HoN: Parche 2.5.8

Parche 2.5.8

• Free Hero Pool will be updated on Friday the 27th. The list is as follows:

• Valkyrie

• Sand Wraith

• Shadowblade

• Master of Arms

• Soulstealer

• Defiler

• Pollywog Priest

• Thunderbringer

• Plague Rider

• Hellbringer

• Armadon

• Drunken Master

• Keeper Of the Forest

• Pebbles

• Accursed[/list]

• In celebration of the Lunar New Year we will be adding special limited edition Pharaoh Alt Avatar - Golden Emperor!

• He will only be available from 12:00 AM EST 1/27/2012 through 8:00 02/03/2012!

• Also in celebration of the Year of the Dragon you will find a new Year of the Dragon Icon available for purchase!

• Fixed an issue causing some users in large clans to suffer periodic hitches.

• Creeps sounds tweaked and generally lowered in volume

• host_timescale gets reset when disconnecting from a practice game

• You can no longer spectate or mentor someone who is already spectating or mentoring

Kongor

• Gold received for getting the last hit on Kongor normalized from 300-400 to 350
  
  Towers
• Gold received for getting the last hit on Towers normalized from 452-470,502-520,552-570,602-620 to 460,510,560,610

Structure Gold (Meatball/Huts)

• Gold received for getting the last hit on a Structure normalized from 102-120 to 110

Abyssal Skull

• Minor tooltip fix
  
  Charged Hammer
• Fixed a wonky effect
  
  Couriers
• Fixed death animation so it sinks in the ground correctly

Daemonic Breastplate

• Scaled the effects under player's feet better

Energizer

• Recipe cost reduced from 700 to 600
  
  Genjuro
• Slow no longer goes through Magic Immunity

Helm of the Black Legion

• Now charge based. 20 charges max, loses 5 per Hero, Tower, or Boss attack and 1 per creep attack
• Gains a charge every 400 MS
• Won't block unless there are enough charges
  
  Nullstone
• Fixed a wonky effect

Ring of Sorcery

• Increased manacost from 25 to 40
  
  Savage Mace
• No longer stacks with itself

Shieldbreaker

• Increased recipe cost from 900 to 1000
• Removed Deflection pierce

Sol's Bulwark

• Armor auras lowered from +/- 5 to +/- 4
  
  Stormspirit
• Now lasts 2 seconds, after landing the target is Perplexed (Can't use items) for another 0.5 second

Aluna

• Base Attack cooldown lowered from 1700 to 1550
• Increased starting Intelligence from 21 to 22

Arachna

• Increased starting Strength from 17 to 18
• Increased starting Agility from 22 to 23

Corrupted Disciple

• Corrupted Conduit Mana cost from 20/30/40/50 to 50
  
  Defiler
• Starting Agility from 14 to 16
• Base Armor from 0.96 to 1.74 (After Agility)
• Grave Silence radius from 200/275/350/350 to 250/300/350/350
• Fixed interaction of Unholy Expulsion with Geometer's Bane

Devourer

• Devour unbinds the target on impact (prevents Valkyrie's Courageous Leap cancels for instance)

Electrician

• Can no longer use Energy Shield with less than 5 mana
• Energy Absorption no longer has the first target mechanic (you no longer get 5 charges for 1 hero or 3 for a creep on first hit)

Engineer

• Spider Mines trigger(chasing) radius from 200 to 250

Flux

• Can now target allies with Magnetic Surge
• Magnetic Surge is now Physical
• Can now change between the Push or Pull without a hitch if you are running

Forsaken Archer

• Fixed interaction between Geometer's Bane & Call of the Damned

Gauntlet

• Death sound touched up

Gemini

• Fixed Twin Fangs playing through fog
• Fire and Ice now gain 80/90/100% of stats from Gemini
• The wolves from Fire and Ice now have their movespeed set to Gemini's
• Fixed a rare anomaly where Gemini would go in a random direction when recombining from split form
• Fixed Gemini's split form Fire Fang & Ice Fang so they get stunned properly while bound to the projectile
• Removed invulnerability from Fire Fang and Ice Fang while bound to the projectile
• Fixed Fire and Ice assist mechanic to function properly

Geomancer

• Dig no longer usable while Immobilized
• Can use Items while in Dig
• Crystal Field decreased time till explosion from 3 to 3/2.75/2.5

Hammerstorm

• Increased Movespeed from 295 to 300
• Increased Intelligence gain from 1.3 to 1.6 per level

