1.28
**Gameplay:**

* Vanillafied the experience per level table from 1 to 25 levels. Still 35 levels total.

**UI:**

* Added a "Tip of the day" to the loading screen

**Mechanics:**

* Radiant Defenders will no longer lose their upgrades once the corresponding barracks fall.
* Fixed a possible problem that may cause the chosen Ultra difficulty to be ignored and set to Easy instead.

Due to the way how 7.20-7.21 changed the balance, many abilities and items are now vanillafied.
Almost all heroes and items changed.

* Fixed Radiant Defender creeps not spawning at horde_2p_ultra map.
* Horde Ultra Skills now have proper descriptions.
* Treant King Boss now have a special Boss grade Living Armor ability, granting 120 stacks of 120 damage block for 30 seconds, with cooldown of 12 seconds.
* Kappapult now has a special kind of Liquid Fire ability(no cooldown, 24 damage per second).
* Archer Boss:
* * Day and Night visions increased greatly
* * Attack range increased slightly
* * Attack speed increased slightly
* Lizard creeps now have a special kind of Slardar's Bash of the Deep(0.3 stun duration)
* Fixed towers not copying attacker's attack range
* Disco Pony Diabolic Edict damage increased from 9/18/27/36 to 11/22/33/44

1.27
Items:

Armor of Insight recipe cost reduced from 1800 to 800
Manta Style 2 now requires it's own recipe for 1200 gold, instead of regular Manta Style recipe.
Manta Style 2 cooldown reduced from 30/45 to 15/20 seconds.
Fixed Exalted Solar Crest not granting evasion to the wielder.
Reduced Exalted Solar Crest's cooldown from 10 to 7, and increased duration from 5 to 7, to be consistent with Medallion of Courage and regular Solar Crest's cooldowns.
Increased Exalted Solar Crest's bonus armor from 20 to 25
Exalted Diffusal Blade's illusion manaburn increased up to 45 for both ranged and melee illusions
Reduced Exalted Echo Sabre's cooldown from 3 to 2.2
Increased Aether Lens spell amplification from 3/6/9/12% to 5/10/15/20%
Greatly reduced blink dagger upgrade cost, from 1500 to 600 per each level. (2100 total for level 3 Blink Dagger)
Willful resonance and Resonant shard are now dealing full damage instead of base damage. Now affected by stuff like critical hits and etc.
Willful resonance now deals 40%/30% damage instead of 80%/60%.

Cursed rapier:
No longer prevents healing.
Reduces all incoming healing down to 35%.
Now drains 150 health on toggle
No longer provides bonus 150 damage when toggled on
No longer makes user immune to Magic and Physical damages
No longer alters attack range
Cooldown reduced from 3 to 0.5
Now provides 20% reduction to all 3 damage types(Physical, Magic and Pure) when toggled on

Scythe of Vyse:
Fixed 0 radius instead of 400
Fixed duration being 3.5 instead of 6
Reduced cost of exalted recipes from 4000 to 3000

Improved stats of Necronomicon warriors:
Warrior:
armor from 4 to 4/8/16
damage from 75/100/120 to 80/160/245
attack rate from 0.75 to 0.75/0.57/0.4
health from 700/800/900 to 1000/1500/2000
health regeneration from 5 to 5/15/25

Archer:
damage from 60/90/120 to 80/160/245
attack rate from 1 to 0.75
health from 700/800/900 to 1000/1500/2000

Heroes:
Pangolier:
Fixed ultimate having 0 duration
Improved ultimate movespeed from 600 to 850
Improved ultimate knockback distance from 150 to 225
Improved ultimate duration from 8s to 8/9/10 seconds
Improved ultimate duration talent from +2s to +20s

Abaddon:
Reduced Borrowed Time cooldown from 60/50/40 to 40/30/20

Alchemist:
Reduced Chemical Rage cooldown from 55 to 45/35/25

Bloodseeker:
Increased Rupture damage from 30/45/60% to 130/245/360%

Chen:
Increased Hand of God healing from 250/400/650 to 250/600/950

Clinkz:
Increased Strafe duration from 3.5 to 5/6/7/8
Reduced Death Pact cooldown from 85 to 85/75/65

Visage:
Increased Visage Familiars health from 600/1200/1800 to 1200/2200/3200
Increased Visage Familiars damage from 40/60/80 to 90/120/150

Clockwerk:
Increased Power Cogs duration from 5/6/7/8 to 7/8/9/10
Increased Power Cogs drain amount from 50/100/150/200 to 200/300/400/500
Increased Power Cogs attacks to destroy from 2 to 5.

