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Version History

Version

Description

7.35

• Plague Ward
  • Ward Damage rescaled from 13/22/31/40 to 14/22/30/38.
• Noxious Plague
  • Initial Damage increased from 150/250/350 to 200/300/400
  • Cooldown decreased from 120/100/80s to 100/90/80s

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +8% Poison Sting movement speed slow reduced to +6%.

7.34

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20% Poison Sting health regeneration reduction reduced to +15%. [?]

7.33d

• Reduced Noxious Plague impact damage from 200/300/400 to 150/250/350.

7.33c

• Reduced base attack damage from 9‒12 to -1‒2.

7.33b

• Reduced Noxious Plague max health as damage per second from 5%/6%/7% to 4%/5%/6%.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Poison Nova magic resistance reduction from 30% to 20%.

7.33

• Venomancer no longer has Agility as a primary attribute and is now a Universal hero.
• Reduced strength gain from 2.1 to 2.
• Reduced agility gain from 2.8 to 2.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 1.8 to 1.4.
• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Reduced base attack damage from 22‒25 to 9‒12.
• Replaced
  Poison Nova with Noxious Plague.
  • Moved
    Poison Nova to Ability Upgrade

New

Noxious Plague

Infects an enemy with a deadly plague that does an initial burst of damage and additional damage over time based on the unit's maximum health. Enemies in a radius around the target are slowed, with values decreasing the farther you are from the affected enemy. When the target dies or the debuff expires/is absorbed, all nearby enemies are infected with a noncommunicable version of the plague.

Projectile speed: 1200

Initial damage: 200/300/400

Max health as damage per second: 5%/6%/7%

Effect radius: 800

Max movement speed slow: 50%

Debuff duration: 5

Cooldown: 120/100/80

Mana cost: 200/300/400

• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old
    Poison Nova
    • Increases max health as damage per second by 1%.
    • Reduces cooldown by 40.
  • New
    Poison Nova [?]
    • Passively creates a 900-radius ring of poison upon death, whenever an enemy hero is affected by or dispels Venomous Gale.
    • Applies a 10-second 30% magic resistance reduction, and deals a non-lethal 3% max health as damage per second on affected enemy heroes.
    • Has a 10-second downtime.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Latent Toxicity stun duration from 2 to 1.6.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +5.5s Poison Nova duration ➜ +1.5% Noxious Plague max health as damage per second.

  LVL 25

   

  +100 Poison Nova attack speed slow ➜ +200 Noxious Plague aura attack speed slow.

7.32c

• Reduced Venomous Gale mana cost from 125 on each level to 95/105/115/125.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Latent Toxicity
    • Increased cast range from 600 to 800.
    • Increased projectile speed from 1200 to 1800.

7.32

• Increased Plague Ward mana cost from 20/22/24/26 to 21/24/27/30.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Old
    Venomous Gale
    • Summons 2 Plague Wards based on its current level around hit enemy heroes.
    • Increases projectile speed by 400.
  • New
    Grants Venomancer the Latent Toxicity ability.

Latent Toxicity

Applies a weak poison that minorly slows and deals damage to its target. If this poison is dispelled in any way, the target will receive a large amount of damage and be stunned.

Cast point: 0.2+0

Cast range: 600

Movement speed slow: 10%

Damage per second: 20

Dispel damage: 300 (Magical)

Dispel stun duration: 2

Debuff duration: 7

Cooldown: 20

Mana cost: 75

Notes: The ability has a projectile speed of 1200.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +175 health ➜ +20% Poison Sting health regeneration reduction. [?]

  LVL 10

   

  -6s Venomous Gale cooldown reduced to -5s.

  LVL 15

   

  12% spell lifesteal ➜ -1s Plague Ward cooldown.

  LVL 20

   

  -1.5s Plague Ward cooldown ➜  Venomous Gale creates 2 Plague Wards around hit enemy heroes.

7.31d

• Strength of the Immortal now causes Roshan's attacks to immediately destroy Plague Ward.

