HoN: Parche 3.3

Parche 3.3

• The Winter Holiday Season has landed in Newerth!

• Forests of Caldavar has been blanketed in snow

• Chiprels have dressed up the World Tree in lights

• A wild Yeti is now guarding the Token of Life while Kongor is hibernating

• The Runes have been replaced with Holiday-Themed Runes

• Merrick's shop has been decorated

• The Music played throughout Newerth has changed tune

• Added Santa's Gift Bag

• Exclusive to the Plinko Ticket Exchange. Exchange tickets for Santa's Gift Bag and get one of any Ultimate or Seven Sins Avatars! Limit 5 per customer

• Added Stocking Stuffers

• Purchase Stocking Stuffers in Merrick's Shop to get 3 chests, each of which contains any Basic or Premium Avatars. Limit 5 per customer

• Santa Gifting

• When you buy a product from the store, you will be able to gift a copy of that product to any friend you wish. Limit 5 per customer

• Excludes the Following products: Stat Reset, Nickname Change, Subaccount, Stocking Stuffers, Ticket Exchange

• Removed Banning Pick and Balanced Random from Unranked Forest of Caldavar Matchmaking

• Towers: Team gold bounty rescaled from from 200/240/280/320 to 150/200/300/350

• Casual Mode is unchanged

• The following Heroes are now allowed in Tournament Rules games

Amun-Ra

• We're comfortable with the previous directional focus towards toning down Ra's burst, however we still felt that he was still too strong. Ra is getting a partial revert to his previous armor increase. Amun Ra will now need to be more considerate of health regeneration both in lane and jungle.
• Starting Armor decreased from 2.0 to 1.5

Artillery

• With the implementation of Artillery's rework, he has become capable of high damage potentials at incredible distances. We want to maintain his peaks but feel that he is reaching them way too early. We're slowing down his farming capabilities by reducing his creep clearing speed at the earlier stages of the game. Rockets from his LRM will no longer deal full aoe damage in the radius, this is most noticeable when farming the jungle.
• LRM: Each rocket now deals less damage the farther away you are from the center of the rocket impact

Blood Hunter

• Feast has received an active allowing him to om nom an enemy unit. We all know Blood Hunter has always been excellent at 1 versus 1 match ups. It was however the only option he had open to him and as soon as another hero showed up to his lane he would get completely shut out. This change will open up a Blood Hunter's options in laning and give him ways of dealing with 1 v 2 situations as well as the opportunity to be a better jungler while also giving Feast a combat effective use.
• Feast: Can now activate this ability to instantly kill a creep or neutral in addition to its usual passive effects
• This ability may only target smaller Neutrals until it is leveled to 4, which is when it can target any Neutral

Chronos

• Chronos with his mastery over time will now have an automatic timer countdown to reduce the charges of his Curse of Ages while not attacking. This will increase Chronos's ganking capabilities with a guaranteed bash on his first hit as opposed to the previous awkward feeling of stopping your attacks on creeps.
• Curse of Ages: Will automatically remove one charge every 5 seconds. Attacking resets the count down, such that no charges will be automatically removed when auto-attacking.

Defiler

• Defiler's attack damage has been increased allowing her to more effectively harass enemies and exchange hits.
• Attack Damage increased from 41-49 to 45-51

Electrician

• We want to reinforce the considerations of Electrician as a counter to buffs and debuffs. We've increased the uptime and lowered the mana cost of Cleansing Shock allowing for more consistent use both offensively and defensively.
• Electric Shield: Mana Cost to activate decreased from 10 to 5
• Cleansing Shock: Mana Cost decreased from 50 to 25
• Cleansing Shock: Cooldown decreased from 20/15/10 seconds to 16/12/8 seconds
• Cleansing Shock: Now instantly kills Illusions and summoned units

Ellonia

• The base damage of Flash Freeze was too high causing Ellonia to freely spam the skill just as a stun with some damage. We're emphasizing the decision by increasing the reward and damage potential of the skill. Ellonia will now need to be more considerate of the choice when using her skill for the quick stun portion or saving it for the big burst of damage. We've also added a damage popup for her to see the results of their Frosted stacks.
• Flash Freeze: Base damage decreased from 40/80/120/160 to 40/60/80/100
• Flash Freeze: Damage per charge increased from 2/4/6/8 to 4/6/8/10
• Flash Freeze: Now shows a popup with the amount of total Damage dealt

