Dota 2 Patch 7.20 is one of the most anticipated updates ever since 7.00 patch was revealed which was one of the biggest updates ever. It is here as we speak! Below are the complete notes of hero abilities and talents reworks.
Dota 2 Patch 7.20: Heroes Abilities and Talents Rework Details
I know you guys are excited for Dota 2 Patch 7.20 as I am so without further due here are you Heroes abilities and talents rework introduced in the latest Dota 2 Patch 7.20 by Valve:
ABADDON: ABILITY REWORK
- Base movement speed increased from 310 to 325
- Base agility increased by 6
- Mist Coil projectile speed reduced from 1600 to 1300
Reworked Curse of Avernus:
- Passive. Slows the targets you attack by 10/15/20/25% for 4 seconds. If a target gets hit 4 times, they become cursed for 4 seconds and are silenced, slowed by 30/40/50/60% and all allied heroes that attack the target will receive a 40/60/80/100 AS boost
Talent:
Level 25 Talent changed from Curse of Avernus to +375 AoE Mist Coil
ANCIENT APPARITION: ABILITY REWORK
- Ice Vortex no longer has a self-bonus.
Reworked Chilling Touch
- It is now a passive autocast attack modifier.
- Cooldown: 15/11/7/3 seconds. Grants you bonus attack range and causes your attack to deal heavy magic damage that slows movement for a brief period.
- Damage: 50/85/120/155.
- Slow: 100% for 0.5 seconds.
- Attack Range Bonus: 60/120/180/240.
- Manacost: 30/50/70/90
ANTI-MAGE: ABILITY REWORK
- Removed Scepter upgrade
- Replaced Spell Shield with Counterspell.
- Passively grants you 15/25/35/45% Magic Resistance and can be activated to provide a Counterspell shield for 1.4 seconds.
- Causes all spells that target you to be blocked and reflected onto the enemy.
- Cooldown: 15/11/7/3. Manacost: 40
ARC WARDEN:
- Tempest Double bounty increased from a fixed 180 Gold/XP to 180/240/300
Talent:
Level 15 Talent changed from +350 Health to +300
AXE:
- Berserker’s Call armor bonus reduced from 40 to 30
BANE: ABILITY REWORK
- Reworked Enfeeble.
- Adds a debuff to the enemy unit, applying 36/44/52/60% negative status resistance to the target (which causes debuffs to last longer) and reducing the enemy’s attack speed by 40/60/80/100.
- Lasts 8 seconds.
- Can be dispelled.
- Cast Range: 1000
- Cooldown: 12/10/8/6.
- Manacost: 70/90/110/130
Talent:
Level 15 Talent changed from Enfeeble Steals Damage to Enfeeble Steals Attack Speed
Level 20 Talent changed from +100 Enfeeble Damage Reduction to +100 Enfeeble Attack Speed Reduction
BATRIDER:
- Flaming Lasso now does 20/40/60 damage per second
BEASTMASTER: ABILITY REWORK
- Call of the Wild has been reworked.
- It no longer summons a neutral creep, and now has two separate hotkeys for the Boar and the Hawk.
- The Hawk is a global point target ability that sends a permanently invisible uncontrollable hawk to that location starting from where you are.
- Adjusted stats on the summoned units:
- Boar HP: 300/450/600/750
- Boar Damage Type: Hero
- Boar Attack Damage: 16/32/48/64
- Boar Poison Slow: 10/20/30/40% for 3 seconds
- Boar Duration: 60
- Boar Ability Cooldown: 42/38/34/30
- Boar Manacost: 50
- Hawk HP: 300/450/600/750
- Hawk Invisibility is permanent
- Hawk Movement Speed: 300/340/380/420
- Hawk Vision: 600/700/800/900
- Hawk Duration: 60
- Hawk Cooldown: 60/50/40/30
- Hawk Manacost: 30
- Primal Roar self-movement boost increased from 30 to 40%
- Primal Roar secondary units push distance from 300 to 450
- Primal Roar secondary units push duration from 0.6 to 1.0
- Primal Roar secondary unit slow duration now matches primary target
- Primal Roar secondary unit slow increased from 50 to 60
Talent:
- Level 25 Talent changed from +2 Hawks Summoned to -15s Hawks Cooldown
BLOODSEEKER:
- 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%
- Bloodrage now does full amplification regardless of the 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
Talent:
- Level 20 Talent changed from +18% Rupture Damage to +600 Rupture Cast Range
BOUNTY HUNTER: ABILITY REWORK
- 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
Reworked Jinada:
- Passive cooldown 12/9/6/3.
