Changelogs
Version History[]
Version
Description
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Fervor proc chance increase per stack from 3% to 4%.
- Berserker's Rage
- Toggling On / Off now only turns Troll Warlord into a melee and ranged unit respectively. [?]
- Both Whirling Axes (Ranged) and Whirling Axes (Melee) is no longer disabled based on the ability's toggled state and are now accessible at the same time.
- Casting either of the Whirling Axes ability automatically toggles the current attack range form.
- Rescaled Whirling Axes (Ranged) damage from 90 on each level to 80/100/120/140.
- ReworkedAghanim's Shard upgrade:
- OldGrants Troll Warlord the Rampage ability.
- NewFervor
- Now has a
20% + 3% * CurrentStack
proc chance to launch an additional ranged attack to any unit within theCurrentAttackRange + 175
. - Increases max stacks by 4.
- Now has a
- Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
- Battle Trance
- Can now also use item abilities while the ability is active. [?]
- UAbilities with a cast point lower than 0.03 (e.g. 0-cast point or instant cast abilities) can now also be used while the ability is active. This is not limited to only Troll Warlord's abilities.
- Increased base agility from 21 to 23.
- Talents:
- LVL 20+15% Battle Trance movement speed increased to +20%.
- Berserker's Rage root now pierces spell immunity.
- Reduced Berserker's Rage base attack time from 1.45 to 1.4.
- Battle Trance now grants self phased movement.
- Talents:
- LVL 2020% evasion ➜ -15s Battle Trance cooldown.LVL 25
- Increased Whirling Axes (Ranged) damage from 75 to 90.
- Reduced Battle Trance cooldown from 90 on each level to 90/80/70.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+225 health ➜ +25 Berserker's Rage movement speed.LVL 10
- Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
- Rescaled Berserker's Rage armor bonus from 6 on each level to 4/5/6/7.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged)
- Reduced cast range from 1000 to 950.
- Reduced axes travel distance from 1000 to 950.
- Increased mana cost from 50 to 60.
- Reduced Battle Trance movement speed bonus from 30%/35%/40% to 25%/30%/35%.
- ReworkedAghanim's Shard upgrade:
- OldBattle Trance now provides a Global aura that grants 60 attack speed bonus to allied heroes, including self.
- NewGrants Troll Warlord the Rampage ability.
- Rampage
- Grants all allied heroes on the map attack speed if Troll Warlord is in his ranged form, or status resistance if he is in his melee form.
- Cast time: 0
- Radius: Global
- Attack speed bonus: 70
- Status resistance bonus: 25%
- Duration: 5
- Mana cost: 75
- Cooldown: 80
- Notes: Affects self as well.
- AddedAttribute Bonus.
- Increased Berserker's Rage movement speed bonus from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45.
- ReworkedAghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- OldBattle Trance
- Adds a 525-cast range unit-targeting functionality, which can be cast on ally and enemy heroes, applying all of its ability effects on the affected unit.
- Has a 3.25-second duration on enemy heroes.
- Reduces cooldown to 35, and allows it to be cast on allied and enemy heroes.
- NewWhirling Axes
- Reduces cooldown from 9 to 4.
- Reduces mana cost by 50%.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged) now applies a basic dispel on hit enemies.
- Whirling Axes (Melee) now applies a self basic dispel upon cast.
- AddedAghanim's Shard upgrade for Troll Warlord:
- Battle Trance now provides a Global aura that grants 60 attack speed bonus to allied heroes, including self.
- Talents:
- LVL 25
- Talents:
- LVL 15+70 Whirling Axes damage increased to +90.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+250 health reduced to +200.LVL 10+10 agility reduced to +8.LVL 15+90 Whirling Axes damage reduced to +70.LVL 15+40 attack damage reduced to +30.LVL 2025% evasion reduced to 20%.LVL 25-6s Whirling Axes cooldown reduced to -5s.
- Increased base attack damage from 23‒35 to 27‒35.
- Increased agility gain from 2.9 to 3.3.
