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7.35d

• Increased Inner Beast Bonus Attack Speed from 10/20/30/40 to 10/22/34/46

7.35

• Increased agility gain from 1.4 to 1.6.
• Increased base attack damage from 3‒5 to 5‒7.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +35 Boar attack damage ➜ +30 Boar attack damage and Dive Bomb damage.

7.34d

• Reduced base armor from 0 to -1.
• Hawk
  • Reduced Dive Bomb root duration from 1 on each level to 0.25/0.5/0.75/1.

7.34c

• Call of the Wild Hawk
  • Increased mana cost from 30 to 50.
  • Hawk
    • Reduced health from 250/375/500/675 to 200/325/450/625.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Drums of Slom
    • The ability's damage and heal values no longer factor in illusion incoming damage manipulation.
    • Now fully treat illusions as heroes.

7.34

• Call of the Wild Hawk
  • Reduced cooldown from 60/50/40/30 to 45/40/35/30.
  • Changed
    ability targeting type from Target Area to No Target.
  • No longer sends a Hawk out to the targeted area.
  • Now summons a Hawk orbiting around, and die only upon Beastmaster's death.
  • Hawk automatically casts Dive Bomb on enemy units in 4-second intervals within 500 range, prioritizing heroes. [?]
    • The passive cast interval is based on the Hawk's current base attack time and can be reduced with attack speed sources.
  • Hawk
    • U
      Reduced base attack time from 6 to 4.
    • U
      Now has 100 attack speed.
    • Increased health from 150/200/250/300 to 250/375/500/675.
    • Increased magic resistance from 0% on each level to 30%/40%/50%/60%.
    • Reduced experience bounty from 77_XP on each level to 40/50/60/70_XP.
    • Removed
      Invisibility.
    • Dive Bomb
      • This is now a basic ability.
      • Reduced damage from 250 to 60/90/120/150.
      • Reduced root duration from 2 to 1.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Call of the Wild Hawk
    • Removed
      Autocast functionality. [?]
    • Now also increases number of hawks by 1.

7.33d

• Reduced Wild Axes damage per axe from 40/70/100/130 to 35/65/95/125.
• Hawk
  • Reduced vision range from 600/700/800/900 to 600/650/700/750.

7.33c

• Reduced base attack damage from 12‒16 to 3‒5.
• Hawk
  • Reduced vision range from 750/800/850/900 to 600/700/800/900.

7.33b

• Increased base strength from 23 to 25.
• Reduced Call of the Wild Boar mana cost from 60/65/70/75 to 60 on each level.

7.33

• Beastmaster no longer has Strength as a primary attribute and is now a Universal hero.
• Reduced agility gain from 1.9 to 1.4.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 1.9 to 1.2.
• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Reduced base attack damage from 31‒35 to 12‒16.
• Reduced Wild Axes mana cost from 65 to 50.
• Primal Roar
  • Reduced stun duration from 3/3.5/4 to 2.75/3.25/3.75.
  • Reduced mana cost from 150/175/200 to 100/125/150.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reworked
    Drums of Slom. [?]
    • Changed
      ability type from active to passive. [?]
    • Now passively pulses from attacks of Beastmaster or his player-controlled unit within 600 radius.
    • Every attack reduces the interval between pulses from a max 3-second duration to a min 0.4-second duration after 20 attacks. Has a 1-second stack decay time.
    • Primal Roar cast grants 10/15/20 stacks based on its current level.
    • Reduced damage per interval from 115 to 90.
    • No longer has a max instance of 14.
    • Now has a max stack of 20.

7.32e

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Drums of Slom damage per interval from 110 to 115.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +25 Move Speed Aura reduced to +20.

7.32b

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Drums of Slom cooldown from 50 to 40.
  • Removed
    Drums of Slom Cancel sub-ability.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +10 Inner Beast attack speed ➜ +2.5% Wild Axes damage amplification per stack.

  LVL 15

   

  +2.5% Wild Axes damage amplification per stack ➜ +10 Inner Beast attack speed.

7.32

• Reduced Wild Axes cast point from 0.4 to 0.3.
• Boar
  • Reduced Poison movement speed slow from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 10%/18%/26%/34%.
• Reduced Inner Beast attack speed bonus from 15/25/35/45 to 10/20/30/40.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old
    Wild Axes
    • Reduces cooldown to 0.
    • Can only be cast again once the axes from the previous cast have fully returned.
  • New
    Grants Beastmaster the Drums of Slom ability and Drums of Slom Cancel sub-ability.

