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Version

Description

7.35

• Reduced base agility from 24 to 21.
• Increased Nether Ward cooldown from 35 to 40.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed ➜ +10% Decrepify movement speed.

7.34d

• Increased Nether Blast building damage multiplier from 0.5 to 0.65.
• Decrepify
  • Increased cast range from 400/475/550/625 to 475/550/625/700.
  • Increased enemy movement speed slow from 30%/40%/50%/60% to 45%/50%/55%/60%.

7.34c

• Increased base intelligence from 24 to 26.
• Increased Decrepify ally heal amplification from 5%/10%/15%/20% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
• Reduced Life Drain mana cost from 125/175/225 to 100/150/200.

7.34

• Increased Nether Ward base damage from 50/60/70/80 to 50/70/90/110.

7.33e

• Increased Nether Blast mana cost from 85/105/125/145 to 100/115/130/145.
• Reduced Life Drain mana restore multiplier on full health from 1 to 0.5. [?]

7.33d

• Reduced Life Drain heal per second from 160/240/320 to 120/210/300. [?]

7.33

• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Decrepify
  • No longer reduces ally magic resistance by 25%.
  • Now grants 5%/10%/15%/20% ally incoming heal amplification.
• Life Drain
  • Healing for allies is no longer based on damage dealt.
  • Now heals for a flat 160/240/320 health per second.

7.32e

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Life Drain damage percentage from 70% to 75%.

7.32d

• Increased Nether Blast cast range from 500 to 600.

7.32c

• Increased Nether Ward damage per used mana from 0.75/1/1.25/1.5 to 1/1.2/1.4/1.6.

7.32b

• Increased Nether Blast damage from 100/175/250/325 to 100/180/260/340.
• Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/225/300 to 160/240/320.

7.32

• Nether Ward
  • No longer reduces outgoing spell damage by 8%/12%/16%/20%.
  • Increased base damage from 50 on each level to 50/60/70/80.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Life Drain
    • Old
      • Increases damage to 250/325/400.
      • Reduces cooldown to 0.
    • New
      • Applies an 8-second debuff that reduces the affected target's outgoing spell damage by 8% per second, up to 75%.
      • Applies an 8-second buff that increases Pugna's outgoing spell damage by 8% per second up to 100%.
      • Reduces cooldown by 50%.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Life Drain refracted on enemy heroes by Nether Ward reduces the affected target heroes' outgoing spell damage by 4% per second instead, following the same rules. [?]

7.31d

• Nether Ward
  • Reduced damage per used mana from 1/1.25/1.5/1.75 to 0.75/1/1.25/1.5.
  • Reduced outgoing spell damage reduction 10%/15%/20%/25% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.

7.31c

• Decrepify
  • Reduced cast range from 400/500/600/700 to 400/475/550/625.
  • Increased cooldown from 15/12/9/6 to 16/13/10/7.
• Reduced Nether Ward radius from 1600 to 1400.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +1.5s Decrepify duration reduced to +1s.

7.31

• Decrepify
  • Can now be cast while channeling.
  • Increased mana cost from 60 to 80.
• Nether Ward
  • No longer heals itself by health equivalent to 2 enemy attacks whenever it triggers. [?]
  • Now reduces enemies' outgoing spell damage by 10%/15%/20%/25%.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Old
    Life Drain
    • When cast on enemies, create new links for every 1.5-second channeling within CurrentCastRange + 200.
    • The channeling only ends if there are no links up anymore, or the channel duration runs out.
  • New
    Nether Ward
    • Increases cast range by 350.
    • Life Drain can be cast on the Nether Ward, dealing 70% of its damage and creating new Life Drain links to all enemy heroes within 700 range.
    • The effect is interrupted if the Nether Ward is destroyed or Pugna is disabled.

7.30e

• Increased Nether Blast cast range from 450 to 500.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +175 health increased to +200.

  LVL 10

   

  +15 movement speed increased to +20.

7.30d

• Increased Nether Blast cast range from 400 to 450.

7.30c

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 200/300/400 to 250/325/400.

7.30

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Nether Ward
  • No longer reduces enemy mana regeneration by 0.6%/0.8%/1%/1.2% of their max mana within its radius.
  • Now heals itself by health equivalent to 2 enemy attacks whenever it triggers. [?]

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  -0.8s Nether Blast cooldown increased to -1s.

7.29

• Increased base attack damage from 19‒27 to 21‒28.
• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
• Reduced Nether Blast effect delay from 0.9 to 0.8.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Life Drain secondary link creation interval from 1.75 to 1.5.
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +1.5 Nether Ward damage per used mana increased to +1.75.