- Increased Berserker's Rage root chance from 10%/12%/14%/16% to 14%/16%/18%/20%
- Whirling Axes (Melee)'s blind now uses pseudo-random distribution.
- Reduced Whirling Axes (Melee) damage from 75/125/175/225 to 50/100/150/200.
- AddedAghanim's Scepter upgrade for Troll Warlord:
- Battle Trance
- Adds a 525-cast range unit-targeting functionality, which can be cast on ally and enemy heroes, applying all of its ability effects on the affected unit.
- Has a 3.25-second duration on enemy heroes.
- Reduces cooldown to 35, and allows it to be cast on allied and enemy heroes.
- Battle Trance
- Talents:
- LVL 20+50 attack damage reduced to +40.
- Increased agility gain from 2.5 to 2.9.
- Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+75 Whirling Axes increased to +90.LVL 2020% evasion increased to 25%.
- Troll Warlord is no longer restricted from buying Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade.
- Bashes from Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade are no longer disabled on Troll Warlord.
- Increased base attack damage from 17‒35 to 23‒35.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 1.75 to 0.25.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Berserker's Rage
- Changedfrom applying a bash on proc to applying a root. [?]
- No longer proc upon attacking allies.
- No longer deals 20/30/40/50 damage upon proccing.
- No longer pierces spell immunity.
- Increased proc chance from 10% on each level to 10%/12%/14%/16%.
- Fervor
- Now only counts attack which land on targets, instead of upon reaching attack point. [?]
- When switching attack targets, the first attack against a new target now only clears the stacks of a previous target, instead of clearing the stacks and granting a new stack.
- Increased max stacks from 7 to 12.
- ReworkedBattle Trance.
- OldBattle Trance
- Troll's presence on the battlefield increases the attack speed of himself and all allied heroes.
- Radius: Global
- Attack speed bonus: 60/120/180
- Duration: 5
- Mana cost: 75
- Cooldown: 35
- NewBattle Trance
- Troll unleashes a powerful battle trance, that forces you to continuously attack the closest enemy unit within range, prioritizing heroes. Damage does not kill you during this mode. Grants you bonus lifesteal, attack speed and movement speed. Applies a basic dispel.
- Cast time: 0
- Enemy search radius: 900
- Lifesteal: 40%/60%/80%
- Movement speed bonus: 30%/35%/40%
- Attack speed bonus: 140/170/200
- Duration: 6.5
- Mana cost: 150
- Cooldown: 90
- Notes: Troll Warlord's health cannot drop below 1 while active. He cannot be controlled by the player while active, but can still cast abilities, but not items. Whirling Axes (Ranged) has an instant cast time and does not require facing to cast during Battle Trance.
- Talents:
- LVL 25
- Increased base health regeneration from 1.5 to 1.75.
- Reduced Berserker's Rage base attack time from 1.5 to 1.45.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+200 health increased to +250..LVL 15+50 Whirling Axes damage increased to +75.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Reduced base movement speed from 300 to 295.
- SplitWhirling Axes up into Whirling Axes (Ranged) and Whirling Axes (Melee).
- These two abilities now take the second and third ability slot respectively.
- Both abilities level up together and are now always visible instead of getting swapped in and out when toggling Berserker's Rage On / Off, but they are still disabled respectively during melee / ranged form.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged)
- Reduced cooldown from 19/16/13/10 to 9 on each level.
- Increased movement speed slow from 30% to 40%.
- Reduced slow duration from 3/3.75/4.5/5.25 to 2.5/3/3.5/4.
- Whirling Axes (Melee)
- ChangedLegacy Keys from E to F.
- Rescaled blind duration from 4/5/6/7 to 5 on each level.
- Reduced cooldown from 12 to 9.
- Fervor
- Movedfrom the third to the fourth ability slot. [?]
- ChangedHotkey from E to D.
- MovedBattle Trance from the fourth to the fifth ability slot.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+6 armor ➜ +50 Whirling Axes damage.LVL 15+15 movement speed ➜ +3 Fervor max stacks.LVL 20+40 attack damage increased to +50.LVL 20+350 health ➜ 20% evasion.LVL 25LVL 25+20% magic resistance ➜ -6s Whirling Axes cooldown.
