Dota Auto Chess: Patch Notes List 2020
All the Dota Auto Chess patch notes released in 2020. I will update this list over time as soon as proper info for each patch is provided.
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December 2
Balance Patch 3
Faceless Void's Whisper of Darkness: Only valid to debuffs gained in battle.(Debuffs gained before battle cannot be dispelled)
Spirit Breaker★★ re-decorated
November 29
Balance Patch 2
Meepo's Poof: Damage from 150/200/250 to 100/150/200
Faceless Void's Chronosphere: Duration from 4/4/5 to 3/4/5
Faceless void's Time Lock: Damage removed and stun for 1s remained
Keeper of the Light's Illuminate: Damage per second from 120/200/500 to 150/250/500
November 25
Chess Pieces Update
New piece Faceless Void ($3,Faceless/Assassin): Creates a blister in spacetime, trapping all chess pieces caught in its sphere of influence and allows only Faceless Void to move freely in the sphere.
Shadow Shaman: Hex is replaced by Shackle-Magically binds an enemy chess piece so that it cannot move or attack, while dealing magical damage over time.
Phantom Assassin temporarily removed.
Legion Commander-Press the Attack: Permanent damage increment from 10/20/30 to 10/10/20 and higher rank chess pieces will gather all stacks on lower ones.
Storm Spirit: Armor from 3 to 4
Meepo: HP from 650 to 600
Elder Titan-Earth splitter: percentage damage from 25/30/35 to 20/25/30
Sven: Attack interval from 1.6 to 1.5
Monkey King: Attack interval from 1.1 to 1.0
Huskar: Armor from 9 to 10, attack speed increment gtom 15/20/25 to 20/25/30
Synergies Update
New Species Faceless-Whisper of Darkness:
(1) Faceless: If you have no other active synergies except Whisper of Darkness, all friendly chess pieces are immune to all negative effects and their attacks have a chance to lock the enemy in time.
Elf-Evasion:
(3) Elves: All friendly elves have +25% evasion(Instead of 20%).
(9) Elves: An illusion of the allied chess piece is created upon a successful dodge(Evasion removed).
Undead-Horror:
(2) Undeads: All enemies suffer -3 armor(Instead of -2).
(6) Undeads: All enemies suffer -7 armor(Instead of -6).Any allied chess piece slain by a Horrified enemy continues to battle in Wraith Form for 5 seconds before embracing death.
Assassin-Coup D:
(9) Assassins: All allies have 10% chance to critical hit for 500% damage(Instead of 5%), and gains a Backstab Leap move after killing an enemy.<br>The first blow after Backstab Leap is always a critical strike.
Hunter-Aimed Shot:
(9) Hunters: All friendly allies have +50 base attack damage and +50% chance knock back enemy(Instead of +25).
Orc-Battle Hardened:
(6) Orcs: All allies have +10x(Courier health lost) Health(Instead of 9x).
Troll-Voodoo Frenzy:
(6) Trolls: All allies gain 20 attack speed(Instead of +15) for each succcessful attack. Maximum 10 stacks(Instead of 15).
Mage-Magic Vulnerability:
(9) Mages: All enemies are cursed with frost incantation, which freezes them upon receiving magical damage. Frozen duration equals magical damage/300 instead of magical damage/400.
Tauren-Totem of the Clan:
(4) Taurens:Disarm-duration from 3s to 2s,Nether-duration from 6s to 5s.
Human-Spark of Mind:
(3)(6) Humans: Tome of knowledge's XP will floors to the nearest integer
Shaman-Hex:
(4) Shamans: Hexxed pieces will have a delay before show up.
Pass and Store Update
A Doughnut award will be given if you finished a daily quest. The quest is only for pass holders and refreshes once per day.
Candy award for the first top 3 removed.
Googie eggs removed.
New Emotions arrived at Candy Store and you can only get them with Doughnut. Three free ones are in default. Press K to call them out.
Emotions Beta
Click the icon in input area or press K to send emotions to all players!
You can ignore emotions the same way as ignore chats.
It is in beta version and more emotions coming soon
October 30
S9 End of Season Balancing Update
The last of the season (31/10) will be the off season break to award the excellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S10 Ghost starts from 01/11!
Synergies Update
Dwarf - Take Aim(2): Ranged attacks deal 5% increased damage for every 2 square from the target
Ogre - Iron Fist(2): 20% bonus per stack and 10 maximum stacks instead of 25% bonus and 8 stacks
Knight - Divine Protection(2)(4)(6): Armor bonus 20 instead of 25 when the shield activates
Beast - Power of the Wild(6): +25 damage per stack instead of 20
Undead - Horror(6): Armor reduction 6 instead of 4
Pieces Update
New decorations of diretide
Enchantress' HP from 400/800/1500 to 400/800/1400, Magic resistance from 0 to 10
Furion's HP from 500/1000/1900 to 500/1000/1750
Slark's attack interval from 0.9 to 0.85
Terrorblade Metamorphosis' attack speed bonus from 40/50/60 to 30/40/50
Treant Protector's HP from 750/1500/2800 to 750/1500/2650
Meepo's HP from 750/1500/2250 to 700/1400/2100
Storm Spirit Ball lightning's damage per 100 distance from 25/40/80 to 30/50/90
Earth Spirit Rolling Stone's damage from 300/400/600 to 250/350/550
Windrunner Shackle shot's stun duration from 0.5 to 1 if failed and 2/3/5 to 2.5/3.5/5 if succeeded
Medusa gets split shot: Damage -50% and splits into 2/3/4 shots
Medusa's attack damage from 75 to 65
Lone Druid's HP from 800/1600/3000 to 800/1600/2800
Elder Titan's HP from 1100/2200/3800 to 1000/2000/3500
Items Update
Diffusal Blade: Deals additional 50 pure damage to illusions and hexed pieces instead of burning mana
Hand of Midas: Can hold 2x piece level gold instead of 1x
Manta Style: CD 20s instead of 30s
Blink Dagger: CD 20s instead of 15s
Vanguard: Blocks 40/80 instead of 35/70
Moonshard: Attack speed bonus 120 instead of 100
Linkin's sphere: CD 5s instead of 10s
Daedalus: 3.5x crit instead of 4x
Assault Cuirass: Attack damage +/-15 instead of +/-10
Scythe Of Vyse: Transforms an enemy piece of the highest level into a harmless animal instead of a random one
Heart of Tarrasque: +50% HP instead of 30%
October 27
Planetfall from the High Mountain (Part II)
The one we know as the Elder Titan was a great innovator, one who studied at the forge of creation. In honing his skills, he shattered something that could never be repaired, only thrown aside. He fell into his own broken world, a shattered soul himself. There he dwelt among the jagged shards and fissured planes, along with other lost fragments that had sifted down through the cracks in the early universe. And this is why the world we know resembles an isle of castaways, survivors of a wreck now long forgotten. Forgotten, that is, by all but the One who blames himself. He spends his time forever seeking a way to accomplish the repairs, that he might rejoin the parts of his broken soul, that we and the world alike might all be mended. This is the One we know as Elder Titan from the lores of the Taurens.
Chess Piece Updates
New Chess Piece: Elder Titan($5 Tauren God Druid)
Ability - Earth Splitter: Sends forth a jagged crack in front of Elder Titan. After 3 seconds, the crack implodes, stunning while dealing damage to each enemy based on their maximum life. Half of the damage dealt is Magical damage, while the other half is Physical damage.
Reworked Bounty Hunter's Shuriken Toss:
Shuriken Toss: Hurls a deadly shuriken at the enemy of the lowest health, dealing damage and mini-stunning the target. A lesser shuriken then bounces to the second lowest-health enemy and deals damage that is 1 rank lower.
Legion Commander now benefits Press The Attack bonus damage from Loot Rounds. Decreased bonus damage per stack from 10/20/40 to 10/20/30. Promoted Legion Commander now inherits the highest Press The Attack bonus damage stacks from the minor pieces, instead of adding them together.
Mars is no longer in defense stance and is able to attack as other chess pieces do. Bulwark now has a knock-back effect.
Bulwark: Mars wields his massive shield to block a portion of each physical attack when hit from the front or sides. Periodically, Mars smashes and knocks back enemies in 3-grid range in front of him with his shield, dealing physical damage.
