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DotA 6.73 Changelog

Merry Christmas!
IceFrog's gift for the 2011 Holiday Season is the release of DotA 6.73.


6.73 introduces 4 new DotA heroes and new DotA items.

New DotA Heroes for 6.73:
1. Dragonus, Skywrath Mage - Intelligence Hero
2. Xin, Ember Spirit -Agility Hero
3. Rizzrak, Goblin Shredder - Strength Hero
4. Tresdin, Legion Commander - Strength Hero

New DotA Items for 6.73:
1. Rod of Atos
2. Heaven's Halberd
3. Ring of Aquila
4. Abyssal Blade
5. Tranquil Boots

DotA 6.73 Hero Changes
Alchemist
- Chemical Rage Base Attack Time reduced from 1.45/1.35/1.2 to 1.45/1.3/1.15
- Goblin's Greed bonus gold limit increased from 18 to 26

Anti-Mage
- Reverted the 6.72 Base Attack Time improvement, BAT from 1.35 to 1.45
- Armor reduced by 1

Axe
- Aghanim's Culling Blade cooldown from 10 to 6
- Base Int from 14 to 18
- Base HP regeneration from 1.25 to 2
- Battle Hunger gives Axe a 4% bonus movement speed per target it affects
- Berserker's Call cooldown from 14 to 10
- Counter Helix damage increased from 100/125/150/175 to 100/130/160/190
- Counter Helix proc cooldown decreased from 0.7/0.65/0.6/0.55 to 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5
- If Culling Blade kills a unit, Axe unleashes a war cry, giving nearby allied units (600 AoE) a temporary movement bonus (25% for 6 seconds).

Bane Elemental
- Movement speed increased from 305 to 315
- Base Str/Agi/Int increased from 18/18/18 to 22/22/22

Blood Seeker
- Thirst no longer partially reveals invisible heroes below 40% health
- Thirst now fully reveals invisible heroes below 20% health
- Rupture duration improved from 5/7/9 to 7/8/9
- Rupture cooldown now scales from 70 to 70/60/50

Bone Fletcher
- Searing Arrows no longer has a cooldown at level 1
- Strafe Attack Speed bonus increased from 90 to 110
- Wind Walk movement bonus increased from 10/20/30/40 to 11/22/33/44%

Bounty Hunter
- Track gold bonus for Bounty Hunter increased from 75/150/225 to 150/200/250

Bristleback
- Cast point decreased from 0.5 to 0.4
- Attack point reduced
- Turn Rate Increased (makes him turn faster)

Centaur Warchief
- Double Edge cooldown decreased from 10 to 8

Dark Seer
- Ion Shell duration increased from 15 to 20
- Ion Shell AoE from increased 225 to 250
- Ion Shell cooldown increased from 7 to 10
- Ion Shell damage increased from 30/45/60/75 to 30/50/70/90
- Wall of Replica illusions are now semi-transparent to enemy players

Dirge
- Flesh Golem cooldown decreased from 90 to 75
- Decay cooldown decreased from 11/9/7/5 to 10/8/6/4

Doom Bringer
- Scorched Earth duration increased from 8/10/12/14 to 10/12/14/16

Dragon Knight
- While in Dragon form Dragon Tail's cast range increased from 150 to 400

Drow Ranger
- Base Agility increased by 4

Enchantress
- Enchantress movement speed from 305 to 310

Eredar
- Model changed to the Archimonde model

Furion
- Wrath of Nature cooldown rescaled from 90/60/60 to 90/75/60

Gyrocopter
- Armor increased by 2

Jakiro
- Ice Path cooldown decreased from 16/15/14/13 to 12/11/10/9
- Macropyre duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds

Juggernaut
- Omnislash random damage improved from 150-250 to 175-250
- Omnislash hit count increased from 3/5/8 (5/7/10 aghanim) to 3/6/9 (6/9/12 aghanim)

Keeper of the Light
- Blinding Light cooldown decreased from 20 to 20/16/12
- Recall cooldown decreased from 40 to 15 seconds

Kunkka
- Strength growth increased from 2.7 to 3.0
- Ghost Ship's CoCo's Rum duration increased from 5/6/7 to 8
- Tidebringer cleave AoE improved from 380/420/460/500 to 500
- Torrent slow increased from 30 to 35%
- X Marks The Spot cooldown decreased from 30 to 20 seconds

