DotA 6.68 Released; changelog

DotA matched Starcraft 2′s release date today with a new version. Here’s the 6.68 Changelog from playdota.com:

* Added a new hero (Wisp)

* Added a new hero (Thrall)

* Added a new hero (Eredar)

* Added a new hero (Gyrocopter)

Alchemist
- Unstable Concoction manacost from 90 to 120
- Unstable Concoction damage rescaled from 150/200/250/300 to 120/180/240/300

Anti-Mage
- Spell Shield increased from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45

Axe

- Battle Hunger now slows the target by 8% until it runs out or kills another unit

Bane Elemental
- Brain Sap cooldown from 20 to 16
- Fiend’s Grip Scepter upgrade now drains 10% mana per second instead of 5%

Blood Seeker
- Agility gain increased from 2.6 to 3.0

Bounty Hunter
- Jinada cooldown from 21/16/11/6 to 15/12/9/6
- Track now gives 50 bonus bounty to all units affected by the track aura of that target
- Track bonus gold is treated as Reliable Gold

Broodmother
- Armor decreased by 2

Chaos Knight

- Reality Rift manacost increased from 50 to 70
- Starting str decreased by 4 and increased base damage by 4 to keep it constant

Clockwerk
- Armor increased by 1
- Battery Assault damage increased from 10/30/50/70 to 15/35/55/75
- Hookshot cooldown rescaled from 80/60/40 to 70/55/40

Dirge

- Tombstone cast range increased from 250 to 600

Doom Bringer
- LVL? Death mana cost rescaled from 85/105/125/145 to 110
- Scorched Earth mana cost increased from 60 to 60/65/70/75
- Scorched Earth movement speed bonus reduced from 20% to 16%
- Starting intelligence reduced from 16 to 13

Drow Ranger

- No longer has full night vision (same as the other heroes now, 800)

Invoker
- Strength gain increased from 1.4 to 1.7

Jakiro
- Macropyre travel range from 600/750/900 to 900

Juggernaut

- Healing Ward manacost rescaled from 140 to 80/100/120/140
- Healing Ward regeneration increased from 1/2/3/4% to 1/2/4/5%

Kaldr
- Armor reduced by 1
- Ice Blast cooldown from 44/32/20 to 45

Krobelus

- Carrion Swarm cooldown decreased from 9 base to 8 base (5->4 when fully upgraded)

Lanaya
- Psi Blades spill range from 320 to 320/340/360/380

Leoric
- Vampiric Aura lifesteal improved from 10/16/22/28% to 15/20/25/30%
- Reincarnation manacost increased from 100 to 140

- Reworked Hellfire Blast

Leshrac

- Split Earth stun duration increased from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 to a constant 2

Lich
- Movement speed increased by 10
- Starting damage rescaled from 37-56 to 42-51

Lina Inverse
- Laguna Blade level 1 cooldown from 150 to 120
- Light Strike Array cooldown from 8 to 7

Luna
- Eclipse now turns day into night for 10 seconds
- Lunar Blessing bonus damage increased from 6/12/18/24 to 8/16/24/32
- Lunar Blessing now always provides full night vision

Medusa
- Movement speed decreased from 300 to 290
- Strength gain decreased from 1.85 to 1.65

Furion
- Teleport now has a tp scroll style indicator displayed for your allies
- Agility increased from 15 + 1.5 to 18 + 1.9

Meepo
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 305
- Poof manacost from 140/120/100/80 to 80

Naix
- Base damage improved by 5
- Casting Open Wounds no longer loses attack focus

Nerubian Weaver
- Shukuchi now has a 0.25 second fade time
- The Swarm manacost increased from 75 to 100
- The Swarm vision reduced from to 500 to 250

Nightstalker
- Base damage increased by 10
- Crippling Fear’s miss chance from 10/20/30/40% to 40%

Ogre Magi
- Int gain increased from 1.9 to 2.4
- Fireblast rescaled from 75/125/175/275 to 80/145/210/275 (146745)

- Multi Cast manacost increase for Firebalst rescaled from 30/80/110 to 30/70/110 (146745)

Obsidian Destroyer
- Astral Imprisonment no longer causes the target to lose vision over that area
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Obsidian Destroyer (along with a new visual effect)

Omni Knight
- Movement speed increased by 5

Pandarean Brewmaster

- Drunken Haze slow increased from 10/14/18/22 to 14/18/22/26

Priestess of the Moon
- Moonlight Shadow’s cooldown rescaled from 160 to 180/160/140,
- Moonlight Shadow’s duration rescaled from 7/9/11 to 11.

Puck
- Illusory Orb cooldown decreased from 15 to 13

Pudge
- Flesh Heap is now retroactive (Meaning it keeps track of your kills and is always updating your str based on your current level of flesh heap)
- Reduced Flesh Heap aoe from 525 to 450
- Meat Hook damage type changed from physical to pure
- Meet Hook damage adjusted from 100/200/300/400 to 90/180/270/360

Queen of Pain
- Scream of Pain manacost rescaled from 140 to 110/120/130/140

Razor
- Static Link cooldown decreased from 45/40/35/30 to 35/30/25/20
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Razor (along with a new visual effect)

Sand King
- Armor increased by 1

Sniper
- Assassinate kills now give XP even if you are outside of range (208147)

- Night vision increased from 800 to 1000 (197918)

Spectre
- Desolate damage increased from 15/25/35/45 to 20/30/40/50
- Dispersion reflection increased from 5/10/15/20 to 10/14/18/22

Spirit Breaker
- Empowering haste from 4/6/8/10 to 6/8/10/12

- Aghanim’s Scepter Nether Strike now also increases cast range (400/550/700->550/700/850)
- Charge of Darkness speed boost updates at smoother 0.5 intervals and displays a counter above your head (267094)
- Added a button to make it more obvious how to initiate the charge earlier. You can still use the old move method though. (193994)

Stealth Assassin
- Base agility increased by 10

Tauren Chieftain
- Natural Order aoe from 250 to 275

Techies

- Remote mines now detonate when killed (145024)

Terrorblade
- Soul Steal’s secondary ability is now in the same position as the primary ability with the same hotkey (210124)

Tinker
- Armor increased by 1

Tiny
- Avalanche cooldown decreased from 20 to 17
- Toss cast range from 500/700/900/1100 to 700/900/1100/1300
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Tiny

Vengeful Spirit
- Magic Missile manacost rescaled from 95/110/125/140 to 110/120/130/140

Venomancer

- Poison Sting slow from 10 to 11/12/13/14

Viper
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Viper

Visage
- Gravekeeper’s Cloak armor bonus rescaled from 2/3/4/5 armor per layer to 1/2/4/5 per layer
- Gravekeeper’s Cloak magic resistance rescaled from 4/8/12/16% reduction per layer to 3/6/12/16 per layer
- Familiars maximum damage rescaled from 84/105/126 to 56/98/154
- Familiars cooldown from 160 to 180/160/140
- Soul Assumption’s mana cost increased from 100 to 150

Warlock
- Fatal Bonds cooldown decreased from 30 to 25
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Warlock

Zeus
- Arc Lightning cooldown from 2.5 to 2.25 seconds

* Added a new recipe item (Arcane Boots)

* Added new basic item (Orb of Venom)

Assault Cuirass
- Attack Speed decreased from 40% to 35%
- Aura Attack Speed increased from 15% to 20%

Animal Courier
- Price decreased from 200 to 170

Blade Mail
- Damage Return’s duration increased from 3.5 to 4 seconds

Bloodstone

- Heal on wielder’s death increased from 25 per charge to 30
- Now only loses a third of its charges on death (reduced from a half)

Buriza Do Kyanon
- Damage increased by 6 (to equal the total of crystalys and demon edge)

Cranium Basher
- Removed 25% chance to do 25 bonus damage (stun is still the same)
- Cranium Basher bonus damage increased from 30 to 40

Dust of Appearance
- Reduced AOE from 1250 to 1050

Ethereal Blade
- Removed Wraith Band from recipe (same bonuses still though)
- You can now target yourself

Eul’s Scepter of Divinity

- Cast range increased from 600 to 700
- Added double click support for Euls (174341)

Eye of Skadi
- Orb of Venom added as a component. Final bonuses are the same as before.
- Recipe price decreased from 750 to 300

Heart of the Tarrasque

- Delay on regeneration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds

Maelstrom
- Recipe cost decreased from 900 to 800

Mekansm
- AoE of Restore increased from 450 to 750
- HP aura regen increased from 3 to 4

Quelling Blade
- Tree Chop cooldown decreased from 15 to 10

Sentry Wards
- Increased truesight vision from 800 to 950
- Reduced natural vision to just around itself

Urn of Shadows

- Heal no longer dispels from neutral creep damage
- Added a team notice when someone buys Urn of Shadows recipe

Vanguard
- HP bonus from 300 to 275

* Added a new gold mechanic to the game

"Reliable Gold" – Any bounty you get from hero kills or from the extra "aoe kill gold" bonus (feature from few patches ago) is added to your Reliable Gold pool.

