6.85 Update Notes

6.85 Gameplay Update

General

General

  • Purge no longer deals bonus damage to summoned units
  • Siege Creeps now behave like normal lane creeps for spell targeting rules
  • Siege Creeps now have 80% Magic Resistance
  • Ancient Thunderhide has a new ability: War Drums Aura - provides +15 Attack Speed and +15% Attack Damage
  • Ancient Black Drake has a new ability: Dragonhide Aura - provides +2 Armor, stackable
  • Ancient Dragon Camp units now have 2 less armor
  • Fixed the following passive abilities not being disabled by Break: Nethertoxin, Tidebringer, Essence Aura, Hunter in the Night, Poison Sting and neutral ability passives
  • The following target unit items are now like Bottle, self cast by default and target cast with control: Clarity Potion, Mango, Healing Salve

Heroes

Abaddon

  • Mist Coil cooldown reduced from 5 to 4.5
  • Borrowed Time Aghanim's Scepter damage redirection increased from 35% to 50%

Alchemist

  • Acid Spray damage increased from 12/16/20/24 to 15/20/25/30
  • Greevil's Greed Bounty Rune bonus increased from 4x to 5x

Ancient Apparition

  • Cold Feet cast range increased from 700 to 700/800/900/1000

Anti-Mage

  • Blink distance rescaled from 1000/1075/1150/1150 to 925/1000/1075/1150
  • Mana Void stun rescaled from 0.1/0.2/0.3 to 0.15

Bane

  • Enfeeble cooldown reduced from 10 to 8
  • Brain Sap mana cost reduced from 100/125/150/175 to 70/100/130/160
  • Fixed Fiend's Grip sometimes not granting True Sight over the target properly

Batrider

  • Flamebreak damage over time reduced from 50 per second to 25/30/35/40
  • Flamebreak damage duration increased from 1/2/3/4 to 3/4/5/6
  • Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade: Flaming Lasso grabs its target, as well as the target's nearest allied hero within 400 range. The secondary target is tethered to the first. Also causes Lasso to deal 100 damage per second.

Bloodseeker

  • Thirst scaling changed from 100%->25% to 75%->25%
  • Bloodrage heal reduced from 25% to 19/21/23/25%

Bounty Hunter

  • Track now provides vision only of the target rather than the area around it
  • Track allied bonus gold reduced from 50/100/150 to 40/80/120

Brewmaster

  • Primal Split Storm's Dispel Magic area of effect increased from 200 to 600
  • Primal Split Storm's Dispel Magic cooldown reduced from 8 to 6 seconds
  • Primal Split Earth's Hurl Boulder cooldown reduced from 7 to 5 seconds

Bristleback

  • Bristleback passive Quill Spray damage threshold reduced from 250 to 230

Centaur Warrunner

  • Return strength as bonus damage increased from 26/34/42/50% to 30/42/54/66%

Chaos Knight

  • Chaos Strike now lowers the target's armor by 5 for 8 seconds whenever it crits
    Applies before the damage happens, like Desolator. Can be applied by illusions, but multiple instances do not stack. Only triggers when critical strike triggers.
  • Chaos Strike critical damage reduced from 150/200/250/300% to 125/175/225/275%

Chen

  • Penitence slow/damage amplification increased from 14/18/22/26% to 15/20/25/30%
  • Test of Faith (Damage) mana cost reduced from 175 to 90/100/110/120
  • Test of Faith (Damage) cooldown reduced from 24 to 16

Clinkz

  • Strafe cooldown reduced from 45/40/35/30 to 40/35/30/25

Crystal Maiden

  • Crystal Nova cooldown reduced from 15 to 13

Dark Seer

  • Base intelligence reduced by 2

Dazzle

  • Poison Touch mana cost reduced from 100/115/130/145 to 100

Death Prophet

  • Exorcism spirits increased from 6/13/21 to 8/14/21

Disruptor

  • Thunder Strike cooldown reduced from 16 to 12/11/10/9
  • Thunder Strike now only provides vision over the target itself

Doom

  • Scorched Earth damage/heal increased from 12/18/24/30 to 12/24/36/48
  • LVL? Death cooldown reduced from 8 to 7

Dragon Knight

  • Breathe Fire debuff duration increased from 8 to 11 seconds

Drow Ranger

  • Precision Aura bonus damage increased from 18/24/30/36% to 20/26/32/38%
  • Precision Aura cooldown reduced from 120 to 100