Krobelus
- Witchcraft movement speed increased from 3/6/9/12% to 4/8/12/16%

Lanaya
- Refraction instances increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6

Leoric
- Reincarnation slow duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds
- Reincarnation cooldown decreased from 300/220/140 to 260/160/60

Leshrac
- Movement speed increased from 310 to 315
- Pulse Nova AoE increased from 400 to 450

Lina Inverse
- Base intelligence increased by 3
- Dragon Slave travel distance increased by 100
- Dragon Slave final AoE increased from 125 to 150

Lion
- Mana Drain level 4 increased from 100 to 120 per second
- Mana Drain now drains at 0.25 second intervals instead of 1 second (596884)

Lord of Avernus
- Aphotic Shield will explode at the end of its duration if it has not taken sufficient damage
- Aphotic Shield cooldown decreased from 18/15/12/9 to 14/12/10/8
- Aphotic Shield cast range increased from 450 to 500

Luna
- Base damage increased by 5

Magnataur
- Skewer cooldown decreased from 35 to 30
- Empower duration increased from 30 to 40 seconds

Medusa
- Toggle cooldown on mana shield removed
- Stone Gaze rebalanced

- No longer changes the scale of the purge per level (was negligible), now recovers at a medium rate always
- Instead of checking to stone units over the first 0.6 seconds, it checks over the full 5 seconds.
- Units affected by the Stone Gaze cannot get reaffected during the application period
- Illusion & Summoned unit damage from 600/800/1000 to 500/1000/1500
- Manacost from 100/50/0 to 200/100/0
- Cooldown from 100 to 140/110/80


Meepo
- Poof damage rescaled from 50/80/110/140 to 80/100/120/140

Mirana
- Fixed Elune's Arrow damaging but not stunning invisible units

Morphling
- Base agility increased by 5
- Adaptive strike cooldown decreased from 20 to 10

Naga Siren
- Ensnare cast range increased from 620/630/640/650 to 650
- Song of the Siren AoE increased from 750 to 1250
- Song of the Siren's End ability is now available 0.5 seconds after casting (484587)

Necrolyte
- Death Pulse AoE increased from 375/425/450/475 to 475
- Heartstopper damage increased from 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0% to 0.5/0.7/0.9/1.1%
- Sadist level 4 now restores 600 mana if you kill a hero

Nerubian Assassin
- Vendetta cooldown decreased from 90/75/60 to 70/60/50
- Mana Burn cooldown decreased from 35/25/15/5 to 28/20/12/4

Obsidian Destroyer
- Sanity's Eclipse now hits units imprisoned by Astral Imprisonment

Pandaren Brewmaster
- Drunken Haze cooldown decreased from 12 to 8
- Tinted Panda Brewmaster's Primal Split model colors

Phantom Assassin
- Stifling Dagger damage increased from 40/80/120/160 to 50/100/150/200

Phantom Lancer
- Doppelwalk movement bonus increased from 10 to 15%
- Juxtapose illusions cap increased from 2/3/4/5 to 2/4/6/8

Phoenix
- Fire Spirits heal amount decreased to 50% of damage
- Fire Spirits now targets a location rather than a unit
- Fire Spirits cooldown decreased from 35 to 30
- Fire Spirits projectile speed increased
- Icarus Dive cooldown decreased from 30 to 25
- Sun Ray hp activation cost decreased from 25% to 20%
- Sun Ray manacost rescaled from 35 to 10/20/30/40

Pit Lord
- Expulsion corpse explosion rate decreased from every 1.25 seconds to 1.5 seconds
- Expulsion manacost increased from 125 to 125/135/145/155

Pudge
- Flesh Heap now has a overhead notification when strength is gained

Pugna
- Life Drain damage increased from 95/140/185 to 100/150/200 (and Scepter from 150/200/250 to 175/225/275)
- Life Drain duration increased from 9 to 10 seconds

Queen of Pain
- Base damage increased by 4
- Scream of Pain AoE increased from 400/425/450/475 to 475

Razor
- Static Link duration, after it finishes draining, increased from 13 to 18
- Static Link cooldown rescaled from 35/30/25/20 to 25