- Causes your attack to deal +80/110/140/170 Bonus Attack Damage.
- Steals 12/18/24/30 Unreliable Gold from enemy heroes.
- Your weapon glows when the attack is ready to strike
- Track movement speed bonus is now given to your hero only
- Track now also causes attacks you do to the Tracked enemy to crit for 1.4/1.6/1.8x
- Track cast no longer breaks invisibility
- Track gold radius from 925 to 1200
Talent:
- Level 20 Talent changed from +125% Jinada Critical Strike to +90 Jinada Gold Steal
BREWMASTER: ABILITY REWORK
- 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
- Reworked Drunken Brawler:
- It is now a self active buff.
- Lasts for 5 seconds.
- Grants you 50/60/70/80% evasion and 80% chance to Crit for 200/220/240/260%.
- Movement speed alternates between -20% and +40% while this is active.
- Cooldown: 20/19/18/17.
- Manacost: 35/40/45/50
- Replaced Drunken Haze with Cinder Brew. Covers a target 400 AoE with alcohol, slowing them by 25% and causes them to have a 20/25/30/35% chance to attack themselves instead of the target. Lasts 7 seconds. If the targets are hit by any fire-based spells (including immolation from your Fire Spirit), the duration will refresh and they will ignite and burn for 10/25/40/55 DPS. Cooldown: 20/18/16/14. Manacost: 50. Self-attack is not lethal
- The following heroes have fire element damage:
- Dragon Knight
- Jakiro
- Phoenix
- Axe
- Doom
- Ember Spirit
- Brewmaster
- Lina
- Ogre
- Batrider
- Wraith King
- Clinkz
- Invoker
- Warlock
- Underlord
- Huskar
- Level 25 changed from +15% Drunken Brawler Chance to +200% Critical Strike Damage
BRISTLEBACK:
- Viscous Nasal Goo armor reduction increased from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2 to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6
BROODMOTHER:
- Spiderling/Spiderite magic resistance reduced from 50% to 40%
CENTAUR WARRUNNER: ABILITY REWORK
- 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
- Return has been renamed to Retaliate
- Retaliate no longer has a strength component
- Retaliate damage increased from 16/18/20/22 to 16/32/48/64
- Retaliate now gains charges each time you are attacked by an enemy hero or tower.
- Can be activated, consuming the charges, to give you a percentage base attack damage increase for 20 seconds.
- Max Stacks: 10.
- Provides 6/9/12/15% base damage increase per stack.
- Cooldown: 55/50/45/40
- Stampede cooldown increased from 90/75/60 to 110/100/90
- Stampede manacost increased from 100 to 150
Talent:
- 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: ABILITY REWORK
- Reworked Chaos Strike:
- Passive cooldown ability.
- Lands a critical strike for a random amount, between Min Crit: 120% and Max Crit: 160/190/220/250%.
- Has 35/40/45/50% lifesteal for this hit.
- Cooldown: 8/7/6/5
- Reality Rift no longer reduces armor
- Reality Rift now moves the target a fixed amount of distance: 250/300/350/400
- Reality Rift now maims the target applying a 15/25/35/45% movement and 30/50/70/90 attack speed slow for 2 seconds
- Reality Rift cooldown rescaled from 18/14/10/6 to 20/15/10/5
- Reality Rift cast range from 550/600/650/700 to 475/550/625/700
- 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: ABILITY REWORK
- 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
- Test of Faith replaced with Divine Favor.
- Targets allied units, providing 7/13/19/25 HP regen, amplifying all regen and heals on the target by 25% and increasing attack damage by 10/20/40/80.