7.31

• Increased base attack damage from 18‒21 to 22‒25.
• Poison Sting
  • Now starts dealing 1 second after the debuff is applied, instead of immediately. [?]
  • Increased damage per second from 6/14/22/30 to 8/16/24/32.
• Poison Nova
  • Increased travel speed from 500 to 550.
  • Rescaled end radius from 885 on each level to 850/900/950.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +640 Poison Nova radius ➜ +100 Poison Nova attack speed slow.

7.30c

• Reduced agility gain from 3 to 2.8.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  2.6x Plague Ward health/attack damage reduced to 2.5x.

7.30

• Reduced base agility and gain from 26 + 3.2 to 24 + 3.
• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Changed
  Poison Nova damage per second from a fixed 40/65/90 to 20/30/40 + 2%/2.75%/3.5% * MaxHP.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Poison Nova
    • No longer increases base damage per second.
    • Now increases max health as damage per second to 3%/3.75%/4.5%.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +100 attack range ➜ +175 health.

7.29

• Increased base attack damage from 16‒18 to 18‒21.
• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
• Reduced Poison Sting movement speed slow from 9%/11%/13%/15% to 8%/10%/12%/14%.
• Poison Nova
  • Increased end radius from 830 to 885.
  • Increased duration from 18 to 20.
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +12s Plague Ward duration ➜ +100 attack range.

  LVL 10

   

  +100 attack range ➜ 12% spell lifesteal.

  LVL 15

   

  +10% Poison Sting movement speed slow reduced to +8%.

  LVL 20

   

  12% spell lifesteal ➜ -1.5s Plague Ward cooldown.

7.28

• Increased Venomous Gale initial damage from 25/50/75/100 to 50/75/100/125.
• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Venomancer:
  • Venomous Gale
    • Summons 2 Plague Wards based on its current level around hit enemy heroes.
    • Increases projectile speed by 400.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  Venomous Gale summons 2 Plague Wards around hit heroes ➜ +100 attack range.

7.27d

• Poison Sting
  • Reduced damage per second from 8/16/24/32 to 6/14/22/30.
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 11%/13%/15%/17% to 9%/11%/13%/15%
• Plague Ward
  • Increased mana cost from 20 on each level to 20/22/24/26.
  • Plague Ward
    • Increased gold bounty from 14‒17 on each level to 15/17/19/21 .

7.27b

• Increased base movement speed from 275 to 280.
• Poison Sting
  • No longer applies 30% health regen reduction to affected targets.
  • Increased damage per second from 6/12/18/24 to 8/16/24/32.
• Plague Ward
  • Increased health from 75/200/325/450 to 120/230/340/450.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Poison Nova cooldown from 140/120/60 to 100/80/60.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +12s Plague Ward duration increased to +15.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +15s Plague Ward duration reduced to +12.

  LVL 10

   

  -8s Venomous Gale cooldown reduced to -6s.

  LVL 15

   

  +12% Poison Sting movement speed slow reduced to +10%.

  LVL 20

   

  15% spell lifesteal reduced to 12%.

  LVL 20

   

  +7s Poison Nova duration reduced to +5.5s.

  LVL 25

   

  3x Plague Ward health/attack damage reduced to 2.6x.

  LVL 25

   

  +800 Poison Nova radius reduced to +640.

7.24

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +90 Gold per minute ➜ +15s Plague Ward duration.

7.23c

• Poison Sting
  • Reduced health regen reduction from 30% on each level to 15%/20%/25%/30%.
  • Reduced damage per second from 6/14/22/30 to 6/12/18/24.

7.23

• Poison Sting
  • Now also applies 30% health regen reduction to affected targets.
  • U
    The health regen reduction value is not halved for Plague Wards.

7.22g

• Increased Venomous Gale damage over time from 10/40/70/100 to 15/45/75/105.
• Plague Ward
  • Reduced base attack time from 1.5 to 1.4.

7.22

• Increased base intelligence from 17 to 19.
• Increased base attack speed from 100 to 115.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +8% Poison Sting movement speed slow increased to +12%.