Emerald Warden

• We've found Emerald Warden's baseline of output too high for his late game potential while not offering enough utility in the early stages. Emerald Warden has suffered a minor hit to his stat gain and Overgrowth has been refocused to be a much better asset early game allowing for more defensive use.
• Agility gain per level decreased from 3 to 2.8
• Overgrowth: Duration decreased from 1/2/3/4 seconds to 1.5/2.0/2.5/3.0 seconds

Engineer

• Relevant at all stages of the game, the Engineer has plenty of strengths but was lacking in weaknesses. We wanted to keep the late game potential that Engineer can achieve so we've hit the early game power levels instead. Keg has had it's mana cost increased and damage reduced at the early levels lowering his spammability. Steam Turret has had it's slow duration reduced allowing enemies to recover their speed much sooner when exiting the turret's range. Teams will need to be more considerate of their early game support options as Engineer will have a more difficult time competing with the hero pool.
• The Keg: Mana Cost increased from 80/100/120/140 to 95/110/125/140
• The Keg: Damage rescaled from 100/150/200/250 to 80/140/200/260
• Steam Turret: Slow Duration decreased from 5 seconds to 3 seconds
• Energy Field: Cooldown increased from 85 to 105/95/85

Gravekeeper

• Grave Keeper has had a hard time complimenting a team lineup. We've increased his utility allowing him gank and even support more effectively. Corpse Toss has had it's range increased reducing the risk involved for Grave Keeper to engage enemies. Defiling Touch slow duration has been doubled, allowing the Grave Keeper to more efficiently chase enemies with a continual pelt of the same corpse. Plus, ZOMBIES!
• Corpse Toss: Increased the range from 500 to 550
• Corpse Toss: Charge refresh interval decreased from 9 seconds to 7 seconds
• Defiling Touch: Slow duration increased from 1 second to 2 seconds
• Defiling Touch: Movement Speed Slow increased from 20/25/30/35% to 25/30/35/40%

Hellbringer

• Reinforcing Hellbringer's team fight impact, we've given his only single target skill more utility in team fights. Unholy Shackles will now affect multiple enemies in the area.
• Unholy Shackles: Now slows all units around your target as well as your target
• 300 AOE around the target

Keeper of the Forest

• Keeper of the Forest is getting the axe, largely to his base armor and Nature's Veil. We want lane options to be both enjoyable and interactive. We feel that Keeper's passive play and sustainability in lane has minimized any risk involved for both parties. Keeper of the Forest will need to be more considerate of his frequent use of Nature's Veil and exchange of hits with enemies.
• Starting Armor decreased from 3.1 to 1.1
• Nature's Veil: Health Regen decreased from 4 to 3
• Nature's Veil: Mana Cost increased from 60 to 70
• Animate Trees: Health decreased from 600 to 550
• Animate Trees: Minions Movement Speed decreased from 325 to 300

Kinesis

• We're proud to release the new and upgraded Kinesis. We've made the hero feel much more fluid, rewarding players for the high input they can only find in the play style that Kinesis provides. First, the removal of the cast time from the actions of lifting and throwing. Both will now be usable while moving and attacking, providing a much better flow when executing multiple actions. Second, Inherent Defense will now grant Kinesis additional Movement Speed based on his shield value allowing Kinesis to constantly chase and bombard enemies, reinforcing his concept as a mid range caster. Lastly, The first activation of Mass Control will now drag all things Kinesis has lifted towards him, allowing him to setup his power prior to entering dangerous river areas or the occasional use of portal key.
• Telekinetic Control: Charge refresh interval decreased from 4/3.5/3/2.5 to 4.0/3.3/2.6/2.0 seconds
• Telekinetic Control: Increased the radius in which he can pick up trees from 600 to 800
• Telekinetic Control: Cast action time on throw decreased from 200 to 0
• Telekinetic Control: Can now lift and throw while moving and Attacking
• Inherent Defense: Now grants +0.25 Movement Speed per point of shield value. Always a base of 10 Movement Speed
• Inherent Defense: Shield per Damage generation re-scaled from 12.5/25/37.5/50% to 20/30/40/50% of damage attempted
• Mass Control: For the duration of the first activation, all lifted objects will follow Kinesis at 522 speed

