Help Support Our Growing Community

DOTAFire is a community that lives to help every Dota 2 player take their game to the next level by having open access to all our tools and resources. Please consider supporting us by whitelisting us in your ad blocker!

Want to support DOTAFire with an ad-free experience? You can support us ad-free for less than $1 a month!

Go Ad-Free
Smitefire logo

Join the leading DOTA 2 community.
Create and share Hero Guides and Builds.

Create an MFN Account






Or

7.20 Gameplay Update

Please review our General Rules & Guidelines before posting or commenting anywhere on DOTAFire.

Forum » News » 7.20 Gameplay Update 3 posts - page 1 of 1
Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by TheSofa » November 19, 2018 5:28pm | Report

GAMEPLAY UPDATE 7.20


GENERAL CHANGES

Map Changes
  • Map has been reworked

Deny Mechanics
  • Denies no longer give the denier 25% experience
  • Creep denies now give the denier 20% of the gold bounty (7-8 for melee, 9-11 for ranged)

Teleporting
Neutrals
  • Stacked Neutral creeps now give the stacker 35% of the bounty instead of 25%
  • Non-Ancient Neutrals now provide 5% more gold bounty

Hero Selection
  • Removed Daily Bonus Hero
  • Random once again picks from entire hero pool, but now ignores your 25 least played heroes
  • Random can now only be used for the first two hero picks on your team

Armor
  • Changed the Armor formula to (0.052*Armor)/(0.9 + 0.048*Armor)
  • Tier 1 Towers: 17 to 12
  • Tier 2 Towers: 19 to 14
  • Tier 3 Towers: 19 to 14
  • Tier 4 Towers: 29 to 21
  • Melee Barracks: 18 to 13
  • Ranged Barracks: 12 to 9
  • Ancient: 18 to 13
  • Fillers: 14 to 10
  • Shrines: 24 to 17

Hero Kill Bounty Experience
  • Killing Sprees now give an experience bonus ranging from 200 to 1250
  • Reworked and Simplified experience hero kill bounty system. No longer includes a team experience component.

    Details:

Mana and HP Regeneration
Root Mechanics
Cleave and Splash Changes
  • Cleave damage is now normal physical damage type, causing it to get reduced by the armor of each unit impacted
  • Cleave abilities damage values have been rescaled
  • Increased standard Cleave area. Distance increased from 625 to 650, final width increased from 330 to 360
    Affects: Great Cleave, Empower, Battle Fury, and Talents
  • Psi Blades can now spill off of illusions
  • Changed how illusions' incoming damage is processed; it now happens at the final step [?]
  • Fixed Splash damage being affected by Spell Lifesteal and Spell Amplification
  • Fixed Splash damage not considering armor type
  • Black Dragon Splash Attack damage type changed from Magical Damage to Physical Damage
  • Black Dragon Splash Attack now does its full damage in the 250 AoE [?]
  • Similar adjustments to Dragon Knight's splash damage described below

Spell Immunity and Dispels



Towers and Structures

Towers no longer gain extra armor per nearby hero. Tower health increased to compensate:
  • Tier 1 Towers health increased from 1600 to 1800
  • Tier 2 Towers health increased from 1600 to 1900
  • Tier 3 Towers health increased from 1600 to 2000
  • Tier 4 Towers health increased from 1600 to 2100

    also
  • Melee Barracks health increased from 2000 to 2200
  • Ranged Barracks health increased from 1200 to 1300
  • Ancient health increased from 4250 to 4500

