Direct Strike

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Last Released

2025-07-31

6.3.6

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Patch Notes

Patch v6.3.6 — Released 2025-07-31

General

system

Draft mode is back

We have switched Mixed mode to Draft mode on W3C.

system

Crystals

Increased Crystal Income per min from 90c / 60s to 100c / 60s.

system

Mercenaries

Temporarily removed Assassin, Ogre Magi, Huntsman and Naturalist (reduced total offered Mercs per camp from 4 to 3).

system

Mercenaries

All Tier1 and Tier2 Mercs now leave corpses and can be raised.

system

Crystals

Deathsworn's Spiked Bones now have a better visual when it triggers on enemies.

correction

Fixed tooltips

Fixed Forked Lightning's tooltip

Balance

nerf

Vagabond

Removed Ambush.

nerf

Vagabond

Gold cost increased from 105g to 140g.

nerf

Vagabond

Max HP reduced from 315 to 260.

nerf

Spell Pilferer

Gold cost increased from 160g to 170g.

nerf

Spell Pilferer

Base DMG reduced from 20-30 to 16-26.

nerf

Evoker

Gold cost increased from 200g to 240g.

buff

Ursine Warrior

Gold cost reduced from 160g to 150g.

buff

Guardian

Cast range of Shamanic Totem's Abolish Magic increased from 600 to 800.

buff

Deathsworn

Crystal cost reduced from 500c to 400c.

nerf

Deathsworn

Base armor reduced from 5 to 4.

nerf

Deathsworn

Base DMG reduced from 40-54 to 36-50.

buff

Skin Flayer

Max HP increased from 200 to 250.

nerf

Shadow Priest

Removed Heal.

nerf

Warlord

Gold cost increased from 200g to 270g.

nerf

Warlord

Base armor reduced from 6 to 3.

nerf

Warlord

Max HP reduced from 400 to 375.

Fixes

bug

Cancel button removed... again

The cancel button was blocking one hero for each race on Classic mode. It has been removed to let all heroes be selectable in that mode.

bug

Arthas skin

Fixed the Arthas skin for Paladin that was appearing invisible on the field

bug

Shadow Priest A.I.

Fixed Shadow Priest's A.i: now will use Dispel Magic properly

bug

Shamanic Totem

Fixed Shamanic Totem's A.i: now will use Abolish Magic properly

bug

Armor Crusher

Fixed an issue where Armor Crusher was not dealing the exact 150% extra DMG to Medium armored units

bug

Armor Crusher

Fixed an issue where Armor Crusher was not dealing the exact 150% extra DMG to Medium armored units

bug

Siege Engine

Fixed Siege Engines giving 40 exp instead of 115 exp after Barrage upgrade (increased their lvl from 2 to 5).

bug

Gryphon Rider

Fixed Gryphon's tooltip (never had +2 base armor).

bug

Spell Pilferer

Fixed an issue where toggling Spell Pilferer's Spell Steal in Ability A.I would do nothing.

bug

Spell Pilferer

Fixed an issue where toggling Spell Pilferer's Spell Steal in Ability A.I would do nothing.

Patch v6.3.5 — Released 2025-07-03

General

system

Crystals

Changed bonus Crystal gained after 2min mark from 200c to 100c.

system

Resource UI

Added extended information of how much HP regen/s, MP regen/s, AS and Armor heroes will get per stats (info can be seen under hero's attributes).

system

Resource UI

Added a brief introduction about Mercenaries under the quest log (does not have the information about each Mercenary, yet).

Fixes

correction

Fixed multiple tooltips

correction

Resource UI

Fixed Crystal UI being replaced by Lumber.

Balance

nerf

Ursine Warrior

Max HP reduced from 355 to 255.

nerf

Ursine Warrior

Base DMG reduced from 31-38 to 20-25.

nerf

Ursine Warrior

Gold cost increased from 110g to 160g.

nerf

Naturalist

Gold cost increased from 150g to 250g.

buff

Naturalist

Rejuvenating Cry's duration increased from 3s to 5s.

nerf

Skin Flayer

Max HP reduced from 375 to 200 HP.

nerf

Skin Flayer

Gold cost increased from 100g to 140g.

nerf

Skin Flayer

Shadow Blade's armor reduction reduced from -4 to -2.

buff

Shadow Priest

Crystal cost reduced from 300c to 250c.

