- New agility hero (Murloc Nightcrawler)
- New intelligence hero (Ancient Apparition)
Alchemist
- Reworked Unstable Concoction
Anti-Mage
- Mana Void cooldown reduced from 120/100/80 to 70
- Mana Break scaling increased from 16/32/48/64 to 28/40/52/64
Bone Fletcher
- Searing Arrows cooldown from 2/2/0/0 to 2/0/0/0
Bounty Hunter
- Reworked Jinada
Blood Seeker
- Bloodrage Rebalanced from 6/9/12/15 duration and 10 cd to 6/7/8/9 duration and 12/10/8/6 cd. HP loss at a constant 20 hp per sec.
Broodmother
- Spiderlings gold bounty increased from 6-8 to 11-13 and XP bounty increased from 12 to 20
Chaos Knight
- Cast Point Improved
- Reworked his Blink Strike (7225)
Dark Seer
- Vacuum cast range decreased from 800 to 550
- Vacuum damage decreased from 60/120/180/240 to 40/80/120/160
Death Prophet
- Witchcraft's movement bonus has been restored (3/6/9/12%)
Furion
- Force of Nature's Treants now have 33% spell resistance
Lina
- Fiery Soul buff duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds
Leshrac
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 310
Medusa
- Stone Gaze cooldown increased to 100
N'aix
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 315
Night Stalker
- Void manacost decreased from 90/112/130/145 to 80/90/100/110
Panda
- Lowered Fire Panda armor by 2 points, hp from 900/1350/1800/2200 to 1200 and reworked damage from 52/105/214/234 to 70/112/140/180
- Primal Split cooldown from 180/150/120/90 to 180/160/140/120
Priestess of the Moon
- Starfall AoE increased by 50 to fix issues with it not hitting units on the edge of your attack
Pudge
- Meat Hook scaling rebalanced. Cast range from 400/600/800/1000 to 550/700/850/1000, cd from 14 to 14/13/12/11 and manacost from 140 to 110/120/130/140
Pugna
- Cast Point improved
- Decrepify can now be cast on Nether Ward
Queen of Pain
- Base Intelligence increased by 5
Razor
- Agi growth decreased from 2.5 to 2.0
- Strength grown decreased from 1.9 to 1.7
- Eye of the Storm mana cost increased from 100 to 100/150/200
Shadow Priest
- Shallow Grave cooldown increased from 54/40/26/12 to 60/45/30/15
Silencer
- Base damage modified a little from 39-61 to 43-57
Sniper
- Shrapnel duration decreased from 10 to 8 seconds
- Shrapnel AoE decreased from 450 to 325
Spectre
- Dispersion now spreads the reflected damage over the number of nearby heroes. So it is the same in a 1v1 case, but greatly reduced in team fights.
Twin Head Dragon
- Ice Path stun rescaled from 0.8/1.2/1.6/2.0 to 1.00/1.33/1.66/2.0
- Ice Path cooldown scales from 16 to 16/15/14/13
- Macropyre spawn speed improved
Ursa
- Overpower is no longer removed when BKB is activated
- Overpower will not interrupt your movement when cast
Warlock
- Upheaval cooldown increased from 20 to 65 seconds
Visage
- Reworked hero (124153)
Windrunner
- Windrunner cooldown improved from 30/25/20/15 to 15
Witch Doctor
- Paralyzing Casks now do 50 damage to heroes on each bounce
- Added a new recipe item (Urn of Shadows)
Scroll of Town Portal
- Reworked mechanics
Aghanim's Scepter
- Added support for Axe. Cooldown decreased from 75/65/55 to 20
Boots of Speed
- Now available in the side shops
Blademail
- Duration reduced from 5 to 3.5 seconds
- Cooldown increased from 15 to 25
- Blademail can no longer reflect blademail sourced damage
Force Staff
- Push distance increased from 500 to 600
Linken's Sphere
- Properly blocks Unstable Concoction and Death Coil
Maelstrom
- Maelstrom attack speed bonus increased from 15 to 25
Planeswalker's Cloak
- Price increased by 100
: Radiance
- AoE damage effect can now be toggled on and off
Vanguard
- Damage block reduced from 40 to 20 when equipped on ranged heroes (50% less block like stout and Poor Man's Shield)
* Readjusted the -bonus gold/xp system that is given in an aoe around dying heroes from being static unsplit to a dynamic split variation (numbers adjusted as well)