Rooftrellen
- Overgrowth damage per second decreased from 70/100/130 to 50/75/100
- Leech Seed manacost increased from 110/120/130/140 to 140

Rubick
- Fade Bolt manacost increased from 90/95/100/105 to 150
- Fade Bolt cd rescaled from 10 to 16/14/12/10
- Telekinesis manacost decreased from 160 to 120

Sand King
- Epicenter's slow is no longer blocked by magic immunity
- Caustic Finale buff duration increased from 2 to 8 seconds

Shadow Fiend
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 305
- Agility growth increased from 2.4 to 2.9
- Necromancy soul cap increased from 8/15/23/30 to 8/16/24/32

Silencer
- Glaives of Wisdom damage increased from 30/40/50/60% to 30/45/60/75%
- Last Word now functions while Silencer is stunned/silenced
- Last Word no longer triggers when enemies use items

Slark
- Pounce damage increased from 40/80/120/160 to 70/140/210/280
- Pounce cooldown rescaled from 12 to 20/16/12/8
- Pounce cast range increased from 400/500/600/700 to 700
- Shadow Dance regen increased from 2/3/4% to 3/4/5%
- Shadow Dance passive bonuses activation delay decreased from 0.7 to 0.5

Sniper
- Shrapnel AoE increased from 325 to 350

Spectre
- Dispersion damage no longer disables items like Blink Dagger

Spirit Breaker
- Charge of Darkness cooldown decreased from 40 to 35
- Charge of Darkness AoE knockback increased from 250 to 300
- Netherstrike damage increased from 100/200/300 to 150/250/350

Stealth Assassin
- Backstab damage bonus increased from 0.25/0.5/0.75/1.0 to 0.5/0.75/1.0/1.25 of agility

Storm Spirit
- Overload bonus damage increased from 30/45/60/75 to 30/50/70/90

Sven
- Great Cleave increased from 20/30/40/50% to 30/40/50/60%
- God's Strength is no longer purgeable
- God's Strength damage buff increased from 100/125/150% to 100/140/180%
- Warcry duration increased from 6 to 8 seconds
- Warcry cast time removed
Ability Code: A2IS


Tinker
- Laser's miss duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds

Tiny
- Tiny now automatically and permanently equips a tree when he has Aghanim's Scepter
Gives 235 range, 50% cleave and 1.75x damage towards buildings


Troll Warlord
- Fervor increments now increase while attacking towers

Tuskarr
- Snowball cooldown decreased from 40 to 28

Ursa Warrior
- Armor increased by 1
- Enrage damage increased from 4/5/6% to 5/6/7% of current HP
- Earthshock AoE increased from 365 to 385
- Earthshock cooldown decreased from 7 to 6
- Fury Swipes damage increased from 10/15/20/25 to 15/20/25/30

Visage
- Added Aghanim Scepter for Visage (creates 1 extra familiar)
- Soul Assumption manacost rescaled from 200/180/160/140 to 170/160/150/140

Warlock
- Infernal's Flaming Fists trigger chance increased from 40% to 60%
- Infernal's Flaming Fists damage increased from 75/115/150 to 100/150/200

Zeus
- Arc Lightning level 4 damage increased from 130 to 145 damage
- Lightning Bolt cooldown decreased from 6.5 to 6
- Static Field now affects creeps
- Static Field no longer requires unit visibility to take effect

DotA 6.73 Item Changes

Boots of Travel
- Recipe cost decreased from 2200 to 2000
- Movement speed increased from 95 to 100

Bloodstone
- Bloodstone initial charges increased from 5 to 6
- Bloodstone respawn time reduction increased from 3 to 4 seconds per charge

Butterfly
- Evasion increased from 30 to 35%

Divine Rapier
- Damage increased from 250 to 300

Ethereal Blade
- Ether blast cast range increased from 700 to 800

Eul's Scepter of Divinity
- Movement speed bonus increased from 25 to 30

Linken's Sphere
- Added +10 damage to account for component bonuses
- No longer triggered by Medallion of Courage
- No longer triggered by Urn of Shadows

