Heroes & Armies 3.09a

Alliance:


• Engineer : New skill. :
  Changed bomb (slow) to lightning strike with knockback.
  
  
• Panda :
  Drunken haze aoe radius increased.
  
  Horde:
  
  
• Skeleton Warden
  Breath of Frost now does the same damage as fan of knives and no longer has a dot.
  Curse aoe radius increased.

General changes/items:


• Archdruid's heal can now heal tinker in avatar again.
  
• Summoned units kills counts as creep kills on the multiboard.
  
• Fixed bugs with icons of Stealthviper and Grim Reaper.
  
• Phoenixes and frost wyrms are reduced in size.

General changes/items:


• Anti-magic restriction for Mountain King and Tinker
  
• Tooltip fixes
  
• Silence nerfed and cooldown is x3 of the duration.
  
• Soul burn nerfed and cooldown is x2.5 of the duration.
  
• All int 12 levels are changed back to 10, but keeping the damage from level12
  
• Reduced size on high level wolves.
  
• Reduced size on high level water elements.
  
• Peasant/Peon movement speed and and hit points increase.
  
• Now denied units gets the color of the player who denied it.
  
  Alliance:
  
  
• Archdruid : Ultimate change :
  Heal : Slightly more heal at the later levels.
  Spirit link : was changed to divine protection.
  
  
• Archmage : Ultimate change :
  Mass teleport : was changed to ice shards.
  
  
• Engineer :
  New skin : Now it's called the "Barbarian"
  Deafening strike was replaced with Adrenaline
  Lightning strike : Reduced knock back range.
  Metamorphosis was replaced with Shock Explosion
  
  
  
• Naga Stealthviper :
  Assault : Damage is increased slightly.
  
  
• Ranger :
  Traceless Assassination : Now has movement speed increase during the ulti.
  
  
  Horde:
  
  
• Tauren Warrior
  Pulverize : Pulverize has more damage per level.

General changes/items:


• Tooltip fixes.
  
• Moonstone lasts two minutes, 5 minutes cooldown.
  
• Staff of Teleportation cost changed from 125 - 100 gold.
  
• Anti-magic duration reduced from 25 - 17 seconds. Gold cost down from 575 - 500 gold.
  
• Worker cost changed from 75 - 100 gold.
  
• Crystal ball aoe radius and duration reduced.
  
• Unit size and collision size has been reduced.
  
• Collision size on heroes has been reduced.
  
• Fixed a bug where the hero that was fighting would disappear if someone picked up the sword from the leaver items.
  
• Staff of negation : increased damage to summoned units.
  
• New ultimate cooldown timers on the multiboard.
  
• New town in the upper left corner, only for graphical purposes.
  
• Last seven towers and the barrack are invulnerable for 5 seconds after the creeps spawn for anti laming system.
  
• Golem and dragon sizes are reduced and the dragon has increased damage + a frost slow attack just like the frost wyrms that bloodlord has.
  
• A new message of denying players is displayed while denying the kill of a player.
  
• A new auto recruitment feature has been added.
  Every 10 minutes a sorceress and shaman is added up til a maximum of 4 units.
  Every 15 minutes a rifleman and headhunter is added up to a maximum of 4 units.
  Every 20 minutes a knight and tauren is added up to a maximum of 3 units.
  After 20 minutes a Catapult and demolisher is added, after the 20 minutes a new catapult and demolisher is added every 10 minutes up to a maximum of 4 units.
  
  
  Alliance:
  
  
• Archdruid :
  Divine Protection : Players are no longer protected while teleporting inside of divine protection, also are not protected while using anti-magic.
  
  
• Archmage :
  Attributes : Slightly reduced the attribute gain per level.
  Ice Shards : Cast range and aoe radius reduced, cooldown is increased from 160-180 to 170-195.
  
  
• Arthas :
  Hammer Of Wrath : Hammer is wrath is a bit more user friendly, but still need to use the middle of the circle to click on a unit.
  
  
• Barbarian :
  Lightning strike : Reduced cast range.
  Shock Explosion : Cast range and aoe radius reduced.
  
  
• Batman :
  Reincarnation : Cooldown changed from 300-180 to 280-180 seconds.
  
