008 Pre-Alpha Release Notes

v1 - 23 August 2014

• Druid of the Claw has been remade!
• Hydra's have working skills (no drops yet though)
• Backpacks can no longer pickup other players loaded items
• Units killed by Grimreaver now give exp
• Player owned summoned units will no longer ignore stuns/Cyclone
• Dying while knocked up from Water Spout can no longer perma-disable you
• In-Combat time increased to 10s
• Breaker's Bane now loses the bonus strength when dropped
• The Green Skeleton Champ now properly drops Grimreaver by itself
• Spineweave is now Leather only
• You can only wear 2 Rings max
• Agony's mana costs have been reduced
• Buffed Healing Wave
• Reduced The Breath of Life's damage immunity to 5 seconds
• Buffed Might of the Tauren
• Reduced Pulverize's mana cost
• Reduced The Constricted's Health Per Second
• Significantly increased Rake Armor's damage
• Fury of the Winds now slows for more and also slows Attack Speed
• Reduced Lightning Shield's cooldown
• Vault no longer gets rain in it
• Vault ghost traps are scarier!
• Changed the team colour on some creeps

v2 - 04 October 2014

• Nerfed most Hydra stuff
• Lowered Envenomed Spear's damage
• Ensnare makes the target take increased damage
• Flare now has an area targeting image and fixed size
• Enraged Stalker's Bash is stronger

v3 - 08 December 2014

• The game should no longer crash during the loading screen
• Increased the max mana on a lot of bosses
• Vault ghosts now explode when Spell Shielded
• Ancient Hydra's Poison Nova is now properly blocked by Spell Shield
• Naga Ensnare also increases damage the target takes and lasts 1 second longer
• Moved DoomStorm's camp (and Revival Stone) closer to the shore

v4 - 18 December 2014

• Reduced Primal Surge's (Bear) stun duration
• Increased the Enraged Stalker's resistance to buffs and spell damage
• Fixed boolexpr's not effecting enemies (Projectiles, Flame Strike, etc)

v5 - 18 January 2015

• Vault ghosts deal damage and Haunt hit targets again

v6 - 15 June 2015

• All backpack items are now saved. Previous codes can still be loaded as well
• Auras can now be lost if you stop meeting their conditions (other than range)
• Frostbite has an effect to show that it is on and will no longer be applied while you have Frozen Air
• Hydromancer now casts Ice Block on himself, rather than vanishing, when his pet is summoned
• Reduced Ancient Hydra's damage and changed her attack type to Magic
• Reduced the damage of Ancient Hydra's Poison Nova and Endless Lightning
• Reduced the damage and stun on Ancient Hydra's Spit Up
• Skull of the Soulless no longer triggers off of projectiles
• Ravens and Fury of the Winds will no longer die instantly with Skull of the Soulless
• Items now load in the slot they were saved in
• Reduced Hydromancer's cast times
• Storm Crow Form is now considered melee and has Melee attack type
• Ravens can no longer be targets for Vault Chest Ghosts
• Boss Regeneration will now restore their total health and mana over the duration, not just their missing health and mana
• Dead Eye actually ignores armor
• Reduced The Travelers Steppes movement speed maximum and gain
• Fixed Seaweed and Raw Fish's tooltips
• Herbs now have coloured names

v7 - 12 February 2017

• Added 15 new Items to Vault Chests
• Slurp now always unlocks a Chest when you complete the Deeplord's Vault quest
• Reworked the terrain height inside the Vault so health bars should be visible in most places
• Killing the Deeplord Revenant now clears all remaining traps rather than creating more
• Most creep casting AI should no longer trigger off of damage over time
• Saving a Hero now correctly reduces Scaling
• Added Fear traps to the Vault
• Cold Arrows and Flaming Arrows no longer cost mana when added to an ability
• Changed The Unburdened to give flat mana rather than regeneration
• Changed Firelight Shawl to deal aoe damage whenever you cast a spell
• Hydromancer's Makrura should now properly join him
• Damage from removed units will still be dealt
• Slow Poison can now kill targets
• Slow Poison no longer effects structures
• You can no longer Life Steal from Structures
• Structures can no longer be stunned or silenced
• Most abilities should no longer effect structures
• Fixed an issue with Abolish Magic not checking if the target is valid until the ability is cast, rather than when targeting as well
• NPC movement should no longer be interuptable
• Deeplord Revenant will no longer cast Fear while Bashed
• Fixed an issue with Chests that have a spirit heading towards them when the Revenant dies not becoming vulnerable
• The Second Wind will no longer trigger while channeling
• Fiery Thorn Potion now saves correctly
• Removed gold drops/text spam from vault chests

