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Version History

Version

Description

7.35d

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Illusions no longer apply dragon's on-hit effects if they have reverted back to melee form
  • Reduced Corrosive Breath debuff duration from 5s to 3s

Talents

Level 15 Talent Health decreased from +400 to +300

7.35c

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Reduced Frost Breath Movement Slow from 0/0/40/60% to 0/0/30/45%.
  • Reduced Frost Breath Attack Slow from 0/0/40/60 to 0/0/30/45.
• Reduced Aghanim's Scepter Black Dragon Magic Resistance bonus from 25% to 20%.

7.35

• Breathe Fire
  • Now applies Corrosive Breath and/or Frost Breath based on the current level of Elder Dragon Form.
  • No longer requires Elder Dragon Form to be active to apply the debuffs.
• U
  Increased Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath slow radius from 300 to 350.

7.34

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Increased Dragon Tail cast range from 400 to 450.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 25/30/35 to 30/35/40.
  • Increased Corrosive Breath damage per second from 20 to 25.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Black Dragon
    • Increased movement speed bonus from 35 to 45.
    • Increased Corrosive Breath damage per second from 30 to 35.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +75% Breathe Fire damage/cast range in Elder Dragon Form increased to 85%.

7.33c

• Increased base movement speed from 310 to 315.
• Reduced base attack time from 1.7 to 1.6.

7.33

• Increased strength gain from 3.4 to 3.6.
• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Reduced Dragon Tail stun duration from 2.25/2.5/2.75/3 to 1.8/2/2.2/2.4.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Breathe Fire now applies Corrosive Breath and/or Frost Breath based on the current level while active.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +0.5s Dragon Tail stun duration reduced to +0.4s.

  LVL 20

   

  +175 Elder Dragon Form attack range reduced to +150.

7.32e

• Reduced Elder Dragon Form from 105 to 100.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • No longer reduces Elder Dragon Form by 5.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Fireball mana cost from 100 to 80.

7.32d

• Increased base attack damage from 32‒38 to 34‒40.
• Reduced Elder Dragon Form cooldown from 115/110/105 to 105 on each level.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • U
    Reduces Elder Dragon Form cooldown by 5.

7.32b

• Dragon Blood
  • Increased health regeneration bonus from 3/6/9/12 to 4/7/10/13.
  • Increased armor bonus from 3/6/9/12 to 4/7/10/13.

7.32

• Breathe Fire
  • Increased attack damage reduction from 25% to 30%.
  • Reduced mana cost from 90/100/110/120 to 90/95/100/105.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form movement speed bonus from 25 on each level to 25/30/35.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • U
    Increased Black Dragon movement speed bonus from 25 to 35.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +20 strength ➜ +75% Breathe Fire damage/cast range in Elder Dragon Form.

7.31d

• Reduced base agility from to 19 to 16.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Fireball
    • Reduced radius from 450 to 350.
    • Reduced duration from 10 to 8.

7.31c

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Fireball damage per second from 80 to 75.

7.31

• Rescaled Breathe Fire damage from 90/170/240/300 to 80/160/240/320.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Fireball damage per second from 65 to 80.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +150 Elder Dragon Form attack range increased to +175.

  LVL 25

   

  375 AoE Dragon Tail during Elder Dragon Form increased to 400.

7.30c

• Increased base attack damage from 31‒37 to 32‒38.
• Reduced Elder Dragon Form cooldown from 115 on each level to 115/110/105.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Elder Dragon Form
    • Reduced cooldown from 115 to 100.
    • Increased Black Dragon magic resistance bonus from 20% to 25%.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Fireball damage per second from 60 to 65.

7.30

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Reduced Dragon Tail stun duration from 2.5/2.75/3/3.25 to 2.25/2.5/2.75/3.
• Reduced Dragon Blood health regeneration bonus from 4/8/12/16 to 3/6/9/12.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Black Dragon
    • Reduced magic resistance bonus from 40% to 20%.
    • Reduced Splash Attack damage bonus from 115% to 100%.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Changed
    Fireball ability operations.
    • Now uses an aura to deal its damage and has a 2-second linger duration on enemies.
    • Multiple instances now no longer stack.
    • Reduced damage per second from 80 to 60. [?]