Increased Tusk's base attack cooldown from 1.2 to 1.3 sec.
Decreased Timbersaw's Whirling Death cooldown from 6/5/4 to 6/4/3 sec.
Decreased Nature's Prophet Nature's Call Treant base armor from 5 to 4.
Balanced Meepo's base health from 750/1500/2400 to 750/1500/2250.
Improved Visage's Familiar base attack cooldown from 1.4 to 1.3 sec, base mana regeneration from 0/5/10 to 5/10/20.
Least Wins Prize of the Month: Dark Willow has been temporarily removed from the game. She will be back after balancing and rework.
Synergy Updates
Added (4) Tauren's Totem of the Clan:
(2) Taurens: Summons a Scarecrow Totem at the start of the battle. (Changed the name of Taunt Totem)
(4) Taurens: Summons a Woodpecker Totem and a Horn Totem at the start of the battle.
Woodpecker Totem: Whenever an enemy chess piece casts ability, Woodpecker Totem has 50% chance to silence the caster for 6 sec and deal 500 magical damage.
Horn Totem: Whenever an enemy chess piece attacks, Horn Totem has 10% to disarms the aggressor for 3 sec and deal 250 physical damage.
Balanced Elves' Evasion:
(3) Elves: All friendly elves have +20% evasion.
(6) Elves: All allies have +25% evasion. (up from 20%)
(9) Elves: All allies have +20% evasion. Any successful dodge creates an illusion of the chess piece. (previously only evasions under (9) Elves' 20% chance creates illusion)
Tome of Knowledge now grants the bonus XP with rounding up to the nearest integer. (from rounding down)
Tome of Knowledge and Heart of the Machine can now be obtained in Loot Rounds.
Gameplay Optimization
Fog of War: Dynamic Fog of War now covers chessboards that you are now currently spectating to reduce graphic resource usage and potentially mitigate lagging issues in post games.
Dismiss Optimization: Added a Dismiss button in Chess Piece List panel to quickly Dismissed selected group of pieces.
Chess Piece AI Optimization: Path is now calculated in 3-grid segments instead of one single way to mitigate the problem of passing by an enemy without having a battle.
Loot Rounds Updates:
Tome of Knowledge and Heart of the Machine can now be obtained in Loot Rounds.
Legion Commander also benefits from Lott Round victories with Press The Attack.
Loot Rounds do not break your winning streak or losing streak as before.
Bug Fixes
Fixed the unavailable button bug caused by moving and recalling chess pieces.
Fixed a bug that may cause a server down from interactions of Nyx Assassin's Carapace with Monks' Druken Stagger or Blademail.
Fixed a bug that Meepo can potentially replicate forever.
Fixed a bug that requires a move when promoting Meepo★★★.
Fixed a bug which Lv.7 pieces may be Hexed into Meepo★★★ that is Lv.6.
Fixed Morphling's Wave Form bug that may cause melee pieces to attack him from further grids.
Fixed Slardar★★★ visual effect bugs with Immortal item. He now has a Golden version of the helmet.
End-of-Season Rewards
The EoS rewards for S9 Strange Egg (01/09 to 31/10) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S9 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + S9 Crown (valid for S10) + Golden Easter Drodo (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + Silver Easter Drodo (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Green Easter Drodo (Rare Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + White Easter Drodo (Common Courier).
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
Top 20 Queens are rewarded based on their final places and the other ranks are rewarded for the highest rank achieved in the season.
As usual, the last of the season (31/10) will be the off season break to award the excellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S9 Strange Egg starts from 01/11!
Although Faceless Void has lost to Spectre during the Arcana vote, he has won the most votes (27%) over Troll Warlord (20%) and Spectre (13%) during S9 Favourite Chess Piece Votes. He is expected to join DOTA AUTO CHESS sometime in the middle of S10.
Don't panic if you happen to find any bug or severe imbalance in the new patch. Please inform us about your findings through email. We will be releasing a new balancing patch before the new season starts.
October 9
Synergy Updates
Added new effect for Kobolds' Divided We Stand:
(1) Kobold: When a Kobold piece reaches ★★★, it duplicates a copy. If you control a pair of identical Kobold pieces on the chessboard, summon a replica for each pair of identical chess pieces when battle starts.
Transformed chess pieces by (4) Shaman's Hex no longer retain item bonuses.
Humans' Spark of Mind: Changed ToK awarding rule
(3) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge at the start of a round.
(6) Humans: Grants 2 Tome of Knowledge upon winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human piece survived. (from 1 ToK guaranteed and 1 bonus when winning home battles)
Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy: Slight changed the effect and text description.
(2) Trolls: Increases the attack speed of all allies by 20.
(4) Trolls: Increases the attack speed of all allies by 20. (down from +25)
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +15 attack speed for each succcessful attack. Maximum 15 stacks.
Chess Piece Balancing
Decreased Meepo★★★ level from 7 to 6, base health from 3000 to 2400.
Balanced Meepo's Poof damage from 125/250/500 to 150/200/250.
Decreased Luna's base armor from 2 to 1.
Increased Phantom Assassin;s base damage from 85 to 90.
Decreased Treant Protector's Leech Seed duration from 5/6/7 to 5/6/6 sec.
Decreased Terrorblade's Metamorphosis bonus damage from 70/90/120 to 60/80/100, increased bonus attack speed from 30/40/60 to 40/50/60.
Increased Storm Spirit's Ball Lightning cooldown from 6/5/4 to 5/4/3 sec.
Decreased Enigma's base health from 1000 to 950.
Improved Monkey King's base attack cooldown from 1.2 to 1.1 sec.
Bug Fixes
Attempted to fix the bug with physical damage dealing abilities missing their hits with debuff from Cinder Brew.
Meepo★★★ and Meepo★★ now correctly provide Iron Fist stacks to friendly Ogres upon death.
Fixed SoundFX played when double-clicking Buy Xp but with insufficient gold.
Fixed Meepo tooltip missing from Species and Class descriptions.
Now Luna will be correctly dimmed in Chess Piece List if either Elf or Knight is Dismissed.
September 29
Chess Pieces
Mech has now been renamed to Inventor.
New Chess Piece: Meepo ($3 Kobold Inventor) has joined the game!
Drawing mystical energies from the earth, a Meepo teleports to the side of an enemy, dealing damage in arrival locations.
Luna ($1 Elf Knight) has rejoined the game! (previously $2)
Moon Glaives: Empowers Luna's glaives, causing her attacks to bounce between enemy units. Deals less damage with each bounce.
Pudge ($3 Undead Warrior) has been temporarily removed from the game for potential bugs.
Increased Dark Willow's base damage from 50 to 55.
Increased Winter Wywern's base health fro7m 50 to 600.
Increased Timbersaw's base armor from 5 to 6.
Increased Templar Assassin's base damage from 100 to 105.
Synergies
New Species: Kobold - Divided We Stand
(1) Kobold: If you control a pair of identical Kobold pieces on the chessboard, summon a replica for each pair when battle starts.
Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy now benefits all allies at all ranks:
(2) Trolls: All allies have +20 attack speed. (from +35 to all friendly Trolls)
(4) Trolls: All allies have +25 attack speed. (from +30)
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +15 attack speed for each successful attack. Maximum 15 stacks.
Decreased (4) Elementals' Elemental Essence stone duration from 4 to 3 seconds.
Decreased Knights' Divine Protection bonus armor from shields from 30 to 25.
Increased (6) Orcs' Battle Hardened bonus health multiplier from 8 to 9.
Increased (4) Undeads' Horror armor reduction from 4 to 5.
Gameplay
Now if you have sufficient gold, by double-clicking Buy Exp you can instantly raise your Courier level by 1.
Optimized Click-and-Drop operation logic and animation.
Optimized Eliminate Chess Piece animation and sound effect.
Bug Fixes
Fixed Brewmaster's Cinder Brew miss chance tooltip error.
Fixed a bug where when attacks are forced to magical or pure damage but still encountered reduction from target armor.
Attempted to fix a displacing bug with Morphling.
Fixed style bugs with Dismiss notifications.
September 15
Synergies
Wizard (Something from Nothing): Only valid in battle time!
Active when you have at least (N) different pieces of this class on board, only valid in battle time.(Multiple effects stack)
(2) Wizards: Reduces the number of chess pieces required by 1 for any synergy requiring
(4) pieces or more to be active.(4) Wizards: If you have only 1 active non-Wizard synergy, unlocks all its potential.