buff

Shadow Priest

Dispel Magic's CD reduced from 7s to 5s.

nerf

Warlord

Base DMG reduced from 38-46 to 30-38.

nerf

Warlord

God Slayer's bonus DMG reduced from 150% to 80%.

nerf

Branded Warrior

Gold cost increased from 150g to 200g.

nerf

Ogre Magi

Gold cost increased from 200g to 220g.

buff

Ogre Magi

Crystal cost reduced from 400c to 350c.

nerf

Spell Pilfier

Max HP reduced from 190 to 170.

nerf

Spell Pilfier

Gold cost increased from 125g to 160g.

nerf

Evoker

Removed Spell Immunity.

nerf

Sorcerer

Polymorph's CD increased from 10s to 12s.

nerf

Sorcerer

Polymorph's Duration reduced from 7s to 5s.

buff

Gryphon Rider

Storm Hammer's spill AoE increased from 200 to 300.

buff

Gryphon Rider

Storm Hammer's tech cost reduced from 125g to 100g.

buff

Spirit Walker

Disenchant's CD reduced from 10s to 7s.

nerf

Blademaster

Mirror image's DMG taken increased from 200% to 300%.

buff

Orb of Corruption

Cost reduced from 300g to 250g.

buff

Orb of Lightning

Cost reduced from 200g to 180g.

buff

Dragonhawk

Aerial shackle's duration increased from 10s to 15s.

buff

Firelord

Incenerate's bonus DMG increased from 2/4/6 to 5/7/9.

buff

Naga Sea Witch

Forked lightning's DMG changed from 60/120/200 to 70/140/200.

Patch v6.3.4 hotfix — Released 2025-06-28

Fixes

bug

Observer desync

Fixed an issue where observer players would desync right at the start. This also affected Flo-TV.

Patch v6.3.3 — Released 2025-06-28

General

system

Crystals

After 2 minutes all players instantly gain 200 Crystals.

correction

Tooltips

Fixed tooltips of following units: Ursine Warrior, Deathsworn, Brute, Stonethrower.

correction

Tooltips

Fixed Brute and Stonethrower not showing "Splash" on their tooltips; they always had splash DMG in an area of 50.

correction

Fixed Gold and Crystal UI not showing the right info.

Balance

nerf

Ursine Warrior

Max HP reduced from 375 to 355.

buff

Ursine Warrior

Base DMG increased from 29-36 to 31-38.

buff

Ursine Warrior

Enrage's duration increased from 2s to 2.5s.

nerf

Naturalist

Rejuvenating Cry's bonus armor reduced from 7 to 5.

nerf

Naturalist

Rejuvenating Cry's AoE reduced from 400 to 300.

nerf

Evoker

Mana Burn's DMG reduced from 125 to 105.

buff

Vagabond

Max HP increased from 215 to 315.

buff

Vagabond

Base armor increased from 1 to 4.

buff

Stonethrower

Base DMG increased from 27-30 to 30-34.

buff

Skin Flayer

Max HP increased from 225 to 375.

buff

Skin Flayer

Base armor increased from 2 to 3.

Fixes

bug

Fixed Merc draft

bug

Fixed Mixed reroll button

bug

Fixed resurrection bug for mercs

bug

The two Furbolgs have switched places

bug

Ability AI

Ability toggle now works for Naturalist rejuv.

bug

Ability AI

Ability toggle now works for Shamanic Totem.

bug

Ability AI

Shared Heal toggle now works for Priest and Troll Shadowpriest.

Patch v6.3.2 — Released 2025-06-17

General

system

Builder split

Builder is now split into normal builder and mercenary builder; both being present in your spawn area.

system

Mercs unit level display

Mercs will no longer show what level they are (same as normal units).

system

Necromancer Unholy Frenzy AI

Now prioritizes units level 3 and up first. Ignores units that already have Unholy Frenzy. If no units found, then searches for any allied units, ignoring ones that already have Unholy Frenzy.

correction

Dark Mage is now called Evoker

correction

Fixed multiple tooltips

correction

Skin Flayer tooltip

Fixed Skin Flayer's tooltip showing ensnare as one of their default abilities (they never had it).