Drums of Slom

Beastmaster starts hitting his drums with ever-increasing speed. Each strike deals damage to enemies within radius, healing him and units under his control for 25% of damage dealt to heroes and 5% of damage dealt to creeps. Drum hits deal no damage and don't heal if Beastmaster is stunned or silenced.

Radius: 600

Damage per interval: 110

Hero damage dealt as heal: 25%

Non-hero damage dealt as heal: 5%

Duration: 6

Cooldown: 50

Mana cost: 100

Notes: The Drums of Slom Cancel sub-ability can be used to prematurely cancel the ability.

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Call of the Wild Hawk
    • Added
      Autocast functionality, doing so will make all Hawks instantly and automatically cast Dive Bomb on the first viable target in range, regardless of whether the unit is still flying or stationary.
    • Increased cooldown reduction from 7 to 10.
  • Hawk
    • Dive Bomb
      • Changed
        from applying a stun to applying a root.
      • U
        Reduced duration from 2.5 to 2.
      • Reduced cast range from 1200 to 900.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +1.75 mana regeneration ➜ +10 Inner Beast attack speed.

  LVL 25

   

  +30 Inner Beast attack speed ➜ -5s Wild Axes cooldown.

7.31

• Reduced base attack damage from 33‒37 to 31‒35.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +30 movement speed ➜ +25 Move Speed Aura. [?]

7.30d

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown reduction from 15 to 7.

7.30c

• Reduced base attack damage from 35‒39 to 33‒37.
• Rescaled Primal Roar cooldown from 90/80/70 to 100/80/60.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed ➜ +1.75 mana regeneration.

  LVL 15

   

  +250 Health Aura ➜ +2.5% Wild Axes damage amplification per stack.

  LVL 15

   

  +3 mana regeneration ➜ +30 movement speed.

  LVL 20

   

  -30s Primal Roar cooldown ➜ +250 Health Aura. [?]

  LVL 25

   

  +4% Wild Axes damage amplification per stack ➜ -30s Primal Roar cooldown.

7.30b

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +350 Health Aura increased to +250. [?]

7.30

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Boar
  • Increased attack damage from 16/32/48/64 to 20/35/50/65.
• Hawk
  • Increased vision range from 600/700/800/900 to 750/800/850/900.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Added
    unit-targeting functionality to Call of the Wild Hawk, causing the summoned Hawk to move towards the target's direction and cast Dive Bomb on them if they come within range while moving.

7.29c

• Changed
  Wild Axes tree destruction radius from a fixed 175 to destroying trees the projectile collides with.
• Increased Inner Beast attack speed bonus from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • No longer increases Wild Axes damage per axe by 30.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +300 Health Aura increased to +350. [?]

  LVL 20

   

  -35s Primal Roar cooldown reduced to -30s.

  LVL 20

   

  +30 Boar attack damage increased to +35.

7.29b

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Wild Axes damage per axe bonus from 40 to 30.

7.29

• Increased armor from -1 to 0.
• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
• Reduced Wild Axes mana cost from 80 to 65.
• Increased Primal Roar movement speed buff duration from 3 on each level to 3/3.5/4.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Now also increases Wild Axes damage per axe by 40.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Call of the Wild Hawk
    • Now also reduces cooldown by 15.
    • No longer allows the Hawk to be freely controlled.
  • Dive Bomb
    • Can now be cast on Couriers [?]
    • Increased cast range from 500 to 1200.
    • Increased damage from 175 to 250.
    • Increased stun duration from 1 to 2.
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25 attack damage increased to +30.

  LVL 15

   

  +6 armor ➜ +300 Health Aura. [?]

  LVL 20

   

  +50 Wild Axes damage ➜ -35s Primal Roar cooldown.

  LVL 25

   

  +350 Health Aura ➜ +4% Wild Axes damage amplification per stack.

  LVL 25

   

  +20 Inner Beast attack speed increased to +30.

7.28c

• Reduced base attack speed from 110 to 100.
• Boar
  • Reduced movement speed from 350 on each level to 320/330/340/350.

7.28b

• Reduced base attack damage from 37‒41 to 35‒39.

7.28

• Increased Wild Axes damage from 30/60/90/120 to 40/70/100/130.
• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Beastmaster:
  • Turns Hawk into a controllable unit and grants it the Dive Bomb ability.

Dive Bomb

After the cast time, dives onto the target enemy dealing damage and stunning them. This kills the hawk.

Cast time: 1

Cast range: 500

Damage: 175

Stun duration: 1

Notes: The hawk gets revealed during the cast time. Dives for up to 0.4 seconds. Cannot be disjointed. Does not pierce spell immunity.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +200 Hawk daytime/ nighttime vision range ➜ +6 armor.