7.21d

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Poison Nova damage per second from 60/85/110 to 75/100/125.

7.21

• Increased strength gain from 1.9 to 2.1.
• Increased agility gain from 2.8 to 3.2.

7.20e

• Increased Poison Nova damage per second from 30/55/80 to 40/65/90.

7.20c

• Increased base agility from 22 to 26..

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +6% Poison Sting movement speed slow increased to +8%.

7.20b

• Increased Poison Sting movement speed slow from 11%/12%/13%/14% to 11%/13%/15%/17%.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Poison Sting
  • No longer pierces spell immunity.
  • Is now dispellable.
• Plague Ward
  • Increased collision size from 16 to 24.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +200 cast range ➜  Venomous Gale summons 2 Plague Wards around hit heroes.

  LVL 20

   

  Venomous Gale summons 2 Plague Wards around hit heroes ➜ 15% spell lifesteal.

7.15

• Increased base strength from 18 to 19.

7.14

• Increased Poison Nova duration from 16 to 18.

7.10

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +150 cast range increased to +200.

  LVL 20

   

  +6s Poison Nova duration increased to +7s.

  LVL 25

   

  +600 Poison Nova radius increased to +800.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Reduced base attack damage from 19‒21 to 16‒18.
• Reduced base movement speed from 285 to 275.
• Increased turn rate from 0.4 to 0.5.
• Venomous Gale is now also dispellable with basic dispels. [?]

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +30 movement speed.

  LVL 10

   

  +30% experience gain ➜ -8s Venomous Gale cooldown.

  LVL 15

   

  +150 cast range ➜ +6% Poison Sting movement speed slow.

  LVL 15

   

  +200 health ➜ +150 cast range.

  LVL 20

   

  +15% magic resistance ➜  Venomous Gale summons 2 Plague Wards around hit heroes.

  LVL 20

   

  +75 attack damage ➜ +6s Poison Nova duration.

  LVL 25

   

  +14% Poison Sting movement speed slow ➜ +600 Poison Nova radius.

7.06f

• Plague Ward
  • Reduced daytime vision range from 1200 to 800. [?]

7.06e

• Reduced strength gain from 2.15 to 1.9.

7.06c

• Increased agility gain from 2.6 to 2.8.
• Increased Poison Sting damage per second from 6/12/18/24 to 6/14/22/30.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 1.85 to 2.15.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  -60s respawn time ➜ +14% Poison Sting movement speed slow.

7.03

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed increased to +3.

  LVL 10

   

  +20% experience gain increased to +30.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +175 health increased to +200.

7.00

• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +20 movement speed

    

  +20% experience gain

  +150 cast range

    

  +175 health

  +15% magic resistance

    

  +75 attack damage

  3x Plague Ward health/attack damage

    

  -60s respawn time

6.88

• Increased base intelligence and gain from 15 + 1.75 to 17 + 1.8.
• Plague Ward
  • Increased attack damage from 9‒11/17‒21/26‒32/34‒42 to 12‒14/21‒23/30‒32/39‒41.

6.87

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

6.86

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Reduced Venomous Gale cooldown from 22 on each level to 21/20/19/18.

6.85

• Poison Sting
  • Is now disabled by Break.
  • Can now be fully used by illusions, instead of only applying the movement speed slow.
  • Increased damage per second from 5/10/15/20 to 6/12/18/24.
• Poison Nova
  • Reduced damage per second from 36/58/81 to 30/55/80.
  • Increased duration from 12/14/15 to 16 on each level.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Poison Nova
    • No longer increases duration.
    • Increased damage per second from 58/81/108 to 60/85/110

6.84

• Increased Venomous Gale damage over time from 0/30/60/90 to 10/40/70/100.
• Hero kills by Plague Wards now provide Experience_XP credit to the hero.

6.82

• Poison Nova can now place its debuff on spell immune enemies.

6.80

• Reduced base attack damage from 24‒26 to 19‒21.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.75 to 0.25.

