and Power Cogs
* Fixed an exploit with Circle of Power
* Fixed some buffs not being properly removed by Dark Pact
* Fixed an old fatal error exploit possible while using couriers
* Fixed an issue with Gem on couriers
* Fixed a bug with HCL bot game modes
* Fixed some bashes/stuns not being detected properly for Sunray and Relocate purposes
* The following overhead text tags have been fixed to no longer display through fog of war: Meld, Multicast, Walrus Punch, Chaos Bolt and Dark Ritual
* Fixed some visual effects not always being displayed properly for observers
* Fixed Flesh Heap gaining str from suicide (recently reintroduced bug)
* Fixed a bug with Spirit Bear and Bashers
* Fixed an abuse possible with couriers and hand of midas
* Fixed some cases where the flying courier is still able to go into the enemy fountain area
* Fixed a bug that caused Viper Strike to no longer be deniable
* Fixed rune messages not always appearing to both observers
* Fixed HP bar appearing on Spin Web
DotA 6.71 Changelogs | Read DotA v6.71 Map Notes
IceFrog has released DotA 6.71 with a huge list of changelogs. This patch is focused on various hero balancing and a lot of bug fixes and a few changes on items. Read full DotA 6.71 changelog below:
Heroes
Abaddon
- Increased Aphotic Shield cast range by 50
Admiral
- Ghost Ship cooldown reduced from 100 to 90
- X Marks The Spot Return icon placement and hotkey adjusted
The return ability now takes the position of the main ability when it is active and uses the same hotkey as the primary spell
Alchemist
- Movement speed reduced by 5
- Chemical Rage bonus HP from 350/700/1050 to 300/600/900
Axe
- Battle Hunger cooldown reduced from 25/20/15/10 to 20/15/10/5
Bane Elemental
- Fiend's Grip Scepter duration from 5 to 6 seconds
Bloodseeker
- Bloodbath now gives 50% of its normal regeneration if he doesn't kill the target but is near it
This change does not affect creeps, it is hero only. By default you gain 10/20/30/40% of a dying hero's max HP if you get the killing blow. If you don't but are within 200 range of the dying hero, you gain 5/10/15/20% of the max HP.
Bounty Hunter
- Track team bonus gold from 50 to 50/100/150 (this is still considered Reliable Gold)
Bristleback
- Back damage prevention from 10/20/30/40 to 16/24/32/40
- Side damage prevention from 5/10/15/20 to 8/12/16/20
Broodmother
- Base movement speed reduced from 315 to 310
- Spawn Spiderlings manacost increased from 75/90/105/120 to 80/100/120/140
- Spawn Spiderlings buff duration increased from 0.9 seconds to 2
Chaos Knight
- Phantasm duration increased from 20 to 24
Chen
- Test of Faith cooldown rescaled from 30/28/26/24 to 24
Dragon Knight
- Dragon Blood regeneration increased from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5
Dwarven Sniper
- Shrapnel DPS increased from 10/20/30/40 to 12/24/36/48
Earthshaker
- Enchant Totem no longer dispels if you animation cancel
Faceless Void
- Chronosphere duration rescaled from 3/4/5 to 4/4.5/5
Furion
- Sprout can now target the ground again
Fixed a previous issue where it became harder to target a unit reliably
Sprout: A21E
Guardian Wisp
- Tether movement speed bonus reduced from 20/25/30/35 to 15/20/25/30
- Spirits cooldown rescaled from 14 to 20/18/16/14
Huskar
- Lifebreak HP cost rescaled from 40/33/25% to 35/30/25%
Invoker
- Cold Snap no longer triggers on self damage
Jakiro
- Macropyre damage increased from 75/125/175 to 100/140/180
Juggernaut
- Healing Ward regeneration rescaled from 1/2/4/5 to 2/3/4/5%
Keeper of the Light
- Manaleak now applies a stun instead of a slow when the target runs out of mana
Stun duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0 seconds
- Manaleak duration from 5/6/7/8 to 4/5/6/7
- Manaleak cooldown from 20 to 18
Leshrac
- Diabolic Edict is no longer reduced by damage block items(Stout, Vanguard, etc)
- Fixed Pulse Nova sometimes turning itself off after getting hit by certain ability types
Lina Inverse
- Attack range increased from 600 to 625
Lycanthrope
- Feral Impulse damage and attack speed bonus increased from 10/15/20/25% to 15/20/25/30%
Magnataur
- Skewer cooldown reduced from 45 to 35
Meepo
- He can now use cyclone on his other clones
Morphling
- Adaptive Strike damage rescaled
Original: Up to 0.75/1.5/2.25/3.0x Agility
New: 20/40/60/80 + up to 0.5/1/1.5/2.0x Agility
Nerubian Assassin
- Urna Swarm rebalanced
- Maximum summons reduced from 2/4/6/8 to 2/3/4/5
- Infestation dps increased from 20 to 40
- Infestation aoe increased from 275 to 300
- Cooldown rescaled from 14/11/8/5 to 26/19/12/5
- Manacost rescaled from 10 to 40/30/20/10
Obsidian Destroyer
- Arcane Orb cooldown removed
Ogre Magi
- Ignite rescaled
- Damage increased from 10/20/30/40 to 26/32/38/44
- Slow increased from 10/15/20/25% to 20/22/24/26%
- Duration from 7.5 seconds to 4/5/6/7
Phantom Assassin
- Coup de Grace critical strike rescaled from 2/3/4 to 2.5/3.25/4x
- Reworked Blur fade mechanism
Blur:
Note: Your hero is no longer always fully faded out. It now only gains partial transparency when the new secondary effect below is active. This still retains the permanent 20/25/30/35% evasion.
