6.61 Released.
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6.61 Changelog:
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## Heroes & Items ##
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* Batrider: Lowered Strength gain from 2.5 to 2.0
* Bloodskeer: Bloodbath no longer regenerates from images
* Bone Fletcher: Improved Searing Arrows damage from 10/20/30/40 to 20/30/40/50
* Bone Fletcher: Rebalanced Strafe from 20/40/60/80 IAS with 30 seconds cooldown to 50/60/70/80 IAS with 60/50/40/30 seconds cooldown
* Centaur: Reduced Double Edge cooldown (25->12 seconds)
* Faceless Void: Improved base Strength (17->23)
* Furion: Lowered Sprout cooldown from 11 seconds to 11/10/9/8 seconds and manacost from 115/140/165/205 to 100/120/140/160
* Magnataur: Reverse Polarity now pulls units slightly infront of you instead of all around you
* Medusa: Lowered Stone Gaze cooldown (70->35 seconds)
* Medusa: Minor improvements to Mystic Snake speed , cast range and cooldown
* Medusa: Improved Mystic Snake’s damage from 60/100/140/180 to 80/120/160/200
* Meepo: Rescaled Geostrike from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20 damage per second
* Nerubian Weaver: Reworked Watchers [details below]
* Nerubian Weaver: Lowered Shukuchi cooldown from 13/11/9/7 to 12/10/8/6 seconds
* Night Stalker: Improved Intelligence growth from 1.25 to 1.6
* Ogre Magi: Reduced Multicast from 30%2x/45%2x+22.5%3x/60%2x+30%3x+15%4x ->25%2x/40%2x+20%3x/50%2x+25%3x+12.5%4x
* Pandaren Brewmaster: Increased Drunken Brawler critical from 1.8x to 2.0x
* Razor: Lowered Intelligence gain from 2.2 to 1.8
* Rooftrellen: Casting Nature’s Guise on an allied unit (or other spells) will no longer take you out if you have it on you
* Silencer: Transferred Glaive of Wisdom’s secondary effect of +1/-1 Intelligence from hero kills to Last Word. If an enemy hero dies under the Last Word effect, that hero will lose 1 intelligence and you will gain 1 intelligence.
* Silencer: Increased Last Word AoE from 700 to 900
* Rebalanced Curse of the Silent from 10/20/30/40 HP and 5/10/15/20 mana per second for 10 seconds to 50 HP and 25 mana for 2/4/6/8 seconds.
* Sniper: Increased Take Aim range from 55/110/165/220 to 65/130/195/260
* Spectre: Decreased Spectral Dagger cooldown from 25 to 16 seconds
* Tauren Chieftain: Lowered base damage by 10
* Tauren Chieftain: Lowered Strength gain from 2.7 to 2.3
* Tauren Chieftain: Decreased Natural Order percentages to 20/40/60/80%
* Vengeful Spirit: Improved base Agility (22->27)
* Viper: Nethertoxin now only works on enemy units
* Witch Doctor: Increased base Intelligence from 19 to 24 (base damage adjust to remain the same though)
* Aghanim’s Scepter (Queen of Pain): Restored original cooldown improvement
* Aghanim’s Scepter (Shadow Shaman): Undid part of the nerf on Mass Serpent Wards. It now gives +3 (up 1 from 6.60, down 1 from 6.59d)
* Buriza-Do Kyanon: Improved the critical value from 2.2x to 2.4x
* Helm of Dominator: Converted creeps now gain the Resistant Skin ability, making spells duration on them the same as heroes or Spirit Bear.
* Quelling Blade: Minor reduction to bonus damage (36->32)
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## Bugs ##
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* Fixed natural regeneration on rax
* Fixed an area where you could get stuck using TP scroll on the minimap.
* Fixed -ns mode
* Fixed a chance for duplicate heroes in -CD
* Batrider: Fixed Radiance from triggering Sticky Napalm
* Medusa: Fixed Splitshot triggering Essense Aura
* Razor: Fixed an error in the damage calculation method for Plasma Field that caused it to be slightly off sometimes
* Rooftrellen: Slightly increased Eyes in the Forest cast range (+25) to fix some order issue bugs
* Rooftrellen: Fixed Living Armor not regenerating structures properly
* Tauren Chieftan: Fixed bug with Natural Order sometimes instantly killing Forged Spirit summoned units
* Aghanim’s: Fixed minor incorrect sell value on some versions of the item
* Khadgar’s Pipe of Insight: No longer places the buff on units that already have it
* Bottle: Usage no longer removes Curse of the Silent.
* Linken Sphere: Fixed to properly block Mana Void and Nasal Goo
* Poor Man’s Shield: Fixed bug with -swap
* Quelling Blade: Fixed bug with -swap
* Quelling Blade: Fixed triggering Curse of the Silent
* Rune: Fixed Regeneration sometimes not being removed when you are full if you use bottle at the same time
* Rune: Fixed Double Damage visual effect to properly show when the user is using low graphics mode
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## Gameplay & Cosmetics ##
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* Removed the int/agi/str distribution in -CD. It is now like RD in its hero distribution.