6.79c

• Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.
• Plague Ward
  • Reduced nighttime vision from 1200 to 800. [?]

6.79

• Venomous Gale
  • No longer ignores its cast backswing.
  • No longer ignores invisible units and units in the Fog of War.
  • Rescaled damage over time from 15/30/45/60 to 0/30/60/90.
• Poison Sting
  • Increased duration from 6/8/10/12 to 6/9/12/15.
  • Damage no longer dispels consumables or Blink Dagger.
• Plague Ward
  • Increased experience bounty from 12/12/25/25_XP to 20/25/30/35_XP.
  • Poison Sting
    • Plague Wards now Poison Sting have based on its current level for 50% of the damage.
    • Debuff from the stronger damage over time is only applied.
• Poison Nova no longer ignores invisible units and units in the Fog of War.

6.78

• Increased Poison Sting duration from 6/7/8/9 to 6/8/10/12.

6.76

• Venomous Gale
  • Reduced projectile flying vision radius from 800 to 400.
  • Reduced initial damage from 50/70/70/100 to 25/50/75/100.
  • Increased damage over time from 10/20/40/50 to 15/30/45/60.
  • Rescaled mana cost from 90/105/120/135 to 125 on each level.
• Rescaled Poison Sting duration from 7 on each level to 6/7/8/9.

6.75

• Plague Ward
  • Reduced vision from 1400 to 1200.

6.72

• Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.75.

6.71

• Fixed Plague Ward instant killing Homing Missile.

6.70

• Added
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Venomancer has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.69

• Plague Ward
  • Updated ability icon.
  • Plague Ward
    • Increased gold bounty from 3‒9 to 14‒17.

6.68

• Increased Poison Sting movement speed slow from 10% on each level to 11%/12%/13%/14%.

6.67

• Increased Poison Nova duration from 12 on each level to 12/14/15.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increases Poison Nova duration to 14/15/16.

6.58b

• Fixed ability interactions between Viper Strike and Venomous Gale.

6.58

• Replaced
  Shadow Strike with Venomous Gale.
  • Affected heroes under 25% of max health and under Venomous Gale can now be denied by an allied hero.

Old

Shadow Strike

Hurls a poisoned dagger which deals large initial damage, and then deals damage over time. The poisoned unit has its movement speed slowed for a short duration.

Cast range: 400

Initial damage: 50/70/70/100

Damage over time: 10/20/40/50

Movement speed slow: 50%

Duration: 15

Mana cost: 90/105/120/135

Cooldown: 22

New

Venomous Gale

Releases a Venomous Gale which poisons enemy units it comes in contact with. Poisoned units take initial damage, damage overtime, and have their movement speed slowed for a short time.

Cast range: 800

Travel distance: 800

Radius: 125

Initial damage: 50/70/70/100

Damage over time: 10/20/40/50

Movement speed slow: 50%

Duration: 15

Mana cost: 90/105/120/135

Cooldown: 22

Notes: The slow gets weaker over time. The damage over time is applied in 3-second intervals.

• Poison Sting damage is now lethal.
• Plague Ward
  • Increased cast range from 400 to 850.
  • Plague Ward
    • Increased vision radius from 1200 to 1400.

6.54

• Updated Poison Nova ability effects.

6.45

• Updated Plague Ward ability icon.

6.44

• Shadow Strike
  • Added
    denying functionality to ability with the following conditions:
    • Affected heroes under 25% of max health and the ability effects can now be denied by an allied hero.
  • Changed
    ability backend operations.
• Updated Plague Ward ability icon.
• Fixed Poison Nova memory leak issues.

6.42

• Plague Ward
  • Reduced mana cost from 25 to 20.
  • Reduced cooldown from 6 to 5.
  • Plague Ward
    • Reduced gold bounty from 20 + 6/7/8/8 to 3‒9.

6.35

• Fixed Poison Sting slowing attack speed, instead of movement speed.
• Plague Ward
  • Updated model color.

6.25

• Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.