Dark Willow:
Increased Bramble Maze latch duration from 2/3/4/5 to 4/6/8/10
Reduced Bramble Maze damage from 200/300/400/500 to 100/160/230/300
Increased Shadow Realm's bonus damage from 120/180/240/300 to 200/280/370/460
Increased Cursed Crown's stun duration from 2/2.5/3/3.5 to 3/4/5/6

Dazzle:
Shallow Grave restored back.
Reduced Shallow Grave duration from 5 to 3.5/4/4.5/5

Earth Spirit:
Reduced Boulder Smash's cooldown from 13/12/11/10 to 10/8/6/4
Reduced Geomagnetic Grip's cooldown from 13/12/11/10 to 10/8/6/4
Reduced Remnant recharge time from 20 to 12

Ember Spirit:
Reduced Remnant recharge time from 38 to 8
Reduced Remnant cooldown reduction in 25 level talent from -25 to -7.

Gyrocopter:
Reduced Flak cannon's cooldown from 30/25/20/15 to 20/16/12/8

Invoker:
Increased Cold Snap duration from 3/3.5/4/4.5/5/5.5/6/6.5 to 6.5/7/7.5/8/8.5/9/9.5/10
Reduced Cold Snap freeze cooldown from 0.77/0.74/0.71/0.69/0.66/0.63/0.6/0.57 to 0.2

Lycan:
Increased wolf damage from 18/29/37/46 to 40/56/72/88
Increased wolf health from 230/260/290/320 to 400/600/800/1000
Increased Shapeshift duration from 18 to 25
Reduced Shapeshift cooldown from 40/35/30 to 40/34/28

Meepo:
Reduced Poof's cast point from 1.5 to 0.5

Monkey King:
Increased Boundless Strike critical damage from 150/175/200/225% to 200/290/380/475%
Increased Boundless Strike stun from 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6 to 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4

Ogre Magi:
Fixed Unrefined Fireblast dealing 275 damage instead of 600
Increased Unrefined Fireblast damage from 600 to 650

Puck:
Reduced Dream Coil's cooldown from 70/55/40 to 20/15/10
Increased Dream Coil's break stun duration from 1.5/2.25/3 to 3/4.5/6

Pudge:
Increased max Flesh Heap limit from 1000 to 10000

Razor:
Reduced Static Link cooldown from 40/35/30/25 to 8/6.4/4.8/3

Riki:
Increased Cloak and Dagger agility damage multiplier from 0.4/0.6/0.8/1 to 1/1.4/1.8/2.2

Shadow Fiend:
Increased Requiem of Souls damage from 80/120/160 to 160/240/320

Silencer:
Increased max Int steal limit from 1000 to 10000

Spectre:
Increased Haunt duration from 10 to 30/35/40

Timbersaw:
Increased Chakram damage from 100/140/180 to 140/230/320
Increased Chakram pass damage from 170/210/250 to 220/350/480

Venomancer:
Increased Poison Nova damage from 30/55/80 to 80/130/180

Brewmaster:
Increased properties of Primal split pandas:
Earth Panda:
damage from 30/60/90 to 80/160/240
health from 1500/2200/3000 to 2200/3000/3800
armor from 3 to 8/16/24
attack rate from 1.25 to 1
Storm Panda:
damage from 20/40/60 to 80/120/150
health from 1000/1500/1900 to 1500/2000/2500
armor from 2 to 6
attack rate from 1.5 to 1.25
Fire Panda:
damage from 80/120/160 to 120/250/380
health from 1300 to 2900
armor from 0/3/6 to 2/8/16
attack rate from 1.35 to 0.8/0.6/0.4

Darkseer:
Fixed money and orb duping bug related to bosses illusions, spawned by Wall of Replica.