"Unreliable Gold" – It is everything else (creep kills, neutrals, etc).

Dying can only take away gold from your Unreliable Gold pool and not from your Reliable Gold. Buying items uses up your Unreliable Gold first before using your Reliable Gold.

An example: You have 910 total gold (500 Unreliable, 410 Reliable). If you buy Boots of Speed, you’ll have 410 total gold left (0 Unreliable, 410 Reliable). However, if you bought Chainmail, you would have 360 Reliable Gold left.

The process is seamless to the user, you won’t have to do anything extra to make it work. Your total gold is still displayed in the same place. Your Reliable Gold is displayed in your scoreboard title.

This is a new experimental idea that may be adjusted and tweaked over time depending on feedback and results after it is released. As always, let me know anything you want to see in future versions.

Buyback uses reliable gold first. There are some other plans and ideas for buyback adjustments in the future but I would like to see these changes stabilize first before considering further stuff. There may also be some other changes related to the aoe bounty in the future but I want to take it slow one step at a time and see how this change is reflected in games first.

* Support gold bounty gained for kills is now displayed ontop of each hero (not a change to bounty, but revealing the "extra" area bounty that was added a few patches ago, 16775)
* Minor adjustment (+50) to the extra aoe XP bounty
* Lane creeps vision from 1400/800 to 1100/800

* Day-Night now cycles at 25% faster rate
* The autozoom restore function in -zm is increased to give extra time to temporarily zoom in
* Game now displays a message to your allies if you buy back
* Added a -ub (-Unban) game mode to override the default -cm changed hero restrictions. You use this in combination with cm, -ubcm
* Reworked the -CM Ban and Picks process

* Added death animation for Throne (82594)
* 4 new Courier models (222933)
* Added a Flying Courier morph ability (175819)

* Added Mini Viper and Snow Owl flying courier models (175819)
* Added a mini-goblin zeppelin flying courier model
* Added a new ability to the courier that drops all the items that do not belong to you to their respective CoPs and then gathers all items that are yours onto the courier.
* Changed the courier morph hotkey to G to avoid conflicts with the new ability
* Game now displays a message when an ally purchases Dust, Observer Wards, Sentry Wards or Gem
* Added -il as a shortcut for -invokelist (43834)

* Increased Anti-Backdoor regeneration rate
* Fixed some visual issues with ground textures of some scourge buildings (217304)
* Fixed some buff icon inconsistencies (218840)
* Added Hook and Arrow Accuracy information to replay data

* New visual effect for Vengeful Spirit’s scepter
* New visual effect for Witch Doctor’s Aghanim Scepter

* New visual effect Puck’s Scepter (206094)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Axe (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Pudge (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Spiritbreaker (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Sand King (264503)

* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Jakiro (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Night Stalker (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Earthshaker (166075)

* New Tidehunter hero story (244461)

* Added flavor text for Phase Boots (19010)

* Reworked when the visual effect is shown for Berserker’s Blood (268354)
* Improved Chaos Bolt animation (247368)
* New Earthbind visual effect
* Added an extra visual effect for Nether Swap

* Added a visual damage indicator for Ethereal Blade (204930)
* Added a Burst visual effect for flying courier (21388)
* Added an aura visual for Leoric’s Vampiric Aura (14145)
* Fixed some visual issues with Soul Steal (210124)
* New visual effect of Strafe (205629)

* Added a visual effect for the int stealing event on Silencer’s Last Word (9993)
* Added temporary text overhead info for Sticky Napalm indicating stack counts

* New Breathe Fire icon (208513)
* New Earthbind Icon (202929)
* New March of the Machines Icon (223523)

* New Morph Icon (255633)
* New Scourge Glyph Icon (217705)
* New Strafe icon (205629)
* New Toss Icon (238905)
* New Torrent Icon (218829)

* Fixed Familiars tooltip
* Fixed Forge Spirit tooltip
* Fixed a bug with Curse of the Silent
* Fixed a bug with Charge of Darkness
* Fixed Invoke from triggering last word
* Fixed Rot dispelling curse of the silent
* Fixed Flaming Lasso scoreboard timer
* Fixed Batrider interaction bugs with Land Mines

* Fixed a minor rare bug with the caster unit for primal roar
* Fixed some visual glitches with passive Crystalys icon (208005)
* Fixed some visual glitches with passive Attribute Bonus icon (208766)
* Fixed a bug with the interaction of Ion Shell and Focus Fire
* Fixed some areas where you could get stuck with TP Scroll
* Fixed a bug that could allow courier to gain attack capability
* Fixed a bug with Soul Ring when your mana capacity changes

* Fixed some rare bugs with Hex interactions with some abilities
* Fixed Dark Pact not properly dispelling Crippling Fear or Void
* Fixed a bug with picking up Linken’s Sphere while waveforming
* Fixed the launch projectile location for Dragon Knight’s Elder Form
* Fixed X Marks The Spot when used on an ally carrying Linken Sphere
* Fixed some AI bugs with attacking roshan while teleported close inside
* Fixed a bug with moon wells water mechanic when you get stuck inside it
* Fixed a minor rare bug that produced the "cannot construct unit" message

* Fixed a very rare bug that could sometimes cause Toss to not throw anything

* About Phoenix

Thanks to all the beta testers, translators and players that provided feedback. Send me an email and let me know what you’d like to see in 6.69 and beyond.

HoN 0.3.6 Changelog

Before HoN goes retail on May 12th, S2 has released this MASSIVE content update:

Version 0.3.6
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Game Modes

- Added Dev Hero Mode
* When enabled, Dev Hero Mode allows work-in-progress “development” heroes to be played
* All future S2 Hero additions are going to be added as “dev heroes,” this allows us to get feedback on a large scale and evaluate balance before including the hero in the stable hero pool
* Dev hero mode must be enabled when hosting games. It can be filtered in the game list. Dev heroes will not be used in matchmaking or competitive tournaments
- Added new advanced game option “Tournament Rules”
* When enabled, allows the host to specify in the game lobby which team gets first ban
* Only affects BP and BD gamemodes
- Added “Hardcore Mode” advanced game option
* No passive gold/sec gain
* A creep/hero deny results in 0 experience for the enemy team
* A tower deny results in 0 gold for the enemy team
- “Item Drop” advanced game option now drops all items on death.
* Items dropped on death cannot be picked up by couriers, sold, or killed on the ground.
* Items dropped on death can be picked up and used by anyone.
- Added 5 seconds to each players pick time in Random Draft (25 -> 30)
- Added 5 seconds to transition between bans and picks in Random Draft (15 -> 20)