  LVL 15

   

  +6 armor ➜ +3 mana regeneration.

  LVL 20

   

  +450 health ➜ +50 Wild Axes damage.

  LVL 25

   

  +100 Wild Axes damage ➜ +350 Health Aura. [?]

7.27b

• Reduced Wild Axes mana cost from 80/85/90/95 to 80 on each level.
• Increased Call of the Wild Boar mana cost from 50 on each level to 60/65/70/75.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  -14s Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown ➜ +200 Hawk daytime/ nighttime vision range.

  LVL 20

   

  +400 health increased to +450.

  LVL 25

   

  +80 Wild Axes damage increased to +100.

7.26c

• Reduced base attack damage from 41‒45 to 37‒41.
• Talents:

Level 15 left talent changed: +24 Boar attack damage ➜ -14s Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown.

Level 20 right talent changed: +60 Wild Axes damage ➜ +30 Boar attack damage.

Level 25 left talent changed: -16s Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown ➜ +80 Wild Axes damage.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25 movement speed reduced to +20.

  LVL 10

   

  +30 attack damage reduced to +25.

  LVL 15

   

  +30 Boar attack damage reduced to +24.

  LVL 15

   

  +7 armor reduced to +6.

  LVL 20

   

  +500 health reduced to +400.

  LVL 20

   

  +75 Wild Axes damage reduced to +60.

  LVL 25

   

  -20s Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown reduced to -16s.

  LVL 25

   

  +25 Inner Beast attack speed reduced to +20.

7.25c

• Hawks no longer blocks neutral creep camps.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +35 Boar attack damage reduced to +30.

7.25

• Increased base attack speed from 100 to 110.
• Wild Axes
  • No longer pierces spell immunity.
  • Changed
    damage type from Physical to Magical.
  • Increased debuff duration from 10 to 12.

7.23e

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20% experience gain ➜ +30 attack damage.

7.23c

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25% experience gain reduced to +20%.

7.23

• Wild Axes now pierces spell immunity.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed increased to +25.

  LVL 15

   

  +6 armor increased to +7.

7.22f

• Units knocked back by Primal Roar now destroy trees.

7.22e

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +40 Boar attack damage reduced to +35.

7.22

• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old
    Primal Roar
    • Increases cast range to 950.
    • Reduces cooldown to 45.
  • New
    Wild Axes
    • Reduces cooldown to 0.
    • Can only be cast again once the axes from the previous cast have fully returned.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +65 Wild Axes damage ➜ +40 Boar attack damage.

  LVL 20

   

  +50 Boar attack damage ➜ +75 Wild Axes damage.

7.21

• Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.9.
• Reduced Inner Beast attack speed bonus from 15/25/35/45 to 10/20/30/40.
• Hawk
  • Reduced health from 300/450/600/750 to 150/200/250/300.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +40 Boar attack damage ➜ +65 Wild Axes damage.

  LVL 20

   

  +80 Wild Axes damage ➜ +50 Boar attack damage.

  LVL 25

   

  -15s Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown increased to -20s.

  LVL 25

   

  +30 Inner Beast attack speed reduced to +25.

7.20e

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +40 Inner Beast attack speed reduced to +30.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Wild Axes no longer pierces spell immunity.
• Split
  Call of the Wild up into Call of the Wild Boar and Call of the Wild Hawk for summoning each unit independently.
  • No longer summons a random neutral creep from a pool.

New

Call of the Wild Boar

Calls forth a Boar to aid in the battlefield.

Number of boars: 1

Boar duration: 60

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 42/38/34/30

New

Call of the Wild Hawk

Sends an invisible Hawk to scout an area.

Cast range: Global

Number of hawks: 1

Hawk duration: 60

Mana cost: 30

Cooldown: 60/50/40/30

Notes: The hawk can't be controlled and flies towards the targeted point, where it stays stationary until expiring or until killed. The hawk is permanently invisible.

• Boar
  • Increased health from 275/350/425/500 to 300/450/600/750.
  • Increased attack damage from 16/24/32/40 to 16/32/48/64.
  • Changed
    attack type from Piercing to Hero.
• Hawk
  • Increased health from 350 on each level to 300/450/600/750.
  • Reduced movement speed from 430 on each level to 300/340/380/420.
  • Reduced daytime vision from 1000 on each level to 600/700/800/900.
  • Reduced nighttime vision from 1000 on each level to 600/700/800/900.
  • Increased gold bounty from 30 on each level to 30/40/50/60 .
• Increased Inner Beast radius from 900 to 1200.
• Primal Roar
  • The knockback no longer pierces spell immunity on secondary targets. [?]
  • Increased allied movement speed bonus from 30% to 40%.
  • Increased secondary target knockback distance from 300 to 450.
  • Increased secondary target knockback duration from 0.6 to 1.
  • Increased secondary target movement speed slow from 50% to 60%.
  • Increased secondary target attack speed slow from 50 to 60.
  • Increased secondary target slow duration from 2/3/4 to 3/3.5/4.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +2 Hawks Summoned ➜ -15s Call of the Wild Hawk cooldown.