7.28

• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Pugna:
  • Life Drain
    • When cast on enemies, create new links for every 1.75-second channeling within CurrentCastRange + 200.
    • The channeling only ends if there are no links up anymore, or the channel duration runs out.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +225 health reduced to +175.

  LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed reduced to +15.

  LVL 15

   

  -1s Nether Blast cooldown reduced to -0.8s.

  LVL 20

   

  +2s Decrepify duration reduced to +1.5s.

  LVL 20

   

  +25% Life Drain heal reduced to +20%.

  LVL 25

   

  +1.75 Nether Ward damage per used mana reduced to +1.5.

  LVL 25

   

  +200 Nether Blast damage reduced to +160.

7.26a

• Reduced Decrepify cast range from 700 on each level to 400/500/600/700.
• Reduced Nether Ward duration from 30 on each level to 18/22/26/30.

7.25

• Increased Nether Ward max mana as mana regeneration reduction per second from 0.3%/0.6%/0.9%/1.2% to 0.6%/0.8%/1%/1.2%.
• Life Drain
  • Reduced health drain per second from 175/275/375 to 150/225/300.
  • Reduced link break distance from 1000 to 900.
  • Reduced cooldown from 22 to 7.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/225/300 to 200/300/400.

7.24

• Increased base agility from 16 to 24.

7.23b

• Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/250/350 to 175/275/375.

7.23

• Nether Ward
  • No longer fires at spell immunity enemies. [?]
  • No longer triggers on abilities that do not trigger on-cast effects. [?]
  • Now has a base damage of 50 when triggering.
  • Reduced damage per used mana from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 to 1/1.25/1.5/1.75.

7.22d

• Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/225/300 to 150/250/350.

7.22

• Increased agility gain from 1 to 1.3.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0 to 0.5.
• Increased Nether Ward max mana as mana regeneration reduction per second from 0.25%/0.5%/0.75%/1% to 0.3%/0.6%/0.9%/1.2%.

7.21

• Increased intelligence gain from 4.5 to 5.2.
• Reduced base movement speed from 335 to 330.

7.20

• Increased strength gain from 1.8 to 2.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Nether Ward's mana regeneration reduction aura no longer pierces spell immunity.
• Life Drain no longer pierces spell immunity on enemies.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25 movement speed reduced to +20.

7.19

• Reduced base attack damage from 21‒29 to 19‒27.

7.16

• Increased Nether Ward damage per used mana from 1/1.25/1.5/1.75 to 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.

7.15

• Reduced base intelligence from 26 to 24.
• Increased base attack damage from 19‒27 to 21‒29.

7.14

• Increased base armor from -1 to 0.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +2 Nether Ward attacks to destroy increased to +3.

7.13b

• Increased base strength and gain from 17 + 1.5 to 19 + 1.8.

7.08

• Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/200/250 to 150/225/300.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • No longer increases Life Drain health drain per second. [?]

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +1 Nether Ward attacks to destroy increased to +2.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Reduced Life Drain cast range from 800 to 700.
• Decrepify can now target allied Tombstone.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +3 mana regeneration ➜ +25 movement speed.

  LVL 15

   

  -1s Nether Blast cooldown ➜ +1 Nether Ward attacks to destroy.

  LVL 15

   

  +1s Decrepify duration ➜ -1s Nether Blast cooldown.

  LVL 20

   

  +150 cast range ➜ +2s Decrepify duration.

  LVL 20

   

  +0.75 Nether Ward damage per used mana ➜ +25% Life Drain heal.

  LVL 25

   

  +200 Nether Blast damage ➜ +1.75 Nether Ward damage per used mana.

  LVL 25

   

  +50% Life Drain heal ➜ +200 Nether Blast damage.

7.06e

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +150 Nether Blast damage increased to +200.

7.06d

• Increased attack range from 600 to 630.

7.06c

• Increased Life Drain link break distance from 900 to 1000.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +0.5 Nether Ward damage per used mana increased to +0.7.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 1.2 to 1.5.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
• Life Drain
  • Now grants shared vision and True Sight over the target.
  • Reduced cast range from 900/1050/1200 to 800 on each level.
  • Reduced link break distance from 900/1050/1200 to 900 on each level.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  -35s respawn time ➜ +1s Decrepify duration.

7.05

• Increased base movement speed from 330 to 335.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +125 Nether Blast damage increased to +150.

