Changelog v1.151 - 1.156

[EKCO]

Changelog 1.156

I.V. 268

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Tassadar

Updated Tooltip

Energy Rake

- Increased Spell Damage to 60/100/140/180 (+50% INT) from 50/90/130/170 (+50% INT)

- Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 6.

- Removed Autocast.

 

AEther Swap

- Reduced Cast Time to 1 second from 1.2

- Changed Range to 6/9/12 from 8/10/12.

- Removed Freecast when using the ability on Projection/Tassadar.

 

Leo

Updated Tooltip

Energy Flux

- Cooldown changed from 8/7/6/5 to 14/12/10/8 seconds

- Scaling changed from 60% to 50% INT

Lightning Claw

- Scaling changed from 60% to 50% INT

 

Gravitus Tooltip updated.

Tbone Tooltip updated.

Balrog Tooltip updated.

 

 

 

Changelog 1.155

I.V. 267

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Fixed Stalkers' Damage Scale.

 

Changelog 1.154

I.V. 266

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Fixed issues causing inconsistent Energy percentages when equipping items.

 

Changelog 1.153

I.V. 265

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Fixed siege creep bug causing stat imbalances.

 

 

Changelog 1.152

I.V. 264

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Siege Creeps

- Bounty increased to 50 from 30.

Bugs

- Protoss Siege Damage now scales properly.

 

MAAR

Mass Teleport

- Can only teleport Heroes and controllable units.

 

Mandrake

-Updated tooltip.

 

Zyrkhan

-Updated Tooltip.

Heart of Aiur

- Duration reduced to 4/4.5/5 seconds from 4/5/6.

 

Dustin

Predator Missile

- INT Scale reduced to 50% from 60%

 

Raynor

- Updated Tooltip.

 

 

 

Changelog 1.151

I.V. 263

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Sword Breaker

- Range increased to 7 units from 6.

 

Galactic Defender

- Shield reduced to 800 from 1050.

 

Stun Knife / Time Splitter

- Reduced the number of stuns to 2 from 3.

 

Blackhole Magnum

- Spell Damage Scale reduced to 110% from 125.

 

Heroes

 

Crackling

Zergling Rush

- Additional damage from zerglings now deal 50% damage from 100%

 

Dustin

Plasma Beam

- Scaling reduced from 50% to 40% int

 

Queen

Transfuse

- Scaling reduced from 50% to 25% int

 

Baneling Strike

- INT Scale reduced to 10% from 15.

 

Null

Arcane Sword

- Scaling reduced from 50% to 40%

 

Vorpal

Dark Matter

- Reflection Damage as 100% True Damage now affects units within a 5 unit radius from 3.3.

 

Justicar

Consecrate

- INT Scale reduced to 10% from 15.

 

Armor of Kings

- Duration reduced to 6 seconds from 10.

 

Boros

Spell Storm

- Duration decreased from 5 to 4 seconds

- Damage adjusted from 30/50/70/90 to 40/65/90/115

[CoolNoob]

Nice changes... Just feeling kinda sad for Boris , but I know that his nerf/buff was needed

[ANARCHY]

is this still planned to change?

 

Marine King*

Mob Mentality

- Weapon speed aura only effects non-heroic units by 50% of total amount

[jamescossey]

boros nerf wasn't that bad. 1 sec off his super buff from spell damage and debuffs. base damage he actually gains like 10 damage. int damage he just loses 1 sec. none int build maybe 50 damage lost, int build 200 damage lost. per target. and his int build was really strong when enemies were clumped up.

 

Still pissed about vorpal. they need to fix that worthless ability. or make it a new one.

 

is this still planned to change?

 

Marine King*

Mob Mentality

- Weapon speed aura only effects non-heroic units by 50% of total amount

 

probably is but I'm sure they want to fix it so it still works on his minions just not the creep wave.

[Moo]

Still pissed about vorpal. they need to fix that worthless ability. or make it a new one.

Vorpal is one of the best tanks besides drake, justicar, and micro, who are banned very often, so I don't think he needs his W buffed all that much.

[Hogwarts]

Vorpal is one of the best tanks besides drake, justicar, and micro, who are banned very often, so I don't think he needs his W buffed all that much.

 

tancor is the best tank,

[FinalEnd]

Vorpal is one of the best tanks besides drake, justicar, and micro, who are banned very often, so I don't think he needs his W buffed all that much.

 

I disagree

[MOTHER]

Shadow unchanged I see.

[FlyinRICE]

Justicar got hit pretty hard with the nerf gun. His ult is so short that combos and gameplay strategy is going to get revamped

[StorMx]

Crackling needs a buff

Not an Reduce

Own comment

[MarXX]

It seems boros is encouraged to be built crit instead of INT nowadays.... that nerf is actually a buff (if you disregard INT scaling) when you think about it. its actually 10 damage more (time x dps) compared to the boros before nerf.

 

But if you build INT, this becomes a hard nerf of 20% damage potential (INT scaling wise disregarding base damage)

 

nevermind that his ulti was nerfed, its back at its original values.

 

so this nerf buffs one build and nerfs another build.

[TaxHaven]

 

 

tancor is the best tank,

 

Tankcor, I agree

[residente]

Crackling needs a buff

Not an Reduce

Own comment

 

le lol.

 

Can you explain why?

[atomheartman]

An interesting thought occurred to me recently: Drake's passive is almost the same thing as Micro's Ultimate - Drake with 10 kills and 20 assists gains the same amount of STR as Micro's expand lvl3. Nerf/Buff!!!

[heimdallr]

An interesting thought occurred to me recently: Drake's passive is almost the same thing as Micro's Ultimate - Drake with 10 kills and 20 assists gains the same amount of STR as Micro's expand lvl3. Nerf/Buff!!!