7.29

• Dragon Tail
  • Increased damage from 50/75/100/125 to 70/100/130/160.
  • Reduced mana cost from 100 on each level to 70/80/90/100.
  • Increased cooldown from 12/11/10/9 to 16/14/12/10.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Fireball
    • The granted ability is now always present, taking the fourth ability slot, instead of only available during Elder Dragon Form.
    • Has a 600-cast range when used while Elder Dragon Form is not active. [?]
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +24% Breathe Fire attack damage reduction increased to +30%.

  LVL 10

   

  +2 mana regeneration ➜ +15 attack damage.

  LVL 15

   

  +25 attack damage ➜ +0.5s Dragon Tail stun duration.

  LVL 20

   

  15% cooldown reduction ➜ +150 Elder Dragon Form attack range.

  LVL 25

   

  +1.6s Dragon Tail stun duration ➜ 375 AoE Dragon Tail during Elder Dragon Form.

  LVL 25

   

  1.8x Dragon Blood health regeneration/armor ➜ +12 Dragon Blood health regeneration/armor.

7.28b

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Fireball mana cost from 150 to 100.

7.28

• Reduced Breathe Fire mana cost from 100/110/120/130 to 90/100/110/120.
• Increased Dragon Tail damage from 25/50/75/100 to 50/75/100/125.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form Splash Attack radius from 300 to 350.
• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Dragon Knight:
  • Adds the Fireball ability to Elder Dragon Form.

Fireball

Ignites an area, dealing damage per second to enemies standing within it for some time.

Cast time: 0.2

Cast range: 1400

Radius: 450

Damage per second: 80

Duration: 10

Mana cost: 150

Cooldown: 20

Notes: Only available during Elder Dragon Form. Deals damage in 0.5-second intervals.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +350 health increased to +400.

7.27d

• Increased base strength from 19 to 21.

7.26c

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +2.5 mana regeneration reduced to +2.

  LVL 15

   

  +325 health increased to +350.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +30% Breathe Fire attack damage reduction reduced to +24%.

  LVL 10

   

  +3 mana regeneration reduced to +2.5.

  LVL 15

   

  +400 health reduced to +325.

  LVL 15

   

  +30 attack damage reduced to +25.

  LVL 20

   

  +25 strength reduced to +20.

  LVL 20

   

  20% cooldown reduction reduced to 15%.

  LVL 25

   

  +2s Dragon Tail stun duration reduced to +1.6s.

  LVL 25

   

  2x Dragon Blood health regen/armor reduced to 1.8x.

7.26a

• Reduced strength gain from 3.6 to 3.4.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Black Dragon attack range from 450 to 350. [?]

7.25

• Increased base movement speed from 305 to 310.

7.24

• Increased base movement speed from 295 to 305.
• Reduced Elder Dragon Form movement speed bonus from 30 to 25.

7.23

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Black Dragon now has unobstructed movement. [?]

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +210 Gold per minute ➜ 20% cooldown reduction.

7.22f

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Black Dragon magic resistance bonus from 30% to 40%.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +180 Gold per minute increased to +210.

7.22c

• Increased base intelligence from 15 to 18.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25% Breathe Fire attack damage reduction increased to to +30%.

  LVL 15

   

  +350 health increased to +400.

7.22

• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Dragon Knight:
  • Elder Dragon Form [?]
    • Level 1 now transforms into the Red Dragon.
    • Level 2 now transforms into the Blue Dragon. [?]
    • Level 3 now transforms into the new Black Dragon.
      • Grants 450 attack range and 30% magic resistance bonus, and is 30% larger than the other dragons. While in this form, the 3 attack modifiers are enhanced:
      • Increases Corrosive Breath damage per second from 20 to 30.
      • Increases Splash Attack splash damage from 75% to 115%.
      • Frost Breath
        • Increases movement speed slow from 40% to 60%.
        • Increases attack speed slow from 40 to 60.

