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Balance:
Sniper:
- Take Aim increased chance decreased from 100% > 50%

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where Spiked Armor passive would register on any damage taken instead of only attacks
- Fixed BlacK King Blade 3 recipe cost being too low
- Fixed Aeon Shield not being purgable/refresheable
- Fixed catchup system debuff not being set to the new updated values

Changes:
- Improved the XP formula
- Jagged Blade components have been reworked and added Jagged Blade 2 & 3
- Catchup system now gives or takes 25% of your gold income up to 3 times depending on far ahead/behind you are
- Bounty rune base XP increased from 50 > 200
- Bounty rune base XP multiplier per game minute increased from 10 > 50

Items:
Refusal Blade:
- Now performs a hard dispel

Monkey King Bar:
- Damage increased from 70 110 180 > 88 176 264
- Attack Speed increased from 65 100 165 > 90 160 200
- Pierce Damage increased from 70 80 90 > 70 105 140

Skull Basher:
- Bash duration decreased from 1.5 > 0.5

Abyssal Blade:
- Bash duration decreased from 1.0 > 0.5
- Stun duration decreased from 2.0 > 1.0

Spiked Armor:
- Improved the active return verification parameters to only work for heroes/creeps/bosses and never items/non-unit based

Thunder Furies:
- Chain lightning damage decreased from 180 360 720 > 180 270 360

Balance:
Tidehunter:
- Anchor Smash damage decreased from 45 70 90 110 135 180 270 > 40 55 70 85 100 115 130
- Level 25 talent 50% chance of Anchor Smash on attack > 12% chance of Anchor Smash on attack

Nature's Prophet:
- Wrath of Nature damage decreased from 115 210 305 400 495 590 685 > 115 150 185 220 255 290 325

Sniper:
- Headshot chance decreased from 20% > 5%
- Headshot damage increased from 15 40 65 90 115 140 165 > 45 120 195 270 345 420 495

Earth Spirit:
- Rolling Boulder damage decreased from 100 170 240 310 380 450 520 > 60 130 200 270 340 410 480

Faceless Void:
- Level 25 talent Chronosphere AOE changed to +30 agility
- Chronosphere radius decreased from 450 > 400

Invoker:
- Forge Spirit damage decreased from 40 80 120 160 200 240 280 300 > 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
- Forge Spirit armor decreased from 6 9 12 15 18 21 25 28 > 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
- Forge Spirit health decreased from 300 600 900 1200 1500 2000 2500 3000 > 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where the catchup system would multiply the gold bonus twice
- Fixed a bug where the catchup system could not account for items on the ground/courier/backpack

Changes:
- Increased max level from 50 > 100 and reduced required XP needed per level
- Roshan attack damage decreased from 2000 > 1000
- Roshan BaT increased from 0.7 > 0.9
- Gold formula for hero kills have been properly adjusted for the change from 6v6 to 5v5
- Catchup system changed from 5% up to max 20 stacks > 10% up to max 10 stacks

Added Rubick's Twisted Scepter upgrade to the following heroes:
- Phantom Assassin (Evasive Strike)

Balance:
Shadowfiend:
- Shadow Raze damage reduced from 90 160 230 300 370 440 510 > 60 120 180 240 300 360 420
- Requiem of Souls debuff min duration reduced from 0.4 > 0.25
- Requiem of Souls debuff max duration reduced from 1.2 > 0.5
- Requiem of Souls cooldown scaling changed from 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 > 120
- Requiem of Souls soul required per line increased from 1 > 2

Items:
Trident of the Depths:
- Movement Speed decreased from 16 32 48 > 16 18 20%

Spiked Armor:
- Active returned damage type changed from original > pure

Hellfire Lantern:
- Level 2/3 recipe cost reduced from 11250 > 1250

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where the team count during countdown would display 6vs6

Map:
- Reworked the support neutral camp structure
• This was done because the old structure allowed for easy abuse to gain more gold/xp than intended

Added new Twisted Scepter upgrades to the following heroes:
- Dazzle (Shadow Step)
- Venomancer (Plague Pool)

Balance:
Spirit Breaker:
- Bulldoze cooldown changed from 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 > 30
- Bulldoze status resistance changed from 34 46 58 70 72 74 76 > 35
- Greater Bash stun duration increased from 0.5 0.55 0.6 0.65 0.7 0.8 0.85 > 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
- Greater Bash damage from movement speed decreased from 22 30 38 46 54 66 80 > 14 17 20 23 26 29 32
- Level 25 talent decreased from 25% > 8% greater bash damage