Klanx

• The damage stipulation on the activation of H.A.W.K. has been removed. We felt that the downsides of this ability were unnecessary leaving a very negative feeling for the Klanx. We've also increased the move speed of his Goon Squad minions to compliment his high mobility play style.
• H.A.W.K.: Removed the cooldown triggered from Damage
• Goon Squad: Increase the Movement Speed of the minions by 100

Martyr

• Martyr players rejoice, the uptime and damage reduction of Guardian Angel has been increased. Martyr can now share a significant portion of the pain even as an under leveled support.
• Guardian Angel: Cooldown decreased from 21/18/15/12 seconds to 8 seconds
• Guardian Angel: Damage reduction increased from 20/30/40/50 to 35/40/45/50

Master of Arms

• Slight reduction to Master of Arm's reach and power at the earlier levels. Enemies will have an easier time escaping the Master's charged shot after being hit by a long range Forked Lightning.
• Charged Shot: Cast range decreased from 550 to 500
• Forked Lightning: Slow decreased from 80% to 50/60/70/80%

Midas

• Midas is a fantastic hero that is a lot of fun to play, he brings just the right amount of skill and entertainment. He does however lack in how effective he can be until he reaches level six. We believe that his reliance on what his ultimate is doing was keeping this hero down so we decided to let him level his ultimate starting at level four instead.
• Transmute: May now be leveled up at levels 4/8/12 instead of 6/11/16

Monarch

• For a long time players have been drawing comparisons to Monarch and Glacius. It was always the intent to have Glacius as the more offensive choice while Monarch to be more of the lane support. We decided to make those differences stand out a bit more by increasing those support roles within monarch, while at the same time giver her an over all buff that she was needing.
• Crippling Pollen: Range increased from 500 to 600
• Crippling Pollen: Projectile speed decreased from 1200 to 800
• Chrysalis: Duration decreased from 4 seconds to 3 seconds
• Chrysalis: Heal rescaled from 35/50/65/80 to 30/50/70/90
• Chrysalis: Damage Reduction rescaled from 30/40/50/60% to 50% at all levels
• Noxious Cloud: Radius now starts at 250 instead of 150 and ends at 550 instead of 500 over the 4 second life time
• Cleansing Winds: Width increased from 175/200/225 to 200/225/250

Night Hound

• With the previous power reduction to Night Hound, we're comfortable with his concept of fight or flight. Backstab has received a damage increase to better reward the Night Hound for his stealthy play.
• Backstab: Bonus Damage Multiplier increased from 25/50/75/100% to 30/60/90/120%

Oogie

• The mana monster returns, Oogie was treading on the problems of needing an unreasonable amount of mana to enjoy his early game. We've lowered the mana increase on Tar Quake and reduced the cooldown of Kindled Fury creating a much better flow between the constant spending of mana and Fury attacks.
• Tar Quake: Mana Cost intervals after every cast decreased from 40 to 30
• Kindled Fury: Cooldown decreased from 11/10/9/8 to 8
• Kindled Fury: Mana cooldown reduction changed from 100 mana to 75
• Primal Surge: Cooldown decreased from 80/60/40 to 60/50/40

Pharaoh

• Often a great compliment to a team, the Pharoah has always been constantly mana starved. Pharaoh has received some additional Intelligence to reduce his farming requirements and encourage more active ganking.
• Starting Intelligence increased by 2
• Intelligence gain increased from 1.3 to 1.5

Pestilence

• We're comfortable with Pestilence's roles as initiation and armor reducer, however the constant spam of bashing combined with inherent tankiness leaves for little counter-play response. Pestilence's stat gain and damage output has been lowered reducing his overall survivability and carry potential.
• Strength gain decreased from 2.8 to 2.5
• Agility gain decreased from 1.9 to 1.5
• Gore: Damage decreased from 20/40/60/80 to 10/20/30/40