7.21d

• Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath
  • Increased movement speed slow from 30% to 40%.
  • Increased attack speed slow from 30 to 40.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20% Breathe Fire attack damage reduction increased to to +25%.

  LVL 15

   

  +300 health increased to +350.

  LVL 20

   

  +150 Gold per minute increased to +180.

  LVL 25

   

  +1.75s Dragon Tail stun duration increased to +2s.

7.21

• Increased strength gain from 3.1 to 3.6.
• Increased base movement speed from 285 to 295.
• Increased Dragon Blood health regeneration bonus from 4/7/10/13 to 4/8/12/16.
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath attack speed slow still being 20, instead of 30. [?]

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  2x Dragon Blood health regeneration/armor ➜ +25 strength.

  LVL 20

   

  +40 strength ➜ 2x Dragon Blood health regeneration/armor.

7.20d

• Increased base movement speed from 280 to 285.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Increased Dragon Blood health regen bonus from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/13.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Corrosive Breath no longer pierces spell immunity.
  • Splash Attack
    • No longer applies 50% of the splash damage on missed attacks.
    • No longer deals 100% damage in a 150 radius.
    • No longer deals 50% damage in a 300 radius.
    • Increased 75% damage radius from 225 to 300.
  • Frost Breath no longer pierces spell immunity.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +2 mana regeneration increased to +3.

7.18

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +35 attack damage reduced to +30..

7.16

• Reduced base movement speed from 285 to 280.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form movement speed bonus from 25 to 30.

7.13b

• Reduced base armor from 1 to 0.
• Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.

7.10

• Reduced agility gain from 2.2 to 2.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +30 attack speed ➜ +20% Breathe Fire attack damage reduction.

7.07b

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +40% experience gain ➜ +35 attack damage.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Rescaled Dragon Blood health regeneration bonus from 3/6/9/12 to 4/6/8/10.
• Breathe Fire
  • Now reduces total attack damage, instead of just base attack damage and damage gained from primary attributes.
  • Reduced attack damage reduction from 35% to 25%.
  • Increased cast time from 0 to 0.2.
  • U
    Increased cast range from 500 to 600.
  • Increased travel distance from 650 to 750.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +10 strength ➜ +2 mana regeneration.

  LVL 15

   

  +40 attack damage ➜ +300 health.

  LVL 20

   

  +300 health ➜ 2x Dragon Blood health regeneration/armor.

  LVL 20

   

  +120 Gold per minute increased to +150.

  LVL 25

   

  2x Dragon Blood health regeneration/armor ➜ +1.75s Dragon Tail stun duration.

  LVL 25

   

  +75 movement speed ➜ +40 strength.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2.8 to 3.1.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath attack speed slow from 20 to 30. [?]

7.05

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25 attack speed increased to +30.

  LVL 10

   

  +9 strength increased to +10.

  LVL 15

   

  +35% experience gain increased to +40%.

7.03

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 attack speed increased to +25.

  LVL 10

   

  +7 strength increased to +9.

  LVL 25

   

  +60 movement speed increased to +75.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +6 strength increased to +7.

  LVL 15

   

  +25% experience gain increased to +35%.

  LVL 25

   

  +50 movement speed increased to +60.

7.00

• Dragon Tail now uses a projectile traveling at 1600 speed while in Dragon Form, instead of being instant.
• Elder Dragon Form Corrosive Breath now affects every enemy within the 300 splash radius of Splash Attack.
• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +20 attack speed

    

  +6 strength

  +40 attack damage

    

  +25% experience gain

  +300 health

    

  +120 Gold per minute

  2x Dragon Blood health regeneration/armor

    

  +50 movement speed

6.87

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Increased base attack damage from 27‒33 to 31‒37.
• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
• Breathe Fire
  • Increased attack damage reduction from 20%/25%/30%/35% to 35% on each level.
  • Rescaled cooldown from 12 on each level to 14/13/12/11.
• Reduced Elder Dragon Form attack range bonus from 372 to 350. [?]