7.03

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +150 health increased to +225.

  LVL 15

   

  +12 strength ➜ -1s Nether Blast cooldown.

  LVL 15

   

  -25s respawn time increased to -35s.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +10 strength increased to +12.

  LVL 20

   

  +100 cast range increased to +150.

  LVL 20

   

  +10 all all stats ➜  +0.5 Nether Ward damage per used mana.

  LVL 25

   

  +100 Nether Blast damage increased to +125.

7.00

• Changed
  Nether Ward mana loss per second from a flat 1.5/3/4.5/6 to 0.25%/0.5%/0.75%/1% of max mana.
• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +150 health

    

  +3 mana regeneration

  +10 strength

    

  -25s respawn time

  +100 cast range

    

  +10 all stats

  +100 Nether Blast damage

    

  +50% Life Drain heal

6.88

• Increased intelligence gain from 4 to 4.5.
• Reduced Nether Blast cooldown from 5.5 to 5.

6.87

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Nether Ward
  • Now treats attacks from illusions as attacks from non-hero units. [?]

6.86

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Decrepify no longer slows ally movement speed by 25%.

6.85

• Increased base movement speed from 320 to 330.
• Nether Ward
  • Changed
    ability targeting type from No Target to Target Point.
  • Now has 150 cast range.
  • Added
    ↓↓ Double-tapping support, automatically places Nether Ward automatically 150 range in front of Pugna when doing so.
• Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/185/220 to 150/200/250.

6.84

• Decrepify
  • Rescaled enemy movement speed slow from 50% on each level to 30%/40%/50%/60%.
  • Rescaled enemy magic resistance reduction from 50% on each level to 30%/40%/50%/60%.
  • Increased duration from 2/2.5/3/3.5 to 3.5 on each level.
  • Increased cooldown from 12/10/8/6 to 15/12/9/6.
• Life Drain
  • Rescaled cast range from 1100 to 900/1050/1200.
  • Rescaled link break distance from 1100 to 900/1050/1200.
  • Increased health drain per second from 120/160/200 to 150/185/220.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • No longer increases Life Drain link break distance and cast range.

6.83

• Reduced Decrepify allies movement speed slow from 50% to 25%.
• Nether Ward
  • Increased hero attacks to destroy from 3 to 4.
  • Increased non-hero attacks to destroy from 12 to 16.
  • Changed
    damage per used mana's damage source from Pugna to Nether Ward itself. [?]

6.82

• Life Drain
  • Can now be cast on allies, allowing Pugna to drain his own life to heal them.
  • Heal value is based on damage dealt. Also restores the ally's mana when the ally is at full health.

6.81

• Reduced Decrepify mana cost from 100 to 60.
• Increased Nether Ward duration from 25 to 30.

6.79

• Decrepify
  • Reduced ally magic resistance reduction from 40% to 25%.
  • Increased enemy magic resistance reduction from 40% to 50%.
• Nether Ward
  • No longer has 75/150/225/300 health.
  • Now requires 3 hero attacks to destroy.
  • Now requires 12 non-hero attacks to destroy.
• Life Drain now restores Pugna's mana if it tries to heal him while he is at full health when targeting heroes.

6.78b

• Fixed ability visual effects when Tombstone is affected by Decrepify.

6.78

• Increased Nether Blast building damage multiplier from 0.33 to 0.5.
• Decrepify can now be cast on Tombstone.

6.77

• Reduced Decrepify cooldown from 13/11/9/7 to 12/10/8/6.

6.76

• Increased Nether Ward radius from 700/1000/1300/1600 to 1600 on each level.
• Life Drain
  • Increased cast range from 900 to 1100.
  • Increased link break distance from 900 to 1100.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Life Drain
    • Increased cast range from 950 to 1150.
    • Increased link break distance from 950 to 1150.

6.75

• Increased base movement speed from 315 to 320.
• Increased Nether Ward damage per used mana from 0.75/1/1.25/1.5 to 1/1.25/1.5/1.75.
• Life Drain
  • Increased cast range from 850 to 900.
  • Increased link break distance from 850 to 900.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Life Drain
    • Increased cast range from 900 to 950.
    • Increased link break distance from 900 to 950.

6.74

• Increased Decrepify cast range from 550/600/650/700 to 700 on each level.
• Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 100/150/200 to 120/160/200.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 175/225/275 to 180/240/300.

6.73

• Life Drain
  • Increased health drain per second from 95/140/185 to 100/150/200.
  • Increased max channel time from 9 to 10.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/200/250 to 175/225/275.

