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Ancient Battle (of Alphas)
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DarkOnius  [developer] Apr 14, 2016 @ 1:20pm
Patch 0.88: Mana Eater, Dispelling, Immunity
General Changes:
- Added New Hero: Mana Eater - Ranged Agility Nuker, Carry, Support

More Hero Details here:
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/505773449/368542585859621026/

Balance Changes:

* Paladin:
- Guardian Angel xp bounty increased from 41 to 50.
- Guardian Angel level increased from 2 to 3.
- Guardian Angel now intentionally loses spell immunity, physical immunity and attack damage when his owner changes (when Dominated, Charmed, Bought, Resurrected etc.) but doesn't lose abilities (Holy Purification and Bash).

* Void Demon:
- Time Stop cooldown reduced from 140/130/120 to 130/110/90 seconds.
- Time Stop mana cost reduced from 150/225/300 to 150/200/270.
- Time Stop Aghanim Scepter duration increased from 4.5/5/6 to 5/6/6.5 seconds.

Convenience Changes:

* Created a difference between Spell immunity and Magic immunity.
- Magic immunity is immunity to magic damage or 100% magic resistance.
- Spell immunity applies Basic Dispel and provides Magic immunity and immunity to most disables, stuns and debuffs. (Spell immunity > Magic immunity)

* Dispels mechanics:
- Renamed Normal Dispel to Basic Dispel like in normal DotA.
- Bane's Atropos End, Lightning Shaman's Shaman Purge (on allies) and Paladin's Divine Shield (with Aghanim Scepter) now apply Super Strong Dispel.
- Astral Trekker's Time Constant now applies Specific Dispel.
- Super Strong Dispels will now remove the following debuffs:
1) Entrapment debuff
2) Enfeeble debuff
3) Nightmare (invulnerable)
4) Bored by Emperor (invulnerable)
5) Volcano Stun
6) Elokvenciranost Slow
7) Poison Sting debuff
8) Shaman Purged debuff
9) Time Stop debuff
10) Veil of Discord - Magic Weakness
11) Heaven's Halberd - Disarm
12) Eye of Skadi - Cold Attack

More details on Dispels can be found here:
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/505773449/368542585858921480/

* Astral Trekker:
- Added a new note to Time Constant tooltip.

* Florin Gipsy:
- Improved Dirty Gipsy Cop tooltip slightly.
- Improved Recommended Item build (Added Medallion of Courage and Blink Dagger)

* Gambler:
- Simplified Russian Roulette tooltip slightly.

* Jastuk:
- Improved Sarcasm tooltip note.

* Lifestealer (WOTF):
- Added new notes to Poison Sting tooltip.
- Simplified Rage tooltip slightly.

Bug Fixes:

* Tooltip errors:
- Fixed Bane Nightmare tooltip not showing that it doesn't pierce spell immunity.
- Fixed Blademaster Blade Dance tooltip not showing that it pierces spell immunity.
- Fixed Blademaster Counter Attack tooltip not showing that it pierces spell immunity.
- Fixed Death Knight Death Coil tooltip not showing that it doesn't pierce spell immunity.
- Fixed Paladin Divine Shield tooltip showing that it pierces spell immunity.

* Other bugs:
- Fixed Florin's Dirty Gipsy Cop interaction with Bounty Rune not giving bonus gold.
- Fixed Dark Ranger's Charm not having increased duration on heroes while having Aghanim Scepter.
- Fixed Ivomer not actually flying over trees and cliffs while the Iron Man buff is active.
- Guardian Angel now loses spell immunity, physical immunity and attack damage when he changes ownership (interaction with some spells was bad, fixed now).

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DarkOnius  [developer] Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:42pm 
Patch 0.88a:

* Astral Trekker:
- Giant Growth can now be activated while channeling.

* Ivomer:
- I am Iron Man can now be activated while channeling.

* Lifestealer (WOTF):
- Rage can now be activated while channeling.

* Mana Eater:
- Mana Flare no longer requires a target to activate, Mana Flare is now a No Target spell.
- Mana Flare bonus armor increased from 6/8/10/12 to 6/12/15/20.
- EMP is now working properly on enemy creeps.
- EMP can now be activated while channeling.
- EMP radius increased from 675 to 700.
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DarkOnius  [developer] Apr 21, 2016 @ 12:08pm 
Patch 0.88b:

General Changes:
- Improved loading time slightly.
- Time for choosing a team increased from 30 to 60 seconds.
- Hero selection time increased from 50 to 60 seconds. (On duel_map its still 30 seconds)

Balance Changes:

* Lifestealer (WOTF):
- Base HP reduced from 180 to 150.

Convenience Changes:

* Archmage:
- Earth Golems are no longer a single control group -> this means you can select them individually using tab or corresponding hotkey.

Bug Fixes:
- Tried to fix Arcane Rune not spawning.
- Fixed a bug with chat that was introduced with latest Valve's patch
- Removed deprecated stuff from the gamemode.lua
- Added some new stuff to the settings.lua and gamemode.lua
- Removed non-essential lua files and other non-essential stuff
Last edited by DarkOnius; Apr 25, 2016 @ 11:40am
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DarkOnius  [developer] Apr 26, 2016 @ 11:49am 
Patch 0.88c: DotA 6.87 equivalent - Part I

General Changes:
- No map changes
- No new map
- New items can be purchased but they are not visible in the shop

Hero Balance Changes:

* Bane(WOTF):
- Enfeeble mana cost reduced from 95/105/115/125 to 95.

* Dark Ranger:
- Gust of Silence cast point improved from 0.4 to 0.25

* Ivomer:
- Buy or Bribe mana cost increased from 100/85/75/50 to 100/95/85/75.
- Buy or Bribe cooldown increased from 30/25/20/15 to 30/27/25/20 seconds.

Item Balance Changes:

* Abyssal Blade:
- Item now requires Basher, Vanguard and Demon Edge.
- Total item cost increased from 6750 to 7250. (In DotA 6.87 its 6400)
- Bonus damage decreased from 80 to 70. (In DotA 6.87 its 10)
- Bash damage set to 120. (In DotA 6.87 its 85)
- Overwhelm mana cost decreased from 150 to 75.
- Overwhelm cooldown decreased from 60 to 35 seconds.
- Overwhelm cast range increased from 140 to 150.

* Basher:
- Bash damage set to 120. (In DotA 6.87 its 85)
- Recipe cost reduced from 1000 to 750.
- Total item cost reduced from 2950 to 2700.

* Drums of Endurance:
- Item now requires Bracer, Robe of the Magi, Ring of Regen, Wind Lace and a Recipe.
- Recipe cost reduced from 700 to 325.
- Total item cost still the same: 1850.
- Still provides: + 9 Intelligence; + 9 Strength; + 9 Agility; + 3 Damage;
- Now additionally provides: +3 HP Regeneration;

* Hood of Defiance:
- Total item cost reduced from 2050 to 1675.
- Bonus HP regeneration reduced from 9 to 8.

* Pipe of Insight:
- Total item cost reduced from 3450 to 3050.

* Slippers of Halcyon:
- Total item cost reduced from 2050 to 2025.

* Staff of Negation:
- Bonus attack damage is no longer bonus base attack damage, now it raw bonus damage. (Bonus attack damage was added to base/main attack damage (white numbers), for example illusions benefitted from it; now it's added to the green numbers.)

* Teleport scroll:
- Item cost reduced from 75 to 50.

* Tranquil Boots:
- Total item cost reduced from 950 to 925.

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug with Phase Boots.
- Fixed a bug with Drums of Endurance.
- Fixed a bug with Abyssal Blade.
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