6.86

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Increased Dragon Blood health regeneration bonus from 2/3/4/5 to 3/6/9/12.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath slow radius from 250 to 300.

6.85

• Increased Breathe Fire damage reduction duration from 8 to 11.

6.84

• Breathe Fire now reduces hit enemies' attack damage by 20%/25%/30%/35% for 8 seconds.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Corrosive Breath damage is now lethal.
  • Increased Splash Attack high/medium/low damage radius from 100/200/250 to 150/225/300.

6.83

• Elder Dragon Form Corrosive Breath now carries over to level 3 as well, instead of being only available on level 1 and 2.

6.80

• Rescaled Dragon Tail cooldown from 9 on each level to 12/11/10/9.

6.78b

• Fixed ability interactions between Bloodrage and Elder Dragon Form.

6.78

• Elder Dragon Form Corrosive Breath now carries over to level 2 as well, instead of being only available on level 1.

6.75

• Reduced base armor from 2 to 1.
• Increased Dragon Blood armor bonus from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • No longer grants 0/5/14 attack damage bonus.
  • Splash Attack
    • Level 2: Increased high/medium/low damage radius from 75/150/250 to 100/200/250.
    • Level 3: Increased small/medium/large radius damage from 100%/50%/25% to 100%/75%/50%.
    • Level 3: Increased high/medium/low damage radius from 50/150/225 to 100/200/250.

Notes: No longer uses different values for different levels.

6.73

• Elder Dragon Form now increases Dragon Tail cast range by 350 while active.

6.72d

• Changed
  Dragon Knight 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.
• Fixed hero vision range interactions with Reincarnation.

6.72c

• Changed
  Dragon Knight 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 125 to 128.
• Increased Breathe Fire damage from 75/150/225/300 to 90/170/240/300.

6.71

• Increased Dragon Blood health regeneration bonus from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5.
• Fixed various abilities, including item abilities, malfunctioning during transformation abilities (e.g. Elder Dragon Form).

6.70

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

6.66b

• Fixed ability interactions between Essence Shift with enemy transformation abilities (e.g. Elder Dragon Form).

6.65

• Fixed ability interactions between Cyclone and transformation abilities (e.g. Elder Dragon Form).

6.54

• Rescaled Elder Dragon Form movement speed bonus from 10/35/60 to 25 on each level.

6.52

• Reduced Breathe Fire mana cost from 100/115/130/150 to 100/110/120/130.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Reduced attack point from 0.94 to 0.5.
  • Reduced attack backswing from 0.56 to 0.5.
  • Increased cooldown from 100 to 115.

6.51

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Reduced mana cost from 100/150/200 to 50 on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 135 to 100.

6.50

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form lasting 58 seconds, instead of 60. [?]

6.48b

• Fixed Dragon Knight losing his name when respawning.

6.45

• Increased base agility and gain from 17 + 1.7 to 19 + 2.2.

6.42

• Updated Elder Dragon Form ability tooltips.

6.40

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Fixed ability interactions with Shallow Grave.
  • Fixed an issue with Blue Dragon attacking Gem of True Sight.

6.39

• Updated hero description.

6.35

• Increased base armor from 1 to 2.
• Dragon Blood now also grants 2/4/6/8 armor bonus.

6.30

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Reduced mana cost from 175/225/300 to 100/150/200.
  • Corrosive Breath
    • Now affects buildings as well.
    • Increased damage per second from 8 to 20.

6.25

• Fixed Dragon Knight being unable to level up abilities while in Elder Dragon Form.

6.20

• Reduced Breathe Fire damage from 85/170/255/320 to 75/150/225/300.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Dragon Knight can no longer be Tossed while under the effect of Elder Dragon Form.
  • No longer grants 100/200/0 health.
  • No longer uses 1 second transformation time. [?]