Hunter(Aimed Shot):
(3)(9)Hunters: +20 base attack damage to +25 base attack damage.
Chess pieces
Dark Willow: Attack interval from 1.2 to 1.1, stun radius from 260 to 300
Ogre Magi: Attack interval from 1.4 to 1.5
Batrider: Pauses in the air if stunned of frozen when flying
Chaose Knight: Base attack damage from 75 to 80
Treant Protector: Seeds duration from 5s to 4s, CD from 7s to 8s
Terrorblade: Attack range bonus from 600 to 400
Venomancer's Ward: HP from 250/400/550 to 260/400/500, attack damage from 60/90/120 to 60/90/110
Broodmother: Attack interval from 1.2 to 1.1
Chen: CD from 15s to 12s
Huskar: Attack interval from 1.1 to 1
Items
Lotus Orb: Removed
Tome of Knowledge: Floors down to the nearest integer instead of rounds up
Blink Dagger: MP gained from 50 to 40
BKB: Dispels when activates, duration from 7s to 5s
Moon Shard: Attack speed bonus from 90 to 100
August 30
S8 End of Season Balancing Update
The last of the season (31/08) will be the off season break to award the excellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S9 Strange Egg starts from 01/09!
The Candy Store has expanded!
The Candy Store now offers more items at a time to purchase from. Meanwhile, a brand new Courier cosmetic option [Entrance Animation] is now available to Couriers at Lv.20 or above, that allows custom animation when your Courier enters a battle, home and away.
Chess Piece Update
Bloodseeker ($2 Orc Shaman) has been temporarily from the game. He will be back after rework or rebalancing.
Increased Ember Spirit's Sleight of Fists cooldown from 6/5/4 sec to 7/6/5 sec.
Increased Windranger's Power Shackle Shot base damage from 300/500/900 to 350/550/900, cooldown from 10/9/8 sec to 12/10/8 sec.
Increased Earthshaker's Fissure damage from 300/400/600 to 400/600/800.
Decreased Enigma's Midnight Pulse duration from 7 sec to 6 sec, cooldown from 20/15/10 to 15/12/9 sec.
Decreased Tidehunter's Ravage cooldown from 25/15/10 sec to 20/15/10 sec.
Increased Huskar's Berserker's Blood attack speed bonus per stack from 10/15/25 to 15/20/25.
Synergy Updates
Tauren - Totem of the Clan:
The Totem has health equal to 3x current number of enemy chess pieces on board, and takes 1 damage from melee attacks and 2 damage from ranged attacks at a time. (from 1 damage from both melee and ranged attacks)
Orc - Battle Hardened
(2) Orcs: All allies have +150 Health.
(4) Orcs: All allies have +450 Health.(up from +300)
(6) Orcs: All allies have +8x(Courier health lost) Health. (up from 7x)
Warrior - Fortified Armor:
(3) Warriors: All friendly warriors have +6 armor.
(6) Warriors: All friendly warriors have +9 armor. (up from +8)
(9) Warriors: All friendly allies have +6 armor, and reflect pure damage equivalent to current armor when taking physical and magical damage.
Friendly pieces transformed by (4)Shaman's Hex now benefit from equipped items again.
Bug Fixes
The Toy Butcher now remembers to carry his hook with him.
Elementals' Elemental Essence stoning now correctly applies at 25% chance, instead of 30%.
Fixed bugs with incorrect square occupance caused by Fissure and other knockback abilities.
Fixed Nagas' Scale armor tooltip error.
August 25
Planetfall from the High Mountain (Part I)
He who was one with the spirit of this earth has now merged with a fragment from another world. Earthshaker, with his Arcana Planetfall, is now available in DOTA AUTO CHESS!
Chess Piece Updates
New Chess Piece Added: Spirit Breaker ($1 Tauren Assassin)
Greater Bash: Attacks have a chance to stun and knockback the enemy and deal bonus damage.
New Chess Piece Added: Earthshaker ($4 Tauren Shaman)
Fissure: Slams the ground with a mighty totem, creating an impassable ridge of stone. Enemy chess pieces along the line are stunned and knocked to nearest vacant squares, and suffer physical damage.
Templar Assassin has been promoted from $4 to $5! Refraction now has passive Psi Blades.
Psi Blades: Templar Assassin's psi blades slice through the attacked chess piece, damaging enemies directly behind it.
Death Prophet has been temporarily removed from the game. She will be back after rework or rebalancing.
Increased Lion's base armor from 0 to 2.
Redecorated Chaos Knight, Doom, Tidehunter, Enigma, Legion Commander, Pudge and Templar Assassin with items from Immortal Treasure II.
Synergy Updates
New Species Trait: Tauren - Totem of the Clan
(2) Taurens: Summons a Taunt Totem at the start of the battle.
Totems: A stationary guardian that does cannot attack, cast or restore health. The Totem has health equal to 3x current number of enemy chess pieces on board and takes 1 damage at a time.
Taunt: Enemies must attack this chess piece first whenever they can.
(4) Shamans: Friendly chess pieces transformed by Hex will not have items equipped anymore.
Bug Fixes
Attempted to fixed the bug which causes items to lost if given to Hexed chess pieces. Reworked Hex algorithms to allow items be given to cheering chess pieces after a win.
Fixed Chaos Knight's Chaos Bolt not stunning the target for correct duration.
Fixed knockback abilities affecting chess piece on the bench.
Fixed Mars has a chance to immediate cast Shield Bash and the start of the battle.
Fixed Hexed Drow Ranger still retain her Precision Aura effect.
Fixed Sven's God's Strength incorrect stacking issue.
Fixed Vesture of the Tyrant unable to obtain (4) Shaman's Hex effect.
Fixed Lv.16 Courier can only recruit $1 chess pieces.
Now Linken's Sphere can correctly block Force Staff.
Fixed Lion being unable to be dismissed with Demons.
Fixed sound effects issues with some neutrals and summoned units.
Fixed incorrect portrait position of Ember Spirit and Storm Spirit in tooltips for Assassin and Mage.
Fixed Earth Spirit shown in purple colour in post game panels.
Moved positions of some unreachable trees on the chessboard.
End-of-Season Rewards
The EoS rewards for S8 Spirit Beast (01/07 to 31/08) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S8 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + S8 Crown (valid for S9) + Black Brightskye | Refresher Orb (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + Black Brightskye | Soulstone (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Black Brightskye | Gem (Rare Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + Black Brightskye | Yarn (Common Courier).
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
Top 20 Queens are rewarded based on their final places and the other ranks are rewarded for the highest rank achieved in the season.
As usual, the last of the season (31/08) will be the off season break to award the execellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S9 Strange Egg starts from 01/09!
July 29
Return of the Demon Witch Update
Chess Piece Updates
Lion ($2 Demon Wizard) has now rejoined the game after a short break.
Viper's Viper Strike now has a priority to target the highest-leveled enemy chess piece.
Balanced Visage's Familiars Grave Chill attack speed steal from 20/40/80 to 30/40/60.
Redecorated Rank 3 Sven, Jakiro, Slardar and Witch Doctor with the latest items from Immortal Treasure II.
[Least Wins Prize] Increased Shadow Fiend's Requiem of Souls damage from 100/150/200 to 100/175/250 per line.
Synergy Updates
Balanced Shaman's Hex:
(2) Shamans: Transforms a random enemy chess piece to a random piece of the same level when battle starts. (From transforming an enemy into harmless animal for 6 seconds.)
(4) Shamans: Transforms all friendly Shaman pieces to random chess pieces that are 2 levels higher when battle starts. (From randomly transforming enemies that kill the Shaman pieces.)
Balanced Humans' Spark of Mind:
(3) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge when battle starts.
(6) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge when battle starts. An extra Tome of Knowledge is rewarded for winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human survived.
Tome of Knowledge: Activate to add 1/16 of Courier XP for the current Courier level (Rounds up to nearest integer). Bonus Courier XP granted via Tome of Knowledge is unlimited to the maximum Courier Level. (From adds 2 Courier XP.)
Balanced Assassins' Coup de Grace:
(3) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 300% damage.
(6) Assassins: All allies have 15% chance to critical hit for 400% damage.