Important Bug Fixes

- When using Runes of Blight on a tree, heroes will now approach from the correct side. (Will now no longer go all the way around a tree to eat it)
- Heroes are much less likely to keep blocking each other as they try to run past each other (HUGS!)
- Fixed ability tooltips sometimes getting stuck on screen
- Fixed an issue causing buying while dead to sometimes not work
- Abilities used from in the fog will no longer originate from the 0,0 position
* This includes Devourer’s Hook, Electrician’s Grip, Pollwog Priest’s Tongue Tied, Puppet Master’s Puppeteer’s Hold and Voodoo Puppet, and Witch Slayer’s Mana Drain
- Fixed sound system/voicemanager interactions that were causing crashes upon sound system restart
- You can now drop an item into an inventory spot with a building under it

Matchmaking 2.0

- Matchmaking has received some serious revisions that should drastically improve match making quality. Please help us further perfect our match making system by giving it a try and leaving feedback on the forums
* Reworked how matches are formed to more consistently replace players who fail to load and to decrease time to find matches for players with exceptionally high or low SMR ratings
* Players new to matchmaking must complete 5 provisional matches, in which they will be matched with other new players. If not enough new players are available, they will eventually be matched with regular players.
* Players now have the option to set their initial standing according to general skill level, which affects the types of players they will be matched against. The three options are Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
* Solo matchmaking uses Banning Draft (BD)

Ingame Changes

- Added a new keybinding: Direct Pathing
* When held down and an order is given (Move, Attack, Cast, etc) will move the hero in a direct path towards where you click no matter what is in the way. Ignores cliffs, heroes, and creeps. Useful for chasing through the woods or pushing yourself against a cliff to cast into the river!
- Re-arranged some of the shop to put modifiers into the correct (bottom) shop. This includes all lifesteal items. Brutalizer and Lightning items are now in the Combat shop. Be wary of your hotkeys!
- If you buy an item on a courier then transfer that item to your hero, you can now sell that item for its full value within the 15 second sellback period
- Added game option “Minimap Rightclick” (default on). When disabled, the player cannot right-click on the minimap.
- The game will no longer display an incorrect disconnect message indicating that the hero was removed and assets distributed to their team if the disconnected player was a referee or spectator
- Fixed disconnect messages appearing twice when a player disconnects in game
- Calling a vote to remake, pause or kick (through the console) before the pre-match game phase will no longer work. (ie. only after the players are loaded into the map can they call these.)
- If displaying chat timestamps were enabled in game, various game messages sent to both teams were not being timestamped (disconnects, Kongor kills, Barracks destruction, etc). These messages now display the timestamp properly if the client has this option enabled.
- New death for the legion main building
- Finally took down our Christmas lights…
- New Hellbourne sounds and effects for buildings
- Random small chest sound/model fixes
- The game option “Show exp numbers” is now on by default for new installations.
- Added an option “Center Camera on Respawn” that allows users to toggle whether or not the camera will automatically focus on their hero after respawning
- Unpause now plays a noise so players are aware
- Fixed some neutral NPC sounds playing globally
- Updated map to remove texture seams
- Added a visible ‘corpse’ for NPCs dying
- Heroes can no longer pickup runes while stunned
- Referees are now treated as spectators
* Fixes the fog issue, allows them to see the scoreboard, allows them to talk with other referees and spectators
- Added some environmental sound effects on Caldavar
- Double Tap returns!
- Fixed the sound bug where muting someone might not always work
- Restrict most actions while the game is paused
- Fixed the “Share All” courier button to reset its state at the start of every game
- Fixed a bug that occurred when spectators used the “Disable Fog of War” or “Lock Camera” options would see those settings carry over into the the next game they joined or played
- Fixed some tooltips for items in the shop
- Fixed spectators at 1920×1080 resolution

Pre-Game Changes

- Hero icons no-longer react to mouseovers/clicks when there’s no hero
- The loading race values now start at 1 and end at 10, the old race values should no longer appear when loading the next game
- Pressing ALT in the game lobby will now toggle the chat mode between “Team” and “All” chat modes.
- Moved the Ping/Players/Version labels in the game lobby a bit to the right as we weren’t making use of the space and server names with long names like those we use for South Africa overlapped into these labels
- Voice chat indicator/mute button shows up in the hero picker/etc. now (on the inner side of the hero name)
- Pressing the “All/Team” button in the game lobby will now set focus to the chat input line
- Lobby now has sounds for actions (kick, join etc)
- Increase the max spectator slots to 10
- Fixed the Alternate Picking crash
- The host option “Disband” has been changed to “Disconnect”, Upon disconnecting the game server will assign another player as the host and print a message to the game lobby indicating the transfer of hosting privileges

General Changes

- Replays now begin recording during the picking phase
- Removed the “Tier” filters, columns and inputs from the game browser and create game interface
- Added filters, sortable columns and all inputs for Min/Max PSR to the game browser and create game interface
* Players may now specify a Min/Max PSR range when creating a game. Min/Max PSR games will appear normally as they would in the game browser and other players may join a game if their PSR falls within 2% of the range the game server Min/Max PSR is set to. (This means a player with 1471 PSR should be able to make it into a game marked Min 1500, and a 1734 player would be able to join a game marked as Max 1700, but those are the very edge of the 2% tolerance, so anything higher or lower would be rejected.)
- Games outside of a player’s PSR range are grayed out in the game browser similar to the way “No Leaver” games appear to a player with leaver status. If no range is specified when the game is created then no range is enforced. If a player is invited to a game, the server ignores the PSR restrictions for them allowing friends to play in games they may not normally be able to be playing
- Added Min/Max PSR to the /gi or /gameinfo commands
- The players PSR is now retrieved and stored locally on the client when logging in, and is accessible through the UI_CMD() GetPSR()
- Removed the ticks, grinds, blips and whatnot that were playing when the game started up
- Added an option “Disable Background Effects” that allows users to toggle whether or not all the background lobby effects and animations are played. (Credit to Pancakeslp for the original mod)
- Fixed some buddy request/add notifications playing sounds a bunch of times when logging in if a player had those notifications saved in their history
- The Notification Duration slider under options->interface now sets the duration (1-15 seconds) a notification is displayed for
- Fixed a number of incorrectly labeled tooltips on the options menu. Disabled the “Health/Mana Bar Scale” in the options
- Removed the “Options” menu from the F10 in game menu
- Fixed “Add PlayerName” buttons on options menu to align properly and correctly add the player clicked on
- Increased max size of joinable channels to 30
- Using the slash command /join “password” will now attempt to join the channel with the password specified. (Anything in between the quotes at the end becomes the password)
- Fixed some issues in the client/interface causing the change password dialogue to not work
- Fixed the lock/unlocked tooltip for hosts to display the correct tip (was previously showing the opposite tooltip it should have been showing)
- Players can now select Logon/Logoff and Join/Leave Game notification settings for clan members separately from the notifications they select for their friends
- Fixed an issue where notifications were not being saved to the history properly
- Fixed the default notification time to be 10 seconds instead of 10000
- Updated sub-account description
- Removed “Show Menu Transitions” from the options menu as the option is not currently being used
- Fixed iris closing sound being heard on disconnect
- Fixed “/r” to not reply to a clan whisper automatically with “/c m”, instead it will reply directly to the sender with a “/w PlayerName” just like how “/b m” works
- Trying out new color for the selected item in listboxes
- Fixed the “Show Winner” button on the match stats screen to correctly display and announce the team who won
- Fixed sound driver list sometimes showing the current driver incorrectly
* This means the sound system will only restart if it is indeed necessary
- Fixed a couple places where linux system class was using incorrect character conversions
- Added console command “precacheworld “. So for example type “precacheworld caldavar” to precache its resources
- Removed cvar browser_maxPing as it was not being used
- Invisible Mode will now remember its state the next time the game re-loads
- Players in “Invisible Mode” will no longer auto join default HoN or Clan channels when leaving a game, allowing them to properly remain in a hidden state
- Clicking on the clock in the system bar now toggles between 12 hour and 24 hour display
- Re-arranged Public and Create Game interfaces to make more space and added icons/checkboxes for the new “Hardcore” and “Dev Heroes” game options
- Moved “Alt Hero Picking” on the Create Game interface to an Advanced Option, which is what it is actually categorized as

Items

Bananas
- Can now be sold for 500 gold

Doombringer
- Can no longer be transferred to your stash, manually dropped on the ground, or given to teammates.