Miscellaneous Changes
  • Day/Night cycle increased from 4 minutes to 5 minutes
  • Scan no longer ignores units in the Roshan pit
  • Max attack speed increased from 600 to 700
  • Default aura range increased from 900 to 1200
  • Removed movement speed modifiers from spawned creeps
  • Added a new sound that gets played when all of a team's barracks are destroyed
  • Opening secondary shops now highlights the items in the full shop UI, rather than switching to
  • a filtered view
  • AoE of other wards are now shown during ward placement
  • Added a new game state, Leashed. Leashed units follow the same rules as rooted units with regards to teleport and mobility based abilities, but can still use normal movement. The following abilities now apply the Leashed state: Pounce, Dream Coil and Soulbind
  • Self damage no longer disables things like Clarity, Bottle, Blink, etc
  • Lifesteal amount is no longer limited by the current HP of the target and uses the full damage you are dealing instead
  • Backpack can no longer be manipulated while taunted
  • Reduced the following movement speed talents: Abaddon (25->20), Axe (40->30), Bane (65->50), Batrider (50->40), Bounty Hunter (25->20), Dazzle (50->40), Enchantress (25->20), Legion Commander (50->40), Lich (25->20), Naga Siren (25->20), Nature's Prophet (35->25), Night Stalker (45->40), Nyx Assassin (35->30), Ogre Magi (90->75), Oracle (65->50), Outworld Devourer (35->30), Pangolier (25->20), Pugna (25->20), Sand King (25->20), Shadow Demon (35->30), Skywrath Mage (25->20), Techies (60->50), Tidehunter (25->20), Tinker (40->30), Underlord (30->25)
  • Intelligence heroes strength gain increased by 0.2 [?]
  • Killing an Observer Ward or Sentry Ward now prints out a notification in chat to your allies
  • Respawn time for level 1/2/3/4 increased from 5/7/9/13 to 6/8/10/14
  • Reverted a global turn rate change done in 7.00 (from 0.5 back to 0.4)
  • Attribute growth values that had 2 decimal points have now been rounded up
  • Shrines' Sanctuary ability now additionally restores 2% HP/Mana pool per second

ITEM CHANGES

Movement Speed

All item-based movement speed bonuses are now rebalanced around being a % rather than a constant value. Values were changed based on a base movement speed of 300. Boots generally lost 5 movement speed and Eul's Scepter of Divinity lost around 10 movement speed.

Phase Boots
  • Now passively gives you movement speed bonus, collision phasing and turn rate anytime you issue an attack to a target. Buff dispels whenever you move elsewhere and cancel your attack. Maximum range of 900 for attack orders. This has no cooldown. Buff lingers for 0.5 seconds
  • Check the item page for a full description!
Power Treads
Tranquil Boots
  • No longer disabled by attacking creeps

Sange
    Provides:
  • 16 Strength
  • 12% Status Resistance
  • 8 Attack damage
  • Recipe Cost reduced from 700 to 650
Yasha
    Provides:
  • 16 Agility
  • 12 Attack Speed
  • 8% Movement Speed
  • Recipe Cost reduced from 700 to 650

Kaya
    Provides:
  • 16 Intelligence
  • 12% Mana Loss Reduction
  • 8% Spell Amp
  • Recipe Cost increased from 500 to 650

Sange and Yasha
    Provides:
  • 16 Strength
  • 16 Agility
  • 16 Attack Speed
  • 16% Status Resistance
  • 12 Attack Damage
  • 12% Movement Speed

Yasha and Kaya
    Provides
  • 16 Intelligence
  • 16 Agility
  • 16 Attack Speed
  • 16% Mana Loss Reduction
  • 12% Spell Amplification
  • 12% Movement Speed

Kaya and Sange
    Provides
  • 16 Intelligence
  • 16 Strength
  • 16% Mana Loss Reduction
  • 16% Status Resistance
  • 12% Spell Amplification
  • 12 Attack Damage

Heaven's Halberd
  • Provides 14% Status Resistance instead of Maim

Ring of Tarrasque
  • New Item! Check out the item page for more details

Holy Locket
  • New Item! Check out the item page for more details
  • Causes all heals and HP regen you provide to be amplified by 25%

Solar Crest
  • Item Reworked! Check out the item page for more details!
  • Can be cast on allies or enemies, removing your own +12 Armor bonus. Grants allies +70 Attack Speed, +10% Movement Speed, +12 Armor. On enemies it applies -70 Attack Speed, -10% Movement Speed, -12 Armor

Crown

Ring of Aquila
  • Removed

Bracer
  • Item reworked! Check out the item page for more details!
  • Can no longer be upgraded into other items

  • Item reworked! Check out the item page for more details!
  • Can no longer be upgraded into other items

  • Item reworked! Check out the item page for more details!
  • Can no longer be upgraded into other items

Ring of Basilius
  • Mana regeneration increased from 0.5 to 0.65

Bloodstone
  • Item reworked! Check out the item page for more details!
  • No longer has Pocket Deny; instead, it doubles your mana regen and allows you to transfer mana into health

