Changelogs
Version History
Version
Description
- Reduced attack point from 0.5 to 0.4.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Berserker's Call cooldown reduction from 2 to 3.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Now also increases Counter Helix proc chance by 10%.
- Talents:
- Level 10 left talent changed: +1.75 mana regeneration ➜ +9 strength.
- Level 10 right talent changed: +25 attack speed ➜ +1.5 mana regeneration.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Counter Helix passive attack speed bonus from 25 to 35.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Counter Helix passive attack speed bonus from 20 to 25.
- Rescaled Battle Hunger cast range from 750 on each level to 700/775/850/925.
- Reworked Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Old: Turns Battle Hunger into a an area-targeting ability with a 400 radius and causes it to reduce affected enemies' outgoing damage by 30%.
- New: Reduces Berserker's Call cooldown by 2 seconds and causes it to apply Battle Hunger on affected enemies. Causes Battle Hunger to reduce the enemy's armor by 7 and grant 7 armor to Axe per affected enemy, values halved for creeps.
- Added Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Axe:
- Allows Counter Helix to also proc on attacks Axe performs, using the same proc chance, and ignoring its cooldown. Also makes it passively grant 20 attack speed.
- Talents:
- Level 10 left talent changed: +20 movement speed ➜ +1.75 mana regeneration.
- Level 15 left talent changed: Attacking procs Counter Helix [?] ➜ +300 health.
- Level 15 right talent changed: +2 mana regeneration ➜ +25 movement speed.
- Increased Culling Blade kill threshold from 250/325/400 to 250/350/450.
- Talents:
- Level 10 right talent changed: +8 strength ➜ +25 attack speed.
- Level 15 left talent changed: +35 attack speed ➜ Attacking procs Counter Helix [?].
- Level 20 left talent changed: Attacking procs Counter Helix [?] ➜ +20 health regen.
- Level 20 right talent changed: +20 health regen ➜ +150 Culling Blade kill threshold.
- Reduced strength gain from 3.6 to 3.4.
- Talents:
- Level 10 left talent changed: +30 attack speed ➜ + 20 movement speed.
- Level 10 right talent: +6 strength increased to +8.
- Level 15 left talent changed: +25 movement speed ➜ +35 attack speed.
- Level 15 right talent: +2.5 mana regen reduced to +2.
- Level 25 right talent: +80 Berserker's Call radius increased to +100.
- Talents:
- Level 10 left talent: +40 attack speed reduced to +30.
- Level 10 right talent: +8 strength reduced to +6.
- Level 15 left talent: +30 movement speed reduced to +25.
- Level 15 right talent: +3 mana regen reduced to +2.5.
- Level 20 right talent: +25 health regen reduced to +20.
- Level 25 left talent: +120 Battle Hunger damage per second reduced to +100.
- Level 25 right talent: +100 Berserker's Call radius reduced to +80.
- Counter Helix
- Reduced cooldown from 0.45/0.4/0.35/0.3 to 0.3 on each level.
- Reduced proc chance from 20% on each level to 17%/18%/19%/20%.
- Increased movement speed from 295 to 305.
- Increased base attack damage from 24-28 to 27-31.
- Increased base armor from -2 to -1.
- Battle Hunger now grants half the movement speed when cast on non-hero units, instead of always granting the full value.
- Reworked Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Old: Causes Culling Blade to apply Battle Hunger on enemies within a 700 radius upon successfully culling an enemy, and causes Battle Hunger to reduce affected enemies' outgoing damage by 30%.
- New: Turns Battle Hunger into a an area-targeting ability with a 400 radius and causes it to reduce affected enemies' outgoing damage by 30%.
- Increased movement speed from 290 to 295.
- Reduced Counter Helix damage from 75/110/145/180 to 60/100/140/180.
- Talents:
- Level 15 right talent: +4 mana regen reduced to +3.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 4.25 to 2.75.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Reduced Berserker's Call armor bonus from 40 to 30.