7.18

• Increased Wild Axes mana cost from 80 on each level to 80/85/90/95.
• Increased Primal Roar cooldown from 80/75/70 to 90/80/70.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25 movement speed reduced to +20.

  LVL 15

   

  +7 armor reduced to +6.

  LVL 20

   

  +100 Wild Axes damage reduced to +80.

7.17

• Reduced base armor from 1 to -1.

7.16

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +30 movement speed reduced to +25.

7.13b

• Reduced base armor from 2 to 1.
• Reduced base movement speed from 310 to 305.

7.07c

• Reduced Wild Axes damage from 40/70/100/130 to 30/60/90/120.
• Hawk
  • Reduced movement speed from 450 to 430.

7.07b

• Increased Wild Axes mana cost from 60/65/70/75 to 80 on each level.
• Boar
  • Reduced attack damage from 20/30/40/50 to 16/24/32/40.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +120 Wild Axes damage reduced to +100.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Increased turn rate from 0.4 to 0.5.
• Wild Axes
  • Now places a stacking debuff on hit units, which amplifies damage dealt by Beastmaster and his units by 6%/8%/10%/12% for 10 seconds.
  • Increased axes max spread distance from 353 to 450.
  • Increased axe hit radius from 140 to 175.
  • Reduced damage per axe from 70/100/130/160 to 40/70/100/130.
  • Reduced mana cost from 105/110/115/120 to 60/65/70/75.
  • Reduced cooldown from 13 to 8.
• Merged
  Call of the Wild: Hawk and Call of the Wild: Boar into a new Call of the Wild ability.
  • Hawk
    • No longer has Invisibility.
    • Increased health from 40/60/80/100 to 350.
    • Increased movement speed from 250/275/300/325 to 450.
    • Rescaled daytime vision from 500/750/1000/1250 to 1000 on each level.
    • Increased nighttime vision from 500/650/800/950 to 1000 on each level.
    • U
      Reduced gold bounty from 30/40/50/60 to 30 .

New

Call of the Wild

Number of boars: 1 [?]

Number of hawks: 0/0/1/1 [?]

Number of random neutral creeps: 0/0/0/1

Summons duration: 60

Mana cost: 50/60/70/80

Cooldown: 60

Notes: Summons a neutral creep from the following pool on Level 4: Alpha Wolf, Centaur Conqueror, Dark Troll Summoner, Hellbear Smasher and Satyr Tormenter. [?]

• U
  Changed
  Inner Beast Legacy Keys from F to B.
• Primal Roar now grants 30% movenent speed to allies within 900 radius of the caster for 3 seconds upon cast.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed increased to +25.

  LVL 10

   

  +20 experience gain increased to +25%.

  LVL 15

   

  +1 Boar Summoned ➜ +40 Boar attack damage.

  LVL 15

   

  +12 strength ➜ +7 armor.

  LVL 20

   

  +400 health increased to +500.

  LVL 20

   

  12% cooldown reduction ➜ +120 Wild Axes damage.

  LVL 25

   

  +250 Wild Axes damage ➜ +2 Hawks Summoned.

  LVL 25

   

  +120 attack damage ➜ +40 Inner Beast attack speed.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2.2 to 2.5.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
• Wild Axes
  • Increased cast range from 1300 to 1500.
  • Reduced mana cost from 120 on each level to 105/110/115/120.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  -35s respawn time ➜ +1 Boar Summoned.

7.03

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +350 health increased to +400.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +15% experience gain increased to +20%.

  LVL 15

   

  -30s respawn time increased to -35s.

  LVL 20

   

  +300 health increased to +350.

  LVL 25

   

  +175 Wild Axes damage increased to +250.

7.00

• Reduced Wild Axes vision radius from 500 to 350.
• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +20 movement speed

    

  +15% experience gain

  -30s respawn time

    

  +12 strength

  +300 health

    

  12% cooldown reduction

  +175 Wild Axes damage

    

  +120 attack damage

6.88b

• Boar
  • Increased experience bounty from 59_XP on each level to 60/70/80/90_XP.

6.88

• Reduced Primal Roar damage from 200/250/300 to 150/225/300.