- Increased Battle Trance cooldown from 30 to 35.
- RemovedAttribute Bonus.
- addedTalents:
- Increased base strength from 17 to 20.
- Berserker's Rage
- No longer grants 100 health bonus.
- Increased armor bonus from 3 to 6.
- Reduced base attack time from 1.55 to 1.5.
- Increased Whirling Axes (Ranged) travel distance from 945 to 1000.
- Increased base health from 180 to 200.
- Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
- Reduced Berserker's Rage attack range loss from 372 to 350. [?]
- Reduced Whirling Axes (Ranged) cooldown from 20/18/16/14 to 19/16/13/10.
- Increased Fervor max stacks from 6 to 7.
- Increased base health from 150 to 180.
- Reduced Whirling Axes (Ranged) cooldown from 20/19/18/17 to 20/18/16/14.
- Fervor
- Reduced attack speed bonus per stack from 20/25/30/35 to 15/20/25/30.
- Increased max stacks from 4 to 6.
- Troll Warlord is no longer restricted from buying Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade.
- Berserker's Rage
- No longer grants 15 attack damage bonus.
- Is no longer deactivated upon death.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged) no longer provides 800 radius vision for 3 seconds along the path.
- Whirling Axes (Melee) no longer provides 500 radius vision around the axes.
- Reduced Battle Trance duration from 7 to 5.
- Increased acquisition range from 600 to 800. [?]
- Troll Warlord now uses the same range as other ranged heroes.
- Reduced Whirling Axes (Ranged) cooldown from 20 on each level to 20/19/18/17.
- Reduced Whirling Axes (Melee) cast point from 0.2 to 0.
- Fervor
- Rescaled attack speed bonus per stack from 20 on each level to 16/22/28/34.
- Rescaled max stacks cap from 2/3/4/5 to 4 on each level.
- Increased Berserker's Rage movement speed bonus from 20/20/20/30 to 10/20/30/40.
- Reduced Whirling Axes (Melee) damage from 125/175/225/275 to 75/125/175/225.
- Battle Trance
- Increased cooldown from 20 to 30.
- Reduced duration from 10 to 7.
- Increased Battle Trance ally duration from 5 to 10. [?]
- Increased Battle Trance attack speed bonus from 60/100/140 to 60/120/180.
- ChangedBerserker's Rage melee form from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL
toDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO
. [?]- Increased collision size from 18 to 27.
- Increased bound radius from 12 to 24.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged) now deals 75 damage.
- Fervor
- Increased attack speed bonus per stack from 5/10/15/20 to 20 on each level.
- Rescaled max stacks cap from 20/10/7/5 to 2/3/4/5.
- Now loses all but 1 stack upon switching attack target, instead of 50%.
- ChangedBerserker's Rage melee form from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO
toDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL
.- Reduced collision size from 27 to 18.
- Reduced bound radius from 24 to 12.
- Berserker's Rage
- Fixed possible fatal errors with the ability.
- Fixed bash not being leveled up properly.
- Berserker's Rage no longer uses a 0.1-second transformation time.
- ReplacedBlind with Whirling Axes.
- Whirling Axes has two forms. One of them is only available in Ranged form, while the other is only available in Melee form. Both use separate cooldowns.
- OldBlind
- A searing light blinds the vision of a target enemy unit, making it miss on some attacks.
- Cast range: 700
- Miss chance: 20%/28%/36%/44%
- Hero duration: 15
- Non-Hero duration: 30
- Mana cost: 20
- Cooldown: 15/12/9/6
- NewWhirling Axes
- Troll is a master of the axe, learning axe skills in all forms of combat. When in melee form, summons magical axes to whirl around him in a circle, damaging enemies and causing them to have a chance to miss attacks. When in ranged form, Troll hurls a fistful of axes in cone formation. Enemy units hit by the axes are slowed.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged)
- Hurls 5 axes towards the targeted direction. Enemy units which are hit are slowed.