Magic Wand
- No longer loses charges when upgrading from Magic Stick

Mask of Madness
- Berserk's movement speed bonus increased from 20% to 25%

Mjollnir
- Chain lightning bounce count increased from 4 to 8

Necronomicon
- Archer's Mana burn cast range increased from 250 to 600
- Archer's attack damage increased from 31/61/91 to 40/80/120
- Warrior's attack damage increased from 21/41/61 to 25/50/75

Orb of Venom
- Cost decreased from 450 to 350

Orchid Malevolence
- Recipe Reworked: now requires 2 Oblivion Staffs and a 775 gold recipe. See stats below
Old Orchid:
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Total Cost: 5025
+20 Intelligence
+30 Attack Speed
+45 Damage
+225% mana regen
Soul Burn


New Orchid:
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Total Cost: 4125
+25 Intelligence
+30 Attack Speed
+30 Damage
+150% mana regen
Soul Burn


Smoke of Deceit
- Dispel AoE for nearby heroes increased from 950 to 1025

Refresher Orb
- Added +6 Intelligence to account for component bonuses

Stygian Desolator
- Desolator recipe cost decreased from 1200 to 900

Vanguard
- HP Bonus decreased from 275 to 250

Veil of Discord
- Recipe now requires only one Robe of the Magi, completed bonuses are the same

DotA 6.73 Gameplay and Cosmetic Changes:
- Significant changes to couriers
- Couriers now give 150 to each enemy player, instead of 300 to the killer.
- Couriers no longer drop items when they die
- Couriers respawn 3 minutes after death, the items they have are inaccesible during that time
- Flying courier no longer has invulnerability shield
- Basic courier is magic immune (like flying courier, most spells did not work on couriers already)

- Buyback cooldown increased from 4 minutes to 5
- Heroes now respawn with full mana
- Gold over time from 0.875 intervals to 0.8
- Runes will no longer spawn the same rune type 2 times in a row
- Added Treant Protector, Terrorblade and Tuskarr to Captain's Mode

- Added a new loading screen
- Added various christmas themed effects
- New CM Skin
- Pudge Santa Model
- Christmas World Tree
- Candy Cane for Tangoes
- Santa Hats for anyone with a kill streak
Your hero gets it when you have 3 or more kills. You lose the hat when your streak ends.
You can type -nosanta to remove the hat.

- Santa Hats for couriers
- Santa Hat for Roshan
- Present model for item treasure chests

- Added an icon change when Ring of Basilius is in hero only state
- Moved Manta Style to Protectorate shop (to make room)
- Moved the Flying Courier item to the consumable shop

- Hero pool in -CD increased from 24 to 28
- Satyr Soulstealer manapool from 400 to 600
- Harpy Storm manapool from 360 to 540
- Satyr Hellcaller mana pool increased from 300 to 600
- Forest Healing Troll now has a Mana Aura (+2 MP/sec)
- Forest Healing Troll's heal cooldown from 0.75 to 0.5 seconds

- -Bounty is now a part of -st (537656)
- Removed stock cooldown on TP Scrolls, Dust and Sentry Wards
- Added a new courier (Pack Horse)
- Updated Shadow Shaman's Mass Serpent Ward animation (298692)
- Ghost Ship now has a small chance to use an alternate model
- Compressed Ancient Apparition model size
- Optimized map space usage
- Added Romanian language support

DotA 6.73 Bugs Fixed:
* Added a 0.2 second buffer time between Chainfrost bounces (to prevent instant explosions for nearby units after the most recent code change)
* Fixed Dreamcoil damaging but not stunning invis heroes if they leave the range while still under the effect
* Fixed Tiny's damage not being displayed when he upgrades with Aghanim
* Fixed some rare bugs with some effects being invisible depending on where your camera was
* Fixed the pathing type on Enraged Wildkin's Tornado
* Fixed Bloodlust Multicast to affect necronomicon units
* Fixed Glaives Throwers having different attack point than Meat Wagons
* Fixed issue with Open Wounds when used on neutrals
* Fixed some inconsistincies on the attack animation time between ghouls and treants
* Fixed Focus Fire interaction with Linken Sphere
* Fixed Laser interaction with Linken Sphere
* Fixed Open Wounds not working properly sometimes when the target is in fog of war
* Fixed Refraction damage status icon lingering a little after its gone

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