6.87d

• Increased Call of the Wild: Boar mana cost from 15 to 25.
  • Boar
    • Reduced attack damage from 15/30/45/60 to 10/25/40/55.
• Increased Call of the Wild: Hawk mana cost from 15 to 25.

6.87c

• Boar
  • Poison no longer pierces spell immunity.

6.87

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
• Hawk
  • Reduced daytime vision from 700/1000/1300/1600 to 500/750/1000/1250.
  • Reduced nighttime from 700/800/900/1000 to 500/650/800/950.
  • Reduced unit level from 6 to 1.
• Boar
  • Reduced unit level from 5 to 1.

6.86

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Wild Axes
  • Removed
    unit-targeting functionality. [?]
• Rescaled Call of the Wild: Hawk cooldown from 40 on each level to 42/38/34/30.
• Hawk
  • Changed
    armor type from Weak to Soft.
• Rescaled Call of the Wild: Boar cooldown from 40 on each level to 42/38/34/30.
• Boar
  • Changed
    armor type from Basic to Strong.

6.84b

• Hawk
  • Reduced movement speed from 250/300/350/400 to 250/275/300/325.

6.84

• Increased base attack damage from 37‒41 to 41‒45.
• Reduced Wild Axes cast point from 0.5 to 0.4.
• Boar
  • Hero kills by Boars now provide Experience_XP credit to the hero.
  • Reduced attack point from 0.633 to 0.5.
• Primal Roar no longer ignores ancient creeps, Roshan and creep-heroes.

6.83

• Call of the Wild: Boar is now castable on ability Level 1 as well, instead of only being available starting at Level 2.
• Hawk
  • Rescaled health from 50/50/100/100 to 40/60/80/100.
  • Rescaled movement speed from 270/270/400/400 to 250/300/350/400.
  • Increased daytime vision from 500/500/1600/1600 to 700/1000/1300/1600.
  • Rescaled nighttime vision from 500/500/1200/1200 to 700/800/900/1000.
  • Rescaled gold bounty from 30/30/65/65 to 30/40/50/60 .
  • U
    Increased health regeneration from 0.5/0.5/1.5/1.5 to 1.5 on each level.
  • U
    Increased experience bounty from 20/20/77/77_XP to 77_XP on each level.
  • U
    Increased armor from 0/0/5/5 to 5 on each level.
  • U
    The hawks are now always named Hawk, instead of Scout Hawk or Greater Hawk.
• Boar
  • Rescaled health from 0/400/400/500 to 200/300/400/500.
  • Increased base attack damage from 0‒0/23‒29/23‒29/43‒49 to 15‒15/30‒30/45‒45/60‒60.
  • Rescaled base attack time from 0/1.5/1.5/1 to 1.25 on each level.
  • Increased Poison slow from 0%/20%/20%/35% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
  • U
    The boars are now always named Boar, instead of Lesser Boar or Greater Boar.

6.82

• Wild Axes
  • Changed
    damage type from Composite to Physical.
  • Reduced damage from 90/120/150/180 to 70/100/130/160.
• Primal Roar
  • Increased side knockback radius from 250 to 300.
  • Increased secondary target damage from 100/200/300 to 200/250/300. [?]
  • Increased knockback distance from 240 to 300.
  • Increased knockback duration from 0.4 to 0.6.

6.81

• Increased base attack damage from 33‒37 to 37‒41.

6.80

• Call of the Wild: Hawk
  • No longer kills the Hawk from a previous cast when casting it again.
  • Reduced duration from 60/70/80/80 to 60 on each level.
• Call of the Wild: Boar
  • No longer kills the Boar from a previous cast when casting it again.
  • Reduced duration from -/70/80/90 to 60 on each level. [?]

6.79

• Inner Beast
  • Reduced radius from 1000 to 900.
  • Rescaled attack speed bonus from 18/26/32/40 to 15/25/35/45.
• Split
  Call of the Wild into Call of the Wild: Hawk and. Call of the Wild: Boar.
  • Beastmaster now has two abilities for summoning Hawk and Boar independently.
  • Reduced cast time from 0.5 to 0.3.
  • Reduced mana cost from 25 to 15.

6.78

• Hawk
  • Reduced Invisibility fade time from 5 to 4.

6.72d

• Changed
  Beastmaster hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO. [?]
  • Increased collision size from 18 to 27.
  • Increased bound radius from 12 to 24.

6.72c

• Changed
  Beastmaster hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL.
  • Reduced collision size from 27 to 18.
  • Reduced bound radius from 24 to 12.