- Cast point: 0.2
- Cast range: 900
- Travel distance: 900
- Axes spread radius: ~200
- Axe radius: 100
- Movement speed slow: 30%
- Slow duration: 3/3.75/4.5/5.25
- Mana cost: 50
- Cooldown: 20
- Notes: The axes start at Troll Warlord's position and spread in a cone formation forward.
- Whirling Axes (Melee)
- Troll unleashes 2 axes which whirl around him, dealing damage and causing enemies to miss some of their attacks.
- Cast point: 0.2
- Spin Radius: 450
- Axe radius: 100
- Damage: 125/175/225/275
- Miss chance: 60%
- Miss duration: 4/5/6/7
- Mana cost: 50
- Cooldown: 12
- Notes: The axes spawn at Troll Warlord's position and start spinning outwards up to 450 range away from Troll Warlord and then start to retract back to him. It takes 1.5 seconds for the axes to reach max range and 1.5 seconds again to retract. The radius is centered around Troll Warlord the whole time.
- Fixed various abilities, including item abilities, malfunctioning during transformation abilities (e.g. Berserker's Rage).
- Addednew Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
- Troll Warlord has the
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO
hull size. [?] - This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
- Troll Warlord has the
- Updated Berserker's Rage melee attack sound effects.
- Increased Battle Trance self duration from 8 to 10.
- Berserker's Rage
- Increased proc chance from 5%/5%/10%/10% to 10% on each level.
- Rescaled bash damage from 25/50/25/50 to 20/30/40/50.
- Reduced bash duration from 2 on each level to 0.8/1.2/1.6/2.
- Fixed ability interactions between Essence Shift with enemy transformation abilities (e.g. Berserker's Rage).
- Fixed ability interactions between Cyclone and transformational abilities (e.g. Berserker's Rage).
- Increased Battle Trance attack speed bonus from 60/80/100 to 60/100/140.
- Blind
- Increased miss chance from 15%/24%/33%/42% to 20%/28%/36%/44%.
- Increased cooldown from 8 on each level to 15/12/9/6.
- ReworkedFervor.
- OldFervor
- Passively increases the attack speed of all nearby friendly units.
- Radius: 600
- Attack speed bonus: 5/15/20/30
- Notes: The aura's buff lingers for 2‒4 seconds.
- NewFervor
- With each continuous attack on the same target, Jah'rakal gains more attack speed. If he changes targets, the current stacked bonus drops to half of where it was.
- Max stacks: 20/10/7/5
- Attack speed bonus per stack: 5/10/15/20
- Notes: The attack speed bonus lasts permanently, drops by 50% when a different unit is attacked and is lost upon death.
- ReplacedRampage with Battle Trance.
- OldRampage
- Jah'rakal goes into a feral rampage, increasing his attack and movement speeds.
- Attack speed Bonus: 40/80/120
- Move speed Bonus: 5%/7%/9%
- Mana cost: 100/150/205
- Cooldown: 55
- NewBattle Trance
- Jah'rakal unconsciously uses dormant magic to awaken the savagery of every warrior on the battlefield. Greatly increases attack speed for a short duration. Lasts longer on Troll Warlord himself.
- Radius: Global
- Attack speed bonus: 60/80/100
- Duration on allies: 5
- Duration on self: 8
- Mana cost: 75
- Cooldown: 20
- Notes: Affects all allied heroes on the map.
- Rampage
- Now ignores cast backswing.
- No longer interrupts channeling abilities upon cast.
- Reduced cast point from 0.3 to 0.
- Increased mana cost from 100/150/200 to 100/150/205.
- Increased base movement speed from 285 to 300.
- Fixed ability interactions between Essence Aura and toggling Berserker's Rage toggling On / Off.
- Rampage
- Can no longer be dispelled.
- No longer ignores cast backswing.
- Now interrupts channeling abilities upon cast.
- Increased cast point from 0 to 0.3.
- Reduced movement speed bonus from 7%/9%/11% to 5%/7%/9%.
- Reduced cooldown from 90/80/70 to 55 on each level.
- Reduced mana cost from 100/150/205 to 100/150/200.