  
• Demon Hunter :
  Metamorphosis :Cooldown changed from 180-200 to 180-205 seconds.
  
  
• Firelord :
  Phoenix Strike : Cooldown changed from 150-200 to 160-210 seconds.
  
  
• Highelf Warrior :
  Attributes : slightly reduced attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Keeper of the Grove :
  Tranquility : Cooldown changed from 140-205 to 150-200 seconds.
  
  
• Mountain King :
  Avatar : Cooldown changed from 200-220 to 195-220 seconds.
  
  Naga Stealthviper :
  Bloodlust : Cooldown changed from 40-70 to 40-65 seconds.
  
  
• Priestess of the Moon :
  Starfall : Cooldown changed from 150-205 to 150-200 seconds.
  
  
• Panda :
  Storm, Earth, And Fire : Cooldown changed from 200-180 to 180-205 seconds.
  
  
• Ranger :
  Traceless Assassination : Increased running speed during ulti.
  
  
• Tinker :
  Robo-Goblin : Cooldown changed from 200-220 to 195-220 seconds.
  
  
• Wizard :
  Monsoon : cooldown changed from 150-205 to 150-200.
  
  
  Horde:
  
  
• Alchemist :
  Transmute : Cooldowns changed from 55-15 to 60-10 seconds.
  
  
• Archimonde :
  Abolish Magic : Damage done to summoned units has been increased.
  
  
• Axemaster :
  Metamorphosis :Cooldown changed from 180-200 to 180-205 seconds.
  
  
• Beastmaster :
  Stampede : Cooldown changed from 155-195 to 155-205 seconds.
  
  
• Cryptlord :
  Locust Swarm : Cooldown changed from 180-200 to 180-205 seconds.
  
  
• Grim Reaper :
  Attributes : slightly reduced attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Nether mage :
  Volcano : Cooldown changed from 180-200 to 180-205 seconds.
  
  
• Pitlord :
  Doom : Cooldown changed from 170-220 to 180-230 seconds.
  
  
• Prime Matron :
  Monsoon : cooldown changed from 150-205 to 150-200.
  
  
• Tauren Chieftain :
  Reincarnation : Cooldown changed from 300-180 to 280-180 seconds.
  
  
• Tauren Warrior :
  Attributes : Slightly more attribute gain per level and one more armor from the start.
  Earth Slam : Aoe radius has been increased and cooldown changed from 180-230 - 180-205 seconds.

General changes/items:


• Tooltip fixes.
  
• When a hero makes a suicide a message is shown.
  
• Invulnerable towers changed from 5 seconds - 7.5 seconds after the creeps spawn.
  
• Ultimate cooldown timers only shows for teammates.
  
• Night vision of catapults and demolishers has been reduced.
  
• Night vision of certain heroes that had more has been reduced to the appropriate vision of the other heroes.
  
• Crystal ball gold cost reduced from 550 - 500 gold.
  
• Ring of Health has 8 hit points regeneration instead of 6.
  
• Periapt of vitality reduced from 500 health points - 400.
  
• Potion of speed has been reduced from 50% - 40%.
  
• Slightly increased the size of phoenix's and frost wyrms.
  
• Sorceress and shamans have slightly less mana from start, and slow is reduced to 20% instead of 25%.
  
• Dominating and rampage sounds have been replaced by : megakill and ludicrous kill.
  
• After killing 4 enemies in the same team within one minute, the sound monster kill will be played.
  After 5 heroes of any team dies (5 heroes in total), the sound massacre will be played.
  
• auto recruitment change.
  Every 20 minutes a sorceress and shaman is added up to a maximum of 3 additional units.
  Every 20 minutes a rifleman and headhunter is added up to a maximum of 3 additional units.
  Every 30 minutes a knight and tauren is added up to a maximum of 2 additional units.
  After 30 minutes a Catapult and demolisher is added, a new catapult and demolisher is added every 10 minutes up to a maximum of 4 additional units.
  
  
  Alliance:
  
  
• Archdruid :
  Divine Protection : Heroes are no longer protected inside of the divine protection when using : Tranquility, starfall, tornado or monsoon.
  
  
• Barbarian :
  Adrenaline : Changed from 40% movement speed to 25% but increased attack speed with 65% instead of 50% at level 10.
  