6.72

• Increased attack range from 100 to 128.
• Wild Axes
  • Now have a minimum projectile speed of 1200. [?]
  • Reduced max travel time from 3 to 2. [?]
• Hawk
  • Reduced Invisibility fade time from 8 to 5.
• Fixed ability interactions between Primal Roar and Spell Block.
• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Beastmaster:
  • Primal Roar
    • Increases cast range to 950.
    • Reduces cooldown to 45.

6.70

• Added
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Beastmaster has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.69

• Hawk
  • Reduced health from 100/100/200/200 to 50/50/100/100.
  • Reworked
    Invisibility.

Old

Invisibility

Your hawk becomes invisible for a short time. Has a short fade time.

Fade time: 1

Duration: 6

Mana cost: 0

Cooldown: 30

Notes: Active. The invisibility cannot be broken by anything.

New

Invisibility

If motionless for some time, the Hawk becomes invisible.

Fade time: 8

Duration: Permanent

Notes: Passive. The invisibility is lost instantly upon moving, but cannot be broken otherwise.

6.67

• Fixed Wild Axes being unable to cut down the trees from Sprout.
• Hawk
  • Increased gold bounty from 30/30/40/40 to 30/30/65/65 .

6.66

• Wild Axes now properly hit invisible units.

6.65

• Updated Inner Beast ability icon.

6.63

• Hawk
  • Increased Invisibility duration from 4 to 6.

6.60

• Replaced
  Beast Rage with Inner Beast.

Old

Beast Rage

When Beastmaster engages an opponent, his animalistic nature grants him even greater proficiency in single combat. With every continuous blow on the same target, Beastmaster gains an understanding of his prey's defenses, and guiding each strike with greater ease than the last. Maximum of 100 increased attack speed. If Beastmaster changes targets, his rage counter drops to half of where it was.

Attack speed bonus per attack: 5/10/15/20

Max attack speed bonus: 100

Target Change bonus loss: 50%

New

Inner Beast

Untaps the inner fury of nearby allies, passively increasing their attack speed.

Radius: 1000

Attack speed bonus: 18/26/32/40

Notes: Aura. The buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

6.55

• Reduced Call of the Wild cooldown from 45/50/55/60 to 40 on each level.
• Hawk
  • Increased health from 25 on each level to 100/100/200/200.
  • Increased gold bounty from 30/30/100/100 to 30/30/40/40 .
  • Increased movement speed from 280 on each level to 280/280/400/400.
  • Replaced
    Permanent Invisibility with Invisibility.

Old

Permanent Invisibility

The Greater Hawk becomes invisible after a short while.

Fade time: 4

Notes: Passive. The invisibility cannot be broken by anything.

New

Invisibility

Your hawk becomes invisible for a short time. Has a short fade time.

Fade time: 1

Duration: 4

Mana cost: 0

Cooldown: 30

Notes: Active. The invisibility cannot be broken by anything.

• Boar
  • Reduced health from 400/400/700/700 to 400/400/500/500.

6.52

• Hawk
  • Reduced movement speed from 280/280/320/320 to 280 on each level.
• Primal Roar
  • Increased cooldown from 70/65/60 to 80/75/70.
  • Fixed a bug when the target blinked away upon cast.

6.50

• Fixed some bugs on Wild Axes.
• Increased Primal Roar cooldown from 60 on each level to 70/65/60.

6.49

• Increased Call of the Wild cooldown from 45 on each level to 45/50/55/60.

6.46

• Hawk
  • Reduced movement speed from 280/280/350/350 to 280/280/320/320.
• Primal Roar no longer shoves allied units aside.

6.40

• Hawk
  • Reduced movement speed from 350 on each level to 280/280/350/350.
  • Reduced daytime vision from 1600 on each level to 500/500/1600/1600.
  • Reduced nighttime vision from 1200 on each level to 500/500/1200/1200.
  • Reduced health from 300/300/875/875 to 25 on each level.
  • Increased gold bounty from 0 on each level to 30/30/100/100 .

6.38

• Increased base armor from 0 to 2.

6.37

• Reduced Call of the Wild mana cost from 50 to 25.
• Reduced Primal Roar cooldown from 120/100/80 to 60 on each level.

6.35

• Increased armor from -1 to 0.
• Reduced Wild Axes fixed travel time from 4 to 3.

6.34

• Increased Primal Roar stun duration from 2/3/4 to 3/3.5/4.

6.33b

• Beast Rage now loses 50% of its stack count when changing attack targets, instead of losing them all.