Balance

nerf

Naturalist: Rejuvenating Cry

Bonus armor reduced from 15 to 7 and duration reduced from 4s to 3s.

buff

Naturalist: Rejuvenating Cry

Life regen rate increased from 10 regen/s to 15 regen/s.

nerf

Naturalist: Rejuvenating Cry

Cooldown increased from 30s to 35s.

buff

Guardian: Shamanic Totem

Now has Spell Immunity.

nerf

Stonethrower

Base damage reduced from 33-36 to 27-30.

buff

Stonethrower

Armor Crusher now does 250% more damage instead of +35 more damage.

nerf

Warlord

Max HP reduced from 425 to 400.

nerf

Huntsman

Base damage reduced from 26-32 to 20-26.

nerf

Huntsman

Primal Hunter's cooldown increased from 12s to 14s.

buff

Shadow Priest

Dispel Magic's cooldown reduced from 8s to 7s.

nerf

Evoker

Max HP reduced from 250 to 225.

nerf

Evoker

Base damage reduced from 23-35 to 20-32.

nerf

Evoker

Base AS increased from 1.210 to 1.290.

buff

Spell Pilferer

Cost changed from 150g/300c to 125g/250c.

nerf

Branded Warriors

Now has 450 max HP.

nerf

Ogre Magi

Now has 400 max HP.

nerf

Stonethrower

Now has 300 max HP.

Fixes

bug

Fixed missing Draft options

bug

Banshee Possession

Fixed Banshee's Possession costing no mana.

bug

Deathsword build size

Fixed Deathsworn being a 3x3 unit instead of 2x2 unit when its being moved.

bug

Improved Assassin's Shadow Step AI

Fixed the bug where they could jump on allies as well.

Patch v6.3.1 hotfix — Released 2025-06-15

Fixes

bug

Tower desync

The game desynced when the tower was destroyed. This should be fixed now.

bug

Only 2 heroes for random hero builder

With Tinker being removed the game could sometimes only give you 2 hero options, as it would select the removed Tinker as one of the options.

Patch v6.3 — Released 2025-06-15

New Features

feature

Mercenaries

16 brand new units, separate from the main army which your builder can make, accessible from a Goblin Trader. You get a random set of 4 units each game.

feature

Crystals

Crystal (c) is a shared and consistent, primary resource to hire mercenaries. Crystal income cannot be increased in any shape or way, and is distributed to all players as 30c/20s accordingly. Unlike Gold income, Crystal income will start at exactly [2:00] minute mark.

feature

Orb of Frost

Added Orb of Frost. 150g cost, +5 bonus dmg, applies "Chill" slow effect, similar to Lich's Frost Nova; Slows AS by 25% and MS by 50%.

feature

Batrider Liquid Fire

Added new ability for Batriders: Liquid Fire, 15% AS slow, 4 dmg/s and lasts 20s. Does not stack. (does affect buildings and mechanical units as well)

General

system

Mixed mode UI

Added a re-roll screen for Mixed mode where you can preview your current roll before the game starts.

system

Optimised few existing skins.

system

Watch Tower bounty

Tower bounty increased from +125g on kill to +150g & +75c.

system

Tinker removed

A new general WC3 bug was discovered, where the Tinker would accumulate more and more health regen from items every time he died in Robo-form. For the time being he has been removed from the available hero pool.

system

Cancel button

Lo and behold, the cancel button is added back since the map's inception. You can now cancel out of the builder's menu with ESC.

system

Obsidian Statue AI

Improved Obsidian Statue's A.I: will move closer to allied units during Essence of Blight and Spirit Touch (still does lag behind by a small margin).

system

Banshees AI

Banshees now possess randomly; will no longer prioritize T3 units exclusively and will use Possession on any enemy unit with the right conditions.

system

Improved Mortar Flare AI

system

Improved Huntress Sentinel AI

correction

Glaive Thrower

Fixed Glaive Thrower's Tooltip: now shows the right attack cooldown of 2.460

correction

Beastmaster Hawk

Fixed Beastmaster's Hawk summon tooltip: lvl1 Hawk has and will have True Sight.

