Patch 7.37 Notes

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Hero Changes

Abaddon

Font of Avernus: Ability removed

Withering Mist:New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Withering Mist:Damaging enemies applies the Withering Mist debuff for 5s. Affected enemies have their HP regeneration, healing, lifesteal and spell lifesteal reduced by 35% if they are below 40% HP

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Anti-Mage

Base Health Regen increased from 0.75 to 1.0

Persecutor:New innate ability. Passive, scales with Mana Void

Persecutor:Attacks slow enemies based on how much mana they are missing. 12.5/15/17.5/20% min slow at 50% mana, up to 25/30/35/40% maximum slow at 0% mana. Slow Duration: 0.75s

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Arc Warden

Talents:Level 25 Talent Magnetic Field Affects Creeps and Buildings replaced with Flux Silences when target is alone

Beastmaster

Rugged: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Beastmaster's melee hero damage block chance is increased from 50% to 100% versus non-hero units

Wild Axes:Mana Cost increased from 50 to 50/55/60/65

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Bloodseeker

Sanguivore:Now provides full heal values when denying

Talents:Level 10 Talent Bloodrage Spell Amplification increased from +10% to +15%

Talents:Level 15 Talent Blood Rite Damage increased from +120 to +135

Bounty Hunter

Base Intelligence decreased from 22 to 20

Big Game Hunter:Streak extra gold increased from 10% to 20%

Shuriken Toss:Aghanim's Scepter Cast Range decreased from 700 to 600

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Brewmaster

Belligerent: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Whenever Brewmaster respawns or comes out of Primal Split, he gains 20% attack damage bonus. Duration when respawning: 30s. Duration after coming out of Primal Split: 15s

Thunder Clap:Cooldown increased from 13s to 16/15/14/13s

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Bristleback

Base Damage increased by 6

Prickly:New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Prickly:Hero has 10% damage and debuff duration amplification against enemy heroes that are behind him

+ 6 more changes...

Broodmother

Talents:Level 10 Talent Spin Web Simultaneous Webs decreased from +3 to +2

Talents:Level 15 Talent Spin Web Charge Restore Time Reduction decreased from 7s to 5s

Talents:Level 20 Talent Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus increased from 10 to 12

Clockwerk

Armor Power:Damage increase per armor decreased 0.3% to 0.25%

Crystal Maiden

Cold Comfort Facet: Blueheart Floe: Now also increases mana regen amplification from 50% to 75%

Dark Seer

Base Strength decreased from 22 to 20

Mental Fortitude: Intelligence now cannot be lower than the average of Strength and Agility

Talents:Level 15 Talent Vacuum AoE decreased from +100 to +75

Death Prophet

Crypt Swarm:Range increased from 810 to 900

Crypt Swarm:Cast Range is now equal to its wave range

Spirit Siphon:Can now target Roshan and Tormentors

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Disruptor

Glimpse:Now deals 20/25/30/35% of the distance traveled as damage. Max damage remains 100/160/220/280

Talents:Level 15 Talent +275 Glimpse Max Damage replaced with +10%/+280 Glimpse Distance To Damage/Max Damage

Drow Ranger

Frost Arrows:Bonus Damage increased from 6/12/18/24 to 10/15/20/25

Talents:Level 15 Talent +20% Lifesteal replaced with +75 Attack Range

Earth Spirit

Rolling Boulder:Damage increased from 60 to 60/70/80/90

Magnetize:Damage per second increased from 40/80/120 to 45/85/125

Earthshaker

Spirit Cairn: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

When Earthshaker dies, a 75 radius fissure is created where he died. This fissure blocks movement, provides vision and allows Earthshaker to gain experience around it

Aftershock:No longer an innate ability

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Elder Titan

Tip the Scales: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Allied creeps and buildings affected by the Glyph of Fortification or Roshan's Banner deal 100% bonus damage

Momentum:Movement Speed as Attack Speed decreased from 30% to 25%

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Ember Spirit

Immolation:New Innate ability. Passive, scales with Fire Remnant

Immolation:Ember Spirit deals 10/20/30/40 damage per second in a 175 AoE around him at all times

Immolation:Can be upgraded with Aghanim's Shard. Increases damage by 10, radius by 175, and grants Fire Remnants the current level of Immolation

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Enchantress

Forest Freebie: Ability removed

Rabble-Rouser:New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Rabble-Rouser:All neutral camps deal more damage to enemy heroes. Damage increase is 10% + 3% per Enchantress's hero level

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Enigma

Gravity Well: Damage reduction rescaled from 15% to 9/11/13/15%. Now scales with Black Hole

Event Horizon:Movement Slow rescaled from 15% to 9/11/13/15%. Now scales with Black Hole