(9) Assassins: All allies have 5% chance to critical hit for 500% damage, and gains a Backstab Leap move after killing an enemy. (From gaining Backstab Leap only)
Balanced Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy:
(2) Trolls: All friendly trolls have +35 attack speed.
(4) Trolls: All allies have +30 attack speed.
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +15 attack speed for each successful attack. Maximum 15 stacks. (From 10 bonus attack speed per stack and maximum 20 stacks.)
Bug Fixes
Fixed the bug causing Linken's Sphere fail to block the following spells: Mirana's Sacred Arrow, Treant Protector's Leech Seed, Scythe of Vise, Dagon, Shamans' Hex, Oracle's Fate's Edict.
Player Info Panel now correctly instantly updates if a player levels up the Courier by using the Tome of Knowledge.
Fixed a bug that Storm Spirit's Ball Lightning and Earth Spirit's Rolling Boulder pierce through spell immunity.
Fixed chess piece model preloading bugs with Pandaren pieces and IO.
Fixed Rank 3 Shallow Grave duration bug. Now correctly lasts 5 sec on each targeted ally, instead of 4/4/5 sec.
Fixed a bug that causing Mars immediately casts Shield Bash when battle starts.
Fixed Monkey King's Jingu Mastery missing tooltip.
Fixed that bug causing (6) Undeads' Horror Wraith pieces attacking your own Courier.
Fixed various chess board decoration bugs.
Fixed a bug with dismissing that causes double gold spent.
June 29
Land of Mists Update (Part.2)
Among the numerous ancient stories from the Pandaren legend, the Monkey King tale stands above all.
Born from a spirit rock, the Monkey King then visited the Dragon Lord of the East Sea who were famous for his vault of legendary treasure collections, to find a most suitable weapon, where eventually from the deepest dark, the Monkey King Bar was at hand.
Soon after, the gods discovered that not all souls like to meditate like the Pandaren. The Monkey Kings seeks and anticipates adventures and glory.
It's time for a new story to be told.
New Chess Pieces
Monkey King ($5 Beast Monk)
Kunkka ($4 Human Warrior) with his newly refurbished ship.
Earth Spirit ($4 Pandaren Shaman) is now invitable only through Pandaren's Hospitality.
New Items
Vesture of the Tyrant (Sacred Relic + Crown + Robe of the Magi)
Manta Style (Ultimate Orb + Blade of Alacrity + Blades of Attack)
Linken's Sphere (Ultimate Orb + Perseverance )
Telescope (Quarterstaff + Energy Booster)
Synergy Update
Added (3) Pandaren's Hospitality:
(3) Pandaren: +50% chance to invite an additional random Pandaren chess piece to join the team at the beginning of the round.
Added (2) Monks' Drunken Stagger:
(2) Monks: 30% of non-pure damage taken by allies is split equally by all other standing allied chess pieces as pure damage.
Balance Update
Decreased Brewmaster's Cinder Brew miss chance from 30%/50%/70% to 30%/40%/50%.
Decreased Sladar's Slithereen Crush AoE from 300/400/500 to 300/350/400.
Visage's Familiars now have a 0/5/10 base mana regeneration (from 0/0/0).
Increased base health of Treant Protector from 700 to 750.
Decreased Ember Spirit's Sleight of Fist AoE from 400/500/600 to 400/450/500.
Decreased Gyrocopter's Call Down cooldown from 10 sec to 10/8/6 sec. Increased damage per missile from 200/300/500 to 250/350/550.
Decreased the chance of recruiting Io from 0.3% to 0.2%.
Now all Rank 3 chess pieces of $1/2/3/4/5 have a base mana regeneration bonus of 2/4/6/8/10 (from 4/6/8/10/12).
Redesigned the base armor for all chess pieces to improve gameplay balance.(from 3 tiers of 0/5/10 armor)
Bug Fix
Fixed a bug with Cinder Brew causing True Strike attacks to miss.
Fixed incorrect tooltip location with $5 chess pieces.
Fixed Drunken Stagger tooltip text.
Seasonal Update
As usual, the last of the season (30/06) will be the off season break to award the excellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S8 Spirit Beast starts from 01/07!
Updated chessboard decoration rotations.
Chess piece votes for the new season starts from the second week (08/07). DAC Pass holders are eligible vote. Weekly Least Wins Prize and balance updates will be followed as well.
June 17
End-of-Season Rewards
Claim you EoS Rewards for S7 in Seasonal Activities Panel after 01/07!
The EoS rewards for S7 Mayfly (01/05 to 30/06) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S6 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + S7 Crown (valid for S8) + Golden Onibi (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + Purple Onibi (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Blue Onibi (Rare Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + Green Onibi (Common Courier).
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
Top 20 Queens are rewarded based on their final places and the other ranks are rewarded for the highest rank achieved in the season.
June 12
Rebalance Patch
Drow ranger's ability remade into an aura to grant all ranged allies attack damage increment
Pandaren's Hospitality now has 75% chance to invite a Pandaren instead of 50%
Monk's drunken stagger will not kill any chess piece
Amount of $1/2/3 chess in whole chess pool increased slightly
All $1/2/3/4/5★★★ pieces now have 4/6/8/10/12 Mp recharge instead of 10
Force Staff: Effective on all enemies nearby instead of only ranged enemies
Tango: Hp recharge 1-8 instead of 1-9
Dismiss cost increased to 2x instead of 1.5x
fix bugs
June 4
Rebalance Patch
(1)Monk: 50% Non-pure damage on this piece will be taken by allies of same species into pure damage.
(9)Elves: Illusion CD from 3s to 2s
Tango's hp restore from 1-10 to 1-9
Shadow Shaman's CD from 10/8/4 to 10/8/6
Jakiro's CD from 9/7/5 to 8/6/4
Doom and Phantom Assassin redecorated
Fix bug
Loading optimization to load faster
May 31
Rebalance Patch
Pandaren's Hospitality now has pseudo-random, chance accumulated with failure rounds, and refreshes to initial chance after an invitation.
(2)(4) Orc HP increment from +100/+300 to +150/+350
(6) Hunter's attack damage increment from 45 to 50
(2) Naga's magical resistance from 40 to 35
Tiny's HP from 500 to 550
Clockwerk's armor from 5/7/9 to 5
Shredder's armor from 5/7/9 to 5
Abaddon's HP from 750 to 700
OmniKnight's Hp from 750 to 700
Ember Spirit's damage from 75/150/300 to 100/200/400
Storm Spirit's damage per 100 distance from 25/50/100 to 25/40/80
TB's attack speed increment from 40/60/80 to 30/40/60, damage increment from 80/100/160 to 80/100/140
Broodmother's armor from 5 to 10, HP from 800 to 900
Tango's HP recharge from 1~7 to 1~10
Backhome hotkey F2, player detail panel hotkey F3,since the original 1&2 is occupied by dota2 now
May 27
Land of Mists Update
Ten thousand years ago the last emperor of the Pandaren Empire surrounded his entire territory in the misty protection in order to save his people from the Great Havoc. Now the ancient species has once again revealed themselves and they are literally a mist to the others.
New Chess Piece Added: Brewmaster ($2 Pandaren Monk)
Active ability [Cinder Brew]: Drenches an area in alcohol, causing enemy chess pieces within the area to lose some of their attacks. Taking spell damage causes affected enemies to ignite and extends the duration of ignition on the enemies.
Shadow Fiend ($3 Demon Warlock) has rejoined the game!
Active ability [Requiem of Souls]: Shadow Fiend gathers his captured souls to release them as lines of demonic energy that damages enemies striked. For every friendly Demon with active Fel Power, Shadow Fiend releases an additional line of energy. Shadow Fiend no longer captures souls from slain enemies.
Gameplay
New Courier Ability: Dismiss
Select a particular Species or Class and remove all chess pieces of the selected category from your recruitment pool to improve recruitment efficiency. Dismiss costs $(2x total number of pieces in selected category) and is free to cancel anytime during the game. Dismiss does not affect other players.
Deathblow Reward: When your visiting victory eliminates another player, you are rewarded Gold equivalent to the total number of rounds won by the eliminated player.
Loot Round Reward: For every neutral creep defeated, Gold equivalent to one-thirds of the Creep's Level plus 1 is rewarded!