Aeon Disk
  • Health and Mana increased from 250 to 300
  • No longer provides Status Resistance
  • Provides 50% Status Resistance during the active buff

Satanic
  • Provides 30% Status Resistance
  • Bonus Damage reduced from 50 to 25

Heart of Tarrasque
  • New Recipe! Check out the item page for more details!
  • Provides 50% Health Regen Amplification
  • Out of combat regen from 7% to 5%
  • HP bonus reduced from 500 to 400

Spirit Vessel
  • No longer amplifies health regen more provides current % regen
  • Enemy damage per second increased from 20 to 25

Headress
  • Recipe cost reduced from 300 to 175

Mekansm
  • Overall cost reduced by 75
  • Recipe cost increased from 900 to 950

Arcane Boots
  • Mana Restore increased from 135 to 160

Guardian Greaves
  • Heal increased from 275 to 300
  • Mana restore increased from 160 to 200

Pipe of Insight
  • Now gives the +2 stats from its components

Skull Basher
  • Recipe cost reduced from 1000 to 900

Butterfly
  • Active ability removed

Crystalys
  • Bonus Damage increased from 30 to 38

Desolator
  • Armor Reduction increased from 6 to 7

Force Staff

Hand of Midas
  • Attack Speed increased from 30 to 40

Sentry Ward
  • Range increased from 850 to 1000

Gem of True Sight
  • Grants 300 ground vision to the team that last held it until it is picked up

Morbid Mask
  • No longer provides 10 Damage
  • Cost reduced from 1100 to 900

Mask of Madness
  • Damage reduced from 20 to 10


ITEM CHANGES
Abaddon
  • Reworked Curse of Avernus; check out the ability page for details!
  • Base movement speed increased from 310 to 325
  • Base agility increased by 6
  • Mist Coil projectile speed reduced from 1600 to 1300
  • Level 25 Talent changed from Curse of Avernus to +375 AoE Mist Coil

Ancient Apparition

Anti-Mage
  • Removed Aghanim Scepter upgrade
  • Spell Shield replaced with Counterspell; check it out on the ability page!

Arc Warden
  • Tempest Double bounty increased from a fixed 180 experience to 180/240/300
  • Level 15 talent changed from 350 health to 300

Axe
  • Berserker Call armor bonus reduced from 40 to 30

Bane
  • Enfeeble reworked; check the ability page out for details!
  • Level 15 Talent change from Enfeeble Steals Damage to Enfeeble Steals Attack Speed
  • Level 20 Talent change from +100 Enfeeble Damage Reduction to +100 Enfeeble Attack Speed Reduction

Batrider
  • Flaming Lasso now does 20/40/60 damage per second

Beast Master
  • Call of the Wild reworked; check the ability page out for detailed!
  • Miscellaneous Primal Roar buffs
  • Level 25 talent change from +2 hawks summoned to -15 Hawks Cooldoqn

Bloodseeker
  • Thirst now gives 30/45/60/75 Attack Speed
  • Thirst changed from giving attack damage to +30/45/60/75 Attack Speed
  • Thirst movement speed increased from 7/18/29/40% to 12/24/36/48%
  • Bloodrage incoming and outgoing damage reduced from 25/30/35/40% to 10/15/20/25%, regardless of distance
  • Blood Rite damage from 120/160/200/240 to 125/175/225/275
  • Rupture now deals 8% of current health as pure damage per 100 units moved. No longer lethal (!)
  • Rupture duration from 12 to 8/10/12
  • Rupture cast range from 800 to 700/800/900
  • Rupture cooldown from 60 to 70/60/50
  • Level 20 Talent changed from +18% Rupture Damage to +600 Rupture Cast Rang

Bounty Hunter
  • Jinada reworked; check out the ability page for details!
  • Track reworked; check out the ability page for details!
  • Strength from 18+2.1 to 20+2.5
  • Shadow Walk no longer deals 30/60/90/120 damage. Attacking out of invisibility now applies a 14/20/26/32% movement slow for 4 seconds
  • Level 20 Talent changed from +125% Jinada Critical Strike to +90 Jinada Gold Steal
  • Drunken Haze replaced with new ability: Cinder Brew; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Drunken Brawler reworked; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Intelligence gain increased from 1.3 to 1.6
  • Base movement speed increased from 295 to 305
  • Thunderclap manacost from 90/105/130/150 to 90/100/110/120