6.20

• Reduced attack range from 490 to 450.
• Fixed some bugs on Poison Nova.

6.17

• Reduced base movement speed from 300 to 295.

6.15

• Reduced Plague Ward mana cost from 25/25/30/35 to 25 on each level.

6.10

• Poison Nova
  • Reduced damage per second from 62/100/138 to 36/58/81.
  • Increased duration from 7 to 12.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Poison Nova damage per second from 100/138/185 to 58/81/108.

6.09

• Venomancer is no longer restricted from buying Refresher Orb.
• Changed
  Poison Nova backend ability operations. [?]
  • Fixed ability so that multiple Venomancers can use it at the same time.
  • Fixed dummy units of the first cast not disappearing when casting again before the first cast finished.

6.07

• Poison Nova
  • Now has a starting radius of 255. [?]
  • Reduced end radius from 850 [?] to 830.

6.06

• Venomancer is restricted from buying Refresher Orb. [?]

6.03b

• Fixed Poison Nova dummy units being selectable. [?]

6.02

• Reduced Poison Nova radius from 1000 to 850. [?]

6.00

• Reduced cast time of the following abilities from 0.5 to 0:
  • Shadow Strike
  • Plague Ward
• Poison Nova
  • Reduced cast point from 0.5 to 0.
  • Recoded ability to fix various bugs.
    • No longer slows affected units by 10%/20%/30%.
    • Multiple ability instances now work properly.
    • Now properly hits all units within range.
    • No longer randomly deals damage to units while passing through them.

5.80

• Increased Poison Nova radius from 800 to 1000. [?]

5.72

• Changed Venomancer's base regeneration type from only regenerate at blight to always regenerate [?].
• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.25.

5.65

• Poison Nova
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 20%/40%/60% to 10%/20%/30%.
  • Reduced attack speed slow from 20/40/60 to 10/20/30.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Poison Nova
    • Now increases movement speed slow from 10%/20%/30% to 20%/40%/60%.
    • Now increases attack speed slow from 10/20/30 to 20/40/60.

5.61b

• Plague Ward
  • Removed
    Disease Cloud.

5.61

• Poison Sting
  • Reduced damage from 5/10/16/25 to 5/10/15/20.
  • Reduced duration from 10 to 7.
• Reduced Poison Nova damage from 70/110/150 to 62/100/138.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Poison Nova damage from 110/150/200 to 100/138/165.

5.60

• Reduced attack range from 550 to 490.

5.58

• Increased strength gain from 1.75 to 1.85
• Increased base agility and gain from 19 + 2.5 to 22 +2.6.
• Increased base attack damage from 19‒25 to 26‒28.
• Increased base attack time increased from 1.7 to 1.5.
• Increased attack range from 400 to 550.
• Plague Ward
  • Increased attack damage from 7‒9/14‒18/21‒24/28‒36 to 9‒11/17‒21/26‒32/34‒42.
• Reduced Poison Nova cooldown 140/120/90 to 140/120/60.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • No longer reduces Poison Nova cooldown.

5.55

• Increased Shadow Strike mana cost from 80/90/100/105 to 90/105/120/135.
• Increased Poison Sting damage from 5/10/15/23 to 5/10/16/25.

5.52

• Fixed Poison Nova.

5.51

• Reduced Shadow Strike initial damage from 60/80/80/110 to 50/70/70/100.
• Poison Sting
  • Increased movement speed slow from 5%/10%/21%/28% to 7%/14%/23%/33%.
  • Increased duration from 8 to 10.

5.50

• Increased base health from 100 to 150.

5.40

• Increased Poison Nova mana cost from 180/265/350 to 200/300/400.
• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Venomancer:
  • Poison Nova
    • Increases damage to 110/150/200.
    • Reduces cooldown to 140/120/60.

5.36

• Reduced Poison Nova radius from 1100 to 800. [?]

5.34

• Poison Nova
  • Damage per second dealt is no longer lethal.
  • Now slows movement speed by 20%/40%/60%.
  • Now slows attack speed by 20/40/60.