Balance changes

buff

Cloak of Flame

Cost reduced from 300g to 275g AoE increased from 160 to 175 (now works better on "larger" heroes).

buff

Circlet of Nobility

Circlet cost reduced from 225g to 215g.

buff

Claw of Attack

Damage increased from 10 to 12.

buff

Firelord

Volcano AoE increased from 500 to 550. Cast range increased from 800 to 850. Damage increased from 50 to 60 per rock.

buff

Batrider Concoction

Concoction search range increased from 600 to 650.

buff

Lich

Frost Armor's CD decreased from 6s to 4s.

buff

Tauren

Pulverize dmg increased from 60 to 70.

buff

Knight

Sundering Blades bonus dmg increased from 25% to 35%.

buff

Disease Cloud

Disease Cloud dmg/s increased from 4 dmg/s to 5 dmg/s (20% increased dmg).

buff

Flying Machine

Bomb upgrade now provides an extra 30% bonus AS vs Air units (machines have prioritise vs air by default).

buff

Ghoul

Frenzy cost decreased from 100g to 75g.

buff

Crypt Fiend

Fiend cost reduced from 195g to 190g. Burrow cost reduced from 75g to 50g.

buff

Huntress

Sentinel cost reduced from 100g to 50g.

buff

Animal War Training

Cost reduced from 125g to 100g.

nerf

Alchemist

Healing Spray MP cost increased from 75 to 125.

nerf

Items

Selling items now return only 50% of the gold spent instead of 75%.

nerf

Orb of Fire

Damage reduced from 7 to 6. Cost increased from 150g to 200g.

nerf

Batrider cost

Cost increased from 200g to 215g.

nerf

Blademaster

Bladestorm's CD increased from 45s to 65s.

nerf

Blademaster

Strength gain per level reduced from 4.0 to 3.8.

nerf

Banshee

Possession MP cost increased from 0 to 75.

nerf

Mountain Giant

Mountain Giant's Cost increased from 300g to 320g.

nerf

Spell Breaker

Max HP reduced by 13 (from 255 to 242).

nerf

Siege Engine

Barrage cost increased from 50g to 100g.

Fixes

bug

Orb of Fire

Fixed Orb of Fire disabling Critical Strike, Bash and Drunken Brawler, it will now work with said abilities (credits to one our beloved map creators, dev of Tower Survivor Nethalythic).

bug

Hotkey issue

Fixed an issue where some ability hotkeys were interfering with other command keys.

bug

Druid of the talon AI

Fixed Druid of the Talon swapping form constantly due to a batrider being nearby.

Patch v6.2.3 — Released 2025-02-16

Changes

feature

New Observer UI

We have added a new UI for observers that allows you to see high-level information about each player, including the player's units, current tier, number of mines, and more.

buff

Gryphon Rider

Cost reduced from 260g to 250g.

buff

Wind Rider

Envenomed Spear's poison damage increased from 8/s to 12/s.
Envenomed Spear poison duration changed from 10s to 8s on units, and from 1s to 2s on heroes.

system

Unit XP

Flying Machine XP awarded increased from 25 to 40.
Obsidian Statue XP awarded increased from 40 to 60.
Dragonhawk Rider XP awarded decreased from 115 to 85.
Siege Engine XP awarded increased from 40 to 115.

system

Tooltips

Ghoul's Ghoul Frenzy tooltip now shows the right amount of attack speed bonus.
Tauren's Pulverize tooltip now shows the amount of AOE damage.
Gryphon Rider's Storm Hammer tooltip now shows the amount of attack spill distance bonus.

bug

Mac Crash

Fixed issue with a critter that was causing crashes.

Patch v6.2.2a — Released 2025-02-08

Fixes

bug

Bear Form

Removed the Bear Form toggle from the Ability AI menu due to an exploit.

Patch v6.2.2 — Released 2025-01-30

Fixes

bug

Mac Crash

Fixed an issue where Mac users would crash by just looking at the Undead Hippogryph Rider skin. It has been replaced by a Corrupted hippo rider skin instead.

bug

Wind Walk

Fixed various scenarios where the Blademaster and Panda would fail to find a valid target when using Wind Walk, which caused them to ignore enemies and run to the enemy Fortress.

Patch v6.2.1 — Released 2025-01-24

General

system

UI Consistency

The UI is now the same across all selected races (w3c does not restrict race selection like bnet does).
The UI no longer shows lumber and food resources.

nerf

Orb of Venom

Orb of Venom cost increased from 250g to 275g, DPS reduced from 23 to 21.

buff

Orb of Fire Rework

Increases attack by 7, and allows the hero to use ranged attacks against air units. Units that die within 3 seconds of being hit by the hero explode on death, leaving no corpse and dealing 20 spell damage to nearby units.

buff

Hero Cost

Hero Builder cost changed from 500g for all heroes to: 500/450/400 gold cost for 1st, 2nd and 3rd hero.