Pollywog Priest

• Electric Jolt's radius has been increased allowing Pollywog to more effectively harass enemies in combination with clearing creeps.
• Electric Jolt: Radius increased from 400 to 500

Ravenor

• Ravenor has received a slew of buffs over the previous patches that have put him over the top. We are happy with the damage potential Ravenor provides as a Magic Damage carry but are unhappy with inconsiderate frequent use of his abilities. Ravenor's mana efficiency has been significantly decreased. Ball Lightning's cost has been increased at the lower levels, in combination with a flat increase to Storm Blades. Ravenor will need to be more considerate of his item choices, especially when obtaining an early Portal Key.
• Intelligence gain decreased from 2.2 to 2.0
• Base Damage decreased from 49-59 to 48-56
• Ball Lightning: Mana Cost increased from 90/100/110/120 to 110 at all levels
• Storm Blades: Mana Cost increased from 80/90/100/110 to 90/100/110/120

Sand Wraith

• Sand Wraith has received an overall power reduction, most notably his Magic Armor decrease. Sand Wraith was surprisingly difficult to kill with his high stats and damage reduction from Dissipate. The Sand Wraith will now have to be more considerate of both his skill and item builds, balancing his offense and defense.
• Agility gain decreased from 2.2 to 2.0
• Magic Armor decreased from 5.5 to 4.0
• Desert's Curse: Movement Speed bonus decreased from 6/10/14/18% to 6/8/10/12%
• Mirage: Summoned illusion duration increased from 4/4.5/5 to 4/5/6
• Mirage: Cooldown increased from 120/100/80 seconds to 130/105/80 seconds

Scout

• Scout has an iconic play style for his constant roaming and ganking but can be frustrating for the enemy team. We wanted to maintain the fun play style for Scout so we've instead looked at increasing the amount of counter-play for the enemy team. We've doubled the fade time of Vanish and reduced the overall move speed bonus allowing enemies to more effectively chase the Scout with various true sight items. Vanish has had it's mana cost increased affecting his creep clearing speed and reducing his overall snowball ability.
• Intelligence gain per level increased from 1.4 to 1.6
• Vanish: Activation Mana Cost increased from 30 to 50
• Vanish: Fade time increased from 0.5 to 1.0 second
• Vanish: Movement Speed bonus decreased from 10/15/20/25% to 6/9/12/15%
• Electric Eye: Gadget Health decreased from 200 to 1

Sir Benzington

• Sir Benzington has high mobility combined with a high damage potential, however that potential is extremely difficult to achieve. We've increased the range and speed of Joust allowing for long range engagements but keeping the side step counter-play for enemies equally as meaningful. Lance-A-Long has been rescaled in damage to deal it's full potential over 4 attacks instead of 5 and rescaled accordingly making each individual attack buildup.
• Joust: Mana Cost decreased from 110 to 90/100/110/120
• Joust: Charge Speed increased from 2400 to 2800
• Joust: Range increased from 900 to 1000
• Joust: Stun duration increased from 0.7 seconds to 1.0 seconds
• Lance-A-Long: Charges needed decreased from 5 attacks to 4 attacks
• Lance-A-Long: Mana Cost decreased from 70/80/90/100 to 75/80/85/90
• Lance-A-Long: Damage per charge changed from 10/18/26/34 to 15/25/35/40
• Lance-A-Long: Base activation Damage decreased from 50/90/130/170 to 40/80/120/160

Succubus

• Iconic for her disables at all stages of the game, we've increased the frequency that Succubus may cast her ultimate at the later levels creating more opportunities for both the Succubus to gank and for the enemy to interrupt.
• Succubus's Hold: Cooldown decreased from 120/110/100 to 120/100/80