Passively blurs your hero when near enemy heroes, causing your model to fade out partially and become hidden on the minimap to enemy player.
Distance: 1600
Has a 1.5 second delay when adding or removing the effect.
Phoenix
- Base strength reduced from 22 to 19
- Sunray activation manacost increased from 10 to 35
- Sunray slow from 14/20/26/32 to 10/16/22/28%
- Fixed a bug that caused Sunray to always affect the first target regardless of magic immunity
- Reduced the duration Sunray slow lasts on you from 2 to 1 second
This is the duration that the slow lasts on you after you are no longer hit by the Sunray.
Pitlord
- Dark Rift cooldown reduced from 180/160/140 to 130
Pugna
- Strength gain reduced from 1.45 to 1.2
Queen of Pain
- Shadow Strike duration damage rescaled from 15/30/45/60 to 30/40/50/60
Rhasta
- Ether Shock damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 80/160/240/320
Sand King
- Burrowstrike manacost rescaled from 140 to 110/120/130/140
Slark
- Pounce cooldown reduced from 16 to 12
Spirit Breaker
- Strength gain increased from 2.5 to 2.8
Tauren Chieftain
- Movement speed increased by 5
Thrall
- Static Storm cooldown increased from 75 to 85
Tidehunter
- Anchor Smash chance to proc increased from 20 to 25%
Tiny
- Grow bonus damage increased from 40/80/120 to 50/100/150
Tuskarr
- Snowball maximum roll duration reduced to 3 seconds
- Snowball movement speed per extra hero reduced from 100% to 50%
- Frozen Sigil HP reduced from 300 to 220/240/260/280
- Removed the extra landing damage from Walrus Punch
Undying
- Flesh Golem's Plague slow increased from 7% to 9%
Vengeful Spirit
- Removed the small attack damage reduction aspect of Wave of Terror
Viper
- Corrosive Skin damage, slow and magic resistance increased from 5/10/15/20 to 10/15/20/25
Warlock
- Rain of Chaos Aghanim Infernals HP and damage increased from 50% of original to 75%
Zeus
- Static Field aoe from 900 to 1000
- Thundergod's Wrath Scepter from 355/460/570 to 400/500/600
Items
Ancient Janggo of Endurance
- Attribute bonus and attack damage increased from 8 to 9
- Charges increased from 3 to 4
Ethereal Blade
- Ether Blast damage rescaled from 2.5x Agility to 75 + 2.0x Agility
Gem of True Sight
- Gem now has a stock cooldown of 6 minutes
Phase Boots
- Active boost increased from 15 to 16%
Smoke of Deceit
- Reduced detection area from 900 to 850
- Movement bonus increased from 10 to 15%
- Initial cast aoe increased from 900 to 1200
Gameplay & Cosmetics
* Allies are now notified when you purchase a Smoke of Deceit
* Swapped the attack projectile of Thrall and Chen (280542)
* Added a new visual effect for Omniknight's aura (393596)
* Enigma model now shows team colors (395228)
* Reduced Phoenix model size a little bit
* Added a test mode command to respawn roshan (-roshan)
* Added an ally only visual effect where Ghost Ship will land
* Improved Dark Ritual mana text display so it is easier to read
* Finger of Death and Laguna Blade no longer target magic immune (since they do 0 damage but waste spell)
* Illusory Orb flashes right before it is about to expire
* Added -disablehelp support for Disruption
* Some map size reductions (Unexpect3D)
* Medallion visual effect is played on the caster now as well
* Added a status buff icon for Shallow Grave (251251)
Bug Fixes
* Fixed Geomancer clones sometimes getting the wrong initial boots before pickup/drop
* Icarus Dive disarm now gets properly dispelled if you become magic immune while the debuff is on you
* Fixed various inconsistencies with Eredar's spell behaviors and Disruption
* Fixed Spawn Spiderlings failing to affect Ethereal units
* Fixed Bloodseeker model size issues with BKB
* Fixed Switch bugs with Strygwyr's Thirst
* Fixed various tooltips
* Fixed a bug with Illusions working against Supernova
* Fixed Empower status buff icon
* Fixed some rare bugs on Spirit Bear death
* Fixed Io and Harbinger icons moving in tavern
* Fixed Power Treads triggering Last Word
* Fixed enemies being able to see Ice Blast on the minimap when near towers
* Fixed lots of abilities/items having rare bugs during some hero transformation/morphing abilities
* Fixed a visual glitch with a magic immunity icon appearing on your ability list while Nether Striking
* Fixed Plague Wards instantly killing Homing Missile
* Fixed gem overhead visual with shared gem
* Fixed hero vision bugs after quick buybacks
* Fixed rare cases where a courier delivery would fail to give you an item and place it far away from you
* Fixed Requiem of Souls not adding charges to Necromastry