Neutral creeps in Loot Rounds no longer deals Courier damage. Losing to neutral creeps now only disadvantages you for Loot Treasures and Gold rewards.
Decreased the Gold cost for Buy Exp from 5 to 4, Exp purchased is unchanged.
The Exp required for each Courier Level is increased to accommodate the new Gold rewards and Buy Exp cost change.
Gold Earned now replaces Lineup Cost in the information panel to precisely reflect player economy.
Battle phase initiation: Now chess pieces of higher Ranks initiate on priority, and Assassin pieces are always regarded as Rank 1. (previously full random initialization with Assassin pieces initiate after a 0.75 sec delay)
Added bullet chat announcements for obtaining higher-tier items and Dismiss information. Removed bullet chat and associated switch. Play chat is now only available in the Chat channel.
If player surrenders or suicide during battle phase, the elimination settlement will now be delayed to ensure the battle results of the round are correctly settled.
Synergies
New Species added: Pandaren. Species Trait: Hospitability.
(1) Pandaren: 10% chance to invite a random Pandaren chess piece or a random chess piece of the same species with a chess piece on the board from the chess piece pool to join the team at the beginning of the round.
(2) Pandaren: +15% chance to invite a random Pandaren chess piece or a random chess piece of the same species with a chess piece on the board from the chess piece pool to join the team at the beginning of the round.
Currently available Pandaren chess pieces: Storm Spirit ($2 Pandaren Mage), Ember Spirit ($2 Pandaren Assassin)
New Class added: Monk. Class Perk: Drunken Stagger.
(1) Monk: Non-pure damage taken by friendly Monks is split equally by all friendly Monks as pure damage.
Knight - Divine Protection: All ranks of Divine Protection are guaranteed to proc one shield at the start of the battle. (Shield is priced as the highest rank available)
(6) Assassins' Coup de Grace: All friendly allies have 15% chance to critical hit for 400% damage. (Previously 500% critical hit for all friendly assassins.)
(9) Elves' Evasion: Illusions now have the same health as the chess pieces instead of full health upon creation. Multiple illusions no longer spawn from the same chess piece at the same time.
(2)(3) Priests' Barrier: Now upgrades Royal Shield Jelly to Tango and Delicious Apple instead of offering multiple items.
(6) Human's Spark of Mind: Increased number of Tome of Knowledge granted from 3 to 4.
(4) Aqir's Infest: Decreased the chance of spawning +1 Level Aqir pieces. The rest is unchanged.
(2)(4) Elementals' Elemental Essence: Decreased melee stone chance from 30% to 25%.
(2)(4) Nagas' Scale Armor: Increased bonus magic resistance from 35%/45% to 40%/50%.
(6) Warlocks' Soul Leech: The greater the vitality leeched, the greenier the chess pieces will be.
Chess Pieces
Dazzle is now $2 down form $3. His basic stats are adjusted accordingly.
Removed inherited base mana regeneration for some chess pieces. Now all Rank 3 chess pieces have +10 base mana regeneration.
Increased Drow Ranger's Marksmanship bonus damage and attack speed from 20/30/40 to 20/30/50.
Increased Mars' Bulwark front damage reduction from 30%/45%/65% to 30%/45%/75%. Side damage reduction is increased accordingly.
Decreased Tiny's base health from 600 to 500.
Increased Batrider's Firefly damage from 30/40/60 to 30/45/75 per sec.
Increased Oracles' Fates' Edict magic resistance reduction from 20%/30%/50% to 25%/35%/55%, decreased cooldown from 16/13/10 to 12/10/8 sec.
Increased Lycan's Shapeshift number of wolves summoned from 2/2/2 to 2/2/3.
Increased Troll Warlord's Fervor bonus attack speed from 10/15/25 to 10/15/30 per stack.
Decreased Grimstroke's Stroke of Fate bonus damage per target hit from 25/50/125 to 20/40/120.
Increased Jakiro's Macropyre and Ice Path cooldown from 8/6/4 to 9/7/5 sec.
Decreased Disruptor's Static Storm AoE from 350/450/550 to 300/400/500.
Increased Tidehunter's base damage from 50 to 70.
Zeus's Thundergod's Fury Courier damage can no longer be reduced or blocked by any effects such as Royal Jelly Shield and Delicious Apple.
[Least Wins Prize] Enemies within Broodmother's Web can no longer dodge or evade attacks.
Items
Hyperstone can now be combined from: Broadsword + Broadsword
Changed the attributes of Mjollnir to: +30 Damage, +40 Attack Speed, +20% chance to pierce through evasion.20% chance on attack to release a bolt of electricity that leaps between 5 targets, dealing 150 magical damage to each.
Delicious Apple: When blocking a fatal damage, your Courier now endures at 1 health instead of taking 0 damage.
Tango: Increased random health restoration from 1-5 to 1-7.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where offering may be lost when your Courier inventory is full.
Fixed (9) Eleves' Evasion illusion bugs. Now only one illusion for each piece can be spawned at the same time. Items can no longer be given to illusions.
Fixed a bug which Warlocks' Soul Leech can work on illusions or wraiths.
Fixed a bug which items may be dropped from chess pieces summoned by Chen's Holy Persuasion upon death.
Fixed a bug which Batrider in Firefly being Tossed by Tiny may stuck mid air.
Fixed audio effect bugs on Io's Tether.
Fixed a bug in Duo mode where Posting chess pieces with multiple Heart of the Machines ended up in only one remained.
Fixed a bug which chess pieces in recruitment panels are not shuffled back into the pool when players are eliminated.
Fixed a bug which Mjollnir and Maelstrom failed to proc due to target distance being too far.
Fixed a bug that multiple Radiances do not stack attack damage.
Rebalance Patch
XP System
Lv.8->Lv.9 56 XP instead of 64 required
Lv.9->Lv.10 64 XP instead of 80 required
Dismiss Cost decreased from 2x to 1.5x
Award for kill decrease from 1x win round to 0.5x
All Druid★★★'s MP recharge from 10 to 5
Knight-Divine Protection: Shield at battle start only for knights instead of all allies
Neutrals' HP and attack damage at Round 10 decreased
Neutrals' HP at Round 15 decreased
Neutrals' HP at Round 15 increased
April 27
End-of-Season Rewards
The EoS rewards for S6 Xuanwu(01/03 to 30/04) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S6 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + Crown (valid for S7) + Red Black Tortoise.
♔King: 320 Candies + Blue Black Tortoise.
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Green Black Tortoise.
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + Grey Black Tortoise.
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
As usual, the last of the season (30/04) will be the off season break to award the excellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S7 Mayfly starts from 01/05!
Shadow Fiend won in April vote and will be back during S7 Mayfly.
Optimization for chess pickup
”Disarm": Get back all items on a chess for only once and reset to active after each loot round after round 10.
"Swap": Swap one chess piece with another by placing the picked chess on another.(Both onboard or both offboard required.)
"Call": "Recall Chess Piece" can be used to call a chess to a same column grid on board if you targets on an offboard piece.
"IO combination": Combine IO with a certain chess piece if you targets IO on it or IO will combine with the highest cost one.
Synergies Update
Beast: Power of the Wild
(6) Beasts: All allies deal 20 extra damage(stackable) by each hit on the same enemy, including summoned units.(Instead of: All allies have +40% attack damage, including summoned units.)
Warlock: Soul Leech
(6) Warlocks: A closest ally can drain max HP and current MP of a dead enemy.(Instead of: All allies have +30%% lifesteal.)
Undead: Horror
(6) Undeads: All enemies suffer -4 armor, and allies will fight on board for extra 5s in undead form if killed by enemies affected by horror.(Instead of: All enemies suffer -8 armor.)
Hunter: Aimed Shot
(6) Hunters: Attack damage increased from 40 to 45, chance to pierce through evasion increased from 50% to 75%.
Chess Piece Update
Nyx Assassin becomes Aqir/Undead instead of Aqir only.
Visage's familiars will cast grave chill when MP reaches 100 instead of immediately, duration increased from 4/6/8 to 8/8/8.
AI for Disruptor, Enigma and Gyrocopter are slightly randomed instead of casting on areas with most enemies steadily.
