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Version History[]

Version

Description

Reduced Spear of Mars cast backswing from 1.03 to 0.15.
Increased God's Rebuke critical damage from 150%/190%/230%/270% to 150%/200%/250%/300%.
Bulwark
- Now grants phased movement while active.
- Now also redirects enemy attack projectiles against allies within 200 range in front of Mars. [?
- Now no longer toggles ability Off when casting Spear of Mars while active.
Reduced Arena Of Blood effect delay from 0.3 to 0.1.

Increased Arena Of Blood spear damage from 75/150/225 to 80/160/240.

Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Bulwark
  - Soldiers' attacks now apply a 0.2-second 325-range knockback from the formation. [?]
  - Changed
    soldiers formation.
    - Old
      The formation has 5 soldiers, with the first soldier located exactly in front of Mars, and the others are offset by 30° to either side, forming an arc. [?]
    - New
      The formation has 4 parallel soldiers, with Mars being in the middle, and 2 soldiers on each side of Mars.
  - Reduced soldier distance from 200 to 100.
  - Increased soldier attack range from 250 to 275.

Reduced Spear of Mars cooldown from 15/14/13/12 to 14/13/12/11.
Increased God's Rebuke hero attack damage bonus from 5/10/15/20 to 10/15/20/25.
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Spear of Mars fire trail damage per second from 35 to 40.

Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
Reduced Spear of Mars stun duration from 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6 to 1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2.

Talents:

LVL 20

+0.8s Spear of Mars stun duration reduced to +0.6s.

Reduced Bulwark active movement speed slow from 20% to 18%.

Talents:

LVL 20

+10%/+5% Bulwark front/side damage reduction increased to +12%/+6%.

Reduced God's Rebuke hero attack damage bonus from 20/25/30/35 to 5/10/15/20.
Increased Arena Of Blood mana cost from 150/175/200 to 150/200/250.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Bulwark soldiers no longer attack while Mars is stunned or disarmed.

Reduced Spear of Mars mana cost from 110/120/130/140 to 100/110/120/130.
Increased God's Rebuke slow duration from 2 to 2.5.
Bulwark
- No longer uses a radius centered around the caster for redirecting projectiles.
- Active redirect now only works if projectile targets are within 100 range of or a cone behind Mars.
- Increased active projectile redirect range from 800 to 900.
Rescaled Arena Of Blood spear damage from 100/150/200 to 75/150/225.

Talents:

LVL 10

-10% Bulwark self movement speed slow ➜ +30% Bulwark active projectile redirect chance.
LVL 10

+1.5s God's Rebuke slow duration ➜ +100 God's Rebuke knockback distance.

Reduced base attack damage from 29‒37 to 26‒34.
Reduced Spear of Mars stun duration from 1.6/2.0/2.4/2.8 to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6.

Increased strength gain from 3.4 to 3.7.
Increased Spear of Mars cooldown from 14/13/12/11 to 15/14/13/12.
Arena Of Blood
- Can no longer be escaped with upward movement. [?]
- Reduced spear damage from 100/160/220 to 100/150/200.

Increased God's Rebuke mana cost from 80 to 90.

Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
Reduced Spear of Mars cooldown from 14 on each level to 14/13/12/11.
Increased Arena Of Blood cooldown from 90/75/60 to 90 on each level.

Talents:

LVL 10

+20 movement speed ➜ -10% Bulwark self movement speed slow.
LVL 10

+15 attack damage ➜ +1.5s God's Rebuke slow duration.
LVL 15

+8 armor ➜ +100 Spear of Mars damage.
LVL 20

+160 Spear of Mars damage ➜ +10%/+5% Bulwark front/side damage reduction.

Reduced agility gain from 1.9 to 1.7.
Increased intelligence gain from 1.6 to 2.2.
Reduced God's Rebuke hero attack damage bonus from 35 on each level to 20/25/30/35.
Reduced Arena Of Blood spear damage from 100/175/250 to 100/160/220.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Bulwark movement speed slow from 20% to 30%.
Added
Attribute Bonus.