Earth Spirit

  • Stone Remnant is now placed in front of you when double-clicking it

Earthshaker

  • Fissure damage reduced from 125/175/225/275 to 110/160/210/260

Elder Titan

  • Echo Stomp area of effect increased from 475 to 500
  • Ancestral Spirit mana cost rescaled from 110 to 80/90/100/110
  • Ancestral Spirit attack damage per creep increased from 3/6/9/12 to 6/9/12/15
  • Natural Order aura sticky duration increased from 0.5 to 1.0

Enchantress

  • Nature's Attendants wisp count increased from 3/5/7/9 to 4/6/8/10
  • Impetus is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier

Enigma

  • Midnight Pulse cast time reduced from 0.2 to 0.1
  • Midnight Pulse area of effect reduced from 600 to 550
  • Black Hole radius increased from 400 to 420

Gyrocopter

  • Rocket Barrage damage per rocket reduced from 8/13/18/23 to 7/12/17/22
    Total damage reduced from 240/390/540/690 to 210/360/510/660
  • Call Down slow no longer pierces Spell Immunity

Huskar

  • Berserker's Blood Magic Resistance per stack reduced from 4/5/6/7 to 3/4/5/6

Invoker

  • Intelligence growth increased from 3.2 to 4.0
  • Alacrity speed/damage bonus increased from 20->80 to 30->90
  • Aghanim's Scepter now adds one level to the stats provided by Quas, Wex, and Exort on all Invoked spells
  • Max level Deafening Blast now retains its normal location targeting UI
    Rather than it being changed to a no target cast at a certain level. This does not affect how the ability itself works.

Jakiro

  • Dual Breath's fiery wave now moves at the same speed as its icy wave: 850 to 1050
  • Dual Breath damage increased from 16/26/56/76 to 20/40/60/80
  • Ice Path range increased from 1100 to 1200

Juggernaut

  • Blade Fury damage increased from 80/100/120/140 to 80/105/130/155

Keeper of the Light

  • Chakra Magic spell cooldown reduction increased from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5

Kunkka

  • Tidebringer damage increased from 15/30/45/60 to 20/35/50/65
  • X Marks the Spot cast range rescaled from 350/550/750/1000 to 400/600/800/1000
  • X Marks the Spot cooldown rescaled from 19/16/13/10 to 26/20/14/8
  • Ghost Ship cast point reduced from 0.4 to 0.3

Legion Commander

  • Base damage increased by 4
  • Overwhelming Odds cooldown reduced from 18 to 15
  • Press The Attack cast time reduced from 0.3 to 0.2
  • Fixed Legion Commander sometimes auto-attacking nearby units after Duel ends instead of continuing to attack the dueled target

Leshrac

  • Base damage reduced by 4
  • Lightning Storm jump distance reduced from 650 to 475
  • Lightning Storm damage reduced from 80/140/200/260 to 50/100/150/200

Lich

  • Sacrifice no longer splits XP with enemies
  • Chain Frost projectile speed increased from 750 to 850
  • Chain Frost attack speed slow increased from 20 to 30
    Now matches move speed slow

Lifestealer

  • Rage cooldown reduced from 19 to 16
  • Infest and Control can now be used on Ancient Creeps

Lina

  • Light Strike Array damage reduced from 120/160/200/240 to 80/120/160/200
  • Laguna Blade damage reduced from 450/675/950 to 450/650/850

Lion

  • Finger of Death Aghanim's Scepter upgrade area of effect increased from 200 to 300

Lone Druid

  • Summon Spirit Bear cooldown reduced from 180/160/140/120 to 120
  • Battle Cry bonus damage increased from 60/90/120 to 90/120/150
  • Battle Cry bonus armor increased from 6/12/18 to 10/15/20

Luna

  • Strength gain increased from 1.9 to 2.2
  • Eclipse cooldown reduced from 160/150/140 to 140
  • Eclipse Aghanim's Scepter beam count increased from 6/10/14 to 6/12/18

Lycan

  • Strength gain increased from 2.75 to 3.0
  • Shapeshift critical strike chance increased from 30% to 30/35/40%

Magnus

  • Empower cooldown reduced from 12 to 8

Medusa

  • Mystic Snake damage and mana steal boost per jump increased from 25% to 35%

Mirana

  • Agility growth from increased 2.75 to 3.3
  • Starstorm secondary strike search radius increased from 325 to 425

Morphling

  • Agility growth increased from 3 to 3.4
  • Adaptive Strike damage rescaled from 20/40/60/80 to 50/60/70/80
  • Hybrid no longer hides Morphling or restricts its usage when a Replicate is out
  • Hybrids are visibly known to enemies
    Similar to Dark Seer's Wall of Replica illusions

Naga Siren

  • Rip Tide damage rescaled from 130/160/190/220 to 100/140/180/220
  • Song of the Siren Aghanim's Scepter heal increased from 6% to 8%

