Patch 7.41

Base Damage increased by 10

Damage at level 1 increased from 39–45 to 49–55

Base Attack Speed increased from 100 to 120

Base Movement Speed increased from 315 to 320

Level 10 Talent +3% Ghoul Frenzy Movement Speed replaced with +20 Movement Speed

Level 15 Talent +15% Open Wounds Slow replaced with 50 Attack Speed on Open Wounds Target

Level 15 Talent +50 Ghoul Frenzy Attack Speed replaced with +175 Infest Damage

Level 20 Talent Infest Target Movespeed/Health decreased from +15% to +12%

Reworked into Innate ability. Passive

Provides Lifestealer with 5 bonus Attack Speed per level

Now also provides 9/12/15/18% bonus movement speed while active

Mana Cost decreased from 100 to 90

Max Slow increased from 35/40/45/50% to 50%

Now is a basic ability

Heal From Target's Max Health rescaled from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75% to 1.45/2.05/2.65/3.25%

Max Health Damage rescaled from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75% to 1.45/2.05/2.65/3.25%

Max Health per Hero Kill increased from 10 to 10/15/20/25

No longer increases deny health threshold to 75%

Now can be used on Ancient creeps by default

Aghanim's Shard upgrade reworked

When consuming a creep, enemies also take damage over time equal to 30% of the creep's remaining health. Damage duration: 3s. Has no effect when bursting out of enemy heroes

Duration changed from 15s + 2.5s per level up to 12.5s + 2.5s per level

Stacks now have independent durations and don't refresh previous ones

Cooldown increased from 10/8/6/4s to 14/12/10/8s

Mana Cost increased from 20 to 25/30/35/40

Cast Range is now Slark's attack range + 50

Stack Restoration Steal increased from 2/4/6/8% to 4/8/12/16%

Stack Regen Steal increased from 2/4/6/8 to 4/8/12/16

Stack Speed Steal increased from 2/4/6/8 to 4/8/12/16

Now also modifies incoming healing

Level 20 Talent -2s Lucent Beam Cooldown replaced with 1.5x Lunar Orbit Damage / Speed

Level 25 Talent Lunar Blessing Allied/Self Damage decreased from +30/60 to +25/50

Damage for Allies/Self changed from 1/2 + 1/2 per level up to 1/2 per level

Bonus Night Vision changed from 250 + 25 per level up to 225 + 25 per level

Now applies 8/12/16/20% damage reduction while active

Aghanim's Shard upgrade reworked

Increases damage reduction by 10% and provides Luna with 20% bonus movement speed for the duration

Base Armor decreased by 1

No longer levels with Reincarnation

Lifesteal changed from 10/20/30/40% to 14% + 1% per level

Wraith Duration changed from 3.5/4/4.5/5s to 4.25s + 0.25s per 6 levels

Bonus Attack Speed rescaled from 30/45/60/75 to 55

Bonus Move Speed rescaled from 10/15/20/25% to 20%

Now always a basic ability for Wraith King

Skeleton movespeed increased from 340 to 350

Aghanim's Shard reworked

Critical strikes curse their target, dealing 75% of the damage dealt again after a 3 second delay. Vampiric Spirit's lifesteal applies to the curse damage

Mana Cost decreased from 225 to 220/110/0

Now spawns 2/3/4 per enemy hero within slow radius

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Base Health Regen decreased from 1 to 0

Removed Third Eye innate ability

New innate ability, improves with Templar Assassin's level

After remaining stationary for 0.25s, Templar Assassin begins meditating, gaining bonus health regen and mana regen. Bonuses linearly increase from 0 up to their maximum, which is reached after 2.05s - 0.05s per level. Moving from the current position or taking damage from an enemy resets regen bonuses. Max Health Regen is 2.7 + 0.3 per level. Max Mana Regen is 2.2 + 0.2 per level

Level 15 Talent +3 Meld Armor reduction replaced with +3 Psionic Traps

Level 15 Talent Refraction Can Be Cast While Disabled replaced with +225 Meld Attack Range

Level 20 Talent +40 Refraction Damage replaced with +4 Meld Armor Reduction

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Increases bonus damage by 30 and allows Refraction to be cast while disabled

Now, if the attack that broke Meld splits with Psi Blades, Bonus Damage and Armor Reduction are now applied to all affected enemies

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

When activated, Traps now also silence enemies from 0.25s up to 3s depending on the trap charge

Level 15 Talent +1 Facet Orb Level replaced with +25 Alacrity Speed/Damage

Level 20 Talent +50 Alacrity Speed/Damage replaced with +1 Orb Levels

Max Level increased from 7 to 8

Max Level increased from 7 to 8

Max Level increased from 7 to 8

Aghanim's Scepter twister damage decreased from 40 + 10 * Wex Level to 30 + 10 * Wex Level