  
• Paladin :
  Divine Shield : Duration and cooldowns have been changed from 7.5 - 30 seconds - 6-24 seconds.
  
  
• Panda :
  Storm, Earth, And Fire : Fire has two new abilities : drunken brawler and mana burn.
  
  
  Horde:
  
  
• Bavarian Clown Abomination :
  New hero with the abilities : Flesh giant, cannibalize, blood soul bonus and tremendous axe.
  
  
• Tauren Warrior :
  Berserk : Changed from 40% movement speed to 25% but increased attack speed with 65% instead of 50% at level 10.

• Tooltip fixes
  
• Assist gold is always worth 100 gold for any player that assists.
  
• Gold for killing heroes increased from 200(24) - 300(32).
  
• Blinking into the fight has been fixed so the hero returns to it's oringal position and not back to the base.
  
• Fixed icon bugs on hero taverns + added qwer hotkeys.
  
• Fixed bug with ulti's cd on the multiboard for heroes with avatar/metamorphosis abilities

• Archdruid :
  Divine Protection : Players are no longer immune when they use anti-magic/avatar before the divine protection is used.
  
  
• Archmage :
  Stats change : Slightly reduced attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Demon Hunter :
  Stats change : Slightly higher stats from start and attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Highelf Warrior :
  Stats change : Slightly less attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Naga Stealthviper :
  Acid Bomb : Reduced mana cost.
  Stats change : Increased stats from the start and a slightly higher attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Ninja :
  New agility hero with the abilities :
  Crescent strike : Straight forward aoe nuke.
  Warcry : Adds bonus damage and life regeneration.
  Step Through : Sort of a blink which can also slow nearby enemies.
  Bloodthirst : Adds bonus damage and life-stealing.
  
  
• Ranger :
  Multishot : Skill change, the multishot has been replaced by a new multishot that slows units nearby the targeted unit.
  Traceless Assassination : Slightly increased movement speed per level.
  
  
• Panda :
  Storm, Earth, And Fire : cyclone duration's has been decreased from 6 seconds at all level to 4-6 seconds.

• Alchemist :
  Skill change : Slightly higher agility gain per level.
  
  
• Axemaster :
  Stat change : Slightly higher stats from start and attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Bavarian Clown Abomination :
  Skill change : Cannibalize has been replaced by blood breath and explode has been removed from the flesh giant, instead the flesh giant gets slam from level 1 and pick a tree.
  
  
• Bloodlord :
  Unit classification has been changed, bloodlord is classified as an undead hero again.
  
  
• Grim Reaper :
  Stats change : Slightly less attribute gain per level.
  
  
• Python Warrioress:
  New agility hero with the abilities :
  Poisonwave : straight forward poisonwave that stays on the ground.
  Battle roar : Adds bonus damage and life regeneration.
  Heroic leap : Jump just like blink.
  Metamorphosis : Adds hit points, critical hit and cleave attack.

• Players get 4 gold and 2 lumber every 1.5 seconds instead of 16 and 8 every 6 seconds.

• Ninja :
  Step though : The ninja can no longer jump from the ensnare and root effect, the spell starts instantly after clicking on the targeted area like warden's blink.
  Attributes : A bit less attributes from the start.
  The ultimate cooldown will now show on the multiboard.

• Python Warrioress:
  Heroic leap : Python warrioress can no longer jump from the ensnare and root effect, the jump starts instantly after clicking on the targeted area like warden's blink.
  Cooldown increased from 15-6 - 17-8.
  Changed cursor on the heroic leap ability
  Metamorphosis : Reduced the hp gain from 300-800 - 250-500.
  Attributes : A bit less attributes from the start.

• Fixed bug with message "XXX has repicked hero" for Horde players when this message tells wrong info about Alliance player;
  
• Fixed bug when player after picking/randoming the following heroes still has chance to pick yet another one: Barbarian, Ranger, Arthas, Samurai, Nether Mage, Tauren Warrior, Bavarian Clown Abomination, Python Warrioress;
  
• Fixed bug with lagging of "Multi shot" at the first use;
  
• Fixed bug with gold return for buying anti-magic with mk and tinker.
  