Frostburn
- Snare is now 5% a charge and stacks 3 times

Frostwolf Skull
- Recipe cost increased by 500

Geometer’s Bane
- Now spawns illusions in a triangle and randomizes the position of the hero on use

Nome’s Wisdom
- Rebalanced
* Strength lowered from 6 to 4
* Agility lowered from 6 to 4
* Intelligence lowered from 16 to 14
* +Damage lowered from 10 to 6
* % Mana Regen removed
* Aura armor lowered from 4 to 3
* Healing from the Aura tweaked so that if the healing exceeds your max health, a shield of equal value is applied for 10 seconds.

Nullfire Blade
- Fixed so it can now properly dispel Jeraziah’s Protective Charm
- Recipe will sell for the correct value again

Plated Greaves
- Cooldown increased to 30s, duration lowered to 15s
- AOE effect now grants +20% damage but only affects allied non-player controlled creeps
- AOE effect no longer grants armor

Stormspirit
- Can now target all heroes (allied and enemy). Can no longer target Kongor.

Tokens
- Can no longer be sold

Heroes

- Added Balphagore as a dev hero. Must host games with the dev hero option enabled to play him
* Feedback on this hero is appreciated, as we are still fine-tuning balance and making necessary adjustments

Behemoth
- Fixed weird shadows with Fissure

Blacksmith
- Fixed some issues with multicast and Frenzy

Chipper
- Voice added. Nuts.
- Tar Toss will no longer apply its slow to Magic Immune units
- Sawblade Showdown’s Staff of the Master upgrade no longer provides a static 70% movement speed slow. Instead, units who walk into the saw blades will have a 4 second snare applied to them that starts at 90% and quickly reduces in strength over the duration.
- Sawblade Showdown won’t slow couriers anymore

Deadwood
- Clearcutting now causes trees to die with a cooler animation.

Madman
- Barrel Roll will once again grant invulnerability during the duration of the roll

Magmus
- Lava Surge once again provides invulnerability during travel time

Engineer
- Ult to 85s at all levels from 90/75/60

Fayde
- Voice added
- Updated description
- A ton of effect changes
- Slice renamed Cull
- Illusions from Burning Shadows now attacks much faster
- Illusions from Burning Shadows are back to full size
- Illusions from Burning Shadows can no longer be selected or show healthbars
- Cooldown on switching between Scythe and Shadow Stance removed
- Fayde now starts in Shadow Stance
- Charges on Shadow/Scythe Stance increased to 2,3,4,5
- Reflection
* Manacost increased to 150,175,200 from 150
* Duration changed to 30,35,40 from 40 at all levels
* Reflection stealth state will no longer have charges that do nothing
* Shadow Cripple now reduces all healing on the target by 50% while it’s active
* Shadow Cripple is no longer dispellable

Glacius
- Updated Ice Imprisonment tooltip to explain that it lasts 10 seconds when cast on creeps

Keeper of the Forest
- Updated Root effect to match the area better

Legionnaire
- Added custom sounds for his charge

Maliken
- Updated recommended items

Ophelia
- Command will no longer give the bonus HP to couriers she has bought or to heroes/herself in weird situations

Pandamonium
- Voice added

Plague Rider
- Voice added

Pollywog
- Units under the effects of Morph can no longer evade or deflect attacks
- Cooldown of Wards changed from 110/95/80 to 100

Pyromancer
- Fixed a bug causing ult to trigger Nullstone twice (causing the cool down to decrease too much)

Soul Reaper
- Rewrote some tooltips

Witch Slayer
- Units under the effects of Miniaturization can no longer evade or deflect attacks
- Fixed a bug causing ult to trigger Nullstone twice (causing the cool down to decrease too much)

Valkyrie
- Call of the Valkyrie will now determine the close-range target to get hit twice at the time the ability is used, rather than after a 0.5 second delay
- Tweaked leap distance from 630,690,780,840 to 630,720,780,870

Vindicator
- Voice added

Voodoo Jester
- Cask now bounces for 2/4/6/8 times, instead of the incorrect 2/4/5/8 times

Warbeast
- Metamorphosis will no longer apply to his courier

Wildsoul
- Wild will no longer apply to his courier

Zephyr
- Correctly credit him for damage that his ult does

New HoN Interface makes iFlee rage/cry; also changelog

Version 0.3.0.2
————-
- Fixed the US Regions for Matchmaking
- Disabled custom avatars…

Version 0.3.0.1
————-
- Fix joining game on the game list
- Fix game lobby enter key not working sometimes

Version 0.3.0 full change log:

http://hongamer.blogspot.com/2010/03/030-patch-notes.html

Patch crashing fix:

If you cant update to the new patch because your game is crashing in the process, downaload and install this game client from here:

http://hotfile.com/dl/34576261/beaf067/HoNClient-0.3.0.exe.html

Also don’t forget to disable all interface mods since they might not be compatible with the new user interface

v0.3.0.0

- New Front End Interface
- Solo Automatic Matchmaking
* With one button you can enter the queue for as many different regions as you want and play with random other people automatically. This does not use PSR, it uses SMR (Solo Matchmaking Rating) and everyone starts at 1500. Mode is Banning Pick.
* Players tagged as “leavers” can not join Matchmaking
* Players who leave a game before it starts (during the ‘loading’ phase of a game) will automatically be replaced by someone else.
* If you leave a Matchmaking game at the hero selection screen, you will get a leave
- Tutorial
* New ingame interactive Tutorial to help new players learn the basics of the game before diving in. Even experienced players might learn something!
- New Player Stats screen
* Including your most played heroes!
- Hero Compendium
* See detailed stats and recommended items about every hero
- Ingame Ladder page
* Search and filter the ladder to compare yourself to those at the top. Any number of options can be turned on and filtered!
- New Game Lobby
- New Hero Picking screen
* Now with 12 more slots for new heroes! How did we do that?!?

General

- You can now swap the placement of the minimap from the bottom left to bottom right hand corner
- Leaver threshold lowered to 5%
- Fix for StatusStealth
* This fixed an issue that was causing Witch Slayer and Pollywog Priest’s crowd control abilities to dispel all states off the target
- Updated br stringtables, thanks to Trilles
- Recommended Items Updated
- Item cursor now changes to a targeting cursor when hovering over an allied unit
- Stacked items (runes of blight, mana potions, health potions) will now sell for their full total value within 15 seconds of purchasing them. (e.g. if you buy two health potions for 200g then sell them within 15sec, you will now correctly gain 200g)
- Logger’s Hatchet can now be sold within 15 seconds of buying it (but not if you used it)
- Added “Host:” and “Version:” to the /gameinfo and /gi commands in game, also added the server version for display in the game lobby screen
- Fixed when heroes were ‘running in place’ after using a Homecoming Stone
- Added messages to the game lobby for the following actions:
1) When the host assigns someone as the new host
2) When the host assigns someone as a spectator
3) When the host assigns someone as a referee
4) When the host locks or unlocks a slot
- Removed ‘remove hero’ button in practice mode for now
- Tweaked the position of ancients

- Invisible Mode added
- Fixed a bug in the game setup interface where referee count was incorrectly being set to the count of spectators chosen
- Fixed a bug in the game lobby where the current player count exceeded the max player count in games with spectators(2) and referees(1). e.g. “Players: 13/10″. Now shows the correct max player count to match the main lobby game browser numbers. e.g. “Players: 13/13″
- Added flood protection to the chat server to protect against invite to clan spam and create clan attempts
- Fixed an issue causing the change password functionality in game to not work correctly.
- Fixed an issue on the chat server where in certain cases players were not properly being promoted/demoted
- Optimized client code so game server refreshes should no longer hang the client or user interface.
- Chat channels can now be saved via the interface and will be automatically joined when logging in.
- Added new “Ping” filter next to the “Full Games” checkbox. It filters the results on the client so only pings less the chosen number populate the game list
- Added a new filter option to the server browser “Game Mode:” section called “Advanced”. It allows players to filter multiple game modes (ie. SD, BD, BP) all at once locally in the client. Upon selecting ‘Advanced’ a small panel pops up and the player can choose the game modes they want to see in the game list just by selecting the appropriate checkbox then clicking OK
- Default SFX volume down to 0.6 from 0.7
- Fixed an issue with the chat server where if a user sent a message using /b or /m and someone on one of those lists was in /dnd mode, it wouldn’t send the message to all the people on the list.
- Overhauled how adding buddies/friends works. You now must request friendship before someone is actually added as your friend.
* You can request friends when offline and they will get the notifications upon logging in, and approve at their convenience
* We might have to wipe current friends lists at some point in the future for this to work correctly.