Now whenever Invoker gets Aghanim's Scepter or Aghanim's Shard, these items are inert in the inventory until Invoker activates them manually. Upon activation, he will be presented with three upgrades to choose from. Upgrades themselves for both Aghanim's Scepter and Aghanim's Shard are unchanged

You can't change selected upgrades. Selling Aghanim's Scepter and buying it again will provide the same upgrade you chose the first time

Aghanim's Scepter no longer provides +1 level to all three orbs. Now it provides +1 level only to a single orb you choose

Level 20 Talent Scream of Pain Damage increased from +100 to +115

Damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 90/175/260/345

25% of the damage dealt to heroes with this ability is reflected back to her

Also applies to Scream of Pain instances cast by Shadow Strike upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Duration improved from 10s to 8s

Health/Mana Restore rescaled from 10 + 2% to 3%

Spell Dodge Multiplier decreased from 3.5x to 3x

Now has curved vector targeting by default

Can be put on alt-cast to to launch the orb straight

Speed increased from 550 to 750

Now additionally deals 3% of orb's Impact Damage every 0.5s in its AoE

Base Damage decreased by 4

Damage at level 1 unchanged due to innate ability changes

Now also increases Void Spirit's attack damage per point of attribute by 15%

Increase is multiplicative, so it's increased from 0.45 to 0.5175

The result of these changes:

Damage at level 1 is unchanged at 52–56

Damage gain per level increased from 3.6 to 4.1

Damage at level 30 increased from 174–178 to 192–196

Secondary bonuses increased from 25% to 30%

No longer provides increased Armor or Magic Resistance

Now provides increased Attack Speed per point of Agility

Aghanim's Shard True Sight no longer reveals wards

Barrier Amount per hero hit increased from 35/50/65/80 to 50/70/90/110

Level 15 Talent Devour Can Target Ancients replaced with +66 Damage

Level 15 Talent Scorched Earth Movement Speed increased from +5% to +7%

Level 20 Talent -10s Scorched Earth Cooldown replaced with -10s Doom Cooldown

Level 25 Talent Doom applies Break replaced with Permanent Scorched Earth (ability becomes toggleable with no mana cost and a 2.5s cooldown between toggles)

Ability slightly reworked

When Doom attacks enemy heroes, he applies a curse upon them. After 2.5s, the cursed hero bursts with a pillar of fire, damaging itself and all enemy units in a 66 AoE for 15% of the damage taken from Doom over this duration, including damage from the attack that applied the curse. If the cursed hero's level is a multiple of 6, the curse damage and radius will be increased by 66%

Now the default cast gained on learning Devour is the one that grants abilities of devoured creeps, and alt-cast state keeps the ones that Doom currently has

Cooldown decreased from 70s to 66s

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Replaces cooldown with 2 charges with 66s restore time. Allows to devour Ancient Neutral Creeps. Gained spells also have 20% bonus AoE and 40% Spell Amplification

Radius increased from 600 to 666

Now also provides Doom with 7/8/9/10 bonus health regen

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Stun Duration increased from 0.6s to 0.66s

Damage per second increased from 25/45/65 to 25/45/66

Aghanim's Scepter now also applies Break to affected enemies

Aghanim's Scepter no longer increases damage per second by 15

Base armor decreased by 1

Level 10 Talent +12% Press the Attack Movement Speed replaced with +1 Outfight Them! Armor

Level 20 Talent +8% Moment of Courage Proc Chance replaced with -1 Moment of Courage Attacks To Trigger

Level 20 Talent 300 AoE Press The Attack replaced with +1s Duel Duration

Level 25 Talent Press the Attack grants 1.5s Debuff Immunity replaced with Duel Refreshes Cooldown on Victory

Ability reworked

Passively grants Legion Commander bonus armor, equal to 1 + 0.1 per level. Whenever Legion Commander casts an ability, she gains the same amount as a stacking bonus for 6s. Whenever allies within 1200 range cast an ability, they also gain a 6s buff with 50% of the value. This bonus stacks independently

Now also applies 100% movement slow upon dealing damage for 0.3s

Aghanim's Shard upgrade reworked

Increases radius by 100. Grants an all damage barrier equal to 50% of the damage dealt with Overwhelming Odds for 6s

Multiple instances can now stack independently

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Increases bonus movement speed by 12%. Ability becomes cast-point, affecting all allies within the targeted 500 radius area. Legion Commander is always affected, even when outside of the cast area