Nature's Prophet

  • Sprout cast time reduced from 0.5 to 0.35
  • Sprout mana cost reduced from 100/120/140/160 to 70/90/110/130
  • Nature's Call Treants movement speed increased from 300 to 325
  • Nature's Call Treants vision reduced from 1200 to 1000
  • Greater Treant Base Attack Time reduced from 1.75 to 1.0
  • Wrath of Nature Aghanim's Scepter now applies a 4 second buff on the units it hits, which will spawn the extra treant if the unit dies during that time

Necrophos

  • Death Pulse damage increased from 75/125/200/275 to 125/175/225/275
  • Heartstopper Aura no longer affects ancient creeps
  • Sadist health regen increased from 1/2/3/4 to 1/2/3/6
  • Sadist mana regen increased from 2/4/6/10 to 2/4/6/12

Night Stalker

  • Base health regen increased from 0.25 to 2

Nyx Assassin

  • Burrow Impale cooldown reduced from 9 to 7
  • Burrow Impale and Mana Burn bonus range increased from 50% to 75%
  • Vendetta duration increased from 25/35/50 to 40/50/60

Ogre Magi

  • Base armor increased by 1
  • Bloodlust attack speed bonus increased from 20/30/40/50 to 30/40/50/60
  • Bloodlust can now be cast on towers
  • Fixed Multicast Bloodlust not affecting nearby Spell Immune allies
    Could already target them directly

Omniknight

  • Purification cast point reduced from 0.4 to 0.25
  • Degen Aura stickiness reduced from 2 to 1

Oracle

  • Fortune's End cast time reduced from 0.3 to 0
  • Fortune's End cast range increased from 650 to 850
  • Fortune's End radius increased from 215 to 300
  • Fortune's End damage rescaled from 75/150/225/300 to 90/120/150/180
  • Fortune's End cooldown rescaled from 12 to 15/12/9/6
  • Fate's Edict no longer amplifies incoming non-magical damage
  • Fate's Edict now has normal purgability rules
  • Purifying Flames cooldown reduced from 2.5 to 2.25

Outworld Devourer

  • Strength gain increased from 1.85 to 2.3
  • Sanity's Eclipse now always removes 40% of affected heroes' max mana
    Instead of 75% of current mana only when under the threshold
  • Sanity's Eclipse mana loss no longer pierces Spell Immunity
    Matches its damage behavior
  • Sanity's Eclipse cast range increased from 600/650/700 to 700
  • Sanity's Eclipse cast range is no longer increased with Aghanim's Scepter

Phantom Assassin

  • Stifling Dagger now applies your attack's on-hit effects
    Does not guarantee a proc if the effect is chance-based
  • Blur no longer has a 0.75 second delay

Phantom Lancer

  • Agility growth reduced from 3 to 2.6
  • Doppelganger cast time increased from 0 to 0.1

Phoenix

  • Sun Ray max health damage per second increased from 1/2/3/4% to 1.25/2.5/3.75/5%
    Heal per second is half these values

Puck

  • Illusory Orb speed increased from 600 to 650
    Travel distance increased from 1800 to 1950 to keep the total duration the orb is alive the same
  • Illusory Orb cooldown reduced from 12 to 11 seconds
  • Dream Coil cooldown reduced from 85 to 75

Pudge

  • Rot damage rescaled from 35/60/85/110 to 30/60/90/120
  • Rot move slow increased from 20/22/24/26% to 27%

Pugna

  • Base movement speed increased from 320 to 330
  • Nether Ward is now placed at the target location using a 150 cast range ability
    Instead of placing 150 units in front of his facing direction. Using double click will immediately place it infront of you.
  • Life Drain damage/steal per second increased from 150/185/220 to 150/200/250

Queen of Pain

  • Sonic Wave damage reduced from 290/390/490 to 290/380/470 (Aghanim's Scepter damage reduced from 325/450/575 to 325/440/555)

Razor

  • Static Link now drains damage smoothly over its duration rather than every second

Riki

  • Permanent Invisibility health regen increased from 4/5/6/7 to 6/8/10/12

Sand King

  • Caustic Finale debuff expire damage increased from 30% to 50%
  • Caustic Finale debuff slow increased from 20% to 25%

Shadow Demon

  • Shadow Poison cooldown reduced from 2.75 to 2.5

Shadow Shaman

  • Shackles cooldown reduced from 16 to 10
  • Shackles total damage increased from 120/160/160/200 to 120/180/240/300

Silencer

  • Fixed Last Word countdown debuff not being purgeable

Skywrath Mage

  • Concussive Shot cooldown reduced from 20/18/16/14 to 18/16/14/12
  • Mystic Flare no longer splits its damage over Spell Immune heroes

