Changelogs
Version History[]
Version
Description
- Reduced Bristleback damage threshold from 300/275/250/225 to 275/250/225/200.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Bristleback cooldown from 20 to 24.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Viscous Nasal Goo max stacks bonus from 3 to 2.
Talents:- LVL 10+20 attack damage ➜ +25 attack speed.
- Reduced Quill Spray damage cap from 550 to 500.
- Increased Bristleback damage threshold from 225 on each level to 300/275/250/225.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Hairball
- Reduced cast range from 1500 to 1000.
- Increased cooldown from 10 to 13.
- Hairball
- Talents:
- LVL 20+25 Quill Spray damage per stack reduced to +20.
- Increased base attack damage from 30‒36 to 33‒39.
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo base armor reduction from 2 on each level to 2/2/3/3.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+150 Viscous Nasal Goo cast range increased to +250.
- Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.7.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.25 to 0.4.
- ReworkedAghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- OldViscous Nasal Goo
- Turns into a non-targeted ability, which targets all visible enemies within 650 radius of the caster.
- Reduces cast point to 0 and now has an instant cast time.
- Increases stack limit by 3.
- NewAdds a point-targeting active component to Bristleback.
- 0.5 seconds after cast, Bristleback turns his back towards the targeted direction and releases 6 Quill Sprays at 0.35-second intervals in a tight conical pattern out of his back.
- Bristleback cannot turn, self-disarms and applies a 40% self-movement speed slow for the duration.
- Other of his abilities can still be cast in without facing the target direction while active.
- Has a 0 cast point.
- Has a 100-mana cost and 20-second cooldown.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Now also increases Viscous Nasal Goo stack limit by 3.
- Hairball
- All ability effects now fully affect units in the Fog of War.
- Viscous Nasal Goo stacks of Hairball are no longer affected by Spell Reflection
- Increased number of Viscous Nasal Goo stacks from 1 to 2.
- Reduced number of Quill Spray stacks from 2 to 1.
- Reduced mana cost from 75 to 40.
- Reduced cooldown from 20 to 10.
- Talents:
- LVL 20+20 Quill Spray damage per stack increased to +25.LVL 20+20 health regeneration increased to +25.
- Increased Bristleback damage threshold from 200 to 225.
- Warpath
- Increased max stacks from 6/8/10 to 8/10/12.
- Reduced attack damage bonus per stack from 20/25/30 to 15/20/25.
- Reduced movement speed bonus per stack from 3%/4%/5% to 2%/3%/4%.
- Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
- Bristleback
- Passive Quill Spray procs now grant Warpath stacks per proc.
- The damage counter now counts exceeding damage, a single instance can now trigger multiple passive Quill Spray procs.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Hairball mana cost from 100 to 75.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 1.
- Reduced Warpath attack damage bonus per stack from 25/30/35 to 20/25/30.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- ChangedViscous Nasal Goo radius from 800 to
AbilityBaseCastRange. [?]
- Talents:
- LVL 15+20 attack speed ➜ +8%/+4% Bristleback back/side damage reduction.LVL 15+250 health ➜ +150 Viscous Nasal Goo cast range.LVL 25+24 Warpath attack damage bonus per stack reduced to +18.
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo cast range from 600 to 650.
- Reduced Bristleback damage threshold from 210 to 200.
- Reduced strength gain from 2.9 to 2.5.
- Increased base movement speed from 290 to 295.
- Increased Warpath max stacks from 5/7/9 to 6/8/10.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+2 mana regeneration reduced to +1.5.LVL 25+24 Warpath attack damage bonus per stack increased to +25.LVL 2513% spell lifesteal reduced to 12%.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
- Reduced Viscous Nasal Goo base movement speed slow from 20% to 15%.
- Increased Warpath stack duration from 14 to 16.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Reduced radius from 900 to 800.
- Reduced max stacks from 8 to 7.
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo cooldown from 1.5 to 1.75.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Viscous Nasal Goo radius from 950 to 900.
- Reduced turn rate from 1 to 0.9.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo armor reduction per stack from 1.4/1.9/2.4/2.9 to 1.5/2/2.5/3.
- Quill Spray
- Increased base damage from 20/40/60/80 to 25/45/65/85.
- Reduced stack damage from 30/32/34/36 to 28/30/32/34.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Reduces cast point to 0.
- Now has an instant cast time.
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- AddedAttribute Bonus.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+2.5 mana regeneration reduced to +2.LVL 10+15 movement speed increased to +20.LVL 15+15 attack speed increased to +20.
- Increased Warpath attack damage bonus per stack from 22/28/34 to 25/30/35.
- Aghanim's Scepter
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Now also increases max stacks by 4.
- Increased radius from 825 to 950.