6.19b

• Breathe Fire no longer causes a small damage over time on units that were affected by Drunken Haze upon hit. [?]

6.19

• Added
  D as Hotkey for Dragon Blood.

6.17

• Reduced base strength from 21 to 19.
• Reduced base movement speed from 300 to 290.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form movement speed bonus from 0/25/50 to 10/35/60.

6.11

• Dragon Tail
  • Rescaled damage from 0/50/100/150 to 25/50/75/100.
  • Reduced stun duration from 2.5/2.75/3.1/3.35 to 2.5/2.75/3/3.25.

6.13

• Updated Dragon Blood ability tooltips.

6.09

• Increased strength gain from 1.7 to 2.8.
• Increased agility gain from 1.6 to 1.7.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 2.9 to 1.7

6.04

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Removed
    Freezing Breath from level 3. [?]
  • Reduced Frost Breath duration from 10 to 3.

6.03

• Replaced
  Roar with Dragon Blood.

Old

Roar

Releases a bestial roar, directed at a particular enemy unit. The unit becomes intimidated, missing a portion of its attacks, and having a chance to get damage and stunned by Dragon Knight's attacks.

Cast Range: 500.

Enemy miss chance: 25%

Damage/stun proc chance: 12%/24%/36%/48%

Proc damage: 125

Proc stun duration: 2

Debuff Duration: 6

New

Dragon Blood

The Dragon Knight has blood descended from dragons, and it grants him bonus health regeneration.

Bonus health regeneration: 1/2/3/4

• Replaced Stoneform with Dragon Tail.

Old

Stoneform

Dragon Knight enters into a defensive state and hardens his skin, making him resilient to physical damage. Reduces his attack damage and movement speed.

Movement speed slow: 20%

Attack damage reduction: 30%

Armor bonus: 5/10/15/20

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 0

Notes: Toggle ability.

New

Dragon Tail

Dragon Knight bashes a melee-range enemy target with the fury of a dragon's tail swipe. Stuns the target and deals minor damage.

Damage: 0/50/150/200

Cast range: 150

Stun duration: 2.5/2.6/2.8/3

6.00

• Increased attack point 0.325 to 0.5.
• Reduced attack backswing from 0.675 to 0.5.
• Reduced cast point from 0.3 to 0.
• Reduced cast backswing from 2.4 to 0.51.
• Replaced
  Dragon Blood with Roar.

Old

Dragon Blood

The Dragon Knight has blood descended from dragons, and it grants him bonus hp regeneration and armor.

Bonus health regeneration: 1/2/3/4

Bonus armor: 1/2/3/4

New

Roar

Releases a bestial roar, directed at a particular enemy unit. The unit becomes intimidated, missing a portion of its attacks, and having a chance to get damage and stunned by Dragon Knight's attacks.

Cast Range: 500.

Enemy miss chance: 25%

Damage/stun proc chance: 12%/24%/36%/48%

Proc damage: 125

Proc stun duration: 2

Debuff duration: 6

• Replaced
  Dragon Tail with Stoneform.

Old

Dragon Tail

Dragon Knight bashes a melee-range enemy target with the fury of a dragon's tail swipe. Stuns the target and deals minor damage.

Cast range: 150

Damage: 0/50/150/200

Stun duration: 2.5/2.6/2.8/3

New

Stoneform

Dragon Knight enters into a defensive state and hardens his skin, making him resilient to physical damage. Reduces his attack damage and movement speed.

Movement speed slow: 20%

Attack damage reduction: 30%

Armor bonus: 5/10/15/20

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 0

Notes: Toggle ability.

5.84b

• Fixed Dragon Blood granting 100%/200%/300%/400% bonus health regeneration instead of 1/2/3/4.

5.84

• Replaced
  Immolation with Dragon Tail.

Old

Immolation

Engulfs the Dragon Knight in flames causing damage to nearby enemy land units. Drains mana until deactivated.