5.32

• Poison Nova
  • No longer slows movement speed by 20%/40%/60%.
  • No longer slows attack speed by 20/40/60.
  • Reduced travel speed from 522 to 500.
  • Increased radius from 450 to 1100. [?]
  • Increased damage per second from 70/100/150 to 70/110/150.

5.31

• Increased base attack damage from 19‒23 to 19‒25.
• Reduced base attack time from 1.56 to 1.5.
• Increased base armor from 0 to 1.
• Plague Ward
  • Disease Cloud
    • Reduced damage per second from 10/18/27/36 to 5/10/15/20.
    • Increased radius from 176 to 225.
• Poison Nova
  • Increased damage from 70/100/130 to 70/100/150.
  • Increased cooldown from 120 to 140/120/90.

5.10

• Replaced
  Reinforced Skin with Plague Ward.
  • Plague Ward also has the Disease Cloud passive ability.

Old

Reinforced Skin

The hydra's skin hardens to absorb more damage.

Bonus armor: 1/3/4/6

New

Plague Ward

Summons an immobile serpentine ward. The ward is immune to magic and is diseased.

Cast range: 500

Duration: 40

Mana cost: 30/37/44/50

Cooldown: 6.5

Plague Ward stats:

Health: 75/200/325/450

Damage: 7‒9/14‒18/21‒27/28‒36 (Piercing)

Armor: 0

Attack projectile speed: 1900

Base attack time: 1.5

Gold bounty: 26‒38/27‒41/28‒44/28‒44

Disease Cloud

Infects nearby enemy living units with Disease Cloud. Stays 5 seconds after unit is death.

Radius: 176

Damage per second: 10/20/30/40

• Poison Sting
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 7%/14%/21%/28% to 5%/10%/15%/23%.
  • Rescaled duration from 3/5/6/7 to 8 on each level.
• Poison Nova
  • Increased radius from 280 to 450. [?]
  • Increased travel speed from 305 to 522.
  • Increased damage per second from 30/50/65 to 70/100/130.
  • Increased attack speed slow from 10/15/20 to 20/40/60.
  • Increased movement speed slow from 10%/15%/20% to 20%/40%/60%.
  • Reduced duration from 14 to 7.
  • Reescaled mana cost from 200 on each level to 180/265/350.

4.0beta10

• Reduced Reinforced Skin armor bonus from 2/4/6/9 to 1/3/4/6

4.0beta6

• Reduced base attack damage from 21‒25 to 19‒23.

4.0beta5

• Increased Poison Sting damage per second from 4/5/6/7 to 6/8/9/10.

4.0beta2

• Added
  4th level to all basic abilities.
• Shadow Strike
  • Rescaled initial damage from 60/80/100 to 60/80/80/110.
  • Rescaled damage per instance from 15/30/50 to 10/20/40/50.
  • Increased mana cost from 60 on each level to 80/90/100/105.
  • Reduced cooldown from 20 to 10.
• Poison Sting
  • Updated ability icon.
  • Rescaled damage per second from 4/5/6 to 4/5/6/7.
  • Rescaled movement speed slow from 5%/10%/21% to 7%/14%/21%/28%.
  • Rescaled duration from 3/5/6 to 3/5/6/7.
• Rescaled Reinforced Skin armor bonus from 3/6/9 to 2/4/6/9.
• Replaced
  Reincarnation with Poison Nova.

Old

Reincarnation

When killed this hero will come back to life.

Effect delay: 5

Mana cost: 0

Cooldown: 280/230/180

New

Poison Nova

Creates a ring of noxious poison that damages enemy units over a 14-second period. Does not kill units.

Damage per second: 30/50/65

Movement speed slow: 10%/15%/20%

Attack speed slow: 10/15/21

Travel speed: 305

Duration:: 14

Radius: 280 [?]

Mana cost: 200

Cooldown: 120

3.2e

• Reduced base attack damage from 34‒34 to 21‒25.
• Reduced strength gain from 2.25 to 1.75.

