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- Free Hero Pool will be updated on Friday the 27th. The list is as follows:
* 
Valkyrie
* 
Sand Wraith
* 
Shadowblade
* 
Master of Arms
* 
Soulstealer
* 
Defiler
* 
Pollywog Priest
* 
Thunderbringer
* 
Plague Rider
* 
Hellbringer
* 
Armadon
* 
Drunken Master
* 
Keeper Of the Forest
* 
Pebbles
* 
Accursed
- In celebration of the Lunar New Year we will be adding special limited edition
Pharaoh Alt Avatar -
Golden Emperor!
* He will only be available from 12:00 AM EST 1/27/2012 through 8:00 02/03/2012!
- Also in celebration of the Year of the Dragon you will find a new Year of the Dragon Icon available for purchase!
- Fixed an issue causing some users in large clans to suffer periodic hitches.
- Creeps sounds tweaked and generally lowered in volume
- host_timescale gets reset when disconnecting from a practice game
- You can no longer spectate or mentor someone who is already spectating or mentoring
Kongor
- Gold received for getting the last hit on
Kongor normalized from 300-400 to 350
Towers
- Gold received for getting the last hit on Towers normalized from 452-470,502-520,552-570,602-620 to 460,510,560,610
Structure Gold (Meatball/Huts)
- Gold received for getting the last hit on a Structure normalized from 102-120 to 110
== Items ==
Abyssal Skull
- Minor tooltip fix
Charged Hammer
- Fixed a wonky effect
Couriers
- Fixed death animation so it sinks in the ground correctly
Daemonic Breastplate
- Scaled the effects under player's feet better
Energizer
- Recipe cost reduced from 700 to 600
Genjuro
- Slow no longer goes through Magic Immunity
Helm of the Black Legion
- Now charge based. 20 charges max, loses 5 per Hero, Tower, or Boss attack and 1 per creep attack
- Gains a charge every 400 MS
- Won't block unless there are enough charges
Nullstone
- Fixed a wonky effect
Ring of Sorcery
- Increased manacost from 25 to 40
Savage Mace
- No longer stacks with itself
Shieldbreaker
- Increased recipe cost from 900 to 1000
- Removed Deflection pierce
Sol's Bulwark
- Armor auras lowered from +/- 5 to +/- 4
Stormspirit
- Now lasts 2 seconds, after landing the target is Perplexed (Can't use items) for another 0.5 second
== Heroes ==
Aluna
- Base Attack cooldown lowered from 1700 to 1550
- Increased starting Intelligence from 21 to 22
Arachna
- Increased starting Strength from 17 to 18
- Increased starting Agility from 22 to 23
Corrupted Disciple
- Corrupted Conduit Mana cost from 20/30/40/50 to 50
Defiler
- Starting Agility from 14 to 16
- Base Armor from 0.96 to 1.74 (After Agility)
- Grave Silence radius from 200/275/350/350 to 250/300/350/350
- Fixed interaction of
Unholy Expulsion with
Geometer's Bane
Devourer
- Devour unbinds the target on impact (prevents
Valkyrie's
Courageous Leap cancels for instance)
Electrician
- Can no longer use
Energy Shield with less than 5 mana
- Energy Absorption no longer has the first target mechanic (you no longer get 5 charges for 1 hero or 3 for a creep on first hit)
Engineer
- Spider Mines trigger(chasing) radius from 200 to 250
Flux
- Can now target allies with
Magnetic Surge
- Magnetic Surge is now Physical
- Can now change between the Push or Pull without a hitch if you are running
Forsaken Archer
- Fixed interaction between
Geometer's Bane &
Call of the Damned
Gauntlet
- Death sound touched up
Gemini
- Fixed
Twin Fangs playing through fog
- Fire and Ice now gain 80/90/100% of stats from
Gemini
- The wolves from
Fire and Ice now have their movespeed set to
Gemini's
- Fixed a rare anomaly where
Gemini would go in a random direction when recombining from split form
- Fixed
Gemini's split form
Fire Fang &
Ice Fang so they get stunned properly while bound to the projectile
- Removed invulnerability from
Fire Fang and
Ice Fang while bound to the projectile
- Fixed
Fire and Ice assist mechanic to function properly
Geomancer
- Dig no longer usable while Immobilized
- Can use Items while in
Dig
- Crystal Field decreased time till explosion from 3 to 3/2.75/2.5
Hammerstorm
- Increased Movespeed from 295 to 300
- Increased Intelligence gain from 1.3 to 1.6 per level
Jeraziah
- Protective Charm and
Sol's Blessing no longer gives assists
Kraken
- Strength gain lowered from 3.0 to 2.8 per level
- Release the Kraken damage per second lowered from 40/50/70 to 40/50/60
Lord Salforis
- Cast Time of
Life Tap removed
Magebane
- Starting Strength from 18 to 16
- Flash cast range from 1000/1075/1150/1150 to 850/950/1050/1150
Magmus
- Lava Surge no longer usable while Immobilized
Martyr
- Sacrificial Lamb reworked. Now gives allies increased movespeed and attack speed based on how low
Martyr is
* 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 Movespeed per 1% missing and 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 attack speed per 1% missing. Radius of 500
Midas
- Lion’s Pride and
Golden Salvo cooldowns swapped
* Lion’s Pride is now 18 starting and
Golden Salvo is 13
- Lion’s Pride heal reduced from 75/120/165/210 to 30/60/90/120
Monarch
- Starting Armor reduced from 2.1 to 1.1
- Starting Movespeed from 300 to 295
- Crippling Pollen reduced cast range from 600 to 550
* This is listed as 500 in the in-game client. It should be 550.