Bristleback

Broodmother
  • Spiderling/Spideright magic resistance reduced
Centaur
  • Return replaced by Retaliate; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Strength gain reduced from 4.3 to 4.0
  • Hoof Stomp damage reduced from 100/150/200/250 to 80/110/140/170
  • Double Edge damage changed from 175/250/325/400 to 150/200/250/300 + 40/60/80/100% of Strength as damage
  • Double Edge cast point from 0.5 to 0.4
  • Level 10 Talent changed from +10% Magic Resistance to +20 Movement Speed
  • Level 15 Talent changed from +15% Return Strength Damage to +50% Double Edge Strength Damage
  • Level 15 Talent changed from +75 Damage to +30 Base Damage
  • Level 20 Talent changed from +300 Double Edge Damage to +50 Return Damage

Chaos Knight
  • Chaos Strike reworked; check out the ability page for details!
  • Reality Rift reworked; check out the ability page for details!
  • Chaos Bolt minimum damage rescaled from 75/100/125/150 to 60/90/120/150
  • Chaos Bolt maximum damage rescaled from 200/225/250/275 to 180/210/240/270
  • Chaos Bolt projectile speed reduced from 1000 to 700
  • Phantasm: Illusion count increased from 1/2/3 to 3
  • Phantasm: Illusion damage rescaled from 100% to 40/70/100%
  • Phantasm: Illusion duration reduced from 42 to 30
  • Level 25 Talent changed from -7 Reality Rift Armor Reduction to -2s Chaos Strike Cooldown

Chen
  • Replaced Test of Faith with new ability: Divine Favour; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Penitence projectile reduced from 2000 to 1400
  • Penitence no longer amplifies damage
  • Penitence now causes all allied units attacking the target unit to gain 30/60/90/120 Attack Speed
  • Holy Persuasion now has a neutral creep level requirement of 4/5/6/6
  • Holy Persuasion minimum health increased from 700/800/900/1000 to 1000
  • Holy Persuasion now sends an allied unit anywhere on the map to you instead of sending them home. If the ally takes player based damage during this, the spell is interrupted
  • Holy Persuasion cooldown changed from 32/24/18/10 to 15 [?]
  • Level 15 Talent changed from -10s Test of Faith Cooldown to -10s Divine Favor Cooldown

Clinkz
  • Replaced Death Pact with Burning Army; check out the ability page for more details!

Clockwerk
  • Rocket Flare projectile speed increased from 1750 to 2250
  • Power Cogs knockback distance increased from 250 to 300
  • Power Cogs knockback duration increased from 0.85 to 1
  • Power Cogs damage from 50/100/150/200 to 50/125/200/275
  • Power Cogs mana burn from 50/100/150/200 to 50/80/110/140

Crystal Maiden

Dark Seer
  • Surge duration rescaled from 3/4.5/6/7.5 to 6
  • Surgecooldown rescaled from 13/12/11/10 to 16/14/12/10
  • Surge now causes the target to be unslowable
  • Surge speed changed from 550 to +36/54/72/90%
  • Surge now causes the target to ignore movement speed limit
  • Surge now causes the target to ignore unit collisions
  • Wall of Replica now uses Vector Targeting to cast
  • Wall of Replica cast point reduced from 0.4 to 0.2
  • Wall of Replica cast range increased 500/900/1300 to 1300
  • Wall of Replica always now slows heroes touching the wall continuously, and the debuff lingers for 0.75 seconds after leaving the wall
  • Wall of Replica slow reduced from 75% to 50/60/70%

Dazzle
  • Replaced Weave with Bad Juju; check out the ability page for more details
  • Poison Touch mana cost increased from 80 to 80/90/100/110
  • Poison Touch debuff now stacks
  • Shadow Wave cooldown increased from 12/10/8/6 to 13/11/9/7
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +0.5 Weave Armor Per Second to +0.5 Bad Juju Armor Reduction
  • Level 25 Talent changed from -4s Shadow Wave Cooldown to +40% Poison Touch Slow

Death Prophet
  • Movement speed increased from 305 to 310
  • Spirit Siphon now drains 4/6/8/10% speed instead of just slowing

