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Version History[]

Version

Description

Psi Blades
- Increased spill area length from 550/600/650/700 to 600/650/700/750.
$Refraction icon$ Refraction
- Reduced mana cost from 90 to 85.
- Reduced cooldown from 17 to 16.

Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Psionic Projection
  - Changed
    from dealing a total damage of 275/325/375 to one instance of 200 damage upon reaching the targeted Psionic Trap.
  - Increased min movement speed slow from 30% to 60%. [?]
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- U
  Increased Psionic Projection min silence duration from 1.5 to 3.5. [?]

Psionic Trap
- Reduced damage interval from 1 to 0.5.
- Increased total damage from 250/300/350 to 275/325/375.
Trap
- Added
  Alt-cast functionality. [?]
- Right Click on ability toggles and swaps the functionality of the ability with Trap (Secondary), and activates the Psionic Trap nearest to the Mouse cursor rather than the one closest to Templar Assassin.
Psionic Trap
- Trap
  - Reduced damage interval from 1 to 0.5.
  - Increased total damage from 250/300/350 to 275/325/375.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Psionic Projection
  - Reduced damage interval from 1 to 0.5.
  - Increased total damage from 250/300/350 to 275/325/375.

Increased base movement speed from 305 to 310.
Increased Meld damage from 80/120/160/200 to 80/130/180/230.

Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
Increase attack range from 160 to 200.
Rescaled $Refraction icon$ Refraction mana cost from 85/90/95/100 to 90 on each level.
Added
Autocast functionality to Trap.
- The ability now activates the Psionic Trap nearest to the cursor rather than the one closest to Templar Assassin.
Psionic Trap
- Can always be denied.
- Psi Blades treat the denied unit as the attack target's location and the spill area extends beyond.

Increased base strength from 21 to 23.

Reduced Psionic Trap trap charge time from 4 to 3.5.
Psionic Trap
- Reduced Trap charge time from 4 to 3.5.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Psionic Projection trap charge time from 4 to 3.5.

Reduced $Refraction icon$ Refraction mana cost from 100 on each level to 85/90/95/100.

Talents:

LVL 10

+20 attack speed ➜ +25 $Refraction icon$ Refraction attack damage.
LVL 15

20% evasion ➜ $Refraction icon$ Refraction castable while disabled.

Strength of the Immortal now causes Roshan's attacks to immediately destroy Psionic Trap.

Reduced $Refraction icon$ Refraction attack damage bonus from 25/50/75/100 to 25/45/65/85.

Changed
Psi Blades spill area length from 1.5 * ΣAtkRange to a fixed 550/600/650/700.

Talents:

LVL 15

0 Psi Blades spill range increased to +120. [?]
LVL 15

15% evasion increased to 20%.
LVL 25

+8 $Refraction icon$ Refraction instances reduced to +7.

Psi Blades
- Now deals 5% less spill damage to each successive enemy after the first target.
- Reduced attack range as spill area length from 2 to 1.5.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Psionic Projection
  - Can no longer start channeling while rooted or leashed. [?]
  - Increased channel time from 1 to 1.5.

Talents:

LVL 10

+100 Psi Blades range ➜ +110 Psionic Trap damage.
LVL 15

+180 Psionic Trap damage ➜ +120 Psi Blades range.

Reduced Meld cooldown from 15/12/9/6 to 11/9/7/5.

Talents:

LVL 10

+80 Psi Blades range increased to +100.

Meld
- Increased damage from 50/100/150/200 to 80/120/160/200.
- Reduced mana cost from 50 on each level to 35/40/45/50.
- Increased cooldown from 12/10/8/6 to 15/12/9/6.
Reduced Psionic Trap cast range from 2000 to 1800.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Psionic Projection
  - Reduced mana cost from 100 to 50.
  - Reduced cooldown from 15 to 10.
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Trap and Psionic Projection
  - Increased min silence duration from 0.5 to 1.5.
  - Increased max silence duration from 3 to 3.5.
  - Psionic Trap
    - Now also increases vision radius to 525.
Added
Attribute Bonus.