6.72d

• Fixed the following abilities' interactions with Ethereal sources (e.g. Decrepify):
  • Culling Blade
  • Ice Blast

6.72

• Fixed ability interactions between Meat Hook and Ethereal sources (e.g. Decrepify).
• Nether Ward
  • Fixed unit selection UI.

6.71

• Reduced strength gain from 1.45 to 1.2.
• Fixed ability interactions between Spawn Spiderlings and Ethereal sources (e.g. Decrepify).

6.70

• Added
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Pugna has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
• Fixed ability interactions between Call Down and Nether Blast.

6.69

• Fixed ability interactions between Soul Rip and Ethereal sources (e.g. Decrepify.

6.68

• Added
  new damage indicator for units receiving extra damage when affected by Ethereal sources (e.g. Decrepify).

6.67

• Reduced Decrepify magic resistance reduction from 44% to 40%.

6.66

• Increased Decrepify cast range from 550 on each level to 550/600/650/700.

6.65

• Reduced cast time of the following abilities from 0.5 to 0.2:
  • Nether Blast
  • Nether Ward
  • Life Drain
• Decrepify
  • Reduced cast time from 0.5 to 0.2.
  • Can now be cast on Nether Ward.

6.63

• Nether Ward damage per used mana no longer has a 0.75-second cooldown.

6.60

• Fixed the following abilities' interaction with Decrepify:
  • Laser
• Life Drain
  • Increased link break distance from 800 to 850.
  • Increased cast range from 550 to 850.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Life Drain
    • Increased cast range from 600 to 900.
    • Reduced health drain per second from 170/200/300 to 150/200/250.
    • Increased link break distance from 850 to 900
    • Reduced cooldown from 10 to 0.

6.58

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduces Life Drain cooldown from 22 to 10.

6.55

• Fixed ability interactions between Devour and Decrepify.

6.41

• Added visual effects with Aghanim's Scepter equipped on the hero.

6.39

• Updated Decrepify ability tooltips.

6.36

• Nether Ward
  • Reduced health from 100/200/300/400 to 75/150/225/300.

6.35

• Updated hero icon.
• Nether Ward
  • Updated model color.

6.34

• Nether Ward
  • Now has a 20/40/60/80 bounty.

6.28

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 140/185/250 to 170/200/300.

6.26

• Increased base agility from 13 to 16.

6.24

• Increased Nether Blast radius from 300 to 400.

6.19b

• Increased Life Drain max channel time from 7 to 9.

6.19

• Increased base strength from 14 to 17.
• Reduced Nether Blast effect delay from 1.8 to 0.9.
• Nether Ward
  • No longer deals the damage to all units with a mana pool within a 250/500/750/1000 radius around the shocked unit.
  • Increased mana loss per second from 1/2/3/4 to 1.5/3/4.5/6.
  • Nether Ward
    • Rescaled health from 160/200/240/280 to 100/200/300/400.

6.17

• Updated Nether Ward ability tooltips.

6.13

• Increased intelligence gain from 3.75 to 4.
• Increased attack range from 575 to 600.
• Reduced Decrepify cooldown from 15/13/11/9 to 13/11/9/7.

6.10

• Increased base movement speed from 295 to 315.
• Nether Ward
  • Increased mana loss per second from 1 on each level to 1/2/3/4.
  • Increased damage per used mana from 1 on each level to 0.75/1/1.25/1.5.
  • Nether Ward
    • Increased health from 175 on each level to 160/200/240/280.
• Increased Life Drain cast range from 500 to 550.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Life Drain
    • Increased cast range from 550 to 600.
    • Increased link break distance from 800 to 850.

6.09b

• Nether Blast
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Reduced cast time from 1 to 0.5.

6.04

• Fixed Decrepify magic resistance reduction being 66% instead of 44%.

6.03

• Updated Life Drain ability tooltip.
  • Added
    CHANNELED notice.

6.00

• Reduced attack point from 0.55 to 0.5.
• Increased attack backswing from 0.4 to 0.5.
• Increased cast point from 0.3 to 0.5.
• Reduced cast backswing from 2.4 to 0.51.
• Pugna can now attack ethereal units with a longer attack backswing.
• Nether Ward
  • Reduced armor from 12 to 0.
  • Reduced health from 175/250/325/400 to 175 on each level.

5.80

• Increased Nether Ward health from 5 on each level to 175/250/325/400.

5.79

• Replaced
  Morbid with Nether Ward.