3.0a

• Reduced attack range from 600 to 400.
• Poison Sting
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 15%/20%/25% to 5%/10%/21%.
  • Reduced damage from 4/6/8 to 4/5/6.
  • Reduced hero duration from 8/10/12 to 3/5/6.
  • Reduced non-hero duration from 12/15/17 to 3/5/6.

2.60

• Changed
  hero model from Elder Hydra to Hydralisk.
• Changed
  primary attribute from strength to agility.
• Reduced base strength and gain from 21 + 2.9 to 18 + 2.25.
• Increased agility gain from 1.75 to 2.5.
• Reduced base attack time from 2.5 to 1.56.
• Increased base attack damage from 30‒30 to 34‒34.
• Reduced base armor from 3 to 1.
• Shadow Strike
  • Increased movement speed slow from 50% to 75%.
  • Reduced initial damage from 110/25/140 to 60/80/100.
  • Reduced damage over time from 30/45/60 to 15/30/50.
  • Increased cooldown from 15 to 20.
• Reincarnation
  • Increased number of ability levels from 2 to 3
  • Increased cooldown from 240/150 to 280/230/180.

0.95

• Reduced strength gain from 3 to 2.9.
• Fixed Reinforced Skin tooltip. [?]

0.60

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

27 Sep 2023

• Typing Lesale in the hero selection now highlights Venomancer.

30 Aug 2023

• Reduced versus scale from 0.8 to 0.7.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Venomancer has the following values: Green 1, Legs 0 and Nose 0.

15 Nov 2022

• Updated Venomous Gale ability backend strings.

11 Nov 2022

• Updated Poison Sting ability backend strings.

09 Nov 2022

• Plague Ward
  • Updated ability descriptions.
  • Fixed talent not granting Plague Ward the correct bonus values.

01 Oct 2022

• Fixed the following ability interactions with Latent Toxicity:
  • Doppelganger
  • Life Break

15 Sep 2022

• Latent Toxicity
  • Updated ability particles.
  • Updated ability projectile effects.

24 Aug 2022

• Updated Latent Toxicity ability sound effects.

14 Sep 2022

• Updated the following abilities' tooltips:
  • Poison Nova
  • Latent Toxicity

30 Aug 2022

• Fixed Poison Sting talent not affecting the hero.
• Fixed the following ability interactions with Latent Toxicity:
  • Heavenly Grace
  • Whirlwind
  • Avatar

24 Feb 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated Plague Ward default cosmetic icon in the loadout.

07 Mar 2022

• Updated Poison Nova ability descriptions.

04 Nov 2021

• Updated Poison Nova ability tooltip.

16 Sep 2021

• Updated Poison Sting modifier description.

17 Dec 2020

• Updated default hero model.

26 May 2020

• Talents:

U

Level 20 right talent: +5.5s Poison Nova duration reduced to +5s. [?]

03 Dec 2019

• UPDATE 2
  • Poison Sting and its debuffs now tells that they apply health regeneration reduction.

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.

01 Feb 2018

• Fixed Venomous Gale blocking neutral creep camps.

03 Jan 2018

• Fixed Venomous Gale dispel type.

28 Nov 2017

• Plague Ward now has a unit label.

07 Nov 2017

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed movement speed being 270 instead of 275.

21 Dec 2016

• Fixed broken cosmetic meshes.
• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default item build.

20 May 2016

• Fixed Plague Ward animations.

24 Mar 2016

• Poison Sting
  • Fixed debuff tooltip showing garbled numbers.
  • Fixed some cases where ability would stop slowing and dealing damage.
• Fixed Plague Ward spell immunity being dispellable.

15 Sep 2015

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

19 Aug 2015

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

14 Aug 2015

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

30 Apr 2015

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

17 Dec 2014

• UPDATE 5
  • Fixed the damage source of the Plague Ward's Poison Sting to be the wards, instead of Venomancer.

25 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed Poison Nova not doing damage against non-spell immune units.