v8 - 12 February 2017

• Fixed an issue with shopkeepers not being able to sell items
• Fixed an issue with Darkspear Hunting Axe loading/dropping as Damp Stick

v9 - 02 February 2020

• Fixed save/load codes using Reforged bnet account names
• Fixed all transform abilities (Reforged). However this causes another bug with lots of ability icons messing up
• Will try to eventually resolve both but I figured icons are only cosmetic
• Fixed issues with stacking buffs (patch 1.30) becoming permanent
• Fixed teamcolour issues (patch 1.30)
• Fixed invisibility stopping status effects (patch 1.30)
• Added some initial (11) Hydra drops. There will be more coming
• Sentinel abilities have been reworked
• Shadow Meld works during the day as well
• Increased Heal to 12/19/26/33/40
• Replaced Shadow Priest's Healing Wave with Heal
• Reduced the cooldown on Light of Quel'Thalas to 22 seconds
• Fixed the move speed slow on Shadow Strike
• Drastically increased Control Magic's duration
• Added a visual effect to Bash
• Anti-magic Potion is no longer dispellable
• Serpent Ward (from Ghost Ward) now deals Magic damage
• Reduced Defenders mana costs
• Changed Druid of the Claws (Druid form) armor class to Medium
• Grimreaver should always create a Skeleton even at high scaling
• Various Creep abilities are now properly physical
• Reduced The Unburdened's mana to 100
• Changed The Second Wind

v10 - 19 February 2020

• Temporary transform ability fix (v9) has been properly fixed by Blizzard so default ability icons and effects display correctly
• Intelligence now gives 0.02 mana regen
• More save/load code Reforged bnet account name fixes
• Fixed a bug with Second Wind using the incorrect spell level
• Reduced Polymorph duration
• Reduced Abyssal Rune buff duration increase
• Minimap is working again
• (Reforged) Fixed Defender model
• Changed Sentinel icon
• Berserker now shows visuals from buffs etc
• Frost Armor is working again
• Removed consumable stacking (Reforged)
• 1 more Hydra drop
• Hero names should be random again?
• Possibly fixed a hero selection/load game crash

v11 - 23 May 2023

• Replaced Light of Quel'Thalas and Resurrection with Holy Nova and The Light's Blessing
• Heal increased to 15/25/35/45/55
• Shadow Priest has Healing Wave again
• Increased Healing Wave to 55/85/115/145/175 but it only has 1 bounce maximum
• Rejuvenation increased to 300/475/650/825/1000 over 45 seconds
• Berserk damage increase doesn't increase with skill level
• Increased Polymorph's duration but it now breaks if the target takes 10% of their maximum health
• Lowered Corpse Explosion's cooldown and increased mana cost
• Hydra Hatchlings now have Noxious Breath (reduced healing)
• Hydras now have Noxious Blast (reduced healing)
• Ancient Hydra's Chain Lightning has been replaced by Lightning Breath
• Ancient Hydra's Devour/Spit Up deal less damage but have lower cooldowns
• More than one lightning can be visable at a time
• Hydra poison targeting should be more random
• 8 more Hydra drops
• Posion items no longer effect mechanical units
• Items with a passive cooldown no longer reset your queued orders
• Quality of life improvements to items with variable bonuses
• Fixed an exploit with Second Wind
• Free Will was giving too much armor when complete

v12 - 01 April 2023

• The Light's Blessing displays it's cooldown
• Healing Wave actually casts
• Reduced the base damage on Hydra and Elder Hydra's Chain Lighning
• Increased the base damage and duration of Hydra's Noxious Blast but reduced the healing reduction
• Replaced Elder Hydra's Corrosive Breath with an improved Noxious Breath (reduced healing)
• Reduced the initial damage and duration of Ancient Hydra's Poision Nova but it now applies Noxious Breath (reduced healing)
• Increased the damage of Ancient Hydra's Lightning Breath
• Reduced the damage, duration and cooldown of Ancient Hydra's Devour but increased the heal