Faceless Void

Talents:Level 25 Talent Time Zone AoE increased from +140 to +200

Gyrocopter

Call Down:Missile Damage increased from 250/400/550 to 250/425/600

Hoodwink

Acorn Shot:Mana Cost increased from 70/75/80/85 to 85/90/95/100

Acorn Shot:Bonus Damage decreased from 55/90/125/160 to 40/80/120/160

Talents:Level 15 Talent Acorn Shot bounces decreased from +2 to +1

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Jakiro

Talents:Level 10 Talent Attack Range decreased from +200 to +150

Juggernaut

Talents:Level 10 Talent +150 Healing Ward Radius replaced with +4% Duelist Damage

Talents:Level 10 Talent +10% Blade Dance Crit Damage replaced with -10s Healing Ward Cooldown

Talents:Level 15 Talent Movement Speed During Blade Fury increased from +30 to +40

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Kunkka

Min damage increased by 4

Admiral's Rum:New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Admiral's Rum:Taking damage from a hero, building, or Roshan that would reduce Kunkka below 65% health automatically triggers Admiral’s Rum over 10s, providing 10% bonus movement speed and delaying 20% of the damage taken. Delayed damage is dealt evenly over 10s once the buff ends. Stacks additively with other sources of Admiral’s Rum. Cooldown: 60s

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Legion Commander

Outfight Them!:New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Outfight Them!:Attacking an enemy hero that has a higher level than Legion Commander increases her HP regeneration, lifesteal, and incoming heals by 50% for 4s. Always applies when attacking a hero that is at max level

Moment of Courage:No longer an innate ability

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Leshrac

Split Earth:Damage decreased from 120/180/240/300 to 115/170/225/280

Lifestealer

Feast:In addition, Lifestealer gains permanent max HP whenever he kills a creep or hero. Max HP per creep kill: 1. Max HP per hero kill: 15

Lina

Combustion: New Innate ability. Passive, scales with Laguna Blade

Every 150 damage Lina does to an enemy hero causes them to overheat, dealing 10/20/30/40 damage to their allies in a 400 radius. Deals 10 damage if the target is an illusion. Dealing over 150 damage can cause this effect to trigger multiple times

Fiery Soul:No longer a levelable innate ability

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Lion

Mana Drain:When the enemy has no mana remaining, the slow from Mana Drain is increased by an additional 15%

Lone Druid

Gift Bearer: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Lone Druid can re-roll his Neutral Token once per tier

Summon Spirit Bear:Spirit Bear can no longer equip its own neutral items. Now copies and shares a cooldown with Lone Druid's currently equipped neutral item

Luna

Selemene's Favor: Ability removed

Lunar Blessing:Moved to innate ability. Can no longer be leveled

Lunar Blessing:Grants 1 attack damage per level to Luna and allied heroes, and 400 bonus night vision + 20 per level to Luna only. Luna receives double the attack damage bonuses. At night, Lunar Blessing is global

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Magnus

Skewer:Now deals additional damage when skewering enemies into trees or cliffs

Skewer:Tree Hit Damage increased from 10/15/20/25 to 15/20/25/30

Skewer:Cliff Hit Damage increased from 40/60/80/100 to 50/75/100/125

Medusa

Venomous Volley: New Facet

Venomous Volley: Medusa applies a poison to every fifth attack, slowing enemies' movement speed by 35%, attack speed by 80, and cast speed by 50% for 1.5 seconds. The poisoned attack counts as an attack modifier for the purposes of Split Shot

Mana Shield:No longer a levelable ability, now has a base 2.4 damage per mana and then gains 0.1 damage per mana per hero level

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Mirana

Base Damage increased by 3

Base Strength decreased from 20 to 18

Strength gain increased from 1.7 to 1.9

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Monkey King

Tree Dance:Jump speed decreased from 800 to 700

Tree Dance:Now goes on cooldown when taking any damage, not only from player-controlled units or Roshan

Unknown Ability (5724):Damage decreased from 140/220/300/380 to 110/200/290/380

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Nature's Prophet

Wrath of Nature:Now hits all visible targets. Does not increase damage past the 16th bounce

Wrath of Nature:Aghanim's Scepter min/max entangle duration decreased from 2/3.8s to 1.5/3s

Curse of the Oldgrowth:Now uses the same Treant multiplier as Spirit of the Forest when calculating damage from Treants

Nyx Assassin

Nyxth Sense: Now also reveals enemy heroes in fog of war

Nyxth Sense: Radius decreased from 400 to 350

Vendetta:Aghanim's Shard upgrade reworked. Vendetta applies Break for 4s

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Ogre Magi

Dumb Luck:Mana Regen per Strength decreased from 0.03 to 0.02

Omniknight

Degen Aura:Radius increased from 300 to 325

Purification:Now upgraded with Aghanim's Shard. After a 3s delay, the target is Purified again with 75% effectiveness

