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Version History[]
Version
Description
- 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%.
- 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:
- Level 20 left talent: +1.5s Decrepify duration reduced to +1s.
- 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%.
- REWORKEDAghanim's Shard upgrade:
- OLDWhen cast on an enemy, causes Life Drain to create new Life Drain links on other enemy heroes within
CurrentCastRange + 200
for every 1.5 seconds spent channeling. The channeling only ends if there are no links up anymore, or the channel duration runs out. - NEWIncreases Nether Ward cast range by 350 and allows Life Drain to target the ward, causing it to create Life Drain links to all enemy heroes within 700 range of the ward, dealing 70% of its damage. The effect is interrupted if the Nether Ward is destroyed.
- Increased Nether Blast cast range from 450 to 500.
Talents:
- Level 10 left talent: +175 health increased to +200.
- Level 10 right talent: +15 movement speed increased to +20.
- Increased Nether Blast cast range from 400 to 450.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 200/300/400 to 250/325/400.
- 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:
- Level 15 right talent: -0.8s Nether Blast cooldown increased to -1s.
- 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.
Talents:
- Level 25 left talent: +1.5 Nether Ward damage per used mana increased to +1.75.
- ADDEDAghanim's Shard upgrade for Pugna:
- When cast on an enemy, causes Life Drain to create new Life Drain links on other enemy heroes within
CurrentCastRange + 200
for every 1.75 seconds spent channeling. The channeling only ends if there are no links up anymore, or the channel duration runs out.
- When cast on an enemy, causes Life Drain to create new Life Drain links on other enemy heroes within
- Level 10 left talent: +225 health reduced to +175.
- Level 10 right talent: +20 movement speed reduced to +15.
- Level 15 right talent: -1s Nether Blast cooldown reduced to -0.8s.
- Level 20 left talent: +2s Decrepify duration reduced to +1.5s.
- Level 20 right talent: +25% Life Drain heal reduced to +20%.
- Level 25 left talent: +1.75 Nether Ward damage per used mana reduced to +1.5.
- Level 25 right talent: +200 Nether Blast damage reduced to +160.
- 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.
- 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.
- Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/250/350 to 175/275/375.
- Nether Ward
- No longer fires at spell immunity enemies. [?]
- No longer triggers on spells 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.
- Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 150/225/300 to 150/250/350.
- 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%.
- Increased intelligence gain from 4.5 to 5.2.
- Reduced base movement speed from 335 to 330.
- 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:
- Level 10 right talent: +25 movement speed reduced to +20.
- Reduced base attack damage from 21‒29 to 19‒27.
- Increased Nether Ward damage per used mana from 1/1.25/1.5/1.75 to 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.
- Reduced base intelligence from 26 to 24.
- Increased base attack damage from 19‒27 to 21‒29.
- Increased base armor from -1 to 0.
Talents:
- Level 15 left talent: +2 Nether Ward attacks to destroy increased to +3.
- 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:
- Level 15 left talent: +1 Nether Ward attacks to destroy increased to +2.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Life Drain range reduced from 800 to 700
- Decrepify can now target Tombstone.
- REWORKED
Talents:
- OLD
- Level 10: +225 health or +3 mana regeneration
- Level 15: -1s Nether Blast cooldown or +1s Decrepify duration
- Level 20: +150 cast range or +0.75 Nether Ward damage per used mana
- Level 25: +200 Nether Blast damage or +50% Life Drain heal
- NEW
- Level 10: +225 health or +25 movement speed
- Level 15: +1 Nether Ward attacks to destroy or -1s Nether Blast cooldown
- Level 20: +2s Decrepify duration or +25% Life Drain heal
- Level 25: +1.75 Nether Ward damage per used mana or +200 Nether Blast damage
- Level 25 left talent: +150 Nether Blast damage increased to +200.
- Increased attack range from 600 to 630.
- Increased Life Drain link break distance from 900 to 1000.
Talents:
- Level 20 right talent: +0.5 Nether Ward damage per used mana increased to +0.75.
- Increased strength gain from 1.2 to 1.5.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
- 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:
- Level 15 right talent changed: -35s respawn time ➜ +1s Decrepify duration.
- Increased base movement speed from 330 to 335.
Talents:
- Level 25 left talent: +125 Nether Blast damage increased to +150.
- Level 10 left talent: +150 health increased to +225.
- Level 15 left talent changed: +12 strength ➜ -1s Nether Blast cooldown.
- Level 15 right talent: -25s respawn time increased to -35s.
- Level 15 left talent: +10 strength increased to +12.
- Level 20 left talent: +100 cast range increased to +150.
- Level 20 right talent changed: +10 all / / all stats ➜ +0.5 Nether Ward damage per used mana.
- Level 25 left talent: +100 Nether Blast damage increased to +125.
- CHANGEDNether 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.
- ADDED
Talents:
- Level 10: +150 health or +3 mana regeneration
- Level 15: +10 strength or -25s respawn time
- Level 20: +100 cast range or +10 / / all stats
- Level 25: +100 Nether Blast damage or +50% Life Drain heal
- Increased intelligence gain from 4 to 4.5.
- Reduced Nether Blast cooldown from 5.5 to 5.
- Nether Ward
- Now treats attacks from illusions as attacks from non-hero units. [?]
- Increased base movement speed from 320 to 330.
- Nether Ward
- CHANGEDability 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- CHANGEDdamage per used mana's damage source from Pugna to Nether Ward itself. [?]
- 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 ally's mana when ally is at full health.
- Reduced Decrepify mana cost from 100 to 60.
- Increased Nether Ward duration from 25 to 30.
- Decrepify
- Reduced allies 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 or 12 non-hero attacks to be destroyed.
- Life Drain now restores Pugna's mana if it tries to heal him while he is at full health when targeting heroes.