* Fixed Serpent Wards instantly killing The Swarm units
* Fixed a bug with batrider where he would sometimes lose his flying height
* Fixed Medallion triggering and ignoring Linken Sphere
* Fixed some small bugs with Power Cogs that can cause them to die prematurely
* Fixed minor inaccuracies when casting Ghost Ship near map edges
* Fixed a bug with Homing Missle not being able to hit a hero if he is standing near map edges
* Fixed a very rare bug with muted items being created in the center of the map
* Fixed an exploit with item manipulation
* Fixed Orchid triggering and ignoring Linken Sphere
* Fixed Scepter Infernals not being affected by Blackhole
* Fixed Visage's Familiars not being affected by Blackhole
* Fixed enemy Gem and Circle of Power interaction
* Fixed potential buggy interaction of some aoe spells with Kraken Shell
* Fixed interaction between Shrapnel and Power Cogs
* Fixed an exploit with Circle of Power
* Fixed some buffs not being properly removed by Dark Pact
* Fixed an old fatal error exploit possible while using couriers
* Fixed an issue with Gem on couriers
* Fixed a bug with HCL bot game modes
* Fixed some bashes/stuns not being detected properly for Sunray and Relocate purposes
* The following overhead text tags have been fixed to no longer display through fog of war: Meld, Multicast, Walrus Punch, Chaos Bolt and Dark Ritual
* Fixed some visual effects not always being displayed properly for observers
* Fixed Flesh Heap gaining str from suicide (recently reintroduced bug)
* Fixed a bug with Spirit Bear and Bashers
* Fixed an abuse possible with couriers and hand of midas
* Fixed some cases where the flying courier is still able to go into the enemy fountain area
* Fixed a bug that caused Viper Strike to no longer be deniable
* Fixed rune messages not always appearing to both observers
* Fixed HP bar appearing on Spin Web
Dota 6.70b Download And Changelogs
DotA v6.70b.w3x (7.76 MB)
* Added support for Turkish language
* Fixed Essence Shift interaction with Tuskar and Phoenix
* Fixed some bugs with All Int/Agi/Str and SD modes
* Fixed Techies Land Mines not triggering on Phoenix
* Fixed various misc bugs with Supernova
* Fixed Sunray and Last Word/Hex interaction
* Fixed Degen Aura working against towers
* Fixed Janggo killing Forged Spirits
* Fixed some attack modifier (Feast, Backstab, etc) interactions with Supernova
* Fixed a minor visual effect issue when picking up a Gem with full inventory
* Fixed Item drop commands interaction with Sunray
* Fixed various tooltips
* Fixed a fatal error if Phoenix dies while using Sunray against Blademail/Dispersion
* Walrus Punch cooldown from 18/16/14 to 30/24/18
* Walrus Punch landing damage from 100/200/300 to 75/150/225
* Walrus Punch crit from 2.5 to 2.25
* Snowball max chase duration from 4 to 3.25 seconds
* Snowball no longer dispels negative buffs on you and your allies while rolling
* Fixed an old bug with Call Down instantly killing Forged Spirits
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Dota 6.70b Download And Changelogs
DotA v6.70b.w3x (7.76 MB)
* Added support for Turkish language
* Fixed Essence Shift interaction with Tuskar and Phoenix
* Fixed some bugs with All Int/Agi/Str and SD modes
* Fixed Techies Land Mines not triggering on Phoenix
* Fixed various misc bugs with Supernova
* Fixed Sunray and Last Word/Hex interaction
* Fixed Degen Aura working against towers
* Fixed Janggo killing Forged Spirits
* Fixed some attack modifier (Feast, Backstab, etc) interactions with Supernova
* Fixed a minor visual effect issue when picking up a Gem with full inventory
* Fixed Item drop commands interaction with Sunray
* Fixed various tooltips
* Fixed a fatal error if Phoenix dies while using Sunray against Blademail/Dispersion
* Walrus Punch cooldown from 18/16/14 to 30/24/18
* Walrus Punch landing damage from 100/200/300 to 75/150/225
* Walrus Punch crit from 2.5 to 2.25
* Snowball max chase duration from 4 to 3.25 seconds
* Snowball no longer dispels negative buffs on you and your allies while rolling
* Fixed an old bug with Call Down instantly killing Forged Spirits
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Dota-Allstars 6.69 Complete Changelogs | Dota 6.69 Changelogs
This patch is focused primarily on balance improvements. Rather than wait until more content is finished for one bigger patch, I've decided to release a smaller patch first for general gameplay improvements while working on content for next patch. Let me know what you guys think and as always feel free to email me any requests.