Neutrals Update
Hellbears' HP decreased from 3000 to 2800
Wildwings's attack damage increased from 350 to 375
April 14
(6)Warrior: Armor +6 to +8
(6)Assassin: 450% to 500% critical damage
Blood Seeker's damage 200/300/400 to 150/200/300
Jakiro's macropyre duration 5s to 3s
Disruptor's storm damage 200/300/500 to 150/200/300
Techies' bomb delay 3s to 4s
Visage's baby dragon hp 500/750/1000 to 300/500/700, attack speed percent 50/100/200 to 20/40/80
Enchantress' attack speed reduction 5/10/20 to 5/15/25
Tiny's HP 650/1400/3000 to 600/1500/3750
Winter Wywern's MP recharge 0/0/0 to /0/0/5, CD 19/9/6 to 12/9/3
Shadow shaman's MP recharge 0/0/0 to 0/0/5, CD 10/9/8 to 10/8/4
Dark Willow's MP recharge 0/0/0 to 0/0/5
Witch Doctor's MP recharge 0/0/0 to 0/0/5, bounce time 4/6/9 to 5/7/10, CD 10 to 10/8/6
April 8-9
Chimera and the Dark side of Fairy Dragon
Even among those creatures from legends, Jakiro the Twin Head Dragon is a dangerous monster. Possessing the power of flame and ice, being both cunning and ferocious, Jakiro scorches the land and freezes his foes to his will, turning whoever dare to stand against him into ashes. The inherent monstrosity of the creature has renowned him over the land, where the folk legends at Drodo Island address him as Chimera.
Chess Piece and Gameplay Update
New Chess Piece: Jakiro ($5 Dragon Mage) with a random starting ability from the following two:
Ice Path: Jakiro creates a path of ice that stuns and damages enemies that touch it. Switches to Macropyre after cast.
Macropyre: Jakiro exhales a wide line of lasting flames, which deals damage per second to any enemy units caught in the fire. Switches to Ice Path after cast.
New Chess Piece: Dark Willow ($1 Elf Wizard) with the ability:
Cursed Crown: Dark Willow casts an ancient fae curse on a random enemy chess piece. After a delay, the target and nearby enemies are stunned.
Puck ($2 Elf Dragon Mage) and Lion ($2 Demon Wizard) have been temporarily removed from the chess piece pool for this season. They shall return later after rework.
Chess Piece Pool Optimization: Optimized Recruitment. Now you should not expect the situation where you spam the gold just for one particular chess piece from happening.
DAC Pass holders can now open a Pass holder privilege panel to view the added game feature from the Pass and participate seasonal chess piece vote.
Balance Update
Windranger is now $4 (from $3), increased base health from 550 to 600, base damage from 60 to 70, Power Shot damage from 350/500/900 to 400/600/1000.
Disruptor is now $5 (from $4), increased base health from 700 to 1000, base damage from 47 to 60, base mana regeneration from 0 to 5/10/15.
Increased Static Storm duration from 2.5/3.5/5.5 sec to 4/5/8 sec, maximum damage from 100/150/300 to 200/300/500, decreased cooldown from 15/12/9 sec to 10/8/6 sec. Optimized cast AI, Disruptor now tends to cast Static Storm towards grouped enemies.
Visage is now $3 (from $5), decreased base health from 950 to 550, base damage from 90 to 65, increased base attack cooldown from 1.3 to 1.4.
Decreased Summon Familiars cooldown from 60 to 30/25/15 sec, Familiar count from 2/2/3 to 1/1/2. Increased Familiar base attack cooldown from 1.3 to 1.4, decreased Familiar base damage from 100/165/275 to 60/100/180.
Added a battle ability for Io:
Tether: Tethers Io with the highest-level friendly chess piece. granting bonus movement speed to both. When Io restores health or mana, tethered ally gains an increased amount of the restoration.
Enigma: Decreased Midnight Pulse percentage damage from 6%/8%/12% to 5%/7%/11% per second, cooldown from 20 to 20/15/10 sec. Optimized cast AI, Enigma now tends to cast Midnight Pulse towards grouped enemies.
Snapfire: Decreased Lil' Shredder number of shots from 15/20/30 to 10/15/25. The damage per shot is unchanged.
Tidehunter: Increased base health from 950 to 1000, decreased Ravage cooldown from 30 to 25/20/10 sec.
Zeus: Increased base mana regeneration from 0 to 5/10/15.
Invoker: Decreased base mana regeneration from 10/15/25 to 5/10/15.
Gyrocopter: Optimized cast AI, and now tends to cast towards grouped enemies.
Keeper of the Light: Increased Illuminate damage from 250/400/800 to 250/400/1000. Optimized cast AI, and now tends to cast towards grouped enemies.
Grimstroke: Balanced Stroke of Fate base damage from 150/250/450 to 100/200/500, additional damage per target hit from 15/25/35 to 50/100/250. Decreased cast point from 0.8 to 0.5 sec.
Lycan: Shapeshift now grants base health to a percentage, and heal Lycan for the same amount. Bonus health percentage balanced from 20/30/50 to 15/30/60.
Slardar: Increased Slithereen Crush AoE from 260/300/340 to 300/400/500.
Treant Protector: Balanced Leech Seed damage/heal from 50/70/100 to 50/70/90.
Dazzle: Balanced Shallow Grave cooldown from 14/16/18 to 15 sec.
Pudge: Increased Meet Hook damage from 150/250/400 to 150/250/450, Dismember damage/heal from 50/100/200 to 50/100/300 per second.
Bloodseeker: Increased Blood Rite AoE from 250/300/400 to 300/400/500. Optimized cast AI, and now tends to cast towards grouped enemies.
Abaddon: Decreased base armor from 10 to 5.
Chaos Knight: Improved base attack cooldown from 1.5 to 1.4.
Ogre Magi: Optimized cast AI. Now tends to cast to allies with higher level or short ability cooldown. Multicast no longer targets Ogre Magi himself.
Congratulations to Tiny for winning this week's least wins prize! Now Toss follows a perfect parabolic trace and tends to toss the target to the fartherest enemy, or directly up into the air. Balanced stun duration from 2 to 1.5/2/2.5 sec, damage from 100/200/300 to 100/200/400.
Synergy Update
Added (4) Wizards Something from Nothing:
(4) Wizards: If you have only 1 active non-Wizard synergy, unlocks all its potential.
Hunter - Aimed Shot:
(3) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +20 base damage and +50% chance to pierce through evasion. (from +25 damage and +40% true strike)
(6) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +35 base damage and +50% chance to pierce through evasion. (from +35 damage and +60% true strike)
(9) Hunters: All allies have +20 base damage and 50% chance to knock back the target on attacks. (from +55 damage and +100% true strike)
Mage - Magic Vulnerability:
(3) Mages: All enemies suffer -33% magic resistance.
(6) Mages: All enemies suffer -33% magic resistance.
(9) Mages: All enemies are cursed with frost incantation, which freezes them upon receiving magical damage. The greater the damage received, the longer the enemies are frozen. (from -45% enemy magic resistance)
Elf - Evasion:
(3) Elves: All friendly elves have +20% evasion.
(6) Elves: All allies have +20% evasion.
(9) Elves: All allies have +20% evasion and chance to create a disguising illusion. (from +45% evasion)
Warrior - Fortified Armor:
(3) Warriors: All friendly warriors have +6 armor.
(6) Warriors: All friendly warriors have +6 armor.
(9) Warriors: All allies have +6 armor, and reflect pure damage equivalent to current armor when taking physical and magical damage. (from friendly Warriors only)
Assassin - Coup de Grace: Now even if Assassins can attack enemies at their starting position, they will do a Backstab Leap as well.
(3) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 300% damage.
(6) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 450% damage.
(9) Assassins: Grants all allies with Backstab Leap. Backstab Leap now resets upon slaining an enemy. (from 600% critical damage)
Item Update
Javelin, Maelstrom, Mjollnir: Added 20% chance to pierce through evasion.
Demon Edge, Daedalus, Divine Rapier: Added 40% chance to pierce through evasion.
BUG Fixes
Fixed the bug which Holy-Persuaded neutral creep may drop item upon death.
Holy-Persuaded chess pieces can no longer be given items.
Fixed filtering bugs in item list.
Fixed the bug that dropped items from eliminated players flying too slow.
March 28
Friendly chess pieces now have default entering animation of Teleporting. Neutral creeps now have the default entering animation of digging out.