Old

Morbid

Pugna's mere presence disrupts the mana regeneration of nearby enemy heroes.

Radius: 900

Mana loss per second: 3/6/9/12

New

Nether Ward

Summons a Nether Ward that prevents enemy heroes from regenerating mana and can casts Mana Flare, which deals damage to enemy heroes as they cast spells.

Mana regeneration reduction/Cast search radius: 700/1000/1300/1600

Mana loss per second: 1

Damage per used mana: 1

Damage radius: 250/500/750/1000

Notes: The ward has 5 health and is immobile. The Mana Flare has a 0.75-second cooldown and it damages every enemy unit within range of the casting unit.

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 140/185/230 to 140/185/250.

5.78

• Increased strength gain from 1.2 to 1.45.
• Reduced agility gain from 1.2 to 1.
• Reduced Life Drain cooldown from 30 to 22.

5.72

• Increased Morbid mana loss per second from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12.

5.65

• Nether Blast
  • Reduced damage from 125/200/275/350 to 100/175/250/325.
  • Reduced radius from 350 to 300.
• Increased Morbid mana loss per second from 1.5/3/4.5/6 to 2/4/6/8.
• Life Drain
  • Reduced health drained per second from 100/150/200 to 95/140/185.
  • Increased cooldown from 16 to 30.
• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Pugna:
  • Life Drain
    • Increases health drain per second to 140/185/230.
    • Increases mana cost to 175/225/275.

5.62

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

08 Sep 2023

• Fixed ability interactions between the Spirit Bear and ward-type units that require a fixed amount of attacks to destroy. (e.g. Nether Ward).

30 Aug 2023

• Reduced versus scale from 0.86 to 0.74.
• Reduced loadout scale from 0.85 to 0.74.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Pugna has the following values: Cape 1, Green 1, Horns 1, Undead 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

18 Jul 2023

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated Nether Ward ability backend strings.

10 Jul 2023

• Updated Nether Ward ability backend strings.

26 Jun 2023

• Fixed ability interactions between Life Drain with True Sight and invisibility sources.

25 Apr 2023

• Fixed Nether Ward tracking its healing value with Life Drain.

07 Mar 2023

• Fixed Gunslinger being unable to target secondary ethereal units (e.g. Decrepify) while Pierce the Veil is active.

15 Nov 2022

• Updated Life Drain ability backend strings.

08 Jun 2022

• Added
  ☐ Disabled Help support for Decrepify.

07 Mar 2022

• Nether Ward
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Updated ability descriptions.

25 Mar 2021

• Updated Nether Ward rune textures that are cast on the ground around the ward.

13 Jan 2021

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Pugna's attack launch sound volume being accidentally set to 0 in a recent patch.

26 Nov 2019

• Fixed Nether Ward not being spell immune [?]

08 Aug 2019

• Right Click on wards that are not deniable with force right-click attack (A+ Right Click) will now issue a move order rather than attack.

02 Jul 2018

• Fixed a bug with how Quickcast on key down would filter targets (affected cases like Decrepify and Astral Imprisonment)

16 Nov 2017

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

17 Oct 2017

• Fixed capitalization issue with some ability tooltips.

02 Jun 2017

• Decrepify can no longer target Tombstone. Before it wasted cooldown and mana with no effect.

31 May 2017

• Updated and added new Decrepify tooltip: Can be used on your Nether Ward..

21 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default item build.

12 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 8
  • Fixed ability interactions between Tether and Life Drain.

17 Nov 2016

• Updated the min and max hitbox bounds for Nether Ward.

24 Mar 2016

• Fixed Nether Ward damage not disabling Blink Dagger and Heart of Tarrasque.
• Fixed Echo Shell incorrectly applying Decrepify effects through spell immunity.

17 Feb 2016

• Updated workshop hero files of Pugna and Nether Ward to Source 2.

15 Sep 2015

• Fixed a bug where Nether Ward particles would not render when in Fog of War.

19 Aug 2015

• Fixed some cases where the Nether Ward did not allow placement in very small spaces.

14 Aug 2015

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the Nether Ward portrait would be empty after selecting the unit.

30 Apr 2015

• UPDATE 7 (TEST)
  • Fixed Shadow Walk debuff affecting Nether Ward.

28 Apr 2015

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed Life Drain not working on allies.

17 Dec 2014

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed allied Life Drain not canceling when the distance threshold was broken.

05 Nov 2014

• Nether Ward ambient effects will now properly stop when they expire or are killed.