Disruptor

Doom
  • Base attack range increased from 150 to 175
  • Devour mini-rework; check the ability page for more details!
  • Scorched Earth no longer heals
  • Scorched Earth cooldown reduced from 55 to 55/50/45/40
  • [[Scorched Earth damage increased from 16/24/32/40 to 20/30/40/50
  • Level 10 Talent changed from +10 Scorched Earth Damage/Heal to +20 Scorched Earth Damage

Drow Ranger
  • Precision Aura now provides attack speed based on 20/36/52/68% of your Agility, rather than Damage based on 10/20/30/40% of your agility
  • Marksmanship reworked; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Level 20 Talent changed from +20 Marksmanship Agility to +25% Evasion
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +20% Precision Aura Damage to +25% Precision Aura Attack Speed

Earthshaker
  • Fissure cooldown increased from 18/17/16/15 to 21/19/17/15

Earth Spirit
  • Strength gain increased from 3.5 to 3.8
  • Rolling Boulder changed from an 80% slow for 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0 seconds to a stun for 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0
  • Rolling Boulder stun duration lasts an extra 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0 seconds when using a rock
  • Boulder Smash changed from a stun for 0.5/1/1.5/2 seconds to an 80% slow for 1.25/2.5/3.25/4 seconds
  • Boulder Smash damage increased from 50/100/150/200 to 105/170/235/300
  • Stone Remnant max charges increased from 6 to 7
  • Magnetize AoE increased from 300 to 350
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +1s Boulder Smash Stun duration to +0.75s Rolling Boulder Stun Duration

Elder Titan
  • Various Astral Spirit changes that basically remove pos. 2 carry ET; check ability description for more!
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +100% Lifesteal to Astral Spirit Grants Spell Immunity

Ember Spirit
  • Fire Remnant now does damage along the way (at half radius) instead of only at the destinatio

Enigma
  • Base movement speed reduced from 300 to 290
Faceless Void
  • Time Lock reworked; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Level 15 Talent from +100 Time Lock Damage to +70

Grimstroke
  • Soulbind duration reduced from 6/8/10 to 6/7/8
  • Phantom's Embrace creature now gets closer to the target before latching on
  • Ink Swell now does its maximum impact based on the duration it hit any hero, rather than amount of DPS dealt dealt to all heroes combined [?]
  • Ink Swell max stun duration reduced from 2.2/2.8/3.4/4 to 2/2.6/3.2/3.8
  • Level 20 Talent changed from +2 Hits to Kill Phantom to +1

Huksar
  • Berserker's Blood reworked to give HP regen instead of MR; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Inner Vitality replaced with new ability: Inner Fire; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +15% Lifesteal to +20%
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +10 Burning Spears DPS to +15
  • Level 20 Talent increased from +15 Strength to +20
  • Level 25 Talent increased from +150 Attack Range to +175

Io
  • Spirits Cooldown increased from 26/22/18/14 to 26/24/22/20

Jakiro
  • Macropyre damage now lingers on the affected units for 2 seconds

Juggernaut
  • Omnislash reworked to be real attacks instead of fake ones with real ones thrown in sometimes; check out the ability page for more details!

Keeper of the Light
  • Removed Mana Leak
  • Removed Recall
  • Blinding Light reworked into a basic ability; check out ability page for more details!
  • Spirit Form replaced with new ability: Will-O-Wisp; check out ability page for more details!
  • Aghanim's Scepter no longer provides vision during the day, only the Illuminate heal

Legion Commander

Lich
  • Sacrifice replaced with new ability: Sinister Gaze; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Ice Armor replaced with new ability: Frost Shield; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Intelligence increased from 16 + 3.3 to 20 + 3.6
  • Frost Blast manacost reduced from 125/150/170/190 to 105/130/155/180
  • Level 20 Talent changed from 180 Gold/Min to +2s Frost Shield
  • Level 20 Talent reduced from +175 Cast Range to +150
  • Level 25 Talent increased from Ice Armor Provides +30 HP Regen to Frost Shield Provides +60 HP Regen

Lifestealer
  • Feast changed from 4.5/5.5/6.5/7.5% of Current Health to 1.75/2.5/3.25/4% of Max Health
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +2% Current Health to +1% Max Health