- Lasts 12 seconds.
- Cooldown: 26/24/22/20 Manacost: 110.
- Cast Range: 800
- 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
Talent:
- Level 15 Talent changed from -10s Test of Faith Cooldown to -10s Divine Favor Cooldown
CLINKZ: ABILITY REWORK
- Replaced Death Pact with Burning Army.
- Uses Vector Targeting. Spawns 4/5/6 Fiery Skeleton Archers along a 1300 line.
- Skeletons attack using Searing Arrows, have your base damage, are immobile and take 2 hits to kill from a hero.
- They only attack enemy heroes (like WD ward, but killable).
- Attack range matches your hero. Spawn at 0.8 second intervals. Cast Range: 800. Cooldown 110. Manacost: 125/175/225.
- Lasts 20 seconds.
- Base Attack Time: 1.8/1.65/1.5
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:
- Base damage increased by 2
- Frostbite no longer has an interrupt
- Frostbite cast range increased from 525 to 550
- Freezing Field no longer has a 0.3 cast point
DARK SEER:
- Surge duration rescaled from 3/4.5/6/7.5 to 6
- Surge cooldown 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: ABILITY REWORK
- Poison Touch mana cost increased from 80 to 80/90/100/110
- Poison Touch debuff now stacks
- Replaced Weave with Bad Juju.
- Passive ability.
- Grants you 30/40/50% Cooldown Reduction.
- Anytime you cast a spell, all enemies within a 1200 AoE around you lose 2/2.25/2.5 armor for 10 seconds.
- Debuffs stack and refresh duration. Doesn’t affect Roshan
- Shadow Wave cooldown increased from 12/10/8/6 to 13/11/9/7
Talent:
- 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
DISRUPTOR:
- Thunder Strike damage increased from 40/60/80/100 to 45/70/95/120
DOOM:
- Base attack range increased from 150 to 175
- Devour no longer has a restriction on consuming while another unit is being consumed
- Devour now gives you 5/10/15/20 HP regen per second while the creep is being consumed
- Devour now takes a constant 80 seconds to consume a creep
- Devour can now be toggled off to not steal the creep ability
- 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
Talent:
- Level 10 Talent changed from +10 Scorched Earth Damage/Heal to +20 Scorched Earth Damage
DRAGON KNIGHT:
- Elder Dragon Form Splash Attack now does 75% damage in the 300 AoE
- Elder Dragon Form Splash Attack no longer does partial damage if the attack misses
DROW RANGER: ABILITY REWORK
- 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
- Reworked Marksmanship:
- Now provides a 20/30/40% chance to land a piercing attack that cannot be evaded and strikes through the enemy’s defenses, ignoring their armor entirely.
- Instantly kills creeps.
- Gets disabled if an enemy hero is within 400 range of you
Talent:
- 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
Talent:
- Level 25 Talent changed from +1s Boulder Smash Stun duration to +0.75s Rolling Boulder Stun Duration
ELDER TITAN:
- Astral Spirit damage reduced from 60/90/120/150 to 50
- Astral Spirit return speed increased from 600 to 800
- Astral Spirit attack damage per hero from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80
- Astral Spirit now provides +1.5/3/4.5/6 Armor per hero hit and +0.5 per creep
- Astral Spirit movement speed increased from 5% to 7%
- Astral Spirit movement speed cap increased from 30% to 40%
- Astral Spirit bonus duration increased from 9 to 10 seconds
Talent:
- 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 destination
ENIGMA:
- Base movement speed reduced from 300 to 290
FACELESS VOID: ABILITY REWORK
- Time Lock now causes Faceless Void to land a free second attack while the target is locked in place.