6.33

• Fixed Wild Axes ability casting issues.
• Beast Rage
  • Changed
    required hits from 3/2/1/0 to granting a stack on each attack.
  • Increased attack speed bonus per stack from 10% on each level to 5%/10%/15%/20%.
• Fixed Call of the Wild summons' collision size and pathing issues.
  • Boar
  • Hawk
• Primal Roar
  • Reduced cooldown from 180 on each level to 120/100/80.
  • Reduced mana cost from 175/250/325 to 150/175/200.

6.31

• Fixed Wild Axes's damage type so that it stops triggering the following abilities: [?]
  • Ice Armor
  • Ogre Frostmage's Ice Armor
• Hawk
  • Replaced
    True Sight with Permanent Invisibility.

Old

True Sight

Reveals nearby invisible units.

Radius: 900

Notes: Aura. Passively provides True Sight around the hawk at all times.

New

Permanent Invisibility

The Greater Hawk becomes invisible after a short while.

Fade time: 4

Notes: Passive. The invisibility cannot be broken by anything.

6.30b

• Primal Roar no longer damages and slows allied units. [?]

6.30

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

09 Oct 2023

• Fixed Proximity Mines not applying the debuff on units with flying movement (e.g. Hawk).

05 Sep 2023

• Updated Drums of Slom backend ability strings.

30 Aug 2023

• Reduced versus scale from 0.7 to 0.77.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Beastmaster has the following values: Bearded 1, Horns 1, Red 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

08 Aug 2023

• U
  Changed
  the Call of the Wild Boar and Call of the Wild Hawk ability operations:
  • The units no longer have separate levels in npc_units.txt.
  • The units' stat upgrades are now tied to their respective summoning abilities itself rather than having separate unit stats per level.

21 Jun 2023

• Updated Call of the Wild Hawk ability backend strings.

20 Jun 2023

• Updated Call of the Wild Hawk ability backend strings.

06 Feb 2023

• Updated the following ability tooltips:
  • Wild Axes ability tooltips.
  • Poison

06 Dec 2022

• Call of the Wild Boar
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Updated ability notes.
  • Updated talent tooltips.

22 Nov 2022

• Updated the following abilities' tooltip:
  • Call of the Wild Boar
  • Call of the Wild Hawk
• Updated the following talent tooltips:
  • Max Health Aura
  • Movespeed Aura
  • Boar attack damage increasing tooltips.

15 Nov 2022

• Updated Wild Axes ability backend strings.

11 Nov 2022

• Updated Drums of Slom ability backend strings.

10 Nov 2022

• Updated Primal Roar ability backend strings.

05 Oct 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Dive Bomb being able to target Couriers.

01 Sep 2022

• Fixed Drums of Slom being dispellable.

24 Aug 2022

• Updated Drums of Slom ability icon.

08 Jun 2022

• Updated various talent backend strings.

25 Mar 2022

• Removed an unreleased Aghanim's Scepter ability strings.

24 Mar 2022

• Updated default hero model.

16 Feb 2022

• Updated default hero portrait.

25 Sep 2021

• Updated Dive Bomb ability tooltips.

11 Sep 2021

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Call of the Wild Hawk health value in the tooltip. [?]

24 Jun 2021

• Added a cast and impact sound to Dive Bomb.

08 Jan 2021

• Added Dive Bomb animations to all the custom Hawk models.

17 Dec 2020

• Updated default hero model.
• Updated Hawk animations.

14 Jul 2020

• Added min_throw_time and max_throw_time variables to Wild Axes.
• Updated default hero model.

23 Nov 2018

• Fixed Boar having 100 movement speed too much on level 2.

28 Nov 2017

• Increased Boar LOD0 from 3500 to 4000.

01 Nov 2017

• UPDATE 3
  • Wild Axes
    • Updated description to indicate that it amplifies subsequent damage from Beastmaster and his units.
    • Added a new tooltip modifier and description for Wild Axe stacks.
  • Updated Primal Roar description to indicate that Beastmaster gains 30% movement speed for 3 seconds.

17 Oct 2017

• Fixed Primal Roar description.

24 Jan 2017

• Fixed a bug with saved selection groups for Beastmaster's summoned units.

21 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default item build.

24 Jun 2016

• U
  Wild Axes particle effects will now be drawn even when hidden.

24 Mar 2016

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

17 Dec 2014

• UPDATE 3
  • Fixed Call of the Wild: Boar and Call of the Wild: Hawk not allowing you to select either ability icon to skill.

29 Apr 2014

• Wild Axes
  • Fixed ability not being able to target units.
  • Fixed ability would stop prematurely when Beastmaster died.
• Inner Beast now properly applies to invulnerable units.

05 Feb 2014

• Call of the Wild
  • Updated ability tooltip regarding destroying previous summons.
  • Fixed the advanced ability tooltip to state that the Greater Hawk's invisibility starts at 4 seconds of inactivity.