• Added new announcer sound "Denied";
  
• Now if player dies in the fight area, there will be message "XXX has been killed/pwned by Overlord/Frosty" with laughing sound

• Ninja : Has been replaced by "Samurai"
  New nuke ability called lightening pulse which also slows the enemies.
  Step though : Removed slow effect and decreased cooldown, increased range.
  Bloodthirst : Increased damage and decreased the cooldown.
  

• Allowed to swap 3 times
  
• Restored sound when player reaches level 25
  
• Added "Hara-kiri" announcer sound
  
• Decreased cooldown of HP tome (250 HP) from 6 min to 4 min
  

• Removed Ninja from random mode
  
• Increase int per level value for Demon Hunter to 1.60 (1.57 previously) in order to be synced with Horde's Axe
  

• Removed Python from random mode
  
• Fixed some Flesh Giant stats and abilities
  

• Description of the map was reduced.
  
• Fixed bug with region when player instantly moves to the last teleporation point (north of the map);
  
• Fixed bug with -repick and -swap when player is not able to repick after -swap if another player has made -repick already, i.e. if there is no Medallion of Courage in swapped hero inventory;
  
• Fixed Uber mode: now votes of majority is enough (e.g. 6 votes is enough in 5v5 for Uber mode) and it displays correct quantity of required votes;
  
• Major change: now players can vote for one of the random/picking strategies:
  
  
  
  1. Mega random (didn't bother on naming  ): both teams get random combo from list of predefined combos (more or less balanced). This mode is available only for 5 vs 5 game. Players can neither -random nor -repick in this mode. See below for detailed description.
     
  2. Classic mode: players can -random and -repick once. The only difference from real classic behaviour is that team can random only 1 agi and 1 "strong" healer: druid, wizard/kubrik, pala, sh.
     
  3. All pick: name speaks for itself, you can't -random or -repick, just pick.
     
  
  
  
• Descreased time interval before hero can be picked from 30 seconds to 15 seconds;
  
• Fixed GUI bug when invalid message appears after player got killed by allied creeps (mortars/catapults), i.e. when player gets denied by computer.
  

1. am, wizard (aka kubrik), potm, fl, blood mage vs kubrik, dr, nethermage, lich, fs;
   
2. wd, kotg, tinker, batman, barbarian vs wd, beasty, tc, pl, clown abomination;
   
3. druid, kotg, mk, batman, barbarian vs sh, beasty, tc, pl, cl;
   
4. wizard (aka kubrik), kotg, mk, batman, barbarian vs kubrik, beasty, tc, pl, cl;
   
5. wizard (aka kubrik), naga sea witch, barbarian, batman, stealthviper vs kubrik, fs, tc, dl, alchi.
   

1. impossible to random/repick 2 or more agility-based heroes;
   
2. impossible to random/repick 2 or more "strong" healers: druid, wizard/kubrik, pala, sh. Death knight wasn't counted as "strong" healer, because he can't heal non-undead; KotG wasn't included as well, because he has no regular heal, only ulti and this ulti doesn't heal instantly. Agi-based healers (High Elf Warrior and Grim Reaper) are not strong healers as well (heal doesn't work instantly).
   

1. wd, kotg, tinker, batman, barbarian vs wd, beasty, tc, pl, clown abomination;
   
2. druid, tinker, mk, batman, barbarian vs sh, beasty, tc, pl, cl;
   
3. wizard (aka kubrik), tinker, mk, batman, barbarian vs kubrik, beasty, tc, pl, cl;
   

• Allowed individual -repick for Mega Random mode: every player can decide if he wants to repick a hero (experiment).
  

1. wd, kotg, tinker, batman, barbarian vs wd, cl, tc, pl, lich;
   
2. archdruid, tinker, mk, batman, barbarian vs sh, beastmaster, tc, pl, cl;
   
3. wizard, tinker, mk, batman, barbarian vs kubrik, dl, tc, pl, cl;
   
4. fl, tinker, mk, batman, kotg vs nethermage, dl, tc, lich, cl.
   