Lion
  • Mana Drain slow increased from 16/19/22/25% to 20/24/28/32%
  • Finger of Death now gets stronger with each kill. Gains +50 Damage per hero kill. If the enemy dies within 3 seconds of being hit by the ability, the bonus is still granted

Lone Druid
  • Rabid replaced with new ability: Spirit Link; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Base Movement Speed increased from 320 to 340
  • Spirit Bear movement speed increased from 320/330/340/350 to 340/350/360/370
  • Spirit Bear attack backswing time reduced from 0.67 to 0.4
  • Spirit Bear attack damage increased from 35/45/55/65 to 35/50/65/80
  • Spirit Bear now has a level 1 ability, Defender. Passively causes 30% of the damage Lone Druid takes to be instead dealt to the Spirit Bear if you are within the leash range

Luna
  • Lunar Blessing now provides +8/14/20/26 Primary Attribute bonus as the aura bonus, rather than bonus damage
  • Level 15 Talent changed from +24 Lunar Blessing Damage to +14 Lunar Blessing Attributes

Lycan
  • Howl reworked; check the ability page out for more details!

Magnus
  • Shockwave reworked; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Skewer cooldown reduced from 25 to 26/24/22/20

Medusa
  • Stone Gaze no longer grants enemies +100% Magic Resistance
  • Stone Gaze no longer instantly kills illusions
  • Mystic Snake no longer changes damage type against Stone Gazed enemies

Meepo
  • Geostrike replaced with new ability: Ransack; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Base movement speed increased from 310 to 320
  • Clones now only drain 50% of normal XP from the area
  • Level 10 Talent reduced from +20 Damage to +15

Mirana
  • Leap now causes the direction Mirana is facing to point towards the leap direction (no more fail videos)
Monkey King
  • Mischief will now always transform into a courier when nearby another courier
  • Mischief now grants you 0.3 seconds of invulnerability when transforming into another unit
  • Mischief cooldown increased from 3 to 20

Morphling
  • Waveform cooldown increased from 14/13/12/11 to 17/15/13/11

Naga Siren
  • Riptide reworked; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Mirror Image duration reduced from 30 to 24
  • Mirror Image cooldown reduced from 40 to 45/40/35/30
  • Mirror Image manacost rescaled from 70/80/90/100 to 70/85/100/115
  • Mirror Image incoming damage reduced from 550/500/450/400% to 475/450/425/400%

Nature's Prophet
  • Treants experience bounty reduced from 30 to 20
  • Treants gold bounty reduced from 21 to 16

Necrophos
  • Base attack range reduced from 550 to 500
  • Heartstopper Aura now provides the unit kill regeneration instead of Death Pulse

Night Stalker
  • Removed Hunter in the Night active
  • Darkness replaced with new ability: Dark Ascension; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Crippling Fear reworked; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Level 25 changed from -8s Crippling Fear Cooldown to -40s Dark Ascension cooldown
    /list]

Nyx Assassin
  • Vendetta now applies a break debuff on the target for 4 seconds

Ogre Magi
  • Multicast now affects targeted offensive items. Will cause the item to cast again at a different random enemy unit
  • Multicast no longer provides passive improvements to the base abilities
  • Ignite cast range increased from 700 to 700/800/900/1000
  • Ignite base cast launches two projectiles
  • Fire Blast cooldown rescaled from 12 to 12/11/10/9
  • Bloodlust cooldown reduced from 20 to 20/18/16/14
  • Bloodlust movement speed reduced from 10/12/14/16% to 8/10/12/14%

Omniknight
  • Replaced Repel with new ability: Heavenly grace; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Purification can now be cast on Spell Immune units
  • Guardian Angel AoE increased from 600 to 1200
  • Guardian Angel cooldown reduced from 180/170/160 to 160/150/140
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +3s Repel Duration to -8s Heavenly Grace Cooldown

Oracle
  • Fortune's End damage increased from 90/120/150/180 to 120/150/180/210

Outworld Devourer Outworld Devourer
  • Replaced Essence Aura with new ability: Equilibrium; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Level 15 Talent changed from +15% Essence Aura Chance to +6 Armor
  • Arcane Orb now splashes its bonus damage in a 175 AoE around the target
  • Arcane Orb no longer does bonus damage to illusions

Pangolier
  • Replaced Heartpiercer with new ability: Lucky Shot; check the ability page out for more details!