Jeraziah

• Protective Charm and Sol's Blessing no longer gives assists

Kraken

• Strength gain lowered from 3.0 to 2.8 per level
• Release the Kraken damage per second lowered from 40/50/70 to 40/50/60

Lord Salforis

• Cast Time of Life Tap removed

Magebane

• Starting Strength from 18 to 16
• Flash cast range from 1000/1075/1150/1150 to 850/950/1050/1150

Magmus

• Lava Surge no longer usable while Immobilized

Martyr

• Sacrificial Lamb reworked. Now gives allies increased movespeed and attack speed based on how low Martyr is
• 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 Movespeed per 1% missing and 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 attack speed per 1% missing. Radius of 500

Midas

• Lion’s Pride and Golden Salvo cooldowns swapped
• Lion’s Pride is now 18 starting and Golden Salvo is 13
• Lion’s Pride heal reduced from 75/120/165/210 to 30/60/90/120

Monarch

• Starting Armor reduced from 2.1 to 1.1
• Starting Movespeed from 300 to 295
• Crippling Pollen reduced cast range from 600 to 550
• This is listed as 500 in the in-game client. It should be 550.
• Fixed the last second of Crippling Pollen so that the slow doesn't go through magic immunity

Moon Queen

• Increased attack range from 330 to 350
• Lunar Glow increased from 6/13/20/27 to 7/14/21/28

Pandamonium

• Face Smash unbinds the target on impact (prevents Valkyrie's Courageous Leap cancels for instance)

Pharaoh

• Made his Wall of Mummies suck in enemy player-controlled non-hero units
  
  Predator
• Venomous Leap cooldown from 20/17/14/11 to 16/14/12/10

Puppet Master

• Base Damage from 40-51 to 46-55

Revenant

• Essence Shroud cooldown from 30 to 25
• Essence Shroud duration from 10/15/20/25 to 12/15/18/21

Soul Reaper

• Increased starting armor from 1.10 to 1.75
• Judgment manacost reduced from 125/145/165/185 to 120/140/160/180
• Withering Presence radius increased from 700/800/900/1000 to 800/900/1000/1100

Succubus

• Smitten reworked. Now decreases all damage dealt from the target by 10/20/30/40%, 15 second duration
• Succubus' Hold unbinds the target on use (prevents Valkyrie's Courageous Leap cancels for instance)

Tremble

• Starting Armor reduced from 4.92 to 3.92
• Terrorform manacost from 110 to 150/140/130/120

Zephyr

• Cyclones heal reduced from 30 to 25
• Fixed interaction between Geometer's Bane & Cyclones
• Typhoon no longer gives an extra tornado (from 7/9/11 to 6/8/10)
• Typhoon no longer gives Zephyr a tornado unless he stays in it's radius

Aluna: Fixed Deja Vu's 3rd activation from playing through fog
Arachna: Scripting optimized
Artesia: Made her Arcane Missile slow transferable via Parasite
Balphagore: Optimized Corpse Conversion corpse detection slightly
Behemoth: Fixed Fissure so you can't tab to the invisible gadgets
Bombardier: Scripting optimized
Bubbles: Shell Surf now spawns 50 units closer to him so it hits units right in front of him
Bubbles: Fixed Kelp Field from playing in fog
Chipper: Rockets Barrage touch changed from Physical to Magic
Chipper: Scripting optimized
Corrupted Disciple: Scripting optimized
The Dark Lady: Touched up a few animations
Devourer: Made Devour give assists properly if it did no damage
Drunken Master: Scripting optimized
Empath: Fixed As One from playing in fog
Engineer: Scripting optimized
Gravekeeper: Minor fix to Illusions
Kraken: Fixed a bug where the target's corpse stands up after death if they died while bound to Tsunami Charge
Lord Salforis: Fixed Life Tap playing through fog
Martyr: Fixed up the Alt Avatar's sounds when casting abilities
Master of Arms: Shrunk blue attack projectile effects slightly on towers
Parasite: Fixed up some weird interactions when he is inside a creep
Parasite: Fixed him so he is correctly disarmed when inside a creep
Pyromancer: Burning! now capped at 127 charges
Rhapsody: Fixed up her model and the weird animations going on
Scout: Fixed Detonate ability (for both Scout & Electric Eyes) so they can be used while stunned as well
Shadowblade: Soul's Sight bonus damage no longer propogates to Illusions
Succubus: Made Succubus' Hold give assists properly if it did no damage
Torturer: Minor fix to Torment's interaction when multiple items used on him at once
Wretched Hag: Animation smoothing on Wretched Hottie
Zephyr: Scripting optimized