25 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 5 (TEST)
  • Fixed ability interactions between Life Drain and Holy Persuasion.
    • Fixed Life Drain behavior when the target is converted with Holy Persuasion.

24 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Life Drain
    • Fixed being able to cast ability on yourself.
    • Fixed ability causing a deny instead of a suicide.

04 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 3
  • Fixed Nether Ward Mana Flare damage timing when Suicide Squad, Attack! is cast.

29 Apr 2014

• Nether Blast
  • Ability precast sound is now only audible for allies only.
  • Fixed ability sound effects not respecting the Fog of War.

28 Mar 2014

• Updated Life Drain ability tooltip.

28 Jun 2013

• Fixed Nether Ward degen aura not working against magic immune units.

20 Jun 2013

• Updated and minor revisions to some ability sound effects.

04 Jun 2013

• Fixed ability interactions between Decrepify and Tombstone.

28 Feb 2013

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed Life Drain cast backswing behavior.

07 Feb 2013

• Fixed some ability backswing timing issues.

21 Sep 2012

• Fixed Nether Ward briefly registering the incorrect team right after casting.

02 Aug 2012

• Fixed Illuminate dealing maximum damage instantly when killed by Nether Ward on cast attempt.

25 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed not being able to ⇱⇲ Drag-select Nether Ward by dragging over the model.

04 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Soul Rip being able to target on Nether Ward.

14 Jun 2012

• Nether Ward
  • Fixed Nether Ward mana regeneration reduction not working on enemies.
  • Coup de Grace no longer works on unit.

11 Jun 2012

• Fixed Decrepify being castable on magic immune allies.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
• Nether Ward
  • Fixed Arcane Orb working against unit.
  • The Experience_XP bar is now used to show the remaining duration.

10 May 2012

• Fixed Life Drain cast range not being upgraded.

12 Apr 2012

• Fixed abilities going into cooldown if the target dies while paying mana cost (i.e. from Nether Ward).

08 Mar 2012

• Nether Ward
  • Fixed mana regeneration reduction not showing the proper numbers for players.
  • Fixed being able to transfer to Nether Ward.

12 Jan 2012

• Summoned units now draw larger on the minimap.

01 Dec 2011

• Nether Ward
  • Fixed collision size being too big.
  • Fixed the following abilities from affecting unit:
    • Heartstopper Aura
    • Bash

17 Nov 2011

• Fixed the following abilities working on Nether Ward:
  • Burning Spear
  • Tidebringer
  • Backstab
  • Chain Lightning and Chain Lightning proccing
  • Critical strike item sources

27 Oct 2011

• When disarmed (with Decrepify, etc.), you can now Right Click or A+ Right Click on enemies to move toward them.
  • The Can't Attack error will not appear until you reach attack range of the enemy.

16 Sep 2011

• Fixed Nether Ward bounty always being stuck at level 1.
• Fixed Life Drain instantly filling Pugna's health when used on illusions.

15 Sep 2011

• Fixed Nether Ward bounty always being stuck at level 1.
• Fixed Life Drain instantly filling Pugna's health when used on illusions.

06 Aug 2011

• Nether Ward
  • Fixed not giving Gold and Experience_XP bounty.
  • Added timed life health indicator.

08 Jul 2011

• Life Drain will now cancel itself if the affected target goes into the Fog of War.

01 Jul 2011

• Nether Blast now does only 33% of the full damage to buildings.
• Decrepify is now properly blocked by Spellblock.
• Nether Ward degen aura is not purgeable.
  • Nether Ward
    • Mana Flare does not affect creeps.
    • Mana Flare is now properly blocked by Spellblock.
• Life Drain
  • Ability can now be Spellblock and it will cancel channeling.
  • No longer dispelable.
  • The ability will heal for remaining health of an illusion has before killing it.

17 Jun 2011

• Adjusted Nether Blast effect to be more representitive of the radius of the effect.
• Fixed unable to cast Decrepify on Nether Ward.

10 Jun 2011

• Fixed Life Drain cancelling itself if cast at edge of Pugna's cast range.

02 Jun 2011

• Fixed Nether Ward not immediately going away when it is destroyed.

26 May 2011

• Life Drain
  • Fixed values always being that of Aghanim's Scepter upgrade.
  • Fixed ability tick interval.
• Fixed the following abilities working against Nether Ward:
  • Lifesteal sources
  • Damage Return

20 May 2011

• Added
  Pugna.
  • Model work-in-progress.