Alchemist
- Unstable Concoction stun duration rescaled from 2.5/3/3.5/4 to 1.75/2.5/3.25/4
- Added an AoE effect indicator for the Alchemist player while he is charging his Unstable Concoction
Axe
- Battle Hunger slow increased to 10%
- Cooldown on Aghanim's Culling Blade reduced from 15 to 10 seconds
Bane Elemental
- Brainsap damage rebalanced from 75/150/225/300 to 90/160/230/300
- Enfeeble damage rebalanced from 30/60/90/120% to 40/60/80/100% (above 100% didn't work properly)
- Added -disablehelp for Nightmare, to stop direct casting on allies (3123839)
- Nightmare fixed so it properly stops enemy potions (3123839)
Batrider
- Fixed a bug with Sticky Napalm overhead text (+1, +2, etc) that was recently added from being visible to the enemy
Beastmaster
- Hawk's HP reduced from 100/200 to 50/100
- Invisibility on Hawk reworked. It now fades out automatically whenever it hasn't moved for 8 seconds.
Bone Fletcher
- Death Pact attack damage rebalanced from 6/7/8% to 4/6/8% of targets HP
Bounty Hunter
- Jinada critical strike increased from 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0 to 1.5/1.75/2/2.25
- Track cast range increased from 750/950/1150 to 900/1050/1200
Broodmother
- Increased XP given for killing Broodmother's Spiderlings
Clockwerk
- Movement speed increased from 310 to 315
Crystal Maiden
- Crystal Nova slow duration reduced from 5 to 3.5/4/4.5/5 seconds.
- Crystal Nova damage increased from 80/130/180/230 to 100/150/200/250.
Dazzle
- Shallow Grave now has a duration indicator for allies
Dirge
- Fixed over-sized click boundaries for Tombstone
Doom Bringer
- Base armor reduced by 2
- Doom cast range reduced from 650 to 550
Enchantress
- Aghanim's Scepter added to Enchantress (Increases her attack and Impetus range by 150)
Aghanim Upgrade Ability Code: A1WB
Enigma
- Eidolons HP reduced from 200/225/225/275 to 180/200/220/240
Faceless Void
-Strength growth increased from 1.4 to 1.6
Furion
- Wrath of Nature (Aghanim's version) max chain increased from 12/14/16 to 14/16/18
- Force of Nature Treants can now attack air units (275356)
- Sprout code improved to reduce the chances of heroes sometimes popping out of it
- Sprout targeting change from 6.67 removed
- Wrath of Nature can now be cast through the minimap and it will select the closest unit as the initial target (275356)
Ability Code: A1W8
Aghanim Upgraded Ability Code: A1W9
Gyrocopter
- Homing Missile now adds an ally only visual effect on targeted enemies
- Homing Missile cast range increased by 150
- Homing Missile cooldown from 20/18/16/14 to 20/17/14/11
- Rocket Barrage damage improved from 10/12/14/16 to 10/13/16/19
Huskar
- Berserker's Blood attack speed bonus increased from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12
Invoker
- Invoker now gains attribute points for each orb he levels
+2 Intelligence for Exort
+2 Agility for Wex
+2 Strength for Quas
Jakiro
- Increased Macropyre (Aghanim's version) travel distance
Juggernaut
- Omnislash no longer wastes a strike by considering banished units in its search
Keeper of the Light
- Recall is now targetable through the minimap
Lone Druid
- Leash range increased to 1100
- True Form movement speed from 270 to 280
- The "-ms" command now shows the movement speed of your Spirit Bear as well (298418)
- Spirit Bear attack point improved
- Fixed common scenarios where Spirit Bear would miss its attack as the target was moving
- Casting Summon Spirit Bear while the bear is still alive will restore that bear's health instead of not allowing you to cast.