 

No nerf nor buff needed IMO. They are different. Drake rellies on enemies dying to get the strenght buff while micro can get it regardless of what happens, even helping turn the tides. If with drake you are on a losing streak in teamfights you are ina vicious circle. If you are on a rampage on the other hand its a virtuous circle. Micro is static. Does not matter if you are doing well or not you will still be beefy.

[hbogyt]

No nerf nor buff needed IMO. They are different. Drake rellies on enemies dying to get the strenght buff while micro can get it regardless of what happens, even helping turn the tides. If with drake you are on a losing streak in teamfights you are ina vicious circle. If you are on a rampage on the other hand its a virtuous circle. Micro is static. Does not matter if you are doing well or not you will still be beefy.

 

Now that's just ill-considered. It's almost impossible not to get kills.

[EterNity]

A good patch as always. Nice job HIGHdrafter and red.

[Lios]

Crackling needs a buff

Not an Reduce

Own comment

 

*Not a Reduce, only use "an" if there is word start by "a,e,u,i,o"

[Yaldi]

 

 

*Not a Reduce, only use "an" if there is word start by "a,e,u,i,o"

 

And h some times. And sometimes not with a u.

 

P.s. stop being a pedant

 

 

[NeVeRWiN]

Looks great overall; I think people will be happy with the Boros change, since his SS was complained about a lot. I think every new patch is making these little game tweaks to improve balance and it's a great job.

Edited December 29, 2013 by NeVeRWiN

[Hanedog]

Great changes all around. Would like to see Egon modified a bit. Seemed like the nerf-hammer hit a bit hard last time time he got patched. I realize he was auto-banned quite a bit IH but seriously...

Egon.Stetmann

Caustic Salve

- Changed Cooldown to 6 seconds from 7/6/5/4.

- Reduced duration to 6 seconds from 12.

- Reduced max stacks to 2 from 3

 

So now he does half the amount of damage because spell duration lasts half as long (doesn't state whether spell dmg was doubled to offset) AND he can only stack twice. This affects his ability to heal just as much as it does his offensive casting capabilities. If his is meant to be a support hero, why make him worse at support than a hero like Raynor who provides a longer stun cast that can hit multiple targets, a dps increase tag and a slow along with a HUGE long range nuke.... Egon is behind the times as far as what it means to be a support hero....

Edited December 9, 2013 by Hanedog

[FinalEnd]

Stun knife/time splitter is still a tier one Item for DPS hero's.

 

Vorpals W seems to be more useful now that the range can actually reach rangded dps/int hero's like nova, cypress, and darpa etc...

 

I feel this game lacks more low costing items. Low costing items that give you things like spell resist, and the ability to counter great low costing items like stun knife.

[Moo]

Shadow unchanged I see.

What do you want changed with shadow? His passive is already on the beta log for changing.

It seems boros is encouraged to be built crit instead of INT nowadays.... that nerf is actually a buff (if you disregard INT scaling) when you think about it. its actually 10 damage more (time x dps) compared to the boros before nerf.

 

But if you build INT, this becomes a hard nerf of 20% damage potential (INT scaling wise disregarding base damage)

 

nevermind that his ulti was nerfed, its back at its original values.

 

so this nerf buffs one build and nerfs another build.

It is a nerf to both. It lowers damage and cc and spell immunity for int, and it lowers just the cc and spell immunity for crit. The small damage increase is not enough to make it a buff when you take into account the cc and spell immunity duration is lowered by quite a bit.

[EterNity]

Egon is auto-banned due to the lag issue he caused.

[Crimson]

What do you want changed with shadow? His passive is already on the beta log for changing.

It is a nerf to both. It lowers damage and cc and spell immunity for int, and it lowers just the cc and spell immunity for crit. The small damage increase is not enough to make it a buff when you take into account the cc and spell immunity duration is lowered by quite a bit.

What do you want changed with shadow? His passive is already on the beta log for changing.

It is a nerf to both. It lowers damage and cc and spell immunity for int, and it lowers just the cc and spell immunity for crit. The small damage increase is not enough to make it a buff when you take into account the cc and spell immunity duration is lowered by quite a bit.

 

Personally i think most nerfing to some of these heros is pretty pointless for some hero's that was fine the way they were on this game.

Its just Making it to easy cause ppl cant deal with some things when there is build in-game counters but ppl never want to change from there builds such as glass cannons with no res an such or cry when they get back door on cause of there carelessness.

 

Change to shadow passive not needed, if people still havent got use to the fact that theres a shadow in there game an u dont want him to steal a tower or so do what the rest of the smart people do toss a ts ward up here an there, or watch those lanes on the map u see no red dots but all ur creeps are gone pretty fast take a look.

Its like if theres a zera or ghost use ts wards/scans/ or ts when needed if needed.

 

Its not balancing the game when your breaking the core of hero's making them sub par to what they use to be an then they are underbalance an pretty much useless like a few of the heros are now.

 

As the oldest rule in the book go's if it isn't broke why try to fix it.

 

Don't get me wrong by all means some hero's need to be buff an debuff a touch but when there's things that are fine the way they are like the shadow passive don't needs be change

All i say is why, an if you say cause its cheap cause he can ninja towers an push lanes with out not being seen till hes at a tower. An I always say only if you let him. If you know there's a shade so as said before its your fault for not taking use of such items or just not playing smart an got a bit careless.

 

Egon don't lag its just people playing on low end pc/macs that can hardly run sc2 use him as a reason to say makes them lag, cause they die to his dots in there low frame rate spikes.