Clinkz:
- Death Pact bonus health decreased from 20 35 50 65 80 95 110 > 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
- Death Pact bonus damage decreased from 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 > 6
- Level 25 talent decreased from +50%/5% > +15/5%

Dazzle:
- Shadow Wave cooldown decreased from 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 > 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
- Shadow Wave mana cost increased from 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 > 90 120 150 180 210 240 270
- Shadow Wave heal/damage increased from 80 120 160 200 240 280 320 > 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
- Shadow Wave cast range increased from 900 900 900 900 900 950 1000 > 900 950 1000 1050 1100 1150 1200
- Shallow Grave cast range increased from 550 625 700 775 850 925 1000 > 900 950 1000 1050 1100 1150 1200

Axe:
- Removed Aghanim's Shard upgrade (it's not possible to change it)

Map:
- Made a path into the duel from either top runes near roshan

Changes:
- Abilities added by Rubick's Twisted Scepter are now visible before purchasing it
- NEW! Rubick's Twisted Scepter upgrade for Abaddon "Font Overload"

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where Trident of the Depths would deal damage twice (first normal hit, and then critical hit)
- Fixed a bug where the Aeon Shield immunity could not be purged

Balance:
Items:
Trident of the Depths:
- All stats decreased from 32 64 96 > 32 48 64
- Status Resistance decreased from 16 24 32 > 16 17 18

Wormhole Boots:
- Movement Speed decreased from 20 30 40% > 20 25 30%

Linken's Orb:
- Cooldown increased from 12 11 10 > 20

Refusal Blade:
- Slow increased from 80% > 90%

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed Linken's Sphere not sharing cooldown with Linken's Orb
- Fixed a bug where Battlemage's Arsenal worked on illusions
- Fixed a bug where Battlemage's Arsenal Poison Strike would not apply if the wearer was magic immune
- Fixed Mage Masher granting attack range to melee heroes
- Fixed Battlemage's Arsenal bonus attack using attack orbs (can still use procs like crit)
- Fixed a bug where Nyx's Vendetta could be used repeatedly with Battlemage's Arsenal
- (Possibly) Fixed a bug where you would keep the lifesteal from War Banner when removed from inventory

Balance:
Dragon Knight:
- Dragon Blood regen increased from 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 > 5 11 17 23 29 35 41
- Dragon Blood armor increased from 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 > 4 8 12 16 20 24 28

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where the Mirrored Reality illusion would benefit from Thrice Stricken
- Fixed a bug where bosses would not aggro you when getting close
- Fixed a bug where you would not deal damage to bosses unless you were really close to them

Items:
Enchanted Mango:
- Replenish amount increased from 100 > 225

Faerie Fire:
- Heal increased from 85 > 150

Balance:
Hoodwink:
- Attack Rate reverted to default Dota values
- Acorn Shot bonus damage decreased from 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 > 50 65 80 95 110 125 140

Bane:
- Fiends Grip cooldown increased from 60 > 100

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed Ultra Blink 3 requiring 2 charged essence
- Fixed Sand King caustic finale missing scaling
- Fixed Keeper of the Light Spirit form missing scaling
- Fixed Spectre desolate missing scaling

Items:
Rubick's Twisted Scepter:
- Now displays what heroes it works on

Balance:
Bane (NEW!!):
- Added new ability "Children of Nyctasha" from Rubick's Twisted Scepter upgrade!

Kunkka:
- X Marks the spot cooldown scaling changed from 22 20 16 14 12 10 8 > 22 21 20 19 18 17 16

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed Aeon Shield 2/3 recipe cost being 500 instead of 5000 gold
- Fixed Spiked Armor passive return reflecting damage as physical instead of same as the damage source
- Fixed Chronos Hourglass reducing cooldowns instead of increasing them for abilities when used in the anomaly

Balance:
Spiked Armor:
- Active return increased from 80% > 80 90 100%
- Damage Return no longer applies a healing prevention debuff on the attacker
- Damage Return is now calculated before any reductions
- Damage Return is now the same as the damage source

Aeon Shield:
- Cooldown increased from 60.0 50.0 40.0 > 90.0 80.0 70.0