Patch Notes v1.19

November 12th 2021 Update.

General

Optimized spawning of neutral creeps at the start of the game.
Improved neutral creeps AI.

Heroes

Bloodseeker

Bloodseeker returned to the game and joined the Sectarian class. Fully reworked and fresh.

Strength growth increased from 3.25 to 4.
Base intelligence and intelligence growth removed.

New Sectarians Class and Bloodseeker's Specialty: Bloodpath

Abilities

New Class Ability: Vampiric Strike

Dev Note: Boiling Blood removed as an ability, but the name is now used for disease.

New Class Ability: Touch of Darkness

New Class Abilities: Seals

New unique switchable ability for different tactics and adaptivity.

To make it easier to understand how this spell works, look below.

New Ultimate Ability: Heart Grip

Blood For Blood reworked

Old: Causes your auto-attacks deal 1.5% of your current health as damage but you lose 1.5% of remaining health per second. Lasts 6 seconds.
New:

Blood Rite reworked

Now costs 2 Unholy Charges.
Radius increased from 285 to 400.
Silence effect removed.
Duration increased from 3 to 8 sec.
Now deals damage per second over its duration.
Added new property: Pauses Boiling Blood duration and makes it 50% more effective.

Talents

Removed talents:

Blood Shield Upgrade
Silence Duration (Blood Rite)
Dried Blood
More Blood
Blood Plague
Greatest Ritual
Heart Will
Death Strike
Red Scent
Life Devour
Bloodstorm
Blood Pact

Dev Note: Most of these talents were tied to removed Bloodseeker spells. Some of them may be returned after rework.

New Tier I-1 talent: Bloody Alliance
Whenever Blood Shield absorbs damage more than 5% of your maximum health, you heal for that damage random allied hero within 400 range.

New Tier I-3 talent: Occult Runes
While The First Seal is active, you gain 25% of dealt damage by auto-attacks as a Blood Shield.

Tier I-4 talent Bloodbath reworked:
Old: Decreases Blood For Blood cooldown by 2 seconds.
New: Decreases Heart Grip cooldown by 2.5 seconds.

Tier II-1 talent Crystallization reworked:
Old: Increases Blood Shield maximum health by 20% of Bloodseeker's health.
New: Blood Shield leech reduced by 15%. Blood Shield absorption goes after all damage reductions (armor, block, etc).

Bosses

Aquatic Boss

Fixed a bug that the boss kill was not recorded in web stats.

Dev Note: New shards and Tier IV equipment is still on the way.