- Added new search support for filtering games by name:
* Added feature to allow players to type in multiple search phrases. By typing a search phrase and adding a ?|? the client will distinguish one phrase from another. The browser will then search the available games and show any games showing any one of the phrases separated by a “|”.
* Added feature to allow players to exclude certain games based on the search phrase. By typing in a “-” at the beginning of the search phrase the client will automatically filter any games with “Phrase” to not show up. Note that exclusion of search terms takes precedence over inclusion. (Excluding a term, and then trying to include the same term will cause it not to appear, ie ?noobs|-noobs?)
* The “|” and “-” can be escaped with a “\” should the player want to search on a game with the pipe or hyphen in it.
* All searches are color and case insensitive, and the order that the search phrases are entered have no effect on how they will display. So “1500|-no ab” is the same as “-no ab|1500″.

Some examples:
*Search Phrase: “1550|1600|1650|-no ab|-noobs” – This searches on any game with “1550″, “1600″, and “1650″ in the name, and if it has the words “no ab” or “noobs” in it it will not display.
*Search Phrase: “-no ab|1500|1550|-countryname|ab” – This searches on any game with “1500″, “1550″ and “ab” in the name, and if it has the words “no ab” or “countryname” in it it will not display.
*Search Phrase: “1500|\-SDEM|pipe\|test” – This searches on any game with “1500″, “-sdem” and “pipe|test” in the name.

Kongor
- If you attack him from outside of his lair you will have 100% miss now
- After leaving his lair, 1.5 seconds later he retreats to go back in and is invuln on the run back
- Is now 40% angrier

Ice Ogre
- Cooldown of the frost shield increased by 4 seconds (to 5s)

Items

Barrier Idol
- Fixed a bug that caused it to absorb huge damage when damage taken was all at once
Elder Parasite
- Incoming damage multiplier reduced to 20%, from 30%
Harkon’s Blade
- Increases manacost per attack to 75 from 50
Nullstone
- Recipe cost reduced to 825 from 1325
- Mana regen increased to 200% from 150%
- Now grants +10 damage
Runes of the Blight
- Heal over time is no longer dispellable
Wards of Sight
- Now have a 50 gold bounty when killed

Heroes

The following auras can now be toggled between all units and heroes only:
- Andromeda’s Dimensional Link
- Arachna’s Precision
- Moon Queen’s Lunar Glow

Accursed
- Fixed Flame Consumption to go off anytime he is below 400 health and takes non-fatal damage
- Fixed Flame Consumption to properly dispel himself when it automatically goes off
- Fixed Sear so it continues to apply the slow and the buff while his ultimate is active

Andromeda
- Rescaled ult range to 750/975/1200 from 600/900/1200

Armadon
- Added cast effect for throwing snot
* This is a visual effects change
- Charges gained from Restless are not longer capped at 4

Behemoth
- “Voice”

Blacksmith
- Lowered base armor by 1
- Base Damage lowered to 54-60 from 58-64
- Flaming Hammer’s projectile speed lowered to 800 from 1100
- Flaming Hammer’s negative magic armor starts at -1/-2/-3/-4 for the first 1 second, then reduces to 0 over its duration.
- Base Manacost of Flaming Hammer increased to 95/110/125/140 from 95/105/115/125

Blood Hunter
- Blood Sense now reveals stealth targets

Chronos
- Manacost on Time Leap increased to 135 from 120
- Time Leap damage lowered by 25 at all levels
- Curse of Ages now steals 1/1/2/3 agility per charge, decreased from 1/2/3/4
- Curse of Ages now stuns the target after 5 attacks, increased from 4
- Targets stunned by Curse of Ages will now properly play their attack animation when the stun wears off
- Stun from Curse of Ages now scales as a .25,.5,.75,1 second stun from 1 second at all levels
- Chronofield won’t freeze invulnerable targets anymore (Such as Swiftblade ulting or Defiler’s ult)
- Chronofield now freezes everyone by default, with Staff of the Master lets allies move at -80% speed in the field

Corrupted Disciple
- Top end base damage lowered by 5

Dark Lady
- Turn rate increased to 900 from 360
- Dark Blades don’t interrupt movement, cast time removed

Deadwood
- Proper announcement at hero selection
- Rebalanced:
- Base strength lowered to 23 (from 25)
- Strength Gain lowered to 2.7 from 3.0
- Agility Gain increased to 2.0 from 1.6
- Base Armor increased to 2.24 from 1.24
- Slow from throwing the log increased to 75% max from 60% max
- Oakbolt’s slow now lasts for 1.5/2/2.5/3 seconds, from 3 seconds at all levels.
- Projectile speed when throwing a log increased to 1200 from 1000
- Willowmaker
* Cooldown rescaled to 85,75,65
* Cast point lowered to 500ms from 750ms
* Damage rescaled to 350, 650, 950 from 400,600,800
* Debuff is now a constant 20% strength reduction at all levels from 20,30,40%
* No longer splashes the debuff in a cone, only the single target
* Stun duration increased to 1.5s from 1s

Demented Shaman
- Base Intelligence lowered to 24 from 27
- Strength Gain lowered to 1.8 from 1.9
- Intelligence Gain lowered to 3.0 from 3.4
- Damage rescaled to 44-56 from 41-59
- The snare from Entangle will now give assists

Devourer
- No longer gains strength from illusions
- Touch radius of Hook changed from 60 to 75 and will consistently hit targets with a 75 radius regardless of what angle it is being thrown

Electrician
- Damage of Clensing Shock against summoned units increased to 600,800,1000 from 600 at all levels

Engineer
- Voice
- Fixed a Turret bug that a bullet from the Turret doing 200+ damage
- Fixed a bug causing the splash damage when a siege unit debuffed by Tinker to not deal AOE damage
- Energy Field will only not purge a target if they are under the effects of Shrunken Head
* This means the shield will purge off Jeraziah’s Charm, for example.

Forsaken Archer
- Voice
- Skeletons now display a timer on the third ability indicating the time remaining for the next skeleton to expire (Thanks to Tisser)

Glacius
- Base Agility increased to 17 from 16
- Damage rescaled to 43-51 from 38-44
- Base Armor increased to 1.44 from 1.24

Hellbringer
- Summon Malphas now has new ground effects
- Negative Magic Armor is now -3,-4,-5,-6 from -2.7,-5.1,-6.9,-8.3

Jeraziah
- Fixed tooltips (a few errors)
- Range of Inner Light increased to 500 from 400

Keeper of the Forest
- Eyes are now stealthed and become revealed when a hero comes into the 450 reveal range (from 300)
* This stops couriers from killing eyes unless a hero is nearby to spot them
- Root can now be seen even when he is invisible
- Root now hits units in fog

Legionnaire
- Base Int increased to 17 from 14
- Terrify removed
- Terrifying Charge Added
* The Legionnaire charges very quickly at a target foe and swings wide with his mighty axe upon reaching them, dealing damage and Terrifying those unfortunate enough to be standing there. Terrified enemies attack very quickly, but do less damage per attack.
* 1000 Range, 40/50/60/70 Manacost, 30s Cooldown
* Charges at max movespeed towards the target. Being stunned, losing sight of the target, or issuing another command will cancel the charge early. Upon reaching the target, forces an attack that deals 150/200/250/300% of your base damage and applies Terrify for 4/5/6/7 seconds to all enemies in a 110 degree 240 distance cone.
* If the target gets more then 2000 units away (Such as from using teleport) the charge will cancel
* Terrify debuff: -50% Attack Damage, +50% Attack Speed