Horde Bonus Round:
Ultra Manaburn no longer provides flat damage bonus(now deals no damage against units with no mana).
Fixed several Ultra Abilities not behaving like auras.

Bosses:
Slightly increased Ripper Sharpshooter's vision and attack range. Removed Dragons Javelin out of its inventory. Added Medusa's Split Shot ability.
Rock golem boss now has a War Fury.
Even more lights for the Disco Pony.

Horde:
New aura abilities like Flame of Blight and etc. no longer affect buildings.
Towers have learned how to get those pesky keens they couldn't reach before.
Fixed Small golems freezing in place

Shop:
Removed from the shop list:
Manta style(Manta style 2 is still accessible)
Desolator(Volatile Desolator is still accessible)
Butterfly(Wasp is still accessible)
Radiance(Brilliant Radiance is still accessible)
Helm of the Dominator(Helm of the Oppressor is still accessible)
Assault Cuirass(Vladmir's Cuirass is still accessible)
Shiva's Guard(Shiva's Armament is still accessible)
Battle Fury(War Fury is still accessible)
Added to the shop:
Aeon Disk

Maps:
4p and 5p maps:
Roshan at the Dire base is attackable once again

UI:
Difficulty message now works correctly on Ultra maps(previously showed Easy difficulty, though real difficulty was Ultra).

1.26b
Reverted maps to earlier version, but actually working this time
The ancient is now actually killable

1.26a
Added missing Mega Towers
When playing in 2 player mode, the top and bottom lane towers are unkillable
Enemy towers have regained their buffs

1.26
7.15 Parity!

Map updated!
Increased Cold Feet AOE to 900 (same as the level 25 talent)
Fixed Ogre Magi's Multicast
Arc Warden talent changed back to +3s Flux Duration
Fixed Ember Spirit's Searing Chains
Fixed King Rapier

1.25g
Gold bag overhaul
Removed gold bag drops from non-boss creeps
Bosses (and mini-bosses) now drop a single gold chest (bag) worth 2500g (1000g)
Total chest/bag gold earned per player before the start of infinite waves is now 18000g
4p/5p maps: the new total is roughly the same as the average total before the changes
2p map: the new total is roughly double of the average total before the changes
These changes remove the substantial variation in gold earned from bags due to different wave combinations and different numbers of lanes on 4p/5p and 2p maps
Each money creep now drops a single gold coin worth 200g (same total gold value as before)
Rapier Ogre now drops a 2500g gold chest
Gold coins/bags/chests are no longer selleable

Auras
Blight aura redesigned: now gives a -2% health regen per second penalty in a 500 unit radius
Slight buffs to other auras

Items
Resonant Shard: a weaker version of Willful Resonance that builds into it
Willful Resonance: bonus to all stats increased from +25 to +30; main attack target magic damage bonus increased from +50 to +0.5*(base attack damage); splash damage slightly reduced; now requires a 1000g recipe
Cursed Rapier: health drain reduced from 6% to 5%; cooldown reduced from 5s to 3s; active ability no longer affects Spirit Bear; active modifier is now properly removed on unequip

Enemies
Kobold Guard boss now carries Dragon Javelin 5

1.25f
Drums no longer require charges and applies to all friendly units
Urn and Spirit Vessel charges fixed, which should remove lag on purchase
Viper's Poison Strike gives bonus damage based on the level of Nethertoxin once again (no changes to Nethertoxin itself)

1.25e
All Exalted Items buffed and recipe costs increased
Sacred Trident illusion fix
Willful Resonance redesigned to fix lag; now splashes some of the wielder's base attack damage as magic damage around the target and adds magic damage to the main attack
Cursed Rapier redesigned; now drains 6% of maximum health per second, but increases damage bonus by 20% of the amount drained; while active, the wielder is protected from all physical and magical damage
Disabled penalties until Valve fixes the crash bugs
Fix Ember Spirit's Fiery Remnants

1.25d
7.08 Parity!
Tweaks for performance
All changes propagated
Turned on AFK check
Turned on matchmaking penalties

1.25b
Fix to gold bags