* Rebalanced the creep stats for your creeps when you kill an enemy rax
* Added a new small neutral camp (102473)
* Increase the buffer time in -CM from 45 to 60 seconds (This means 15 seconds total for each player, not 15 seconds for each turn)
* Added the new hero death timers to observer scoreboard title
* Reworked Recipe tooltips (128284)
* A text message and minimap indictator is now displayed when an ally purchases a Courier
* Observer board now shows ultimate cooldowns (120509)
* Added a new physical model for Gem of Truesight (124547)
* New and reworked heroes are temporarily unavailable in -CM
* Added a new visual effect when you have the Haste powerup (83240)
* A special death animation is now played when Pudge suicides (17542)
* Improved spawning location code for couriers, to help against minimap icon overlap
* Decreased cooldown on Courier Morph and added a mini techies courier (123947)
* Fixed Inner Beast buff icon
* Removed extra spikes that appear on some (except Leshrac) characters with Aghanims Scepter (11289)
* Added new sound effect for Scream of Pain
* Improved quality of Panda's Thunderclap icon
* Removed the gorge in the terrain near the bottom sentinel lane
* Added visual effect for Huskar's Scepter (20814)
* Some Nighstalker visual improvements (5227)
* Rotated the direction the Frozen Throne is facing (82193)
* Changed Scourge consumable shop model from Graveyard to Tomb of Relics (114591)
* Added hero pick/ban data to replays for -CD mode (same data format as -CM)
* Added hero pool information to replays for -CD mode (Format: Pool+index,id)
* Fixed hero death timer overwriting player name color for leavers
* Added a camera control command (-center) that locks the camera to your hero. -centeroff disables it (Not recommend for regular games)
* Clarified Ward tooltips
* Fixed lots of typos
* Replay Data: host playerid is 0 if the game was created using HCL automode
* Adjusted where the kill timer shows on the open scoreboard. Names are always visible now.
* Some minor code optimizations when heroes are picked
* Invoker: Forged Spirit units are now added to your control group when created
* Invoker: Added an Ally/Observer only visual effect that plays before sun strike lands
* New icon for Essence Aura
* New icon for Darkness
* New icon for Desolate
* New icon for Void (126145)
* New icon for Enchant (126145)
* New icon for Impetus (126145)
* New icon for Nature's Attendants (126145)
* New icon for Backtrack (126145)
* New icon for SA's Blink Strike (126145)
* New icon for Crystal Nova (118362)
* New icon for Death Ward (126145)
* New icon for Divided We Stand (126145)
* New icon for Dual Breath (126145)
* New icon for EMP (126145)
* New icon for Exorcism (126145)
* New icon for Geostrike (126145)
* New icon for Impale NA (126145)
* New icon for Juxtapose (108662)
* New icon for Phantom Edge (108662)
* New icon for Malefice (126145)
* New icon for Reaper's Scythe (126145)
* New icon for Timelock (126145)
* New icon for Timewalk (126145)
* New icon for Invoke Tornado (126145)
* New icon for Last Word (126145)
* New icon for Amplify Damage (126145)
* New icon for Jinada (105435)
* New icon for Track (105435)
* Fixed bug with swapping with Kunkka and getting Quelling Blade
* Fixed Kraken Shell not getting disabled when Doomed
* Fixed an area where you could TP and become stuck
* Fixed a bug with Forged Spirits dying when getting an allied War Cry buff
* Fixed a recent issue with Frost Arrows cast range
* Fixed Eul's movement speed bonus not functioning correctly sometimes (if your hero has a unit morphing ability)
* Fixed a minor bug with Ursa's Enrage + Fury Swipes combo against Vanguard
* Fixed some Ion Shell stacking bugs