- Fixed the last second of
Crippling Pollen so that the slow doesn't go through magic immunity
Moon Queen
- Increased attack range from 330 to 350
- Lunar Glow increased from 6/13/20/27 to 7/14/21/28
Pandamonium
- Face Smash unbinds the target on impact (prevents
Valkyrie's
Courageous Leap cancels for instance)
Pharaoh
- Made his
Wall of Mummies suck in enemy player-controlled non-hero units
Predator
- Venomous Leap cooldown from 20/17/14/11 to 16/14/12/10
Puppet Master
- Base Damage from 40-51 to 46-55
Revenant
- Essence Shroud cooldown from 30 to 25
- Essence Shroud duration from 10/15/20/25 to 12/15/18/21
Soul Reaper
- Increased starting armor from 1.10 to 1.75
- Judgment manacost reduced from 125/145/165/185 to 120/140/160/180
- Withering Presence radius increased from 700/800/900/1000 to 800/900/1000/1100
Succubus
- Smitten reworked. Now decreases all damage dealt from the target by 10/20/30/40%, 15 second duration
- Succubus' Hold unbinds the target on use (prevents
Valkyrie's
Courageous Leap cancels for instance)
Tremble
- Starting Armor reduced from 4.92 to 3.92
- Terrorform manacost from 110 to 150/140/130/120
Zephyr
- Cyclones heal reduced from 30 to 25
- Fixed interaction between
Geometer's Bane &
Cyclones
- Typhoon no longer gives an extra tornado (from 7/9/11 to 6/8/10)
- Typhoon no longer gives
Zephyr a tornado unless he stays in it's radius
== Bugfixes ==
Aluna: Fixed
Deja Vu's 3rd activation from playing through fog
Arachna: Scripting optimized
Artesia: Made her
Arcane Missile slow transferable via
Parasite
Balphagore: Optimized
Corpse Conversion corpse detection slightly
Behemoth: Fixed
Fissure so you can't tab to the invisible gadgets
Bombardier: Scripting optimized
Bubbles:
Shell Surf now spawns 50 units closer to him so it hits units right in front of him
Bubbles: Fixed
Kelp Field from playing in fog
Chipper:
Rockets Barrage touch changed from Physical to Magic
Chipper: Scripting optimized
Corrupted Disciple: Scripting optimized
The Dark Lady: Touched up a few animations
Devourer: Made
Devour give assists properly if it did no damage
Drunken Master: Scripting optimized
Empath: Fixed
As One from playing in fog
Engineer: Scripting optimized
Gravekeeper: Minor fix to Illusions
Kraken: Fixed a bug where the target's corpse stands up after death if they died while bound to
Tsunami Charge
Lord Salforis: Fixed
Life Tap playing through fog
Martyr: Fixed up the Alt Avatar's sounds when casting abilities
Master of Arms: Shrunk blue attack projectile effects slightly on towers
Parasite: Fixed up some weird interactions when he is inside a creep
Parasite: Fixed him so he is correctly disarmed when inside a creep
Pyromancer:
Burning! now capped at 127 charges
Rhapsody: Fixed up her model and the weird animations going on
Scout: Fixed
Detonate ability (for both
Scout &
Electric Eyes) so they can be used while stunned as well
Shadowblade:
Soul's Sight bonus damage no longer propogates to Illusions
Succubus: Made
Succubus' Hold give assists properly if it did no damage
Torturer: Minor fix to
Torment's interaction when multiple items used on him at once
Wretched Hag: Animation smoothing on Wretched Hottie
Zephyr: Scripting optimized
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