No longer has a 25% proc chance

Now automatically triggers after taking 7/6/5/4 attacks

Will not activate unless Legion Commander is both attacking and being attacked. Until this requirement is met, the 'prepared' state is kept indefinitely

Cooldown decreased from 1.7/1.4/1.1/0.8 to 0.3s

Legion Commander can now use any abilities during Duel

Legion Commander will stop attacking as normal during cast animations

Items can't be used

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Aghanim's Scepter upgrade reworked

When Legion Commander wins a duel, Press the Attack is automatically triggered around her

Level 10 Talent +20% Dauntless Regen Per Enemy replaced with +1.5 Mana Regen

Level 20 Talent -16s Arena Of Blood Cooldown replaced with +70 Arena of Blood Spear Damage

No longer considers Mars's allies when determining if Mars is outnumbered

HP Regen per extra enemy decreased from 70% to 40%

Now a point targeted ability. Mars will face towards the targeted direction when toggled on

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Lowers cooldown by 10s and increases duration from 5.5s to 6.5s. If an enemy is killed in the Arena, Mars and all of his allies inside the Arena restore 35% of their max health and mana and get a 35% attack damage buff for 20s. This effect stacks

Strength gain increased from 3.6 to 3.7

Removed Blubber innate ability

Level 20 Talent Blubber effect triggers Anchor Smash replaced with Kraken Shell Cleanse triggers Anchor Smash

New Innate Ability. Passive

Whenever an enemy hero dies while affected by any Tidehunter's debuff or is killed by him, they drop a fish. Tidehunter can eat the fish to grow in size and permanently gain 3 Max Health, 2 Attack Range and 1 Bonus Damage Block. Tidehunter automatically eats a fish on every level up

Bonus Damage Block is only applied if there is a source of damage block being applied to an incoming physical attack

The fish flies 400 units towards Tidehunter upon spawning, stays in the world indefinitely and can be destroyed by an attack from Tidehunter's enemies

Radius changed from 375 to 225 + Tidehunter's Attack Range

Now applies a strong dispel to Tidehunter if he takes more than 600/550/500/450 damage within 7 seconds

Removed Heart of Darkness innate ability

New basic ability. Has both passive and active components

Night Stalker heals himself 6/8/10/12 health when attacking enemy units

Attacks on allied units and buildings will not heal Night Stalker

Can be cast at night to eat a non-ancient creep and restore 10/15/20/25% of Night Stalker's maximum health and 10/12/14/16% of his mana. Cast Range: 125. No Mana Cost. Cooldown: 39/36/33/30s

Can't be cast on allies

Level 10 Talent +5s Dark Ascension Duration replaced with +10 Crippling Fear DPS

Level 20 Talent +40 Crippling Fear DPS replaced with +75 Crippling Fear Radius

Level 25 Talent +100 Hunter in the Night Attack Speed replaced with +100 Midnight Feast Lifesteal

Now an innate ability

Move Speed bonus changed from 22/28/34/40% to 24% + 2% per 3 levels

Attack Speed bonus changed from 20/40/60/80 to 38 + 2 per level

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Increases bonus Movement Speed by 15% and bonus Attack Speed by 50. Killing an enemy hero resets cooldowns of all basic abilities

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Now affects all units within 400 radius around the target

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Base Damage increased by 1

Damage at level 1 increased from 49–55 to 50–56

Removed Might and Magus innate ability

New innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Rubick gains 1 stack of Curiosity per level, each granting him +1 base damage, +0.3% Buff/Debuff Duration, and +2 Area of Effect bonus. If Rubick sees an enemy Hero cast an ability within 1200 distance of him, he gains 2 Curiosity for 20 seconds. If an enemy that currently provides temporary Curiosity dies within 3s after taking damage from Rubick, he gains 1 Curiosity permanently

Level 10 Talent +0.25% Might and Magus Damage/Resistance replaced with +200 Health

Level 10 Talent +165 Telekinesis Landing Damage replaced with -2s Telekinesis Cooldown

Level 15 Talent +20% Fade Bolt Damage Reduction replaced with -3s Fade Bolt Cooldown

Level 15 Talent -25% Stolen Spells Cooldown replaced with -50% Stolen Spells Mana Cost

Level 20 Talent -5s Telekinesis Cooldown replaced with Telekinesis Landing Deals 325 Damage (now this talent applies damage to the thrown enemy as well)

Level 20 Talent -5s Fade Bolt Cooldown replaced with +12% Fade Bolt Damage Reduction

Level 25 Talent +400 Telekinesis Land Distance replaced with 2x Curiosity Bonuses