Phantom Assassin
  • Various Phantom Strike adjustments; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Blur active reworked into a smoke of deceit like ability

Phoenix

Puck
  • Dream Coil now applies a Leashed state to the targets, disallowing teleportation and mobility based abilities
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +50 Attack Damage to +90
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +8% Spell Amplification to +15%

Pudge

Queen of Pain
  • Sonic Wave now knocks units back 350 units over 1.4 seconds (does not stun)

Razor
  • Unstable Current no longer slows or purges a random enemy unit every 5 seconds
  • Unstable Current now deals 60/80/100/120 damage to every enemy unit within 500 AoE every 6/5/4/3 seconds
  • Plasma Field now applies a slow on units it hits, Minimum 5% Maximum 25/30/35/40% for 1.5 seconds. Slow instances stack
  • Level 25 Talent changed from -3s Unstable Current to +200 Unstable Current Damage

Riki

Rubick
  • Replaced Null Field with new ability: Arcane Supremacy; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Base damage increased by 3
  • Agility increased from 14 + 1.6 to 19 + 2.1
  • Intelligence gain increased from 2.4 to 2.7
  • Spell Steal ability cast points now have a min of 0.15 instead of 0
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +100 Cast Range to +125
  • Level 20 Talent changed from +5% Null Field to -5s Fade Bolt Cooldown
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +75% Spell Amp For Stolen Spells to +50%

Sand King
  • Sandstorm reworked slightly; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Epicenter AoE growth now always increases by 50 per pulse, instead of sometimes 25/50/75

Shadow Demon
  • Soul Catcher reworked; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Disruption illusions health is now determined at the start of the cast
  • Disruption duration increased from 2.5 to 2.75

Shadow Fiend
  • Base Armor increased by 1

Shadow Shaman
  • Mass Serpent Wards now spawn in a circle, with a slightly bigger empty spot in the middle
  • Mass Serpent Wards now has an AoE spawn indicator

TheSofa
<Moderator>

Awards Showcase
Show more awards

Memorable (54)
Posts: 3318
Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by TheSofa » November 19, 2018 5:29pm | Report
Skywrath Mage
  • Concussive Shot now hits a creep if there are no nearby enemy heroes. It deals 75% damage to creeps

Slardar
  • Bash of the Deep reworked; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Various Slithereen Crush adjustments; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Base Armor increased by 1
  • Level 15 Talent changed from +100 Bash Damage to +75
  • Level 25 Talent changed from +15% Bash Chance to +1.5s Slithereen Crush Stun

Slark
  • Turn rate improved from 0.6 to 0.7
  • A hero dying with Essence Shift debuff on them causes Slark to permanently steal 1 Agility
  • Shadow Dance duration rescaled from 4 to 4/4.5/5

Sniper
  • Take Aim can now be activated to double your attack range for your next attack. Goes on cooldown after the attack is used. Cooldown: 15/12/9/6. Manacost: 30

Spirit Breaker
  • Replaced Empowering Haste with new ability: Bulldoze; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Charge of Darkness no longer moves at a fixed speed. It now unlocks the movement speed cap and adds 300/325/350/375 Movement Speed [?]
  • Fixed Charge of Darkness not using the movement speed for the impact damage
  • Greater Bash no longer gives you movement speed
  • Greater Bash damage reduced from 12/24/36/48 to 16/24/32/40%
  • Level 20 Greater Bash talent reduced from 30% to 15%
  • Level 20 Talent changed from +400 Charge Speed to -7s Bulldoze Cooldown

Sven
  • Warcry reworked; check out the ability page for more details!