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- AddedAghanim's Shard upgrade for Bristleback:
- Grants Bristleback the Hairball ability.
- Hairball
- Coughs a quill-packed hairball towards the target location. Erupts at the location, hitting enemies in the area with Viscous Nasal Goo and 2 Quill Sprays.
- Cast time: 0.1
- Cast range: 1500
- Radius: 700
- Cooldown: 20
- Mana cost: 100
- Notes: The projectile travels at a speed of 1200. Releases Viscous Nasal Goo projectiles onto enemies within the area, from the center of the area, based on its current level. Releases 2 instances of Quill Spray at the center of the area, based on its level.
- Talents:
- LVL 15
- Increased base attack damage from 25‒35 to 30‒36.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+3 mana regeneration reduced to +2.5.LVL 10+20 movement speed reduced to +15.LVL 15+6 Viscous Nasal Goo max stacks reduced to +5.LVL 15+250 health reduced to +200.LVL 20+25 Quill Spray damage per stack reduced to +20.LVL 20+25 health regeneration reduced to +20.LVL 25+30 Warpath attack damage bonus per stack reduced to +24.LVL 2515% spell lifesteal reduced to 13%.
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo armor reduction per stack from 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6 to 1.4/1.9/2.4/2.9.
- Increased base attack damage from 22‒32 to 25‒35.
- Increased base armor from 0 to 1.
- Increased Warpath attack damage bonus per stack from 18/24/30 to 22/28/34.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo radius from 750 to 825.
- Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.9.
- Reduced Viscous Nasal Goo mana cost from 25 on each level to 12/16/20/24.
- Increased strength gain from 2.2 to 2.5.
- Bristleback now works against towers as well.
- Increased base movement speed from 285 to 290.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo armor reduction per stack from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2 to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+2 mana regeneration increased to +3.LVL 20+20 health regeneration increased to +25.
- Viscous Nasal Goo now also has a base armor reduction of 2, on top of the reduction per stack.
- Reduced base armor from 1 to 0.
- Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Talents:
- LVL 10LVL 15+4 Viscous Nasal Goo max stacks increased to +6.LVL 15+225 health increased to +250.LVL 2010% spell lifesteal ➜ +25 Quill Spray damage per stack.LVL 20+50 attack speed ➜ +20 health regeneration.LVL 25LVL 25+30 health regeneration ➜ 15% spell lifesteal.
- Reduced base attack damage from 26‒36 to 22‒32.
- 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.
- Talents:
- LVL 20-40s respawn time ➜ 10% spell lifesteal.
- Increased Quill Spray radius from 650 to 700.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+200 health increased to +225.LVL 25+20 Quill Spray damage per stack increased to +25.LVL 25+25 health regeneration increased to +30.
- Increased Quill Spray radius from 625 to 650.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+7 strength increased to +8.LVL 20-35s respawn time increased to -40s.LVL 20+45 attack speed increased to +50.
- Increased Quill Spray damage cap from 450 to 550.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo radius from 700 to 750.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+20 movement speed ➜ +4 Viscous Nasal Goo max stacks.LVL 20-30s respawn time increased to -35s..LVL 25
- Quill Spray now deals damage as it quickly expands outwards at a speed of 2400, instead of being instant.
- Increased Warpath max stacks from 5/6/7 to 5/7/9.
- RemovedAttribute Bonus.
- added Talents:
- Increased base health from 180 to 200.
- Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
- Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
- Reduced Bristleback damage threshold from 230 to 210.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Viscous Nasal Goo radius from 600 to 700.
- Increased base health from 150 to 180.
- Reduced Viscous Nasal Goo mana cost from 30 to 25.
- Increased Quill Spray damage cap from 400 to 450.
- AddedAghanim's Scepter upgrade for Bristleback:
- Turns Viscous Nasal Goo into a non-targeted ability, which targets all visible enemies within 600 radius of the caster.
- Reduced Bristleback damage threshold from 250 to 230.
- Increased base attack time from 1.7 to 1.8
- Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.
- Rescaled Viscous Nasal Goo armor reduction from 1/1/2/2 to 1/1.4/1.8/2.2.
- Increased Quill Spray stack damage from 30 on each level to 30/32/34/36.
- Warpath
- No longer grant 5%/7%/10% movement speed bonus upon triggering.
- Increased movement speed bonus per stack from 1%/2%/3% to 3%/4%/5%.
- All stacks now grant the same amount of movement speed, instead of the first stack granting more than the following stacks.
- Reduced base attack damage from 30‒40 to 26‒36.
- Reduced attack point from 0.4 to 0.3.
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Is now dispellable.
- Reduced cast point from 0.4 to 0.3.
- Warpath
- Increased max stacks from 5 on each level to 5/6/7.
- Increased stack duration from 10 to 14.
- Increased Quill Spray stack duration from 10 to 14.