Aghanim's Shard throw distance bonus changed from 35% to 225

Now reduces both spell and attack damage by default

Damage Reduction rescaled from 5/15/25/35% to 6/12/18/24%

No longer grants 10/20/30% Debuff Amplification

Stolen spells now have their cooldown decreased by 10/20/30%

No longer levels with Dismember

Permanent Bonus Strength rescaled from 1.1/1.4/1.7/2.0 to 1.6

No longer has a separate value for incoming heal reduction

Removed Herd Mentality innate ability

New innate ability. Passive

Spirit Breaker gains bonus Movement Speed whenever he stuns an enemy. Effect depends on the unit type: stunning a hero will provide a 8% bonus for 2s, while other units provide 2% for 1s

Effects from multiple stuns stack and have independent durations. Bull Rush duration is paused during Charge of Darkness, but it can still gain new stacks. This effect allows Spirit Breaker to go over the max movement speed limit

Level 15 Talent +45 Damage replaced with +60 Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed

Level 20 Talent -0.3s Greater Bash Cooldown replaced with +8%/+2% Empowering Haste Movespeed Bonus

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Increases knockback by roughly 30%. If a knocked-back enemy collides with another enemy, the second enemy is also bashed, and the original target takes 25% of Spirit Breaker's Greater Bash damage again

This effect is applied to Charge of Darkness and Nether Strike as well, since those abilities use Greater Bash

Creeps take 25% damage of repeated damage

Bodies of killed units keep flying and pushing enemies

Now granted by Aghanim's Shard

Cooldown increased from 25s to 30s

Self Magic Resistance decreased from 75% to 40%

Effect now ends if Spirit Breaker is more than 900 units away from the target

Now can be cast without cancelling Charge of Darkness

Removed Septic Shock innate ability

New Basic Ability

Venomancer summons a Spawn of Aktok to sink its fangs into an enemy, dealing 40/60/80/100 magic damage and applying a deadly toxin which does 20/25/30/35 magical damage per second for 6 seconds. When the target attacks, they take the initial magic damage again. Cast Range: 600. Mana Cost: 70/80/90/100. Cooldown: 20/18/16/14s

Level 15 Talent Poison Sting Slow increased from +5% to +7%

Level 15 Talent -1s Plague Ward Cooldown replaced with +75 Noxious Plague Spread Radius

Level 20 Talent +50 Base Damage replaced with -2s Plague Ward Cooldown

Level 20 Talent +1% Noxious Plague Max HP Damage replaced with +40% Snakebite Damage (applies to both initial damage and damage per second)

Level 25 Talent Noxious Plague Aura reduces 200 Attack Speed replaced with Snakebite Undispellable

Now an innate ability

Imbues Venomancer's attack with poison, which deals damage per second equal to 9 + 1 per level and slows movement by 10%. Duration: 4.5s + 0.5s per level

Aghanim's Shard upgrade reworked

Increases cast range and projectile speed by 25%. Creates 2 Plague Wards around every enemy hero hit

Ability reworked

No longer has AoE effect, now affects only the host

Now when the plague spreads, it also carries all debuffs placed by Venomancer

Doesn't stack. Applying plague to an already plague-infected unit will deal projectile damage again, but won't affect the remaining debuff duration. Duration of carried debuffs is fixed and cannot be altered with Status Resistance or Debuff Amplification

Mana Cost decreased from 200/300/400 to 200/250/300

Duration decreased from 5s to 4s

Initial Damage decreased from 200/300/400 to 150/200/250

Initial Damage is now non-lethal

Now spreads a second time, but all spreads after the first one deal no initial damage

Spread Radius decreased from 800 to 700

Max HP as damage decreased from 3/4/5% to 2/3/4%

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Decreases cooldown by 35s. Reduces Magic Resistance of affected units by 20% and allows additional spreads to deal initial damage

Ability reworked

Killing or assisting in a Hero kill provides Lion with 20% debuff duration while that hero is dead. Whenever Lion respawns or resurrects, he gains 20% spell amplification for 90s or until he gets a kill or an assist

Cooldown decreased from 120/80/40s to 110/70/30s

Damage per kill decreased from 40 to 30

Now has empowered melee attacks after the cast by default

After using Finger of Death, Lion's hand becomes empowered, turning him into a melee hero with 250 attack range and 30 bonus movement speed. These melee attacks have 25% cleave and deal 20/30/40 bonus damage which increases with each Finger of Death kill. Enemy heroes that die within 3s after getting hit with these melee attacks (or from them) also provide bonus per kill damage. Melee form duration: 20s

Ability can be toggled with right-click to disable the melee form

Cleave area is a cone with 150 width that increases up to 350 at 650 distance

Aghanim's Scepter now also increases melee cleave from 25% to 50% and duration from 20s to 30s