Talents:

LVL 10

20 movement speed ➜ +80 Psi Blades range.
LVL 10

+15 attack speed increased to +20.
LVL 15

+160 Psionic Trap damage increased to +180.
LVL 25

+6 $Refraction icon$ Refraction instances increased to +8.

Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Now also increases Psionic Trap max trap count by 4.

Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Trap and Psionic Projection
  - Increased max silence duration from 2.5 to 3.

Increased base strength from 19 to 21.
Increased base attack range from 140 to 160.
Psi Blades
- Changed
  spill area length from a fixed 590/630/670/710 to 2 * ΣAtkRange.
- Rescaled attack range bonus from 60/120/180/240 to 80/130/180/230.
Added
Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Templar Assassin:
- Trap
  - Now applies a min 0.5-second to a max 2.5-second silence based on its trap charge time upon activation.
  - U
    Traps activated by Psionic Projection also applies the same effects.

Talents:

LVL 10

+15 movement speed increased to +20.

Meld
- Increased armor reduction from 2/4/6/8 to 5/6/7/8.
- Increased cooldown from 6 on each level to 12/10/8/6.

Talents:

LVL 25

+4 $Refraction icon$ Refraction instances increased to +6.

Talents:

LVL 10

12% evasion ➜ +15 movement speed.
LVL 10

+20 attack speed reduced to +15.
LVL 15

+15 movement speed ➜ 15% evasion.
LVL 25

+3 $Refraction icon$ Refraction instances increased to +4.

Talents:

LVL 10

15% evasion reduced to 12%.
LVL 10

+25 attack speed reduced to +20.
LVL 15

+200 Psionic Trap damage reduced to +160.
LVL 15

+20 movement speed reduced to +15.
LVL 20

+4 Meld armor reduction reduced to +3.
LVL 25

+4 $Refraction icon$ Refraction instances reduced to +3.
LVL 25

1.25s Meld bash on attack reduced to 1s.

Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Psionic Projection channel time from 2 to 1.

Talents:

LVL 15

+25 movement speed reduced to +20.
LVL 25

1.5s Meld bash on attack reduced to 1.25s.

Increased Psi Blades spill area width from 75 to 90.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Psionic Projection cooldown from 30 to 15.

$Refraction icon$ Refraction no longer applies its bonus damage upon attacking allied units. [?]

Added
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Templar Assassin:
- Grants Templar Assassin the Psionic Projection ability.

Psionic Projection

Allows Templar Assassin to teleport to any Psionic Trap after channeling. Does not break Meld. Detonates the Psionic Trap on arrival.

Cast range: Global

Channel time: 2

Mana cost: 100

Cooldown: 30

Increased agility gain from 2.8 to 3.2.
Increased Meld debuff duration from 10 to 12.

Increased agility gain from 2.6 to 2.8.
Increased $Refraction icon$ Refraction attack damage bonus from 20/40/60/80 to 25/50/75/100.

Meld debuff from multiple attacks now fully stacks.

Increased agility gain from 2.3 to 2.6.
Reduced base movement speed from 310 to 305.
Meld
- Now apply the armor reduction debuff before the attack damage is applied, instead of after. [?]
- No longer counts as spell damage. [?]

Talents:

LVL 10

+3 Psionic Trap max count ➜ 15% evasion.
LVL 15

+7 armor ➜ +25 movement speed.

Reduced base health regeneration from 1.75 to 0.25.
Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
Psi Blades now works when attacking illusions. [?]

Talents:

LVL 20

$Refraction icon$ Refraction dispels ➜ Meld dispels. [?]
LVL 25

100% Psi Blades movement speed slow ➜ 1.5s Meld bash on attack. [?]

Reduced Psionic Trap damage per second from 50/70/90 to 50/60/70.

Psionic Trap
- Increased gold bounty from 1 to 25 .

Increased base health regeneration from 1.5 to 1.75.