Damage radius: 160

Damage per second: 12/24/36/48

Debuff linger duration: 1

Initial mana cost: 25

Mana cost per second: 4

Notes: Toggle ability. Automatically toggles itself off once mana goes below 10.

New

Dragon Tail

Dragon Knight bashes a melee-range enemy target with the fury of a dragon's tail swipe. Stuns the target and deals minor damage.

Damage: 0/50/150/200

Stun Duration: 2.5/2.6/2.8/3

Cast Range: 150

• Replaced
  Dragon's Greed with Dragon Blood.

Old

Dragon's Greed

The Dragon Knight has the greed of a dragon and extract extra gold from enemies that you kill, These bonuses are increased while in elder dragon form.

Bonus gold: 3/6/9/12

Bonus gold while in dragon form: 5/8/11/20

New

Dragon Blood

The Dragon Knight has blood descended from dragons, and it grants him bonus health regeneration and armor.

Bonus health regeneration: 1/2/3/4

Bonus armor: 1/2/3/4

5.78

• Added
  Freezing Breath to level 3 Elder Dragon Form.
  • Attacks stun buildings for 5 seconds within a 100 radius. [?]

5.72

• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.02 to 0.01.

5.58

• Reduced base agility and gain from 18 + 1.75 to 17 + 1.7.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 1.8 to 1.7.
• Reduced base attack time from 1.59 to 1.7.
• Reduced Immolation mana cost per second from 5 to 4.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • No longer reduces base attack time to 1.35/1.3/1.3.
  • Reduced Corrosive Breath damage per second from 15 to 8.

5.57

• Reduced Breathe Fire damage from 90/180/270/360 to 85/170/255/320.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Corrosive Breath
    • Increased damage per second from 5 to 15.
    • Reduced duration from 8 to 5.

5.55

• Reduced Breathe Fire damage from 90/180/270/360 to 85/170/255/340.
• Immolation
  • Increased damage per second from 10/20/30/40 to 12/24/36/48.
  • Reduced mana drained per second from 7 to 5.
• Rescaled Dragon's Greed bonus gold while in Red Dragon form 7/10/13/20 to 5/8/10/12 . [?]
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Changed
    order of dragons from Blue Dragon / Green Dragon / Red Dragon to Green Dragon / Red Dragon / Blue Dragon.
  • No longer gains Flying Movement and Flying vision on Level 3.
  • Reduced base attack time from 1.4/1.35/1.3 to 1.35/1.3/1.3.
  • Reduced movement speed bonus from 15/25/50 to 0/25/50.
  • Reduced health bonus from 100/200/300 to 100/200/0.
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 15/25/35 to 25/30/35.
  • Increased mana cost from 175 on each level to 175/225/300.
  • Increased cooldown from 75 to 135.
  • Reduced duration 75 to 60.
  • Added
    Corrosive Breath to level 1.
    • Applies a debuff on attack that deals 5 damage per second for 8 seconds.
  • Splash Attack
    • Level 2: Increased small/medium/large radius damage from 100%/50%/25% to 100%/75%/50%.
    • Level 2: Increased high/medium/low damage radius rom 47/140/215 to 75/150/250.
    • Level 3: Values are unchanged (100%/50%/25% damage in a 50/150/225 radius)
  • Moved
    Frost Breath from Level 1 to Level 3.

5.50

• Increased base health from 100 to 150.
• Removed
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Dragon Knight:
  • No longer increases Elder Dragon Form duration to 120.

5.40

• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Dragon Knight:
  • Increases Elder Dragon Form duration to 120.

5.35

• Increased strength gain from 2.75 to 2.8.
• Increased intelligence gain from 1.25 to 1.8.

5.31

• Increased base armor increased from 1 to 2.
• Elder Dragon Form no longer reduces base armor by 1.

5.10

• Replaced
  Dragonhide Armor with Immolation.

Old

Dragonhide Armor

Armor made form the hides of dragons.

Bonus armor: 1/3/4/6

New

Immolation

Engulfs the Dragon Knight in flames causing damage to nearby enemy land units. Drains mana until deactivated.