Madman
- Snare debuff stuff removed from Stalk
- Manacost of Berserk changed to 50,80,110 from 100,150,205

Maliken
- Model cleaned up
- Voice
- Stats tweaks:
* Base Strength increased to 24 from 22
* Strength gain increased to 2.6 from 2.4
* Agility gain lowered to 2.0 from 2.4
* Base Intelligence lowered to 17 from 18
- Speed of Sword Throw projectile increased to 850 from 700
- Radius of Sword Throw lowered to 200 from 225
- Manacost on Sword of the Damned’s heal mode removed
- Self hurt from Sword of the Damned’s flame mode changed to 6,9,12,15 from 5,10,15,20
- Range while under the effects of Possession reduced to 550 from 600

Night Hound
- Base movement speed increased to 305 from 300
- Smoke Bomb cast range increased to 425 from 350
- Smoke Bomb cast point reduced to 200 from 400
- Pounce cooldown rescaled to 20,15,10,5 from 30,20,10,5

Nymphora
- Fixed targeting circle radius
- Base Agility lowered to 18 from 22
- Base Armor lowered to 2.00 from 2.08
- Stun from Nymphora’s Zeal is now 1200 range at all ranks (from bad)
* Charges Nymphora gains rescaled slightly so the bonuses are zero at level 1 and the same at level 4

Ophelia
- New effects for first ability
- Command now allows Ophelia to control 1/2/2/3 creeps at once, from 1/2/3/3
- Level 4 of Command no longer grants Magic armor to Ophelia’s creeps

Pebbles
- New death

Pharaoh
- Anyone within 175 units of Pharaoh will be gauranteed to be caught inside of his mummy wall on use

Plague Rider
- Agility Gain lowered to 1.8 from 2.0
- Damage rescaled to 42-51 from 37-56

Pollywog Priest
- Remodeled and effects redone
- Range increased to 550 from 500
- Base Armor increased from 1.14 to 1.30
- Number of targets hit by Electric Jolt is no longer capped
- Cooldown of Voodoo Wards is now 110/95/80 from 110 at all levels

Predator
- “Voice”

Puppetmaster
- Puppeteer’s Hold duration lowered by .5 seconds at all levels

Pyromancer
- Fixed Fervor doing 1 DPS too much to buildings
- Fervor set not to propagate to illusions

Slither
- Wards bounty to 10-15 from 3-9

Soul Reaper
- Base Agility increased to 16 from 15

Soulstealer
- Dread can no longer be toggled. This fixes the keybinding issues.

Succubus
- Voice
- Manacost of Succubus’ Hold is now 150/250/350 from 200/300/400

Thunderbringer
- Cast times of all abilities lowered to 300ms from 400ms
- Damage from Chain Lightning is now instant on the first target
- AOE of Lightning Rod increased to 1000 from 800

Valkyrie
- Increase turn speed to 900 (from 360)
- After hitting a target with Javelin of Light, an 800 area around the target will continue to be revealed for 3.34 seconds
- Reworked collision on the Javelin of Light. It now has a radius of 80 (reduced from 110) and will consistently hit targets with an 80 radius regardless of what angle it is being thrown
* Previously, it was using a rectangle 110 units wide to calculate collision, so when thrown on an angle it would often hit targets greater than 110 units away
- Javelin of Light is no longer “Physical”
* This means it will hit someone who has void talisman active
- Javelin of Light plays a popup indicating the length of the stun
- Removed cast noise on casting Javelin of Light
- Removed glow from Javelin of Light

Vindicator
- Base Armor increased from 1.30 to 1.50
- Damage rescaled to 45-55 from 39-61

Voodoo Jester
- Base Agility increased to 14 from 13
- Base Intelligence increased to 22 from 19
- Intelligence Gain increased to 3.0 from 2.9
- Initial projectile speed of Acid Cocktail increased to 750 from 650
- Cast time on Cursed Ground reduced to 0.35 seconds (from 0.5)

Warbeast
- Manacost of Battle Cry reduced to 15,10,5,0 from 15,20,25,30

Witch Slayer
- Base Agility increased to 16 from 15
- Base Intelligence increased to 23 from 22

Zephyr
- The gust of wind from Gust now travels 540 total distance (reduced from 640)
- Cyclones now display the time remaining before the next cyclone expires (thanks to Tisser)
- Typhoon damage lowered to 60,80,100 from 60,90,120
- Typhoon no longer spawns max Cyclones instantly. Instead, it spawns one cyclone per second for the duration of the Typhoon

DotA 6.67 Changelog

Axe
- Culling Blade Scepter CD reduced by 5 seconds

Beastmaster
- Greater Hawk bounty increased from 40 to 65 gold

Bone Fletcher
- Death Pact reworked

Bounty Hunter
- Tracked targets now have a visual effect above their head that is only shown to Bounty Hunter’s allies. Neither the target nor any enemy can see it. (concept only: 102922)

Bristleback
- Warpath maximum stacks increased from 4 to 5

Centaur Warchief
- Return’s damage reworked from 12.5/25/37.5/50 damage to attackers to 10+26/34/42/50% of your Strength as damage

Chen
- Test of Faith cooldown from 30 to 30/28/26/24

Clockwerk
- Power Cogs unit trapping code improved a little bit
- Hookshot Scepter CD from 20 to 15

Dirge
- Tombstone’s HP increased from 150/300/450/600 to 200/400/600/800

Furion
- Sprout can now be cast at a target point (173567)

Huskar
- Inner vitality heal interval is smoother (same overall heal)

Jakiro
- Base armor increased by 2

Kaldr
- Cold Feet mana cost increased from 90/100/110/120 to 150

Kunkka
- Base armor decreased by 1

Leoric
- Vampiric Aura AoE increased from 600 to 900
- Reincarnation now costs a constant 100 manacost instead of 100/150/200

Leshrac
- Split Earth cast range increased from 650 to 750
- Diabolic Edict cooldown reduced from 30/28/26/24 to 22
- Visual effect now properly shows on Scourge towers
- Fixed Diabolic Edict considering invulnerable buildings as valid targets and wasting some hits

Lich
- Frost Nova’s Level 4 cooldown from 9.25 to 8

Lina Inverse
- Fiery Soul Attack Speed buff from 20/30/40/50% to 30/40/50/60%
- Light Strike Array cooldown from 10 to 8

Luna
- Lunar Blessing reworked

Lycanthrope
- Howl hero bonus damage from 11/22/33/44 to 20/30/40/50 (unit bonus damage scaling remains 4/8/12/16)
- Howl duration from 16 to 12.
- Howl cooldown from 35 to 50/45/40/35.

Omni Knight
- Repel duration decreased from 5/10/15/20 duration to 6/8/10/12
- Repel cooldown decreased from 20 to 14
- Repel mana cost decreased from 60/70/80/90 to 50

Magnataur
- Reworked some of his abilities

Medusa
- Intelligence per level reduced from 2.25 to 1.85

Naix
- Open Wounds cooldown from 30/25/20/15 to 24/20/16/12

Nerubian Assassin
- Spiked Carapace replaced with Urna Swarm
- Impale damage reduced from 80/160/230/300 to 80/140/200/260

Nerubian Weaver
- New Ability

Phantom Lancer
- Juxtapose illusions now take 450% extra damage (up from 400%)

Puck
- Added Aghanims to Faerie Dragon (5->7 Dream Coil duration, +100 break damage, +50 manacost)

Pudge
- Flesh Heap death AoE increased from 400 to 525

Queen of Pain
- Shadow Strike duration damage increased from 10/20/40/50 to 15/30/45/60

Spirit Breaker
- Charge of Darkness stun duration improved from 1/1.5/2/2.5 to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6
- Charge of Darkness chargeup movement bonus standardized across all levels (now 15% each second). As before, magic immunity is gained when fully charged.
- Charge of Darkness movement bonus now lasts for 2 seconds after impact with target.
- Fixed the enemy seeing Spiritbreaker briefly on the minimap when Charge of Darkness is cast
- Fixed Spiritbreaker losing attack focus when you Greaterbash someone

Silencer
- Curse of the Silent now displays a buff indicator
- Game-wide sound gets muted when Global Silence is used (173422)

Slardar
- Amplify Damage duration reduced from 30 to 25 seconds
- Sprint duration reduced from 25 to 20
- Sprint cooldown reduced from 45 to 40
- Sprint bonus MS rescaled from 10/20/30/40% to 20/27/33/40%
- Sprint damage amp increased from 10% to 15%

Spectre
- Desolate’s search AOE improved from 400 to 350

Storm Spirit
- Attack range lowered from 500 to 480

Sven
- Storm Bolt cooldown increased from 14 to 15

Techies
- Now gains XP for kills he gets with his remote mines or proximity mines if he is outside of the normal xp range.