Aghanim's Scepter no longer decreases cooldown

Base Mana Regen decreased from 0.75 to -1

Intelligence gain decreased from 3.8 to 3.4

Removed Death Charge innate ability

Level 20 Talent +4s Frost Shield Duration replaced with 2 Frost Shield Charges

Level 25 Talent +100 Chain Frost Incremental Damage replaced with Chain Frost Unlimited Bounces

New Innate ability. Active

Lich can instantly kill an allied creep to gain mana relative to its current health and earn experience bounty for it. Health to Mana: 42% + 3% per level. Experience Bounty: 69% + 6% per level. Cast Range: 700. No Mana Cost. Cooldown: 120s

This ability starts on extended cooldown and with no charges, making the first cast possible only at 2:00 mark

Sacrificed creeps count as denies, providing experience to enemy heroes. Lich's experience gain is independent from experience enemies gain

Ability reworked

Killing or assisting in a Hero kill provides Lion with 20% debuff duration while that hero is dead. Whenever Lion respawns or resurrects, he gains 20% spell amplification for 90s or until he gets a kill or an assist

Cooldown decreased from 120/80/40s to 110/70/30s

Damage per kill decreased from 40 to 30

Now has empowered melee attacks after the cast by default

After using Finger of Death, Lion's hand becomes empowered, turning him into a melee hero with 250 attack range and 30 bonus movement speed. These melee attacks have 25% cleave and deal 20/30/40 bonus damage which increases with each Finger of Death kill. Enemy heroes that die within 3s after getting hit with these melee attacks (or from them) also provide bonus per kill damage. Melee form duration: 20s

Ability can be toggled with right-click to disable the melee form

Cleave area is a cone with 150 width that increases up to 350 at 650 distance

Aghanim's Scepter now also increases melee cleave from 25% to 50% and duration from 20s to 30s

Aghanim's Scepter no longer decreases cooldown

No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

Now adds a chicken illusion per 5 levels

Now also provides bonus movement speed equal to 5% + 5% per 5 levels

New ability granted by Aghanim's Shard

Throws a jar at a location, dealing 275 damage to all enemies in a 225 radius and creating a Massive Serpent Ward that lasts for 15s. The ward has 4x health and damage of the normal Serpent Wards. Cooldown: 50s. Mana Cost: 115. Cast Range: 650

Removed Septic Shock innate ability

New Basic Ability

Venomancer summons a Spawn of Aktok to sink its fangs into an enemy, dealing 40/60/80/100 magic damage and applying a deadly toxin which does 20/25/30/35 magical damage per second for 6 seconds. When the target attacks, they take the initial magic damage again. Cast Range: 600. Mana Cost: 70/80/90/100. Cooldown: 20/18/16/14s

Level 15 Talent Poison Sting Slow increased from +5% to +7%

Level 15 Talent -1s Plague Ward Cooldown replaced with +75 Noxious Plague Spread Radius

Level 20 Talent +50 Base Damage replaced with -2s Plague Ward Cooldown

Level 20 Talent +1% Noxious Plague Max HP Damage replaced with +40% Snakebite Damage (applies to both initial damage and damage per second)

Level 25 Talent Noxious Plague Aura reduces 200 Attack Speed replaced with Snakebite Undispellable

Now an innate ability

Imbues Venomancer's attack with poison, which deals damage per second equal to 9 + 1 per level and slows movement by 10%. Duration: 4.5s + 0.5s per level

Aghanim's Shard upgrade reworked

Increases cast range and projectile speed by 25%. Creates 2 Plague Wards around every enemy hero hit

Ability reworked

No longer has AoE effect, now affects only the host

Now when the plague spreads, it also carries all debuffs placed by Venomancer

Doesn't stack. Applying plague to an already plague-infected unit will deal projectile damage again, but won't affect the remaining debuff duration. Duration of carried debuffs is fixed and cannot be altered with Status Resistance or Debuff Amplification

Mana Cost decreased from 200/300/400 to 200/250/300

Duration decreased from 5s to 4s

Initial Damage decreased from 200/300/400 to 150/200/250

Initial Damage is now non-lethal

Now spreads a second time, but all spreads after the first one deal no initial damage

Spread Radius decreased from 800 to 700

Max HP as damage decreased from 3/4/5% to 2/3/4%

Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Decreases cooldown by 35s. Reduces Magic Resistance of affected units by 20% and allows additional spreads to deal initial damage

No longer levels with Dismember

Permanent Bonus Strength rescaled from 1.1/1.4/1.7/2.0 to 1.6

No longer has a separate value for incoming heal reduction