1. panda bm, kotg, tinker, batman, barbarian vs classic bm, cl, tc, pl, lich;
   
2. wizard, tinker, mk, batman, barbarian vs kubrik, dl, tc, pl, cl;
   
3. ranger, tinker, mk, batman, kotg vs nethermage, dl, tc, lich, cl;
   
4. panda brewmaster, kotg, ranger, barbarian, dh vs axemaster, dl, dark ranger, lich, cl;
   
5. arthas, stealthviper, archdruid, blood mage, fl vs alchemist, pl, sh, archimonde, cl;
   
6. potm, pala, tinker, batman, panda brewmaster vs dark ranger, beastmaster, tc, alchemist, dk.
   

• 2 new sounds: "-surprise" ("surprise, m***********") and "-singing" ("singing, sinking, dying, diving");
  
• changes in the "-swap" command: players can swap first 15 minutes of the game, no time limit between 2 swaps; you can swap 5 times.

• wd, kotg, tinker, batman, barbarian vs wd, cl, tc, pl, lich
  
• wizard, tinker, mk, batman, barbarian vs kubrik, dl, tc, pl, cl
  
• fl, tinker, mk, batman, kotg vs nethermage, dl, tc, lich, cl
  
• wd, wizard, mk, barbarian, batman vs wd, kubrik, beastmaster, tc, dl
  
• panda bm, archdruid, tinker, fl, arthas vs classic bm, pl, nethermage, bloodlord, cl
  
• high elf, blood mage, panda brewmaster, tinker, archmage vs grim reaper, nethermage, bloodlord, cl, farseer
  
• stealthviper, barbarian, mk, kotg, ranger vs alchemist, tc, lich, dl, archimonde
  
• dh, fl, mk, batman, archmage vs axemaster, beastmaster, tauren warrior, nethermage, archimonde
  
• tinker, naga sea witch, kubrik, blood mage, fl vs cl, farseer, nethermage, lich, bloodlord
  
• mk, batman, fl, panda bm, panda bm vs dl, tc, nethermage, classic bm, classic bm

• Demon Hunter:
  
  Evasion was decreased dramatically from 40% to 19% (lvl 10):
  
  
  
  1. 1% (7% in the past)
     
  2. 3%
     
  3. 5%
     
  4. 7%
     
  5. 9%
     
  6. 11%
     
  7. 13%
     
  8. 15%
     
  9. 17%
     
  10. 19% (40% in the past)

• Axemaster:
  Exactly same changes for evasion.

• it is impossible now to random Stealthviper/Alchemist and agi heroes at the same time (because they are creepers too);
  
• added "Speedy mode": all heroes start with level 10 and respawn time is always 30 seconds even at high levels;
  
• Mega Random was disabled in favour of Speedy Mode.

• Demon Hunter:
  
  Evasion was increased:
  
  1. 2% (1% in the previous version)
     
  2. 5%
     
  3. 8%
     
  4. 11%
     
  5. 14%
     
  6. 17%
     
  7. 20%
     
  8. 23%
     
  9. 26%
     
  10. 30% (19% in the previous version)

• Axemaster:
  Exactly same changes for evasion.

• reverted respawn time for the "Speedy mode" (now it is as usual) *;
  
• increased gold per second for the "Speedy mode" (each player gains 50% more gold than in Classic mode).

• Added 2 new modes: "No healers, all random" and "Single healer, all random" (in the last one each team get randomed druid/pala/sh or wizard/kubrik; player with healer hero can't repick);
  
• "Speedy mode" was disabled;
  

• Demon Hunter:
  
  Immolation now burns significantly more mana of DH/Axe: from 3 mana per second at 1st level (0.5 in the past) to 12 mana per second (5 in the past) at 10th level. Also it affects slightly less area now. Thus, player cannot just simply "enable and forget" this ability, player has to check his mana counter.
  
  Metamorphosis now takes 0.5 second instead of 1.5 s in the previous versions. I hope it fixes (to some degree) issue with stun-during-metamorphosis bug.
  
  
• Bloodmage:
  
  Flame strike deals less damage (damage of each pillar of fire):
  
  
  
  1. 40 (40  in the previous version);
     
  2. 55
     
  3. 70
     
  4. 85
     
  5. 100
     
  6. 115
     
  7. 130
     
  8. 145
     
  9. 160
     
  10. 175 (220 in the previous version)
      

• Axemaster:
  Exactly same changes for Immolation and Metamorphosis.
  

Ace Ventura wrote:can you upload the lasted version to epicwar.com please, Daniel?

and post its link here then?