- Deals bonus 30/40/50/60 damage and bashes for 0.75 seconds
Talent:
- Level 15 Talent from +100 Time Lock Damage to +70
GRIMSTROKE: ADDED TO CAPTAINS MODE
- Enabled Grimstroke in Captains Mode
- Soulbind now applies a Leashed state to the targets, disallowing teleportation and mobility based abilities
- 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 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
Talent:
- Level 20 Talent changed from +2 Hits to Kill Phantom to +1
HUSKAR: ABILITY REWORK
- Berserker’s Blood no longer gives magic resistance. Now provides health regen up to 20/40/60/80% of Strength based on missing health
- Berserker’s Blood now ramps up faster when lower health
- Replaced Inner Vitality with Inner Fire:
- In a fiery rage, knocks all enemies within 500 range away from you, dealing 100/155/210/265 damage and disarming them for 1.75/2.5/3.25/4 seconds.
- Enemies are knocked back to 550 range away from you.
- Knockback duration: 0.6.
- Cooldown: 18/16/14/12 seconds. Manacost: 75/100/125/150
Talent:
- 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:
- Agility increased by 10 (base damage unchanged)
- Changed how Omnislash does the strikes from just physical damage nukes (with occasional invisible attacks depending on attack speed) to all full real attacks that can proc your crit and items. Lasts 3/3.25/3.5 seconds and attacks at 1.8x your attack rate. Provides +30/45/60 Damage. Scepter lasts 4/4.25/4.5 seconds and 70 cooldown
- Omnislash no longer constantly issues self-interrupts during each attack
- Omnislash no longer instantly kills creeps
KEEPER OF THE LIGHT: ABILITY REWORK
- Removed Mana Leak and Spirit Form
- Illuminate cooldown increased from 10 to 11
- Changed how Chakra Magic works:
- Restores 80/160/240/320 mana and removes 3/4/5/6 seconds off of basic abilities currently on cooldown.
- Cooldown: 20/18/16/14
- Reworked Blinding Light into a basic ability:
- Causes everyone in a 600 AoE to be blinded, missing 70% of their attacks for 3/4/5/6 seconds.
- Knocks targets back 350 units and deals 50/100/150/200 damage.
- Cooldown: 30/25/20/15.
- Manacost: 100/125/150/175.
- Cast Range: 550/600/650/700
- Added a new Ultimate, Will-o-Wisp:
- Spawns an attackable light entity, Ignis Fatuus.
- The light flickers on for 1.3 seconds and off for 1.75 seconds.
- Enemies within a 650 Radius are hypnotized and forced to look at it whenever it is emitting light, unable to act.
- The light entity can be killed with 4/5/6 attacks, otherwise it will flicker 3/4/5 times before going away.
- Cooldown: 120.
- Cast Range: 900.
- Manacost 200/300/400.
- Dormant for 1 second before the first flicker begins
- Scepter now just causes your Illuminate to heal during the day
Talent:
- Level 25 Talent changed from +2s Mana Leak Stun to +2 Will-O-Wisp Flickers
LEGION COMMANDER:
- Winning a Duel automatically casts Press the Attack on you
LICH: ABILITY REWORK
- Intelligence increased from 16 + 3.3 to 20 + 3.6
- Frost Nova manacost reduced from 125/150/170/190 to 105/130/155/180
- Replaced Sacrifice with Sinister Gaze:
- Channeling single target. Causes the enemy to slowly walk towards you.
- Lasts up to 1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5 seconds.
- Cast Range: 500/525/550/575.
- Cooldown: 30.
- Manacost: 120/130/140/150
- Replaced Ice Armor with Frost Shield:
- Targets self or an ally and applies a frost shield.
- Reduces physical attack damage taken by 30/40/50/60% for 6 seconds.
- Every second, all enemies within a 600 AoE will take 20/30/40/50 damage and be slowed by 35% for 0.5 seconds. Cooldown: 30/25/20/15. Manacost: 100/110/120/130
Talent:
- 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
Talent:
- 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: ABILITY REWORK
- 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
- Replaced Rabid with Spirit Link:
- Grants both of you 30/50/70/90 Attack Speed and causes 40/50/60/70% of damage you deal to restore life to your Spirit Bear, and damage your Spirit Bear deals to restore life to you.
- Duration: 10 seconds.
- Cooldown: 42/34/26/18.