Tiny
- Grow movement bonus per level increased from 5 to 10

Terrorblade
- Soul Steal Reworked

Tidehunter
- Ravage now has some travel time as it grows outwards

Rooftrellen
- Reworked Eyes in the Forest

Troll Warlord
- Berserker’s Rage bash rebalanced from 5/5/10/10% chance for 2 seconds bash and 25/50/25/50 damage to 10% chance for 0.8/1.2/1.6/2 seconds bash and 20/30/40/50 damage

Vengeful Spirit
- Wave of Terror now reduces HP instead of dealing damage (same overall HP loss, but now does not disable clarity/dagger/etc)

Venomancer
- Poison Nova duration increased from 12 to 12/14/15/16 (Agh’s) seconds

Zeus
- Static Field AoE increased from 800 to 900

Arcane Ring
- Armor bonus increased from 3 to 4

Armlet of Mordiggian
- Toggle cooldown from 10 to 5 seconds

Blades of Attack
- Cost decreased from 500 to 450

Bloodstone
- Bonus HP increased by 50 from 450/400 HP/MP to 500/400 HP/MP

Ethereal Blade
- New Recipe Item

Dagon
- Recipe reduced from 1350 to 1300

Force Staff
- Cooldown decreased from 25 to 20

Headdress of Rejuvenation
- HP regen aura increased from 2 to 3

Mjollnir & Maelstrom
- Chance to proc lighting increased from 20->25% and adjusted the damage (same overall damage rates, just little more reliable)

Manta Style
- Recipe increased from 500 to 600

Necronomicon
- Summoned units are now able to attack Ancients

Sange
- Recipe decreased from 800 to 750

Satanic
- Unholy Rage activated lifesteal from 150 to 175%

Soul Ring
- New Recipe Item (180353)

Yasha
- Recipe decreased from 800 to 750

* Implemented a new mode for observers -zm (-zoommode). It pulls the camera outwards to see more action at the same time.

* Implemented a new game mode -cp (-capturepoint)

This game mode requires more teamwork and coordination than you might expect from your usual funmode.

After 10 minutes, 6 capture points appear at fixed locations around the map. Once the capture points are created, those areas are permanently visible to both teams for the rest of the game.

To capture a point, you have to be standing on it for a certain amount of time. The more heroes standing on it the faster you gain control over it. There cannot be any enemy heroes at a point you are trying to capture. With 5 heroes it requires 12.5 seconds to capture (60 for just 1 hero). Heroes cannot be invisible while on a capture point area. Illusions do not count as heroes when on top of a Capture Point.

There are 3 types of capture points, if you get 2 of the same type then they stack. Duplicates of each type are available on opposite sides of the map.

The game announces when an enemy captures a point. It is also visible on the minimap which areas you have captured and which areas the enemy has. When you capture a point, your team’s heroes gain bonuses to various attributes (described below)

Combat – CP Type 1 [Bonus Damage/Armor]: Increases your Damage by 14 and Armor by 4 (Twice of each if you have both)
Regen – CP Type 2 [Bonus Health/Mana Regeneration]: Increases your Health Regeneration by 4 and Mana Regeneration by 1
Speed – CP Type 3 [Bonus Movement/Attack Speed]: Increases your Movement Speed by 4% and Attack Speed by 12%

If you have two of the same type, you get twice the bonus. For example, if you have both Combat you get 28 bonus damage and 8 bonus armor.

Whenever your team captures or recaptures a point, all allied heroes in that area will get healed for 200 hp/mp, gain 150 bonus gold and bonus xp (4 creeps worth)

The image below has the Capture Point placement locations.

Red = Speed
Blue = Combat
Orange = Regeneration

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* A few new tree placement changes (see images inside)

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* Bonus magic damage to Decrepified units changed from 44% to 40%

* Removed creep targetability from Clarity Potion
* Added text message when a courier gets upgraded (197577)
* Updated various tooltips (168489)
* Fixed Moonwells visual chargeup animation
* Earthsplitter visual effect now more accurate
* Added bonus gold/xp values to the final scoreboard
* Added correct portrait with crown for King Leoric (155373)
* Fixed some minor issues with Ironwood Branch icon (147529)
* Fixed a lot of passive icon inconsistencies

* CM heros updated (In: Alchemist, Visage, Bounty Hunter, Spiritbreaker, Lucifer, Out: NA, Mag, TB, Tree, Weaver, Clinkz)
* Only blue can type -cm 1/2
* Fixed inaccurate replay data for assists (“Assist”+AssistPlayerId,VictimPlayerId)
* Added Neutral Creep kills replay data during update inteveral (“NK”+PID,Value)
* Replay data event written for successful player swaps (“SWAP_1_3″,heroid for player 1 swapping player 3, heroid is the id that player 1 receives)

* Added a reminder in Charge of Darkness tooltip about the ability to start the charge at any time
* Added an Autocast icon for Urna Swarm
* Added an Autocast icon for Poison Attack
* Added level indicator to Healing Ward (193370)
* Improved cast animation for Diabolic Edict and now plays explosion effects randomly whenever they would otherwise be invisible/wasted iterations. (108991)
* New visual effect for the offensive use of Urn of Shadows
* New visual effect for Naga Siren’s Mirror Image
* New visual effect for Nighstalker when he is casting Fear at night (176005)
* New visual effect for Phantasm
* New projectile/impact visual effect for Chaos Bolt

* New Chaos Bolt icon (194693)
* New CK Critical Strike icon (194693)
* New Reality Rift icon (194693)
* New Phantasm icon (194693)
* New Invoke icon (125104)
* New Netherstrike icon (124841)
* New Chronosphere icon (179529)
* New Torrent icon (147053)

* New Juggernaut Aghanims visual effect (141332)
* New Techies Aghanims visual effect (198827)
* New Bane Aghanims visual effect (198827)
* New Necrolyte Aghanims visual effect (198827)
* New Faceless Void Aghanims visual effect (166075)

* Fixed various rare exploits
* Fixed some bugs with Dark Pact
* Fixed some possible bugs with power cogs
* Fixed Ice Blast interaction with Reincarnation
* Fixed Mekansm not healing Visage’s Familiars
* Fixed a fatal error exploit with couriers
* Fixed a bug with Wild Axes on Furion’s Sprout
* Fixed a bug when using Chilling Touch on Lanaya
* Fixed Double Click TP being bugged from 1.24e patch
* Fixed some bugs with Goo interaction with other spells
* Fixed a bug with dying while casting Charge of Darkness
* Fixed an allied Death Coil being blocked by Linkin Sphere
* Fixed a couple of areas you could get stuck while using TP Scrolls
* Fixed a rare Armlet crash bug possible when using leaver items
* Fixed some minor issues with Javelin with spirit bear and invisible units
* Fixed some Roshan issues where he could sometimes get stuck in trees
* Fixed bugs with Jinada when it comes out of cooldown while in Windwalk
* Fixed some damage interactions between Centaur’s Return and Frost Armor
* Fixed some minor bugs with stat stealing from Medusa while using splitshot
* Fixed some occurances where Scourge creeps on the bottom lane would skip the first waypoint
* Fixed a bug that made it sometimes possible to use items during Blackhole depending on your entry vector

DotA v6.66 Changelog, All hell’s breakin loose

Batrider
- Flaming Lasso cooldown decreased from 130/90/50 to 90/70/50

Beastmaster
- Wild Axes now properly hits invisible units

Bounty Hunter
- Jinada cooldown improved from 22/17/12/7 to 21/16/11/6

Clockwerk
- Rocket Flare cooldown decreased from 30/25/20/15 to 20/18/16/14

Dirge
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter for Undying.