29 Apr 2014

• Broken down hero model for cosmetics.
• Fixed when multiple Plague Wards were told to attack a target that was out of range to some of the wards, none of the wards would attack that target.
  • Now the in-range wards will attack the target properly.

21 Nov 2013

• Reworked
  default hero model.
• Updated hero icon.
• Updated Poison Nova icon.

19 Oct 2013

• UPDATE 6 (TEST)
  • Fixed Plague Ward gaining Poison Sting if Venomancer is on the same team.

18 Jul 2013

• Fixed Venomous Gale backswing behavior.

03 Jan 2013

• U
  Added animations to loadout stance.

08 Nov 2012

• Fixed Poison Sting duration not increasing per level.

25 Oct 2012

• Updated Venomous Gale vision values.

13 Sep 2012

• U
  Broken down default hero model into multiple parts for loadout.

02 Aug 2012

• Fixed HP Removal abilities (i.e. Poison Sting) removing Refraction charges.

25 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed not being able to ⇱⇲ Drag-select Plague Wards by dragging over their models.
• UPDATE 5 (TEST)
  • Fixed abilities with 0 cast point missing its ability effects:
    • Venomous Gale
    • Plague Ward
    • Poison Nova

04 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed Soul Rip being able to target on Plague Ward.

14 Jun 2012

• Fixed Poison Nova not having its duration upgraded.

17 May 2012

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

26 Apr 2012

• Fixed damage done to Plague Ward not showing up in combat log.

19 Apr 2012

• Fixed being able to deny oneself while under the the following debuffs if you attack through the hero icon at the top:
  • Venomous Gale
  • Poison Sting
  • Poison Nova

22 Mar 2012

• Fixed being able to dispel the following abilities:
  • Venomous Gale
  • Poison Sting
  • Poison Nova

15 Mar 2012

• Added idle injured animations.

08 Mar 2012

• Fixed being able to transfer Nightmare to Plague Ward.

16 Feb 2012

• U
  Added injured and chase animations.

12 Jan 2012

• Fixed Plague Ward collision size.
• Summoned units now draw larger on the minimap.

01 Dec 2011

• Fixed the following abilities from affecting Plague Ward:
  • Heartstopper Aura
  • Bash

17 Nov 2011

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

23 Sep 2011

• Fixed how Poison Sting refreshes on attack.

09 Sep 2011

• Fixed Poison Sting from doing extra damage each attack on buff refresh.

06 Aug 2011

• Plague Ward uses the smaller collision size. This should prevent them from blocking narrow paths.

03 Aug 2011

• Fixed Plague Ward not being able to attack Roshan.

02 Aug 2011

• Chronosphere no longer freezes Plague Ward and stops it from working.

16 Jul 2011

• Fixed a bug where Venomous Gale was not visible.

08 Jul 2011

• Venomous Gale travels at 1200 speed and provides 800 vision.
• Poison Sting
  • Now does its damage at the beginning of the interval instead of the end.
  • Added a fake modifier to be used by illusions.
• Poison Nova
  • No longer hits units in the Fog of War.
  • Ability now starts with a radius of 255 and expands out over 1.15s to a radius of 830. Before it started at a radius of 0.
  • Now does an extra tick of damage when the effect is applied to enemies.

01 Jul 2011

• Fixed the following abilities hitting invisible units:
  • Venomous Gale
  • Poison Nova

24 Jun 2011

• Venomancer can now get assists with Plague Ward.

26 May 2011

• Poison Sting
  • Fixed ability interactions with Siege Creep.
  • Fixed illusions being able to use ability.
• Plague Ward
  • Fixed the following abilities working against unit:
    • Lifesteal sources
    • Damage Return
  • Fixed attack damage from unit being blocked by damage block sources.

20 May 2011

• Added Ctrl as a modifier key to test sending an order to all controllable units, excluding the hero.
  • Venomancer can now use Ctrl and issue an order to all Plague Wards.

09 Apr 2011

• Added
  Venomancer.