- Manacost: 50/60/70/80
LUNA:
- Lunar Blessing now provides +8/14/20/26 Primary Attribute bonus as the aura bonus, rather than bonus damage
Talent:
- Level 15 Talent changed from +24 Lunar Blessing Damage to +14 Lunar Blessing Attributes
LYCAN: ABILITY REWORK
- Reworked Howl:
- Now grants +21/34/47/60 Attack Speed, +3/4/5/6 Armor and +4/6/8/10 HP regen to all player controlled units on the map.
- Lasts 9 seconds.
- Cooldown: 50/45/40/35.
- Manacost: 25/30/35/40.
MAGNUS: ABILITY REWORK
- Skewer cooldown reduced from 25 to 26/24/22/20
- Reworked Shockwave:
- Releases a wave towards a target point, pulls units towards it slightly and deals 75/150/225/300 damage.
- Slows enemies by 60% for 0.75 seconds.
- Width: 200, Distance: 1200, Projectile Speed: 900.
- Pull Duration: 0.2.
- Manacost: 90/100/110/120.
- Cooldown: 14/13/12/11
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: ABILITY REWORK
- Base movement speed increased from 310 to 320
- Replaced Geostrike with Ransack:
- Each attack steals 8/12/16/20 health from your enemy heroes (and 4/6/8/10 from creeps) and heals all Meepos by the same amount
- Clones now only drain 50% of normal XP from the area
Talent:
- Level 10 Talent reduced from +20 Damage to +15
MIRANA:
- Leap now causes the direction Mirana is facing to point towards the leap direction
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: ABILITY REWORK
- 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%
- Rip Tide has been reworked:
- Now a passive attack chance ability. Gives a chance that your attack will trigger a Rip Tide that deals AoE damage and reduces armor.
- Illusions can proc this. Chance: 17%.
- Duration: 4.
- Armor Reduction: 2/4/6/8.
- Damage: 30/40/50/60.
- AoE: 300
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: ABILITY REWORK
- Reworked Crippling Fear:
- It is now an activated 375 range aura that silences all enemies while they are nearby.
- Aura lasts 5/6/7/8 seconds (3 during day).
- No longer has a miss chance.
- Cooldown: 30/25/20/15.
- Manacost: 50
- Hunter in the Night no longer has an active.
- Replaced Darkness with Dark Ascension.
- Causes you to transform into a stronger flying creature that has +50/100/150 bonus damage and 900 unobstructed vision.
- Lasts for 30 seconds.
- Daytime is turned to night during this.
- Cooldown: 160/140/120.
- Manacost: 125/175/225
Talent:
- Level 25 changed from -8s Crippling Fear Cooldown to -40s Dark Ascension cooldown
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: ABILITY REWORK
- Purification can now be cast on Spell Immune units
- Replaced Repel with Heavenly Grace:
- Targets an allied unit and applies a strong dispel, and then increases status resistance by 50/60/70/80% and health regeneration by 8/12/16/20 for 8 seconds.
- Cooldown: 17/16/15/14.
- Manacost: 75.
- Cast Range: 500
- Guardian Angel AoE increased from 600 to 1200
- Guardian Angel cooldown reduced from 180/170/160 to 160/150/140
Talent:
- 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: ABILITY REWORK
- Arcane Orb now splashes its bonus damage in a 175 AoE around the target
- Arcane Orb no longer does bonus damage to illusions
- Replaced Essence Aura with Equilibrium:
- Self buff.
- Causes all spell damage you deal to restore 60/80/100/120% of damage back as mana and slow enemies by 8/16/24/32% for 1.75 seconds.
- Lasts 7 seconds.
- Cooldown: 20 Manacost: 50
- Level 15 Talent changed from +15% Essence Aura Chance to +6 Armor
PANGOLIER: ABILITY REWORK
- Replaced Heartpiercer with Lucky Shot:
- Gains a 20% chance to apply a debuff for 2/3/4/5 seconds that slows the target by 40% and causes the target to be either Silenced or Disarmed.
