Version 6.61

Items

• Improved the critical value from 2.2x to 2.4x

• Converted creeps now gain the Resistant Skin ability, making spells duration on them the same as heroes or Spirit Bear.

• Minor reduction to bonus damage (36->32)

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Heroes

Batrider   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Batrider 23 + 2.7 15 + 1.5 24 +

• Lowered Strength gain from 2.5 to 2.0

Bloodseeker   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Bloodseeker 23 + 2.7 24 + 3 18 +

• Bloodbath no longer regenerates from images

Clinkz   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Clinkz 15 + 1.9 22 + 3.3 16 + 1.55 Level Base

• Improved Searing Arrows damage from 10/20/30/40 to 20/30/40/50
• 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 Warrunner For the neutral centaur creeps, see Centaur Camp.   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Centaur Warrunner 23 +

• Reduced Double Edge cooldown (25->12 seconds)

Faceless Void   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Faceless Void 23 + 2.1 23 + 2.8 15 + 1.5 Level

• Improved base Strength (17->23)

Nature`s Prophet   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Nature s Prophet 19 + 2.1 18 + 1.9 25 + 2.9 Level

• Lowered Sprout cooldown from 11 seconds to 11/10/9/8 seconds and mana cost from 115/140/165/205 to 100/120/140/160

Magnus   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Magnus 21 + 3.2 15 + 2.5 19 + 1.65 Level Base

• Reverse Polarity now pulls units slightly in front of you instead of all around you

Medusa   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Medusa 14 + 1.95 20 + 2.5 19 +

• Lowered Stone Gaze cooldown (70->35 seconds)
• Minor improvements to Mystic Snake speed , cast range and cooldown
• Improved Mystic Snake`s damage from 60/100/140/180 to 80/120/160/200

Meepo   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Meepo 23 + 1.6 23 + 2.2 20 +

• Rescaled Geostrike from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20 damage per second

Weaver   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Weaver 15 + 1.8 14 + 2.8 15 + 1.8 Level Base

• Lowered Shukuchi cooldown from 13/11/9/7 to 12/10/8/6 seconds
• Reworked Watchers

Old Watcher`s:

Cooldown 30/20/10/5 seconds

Movement Speed 522

HP 1

Bounty 10-13

Vision 1400/1400

Invisible

Urna Swarm:

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).

Night Stalker   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Night Stalker 23 + 3.1 18 + 2.25 16

• Improved Intelligence growth from 1.25 to 1.6

Ogre Magi For the neutral ogre creeps, see Ogre Camp.   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Ogre

• 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

Brewmaster   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Brewmaster 23 + 3.2 22 + 1.95 14 +

• Increased Drunken Brawler critical from 1.8x to 2.0x

Queen of Pain   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Queen of Pain 16 + 2 18 + 2 24 + 2.5

• Aghanim`s Scepter: Restored original cooldown improvement

Razor   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Razor 21 + 2.6 22 + 2 21 + 1.8 Level Base

• Lowered Intelligence gain from 2.2 to 1.8

Treant Protector For Nature s Prophet s summons, see Treant. For the race in Dota 2 lore, see Treant Protectors.   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities

• Casting Nature`s Guise on an allied unit (or other spells) will no longer take you out if you have it on you

Shadow Shaman   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Shadow Shaman 21 + 2.1 16 + 1.6 21 + 3 Level

• Aghanim`s Scepter: Undid part of the nerf on Mass Serpent Wards. It now gives +3 (up 1 from 6.60, down 1 from 6.59d)

Silencer   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Silencer 17 + 2.5 22 + 3 27 + 2.5 Level Base

• 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.
• Increased Last Word AoE from 700 to 900
• Rebalanced Curse of the Silent from 10/20/30/40 @@@#@@@HP(hp.com)###@### and 5/10/15/20 mana per second for 10 seconds to 50 HPTechnology company and 25 mana for 2/4/6/8 seconds.

Sniper   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Sniper 16 + 2 21 + 2.5 15 + 2.6 Level Base

• Increased Take Aim range from 55/110/165/220 to 65/130/195/260

Spectre   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Spectre 19 + 2.3 23 + 1.8 16 +

• Decreased Spectral Dagger cooldown from 25 to 16 seconds

Elder Titan   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Elder Titan 24 + 2.6 14 + 1.8 23

• Lowered base damage by 10
• Lowered Strength gain from 2.7 to 2.3
• Decreased Natural Order percentages to 20/40/60/80%

• Improved base Agility (22->27)

• Nethertoxin now only works on enemy units

• Increased base Intelligence from 19 to 24 (base damage adjust to remain the same though)

General

• 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

Bugs

• 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