Repel:Now provides 60% magic resistance

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Outworld Destroyer

Talents:Level 15 Talent Astral Imprisonment Cast Range increased from +100 to +125

Talents:Level 25 Talent Arcane Orb Damage decreased from +2% to +1.5%

Pangolier

Rolling Thunder:Damage rescaled from 100/150/200 to 75/150/225

Talents:Level 25 Talent Swashbuckle Cooldown Reduction increased from 2.5s to 3s

Phantom Assassin

Blur:Now disjoints projectiles

Blur:Cast time decreased from 0.4s to 0.3s

Phantom Lancer

Illusory Armaments:New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Illusory Armaments:Items that grant bonus damage instead grant base damage for 65% of the original bonus damage amount

Spirit Lance:Illusion Damage decreased from 20% to 15%

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Phoenix

Dying Light:Radius decreased from 450 to 400

Icarus Dive:Move Slow decreased from 16/19/22/25% to 10/15/20/25%

Primal Beast

Uproar:Slow per stack decreased from 8% to 5/6/7/8%

Puck

Talents:Level 10 Talent Waning Rift Silence Duration increased from +1s to +1.25s

Talents:Level 20 Talent Initial/Break Dream Coil Damage increased from +175 to +200

Pugna

Talents:Level 10 Talent +200 Health replaced with +2 Nether Ward Health

Talents:Level 10 Talent +10% Decrepify Movement Speed To Allies replaced with -1s Nether Blast Cooldown

Talents:Level 15 Talent +3 Nether Ward Health replaced with +350 Health

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Queen of Pain

Base Strength increased from 18 to 20

Shadow Strike:Mana Cost decreased from 125/130/135/140 to 100/110/120/130

Talents:Level 10 Talent +20 Damage replaced with +35 Attack Speed against Shadow Striked units

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Razor

Talents:Level 15 Talent -1s Storm Surge Strike Cooldown replaced with +12 Strength

Riki

Smoke Screen:Cooldown decreased from 20/17/14/11s to 17/15/13/11s

Rubick

Might and Magus: Bonus attack damage per spell amplification decreased from 1% to 0.75%

Arcane Supremacy:Spell Amp decreased from 14/18/22/26% to 11/16/21/26%

Sand King

Caustic Finale:Max Health Damage rescaled from 6/9/12/15% to 4/8/12/16%

Caustic Finale:Duration rescaled from 6s to 4.5/5/5.5/6s

Sand Storm:Aghanim's Scepter upgrade removed

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Shadow Demon

Disseminate:Cooldown decreased from 30/25/20/15s to 26/22/18/14s

Shadow Fiend

Necromastery:Hero kills no longer increase max souls by 1 by default

Shadowraze:Stack Duration decreased from 8s to 7s

Shadowraze:Mana Cost increased from 75 to 80

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Shadow Shaman

Shackles:Aghanim's Shard Serpent Ward linger duration increased from 1.5s to 2.5s

Talents:Level 15 Talent +1s Shackles Duration replaced with Hex Breaks

Talents:Level 15 Talent Serpent Wards Attack Range increased from +140 to +160

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Silencer

Brain Drain: Permanent Intelligence steal decreased from 2 to 1 (Aghanim's Shard Intelligence steal decreased from 4 to 3)

Brain Drain: Now also steals Intelligence if the dying unit was debuffed by Silencer, even if he was out of range

Glaives of Wisdom:Mana Cost decreased from 20 to 14/16/18/20

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Skywrath Mage

Talents:Level 15 Talent +15% Ruin and Restoration Spell Lifesteal replaced with +15% Concussive Shot Slow

Slardar

Slithereen Crush:Aghanim's Scepter Puddle Duration decreased from 15s to 12s

Slithereen Crush:Aghanim's Scepter Puddle Radius decreased from 600 to 550

Talents:Level 20 Talent Corrosive Haze Armor increased from -3 to -4

Slark

Base Damage increased by 3

Talents:Level 20 Talent Shadow Dance Attack Speed increased from +80 to +90

Talents:Level 25 Talent Shadow Dance Duration increased from +1s to +1.25s

Snapfire

Firesnap Cookie:Impact Damage increased from 70/140/210/280 to 70/145/220/295

Lil' Shredder:Attack count decreased from 6 to 5

Talents:Level 15 Talent Lil' Shredder attacks decreased from +2 to +1

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Sniper

Keen Scope:Attack Range Bonus increased from 160/240/320/400 to 160/260/360/460

Shrapnel:Damage increased from 25/40/55/70 to 30/45/60/75

Talents:Level 20 Talent +100 Attack Range replaced with +30% Shrapnel Damage

Spectre

Spectral Dagger:Mana Cost decreased from 130/140/150/160 to 120/130/140/150

Dispersion:Damage Reflected increased from 8/12/16/20% to 11/14/17/20%

Talents:Level 10 Talent Health Regen increased from +4 to +5

Spirit Breaker

Charge of Darkness:Now gradually ramps up to max movement speed, starting at 25% of the bonus speed