- Multiple instances of this debuff stack
PHANTOM ASSASSIN: ABILITY REWORK
- Phantom Strike Cooldown rescaled from 14/11/8/5 to 11/9/7/5
- Phantom Strike cast point reduced from 0.3 to 0.25
- Phantom Strike Attack Speed rescaled from 130 to 100/125/150/175
- Phantom Strike no longer has an attack limit
- Phantom Strike Attack Speed bonus now lasts for 2.5 seconds
- Phantom Strike Manacost rescaled from 50 to 35/40/45/50
- Phantom Strike Attack Speed bonus no longer depends on attacking the specific target
- Blur’s non-evasion passive component has been changed into an active:
- Causes enemies to be unable to see you (like smoke) until you are within 600 units of an enemy hero or buildings.
- Does not dispel when attacking. Lingers around for 0.75 seconds before going away after being near an enemy hero.
- Lasts 25 seconds.
- Cooldown: 60/55/50/45.
- Manacost: 20
PHANTOM LANCER:
- Phantom Lance slow reduced from 10/20/30/40% to 10/18/26/34%
- Juxtapose incoming damage increased from 600% to 650%
PHOENIX:
- Icarus Dive slow rescaled from 28% to 19/22/25/28%
PUCK:
- Dream Coil now applies a Leashed state to the targets, disallowing teleportation and mobility based abilities
Talent:
- Level 15 Talent increased from +50 Attack Damage to +90
- Level 15 Talent increased from +8% Spell Amplification to +15%
PUDGE:
- Flesh Heap no longer gives Magic Resistance
- Flesh Heap now grants 3/6/9/12 HP regen
- Dismember strength based damage increased from 30/45/60% to 30/60/90%
QUEEN OF PAIN:
- Sonic Wave now knocks units back 350 units over 1.4 seconds
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
Talent:
- Level 25 Talent changed from -3s Unstable Current to +200 Unstable Current Damage
RIKI:
- Blink Strike cooldown rescaled from 16/12/8/4 to 10/8/6/4
- Blink Strike damage rescaled from 100 to 75/90/105/120
RUBICK: ABILITY REWORK
- Base damage increased by 3
- Agility increased from 14 + 1.6 to 19 + 2.1
- Intelligence gain increased from 2.4 to 2.7
- Replaced Null Field with Arcane Supremacy:
- Passive.
- Gains 14/18/22/26% Spell Amplification and causes all debuffs you apply to the enemy to last 20/28/36/44% longer
- Spell Steal ability cast points now have a min of 0.15 instead of 0
Talent:
- 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:
- Sand Storm is no longer a channeled ability.
- The Sand Storm and the invisibility ends immediately once you leave the area. Attacking or casting temporarily reveals you for 0.7 seconds
- Sand Storm AoE changed from 525 to 350/450/550/650
- Sand Storm damage rescaled from 40/60/80/100 to 25/50/75/100
- Sand Storm cooldown rescaled from 34/26/18/10 to 34/28/22/16
- Sand Storm duration reduced from 50 to 20/25/30/35
- Sand Storm visual effects updated slightly
- Epicenter AoE growth now always increases by 50 per pulse, instead of sometimes 25/50/75
SHADOW DEMON: ABILITY REWORK
- Reworked Soul Catcher:
- Targets a 175/200/225/250 AoE area.
- Causes all units in the area to lose 25/30/35/40% of their current health, and gain half of it back after 10 seconds.
- Cooldown: 26/24/22/20 Cast Range: 700.
- Manacost: 110
- 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
SKYWRATH MAGE:
- Concussive Shot now hits a creep if there are no nearby enemy heroes
SLARDAR: ABILITY REWORK
- Base armor increased by 1
- Reworked Bash of the Deep:
- Passive.
- Every 4th attack your hero does (on any target) applies a bash for 1/1.1/1.2/1.3 seconds dealing 75/125/175/225 physical damage
- Slithereen Crush stun duration reduced from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 to 1 second.