Tempest

• Tempest's team fight potential is unmatched but is not without counter-play. We wanted to preserve the great feelings that a "good ol temp ult" hits so were looking at lowering his early game snowball potential instead. Glacial Blasts has had it's cast range lowered, reducing his approachability from early game ganking, most noticeably without boots. Elementals will also deal reduced damage, lowering his jungling speed and pushing potential. Tempest will need to be more considerate of his item choices when he isn't being showered with gold.
• Glacial Blasts: Cooldown increased from 15 seconds to 18 seconds
• Glacial Blasts: Range decreased from 600 to 500
• Glacial Blasts: Debuff is now dispellable to prevent additional stuns
• Elemental: Attack Damage decreased from 20/27/34/41 to 18/24/30/36
• Elemental Void: Outer ring Damage per second decreased from 30/50/70 to 15/25/35
• Damage of the inner ring is unchanged

The Gladiator

• Showdown in itself is a lackluster skill for the large strain on Gladiator's limited mana pool. The mana cost and cooldown of Showdown have been reduced allowing for more frequent use in combination with those great feeling Pitfalls or Call to Arms.
• Showdown: Mana Cost decreased from 80/90/100/110 to 65/75/85/95
• Showdown: Cooldown decreased from 30 seconds to 20 seconds
• Call to Arms: Cooldown decreased from 100 seconds to 100/90/80 seconds

Thunderbringer

• So we all know that since the dawn of time Thunderbringer has been capable of revealing invisible targets when he casts his Blast of Lightning. We feel that this mechanic while good on paper was not good in practice. It was rarely something you even considered. We wanted to increase it's functionality by allowing thunderbringer to cast it on himself, making him essentially a moving counter-ward.
• Movement Speed increased from 295 to 300
• Starting Armor increased from 1.54 to 2.0
• Blast of Lightning: Now can cast on yourself or any ally to grant them +75 bonus Movement Speed for 5 seconds
• The Truesight and Clearvision that Blast of Lightning creates around an enemy will be around the targeted Ally as well

Tremble

• Tremble is notable for his map presence and pushing potential. We've lowered the mana costs of Terrorform and Hive Mind, allowing for more frequent use to promote his active mobile play style. Boris's strength and utility have also been increased, most noticeably the early level ganking capabilities.
• Terrorform: Mana Cost decreased from 150/140/130/120 to 120
• Hive Mind: Mana Cost decreased from 140 to 100/125/150
• Boris: Armor Reduction increased from -1/-2/-3 to -2/-3/-4
• Boris: Ensnare duration increased from 1/1.5/2 seconds to 1.5/1.75/2 seconds

Tundra

• We feel that Tundra has fallen off over time. Were emphasizing the utility that Tundra provides to his teammates. Shiver the bird will have it's vision increased at the earlier levels making it a much stronger one point skill. Cold Shoulder has had it's cooldown decreased, at the later levels Tundra will provide a 100% uptime on his Attack Speed boost to his allies.
• Cold Shoulder: Cooldown decreased from 24/20/16/12 to 17/14/11/8
• Call of Winter: Shiver day vision changed from 700/700/1200/1200 to 800/800/1200/1200
• Call of Winter: Shiver night vision changed from 500/500/1000/1000 to 600/600/1000/1000

Voodoo Jester

• Extremely fragile as a support, we've increased the cast range of Cursed Ground and Spirit Ward reducing the risk involved for a squishy Voodoo Jester to engage enemies.
• Cursed Ground: Range increased from 400 to 450
• Cursed Ground: Cast Time decreased from 1000 to 750
• This does not change how long it takes for the ability to land, this is the animation time after
• Spirit Ward: Range increased from 300/350/400 to 400

War Beast

• The uptime of Warcry has been reduced to lower the impact of his global assistance to other lanes. We've also increased his jungling speed allowing Warbeast himself to contribute in fights much sooner in the game.
• Summon Hellhounds: Damage increased from 20/29/38/47 to 24/32/40/48
• Battle Cry: Cooldown increased from 25 seconds to 35 seconds

Wretched Hag

• Combination of good utility, high mobility and damage, the Wretched Hag has a good kit that keeps her relevant at all stages of the game. We've lowered the duration of the slow portion on Haunt allowing enemies to better deal with her high mobility, especially after a wide Bat Blast.
• Haunt: Slow duration decreased from 10 seconds to 7 seconds
• Sonar Scream: Mana Cost increased from 140 to 135/140/145/150
• Bat Blast: Damage decreased from 290/430/600 to 290/420/550