Talents:

LVL 10

+15 movement speed increased to +20.
LVL 15

+6 armor increased to +8.
LVL 25

120 Arena Of Blood ally health regeneration bonus increased to 180.

Increased God's Rebuke mana cost from 65/70/75/80 to 80 on each level.
Arena Of Blood
- Reduced spear damage from 120/185/250 to 100/175/250.
- Reduced mana cost from 200 on each level to 150/175/200.
Reworked
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Old
  Reduces God's Rebuke to 3.5 on each level.
- New
  Bulwark
  - Now spawns 5 invulnerable soldiers in an arc 200 range in front of Mars that move along with him.
  - The soldiers apply instant attack in 1-second intervals within 150 range in front of them.
  - The instant attack damage deals ΣAtk + 75 and applies a 1-second 20% movement speed slow on affected enemies. Each soldier may attack only one enemy at a time.
Added
Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Mars:
- Spear of Mars
  - Now can impale up to 2 enemy heroes.
  - The spear now leaves behind a 10-second fire trail, that deals 35 damage per second and applies a 2-second 20% movement speed slow to affected enemies within the trail.

Talents:

LVL 10

-3s Spear of Mars cooldown ➜ +15 movement speed.
LVL 15

+20 movement speed ➜ -4s God's Rebuke cooldown.
LVL 25

80 Arena Of Blood ally health regeneration bonus increased to 120.

Increased base intelligence and gain from 20 + 1.4 to 21 + 1.6.
Increased base mana regeneration from 0 to 0.5.

Increased base intelligence from 17 to 20.
Reduced Arena Of Blood effect delay from 0.6 to 0.3.
Talents:

Level 10 left talent: -2s

Spear of Mars cooldown increased to -3s.

Spear of Mars
- Now automatically toggles Bulwark Off upon cast begin.
- Increased mana cost from 100 on each level to 110/120/130/140.

Talents:

LVL 10

+15 movement speed ➜ -2s Spear of Mars cooldown.
LVL 10

+6 strength ➜ +15 attack damage.
LVL 15

+20 attack damage ➜ +20 movement speed.

Talents:

LVL 10

+20 movement speed reduced to +15.
LVL 10

+8 strength reduced to +6.
LVL 15

+8 armor reduced to +6.
LVL 15

+25 attack damage reduced to +20.
LVL 20

+1s Spear of Mars stun duration reduced to +0.8s.
LVL 20

+200 Spear of Mars damage reduced to +160.
LVL 25

100 Arena Of Blood ally health regeneration bonus reduced to 80.
LVL 25

+80% God's Rebuke critical damage reduced to +65%.

Reworked
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- God's Rebuke
  - Old
    - Reduces cooldown to 1.4 while Arena Of Blood is active.
    - Arena Of Blood also reset God's Rebuke's cooldown upon cast.
- New
  - Reduces cooldown to 3.5 on each level.

Increased strength gain from 3.2 to 3.4.
God's Rebuke
- Increased hero attack damage bonus from 25 to 35.
- Increased movement speed slow duration from 1.5 to 2.

Bulwark
- Increased front damage reduction from 25%/40%/55%/70% to 40%/50%/60%/70%.
- Increased side damage reduction from 12%/20%/27%/35% to 20%/25%/30%/35%.

God's Rebuke now slows the movement speed of hit enemies by 40% for 1.5 seconds.
Added
toggle functionality for Bulwark and grants the following effects while toggled On:
- Is disarmed, has his movement speed slowed by 20% and his facing direction is locked.
- Does not require to turn to move, cast abilities or use items.
- Any enemy attack projectile launched on an ally while within 800 range of Mars, and within the Bulwark angles (140° on the front angle and 240° on the side angle), has a 70% chance to get redirected to Mars instead.
Changed
Arena Of Blood tree destruction radius from a fixed 100 to match the arena's radius.

Reduced base attack damage from 31‒39 to 29‒37.
Reduced God's Rebuke critical strike from 160%/200%/240%/280% to 150%/190%/230%/270%.

Talents:

LVL 15

+30 attack damage reduced to +25.