- Attack and Movement Slow duration increased from 2 to 3/4/5/6 and slow amount increased from 20 to 20/25/30/35%. Damage increased from 75/125/175/225 to 80/140/200/260
Talent:
- 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
- Pounce now applies a Leashed state to the target, disallowing teleportation and mobility based abilities
- Shadow Dance duration rescaled from 4 to 4/4.5/5
- A hero dying with Essence Shift debuff on them causes Slark to permanently steal 1 Agility
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: ABILITY REWORK
- Nether Strike can no longer be cast when rooted
- 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%
- Replaced Empowering Haste with Bulldoze:
- Upon activation, grants your hero +12/18/24/30% Movement Speed and +30/40/50/60% Status Resistance for 8 seconds
- Cooldown: 22.
- Manacost: 25/30/35/40
Talent:
- Level 20 Greater Bash talent reduced from 30% to 15%
- Level 20 Talent changed from +400 Charge Speed to -7s Bulldoze Cooldown
SVEN: ABILITY REWORK
- Reworked Warcry:
- Now grants you and nearby allied heroes bonus movement speed and an HP shield that blocks attack damage based on the shield’s health.
- Lasts 10 seconds.
- Buff ends if the shield is consumed.
- Movement Speed: 8/12/16/20% Movement Speed.
- Attack Shield Health: 100/200/300/400 Health.
- AoE: 700
- Cooldown: 36/32/28/24.
- Manacost: 40
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
TERRORBLADE:
- 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
Talent:
- 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
Talent:
- Level 25 Talent increased from +8% Whirling Death to +12%
TINY: ABILITY REWORK
- 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
- Reworked how Avalanche works:
- The units in the area are now continuously hit by short ministuns and damage every 0.3 seconds. Each hit stuns for 0.2 seconds
- Avalanche duration increased from 1 to 1.8
- Avalanche AoE increased from 275 to 400
- Avalanche cooldown reduced from 23/21/19/17 to 23/20/17/14
- Avalanche total damage rescaled from 120/180/240/300 to 90/160/230/300
- 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: ABILITY REWORK
- Reworked Nature’s Guise.
- Passive.
- Has a 4.75/4/3.25/2.5 second fade delay, taking damage resets the counter.
- Grants you invisibility, treewalking ability, and 10/15/20/25% movement speed bonus as long as you are within 265 distance of a tree.
- Has a 0.75 linger duration.
- Attacking a unit out of this roots the target for 0.4/1/1.6/2.2 seconds and deals a total of 30/80/130/180 damage during the root
TROLL WARLORD: ABILITY REWORK
- 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%
- 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
- Reworked Battle Trance.
- Now causes you to go into an uncontrollable trance, forcing you to attack the closest targets in a 900 AoE. During this trance, you are unslowable and cannot die.
- Grants +140/170/200 Attack Speed, +30/35/40% Movement Speed and +40/60/80% Lifesteal.
- Lasts 6.5 seconds.
- You gain normal vision over the target you are currently locked on.
- Cooldown: 90. Manacost: 150
Talent:
- Level 25 Talent changed from Battle Trance Basic Dispel to Battle Trance Strong Dispel [?]
TUSK: ABILITY REWORK
- Replaced Frozen Sigil with Tag Team:
- Activatable Aura.
- Lasts 5 seconds.
- Causes affected enemies to take 25/50/75/100 more physical damage from attacks and be slowed by 75% for 0.5 seconds.
- AoE: 350.
- Cooldown: 15.
- Manacost: 40/50/60/70
UNDERLORD:
- Atrophy Aura now provides a permanent +2/3/4/5 bonus damage when a hero dies under the aura
UNDYING: ABILITY REWORK
- Base movement speed reduced from 305 to 295
- Reworked Flesh Golem:
- No longer amplifies damage.
- Slow is now a constant 24/32/40% in 375 AoE.
- Enemy units in 400 AoE lose 7% of their Current HP per second as Magic Damage. You gain +400/1000/1600 health when in this mode.
- Cooldown: 110
- Flesh Golem model size increased a bit
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
Talent:
- 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:
- Nethertoxin AoE increased from 300 to 350
- Nethertoxin damage rescaled from 20/30/40/50 to 20/35/50/65
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:
- The Swarm units now have higher attack priority
- Geminate attack cooldown increased from 7/6/5/3 to 9/7/5/3
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
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