- Talents:
- Level 15 left talent: +40 movement speed reduced to +30.
- Level 15 right talent: +3 mana regen increased to +4.
- Level 20 right talent: +20 health regen increased to +25.
- Increased movement speed from 285 to 290.
- Rescaled Battle Hunger mana cost from 75 on each level to 50/60/70/80.
- Reduced base armor from -1 to -2.
- Reduced movement speed from 290 to 285.
- Increased Battle Hunger duration from 10 to 12.
- Talents:
- Level 15 left talent: +30 movement speed increased to +40.
- Increased base health regeneration from 2.75 to 4.25.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Reworked talents:
- Old:
- Level 10: +3 mana regen or +6 strength
- Level 15: +250 health or +75 attack damage
- Level 20: +35 movement speed or +25 health regen
- Level 25: +100 Battle Hunger damage per second or +15 armor
- New:
- Level 10: +40 attack speed or +8 strength
- Level 15: +30 movement speed or +3 mana regen
- Level 20: attacking procs Counter Helix [?] or +20 health regen
- Level 25: +120 Battle Hunger damage per second or +100 Berserker's Call radius
- Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.8.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 3 to 2.75.
- Reworked Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Old: Reduces Culling Blade cooldown to 6 seconds, increases kill threshold to 300/425/550 health and kill speed duration to 10 seconds.
- New: Causes Culling Blade to apply Battle Hunger on enemies within a 700 radius upon successfully culling an enemy, and causes Battle Hunger to reduce affected enemies' outgoing damage by 30%.
- Talents:
- Level 20 left talent: +30 movement speed increased to +35.
- Added talents:
- Level 10: +3 mana regen or +6 strength
- Level 15: +250 health or +75 attack damage
- Level 20: +30 movement speed or +25 health regen
- Level 25: +100 Battle Hunger damage per second or +15 armor
- Reduced Counter Helix damage from 90/120/150/180 to 75/110/145/180.
- Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
- Counter Helix
- Berserker's Call
- No longer ignores ancient creeps, Roshan and creep-heroes.
- Increased cast point from 0.3 to 0.4.
- Counter Helix
- Damage is no longer reduced by Damage Block.
- Now triggers when attacks land rather than when they start.
- Reduced Culling Blade movement speed/attack speed bonus from 40%/40 to 30%/30.
- Berserker's Call
- No longer affects invulnerable units.
- When Axe dies, Berserker's Call now stops affecting debuffed enemies. [?]
- Reduced Culling Blade kill threshold from 250/350/450 to 250/325/400.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade kill threshold from 300/450/625 to 300/425/550.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced duration from 10/12/14/16 to 10.
- Increased damage from 15/20/25/30 to 16/24/32/40.
- Reduced cast range from 900 to 750.
- Increased movement speed bonus and slow from 10% to 12%.
- Reduced mana cost from 75/85/95/105 to 75.
- Increased Counter Helix proc chance from 17% to 20%.
- Culling Blade is now blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Counter Helix now uses Pseudo Random chance.
- Increased base health regeneration from 2 to 3.
- Berserker's Call
- Increased duration from 1.5/2/2.5/3 to 2/2.4/2.8/3.2.
- Increased cooldown from 10 to 16/14/12/10.
- Increased Berserker's Call radius from 275 to 300.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced duration from 10/13/16/19 to 10/12/14/16.
- Reduced damage from 15/21/27/33 to 15/20/25/30.
- Increased Movement speed slow/bonus from 8% to 10%.
- Is now dispellable.
- Counter Helix
- Reduced cooldown from 0.55/0.5/0.45/0.4 to 0.45/0.4/0.35/0.3.
- Now hits siege creeps.
- Culling Blade
- No longer goes on cooldown if it successfully kills a hero.
- Reduced mana cost from 120/160/200 to 60/120/180.
- Reduced kill threshold from 300/450/625 to 250/350/450
- Increased kill speed bonus from 25% to 40%
- Increased kill speed bonus radius from 600 to 900.