- Increased Quill Spray damage cap from 220 to 400.
- Bristleback now properly procs passive Quill Spray as the threshold is reached, rather than on the first damage instance after it is reached.
- Warpath
- No longer grants 30/40/50 base attack damage bonus upon triggering.
- Increased attack damage bonus per stack from 10/15/20 to 20/25/30.
- All stacks now grant the same amount of attack damage, instead of the first stack granting more than the following stacks.
- Increased Quill Spray damage cap from 180 to 220.
- Reduced attack point from 0.5 to 0.4.
- Increased turn rate from 0.6 to 1.
- Reduced Viscous Nasal Goo cast point from 0.5 to 0.4.
- ChangedBristleback hull type from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALLtoDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO. [?]- Increased collision size from 18 to 27.
- Increased bound radius from 12 to 24.
- Quill Spray is no longer blocked by Damage Block.
- ChangedBristleback hull type from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HEROtoDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL.- Reduced collision size from 27 to 18.
- Reduced bound radius from 24 to 12.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo from blocking neutral creep camp.
- Fixed Warpath granting the base damage and the bonus damage on the first stack, instead of the base damage only.
- Increased attack range from 100 to 128.
- Updated Quill Spray ability tooltips.
- Increased Warpath attack damage bonus per stack from 4/8/12 to 10/15/20.
- Bristleback
- Increased back damage reduction from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 16%/24%/32%/40%.
- Increased side damage reduction from 5%/10%/15%/20% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.
- Addednew Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
- Bristleback has the
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HEROhull size. [?] - This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
- Bristleback has the
- Updated hero icon.
- Updated hero model.
- Fixed ability interactions between Viscous Nasal Goo and Quill Spray.
- Increased Warpath max stacks from 4 to 5.
- Warpath
- No longer grants 30/40/50 base attack speed bonus.
- No longer grants 5/10/15 attack speed bonus per stack.
- Now grants 30/40/50 base attack damage bonus.
- Now grants 4/8/12 attack damage bonus per stack.
- Increased intelligence gain from 2.2 to 2.8.
- Bristleback
- Increased side angles from 90° to 110°.
- Reduced damage threshold from 300 to 250.
- Rescaled Quill Spray mana cost from 30/35/40/45 to 35 on each level.
- Bristleback
- Reduced side angles from 110° to 90°.
- Increased damage threshold from 200 to 300.
- Fixed Warpath buff carrying over to the next hero in Deathmatch.
- Reduced base movement speed from 300 to 295.
- Updated Viscous Nasal Goo ability icon.
- Reduced Quill Spray damage cap from 220 to 180.
- Reduced base movement speed from 305 to 300.
- Quill Spray now has a damage cap of 220.
- Updated Bristleback ability tooltips.
- Quill Spray
- Reduced radius from 700 to 650.
- Reduced base damage from 30/50/70/90 to 20/40/60/80.
- Bristleback
- Reduced back damage reduction from 15%/30%/45%/60% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
- Fixed being unable to reduce damage instances which were enough to kill Bristleback before the reduction.
- Increased strength gain increased from 2 to 2.7.
- Increased intelligence gain increased from 1.4 to 2.2.
- Increased base attack damage from 21‒31 to 26‒36.
- Increased base movement speed from 290 to 305.
- ChangedViscous Nasal Goo Legacy Keys from V to G.
- ReworkedQuill Spray
- OldQuill Spray
- Begins spraying quills all over the area, dealing damage over 6 seconds. Randomly chooses enemies within a radius around him for each quill, up to 60 quills.
- Far damage: 2/4/6/8
- Close damage: 3/6/9/12
- Far/Close Radius: 500/250
- Duration: 6
- Mana: 95/105/115/125
- Cooldown: 15
- NewQuill Spray
- Sprays enemy units with quills dealing damage in a 700 radius. Deals 30 extra damage every time a unit is struck by a quill in the last 10 seconds.
- Initial Damage: 30/50/70/90
- Stack Damage: 30
- Radius: 700
- Stack Duration: 10
- Mana: 30/35/40/45
- Cooldown: 3
- Notes: Has an instant cast time. Deals physical damage. Each spray has its own duration, successive casts do not refresh the whole stack's duration. Has no stack limit.
- Bristleback now passively releases a Quill Spray based on its current level whenever Bristleback takes 200 damage to his rear.
- ReworkedWarpath.
- OldWarpath
- By attacking, Rigwarl works himself up into a fury, giving him a chance on every attack to go into a rampage, increasing attack speed and movement speed for a while. Cannot proc while having the buff from a previous proc.
- Proc chance: 10%/20%/30%
- Attack speed bonus: 150
- Movement speed bonus: 30%
- Duration: 10
- NewWarpath
- Every time Bristleback casts a spell, he works himself into a fury, increasing movement and attack speed on repeated spell cast. Lasts for 10 seconds and stacks up to 4 times.