Leoric
- Hellfire Blast damage redistributed to some on impact and some dps (312517)
- Scoreboard now displays Skeleton King's ultimate cooldown time
- Skeleton King will be automatically selected for you after he reincarnates
Leshrac
- Pulse Nova AoE increased from 300/350/400 to a constant 400
Lina Inverse
- Laguna Blade (Aghanim's version) damage increased from 600/875/1150 to 600/925/1250
Luna
- Eclipse (Aghanim's version) target limit increased from 5 to 6
- Strength growth increased from 1.75 to 1.9
- Movement speed increased from 320 to 330
Lycanthrope
- Shapeshift duration increased from 14/15/16 to a constant 18 seconds
Meepo
- Strength gain increased from 1.3 to 1.6
- Improved Geomancer's base damage by 5
- Fixed some targeting issues with casting poof (300996)
Magnataur
- Skewer damage rescaled to 70/140/210/280
Morphling
- Adaptive Strike damage type changed from Physical to Magical (248693)
- Replicate cannot target Morphling's own illusions anymore
Necrolyte
- Attack range reduced from 600 to 550
Pandarean Brewmaster
- Cooldown on the Boulder ability on Primal Split's Earth Panda decreased from 10 to 7 seconds
Phantom Assassin
- Base Strength increased from 17 to 20
- Strength growth decreased from 2.05 to 1.85
- Phantom Strike cooldown from 30/20/10/5 to 20/15/10/5
Phantom Lancer
- Strength growth reduced from 2.0 to 1.7
Pit Lord
- Dark Rift AoE increased from 375 to 450
Priestess of the Moon
- Leap cooldown improved from 40/35/30/20 to 30/26/22/18
Queen of Pain
- Sonic Wave (Agahnim's version) cooldown improved from 120/100/80 to 100/70/40
- Shadow Strike cooldown rescaled from 20/17/14/11 to 20/16/12/8
Razor
- Static Link drains damage over 8 seconds instead of 10.
- Static Link damage per second rescaled from 5/10/15/20 to 7/14/21/28
- Plasma Field cooldown from 16 to 14
Sand King
- Epicenter (Aghanim's version) now gives one more pulse
- Fixed some lag with Epicenter
- Fixed a bug with Sand Storm if you recast it very quickly while still invisible
Shadow Fiend
- Added a new command (-souls) to see the number of souls you have collected
Slark
- Decreased base Agility from 21 to 15 and increased starting damage by the same amount
- Pounce damage rescaled from 50/75/100/125 to 40/80/120/160
- Dark Pact cooldown reduced from 10 to 10/9/8/7
Spirit Breaker
- Greater Bash no longer messes up the target's command
- Nether Strike mana cost from 200/250/300 to 125/150/175
- Nether Strike (Aghanim's version) now Greater Bashes everyone in 250 area around you when you teleport to the primary target (306008)
Storm Spirit
- Intelligence base and growth reduced from 26 + 2.6 to 23 + 2.2
- Electric Vortex mana cost increased from 100 to 100/110/120/130
Techies
- Base damage increased by 5
- Remote Mine autoselection removed
- Remote Mines cast time reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds
- Added a new sub ability Focused Detonate that you can use on the minimap or in an area to detonate all nearby remote mines (AoE of 700) (297625)
Ability Code: A1WF
Tinker
- Laser's miss mechanic reworked.
Old Miss:
=========
10/15/20/25% chance to miss affecting a 250 AoE for 9 seconds
New Miss:
=========
100% chance to miss on the primary target for 2 seconds.