- The 40% speed bonus now applies to attack speed as well.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Culling Blade
- Now also increases the kill speed bonus duration to 10.
- Now also increases the kill threshold to 300/450/625.
- Culling Blade
- Reduced Counter Helix cooldown from 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5 to 0.55/0.5/0.45/0.4.
- Increased Berserker's Call armor bonus from 30 to 40.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced slow from 10% to 8%.
- Increased movement speed bonus from 4% to 8% per affected enemy.
- Increased Counter Helix damage from 100/130/160/190 to 100/135/170/205.
- Increased base intelligence from 14 to 18.
- Increased base health regeneration from 1.25 to 2.
- Battle Hunger now grants Axe a 4% bonus movement speed bonus per affected enemy.
- Reduced Berserker's Call cooldown from 14 to 10.
- Counter Helix
- Increased damage from 100/125/150/175 to 100/130/160/190.
- Reduced cooldown from 0.7/0.65/0.6/0.55 to 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5.
- Culling Blade now applies a 25% movement speed bonus for 6 seconds to all allied units within 600 radius centered around Axe if Culling Blade successfully kills an enemy below the kill threshold.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade cooldown from 10 to 6.
- Increased base health regeneration from 1 to 1.25.
- Increased collision size from 12 to 24.
- Reduced collision size from 24 to 12.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 1.
- Increased attack range from 125 to 128.
- Increased Battle Hunger damage from 15/17/25/33 to 15/21/27/33.
- Reduced Battle Hunger cooldown from 25/20/15/10 to 20/15/10/5.
- Increased Berserker's Call armor bonus from 5/10/15/20 to 30 on each level.
- Increased Battle Hunger slow increased from 8% to 10%.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade cooldown from 15 to 10.
- Battle Hunger now slows the target by 8% until it runs out or kills another unit.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade cooldown from 20 to 15.
- Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Axe:
- Reduces Culling Blade cooldown to 20.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced duration from 10/15/20/25 to 10/13/16/19.
- Increased damage from 15/15/20/25 to 15/17/25/33.
- Overall, same damage over a shorter duration.
- Reduced base armor from 0 to -1.
- Battle Hunger is now properly blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Rescaled Counter Helix cooldown from 0.6 to 0.7/0.65/0.60/0.55.
- Fixed being able to drop items while affected by Berserker's Call.
- Fixed Berserker's Call not affecting sleeping units.
- Increased Counter Helix proc chance from 15% to 17%.
- Fixed Battle Hunger failing to detect when the affected unit killed a units with certain spells.
- Fixed Battle Hunger malfunctioning when the target is affected by Gush.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced cooldown from 25 to 25/20/15/10.
- Reduced mana cost from 105/115/125/135 to 75/85/95/105.
- Increased Berserker's Call radius from 275 to 300.
- Increased base armor from -1 to 0.
- Fixed Berserker's Call being able to get units out of Chronosphere.
- Fixed Culling Blade interaction with Dispersion.
- Berserker's Call no longer affects ancient creeps and Roshan. [?]
- Fixed a bug with Berserker's Call and Shackles.
- Berserker's Call
- Increased radius from 100/150/200/250 275 on each level.
- Increased duration from 3.5 on each level to 1.5/2/2.5/3.
- Counter Helix
- Fixed some memory leak issues on Battle Hunger.
- Culling Blade
- Reduced damage from 200/300/400 to 150/250/300.
- Increased kill threshold from 290/400/550 to 300/450/625.
- Reduced Berserker's Call radius from 250/300/350/400 to 100/150/200/250.
- Counter Helix
- Increased cooldown from 0.25 to 0.6.
- No longer damages wards.
- Fixed some memory leak issues on Berserker's Call.
- Counter Helix
- Fixed an issue where its chances to proc got worse if many units attacked Axe.
- Fixed Axe permanently spinning until Axe is ordered to move. [?]