Fixes

bug

AFK Unit Loss

Fixed a bug where player 1 would lose all units in the staging area when someone was flagged as AFK.

Patch v6.2 — Released 2025-01-20

General

feature

Spirit Towers

Added neutral Spirit Towers in the middle for better visualization of which team is controlling middle, and will change color to either Red or Blue depending on the team that have the mid bonus.

feature

Ding

Added a "Ding!" sound effect for the team that is taking control of mid, the sound will be heard exactly at the time spirit towers change color.

system

Icons

Added a saken icon "SakenStare" (last page, dedicated to future new FREE icons)

system

Win Bonus

Changed the win bonus earned from +$25 to +$30 ($TONK$)

feature

Bear Toggle

Added a toggle for druid of claw allowing players to decide their form.

system

Map

Removed the Purple Field in the middle that used to cause a weird line of sight.

system

Critter Colors

Adjusted the the color of few critters.

Balance Changes

buff

T3 Cost

Changed the cost of all T3 mains from 450g to 400g

buff

Ability Priority

These abilities will now prioritize mostly heroes rather than casting it on units: Firelord's Soul Burn, Warden's Shadow Strike, Demon Hunter's Mana Burn.

buff

Archer

Archers cost decreased from 170g to 160g.

nerf

Hippogryph

Hippogryphs cost increased from 65g to 75g.

buff

Hippogryph

Hippogryphs base damage increased by 1 (from 18-20 to 19-21).
Hippogryphs HP increased from 147 to 150.

buff

Sorceress

Sorceress’s Slow ability: Attack speed slow increased from 25% to 33%.

buff

Dreadlord

Reverted MP and aura nerf on Dreadlord from the last patch.

nerf

Dreadlord

Increased Infernal CD from 80s to 120s (ulting every wave and an half).

buff

Blademaster

Blademaster's Bladestorm AoE increased from 200 to 350.

nerf

Ghoul

Ghoul's base minimum damage reduced by 2 (from 14-16 to 12-16).
Ghoul's base attack CD increased from 0.85 to 0.88

buff

Ghoul

Ghoul Frenzy attack speed bonus increased from 30% to 35%.

buff

Death Knight

Death Pact CD reduced from 6s to 5s at all levels.

Fixes

bug

Beast Master

Fixed Beastmaster's Summon Bear A.I: will summon bear when he wants to attack (instead of when he is attacked).

bug

Tornado

Fixed Archmage and Naga Sea Witch's Tornado going backwards or acting weird.

bug

Panda

Fixed Panda running around just to cast breath of fire.

bug

Mortar Team

Fixed Mortar Team not using Flare.

bug

Witch Doctor

Fixed Witch Doctors going AFK when they place Stasis Trap.
Witch Doctors now place Stasis Trap in front of them instead of behind.

bug

Banshee

Fixed Banshees sometimes ignoring Tier 1 units when they are Possessing.

bug

Shaman

Fixed Shaman’s Lightning Shield spell damage type from Normal to Magic (no does not deal more damage to Heavy armor, now will follow the same rule as Magic types when is interacting versus immunities and such).

bug

Windwalk

Fixed both WindWalk abilities for Blademaster and Storm (Panda Ult) where they would run to the other side until they die.

bug

Tooltip

Fixed Animal War Training cost showing 150g instead of 125g
Fixed Orb of Venom's tooltip.
Fix Mountain Giant's Resistant Skin tooltip.
Fixed all caster's tooltips (now shows the right amount of HP and MP gain)

bug

Tinker

Tinker now places Factory in front of him.

bug

Demon Hunter

Fixed Demon Hunter’s Ult duration (now will last 25s instead of 12s)

bug

Necromancer

Necromancers will no longer cast Unholy Frenzy on targets that already have it.
Necromancers’s Unholy Frenzy will now mostly priorities T3 units instead if “random” units around them.

bug

Skins

Fixed Bandit and Hammer skin of Knights that had missing BLP (their shield is no longer white)

Patch v6.1.4a Hotfix — Released 2024-12-23

Changes

system

Balance Folder

Reverted the _balance file imports...