* Bottle: Now autorefills at fountain if it isn’t fully used (2975)
* Reduced FPS drops when using Shiva’s Guard and Plasma Field with some custom import files (PGRu-Unexpect3D)
* Sound Effects: Removed the “Allied hero has fallen” (heavily requested for removal due to annoyances)
* Invoker: Added a new Icon for Sun Strike (5312)
* Juggernaut: You no longer lose control while using Omnislash. You can use items like Dagger while Omnislashing (4938)
* Slardar: Added a new icon for his Bash (3587)
* Tidehunter: Added a new Anchor Smash visual effect (4393)
* Gem of Truesight: Changed hotkey from T to I to help against some common misbuys
* Increased the transparency a little more for the Circle Of Powers that aren’t yours.
* Fixed -SP moving your camera away from taverns
* Fixed various minor inconcistences between sentinel and scourge units/buildings
* Fixed some very minor inconsistencies with acquire ranges on some heroes
* Observer Board colors now alternate between white and grey to make it a little more readable
Old Watcher’s:
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Cooldown: 30/20/10/5 seconds
Movement Speed: 522
HP: 1
Bounty: 10-13
Vision: 1400/1400
Invisible
Urna Swarm:
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Summons scarabs from corpses. The Scarab can burrow and become invisible.
While it is unburrowed, it is visible to the enemy and has an Infestation
ability. Has collision when unburrowed.
Magic Immune.
Cooldown: 14/11/8/5
Movement Speed: 450
HP: 200
Armor: 6
Bounty: 26-38
Burrowed Vision: 400/400
Normal Vision: 1400/1400
Infestation: Can suicide to Silence enemy units 275 aoe around it for 3 seconds and deal 20 damage per second (non-stacking).
Enjoy.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:53 am
The new “watchers” for nerubian is kinda insane if you think about it.. Pretty nice ambushes you can create with a wall of scarabs suddenly appearing! This is gonna be awesome lol
July 7th, 2009 at 5:38 am
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July 7th, 2009 at 5:58 am
dude some awesome buffs love the new changes
July 7th, 2009 at 6:03 am
lol it’s exactly the same as in the ds forum thread XD
July 7th, 2009 at 7:47 am
New scarbs won’t be killed by radiance? ultimate scouts
July 7th, 2009 at 10:58 am
x d lol
weavers watchers seem to be pretty imba huh?
July 7th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Alas for TC: The frog seems to love the bat-rider more! The scarabs are of the same model as old Pudge’s carrion beetles, and these are way better than the old watchers with that super 1400 sight and a decent MS..
July 7th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
humm..2 from the looks of things this map seems more balanced, TC got nerf pretty bad
July 7th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
but gives very little sight range. 400. not imba IMO
July 8th, 2009 at 1:38 am
why yes, it is exactly the same as the forum post, but this went up first.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:07 am
ruined tauren chieftan not cool…..:(((
July 8th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Wow, yeah, Batrider needed a strength nerf alright. Forget guys like Tiny that tear people apart if they get close get idiotic with a blink dagger, we need to change the Watchers. Ursa’s only good up close but that’s his thing, it’s a good thing there’s no item in the game that gives him invisibility otherwise he might be able to kill anyone of equal skill and level outright. PL was broken to begin with at endgame, let’s make sure Bloodseeker stands 0 chance now and let PL REALLY carry the entire team single handedly. Magnataur’s reverse polarity was killing so many people with it’s pull and stun as opposed to a well played Lich that basically says “Don’t ever go in a group of more than 1″ and then does nothing but hunt in a group of 5- let’s not look at basic design flaws like that, let’s do needless math balances and reduce the base stats on heros in an attempt to “balance” them.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I really don’t like the idea of losing the watchers. Following targets and patrolling the woods were very important.
July 9th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
cool map like it….bat rider….not cool!!!!
July 10th, 2009 at 2:23 am
At Last!!!! They’re not IMBA!!!
July 10th, 2009 at 7:43 am
What? no update to 6.61b? (not really important just some bug fixes)
as for Weaver, I do miss the old watchers, the new ones now have abilities, but have much lowered sight when burrowed so they don’t work as well as mobile wards, sure the hp buff and magic immunity does help against radiance, so in a competitive environment where map control is key, this is a nerf, granted that the pros will have excellent micro skills and be able to use the silence well, but it will still be a nerf to map control
it seems that the Frog is really trying to make the wards more important, reducing the limit to 2 per 6 min, nerfing vision of Sentries (making it harder to find Obs), nerfing other map control abilities such as Eyes and Watchers (both nerfing the skills and introducing more ways to kill trees)
and the Batrider isn’t that imba, since he has a pretty crappy range and Flamebreak is an easy thing to dodge, also it takes time to stack napalm and you can see it happening if you are smart, that being said his base dmg was wayyyy to high for a ranged int hero
August 14th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
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