36403

Version 36403 Release Notes for Sins of a Dark Age - April 23 2014

Heroes

Xeros

Spell Sense

• Duration increased to 5 from 4

Slayer's Mark

• Skillshot range increased to 7 from 6.25
• Teleport tolerance range increased to 9 from 8.25

Detonate

• Mana cost reduced to 80/90/100/110 from 90/100/110/120
• Now has an sound effect cue when gaining max stacks.
• Stacks are now only spent when they reach max stacks, and using Detonate prior to max stacks will now grant a stack.
• Detonate now only appears in the active buff window if you have at least one stack.
• Added buff sound for Xeros Detonate max stacks.

Counterspell Armor

• Mana cost reduced to 40 from 45
• Cooldown reduced to 20/17/14/11 from 23/19/15/11
• Magic Damage changed to 80/115/150/185 from 70/110/150/190

Vexie

• Fixed Luna Moth Vexie skin from not matching her figurine.

Ermuk

• Improved default skin.
• Reduced volume on Ermuk's Helping Hand spawn sound in order to prioritize the execute sound.

Slivus

• Fixed the tail tip and fangs on this Bloodborn skin.

Rachna

• Reverted Rachna's nickname from "The Midwife of Suffering" back to "The Cavern Queen.
• Added Scuttling Nightmare start sound to Rachna.

Skalla

• Fixed a seam in her Tribal skin.

Drengar

• Revised Drengar's Intimidating Leap description. Though it scales with Attack Power, it deals Magic Damage.

Torrace

• Revised Torrace's Rocket Bolt description. It deals Physical Damage.

Beroth

• Updated Beroth's default skin.

Lassidar

• Updated Lassidar's default skin.

Atasha

• Updated Atasha's default skin.

Lord Dekain

• New Toxic Bile effect (more optimized, easier to see).
• Updated Lord Dekain's DeathBane skin.

Slag

• Updated Slag's Bombardier skin.

Misc

• Further revisions to the HeroDesc strings for Torrace, Slivus, Xeros, and Drengar,
• Revised all medium length hero profiles/HeroDesc strings to introduce more polished lore.

Glyphs

Bulwark

• Shield amount reduced to 110 (+30 per level) from 125 (+35 per level)

Bulwark: Increased Strength

• Shield amount reduced to 130 (+35 per level) from 155 (+41 per level)

Bulwark: Team Shield

• Shield amount on allies reduced to 40 (+10.5 per level) from 50 (+14 per level)
• Shield amount on allies with Increased Strength upgrade reduced to 50 (+12.25 per level) from 60 (+16.5 per level)

Cripple

• Ability damage reduction increased to 35% from 25%

Cripple: Strong Damage Reduction

• Ability damage reduction increased to 50% from 35%

Cripple: Friendly Speed

• Speed bonus radius increased to 3.75 from 2.25

Portal: Minion Strength

• Post teleport aura duration increased to 25 from 15

Misc

• Glyphs can no longer be upgraded while they are being used.

Items

Hoarfrost Pendant

• Now renders its passive cooldown in the item bar.
• Passive cooldown now resets when the attack proc is consumed rather than when the triggering ability is cast.

Crimson Malice

• Added art for Crimson Malice.

Misc

• Added sounds for items with actives (Rageborn Claws, Resurger, Runic Sword).
• Added art for a variety of loot goods and Hero Gear.

Chronicler

• Changed Chronicler's Quest Start dialog.
• Turned down volume on major alert sound effects to allow chronicler voice to be clearer.

Quests

• Added sound for Troll's treasure chest dropped
• Added sound for Advanced Siege catapults (falldown, getup, death), & Advanced Siege Kit (active)

Map

• Added creep camp decal to south troll area.
• Fixed creep camp decal.
• Placed various specific backgrounds at various areas of the map.
• Added ambient sounds for the buildings near each base.
• Updated Creep Troll texture.

HUD and User Interface

• Removed Consumable items from the post game stat screen chart.
• After voting for surrender, a new mini-surrender window is used.
• Added a selected Overlay to the Item List Box in the Shop Window.
• Numerous improvements to the party system.
• Parties are temporarily restricted to a size of 3.
• Improved report dialog.
• Fixed missing strings on Promotion and Virtue Chests.
• Centered death timer.
• Game version (bottom left) now only shows up for loading screen, login screen and when escape menu is open.
• Attempting to Recall when you are already recalling now has proper input feedback.
• Added a "is taking part in quest" overlay to the player portraits in the top bar.
• Wiki button has been temporarily renamed to "Tutorial" and directs the user to the wiki tutorial.

Misc

• Fixed multiple sync bugs.
• Fixed various crashes.
• Added more optimizations.
• More matchmaking fixes.
• Fixed various chat and party bugs.
• Improved loading. Should remove "program not responding" warning for most users who had this problem.
• Accounts with warning level greater than 0 are now banned from sending general chat (in addition to in-game restrictions).
• Various text improvements (grammar, spelling, etc).

For the official and most up to date Steam version of these patch notes, see: http://steamcommunity.com/app/251970/discussions/7/540739860871116748/