Tiny
- War Club hit count and AoE increased
Terrorblade
- Base Intelligence increased from 15 to 19
- Fixed melee/range item to update properly for Metamorphosis transformation
- Fixed Manta Style interaction with Metamorphosis (so he can use it properly now)
Ability Code: A1RI
Thrall
- Static Storm cooldown increased from 60 to 75
Troll Warlord
- Battle Trance self duration increased from 8 to 10 seconds
- Fixed melee/range item to update properly for Berserker Rage transformation
Vengeful Spirit
- Magic Missile stun duration rescaled from 1.75 to 1.45/1.55/1.65/1.75
Venomancer
- Plague Ward's bounty increased from 3-9 to 14-17
Viper
- Viper Strike (Aghanim's version) mana cost reduced from 125/175/250 to 125
Guardian Wisp
- Tether Stun duration reduced from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0 to 1/1.25/1.5/1.75
- Relocate cooldown increased from 80/60/40 to 90/75/60
Warlock
- Increased Infernal movement speed from 320/330/340 to 320/340/360
- Immolation from multiple Infernals now stack (281065)
Wind Runner
- Night vision reduced to that of normal heroes (1200->800)
- Shackleshot's search angle reduced from 30 to 26 degrees
Witch Doctor
- Casks first bounce no longer stuns for additional duration, it now lasts the same as all the bounces
- Voodoo Restoration mana cost per second from 6/9/12/15 to 8/14/20/26
Animal Courier
- Automatically upgraded to Flying Courier when you put the recipe on it (148581)
Aghanim's Scepter
- Now requires all three +10 attribute items instead of 2 and a 1100 gold recipe
Armlet of Mordiggian
- HP regen and lifedrain increased by 2 (overall +2 regen while inactive, no effective change while active)
- Recipe cost decreased from 900 to 700
Boots of Speed
- Movement speed from 50 to 55
Bracer, Null Talisman & Wraith Band
- Added +3 bonus damage to Bracer/Null/Wraith
- Increased Bracer/Null/Wraith recipe costs from 175/150/125 to 190/170/150
Buriza Do Kyanon
- Critical strike factor from 2.4 to 2.5
Clarity Potion
- Double clicking on Clarity Potion causes it to be used on your hero
Dagon
- Now requires a Null Talisman instead of a Blades of Attack
Ethereal Blade
- Slow on Ether Blast increased from 30 to 45%
- Cooldown on Ether Blast from 35 to 30
Eul's Scepter of Divinity
- Mana regeneration increased from 125% to 150% to match its components
Ghost Scepter
- Cooldown increased from 25 to 30
- Cost increased from 1500 to 1600
Eye of Skadi
- No longer requires the 300 gold recipe
Hand of Midas
- Transmute now gives 2.5 XP when used on a unit (2744725)
Healing Salve
- Double clicking on Healing Salve causes it to be used on your hero
Hood of Defiance
- Recipe changed from 2x RoR + Cloak + Helm to 2x RoR + Cloak + RoH (297602)
Magic Stick & Magic Wand
- AoE for gaining charges reduced from 1600 to 1200
- No longer give you charges if a spell was cast from the fog of war
Manta Style
- Increased recipe cost by 50 (Yasha recipe cost was reduced by 50)
- Rebalanced Manta Style for melee and ranged heroes
Old Manta:
==========
Deals 33%
Takes 350%
Cooldown: 50
New Manta (ranged):
====================
Deals 28%
Takes 400%
Cooldown: 50
New Manta (melee):
====================
Deals 33%
Takes 350%
Cooldown: 35
Mjollnir
- Static Charge changed from a chance on attacks to a chance on any damage
- Double click now activates Static Charge on yourself
Monkey King Bar
- Damage increased by 8 to be equal to the total damage from its components
Necronomicon
- Base attack time improved on Necronomicon Warriors from 1.0 to 0.75
Orb of Venom
- Duration increased to 4 seconds
- Price from 600 to 550
Phase Boots
- Readjusted bonuses:
Base Movement Speed 70 -> 60
Phase Burst: 12% -> 15%
Phase Duration: 5 -> 4
Phase Cooldown: 10 -> 8
Power Treads
- Attribute reduced bonus from +10 to all attributes to +8 to all attributes
Ring of Basilius
- Armor bonuses rebalanced.
- Aura Armor decreased from +3 armor to +2 armor.
- Added +1 armor for the holder.
Same overall Armor for the item holder, 1 less for allies
Sange
- Added a 20% Attack Speed reduction to the slow on Maim
- Reduced recipe cost from 750 to 700
Sange and Yasha
- Increased the Attack Speed reduction on Maim's slow from 15% to 30%
Soul Booster
- Mana regen from 10% to 50%
- Health regen from 1hp to 2hp
Stygian Desolator
- Buff duration from 5 to 7 seconds
Urn of Shadows
- Soul Release now causes HP loss instead of magical damage when used on enemies (same overall dps as before, no longer disables dagger)
Yasha
- Reduced recipe cost from 750 to 700
* Added a new loading screen
* Rebalanced the assist Gold & XP system
Most recent versions (since 6.55) have an extra portion of the gold/xp that is not a pure split like standard XP usually is.
For XP "heroes" means the number of heroes in the area.
For Gold "Assist" means the number of heroes in the area besides the killer.