Decreased (9) Warriors' Fortified Armor bonus armor from +10 to +6. Retaliate effect is unchanged.
Increased (6) Mages' Magic Vulnerability magic resistance reduction from 30% to 33%.
Royal Jelly Shield now looks more transparent to prevent overlapping with your Courier visual effect.
Optimized Windranger's casting AI, balanced first hit damage of Power Shot from 400/600/1200 to 350/500/1000.
Optimized Invoker's casting AI, balanced Chaos Meteor rolling damage from 150/200/300 to 120/160/240.
Invoker now tends to cast less random abilities against certain enemy lineups.
Balanced Mirana's Sacred Arror maximum damage from 500/750/1200 to 400/600/1000. Minimum damage and stun duration are unchanged.
Increased Ogre Magi's base health by 50.
Increased Nature's Phophet's base armor from 0 to 5.
Decreased Oracle's base armor from 5 to 0.
Decreased Lina's base armor from 5 to 0.
Removed Terrorblade's base magic resistance.
March 19
Royal Jelly Shield and Delicious Apple are auto-triggered when necessary now. You can place them in the bottom alt slots if you want to hold them.
The coins you receive from other players are collected in a bag now. Pick it up to get all coins inside.
March 18
All enemies in loot rounds now have synergies as follows:
Round 10: Golems' HP decreased by 250 and activated (2) Element
Round 15: Wolves' HP decreased, armor removed and activated (3) Assassin
Round 20: One hellbear has 25 armor, the other has 50 magic resistance and activated (2) Ogre
Round 25: Wildwings' HP increased by 500, and attack changed to magical damage
Round 30: Thunderhides' activated (2) Beast
Round 35: Black Dragon activated (1) Ancient (Dispel when damage taken)
Round 40: Trolls' attack changed to magical damage
Round 45:Year Beast activated (1) Ancient
Round 50:Roshan activated (1) Ancient (1) Demon and HP decreased by 10000, attack speed halved
Item changes
Battle Fury: Combined with Perseverance+Broad Sword+Mithril Hammer, cleave damage decreased from 30% to 25%
Summoning Stone: Grants your minions-Max HP+250 +25%, target's armor -3
March 17
Hand of God
Born in a faithless and wartorn era, Chen was once a prisoner of war because of the defeat of his Orcish clan in the battle. Appreciated for Chen's courage and bravery, the Inquisitor offered him two choices: to die or to embrace a belief?
And now, after joining the Hall of Priests, his power has reached an apex. Fallen into the fanaticism of changing others, Chen is now crazed into seeking those who remain faithless with his disciples, and giving them their final 'gift'; while his followers proudly addressing their master, Chen, as Hand of God.
Chess Pieces updates
New Chess Piece: Chen ($4 Orc Priest)! His ability is Holy Persuasion: Summons the chess piece of highest level that has died in the current battle, rescaling its rank equivalent to caster's, and granting the resurrected chess piece 100 mana. Allies, enemies and neutral creeps can all be persuaded. Chen will not cast Holy Persuasion if no chess piece has died so far.
Slardar is now $3 (up from $2), base health increased from 650 to 750, base damage increased from 85 to 95. Reworked ability to Slithereen Crush: Slams the ground, stunning and damaging nearby enemy land units. After the stun, the affected units are slowed.
Sniper is now $2 (down from $3), base damage decreased from 75 to 70. Balanced Assassination cooldown from 10 to 10/9/8 sec, and damage from 400/600/1000 to 300/500/900.
Abaddon is now $2 (down from $3), base health decreased from 850 to 750. Balanced Aphotic Shield exploding damage from 150/300/550 to 100/250/550.
Enchantress's Nature's Attendants now passively grants Untouchable: slows any enemy attacking Enchantress.
Balanced Mars' God's Rebuke bash damage from 150/300/450 to 200/250/350, decreased base armor from 5/7/9 to 5/5/5.
Lion's Mana Drain no longer reduces ability cooldowns of allies.
Puck now has a 30%/50%/80% base magic resistance, but removed Puck's base armor.
Beastmaster's Call of the Wild animal companions now deal different types of damage: Boar deals physical damage, Hawk deals magical damage, Battle Bear deals pure damage.
Increased Nature's Prophet Nature's Call treant health from 300/300/450 to 500/500/700.
Optimized Windranger AI. Now she tends to cast towards grouped enemies.
Luna has winned this week's least wins prize and is temporarily removed from the chess piece pool for rework.
Synergy updates
(9) Warriors' Fortified Armor now has Retaliate.
(3) Warriors: All friendly warriors have +6 armor.
(6) Warriors: All friendly warriors have +6 armor.
(9) Warriors: All friendly warriors have +10 armor, and reflect pure damage equivalent to current armor when attacked.
Priests' Barrier no longer grants bonus healing. Now Barrier has 3 ranks granting different offerings.
(1) Priest: When losing a home battle, grants a Royal Jelly Shield (Click to use: reduces Courier damage taken by 20% for the round).
(2) Priests: When losing a home battle and taking 6 Courier damage or more, grants a Tango.
(3) Priests: When losing a home battle and taking 16 Courier damage or more, grants a Delicious Apple (Click to use: your Courier is immune to fatal damage for the round).
Slightly decreased Assassins' Coup de Grace multiplier.
(3) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 300% damage.
(6) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 450% damage. (down from 500%)
(9) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 600% damage. (down from 700%)
Reworked Humans' Spark of Mind: now drops Tome of Knowledge instead of directly granting bonus Courier XP upon victory. Bonus Courier XP granted via Tome of Knowledge is unlimited to the maximum Courier Level.
(3) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge that can add 2 XP to your Courier when winning a home battle, with at least 1 friendly Human survived.
(6) Humans: Grants three Tomes of Knowledge that can add 2 XP to your Courier when winning a home battle, with at least 1 friendly Human survived.
Item updates
New item: Hand of Midas (Blades of Attack + Ring of Health): +10 Damage, +15 Health regeneration. When the equipped chess piece slains an enemy in a non-loot home battle, permanently increases the gold refunded when selling the piece by 1. Stacks up to the level of the piece.
New item: Force Staff (Staff of Wizardry + Ring of Regeneration): +20% Spell Damage, +10 Health regeneration. Active: Pushes a melee enemy attacking the bearer to the farthest square.
New item: Ogre Hood (Ogre Axe + Reaper + Cloak): +500 Health. +30% Health, +30% Magic resistance. The equipped piece counts as Ogre.
Satanic (now combined from Reaper + Morbid Mask): +10% Lifesteal, +15% Health, +500 Health. Active: Gains 200% Lifesteal for 8 seconds.
Poor Man's Shield: deceased damage block from 30 to 25.
Summoning Stone: +250 Health, 3 armor reduction (from 5) to the target. Units summoned by the bearer have +50% Health(from +250) and 3 armor reduction (from 5) to the target on attacks.
Lotus Orb: decreased cooldown from 15 to 5 sec.
Butterfly: Active: gainst 80% evasion and 50 attack speed for 4 seconds. (from 100% evasion for 5 seconds.)
Tango is now removed from Loot Round non-drop compensations. Only Mango will now be compensated for consecutive non-drops on neutral creeps.
Same as item drops, a portion of the remaining unspent gold from eliminated players will now randomly drop to other standing players as well.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug which cuases bonus items to disappear if your Courier item slots are full.
Fixed a bug which damage block sometimes blocks non-physical damage.
Fixed a bug which items from eliminated players are now dissassembled.
Fixed a bug which Invoker failed to invoke ability against certain Demon builds.
Fixed a bug which Invoker's Alacrity and Ogre Magi's Multicast never target themselves.
Fixed a bug which Dazzle's Shallow Grave did not increase the healing done.
Fixed a bug with incorrect magic immunity identification with Zues's Thunder God's Fury.
Fixed a bug which Grimstroke's rank 2 Stroke of Fate applying rank 3 Soulbind effects.
Fixed chessboard glitches and model bugs.
Fixed bugs with synergy display UI.
Optimized some UI style to match DOTA2 interface and cosmetics.
February 24
End-of-Season Rewards
The EoS rewards for S5 Lantern (01/01 to 29/02) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S5 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + Crown (valid for S6) + A random AUTO Words (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + A random AUTO Words (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + A random AUTO Words (Rare Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + A random AUTO Words (Common Courier).