Damage radius: 160

Damage per second: 10/20/30/40

Debuff linger duration: 1

Initial mana cost: 25

Mana cost per second: 7

Notes: Toggle ability. Automatically toggles itself off once mana goes below 10.

4.0beta10

• Rescaled Dragonhide Armor armor bonus from 2/4/7/10 to 1/3/4/6.

4.0beta6

• Reduced base attack damage from 32‒38 to 27‒33.
• Increased base armor from 0 to 1.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • No longer grants 2 armor bonus.
  • Now reduces base armor by 1.

4.0beta5

• Rescaled Breathe Fire mana cost from 150 on each level to 100/115/130/150.
• Reduced Dragonhide Armor armor bonus from 2/5/8/12 to 2/4/7/10.

4.0beta2

• Added
  a 4th level to all basic abilities.
• Breathe Fire
  • Rescaled damage 90/180/270 to 90/180/270/360.
  • Increased mana cost from 85 to 150.
  • Increased cooldown from 15 to 12.
• Dragon's Greed
  • Rescaled bonus gold from 3/6/9 to 3/6/9/12 .
  • Rescaled bonus gold while in Blue Dragon/Green Dragon form from 5/8/11 to 5/8/11/20 .
  • Rescaled bonus gold while in Red Dragon form from 7/10/13 to 7/10/13/20 .
• Rescaled Dragonhide Armor armor bonus from 3/6/10 to 2/5/8/12.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Reduced health bonus from 100/400/450 to 100/200/300.
  • Reduced base attack damage from 35/50/65 to 15/25/35.
  • Reduced base attack time from 1.4/1.25/1.2 to 1.4/1.35/1.3
  • Reduced attack range bonus from 372/572/772 to 372.

3.2e

• Reduced base armor from 2 to 0.

3.0b

• Breathe Fire
  • Reduced cast range from 600 to 500.
  • Reduced travel distance from 600 to 500.
  • Reduced end radius from 250/300/350 to 250 on each level.

2.60

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

30 Aug 2023

• Increased versus scale from 0.79 to 0.84.
• Typing Dragon's Blood in the hero selection now highlights Dragon Knight.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Dragon Knight has the following values: Fiery 1, Red 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

22 May 2023

• Updated Splash Attack ability backend strings.

11 May 2023

• Updated Corrosive Breath ability backend strings.

25 Apr 2023

• Fixed the following modifiers not stacking with the Breathe Fire modifier:
  • Corrosive Breath
  • Frost Breath

06 Mar 2023

• Fixed Black Dragon being able to phase through other units but not vice versa.

29 Nov 2022

• Added Elder Dragon Form ability modifier icons:
  • Splash Attack
  • Frost Breath
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Added ability modifiers.
  • Updated ability tooltips.
• UPDATE 2
  • Dragon Tail
    • Fixed dealing 2x damage against non-hero units.
    • Fixed damage being 80/120/160/200 instead of 70/100/130/160.

11 Nov 2022

• Updated the following ability backend strings:
  • Breathe Fire
  • Fireball

14 Sep 2022

• Updated Dragon Tail talent descriptions.

01 Sep 2022

• UPDATE 4
  • Updated default hero model.

26 May 2022

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form illusions created with Aghanim's Blessing not having unobstructed movement.

28 Oct 2021

• Updated voiceover lines sound files.
• Enabled rivalry and allied responses towards Marci with Davion of Dragon Hold equipped.

19 Aug 2021

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Fireball's modifiers missing its description.

18 Aug 2021

• Updated Fireball ability particles.

02 Jul 2021

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default Elder Dragon Form model.

24 Jun 2021

• Updated default hero model and animations.
  • Added attack speed activity modifier at 140 attack speed.
  • Added attack range activity modifier at 0 for closest range and 90 for normal range.
  • Added aggressive stance animations.
• Updated subtitles.
• Added new Fireball animations. [?]
• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default hero model.

09 Apr 2021

• Updated Fireball cast particle effects.