Increased base strength from 18 to 19.

Increased base movement speed from 300 to 310.

Psionic Trap
- Increased damage per second from 35/50/65 to 50/70/90.
- Reduced trap charge time from 6 to 4.

Talents:

LVL 10

+250 health ➜ +3 Psionic Trap max count.

Increased Psionic Trap damage per second from 20/25/30 to 35/50/65.

Talents:

LVL 10

+200 health increased to +250.

Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
Reduced base movement speed from 305 to 300.
Psionic Trap now deals 20/25/30 damage per second when fully charged. [?]

Talents:

LVL 10

+20 movement speed ➜ +200 health.
LVL 15

12% evasion ➜ +200 Psionic Trap damage.
LVL 15

+6 all attributes ➜ +7 armor.
LVL 20

+40 attack damage ➜ +4 Meld armor reduction.
LVL 20

+275 health ➜ $Refraction icon$ Refraction dispels. [?]
LVL 25

+3 $Refraction icon$ Refraction instances increased to +4.
LVL 25

+8 Meld armor reduction ➜ 100% Psi Blades movement speed slow. [?]

Increased strength gain from 2.1 to 2.4
Reduced agility gain from 2.7 to 2.3
Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
Increased base mana from 50 to 75.

Talents:

LVL 25

-30s respawn time ➜ +8 Meld armor reduction.

Talents:

LVL 10

+15 movement speed increased to +20.
LVL 20

+250 health increased to +275.

Psi Blades now fully works for Templar Assassin's illusions.
Removed
Attribute Bonus.

added
Talents:

+15 movement speed

+25 attack speed
12% evasion

+6 all attributes
+40 attack damage

+250 health
+3 $Refraction icon$ Refraction instances

-30s respawn time

Increased Psi Blades spill area width from 68 to 75.
Increased Psionic Trap max movement speed slow from 50% to 60%. [?]

Increased base health from 180 to 200.
Increased base mana from 0 to 50.

Increased base health from 150 to 180.
$Refraction icon$ Refraction's visual effects and status buffs are now always visible.

Meld
- Damage is no longer reduced by Damage Block.
- Reduced cooldown from 7 to 6.

Reduced Psionic Trap cooldown from 11/9/7 to 11/8/5.
Psi Blades spill damage now hits spell immune units.

Trap
- Reduced cast point from 0.3 to 0.
- No longer interrupts Templar Assassin's channeling abilities upon cast.

Increased $Refraction icon$ Refraction mana cost from 75 to 100.

Changed
Psionic Trap movement speed slow from a fixed 50% to 30% + 5%/sec up to 50%. [?]

Psi Blades no longer spill damage when attacking illusions.

Psi Blades
- Increased attack range bonus from 40/100/160/220 to 60/120/180/240.
- Fixed ability not affecting certain areas right behind the initial target.

$Refraction icon$ Refraction
- Increased number of instances from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6.
- Fixed ability buff icon issues.

Updated $Refraction icon$ Refraction ability status buff icon.
- $Refraction icon$ Granting instances of damage negation.
- $Refraction damage icon$ Granting instances of bonus attack damage.
Increased Psi Blades spill area width from 70 to 80.
Updated Psionic Trap ability tooltips.

Fixed Meld overhead text from being displayed through the Fog of War.

Increased base attack damage from 22‒32 to 31‒36.
Added
new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
- Templar Assassin 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 Meld and Reveal.

Increased Psi Blades spill area length from 320 on each level to 320/340/360/380.

Fixed ability interactions between Chilling Touch and Templar Assassin.

Psionic Trap now automatically adds placed Traps to the player's current selection group.

Increased strength gain from 1.7 to 2.1.

$Refraction icon$ Refraction
- Reduced cast point from 0.3 to 0.
- Reduced duration from 20 to 17.
- Reduced cooldown from 23 to 17.
Psi Blades
- Rescaled attack range bonus from 50/100/150/200 to 40/100/160/220.
- Increased spill area length from 80/160/240/320 to 320 on each level.