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
As usual, the last of the season (29/02) will be the off season break to award the excellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S6 Lantern starts from 01/03!
February 19
Knights of the Silver Hand
In the legendary tales, the Guardian of the Order has lost his arm in the battle against the evil dragon. He sees this not as a failure but as a sacrifice made necessary for saving this world, and expects the world to remember it. In order to remark the honored Guardian, the Human Kingdom called forward the Knights of the Silver Hand to pass on the spirit of sacrifice and redemption across generations.
New Chess Piece added: Legion Commander ($3 Human Knight)
Redecorated Chessboards in 1*8 games.
DPS is now displayed as D in post-round stats, showing the total damage done by the piece in the round.
Synergy Updates
Reworked Humans’ Species Trait: Spark of Mind (was Censorship)
(3) Humans: Your Courier gains bonus +2 XP when winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human survived.
(6) Humans: Your Courier gains bonus +6 XP when winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human survived. The bonus XP is unlimited by the maximum Courier level.
Knights’ Divine Protection now instantly heals the Knights when activating the shield
(2) Knights: All friendly knights have 30% chance to proc a shield and 50 instant heal every 3 seconds. (was 35%)
(4) Knights: All friendly knights have 25% chance to proc a shield and 100 instant heal every 3 seconds.
(6) Knights: All allies have 15% chance to proc a shield and 200 instant heal every 3 seconds. (was 25%)
(2) Priests’ Barrier now increases all allied healing done by 25%.。
Balanced Mages’ Magic Vulnerability:
(3) Mages: All enemies suffer -33% magic resistance.
(6) Mages: All enemies suffer -30% magic resistance. (was 33%)
(9) Mages: All enemies suffer -45% magic resistance.
Balanced Orcs’ Battle Hardened:
(2) Orcs: All allies have +100 Health.
(4) Orcs: All allies have +300 Health. (was +250)
(6) Orcs: All allies have +7x(Courier health lost) Health.
Balanced Trolls’ Voodoo Frenzy:
(2) Trolls: All friendly trolls have +35 attack speed.
(4) Trolls: All allies have +30 attack speed.
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +10 attack speed for each successful attack. Maximum 20 stacks. (was Fervor)
Chess Pieces
Increased Axe’s Berserker’s Call bonus armor from 10/15/20 to 10/15/25. Decreased cooldown from 10 to 10/8/6.
Increased Shadow Shaman’s Hex duration from 4/6/8 to 4/6/10 seconds.
Increased Puck’s Illusory Orb damage from 150/200/275 to 150/200/300.
Increased Luna’s Moon Glaive bounces from 3/5/7 to 3/5/9.
Slarks’s Essence Shift now has 20 maximum stacks instead of 30.
Increased Beastmaster’s Rank 3 Call of the Wild bear health from 1800 to 2000.
Windranger’s Powershot now shackles the target to an enemy unit or tree in a line directly behind it, stunning it for 2/3/5 seconds.
Dazzle’s Shallow Grave now increases all healing received by the target by 50%.
Increased Pudge’s Meat Hook dismembering damage from 40/60/100 to 50/100/200 per second.
Increased Lycan’s Rank 3 wolves damage from 175 to 225, health from 700 to 900.
Balanced KoTL Illuminate damage from 150/225/375 to 125/200/400 per second charged.
Balanced Medusa’s Stone Gaze cooldown from 20 to 25/20/10 seconds.
Increased Disruptor’s Static Storm AoE from 350/450/600 to 350/450/650, damage from 100/150/250 to 100/150/300.
Increased Grimstroke’s Stroke of Fate initial damage from 150/250/350 to 150/250/450.
Increased Huskar’s Burning Spear burn damage from 20/25/35 to 20/30/50 per second to both Huskar and the target.
Items Updates
Rearranged items combination priorities. Now higher-tier item will be prioritized in combinations.
Decreased the backswing for all active item abilities from 1 to 0.5 seconds.
Decreased Butterfly passive evasion from +45 to +40%.
Satanic’s active lifesteal now lasts 8 seconds instead of 10 seconds.
Decreased Mask of Madness active self armor reduction from 10 to 8.
Increased Poor Man’s Shield passive damage block from 25 to 30.
Increased Moon Shard’s bonus attack speed from 70 to 90.
Increased Divine Rapier damage from 200 to 250.
Platemail is now a tier 3 item up from tier 2.
Bug Fixes
Player panel and post game panel no longer display the wrong ranks of the game.
Items no longer disappear when the Courier has no vacant item slot.
Kunkka will not be found by Golden Heart of the Machine anymore.
Seasonal Event panel now correctly displays your highest S555 ranking.
Congratulations to Visage for winning this week’s least wins prize!
Increased Visage’s Summon Familiars attack speed steal from 40/60/80 to 50/100/200.
Increased Visage’s base magic resistance from 10%/20%/30% to 20%/30%/40%
January 27
Sven’s God Strength adjusted:
Sven's attack damage increased by 60%/80%/120%.
All ally demons' attack damage increased by 30%/40%/60%* the amount of demons who have active demon buff (instead of fixed 100%/140%/200%)
Invoker’s Sun Strike: Strikes 1/2/4 times instead of only one time with a damage of 1000 instead of 1000/1400/2000
Invoker’s Forged Spirits damage/heal adjusted from 40/80/120 to 50/70/100
Shredder's armor decreased from 6/8/10 to 5/7/9
January 20
Clock Tower and Hit The Top
Activity duration: From 00:00 Jan-24, 2020 to 00:00 Jan-30, 2020 (GMT+8)
Clock Tower: During the duration, refresh interval of candy shop -75% (every 6 hours) and all price -20%
Hit The Top: During the duration, victory points +25% and daily max victory candy +50% (15 candies)
January 16
Invoker balance changes
Alacrity’s attack bonus increased from 40/60/100 to 50/80/120.
Deafening Blast's max radius increased from 225 to 275.
EMP's mana burn increased from 40/60/100 to 50/75/100. It also deals 100%/200%/300% damage of burned mana to victims.
Sun Strike's position is now randomly chosen, but it will proc the most on the highest level enemy. Damage increased from 800/1200/2000 to 1000/1400/2000.
Forged Spirits get 80% magical resistance, and attack speed adjusted from 1.7/1.4/1.1 to 1.3/1.2/1.1.
January 15
Aeons before he was recognized as the most dangerous magician alive, in days even he no longer remembers, the Invoker was the adolescent star pupil at an ancient wizard’s academy. Now, harnessing dangerous magics purloined from his headmaster’s secret archives, young Carl has discovered the means to journey forward and join the battle of the Ancients well before his time.
New Chess Piece added: Invoker ($5 Elf Mage)
Added seasonal decorations to chessboards, and a few items in Candy Store: Drake of the Lost Arts (Pet), Greevil Dancer (Pet), Firesnap Cookie (Projectile effect).
Due to limitations of DOTA2 native chat interface, we have reworked a brand new chat interface and battle announcer UI.
Optimized recruitment to minimize the situation that a particular piece never showed up in a game.
Congratulations to Broodmother for winning this week's least wins prize! Increased Broodmother's base attack damage from 80 to 95.
Balance changes
Added Backstab Leap for Assassins: The first movement of Assassin pieces in each round causes Assassins to leap over to the back of enemy lineup. The first blow after the leap guarantees a critical strike which damage is a random number from all possible strikes: 300% for (3) Assassins, 300%/500% for (6) Assassins and 300%/500%/700% for (9) Assassins.
Increased (4) Orcs' Battle Hardened ally bonus health from 200 to 250.
Increased Abaddon's base health from 800 to 850.
Decreased Venomancer's Plague Ward damage from 75/125/175 to 60/90/120.
Decreased Sven's maximum cleave range from 625 to 500. (now deals cleave damage to a sector area of 2 cells behind the target)
Decreased Enigma's Midnight Pulse duration from 8 to 7 sec.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug that some abilities such as Heat Seeking Misslie and Sacred Arrow can deal damage to a magic immune chess piece.
Fixed a bug which allows Lv.10 Courier to continue purchasing XP.
Fixed a bug which spiderlings attack slower than it shows on the stat panel. Broodmother’s spiderlings now have a common base attack cooldown of 1.2 for all ranks.