- Reduced Berserker's Rage mana cost from 50 to 0.
- Updated Rampage ability tooltips.
- Increased Berserker's Rage movement speed bonus from 20 on each level to 20/20/20/30.
- Fixed ability interactions between Shallow Grave and Berserker's Rage.
- Increased base movement speed from 280 to 285.
- Increased base attack damage from 6‒29 to 17‒35.
- Berserker's Rage
- Changedfrom granting a min/max 27/12 base attack damage bonus to granting a flat 15 attack damage bonus.
- Increased armor bonus from 2 to 3.
- Updated Rampage ability animations.
- Berserker's Rage
- Now grants 20 movement speed bonus while active.
- Now grants 2 armor bonus while active.
- Berserker's Rage no longer grants 3 armor bonus.
- Berserker's Rage now reduces base attack time from 1.7 to 1.55 while active.
- Fixed Berserker's Rage ability leveling issues while in melee form.
- Updated hero description.
- Berserker's Rage
- Rescaled bash damage from 50/25/25/50 to 25/50/25/50.
- Increased bash duration from 0.1/2/2/2 to 2 on each level.
- Reduced Rampage movement speed bonus from 7%/14%/21% to 7%/9%/11%.
- Changedthe following Legacy Keys:
- Increased cast point from 0.3 to 0.51.
- Reduced cast backswing from 0.51 tto 0.3.
- Increased Berserker's Rage level requirements form 0/2/4/6 to 1/3/5/7.
- Berserker's Rage
- Reduced bash proc chance from 5%/5%/10%/15% to 5%/5%/10%/10%.
- Rescaled bash damage from 50/35/35/35 to 50/25/25/50.
- Berserker's Rage
- No longer increases base attack time.
- Reduced transformation time from 0.2 to 0.1.
- Reduced mana cost from 125/80/40/0 to 50 on each level.
- Reduced proc chance from 20% on each level to 5%/5%/10%/15%.
- Rescaled bash damage from 35 on each level to 50/35/35/35.
- Reduced bash duration from 2 on each level to 0.1/2/2/2.
- Increased base strength and gain from 18 + 1.6 to 19 + 2.45.
- Reduced base intelligence from 15 to 13.
- Increased base attack damage from 6‒27 to 6‒29.
- Increased base attack time from 1.5 to 1.7.
- Reduced base armor from 0 to -1.
- Reduced night vision from 1700 to 800.
- Berserker's Rage
- Now grants a 20% chance to bash for 35 damage with a 2-second duration in Melee form.
- Increased base min attack damage bonus from 26 to 27.
- Reduced base max attack damage bonus 26 to 12.
- Increased base attack time from 1.4 to 1.8.
- Blind
- Reduced mana cost from 40 to 20.
- Reduced cooldown from 10 to 8.
- Berserker's Rage
- Now also grants 3 armor bonus.
- Increases health bonus from 75 to 100.
- Reduced Fervor radius from 900 to 300.
- Reduced base attack damage from 9‒30 to 6‒27.
- Berserker's Rage
- Reduced attack damage bonus from 31 to 26.
- Now reduces base attack time from 1.5 to 1.4.
- Reduced Rampage attack speed bonus from 50/100/150 to 40/80/120.
- Reduced attack range from 525 to 500.
- Reduced Rampage movement speed bonus from 25%/50%/75% to 7%/14%/21%.
- Increased base health from 100 to 150.
- Reduced strength gain from 2 to 1.9.
- Reduced base attack damage from 11‒32 to 9‒30.
- Reduced attack range from 550 to 525.
- Berserker's Rage
- Reduced level requirements from 1/3/5/7 to 0/2/4/6.
- Reduced health bonus from 100 to 75.
- Increased attack damage bonus from 16 to 31.
- Reduced Blind mana cost from 40/49/58/67 to 40 on each level.
- Created
Patch History[]
Patch
Description
-
- Fixed sometimes being controllable while Battle Trance is active.
- Increased versus scale from 0.81 to 0.9.
- Addednew Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Troll Warlord has the following values: Red
1
, Legs2
and Nose1
.