v13 - 1 April 2023

• Fixed a bug where Hydra's Noxious Blast was doing WAY too much damage

v14 - 08 January 2024

• Increased Elder and Ancient Hydra's attack damage
• Increased the range for Ancient Hydra to pick a Devour target
• Replaced Elder Hydra's Chain Lightning with Endless Lightning
• 6 new Hydra items
• Ether Lance now also increases the duration of negative buffs on enemies hit by 15/25/35/45/55%
• Bloodlust is now AoE but only lasts 15 seconds
• Bloodlust changed to 20/35/50/65/80% attack rate and 20% movement speed
• Lightning Shield damage reduced to 9/14/19/24/29 per second
• Lightning Shield now converts 50% of the damage dealt into a shield
• Lightning Shield cooldown reduced to 10 seconds
• Lightning Shield mana cost reduced to 45/55/65/75/85
• Earthquake now targets an AoE and does 22/34/46/58/70 dps over 6 seconds with a 20 second cooldown
• Earthquake changed to reduce attack rate by 20/35/50/65/80% and move speed by 25/35/45/55/65%
• Shaman's Storm, Earth and Fire replaced with Lava Burst
• Purge mana cost reduced to 25/30/35/40/45
• Increased Polymorph's break after max health to 20%
• Ensnare bonus damage increased to 11/17/23/29/35% but only from the caster
• Ensnare cooldown reduced to 13 seconds and duration to 7 seconds (all levels)
• Fixed an issue with Explosive Rounds dealing no damage around max range
• Necro will stop auto-casting Raise Dead when at max skeletons
• Reduced the agility of Toxic Tips to 5
• Reduced the damage of The Hydra's Bite to 5
• Reduced Venomous Fang to 5 damage and 2 agility
• Corrected Grim Scythe's damage
• Added scaling to the UI

v15 - 10 February 2024

• Creeps should be better at engaging from long range
• Fragmentation Shot renamed to Scatter Shot and now targets an area (cast range increased by Marksmanship)
• Scatter Shot damage increased to 60/95/130/165/200
• Scatter Shot cooldown reduced to 10 seconds
• Marksmanship now deals bonus damage to targets over 450 range away
• Marksmanship strength bonus/attack speed decrease removed and movement speed reduction increased to 60%
• Marksmanships range incrase scales with buff power
• Flare now only increases the damage of the next attack (55/85/115/145/175%)
• Flare duration reduced to 6 and cooldown to 11 seconds
• Rifleman's Trained Eye replaced with The Big One
• Explosive Rounds mana cost reduced to 5/6/7/8/9
• Shadow Meld attack rate increase reduced to 10/15/20/25/30%
• Earthquake total damage reduced to 85/130/175/220/265
• Jostle knockback speed and distance increased
• Fixed typos on Earthquake and Lightning Shield tooltips

v16 - 31 August 2024

• Spell Breaker's Control Magic replaced with Arcane Immolation
• Spell Breaker's Feedback replaced with Mana Flare
• Spell Breaker's Mind Wrack replaced with Calm Mind
• Spell Breaker's Spell Shield replaced with Mana Addiction
• Fixed an issue where items would always sell for 0 gold
• Elder Hydra's Endless Lightning time between bounces increased
• Cleaned up some UI elements

v17 - 02 September 2024

• Arcane Immolation and Mana Shield no longer crash the game after ~8 minutes 30 seconds

v18 - 05 October 2024

• Replaced creep Negative Buff Effect/Duration reduction with Soft and Hard CC duration reduction - see F9 for more info
• Ancient Hydra Devour damage increased but healing percentage reduced and healing changed to be based on damage done
• Fixed a but with Ancient Hydra Devours damage not taking armor or armor type into account
• Primal Surge (Druid) changed to just restore 25/40/55/70/85 mana to allies (not self) in a targeted area
• Marksmanship cast time removed but cooldown (when exiting) increased to 10 seconds
• Marksmanship should have accurate range for your current order while casting
• Arcane Immolation mana cost lowered to 2/2.5/3/3.5/4 per second
• Polymorph duration increased to 7/11/15/19/23 seconds and break percentage reduced to 15%
• The Light's Blessing shield changed to 70/80/90/100/110
• Flare damage reduced to 45/70/95/120/145%, buff duration reduced to 5 seconds, vision duration increased to 13 seconds but now you and all allies can trigger it on their first attack
• Cloak of Elune cooldown increased to 12 seconds
• Shadow Dash cooldown increased to 6 seconds
• Rake Armor cooldown increased to 15 seconds
• Corrected Mana Flare and Calm Mind buff icons
• Corrected The Big One's tooltip to say Pysical
• Stormreavers gain a buff when their hutts are burnt
• 6 new items from Stormreavers, Skelletons, Hydromancer and Stalker
• Eye of the Abyss mana increased to 80
• Windform Claws damage increased to 39
• Flamewight Glaive damage increase to 32
• The Second Wind reduced to 30% of the mana cost over 5 seconds
• Venomous Fang damage reduced to 2
• Hydromancer and Makrura Deep Lord should be more inseparable
• Hero glow removed from Mage and Warrior