"Level" always means the level of the dying target
6.68
=====
Bonus XP
---------
1 Hero: 15*Level + 50
2 Heroes: 15*Level + 50
3 Heroes: 14*Level + 50
4 Heroes: 13*Level + 50
5 Heroes: 12*Level + 50
Bonus Gold
-----------
Hero Killer: 0
1 Assist: 10*Level + 45 (2 heroes involved in kill)
2 Assist: 9*Level + 40 (3 heroes involved in kill)
3 Assist: 8*Level + 35 (4 heroes involved in kill)
4 Assist: 7*Level + 30 (5 heroes involved in kill)
5 Assist: 7*Level + 30 (5 heroes involved in kill but no one got last hit)
6.69
=====
Bonus XP
---------
1 Hero: 20*Level + 120
2 Heroes: 15*Level + 90
3 Heroes: 7*Level + 30
4 Heroes: 6*Level + 15
5 Heroes: 5*Level + 10
Bonus Gold
-----------
Hero Killer: 0
1 Assist: 9*Level + 95 (2 heroes involved in kill)
2 Assist: 8*Level + 20 (3 heroes involved in kill)
3 Assist: 6*Level + 10 (4 heroes involved in kill)
4 Assist: 6*Level (5 heroes involved in kill)
5 Assist: 6*Level (5 heroes involved in kill but no one got last hit)
Basic Information:
===================
This isn't changed, just overview information.
Streak Ending:
---------------
3 Streak: 50
4 Streak: 100
5 Streak: 150
6 Streak: 200
7 Streak: 250
8 Streak: 300
9 Streak: 350
10+ Streak: 400
Death Punishment:
------------------
Level * 30
Hero Kill Gold:
----------------
200 + Level * 5
Hero Kill XP:
--------------
Split evenly in 1000 AoE
Level 1: 100
Level 2: 120
Level 3: 160
Level 4: 220
Level 5-25: 100 * ( Level - 2 )
Example:
Level 10 = 100 * ( 10 - 2 ) = 800
Level 20 = 100 * ( 20 - 2 ) = 1800
6.55
====
Bonus XP
---------
1 Hero: 8*Level
2 Heroes: 8*Level
3 Heroes: 8*Level
4 Heroes: 8*Level
5 Heroes: 8*Level
Bonus Gold
-----------
Hero Killer: 0
1 Assist: 40
2 Assist: 40
3 Assist: 40
4 Assist: 40
5 Assist: 40
6.64
====
Bonus XP
---------
1 Hero: 12*Level
2 Heroes: 12*Level
3 Heroes: 12*Level
4 Heroes: 12*Level
5 Heroes: 12*Level
Bonus Gold
-----------
Hero Killer: 0
1 Assist: 5*Level + 30
2 Assist: 5*Level + 30
3 Assist: 5*Level + 30
4 Assist: 5*Level + 30
5 Assist: 5*Level + 30
6.65
=====
Bonus XP
---------
1 Hero: 15*Level
2 Heroes: 15*Level
3 Heroes: 14*Level
4 Heroes: 13*Level
5 Heroes: 12*Level
Bonus Gold
-----------
Hero Killer: 0
1 Assist: 10*Level + 45
2 Assist: 9*Level + 40
3 Assist: 8*Level + 35
4 Assist: 7*Level + 30
5 Assist: 7*Level + 30
6.68
=====
Bonus XP
---------
1 Hero: 15*Level + 50
2 Heroes: 15*Level + 50
3 Heroes: 14*Level + 50
4 Heroes: 13*Level + 50
5 Heroes: 12*Level + 50
Bonus Gold
-----------
Hero Killer: 0
1 Assist: 10*Level + 45
2 Assist: 9*Level + 40
3 Assist: 8*Level + 35
4 Assist: 7*Level + 30
5 Assist: 7*Level + 30
6.69
=====
Bonus XP
---------
1 Hero: 20*Level + 120
2 Heroes: 15*Level + 90
3 Heroes: 7*Level + 30
4 Heroes: 6*Level + 15
5 Heroes: 5*Level + 10
Bonus Gold
-----------
Hero Killer: 0
1 Assist: 9*Level + 95
2 Assist: 8*Level + 20
3 Assist: 6*Level + 10
4 Assist: 6*Level
5 Assist: 6*Level
* Added a couple of new juke spots
* Couriers can now carry Gem of Truesight (it loses its truesight while on courier)
* Reduced Glyph cooldown from 6 minutes to 5 minutes
* XP AoE increased from 1000 to 1200
* Added Slark, Chaos Knight and Magnus to CM
More heroes will be enabled soon.