Storm Spirit

Talents:Level 10 Talent +150 Attack Range when Overloaded replaced with +20 Overload Damage

Talents:Level 20 Talent Electric Vortex Duration decreased from +0.3s to +0.2s

Talents:Level 25 Talent Auto Remnant in Ball Lightning Distance decreased from 500 to 450

Sven

Warcry:Bonus Armor decreased from 6/9/12/15 to 6/8/10/12

Warcry:Aghanim's Shard no longer passively grants allies movement speed bonus

Warcry:Aghanim's Shard now increases active movement speed bonus by additional 3%

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Templar Assassin

Third Eye: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Templar Assassin and her teammates can see Roshan's respawn timer

Meld:Armor Reduction Duration decreased from 12s to 6s

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Terrorblade

Metamorphosis:Attack Range increased from 450/490/530/570 to 450/500/550/600

Tidehunter

Base Intelligence increased from 18 to 20

Ravage:Cooldown decreased from 150s to 150/145/140s

Timbersaw

Exposure Therapy:Mana per tree destroyed increased from 3/4/5/6 to 4/5/6/7

Tinker

Defense Matrix: Damage Barrier decreased from 100/180/240/320 to 80/160/240/320

Warp Flare:Now always teleports the target enemy to the ability's current cast range + 100 from Tinker's position when he threw the flare. Will not teleport units that are over 2000 range from the desired position

Tiny

Toss:Damage no longer pierces magic resistance granted by Debuff Immunity

Grow:Toss Bonus Damage decreased from 100/250/400 to 50/175/300

Talents:Level 15 Talent Avalanche Damage decreased from +80 to +70

Treant Protector

Nature's Guise:Aghanim's Shard total damage changed from 200 to 100 + 75% of Treant's base attack damage

Troll Warlord

Battle Stance:New Innate ability. Toggle-able, can't be leveled up

Battle Stance:Allows Troll Warlord to swap between melee attacks with a 1.4 BAT or ranged attacks

Berserker's Rage:No longer an innate ability

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Underlord

Invading Force:New innate ability. Scales with Fiend's Gate

Invading Force:After an allied hero teleports, they temporarily gain damage reduction and movement speed. Bonuses are doubled when teleporting via Fiend's Gate. Damage Reduction: 4/6/8/10%. Bonus Move Speed: 5/10/15/20%. Buff Duration: 5s

Atrophy Aura:No longer an innate ability

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Undying

Ceaseless Dirge:Can no longer be refreshed

Tombstone:Cooldown rescaled from 90/85/80/75s to 80s

Flesh Golem:Slow decreased from 40/45/50% to 35/40/45%

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Venomancer

Base Damage decreased by 2

Septic Shock: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Venomancer's attacks deal extra magical damage based on how many debuffs the attack target has. Only counts debuffs from Venomancer and his Plague Wards. Base Damage per debuff: 10%

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Viper

Predator:New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Predator:Viper's attacks deal an additional instance of physical damage per missing health percentage of his target, equal to 0.25 + 0.05 per Viper's level. Only works on heroes

Corrosive Skin:No longer an innate ability

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Visage

Lurker: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Visage's ability cooldown durations are reduced as long as he's not taking damage. Grants a stack every 2s that Visage does not take damage. Each stack grants 2% cooldown speed with a max of 10 stacks. Stacks fade after 2s upon taking any damage

Gravekeeper's Cloak:No longer an innate ability

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Void Spirit

Resonant Pulse:Now grants physical damage barrier. Base Damage Barrier: 25/50/75/100. Barrier Amount per hero hit: 35/50/65/80

Warlock

Shadow Word:Heal/Damage rescaled from 16/24/32/40 to 15/25/35/45

Talents:Level 15 Talent +15 Shadow Word Heal/Damage replaced with +150 Shadow Word AoE

Weaver

Rewoven: New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

Every time Weaver casts an ability, he gains 50 attack range for 7s. This effect stacks independently

Geminate Attack:No longer an innate ability

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Witch Doctor

Maledict:Base Damage increased from 15/20/25/30 to 18/22/26/30

Wraith King

Vampiric Spirit:Lifesteal increased from 20/30/40/50% to 26/34/42/50%

Vampiric Spirit:Now decreases respawn timer by Wraith duration

Vampiric Spirit:Aghanim's Scepter no longer reduces respawn time

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