- Fixed some memory leak issues.
- Culling Blade
- Fixed interaction with Blade Mail.
- Fixed some memory leak issues.
- Counter Helix no longer has a chance to trigger on attacks from wards.
- Changed primary attribute from agility to strength.
- Increased Battle Hunger cast range from 650 to 900.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced cooldown from 30 to 25.
- Increased mana cost from 75/90/105/120 to 105/115/125/135.
- Increased damage from 10/15/20/25 to 15/15/20/25.
- Reduced duration from 20/25/30/35 to 10/15/20/25.
- Counter Helix
- No longer whirls the triggering unit around Axe when it was in range.
- Increased damage from 150 to 175.
- Culling Blade
- Increased damage from 100/200/300 to 200/300/400.
- Increased kill threshold from 175/290/400 to 290/400/550.
- Increased mana cost from 95/135/175 to 120/160/200.
- Reduced cooldown from 75 to 75/65/55.
- Created.
Patch History
Patch
Description
- Updated default hero model and animations.
- Fixed typo in Berserker's Call description (per affected targeted ➜ per affected target).
- Fixed Battle Hunger buff losing 2 stacks per creep upon the debuff expiring on them, instead of 1.
- Fixed Axe Unleashed rivalry responses to not play more than once.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Added a 1 second sound blocker to Battle Hunger cast sound, that prevents it from playing more than once within a 300 radius.
- Added a particle effect for Counter Helix in Ability Draft.
- Reduced the hero model scale of in the loadout and the versus screen.
- Added a morph animation set and associated compiled texture for the default model.
- Added more bones for the default model, including knee and bicep bones for the purposes of animation and attaching effects.
- Increased movement speed from 285 to 290.
- Reduced movement speed from 290 to 285.
- The first wave of side lane creeps are now immune to Berserker's Call until the waves meet.
- The textures of Axe have been updated so the metal parts look more metallic and less plastic. [?]
- Improved the normal maps on the default hero model overall.
- Fixed Culling Blade with Blood Chaser.
- Fixed a perma-speed bonus bug caused by refreshing Battle Hunger.
- Fixed Counter Helix being able to trigger when attacks land while Axe is dead.
- Fixed a perma-taunt bug caused by refreshing Berserker's Call.
- Added Arcane Rune responses.
- UAdded a ▶️ shout sound to Berserker's Call which plays during the cast animation.
- Updated icon art.
- Fixed Berserker's Call bonus armor being dispellable.
- UAdded additional animations when using Force Staff.
- UAdded new responses.
- UAdded a new teleport end animation.
- Fixed Culling Blade ending after death effects like Diabolic Edict and Epicenter.
- Added idle injured animations.
- UAdded injured and chase animations.
- Fixed Battle Hunger self buff sticking on Axe permanently if the spell was dodged by Phase Shift.
- Fixed Counter Helix doing the damage when the attack impacted rather than started.
- Fixed Berserker's Call to properly force affected invisible enemies to attack.
- Fixed Berserker's Call ability interactions with Repel/Purge.
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- Fixed Lua error: Error in "where" parameter: the string "#" cannot be used within #cargo_query..
- Added bloody footprints to Culling Blade effect.
- Battle Hunger is no longer purgeable.
- Siege units do not trigger and do not take damage from Counter Helix.
- Culling Blade is no longer blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Fixed Culling Blade to work on spell immune units.
- Fixing Counter Helix to hit mechanical and use proficiency correctly.
- Berserker's Call
- Now works on ethereal units.
- Changed how force attack targets work - so the force attack target persists even if the called unit cannot currently attack Axe.
- Fixed Counter Helix proccing off of things it cannot hurt.
- Counter Helix will now hit spell immune targets.
- Temporarily disabled Axe.
- Temporarily disabled Axe.
- Berserker's Call now works properly with neutral creeps.
- Fixed Berserker's Call working on towers.
- Fixed Counter Helix triggering off of tower attacks.