26 Mar 2021

• Typing Davion in the hero selection now highlights Dragon Knight.

03 Sep 2019

• Increased shoulder slot poly budget from 1000/750 to 1600/1200.

08 Aug 2019

• Fixed losing Elder Dragon Form level color after being hexed.

02 Mar 2017

• Some particle effects support for Aurora Weapon has been added.

26 Jan 2017

• Updated Arcane Rune responses.

12 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 9
  • Added new sound effect to Elder Dragon Form's Dragon Tail projectile.

16 Jun 2016

• Added Elder Dragon Form as officially supported workshop submissions.
  • To function with animation layers and cloth, these need to use Valve's skeleton and animations.

28 Apr 2016

• Fixed having slightly too large of an attack range during Elder Dragon Form.
  • Reduced bonus from 372 to 350.

24 Mar 2016

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Fixed ability not refreshing and updating on recast.
  • Fixed animation layers on custom Elder Dragon Form cosmetic attacks.
• Fixed Echo Shell incorrectly applying Dragon Tail effects through spell immunity.

05 Feb 2016

• Fixed some Elder Dragon Form cosmetics having incorrect selection boxes.

16 Dec 2015

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed ability interactions between Breathe Fire and Aethereal Focus.

16 Oct 2015

• Added Russian voiceover lines.

06 Oct 2015

• Fixed unit selection boxes on custom Elder Dragon Form cosmetics.

29 Apr 2014

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Fixed transformation bug allowing Dragon Knight in Dragon Form to attack Roshan from outside of the pit.
  • Splash Attack will now do half damage to nearby units if it misses the primary target.

18 Dec 2013

• Updated Dota2 workshop model and texture files.

18 Jul 2013

• Fixed Dragon Blood bonus armor not showing properly in the HUD.

12 Jul 2013

• Updated ability icons.

28 Mar 2013

• Fixed Dragon Blood armor bonus not carrying over to illusions. [?]
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath getting dispelled when target initially becomes spell immune.

14 Feb 2013

• Fixed Breathe Fire ability wave speed issues.

07 Feb 2013

• Breathe Fire
  • Fixed sometimes missing at very close range in Elder Dragon Form.
  • Fixed ability travel time being too slow.

08 Nov 2012

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form not splashing on Siege Creep.

09 Aug 2012

• U
  Added victory animations.

25 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 5 (TEST)
  • Fixed abilities with 0 cast point missing its ability effects:
    • Breathe Fire
    • Dragon Tail
    • Elder Dragon Form

05 Jul 2012

• U
  Added spawn, teleport start and end animations.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.

10 May 2012

• Fixed very minor inaccuracy on Elder Dragon Form attack range.

19 Apr 2012

• U
  Added injured attack animations and injured idle animations.

22 Mar 2012

• U
  Updated default hero model texture to be more orange.

08 Mar 2012

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Fixed Corrosive Breath and Frost Breath working with Dragon Form illusions.
  • Plays a range-enabled effect when Dragon Tail is cast while in Dragon Form.

16 Feb 2012

• Fixed Breathe Fire unit targeting behavior.
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath slowing units while Doomed.

12 Jan 2012

• Fixed Dragon Tail ignoring Spellblock.

17 Nov 2011

• Added more movement lines.
• Fixed Legacy Keys.
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form attack properties getting lost when he is dispelled or affected by Repel.

10 Nov 2011

• Added
  to Captain's Mode.
• Cleaned up some effects.
• Updated run and idle animations.
• Fixed Breathe Fire not working on Siege Creep.
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form Corrosive Breath damage being lethal.

03 Nov 2011

• Added
  Dragon Knight.
• Added
  Legacy Keys.

26 May 2011

• Illusions now copy the state of the morphed hero (i.e. Elder Dragon Form).

17 Mar 2011

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form from being dispellable.

12 Mar 2011

• Fixed ability interactions between Elder Dragon Form and Hex sources, not changing Dragon Knight to the new Hex model.