Increased turn rate from 0.4 to 0.7.

Fixed Psionic Trap max traps issue.

Reduced Psionic Trap cooldown from 14 on each level to 11/9/7.

Fixed hero exploits.

Psi Blades
- Increased attack range bonus from 40/80/120/160 to 50/100/150/200.
- Fixed spill area calculations.
- Increased spill area length from 60/120/180/240 to 80/160/240/320.
- Increased spill area width from [ Info Needed ] to 70.
Increased Psionic Trap cooldown from 7 to 14.

Increased base intelligence from 18 to 20.
Increased attack range from 130 to 140.
$Refraction icon$ Refraction
- Reduced number of instances from 3/4/5/6 to 2/3/4/5.
- Increased attack damage bonus from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80.
- Increased cooldown from 20 to 23.
Meld
- Reduced mana cost from 100 to 50.
- Reduced cooldown from 12 to 7.
Reduced Psionic Trap cooldown from 10 to 7.

Fixed Meld ability issues.
Fixed the following abilities from affecting Psionic Traps:
- Cleave sources.
- Scattershot
- Fixed Teleport being able to target unit.

Created

Patch History[]

Patch

Description

UPDATE 2
- Fixed Meld granting permanent invisibility if the attacked target is destroyed.

Typing Lanaya in the hero selection now highlights Templar Assassin.

Reduced versus scale from 0.9 to 0.88.
Reduced loadout scale from 0.92 to 0.88.
Added
new Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Templar Assassin has the following values: Female 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

Updated Psionic Trap ability backend strings.

Fixed Autocast Trap triggering the closest point to the map center instead of the current Mouse position.

Updated Trap Autocast ability interactions.

Updated the following abilities' backend strings:
- Psionic Trap
- Trap

Meld
- Attacks coming out of invisibility will always apply the debuff (e.g. including the bash debuff).
- Fixed normal attacks being able to apply the debuff without breaking invisibility. [?]

UPDATE 2
- Updated Meld ability notes.
- Updated Psionic Projection ability descriptions.

UPDATE 2
- Fixed not being able to use $Refraction icon$ Refraction while being disabled.

Updated the following abilities' backend strings:
- Psionic Projection
- Trap

UPDATE 2
- Fixed casting Cyclone on units with phased movement (i.e. Meld) resulting in getting stuck on another unit when Cyclone ends.

Updated attack sound, attack impact sound duration, and footsteps volume.
Updated the following ability sounds:
- $Refraction icon$ Refraction absorb sound duration.
- Meld ability sound duration.
- Trap ability cast sound.
- Psionic Trap ability cast and explosion.
  - Psionic Trap spawn sound duration.

Fixed ability interactions between usable abilities while channeling (i.e. Trap) and Spell Reflection.

Fixed Psionic Projection not applying silence upon teleportation.

Updated and removed various Trap ability strings.

Updated default hero model.

Fixed Psionic Trap still counting towards the max traps limit for a short while after being triggered or destroyed.

Updated default hero model.

Fixed movement speed being wrongly reduced by 5 in the last patch.

Added lore text to Psionic Projection.

Fixed Psionic Projection not appearing in guides editor.

Added new voice lines for rivalry and allied towards the following heroes:
- Dark Willow
- Grimstroke
- Mars
- Monkey King
- Pangolier
- Snapfire
- Void Spirit
Added lore-related voice lines related to Void Spirit's reveal.
Fixed Psionic Trap not being spell immune [?]

Fixed Psionic Projection damage not increasing with levels.

Fixed Psionic Trap not returning control after detonation.

Added a trap counter status buff for Psionic Trap, showing how many traps are laid.

UPDATE 2
- Fixed Psionic Trap granting bonus movement speed instead of slowing.

Typing TA in the hero selection now highlights Templar Assassin.

UPDATE 2
- Updated default item build.

Added Russian voiceover lines.