Doom Bringer
- Reworked and rebalanced most of his abilities

Earthshaker
- Echo Slam no longer counts corpses for damage Echo damage (They used to count them for partial damage)
- Aftershock AoE from 280 to 300
- Enchant Totem damage increased from 50/100/150/200 to 75/150/225/300
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Earthshaker’s Echo Slam (echo bounces twice for each hero it hits)
- Echo Slam’s Echo damage increased from 35/45/65 to 40/55/70
- Echo Slam’s unit search aoe increased by 75 (this is not the damage aoe, just the initial unit search aoe)
- Note: The main idea with most of these changes is to emphasis the timing aspect of the echo slam more. Some other buffs are done to compensate for the reduced power from the corpse count loss.

Enchantress
- Movement speed increased from 295 to 305
- Enchant’s slow effect increased from 10/20/30/40% to 20/30/40/50%
- Enchant’s slow effect duration decreased from 7 to 5.5 seconds

Faceless Void
- Timewalk slow increased from 10/20/30/40% to 25/30/35/40%
- Timewalk cooldown rebalanced from 13 to 19/17/15/13

Invoker
- Invoke cd from 30/25/12/5 cd to 22/17/12/5
- Invoke manacost from 20/50/80/110 to 20/40/60/80
- Alacrity bonus damage increased from 20-80 to 30-90
- Alacrity duration increased from 8 to 9
- Chaos Meteor damage improved:
Main damage from 40-130 to 55-145 every 0.5 seconds
Burn damage from 8-26 to 11-29 per second
- Cold Snap now applies an initial ministun on cast
- Forged Spirits Armor is now based on Exort and Range is now based on Quas
- Ghost Walk manacost reduced from 300 to 200
- Ghost Walk slow rescaled from 10-40% to 20-40%
- Ice Wall manacost increased from 125 to 175
- Ice Wall cooldown increased from 20 to 25
- Sun Strike damage rescaled from 75-450 to 100-475
- Tornado range increased from 700-3100 -> 800-3200
- Tornado duration increased from 0.6-2.2 -> 0.8-2.5
- Tornado damage increased from max of 375 to 400
- Quas per instance regen from 0.75 to 1

Juggernat
- Blade Fury cooldown reduced from 30 to 30/28/26/24

Kaldr
- Cold Feet manacost increased from 90 to 90/100/110/120
- Ice Blast impact delay is a little slower now
- Ice Blast no longer pierces Shallow Grave
- Ice Blast debuff is now purgable

Ogre Magi
- Fireblast Multicast upgraded cooldown improved from 15/12/9/6 to 12/10/8/6

Obsidian Destroyer
- Essence Aura no longer has a lower chance to trigger when autocasting Arcane Orb

Priestess of the Moon
- Moonlight Shadow manacost from 200/250/300 to a constant 175

Pugna
- Decrepify cast range increased from 550 to 550/600/650/700

Queen of Pain
- Scream of Pain now affects Decrepified units

Spirit Breaker
- Nether Strike now makes Spirit Breaker magic immune for the second that he is fading out during its cast
- Charge of Darkness decreased manacost from 120 to 75
- Charge of Darkness cast mechanic reworked

Slark
- Pounce Leash now gets removed if the target blinks or teleports away
- Shadow Dance passive no longer works if Slark is Doomed

Ursa Warrior
- Undid previous cast animation change on Overpower
- Fixed a bug in the recent Overpower rewrite that prevented it from being removed by purge/euls

Visage
- Soul Assumption damage per charge decreased from 130 to 110
- Soul Assumption manacost from 100/120/140/160 to 100
- Soul Assumption cooldown from 7/6/5/4 to 4
- Familiars Bounty reduced from 150 to 100
- Familiars now magic reduction from 70/95/95% to 95% at all levels
- Familiars bonus damage attack bonus attack damage from 72/90/100 to 84/105/126
- Familiars now have a small (160) ranged attack instead of melee
- Gravekeeper’s Cloak recharge time improved from 14/12/10/8 to 10/9/8/7

Warlock
- Fatal Bonds damage increased from 3.75/7.5/11.25/15% to 15%
- Fatal Bonds link count reduced from 5 to 2/3/4/5

Aghanim’s Scepter
- Added Undying and Earthshaker

Divine Rapier
- Can no longer be destroyed by attacking the item
- If a player other than the original owner of the Rapier picks it up, they cannot drop it

Force Staff
- Double clicking force staff now acts as if you clicked on yourself

Maelstrom & Mjollnir
- Increased max bounces from 3 to 4

Phase Boots
- Cooldown from 12 seconds to 10 seconds
- Duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds
- Movement bonus from 10% to 12%

Scroll of Town Portal
- Double clicking on scrolls now automatically targets your fountain

* Switch now only works as long as the items of the leaver remain intact. Once someone leaves, the inventory of that hero becomes locked. Players can use an -unlock command, but once that is done switch cannot be used on that hero anymore. Once this feature is used enough to be considered stable, switch will be usable by default (-so mode won’t be required) with the restrictions described above. The gold that the leaver is carrying is also frozen until the hero is either unlocked or swapped.

* Added a new command, “-controloff”/”-controlon”, to disable control help in the game (to prevent stuff like adding summoned units to your current selection: Invoker, Techies, Lanaya, etc)
* Added a new test command to toggle creeps spawn off and on -spawnoff/-spawnon
* Restored -mc, but with more detailed statistics to match up with the recently changed Multicast chance system
* To prevent some abuses with -unstuck, it no longer works if your taking damage during the first few seconds after you enter the command

* Doubled Satyr Trickster manapool and purge manacost (primarily affects just stolen ability via Devour)
* Fixed the teleport effects sometimes being visually on an angle
* Fixed Nightcrawler status buff text format
* Fixed Tango visual buff being slightly inaccurate (this is just a cosmetic improvement/fix)

* Added a visual effect for allied players to indicate which creep you infesting
* Added a new sound set for Furion (91160)
* Added a new sound set for Clockwerk
* Added a new visual effect for Spirit Lance
* Added new charge icon for Soul Assumption (137459)
* Disabled visual charge indication if the cooldown for Soul Assumption is not ready
* Added a new overhead indictor for Soul Assumption (137459)
* Added an visaul effect when Eclipse misses to help players keep track (109017)
* Phantom Assassin images now have the proper fade visual effect (114120)
* Improved Eyes In The Forest cast animation (95740)
* Added new visual effect for Flesh Golem (51874)

* Game mode status, rune messages and a few other misc strings are now externalized properly to allow for more flexible translation choices
* Added replay parsing data for assists (Format: “Assist”+I2S(KillerId),DyingId)

* Fixed a few areas where you could get stuck in using TP scrolls
* Fixed Malefice not reliably working if the enemy is fogged
* Fixed Last Word from firing off on the precast for Ice Blast and Unstable Concoction
* Fixed Ice Blast indicator staying at edge of map until you release it
* Fixed Ice Blast debuff from overriding Time Lapse
* Fixed some Dark Pact bugs
* Fixed Essence Shift from piercing Shallow Grave
* Fixed Essence Shift sometimes not registering properly at high attack speeds
* Fixed Murloc sometimes not attacking the pounced target
* Fixed dispersion damage on creeps
* Fixed bugs with Charge of Darkness interaction with euls and ghost scepter
* Fixed some mac specific bugs