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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

CHANGELOGS

VERSION 6.67C

Changelog 6.67c
* Fixed casting distance exploits with Skewer
* Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause everyone in the game gets a massive FPS drop for a minute
* Fixed Cleave/Anchor Smash from instantly killing Swarm creatures
* Various performance improvements when casting The Swarm
* Fixed Soul Steal channeling text in the tooltip
* Non-hero units now do half damage to The Swarm
* Commands like -test and -wtf are now restricted if there is a gamebot deciding the mode to be used
* Fixed a bug with lifesteal and The Swarm creatures
* Fixed a rare Mac issue with shared Soul Ring
* Added passive icon for Strygwyr's Thirst
* Added passive icon for Plague


Changelog 6.67b
* Fixed some important bugs from the last patch


Changelog 6.67 


 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)



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


* 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


Changelog 6.66b
* Fixed a major exploit recently discovered

* Recoded Bounty Hunter's wind walk damage bonus as to not require two separate attacks to trigger his new passive

* Some Doombringer nerfs:


* Readjusted the Divine Rapier pickup rules to prevent some abuses.


* -unlock now requires a majority vote before the gold and items of a leaver will be released. As a reminder, once a hero is unlocked, it cannot be switched.

* Added a 15 second wait period before the drafting begins in -CD to give both teams a chance to look at the heroes.

* Renamed the controlon/off commands to be clearer which is which. They are now -disableselection (-ds) and -enableselection (-es)


* Various map optimizations
* Fixed an old recipe fusing exploit with leaver items that could result in crashes
* Fixed Essence Shift on units that change form
* Fixed a couple of bugs with Dark Pact debuff
* Added replay data for creep kills/denies (at time intervals,
format: "CSK"+I2S(PlayerID),value and "CSD"+I2S(PlayerID),value)
* Fixed various tooltips
* Fixed gold not being split after using -unlock when someone leaves via -kickafk
* Fixed being able to -unlock while a switch vote is ongoing
* Fixed some spells incorrectly triggering Magic Stick/Essence Aura (Devoured Neutral Troll Priests Heal, Radiance Swap, etc)
* Fixed some -CD language text issues as well as some missing parser information
* Fixed Arcane Ring recipe purchase hotkey
* Fixed some potential Basher bugs on some levels of Spirit Bear
* Fixed an abuse possible with one hero carrying multiple Urn of Shadows
* Fixed the second Forged Spirit from being added to your control despite having control helper turned off
* Fixed a bug with -switch when you have Rapier (that you don't own) on you
* Fixed a few other misc minor bugs



Changelog 6.66
 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