Patch v6.1.4 — Released 2024-12-23

Balance

buff

Knights

Sundering Blades increased from 15% to 25%
+2 bonus damage for knights

buff

Animal War Training

Animal War Training HP bonus from 30 to 40, cost from 150g to 125g

nerf

Dark Ranger

Black Arrow MP increased from 6 to 8
Life Drain MP increased from 75 to 95
Charm MP increased from 40 to 65
Charm cooldown is now 9 seconds

nerf

Dreadlord

DL Vamp Aura reduced from 20/35/50% to 15/30/45%
DL Inferno MP cost increased from 175 to 200

nerf

Alchemist

Acid Bomb MP cost increased from 75 to 85
Healing Spray MP cost increased from 75 to 90

W3C Only

feature

Auto End

The game will automatically end if someone leaves within 3 minutes of the game.

Fixes

system

Balance Folder

Imported all old files from the game's _balance folder into the map itself. Blizzard deleted this folder on 2.0.1.22490, which caused balance values to be off (a bug that also affects nearly every custom maps ever created so have fun with that).

system

Various AI fixes.

Patch v6.1.3a Hotfix — Released 2024-11-15

Changes

system

Savecode Security

Savecode backups are appended with random characters to prevent hacked maps from overwriting them.

Patch v6.1.3 Hotfix — Released 2024-11-09

Changes

bug

Blademaster

Fixed an issue where the Blademaster would switch target during Wind Walk, making him look confused

correction

Tooltip

Ghoul tooltip now shows the correct damage values

correction

Tooltip

The Berserker upgrade tooltip now displays the correct values

correction

Button

Changed the Tornado ability AI button's text from "Spiked Shell" to "Tornado"

Patch v6.1.2a Hotfix — Released 2024-11-08

Fixes

bug

Starting Gold

Starting gold is now 280 again.

Patch v6.1.2 Hotfix — Released 2024-11-08

Fixes

bug

Unit Abilities

Fixed a bug where units would not cast abilities

bug

Farseer

Fixed a bug where Farseer could cancel earthquakes when casting

bug

Panda

Fixed a bug where Panda did not use Drunken Haze

bug

Bears

Fixed a bug where Druid bears did not cast Rejuvenation

bug

Troll Regen

Fixed a bug that displayed troll regen in Mixed

bug

Shadow Hunter

Fixed a bug where SH placed a Ward behind him instead of in front

Patch v6.1.1 Hotfix — Released 2024-11-07

Fixes

bug

Game Freezes

Fixed game freezes

bug

Tinker

Fixed Tinker casts

bug

Farseer

Fixed Farseer casts

bug

Druid of the Talon

Fixed Druid of the Talon Crow Form

bug

Magic Casts

Possibly fixed a bug with castes for magic (priest, banshee, etc.)

Patch v6.1 — Released 2024-11-07

New Features, Additions & Changes

feature

Unit Range Visualization

Added a button that will show you the attack range of every unit

feature

Map & Critters

Changes to some parts of the map + new critters

feature

Middle Lane

It is now more accurate and its easier to tell who should receive the mid bonus gold

Bug Fixes

bug

Mixed mode Reroll

Fixed the bug that allowed you to build an unit before reroll

feature

Mixed mode Troll Regen

Troll regen used to show up even though its researched by default

AI & Toggle Changes

system

AI system

The entire AI system has been rewritten from the ground up. The general targeting and vanilla mechanics remain unchanged, this overhaul mainly affects reaction times of units.

system

Ability AI

With the new AI system toggles also become way more responsive.

bug

Units getting stuck

Some units used to get stuck after an ability cast, this should be resolved now.

system

Druid of the Claw

Upon researching the master upgrade druid will stay in bear form.

system

Spellsteal Toggle

Spellsteal can now be toggled.

system

Auto cast abilities

Can be now turned off mid battle.

bug

Mana Siphon

Can now be turned off.