- Troll Warlord has the following values: Red
- Berserker's Rage
- Updated root particles.
- Updated ability projectiles.
- Updated Berserker's Rage ability root backend strings.
- Updated the following ability descriptions:
-
- Updated the following ability descriptions:
-
- Fixed not being able to use Battle Trance while being disabled.
- Updated Berserker's Rage ability spell immunity tooltip.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged)
- Updated ability descriptions.
- Updated ability tooltips.
- Rampage
- Updated ability spell immunity tooltip.
- Updated ability dispellable tooltip.
- Updated Battle Trance ability tooltips.
- Fixed Battle Trance sometimes not properly getting vision of its target in the Fog of War.
- Added Rampage ability cast and sound effects.
- Fixed Rampage buff modifiers missing descriptions.
- Removed outdated Battle Trance ability tooltips.
- Added Battle Trance global cast sound.
-
- Fixed Battle Trance aura buff missing tooltips.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Updated default hero model.
- Updated default hero model.
- Battle Trance
- Updated visual effects.
- Fixed Battle Trance purging debuffs instead of buffs on enemies.
- Fixed losing the strong dispel of Level 25 talent after acquiring Aghanim's Scepter.
- Fixed interaction between Winter's Curse.
- Minor updates/optimization to hero animations.
- Updated Berserker's Rage ability tooltip.
- AddedFervor Legacy Keys. [?]
- Split up armor item slot into armor and shoulder slots in the loadout. [?]
- Fixed an animation issue with Whirling Axes (Ranged).
- Added attack speed activity modifiers and movement speed activity modifiers for Troll Warlord.
- These modifiers are used to trigger different animations at different speeds.
- Added ability layout value of 5 for Troll Warlord.
- Updated response rules for loadout spawn.
- Updated and optimized animation sets.
-
- Updated default item build.
- Minor updates to default hero model.
- Updated default hero model.
- Updated default hero head loadout slot.
- UWhirling Axes particle effects will now be drawn even when hidden.
- Fixed Berserker's Rage attack range loss from 372 to 350.
-
- Fixed ability interactions between Whirling Axes (Ranged) and Aethereal Focus.
- Fixed hero animations when cancelling Whirling Axes (Ranged).
- Whirling Axes now appear at the correct height.
- Fixed Berserker's Rage icon not switching when toggling On / Off.
- Fixed Fervor stack count being 1 stack too slow.
- Fixed Berserker's Rage not refreshing when leveling up the ability.
- Added to Captain's Mode.
- Fixed illusions benefiting from Fervor buff.
- Fixed Berserker's Rage Ranged Form being able to bash.
- Fixed Whirling Axes (Ranged) backswing behavior.
- Fixed a number of slightly incorrect properties with Whirling Axes.
-
- Fixed Whirling Axes (Melee) not traveling far enough.
- Fixed Berserker's Rage active bonus damage not being applied as base damage.
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- Fixed cast backswing behaviors for the following abilities:
- Added a fast attack animation that will only trigger when his attack speed is above 210.
- Fixed a case where Berserker's Rage Ranged form can bash when attacking while transforming.
- Bash from Berserker's Rage now uses pseudo-random distribution.
- Fixed Whirling Axes ability interaction with Roshan.
- Fixed Battler Trance affecting units like Spirit Bear.
- Berserker's Rage
- Fixed illusions not being changed to Melee form.
- Fixed ability applying bash to the target if it is toggled On while projectile is airborne.
- Fixed bash stacking and working with Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade.
- Fixed bash working on denies.
- Fixed Whirling Axes (Ranged) projectile spawning slightly off-center.
- Whirling Axes (Melee)
- Fixed projectile duration.
- Fixed effect radius being too small.
- Fixed buildings affecting Fervor.
- Fixed illusions being affected by Battler Trance.
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- Troll Warlord is restricted from buying Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade.
- Whirling Axes (Melee)
- Fixed a bug that was causing ability to lose vision of its projectile.
- Reverted incorrect bash-on-deny bug report.
- Reverted incorrect Fervor bug report.
- AddedTroll Warlord.