- Max stacks: 4
- Base movement speed bonus: 5%/7%/10%
- Movement speed bonus per stack: 1%/2%/3%
- Base attack speed bonus: 30/40/50
- Attack speed bonus per stack: 5/10/15
- Duration: 10
- Notes: Only procs on abilities, not on items. Each stack has its own duration, successive casts do not refresh the whole stack's duration.
- Reduced Viscous Nasal Goo movement speed slow per stack from 4%/8%/12%/16% to 3%/6%/9%/12%.
- Reduced Bristleback rear angle from
[ Info Needed ]to 70°.
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Fixed ability animation issues.
- Increased mana cost from 10/15/20/25 to 30 on each level.
- Fixed Quill Spray ability animation issues.
- Fixed some issues on Bristleback.
- Warpath
- Increased attack speed bonus from 100 to 150.
- Increased buff duration from 6 to 10.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo adding an extra -3 armor to affected targets.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo memory leak issues.
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Updated ability tooltips.
- Increased base movement speed slow from 5%/10%/15%/20% to 20% on each level.
- Now reduces an extra 4%/8%/12%/16% movement speed per stack. [?]
- Warpath can no longer trigger upon attacking allies.
- Viscous Nasal Goo
- Reduced mana cost from 20/25/30/35 to 10/15/20/25.
- Increased movement speed slow from 4%/8%/12%/16% to 5%/10%/15%/20%.
- Warpath now also grants 30% movement speed bonus when proccing.
- Created
Patch History[]
Patch
Description
- Updated Viscous Nasal Goo ability modifiers.
- Reduced versus scale from 0.88 to 0.8.
- Reduced loadout scale from 0.9 to 0.8.
- Addednew Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Bristleback has the following values: NicePecs
1, Legs2and Nose1.
- Bristleback has the following values: NicePecs
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- Updated Viscous Nasal Goo ability modifiers.
- Updated Quill Spray ability backend strings.
- Updated Quill Spray ability backend strings.
-
- Fixed Quill Spray ability radius indicator.
-
- Reduced Quill Spray backend cast range ability values from 650 to 0. [?]
- Updated Hairball ability tooltips.
- Updated default hero model and animations.
- Updated default hero model.
- Added a new Viscous Nasal Goo animation which is used with item equipped.
- Updated hero model and animation.
- Updated Quill Spray particles.
- Updated Viscous Nasal Goo impact sound.
- Increased sound limit from 1 to 2 instances.
- Added a sound blocker, with a 300 radius and 0.1 second duration, preventing the sound from playing more than once within the given time and the given distance.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Adjusted how Quill Spray is hidden by the Fog of War; each quill now checks fog of war individually, rather than using one check for the whole effect.
- Added hero to New Player List pool.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo to not target spell immune enemies.
- Fixed Bristleback counting damage which has the no-reflection flag.
- Quills now point in the correct direction during Quill Spray.
- Minor changes to default hero offhand weapon.
- Added Russian voiceover lines.
- Updated Arcane Rune responses.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo cast range.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo interaction with Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Spell Block". and Echo Shell.
- Warpath
- Fixed not being disabled by Break.
- Fixed a case of getting an infinite duration of stacks.
-
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo affecting units in Fog of War.
- Fixed
- Fixed ability interactions between Stampede with Quill Spray.
- Fixed Hex sources disabling Bristleback.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo backswing behavior.
- Fixed Doom not disabling Bristleback.
- Addedto Captain's Mode (Tournament Version)
- Added new dialog lines.
- Addedto Captain's Mode (Latest Version).
- Fixed default hero model.
- Fixed Quill Spray stacks being removed by the following abilities:
- Fixed Warpath oldest stack duration not getting refreshed if another ability was cast with max stacks.
- AddedBristleback.
- Fixed Viscous Nasal Goo movement speed reduction duration and creep duration.
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- Updated default hero model.
- Updated hero portrait.
- Fixed hero portrait not lip syncing with voice lines.
- Added T.J. Ramini to the voice credits as Bristleback.
- Typing
BBin the hero selection now highlights Bristleback. - Fixed turn rate.
- Fixed Quill Spray killing Courier.
-
- Quill Spray
- Fixed ability interactions with damage block.
- Fixed individual quill stacks not having their own duration.
- Warpath
- Fixed ability not showing the duration of its stacks.
- Fixed illusions not getting bonuses from ability.
- Quill Spray
-
- Quill Spray stacks are now shown to enemies on the HUD.
- Bristleback
- Fixed ability preserving damage greater than 250 dealt at one time and creating extra sprays.
- Fixed reducing damage from HP Removal sources.