Balance Changes Neutral

buff

Alchemist

Healing Spray now heals alchemist as well

buff

Beastmaster

All summons CD reduced from 25 to 25/23/20
Stampede cast range increased from 300 to 400
Stampede CD reduced from 180 to 160

buff

Firelord

Volcano CD reduced from 180s to 120s
Soul Burn MP cost reduced from 45 to 35

nerf

Firelord

Soul Burn CD Increased from 8 to 10
Soul Burn duration reduced from 6/7/8 to 5/6/7

Balance Changes Orc

nerf

Shadow Hunter

Healing Wave CD Increased from 9 to 10
Hex CD changed from 7 to 9/8/7
Hex duration on heroes reduced from 4/5/6 to 2/3/4
Hex MP cost Increased from 40 to 45
Serpent Ward CD Increased from 6s to 9s
Serpent Ward duration Increased from 20s to 25s

nerf

Farseer

Fire Bolt CD Increased from 8s to 10s
Fire Bolt MP cost Increased from 30 to 60
Chain Lightning MP cost Increased from 120 to 135
Chain Lightning CD Increased from 9s to 10s

buff

Wind Rider

HP increased by 25

nerf

Kodo

Default dmg bonus decreased from 10% to 5%

Balance Changes Human

buff

Mountain King

Storm Bolt CD reduced from 12s to 10s
Storm Bolt MP cost reduced from 60 to 50

buff

Bloodmage

Phoenix splash attack area Increased from 25/50/75 to 25/50/100
Phoenix DMG Increased from 61-75 to 66-80
Phoenix HP Increased from 750 to 800
Siphon Mana cast range from 600 to 650

nerf

Bloodmage

Banish CD Increased from 3.5/2.0/1.5 to 3
Banish duration on heroes reduced from 4/5/6 to 3/4/5
Banish MP cost reduced from 75/60/50 to 55/50/45

nerf

Paladin

Holy Light CD Increased from 3 to 6/5/4
Holy Light MP cost Increased from 25 to 35

buff

Sorceress

Invisibility cast range increased from 300 to 350
Invisibility MP cost reduced from 50 to 35
Slow MP cost reduced from 50 to 45

buff

Mortar Team

Fragment shard damage increased from 12-25 to 14-30

Balance Changes Night Elf

buff

Demon Hunter

Metamorphosis duration Increased from 15s to 25s
Mana Burn cast range Increased from 300 to 500
Mana Burn CD Increased from 5 to 8/7/6

buff

Keeper of the grove

Tranquility radius Increased from 900 to 1100
Entangling Roots DMG Increased from 15/15/25 to 20/25/30 per sec

buff

Warden

Blink CD changed from 10/10/4 to 8/6/4
Blink MP cost changed from 50/50/10 to 45/30/15
Shadow Strike cast time reduced from 3s to 2s
Shadow Strike CD increased from 4s to 6s
Shadow Strike MP cost reduced from 40 to 35

nerf

Warden

Vengeance CD Increased from 80s to 90s
Vengeance duration reduced from 60s to 50s
Vengeance HP reduced from 1600 to 1500

buff

Priestess of the moon

Base attack cooldown reduced from 1.56 to 1.49
Searing Arrow MP cost reduced from 8 to 6

nerf

Dryad

Abolish Magic cost increased from 50g to 75g
Slow Poison MS reduction reduced from 50% to 40%

buff

Glaive Thrower

Base attack cooldown reduced from 2.760 to 2.360
Splash AOE increased from 25/50/75 to 50/75/100

nerf

Glaive Thrower

Gold cost increased from 220g to 250g

Balance Changes Undead

nerf

Death Knight

Death Coil CD changed from 7/5/3 to 6
Death Coil MP cost from 30 to 35
Death Pact CD Increased from 4/4/4 to 6

nerf

Lich

Base attack cooldown increased from 1.240 to 1.540
Frost Armor CD changed from 5 to 7/6/5
Frost Nova MP cost increased from 125 to 145

buff

Lich

Frost Armor MP cost reduced from 30 to 15
Frost Armor duration Increased from 45 to 55
Frost Armor slow duration Increased from 3s to 5s

nerf

Crypt lord

Impale MP cost Increased from 100 to 125

buff

Crypt lord

Locust Swarm MP cost reduced from 150 to 90

nerf

Dreadlord

Sleep CD increased from 7 to 9
Carrion Swarm now has a max damage cap of 600 / 900 / 1300 per level

buff

Crypt Fiend

Projectile speed increased from 500 to 550

buff

Ghoul

Base DMG increased by 2 (from 12-14 to 14-16)

Balance Changes Items

nerf

Gem of True Seeing

Cost increased from 140g to 200g

nerf

Orb of Darkness

Summoned skeleton HP reduced from 225 to 175
Summoned skeleton duration reduced from 80s to 25s
Summoned skeleton attack cooldown increased from 1.00 to 1.10