- Increased Nether Blast building damage percentage from 33% to 50%.
- Decrepify can now be cast on Tombstone.
- 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.
- Life Drain
- 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.
- Life Drain
- 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.
- 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.
- Reduced cast time of the following abilities from 0.5 to 0.2:
- Decrepify
- Reduced cast time from 0.5 to 0.2.
- Can now be cast on Nether Ward.
- Nether Ward damage per used mana no longer has a 0.75-second cooldown.
- 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.
- Life Drain
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduces Life Drain cooldown from 22 to 10.
- Nether Ward
- Reduced health from 100/200/300/400 to 75/150/225/300.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Life Drain health drain per second from 140/185/250 to 170/200/300.
- Increased Nether Blast radius from 300 to 400.
- Increased Life Drain max channel time from 7 to 9.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Life Drain
- Reduced Nether Blast cast time from 1 to 0.5.
- 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.
- Nether Ward
- Reduced armor from 12 to 0.
- Reduced health from 175/250/325/400 to 175 on each level.
- Increased Nether Ward health from 5 on each level to 175/250/325/400.
- REPLACEDMorbid with Nether Ward.
- OLDMorbid
- Pugna's mere presence disrupts the mana regeneration of nearby enemy heroes.
- Radius: 900
- Mana loss per second: 3/6/9/12
- NEWNether 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ADDEDAghanim's Scepter upgrade for Pugna:
- Increases Life Drain health drain per second to 140/185/230 and mana cost to 175/225/275.
- CREATED
Patch History[]
Patch
Description
- ADDED☐ Disabled Help support for Decrepify.
- Updated Nether Ward rune textures that are cast on the ground around the ward.
- Fixed Nether Ward not being spell immune [?]
- Fixed a bug with how Quickcast on key down would filter targets (affected cases like Decrepify and Astral Imprisonment)
- Added Arcane Rune responses.
- Fixed capitalization issue with some ability tooltips.
- Updated and added new Decrepify tooltip:
Can be used on your Nether Ward.
.
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- Updated default item build.
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- Fixed ability interactions between Tether and Life Drain.
- Updated the min and max hitbox bounds for Nether Ward.
- Fixed Nether Ward damage not disabling Blink Dagger and Heart of Tarrasque.
- Fixed Echo Shell incorrectly applying Decrepify effects through spell immunity.
- Updated workshop hero files of Pugna and Nether Ward to Source 2.
- Fixed a bug where Nether Ward particles would not render when in Fog of War.
- Fixed some cases where the Nether Ward did not allow placement in very small spaces.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes the Nether Ward portrait would be empty after selecting the unit.
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- Fixed Shadow Walk debuff affecting Nether Ward.
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- Fixed
Life Drain not working on allies.
- Fixed
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- Fixed allied Life Drain not canceling when the distance threshold was broken.
- Nether Ward ambient effects will now properly stop when they expire or are killed.
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- Fixed ability interactions between Life Drain and Holy Persuasion.
- Fixed Life Drain behavior when the target is converted with Holy Persuasion.
- Fixed ability interactions between Life Drain and Holy Persuasion.
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- Life Drain
- Fixed being able to cast ability on yourself.
- Fixed ability causing a deny instead of a suicide.
- Life Drain
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- Fixed Nether Ward Mana Flare damage timing when Suicide Squad, Attack! is cast.
- Nether Blast
- Ability precast sound is now only audible for allies only.
- Fixed ability sound effects not respecting the Fog of War.
- Updated Life Drain ability tooltip.
- Fixed Nether Ward degen aura not working against magic immune units.
- Updated and minor revisions to some ability sound effects.
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- Fixed Life Drain cast backswing behavior.
- Fixed some ability backswing timing issues.
- Fixed Nether Ward briefly registering the incorrect team right after casting.
- Fixed Illuminate dealing maximum damage instantly when killed by Nether Ward on cast attempt.
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- Fixed not being able to ⇱⇲ Drag-select Nether Ward by dragging over the model.
- UPDATE 2
- Fixed Soul Rip being able to target on Nether Ward.
- Nether Ward
- Fixed Nether Ward mana regeneration reduction not working on enemies.
- Coup de Grace no longer works on unit.
- Fixed Decrepify being castable on magic immune allies.
- Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
- Nether Ward
- Fixed Arcane Orb working against unit.
- The ExperienceXP bar is now used to show the remaining duration.
- Fixed
Life Drain cast range not being upgraded.
- Fixed abilities going into cooldown if the target dies while paying mana cost (i.e. from Nether Ward).
- Nether Ward
- Fixed mana regeneration reduction not showing the proper numbers for players.
- Fixed being able to transfer Nightmare to Nether Ward.
- Summoned units now draw larger on the minimap.
- Nether Ward
- Fixed collision size being too big.
- Fixed the following abilities from affecting unit:
- Fixed the following abilities working on Nether Ward:
- Burning Spear
- Tidebringer
- Backstab
- Chain Lightning and Chain Lightning proccing
- Critical strike item sources
- 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.
- The
- Fixed Nether Ward bounty always being stuck at level 1.
- Fixed Life Drain instantly filling Pugna's health when used on illusions.
- Fixed Nether Ward bounty always being stuck at level 1.
- Fixed Life Drain instantly filling Pugna's health when used on illusions.
- Life Drain will now cancel itself if the affected target goes into the Fog of War.
- 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.
- Nether Ward
- 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.
- Adjusted Nether Blast effect to be more representitive of the radius of the effect.
- Fixed unable to cast Decrepify on Nether Ward.
- Fixed Life Drain cancelling itself if cast at edge of Pugna's cast range.
- Fixed Nether Ward not immediately going away when it is destroyed.
- 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
- ADDEDPugna.
- Model work-in-progress.