Techies
  • Base movement speed increased from 270 to 315
  • Base intelligence increased by 2

Templar Assassin
  • Level 20 Talent changed from Refraction Dispels to Meld Dispels
  • Level 25 Talent changed from Psi Blades Spill Paralyzes to 1.5s Meld Hit Bash

Terroblade
  • Sunder can no longer pierce Spell Immunity
  • Level 20 Talent reduced from -10s Reflection Cooldown to -8

Tidehunter
  • Anchor Smash now attacks every unit in the area with a bonus 45/90/135/180 damage on top of your attack
  • Ravage damage increased from 200/290/380 to 200/300/400
  • Level 10 Talent increased from +80 Gush Damage to +100

Timbersaw
  • Chakram projectile damage no longer ignores Ancients
  • Whirling Death is now always pure damage
  • Whirling Death damage changed from 100/150/200/250 to 90/120/150/180
  • Whirling Death stat reduction rescaled from 15% to 12/13/14/15%
  • Whirling Death now deals 10/14/18/22 extra damage per tree cut down
  • Level 25 Talent increased from +8% Whirling Death to +12%

Tiny
  • Avalanche reworked; check out the ability page for more detail!
  • Tree Grab area damage no longer works when denying units
  • Tree Grab cooldown increased from 24/20/16/12 to 27/22/17/12
  • Grow no longer provides 30/40/50% Status Resistance
  • Grow armor increased from 5/10/15 to 7/16/25
  • Toss Avalanche damage bonus increased from 2x to 3x [?]
  • Level 10 Talent changed from +20% Magic Resistance to +20 Movement Speed
  • Level 25 Talent changed from -12s Avalanche CD to -9s

Treant Protector
  • Natures Guise reworked; check out the ability page for more details!

Troll Warlord
  • Reworked Battle Trance; check the ability page out for more details!
  • Level 25 Talent changed from Battle Trance Basic Dispel to Battle Trance Strong Dispel [?]
  • Base damage increased from 38-56 to 44-56
  • Berserker's Rage now applies an ensnare instead of a bash
  • Berserker's Rage proc chance increased from 10% to 10/12/14/16%
  • Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade are no longer restricted items
  • [[Fervor stack limit increased from 7 to 12
  • Fixed Fervor incrementing when missing attacks
  • Fervor now starts at 0 stacks when attacking a new unit

Tusk
  • Frozen Sigil replaced with new ability: Tag Team; check out the ability page for more details!

Underlord
  • Atrophy Aura now provides a permanent +2/3/4/5 bonus damage when a hero dies under the aura

Undying
  • Reworked Flesh Golem; check out the ability page for more details!
  • Base movement speed reduced from 305 to 295

Ursa
  • Fixed Overpower not consuming attack count when an attack is evaded

Vengeful Spirit
  • Vengeance Aura no longer creates illusions of dying allies
  • Vengeance Aura now creates the Scepter effect on dying as a base mechanic, without the ability to cast spells. Gaining Scepter unlocks casting spells
  • Netherswap cast range rescaled from 700/950/1200 to 700/850/1000
  • Netherswap now has 2 charges with 90/80/70 second replenish time

Venomancer
  • Plague Wards collision size increased
  • Level 15 Talent changed from +200 Cast Range to Gale Hero Impact Summons 2 Wards
  • Level 20 Talent changed from Gale Hero Impact Summons 2 Wards to +15% Spell Lifesteal

Viper

Warlock
  • Fatal Bonds now bounces from unit to unit, rather than just searching units near the target
  • Fatal Bonds no longer ignores units in Fog of War

Weaver

Witch Doctor
  • Death Ward damage increased from 60/105/150 to 75/125/175

Wraith King
  • Skeletons health reduced from 350 to 250
  • Skeletons now reincarnate 3 seconds after dying the first time

Zeus
  • Nimbus is no longer automatically selected when hitting Tab
  • Nimbus's Lightning Bolt no longer benefits from cooldown reductions on your hero


Holy moly that's all of it folks. It was so long I had to break it into two posts else it didn't fit. This post took me over 4 hours to make so please please enjoy!

-Sofa

Source: Official Valve post

TheSofa
<Moderator>

Awards Showcase
Show more awards

Memorable (54)
Posts: 3318
Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Masked_Man98 » November 19, 2018 5:45pm | Report
Well done sofa :)
Brave Travelers Tell Stories of A Legendary Warrior Who Freezes The Heart of His Enemies And Burns Their Untouchable Souls
List of my guide Here
The UnTold:Dawn,Blizzard, Dire
Follow me on Instagram For more Updates @soroush_s77

Masked_Man98

Awards Showcase
Show more awards

Remarkable (20)
Posts: 188
View My Blog

Quick Reply

Please log in or sign up to post!

DOTAFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new hero, or fine tune your favorite DotA hero’s build and strategy.

Copyright © 2019 DOTAFire | All Rights Reserved