17 Oct 2013

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed Legacy Keys for both Call of the Wild units.
• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed Primal Roar not playing its ability cast animation.

28 Jun 2013

• Fixed Primal Roar push and slow radius being slightly too small.

14 Jun 2013

• Fixed Boar and Hawk turn rate.

19 Apr 2013

• Fixed Wild Axes losing vision after the second cast.

28 Mar 2013

• Updated default hero voice.

03 Jan 2013

• U
  Added animations to loadout stance.

05 Oct 2012

• Changed and updated Primal Roar ability icon.

02 Aug 2012

• U
  Added teleport animations.
• U
  Added spawn animations.

26 Jul 2012

• Wild Axes
  • Fixed ability interaction with Refresher Orb.
  • No longer provide vision when the axes aren't flying.

25 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed not being able to ⇱⇲ Drag-select Boar and Hawk by dragging over their models.

19 Jul 2012

• Fixed the path that Wild Axes take. It should now work the way it was originally intended.

11 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed Boar and Hawk dying counting as denies.

20 Jun 2012

• Select All Other Units feature no longer selects any unit that is lacking attack capability (i.e. Hawk).
• Updated Primal Roar tooltip.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
• Fixed Inner Beast not affecting Siege Creep.

10 May 2012

• U
  Updated default hero texture.
• U
  Updated default hero icon and selection portrait to match his new texture.
• Fixed hero base attack damage slightly too low.
• Fixed Boar unit level.
• Fixed Primal Roar cast range being 50 too short.

26 Apr 2012

• Fixed damage done to Boar and Hawk not showing up in combat log.

19 Apr 2012

• Fixed being able to deny oneself while under the Shadow Strike debuff if you attack through the hero icon at the top.

12 Apr 2012

• U
  Added Haste Rune run animations.

22 Mar 2012

• Fixed Wild Axes killing Courier.

15 Mar 2012

• U
  Updated hero selection portrait.

08 Mar 2012

• U
  Added idle injured animations.

16 Feb 2012

• U
  Added injured animations.
• U
  Added chase animations.

19 Jan 2012

• Added alternate attack animations.

12 Jan 2012

• Summoned units now draw larger on the minimap.

21 Dec 2011

• Fixed Wild Axes being left behind when blinking to a location with a different z-value while the axes are in-flight.

01 Dec 2011

• Fixed base attack damage.
• Fixed Wild Axes potentially getting stuck in the world.

10 Nov 2011

• Fixed doing 10 less base attack damage then supposed to.
• Fixed gestures not being properly deleted in some occasions.
  • Fixed never leaving his flail animations.

27 Oct 2011

• Fixed re-summoning Boar and Hawk showing up as a deny.

13 Oct 2011

• Fixed Boar's duration.
• Hawk no longer get their control groups lost when they are upgraded.

06 Oct 2011

• Wild Axes now flow along the ground, and are more prominent overall.

29 Sep 2011

• Fixed Hawk and Boar selection hitboxes.

09 Sep 2011

• Added blood hits to Wild Axes on target.

06 Aug 2011

• Fixed Wild Axes effect radius and projectile speed.

03 Aug 2011

• Summoned units (e.g. Boar or Hawk) will no longer disable Backdoor Protection.

02 Aug 2011

• Remove frontal cone on Wild Axes.
• Poison no longer affects Siege Creep, buildings, or Others.

16 Jul 2011

• Wild Axes now provides vision.
• Inner Beast
  • Fixed giving a constant attack speed bonus instead of a percentage.
  • Now works on non-heroes units.
• Call of the Wild
  • Fixed summons units duration.
  • Fixed Hawk fade delay.
  • Boar
    • Fixed attack range.
    • Rescaled Poison accordingly.

08 Jul 2011

• Updated default hero model. [?]
• Call of the Wild
  • Recasting ability now kills the units if Beastmaster is currently the owner of the unit.
  • Fixed where enemies could miss when attacking units with Flying Movement (i.e. Hawk), even if they were at the same height level as it.

24 Jun 2011

• Fixed Hawk starting out invisible when stunned.
• Beastmaster can now get assists with Boar.

10 Jun 2011

• Changed
  Wild Axes to move at a fixed speed regardless of how far they are thrown. [?]
• Added support for Primal Roar. [?]

20 May 2011

• Added
  Beastmaster (in-progress models).
• Added Ctrl as a modifier key to test sending an order to all controllable units, excluding the hero.
  • Beastmaster can now use Ctrl and issue an order to all summoned Boars and Hawks.