v19 - 27 November 2024

• Night Elven Druid of the Seasons is now playable! Thanks to Erwtenpeller for the art <3
• Hydra and Ancient Hydra attack types changed to Chaos
• Ancient Hydra's Devour cannot be dodged by invisibility
• Ancient Hydra can Devour Demons
• Elder and Ancient Hydra poison can hit air
• Corpse Explosion cooldown reduced to 5 seconds and allowed it to target your skeletons as well (prioritises corpses)
• Necromancer's Bag of Bones replaced with Grave Digger
• Moon Blade changed to 20% chance at all levels and damage reduced to 15/25/35/45/55
• Holy Nova reduced to 90/145/200/255/310 damage and heal
• Anti-magic Shell duration reduced to 20 seconds
• Voidwalker base Strength reduced to 10 and Strength per level to 0.8
• Toxic Tips armor reduction reduced to 3
• Ether Lance should correctly increase all negative buff durations
• Increased the area of effect of Firelight Shawl
• Corrected all portrait mismatches from Reforged 2.0 patch

v20 - 27 November 2024

• Harvest Bloom can only increase buffs once

v21 - 22 April 2025

• Holy Nova changed to 55/90/125/160/195 damage and heal, 9 second cooldown and 55/75/95/115/135 mana cost
• Brittle Chill now only increases damage by 7/11/15/19/23% and slows the target
• Harvest Bloom buff effect increase reduced to 10/15/20/25/30% and mana cost to 20/30/40/50/60
• Renew missing health heal reduced to 8/11/14/17/20%
• Tranqulity changed to 15/25/35/45/55 heal per second, 30 second cooldown and 60/80/100/120/140 mana cost
• Wildfire now only increases allies movement speed by a flat 25/40/55/70/85 (no attack speed increase)
• Wildfire damage increased to 75/130/185/240/295
• Spirit Link changed to 15/25/35/45/55% of damage distrubted and targets 3/5/7/9/11 units
• Magic Immunity reduced to 9/15/21/27/33% and it actually reduces damage
• "On hit" effects and creep AI should now happen even if the damage is entirely blocked (e.g. Hydra poisons)
• Spirit Link should retain the original damage type when spltting damage
• Corrected Druid of the Seasons disabled icon
• Corrected Rake Armor buff icon

v22 - 20 July 2025

• Backpacks are no longer heroes
• Fixed a bug with Spell Damage Reduction not working properly with transform abilities
• Dismember damage increase reduced to 15/25/35/45/55% and mana code reduced to 2/4/6/8/10
• Fel Rage attack speed increase reduced to 30/50/70/90/110%
• Rake Armor flat armor reduction reduced to 2/3.5/5/6.5/8
• Healing Ward and Fury of the Winds should properly scale with the casters +% Effect of Buffs you cast
• Damp Stick wont restore mana from the same buff being reapplied and mana restored increased to 20
• Increased the lightning damage on all The Hydra's Wrath pieces
• The Hollow Fang set bonuses reduced to 10/20% attack speed/10 Strength, 4 Armor, 45 health
• Toxic Tips reduced to 2 Agility
• The Hydra's Bite reduced to 5% Attack Speed
• Ravenous Roots reduced to 3 Armor
• Malignant Mandible reduced to 16 Armor
• Bloodletter's Veil (Red) reduced to 5% Life Steal
• Grimreaver reduced to 46 damage and level 6
• 8 new item from Stormreavers, Murlocks, Stalkers, Hydras, Hydromancer and Naga
• Ruby Mage's Cloak reworked into a healing item
• Stormreaver Fel Robes icon changed