* Added a new Ancient creep camp (Thunder Lizards, has Frenzy & Slam)
* Satyr's Purge no longer autocasts
* Added a sound effect that notifies allies near the location you are teleporting to
* Added 4 more options to -music (other6/7/8/9)
* Added a new soundset for King Leoric (279632)
* Added a rabbit courier
* Improved Shadow Raze visual effect to match the AoE a little more
* Added a new effect when you get a last hit with Necromastery on Nevermore (266930)
* Lich now has his icy hands effect only when he gets Aghanim's Scepter
* Sven now transforms into a red version when he casts his ultimate (Ability Code: A1WH)
* Added various small doodads around the map
* Changed Bristleback's model and hero icon (210183)
* Added sound effect for Meepo's attack
* Added sound effect for Troll Warlord's melee attack
* Added Scepter visual effect for Enchantress
* Various misc improvements on Phantom Lancer's model
* Added -disablehelp for Bloodrage (233159)
* Added a new icon for Call Down (315263)
* Added a new visual effect while casting Curse of the Silent
* Hand of Midas bounty text is now easier to see (258830)
* Added a ground effect when the water is gushing out from Torrent (146694)
* New ability icon for Spirits (296349)
* Changed the illusion creation visual effect on Terrorblade's Conjure Image
* Added new hero icon for Io (296349)
* Added new icon for Haunt (240283)
* Added new icon for Reality (240283)
* Added new icon for Flaming Fists (263836)
* Improved Greater Bash Icon (280720)
* Improved Track Icon (280720)
* Improved Amplify Damage Icon (280720)
* Improved Slardar's Bash Icon (280720)
* Improved Plague Wards Icon (280720)
* Improved Greater Bash Icon (280720)
* Improved Soul Rip Icon (280720)
* Improved Grow Icon (280720)
* Improved Lion Hero Icon (280720)
* Fixed Charge of Darkness showing a dummy unit with HP bar
* Fixed some issues with Shackleshot calculation where it could sometimes hit weird angles.
* Fixed visible caster units during Light Strike Array and Split Earth
* Fixed converted creeps from sometimes being slowed by Enchant
* Fixed Healing Ward to indicate the level to your allies instead of just for you
* Fixed Roshan's interaction with Familiars
* Fixed some issues with a small number of spells not properly detecting Meld and Ghostwalk as invisible
* Fixed Sonic Wave targeting mechanism when casting towards a location with an allied unit (298969)
* Fixed using Conjure Image while magic immune (298995)
* Fixed Roshan not dispelling Urn of Shadows
* Fixed some cast mechanism issues with Techie's Suicide (242147)
* Fixed Liquid Fire interaction with Siege units (263667)
* Fixed a rare situation where Relocate would fail to teleport you
* Fixed a bug with freezing a leaver Spirit Breaker
* Fixed Tango dispelling Urn of Shadows healing effect
* Fixed Static Storm scoreboard cooldown being a little off
* Fixed a bug with Scepter Dismember and Linken's Sphere
* Fixed some AI issues with Firefly
* Fixed lag on first cast of Adaptive Strike
* Fixed a couple of abilities with slightly incorrect cooldowns on scoreboard
* Fixed some courier tooltips
* Fixed Dragon Slave targeting mechanism when casting towards a location with an allied unit
* Fixed interaction between Level 3 Rupture and Force Staff
* Fixed the scourge Glyph not showing the new icon (Ability Code: A1WH)
* Fixed some inconsistencies in the visual AoE of some abilities (no balance changes here, just making the cursors more consistent for: Avalanche, Storm Bolt, Rocket Flare, Pit of Malice, Expulsion, Chronosphere, Earthbind, Spin Web, Dream Coil, Weave, Maledict, Vacuum, Sanity's Eclipse)
* Fixed damage AoE on Waning Rift being slightly less than the silence AoE
* Fixed a very minor visual glitch when attempting to buy a recipe for power treads
* Fixed very minor inconsistency between the armor reduction and the damage AoE on Acid Spray
* Fixed AoE on Strygwyr's thirst being off by 25
* Fixed Sticky Napalm triggering Linken Sphere
* Fixed interaction bugs with Soul Rip and Ethereal state
* Fixed AoE on Song of the Siren being off by 25
* Fixed a rare bug with Spirit Bear losing track of his items
* Fixed some minor duration inconsistencies with God's Strength
* Fixed some triggered spells from bypassing Last Will (on Necronomicon Warrior) damage return
* Fixed Sticky Napalm compatibility problems with Shiva's Guard
* Fixed some possible lag scenarios with Soul Catcher
* Fixed a very rare cause where you could Soul Ring usage could be lethal
* Courier can no longer use Ghost Scepter (to prevent some abuses)
* Fixed some minor incorrect behaviors when using burning spears at very low hp
* Fixed some rare damage cap issues with Dragon Slave and Sonic Wave
* Fixed some minor duration inconsistencies with Insatiable Hunger
* Fixed Sticky Napalm malfunctioning when cast on units in Fog of War
* Fixed a fatal error possible with Skewer
* Fixed a minor visual bug when Unstable Concoction explodes in midair
Great! Most of them are balances and game play improvements, but regardless, let's go play the Dota 6.69!
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