Fixed a bug with Psionic Trap interrupting teleport when teleport requires stop was enabled.

Fixed Psi Blades triggering when attacks land on dead units.
Fixed Trap sub-ability from procing Magic Stick.

Fixed a bug where Psionic Trap particles would not render when in Fog of War.

Added new armor loadout slot.

Fixed some cases where the Psionic Trap did not allow placement in very small spaces.

Fixed a bug where sometimes the Psionic Trap portrait would be empty after selecting the unit.

Added new weapon loadout slot.

U
Updated Psi Blades sounds.

UPDATE 7 (TEST)
- Fixed Shadow Walk debuff affecting Psionic Trap.

UPDATE 2
- Fixed Searing Arrows dealing damage through abilities like $Refraction icon$ Refraction.

Psionic Trap ambient effects will now properly stop when it is detonated or is destroyed.

Fixed Trap effect radius from 375 to 400.

Meld bonus damage no longer affects Tombstone.
Psi Blades
- Fixed disjointing Psi Blades projectiles would not cancel Meld.
- Attack damage now no longer spill through Tombstone.

Fixed Psionic Trap backswing behavior.

Fixed Meld buff getting dispelled.
UPDATE 3
- Fixed cast backswing behaviors for the following abilities:

Fixed Meld not removing collision.

Fixed Trap not always working if the Psionic Trap is too far.

Fixed Psi Blades being slightly too wide in its spill.

Fixed Meld when attacking items.

Fixed HP Removal abilities (i.e. Heartstopper Aura, Soul Release) removing $Refraction icon$ Refraction charges.
Meld
- Fixed an issue of if the target dies while the attack projectile is airborne.
- Fixed debuff not disappearing properly when the attack is disjointed.

Fixed Meld sometimes not hitting if you moved quickly after attacking.

Meld
- Fixed initial attack doing too much damage.
- The damage display is now only shown for successful hits.

UPDATE 4 (TEST)
- Fixed not being able to ⇱⇲ Drag-select Psionic Traps by dragging over their models.
UPDATE 5 (TEST)
- Fixed abilities with 0 cast point missing its ability effects:
  - $Refraction icon$ Refraction
  - Meld
  - Trap
  - Trap

$Refraction icon$ Refraction
- Fixed ability being dispellable.
- Fixed ability causing Blink Dagger to not get disabled from its damage cooldown.

UPDATE 2 (TEST)
- Fixed $Refraction icon$ Refraction missing lore text.

Added
Templar Assassin.
Added
to Captain's Mode.
UPDATE 3 (TEST)
- $Refraction icon$ Refraction
  - Fixed deny bonus damage amount with ability active.
  - Updated ability tooltip.
  - Added separate icons for ability's damage buff.
- Fixed Trap sub-ability being castable when no valid Psionic Traps were in range.
- Fixed Trap from procing Essence Aura.

UPDATE 2 (TEST)
- $Refraction icon$ Refraction
  - Fixed using up charges on denies.
  - Fixed bonus damage type not interacting with items properly.
  - The ability modifiers are no longer visible to the enemy team.
- Meld
  - Fixed ability working against Towers.
  - Fixed ability displaying damage against allied units.
- Psi Blades
  - Fixed damage spill affecting buildings.
  - Fixed damage spill affecting spell immune enemies.
  - Fixed damage spill component working on illusions.
  - Fixed damage spill range being halved.
- Fixed the order in which Psionic Trap disappear after going over the max allowed traps.
  - Psionic Trap
    - Fixed having collision size.
    - Fixed unit armor type.
    - Fixed unit dying counting as denies.
    - Trap
      - Fixed Legacy Keys.
      - Fixed not playing its ability sound effects if the unit is detonated manually with ability.

Coup de Grace no longer works on Psionic Trap.

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

Fixed damage done to Psionic Trap not showing up in combat log.

Fixed Psi Blades not affecting a very small area right behind the initial target.

UPDATE 2
- Fixed players being able to play as Templar Assassin.

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