Added
to Captains Mode.
Reduced base attack damage from 35‒43 to 31‒39.
Reduced base armor from 0 to -1.
Arena Of Blood
- Increased cast time from 0.1 to 0.2.
- Reduced spear damage from 150/200/250 to 120/185/250.
Added
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Mars:
- God's Rebuke
  - Reduces cooldown to 1.4 while Arena Of Blood is active.
  - Arena Of Blood also reset God's Rebuke's cooldown upon cast.

Talents:

LVL 15

+35 attack damage reduced to +30.

Reduced strength gain from 3.6 to 3.2.
Reduced Spear of Mars vision radius from 500 to 300.
Increased God's Rebuke mana cost from 55/60/65/70 to 65/70/75/80.

Talents:

LVL 20

+1.5s Spear of Mars stun duration reduced to +1s.

Patch History[]

Patch

Description

UPDATE 2
- Fixed Spear of Mars impaling the Spirit Bear.

Increased versus scale from 0.75 to 0.9.
Increased loadout scale from 0.8 to 0.9.
Added
new Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Mars has the following values: Bearded 1, NicePecs 1, Red 1, Parent 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

UPDATE 2
- Updated God's Rebuke ability effects.

Updated default hero model.
Updated the following abilities' backend strings:
- Spear of Mars
- Arena Of Blood

Updated Arena Of Blood ability backend strings.

Updated the following abilities' backend strings:
- Spear of Mars
- Bulwark
Fixed the following abilities being interrupted by Arena Of Blood:

Updated Bulwark ability backend strings.

Updated Bulwark ability backend strings.

Fixed ability interaction between Dismember and Recall causing permanent Bulwark Soldiers.

Fixed ability interactions between Bulwark and Dismember with teleport effects.
- Fixed not updating the current hero locations properly upon using teleport effects, while the hero is hidden, invulnerable, or spell immune.

Updated Bulwark ability descriptions.

Updated default hero model.
Updated default weapon model.

Fixed Bulwark soldiers stopping attacking if Mars is rooted, silenced, etc.
- Instant attacks now only stop when Mars is stunned or disarmed.

Updated default hero model.

Updated Bulwark ability tooltips.

Updated Spear of Mars performance.
Updated Arena Of Blood ability modifiers.

Fixed various abilities being able to escape Arena Of Blood.

Fixed ability interaction between units with Flying Movement and Arena Of Blood, no longer allowing its caster to escape the area.

Fixed ability interaction between Tree Dance and Arena Of Blood, no longer allowing its caster to escape the area.

Enabled rivalry and allied responses with Primal Beast.

Arena Of Blood and Bulwark Soldiers
- Added run animation. [?]
- Updated model.

Fixed God's Rebuke critical damage being wrongly reduced from 150%/190%/230%/270% to 120%/170%/220%/270% in the 7.30 gameplay patch.

Fixed Spear of Mars fire trail debuff modifiers missing descriptions.

Removed outdated God's Rebuke ability tooltips.

Added Chinese subtitles.

Fixed Bulwark sound effect for blocked physical effects.
- Previously it was not functional because the sound script was pointing to an audio file that didn't exist in the game's VPK file structure.

Enabled rivalry and allied responses towards Dawnbreaker.

Added particle effects to Bulwark that appears on each soldier upon spawning.

Updated hero model and animation.
Updated God's Rebuke particles.
UPDATE 3
- Fixed Bulwark soldiers missing tooltips.

Increased max polygon counts.

Updated default hero model and textures.

Updated default hero model.
Added taunt slot in the loadout.

Disabled head item slot from the loadout.
Increased armor and weapon slots' texture size from 256 to 512, and max polygons LOD1/2 from 1000/450 to 2500/750.

Fixed a performance issues with toggling Bulwark On / Off.

UPDATE 2
- Updated Spear of Mars dispel interaction from basic to strong.

UPDATE 5
- Added rivalry and allied voice files towards Void Spirit.
- Enabled rivalry and allied responses towards Snapfire.

Updated response rules.

Created

Added strings for an upcoming hero. Internal name: Mars.
UPDATE 2
- Removed all game files related to the unreleased hero.

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