Slardar

  • Sprint now provides phased movement
  • Sprint cooldown reduced from 23 to 17
  • Sprint duration reduced from 16 to 12

Sniper

  • Shrapnel delay reduced from 1.4 to 1.2 seconds

Spectre

  • Desolate now works on non-hero units if they are alone
  • Dispersion now reflects damage before reductions and returns it as the same damage type
    Rather than as Pure damage after reduction

Spirit Breaker

  • Greater Bash now uses pseudo random chance

Storm Spirit

  • Static Remnant mana cost increased from 70/80/90/100 to 100
  • Static Remnant unobstructed vision reduced from 800 to 600
  • Ball Lightning base mana cost increased from 15 + 7% to 30 + 8%

Sven

  • Base intelligence increased by 2
  • Great Cleave damage increased from 20/35/50/65 to 30/42/54/66%

Techies

  • Techies' mines are no longer triggered when destroyed
  • Techies' mines can now be destroyed using Quelling Blade/Battle Fury
    Same range as wards: 450
  • Techies' mines now provide 10 Gold for destroying them
  • Land Mines cooldown and mana cost reduced by 50%
  • Land Mines damage reduced by 50%
    Land Mines no longer have a max count
  • Land Mines and Stasis Traps no longer block neutral spawns
  • Land Mines no longer stack exactly on top of each other
    They can still be very close though

Terrorblade

  • Temporarily removed from Captain's Mode
  • Reflection now affects all enemy heroes in a 900 area of effect
    Will not affect units that are in fog or who are invisible
  • Reflection attack and move slow reduced from 60% to 25%
  • Reflection cooldown rescaled from 22/18/14/10 to 22/20/18/16
  • Conjure Image illusions are known as illusions to enemies
    Similar to Dark Seer's Wall of Replica illusions
  • Conjure Image cast point reduced from 0.5 to 0.15
  • Metamorphosis now emits a 900 range aura that affects his nearby illusions, causing them to match his current form
  • Sunder cast range increased from 325 to 550
  • Sunder minimum health increased from 20 to 25%

Tidehunter

  • Gush armor reduction increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6

Timbersaw

  • Whirling Death cooldown reduced from 8 to 6

Tinker

  • Rearm channel time reduced from 3/2/1 to 3/1.5/0.75

Tiny

  • Base strength increased from 24 to 26
  • Base intelligence increased from 14 to 17

Treant Protector

  • Leech Seed mana cost reduced from 140 to 100/110/120/130

Troll Warlord

  • Fervor attack speed per stack increased from 16/22/28/34 to 20/25/30/35

Tusk

  • Ice Shards mana cost increased from 90 to 100/105/110/115
  • Snowball max launch time reduced from 4 to 3 seconds
  • Frozen Sigil no longer goes through Spell Immunity
  • Aghanim's Scepter Walrus Kick now deals 200 damage

Undying

  • Aghanim's Scepter no longer improves Flesh Golem
    Previously it increased damage amplification and heal
  • Aghanim's Scepter now increases Decay's strength steal from 4 to 10
  • Tombstone Zombies attack damage reduced from 41 to 35
  • Tombstone now requires a constant number of attacks to be destroyed: 3/4/5/7 from heroes
    6/8/10/14 attacks from creeps
  • Soul Rip can now restore 1/2/3/4 health to Tombstone

Ursa

  • Strength gain reduced from 2.9 to 2.7
  • Earthshock cooldown reduced from 6 to 5
  • Enrage fury swipes multiplier reduced from 1.5/2/2.5 to 1.5/1.75/2
  • Enrage cooldown reduced from 50/45/40 to 50/40/30

Vengeful Spirit

  • Agility gain increased from 2.8 to 3.3
  • Base movement speed increased from 295 to 300

Venomancer

  • Poison Sting damage increased from 5/10/15/20 to 6/12/18/24
  • Poison Sting now works normally on illusions
  • Poison Nova damage per second reduced from 36/58/81 to 30/55/80 (Aghanim's Scepter damage per second increased from 58/81/108 to 60/85/110)
  • Poison Nova duration increased from 12/14/15/16 to 16
    Duration is no longer increased by Aghanim's Scepter

Viper

  • Agility growth increased from 2.5 to 2.9
  • Corrosive Skin slow no longer pierces Spell Immunity

Visage

  • Familiar's Stone Form area of effect increased from 325 to 340

Warlock

  • Golems can no longer be destroyed by Purge

Weaver

  • The Swarm mana cost rescaled from 100 to 70/80/90/100
  • The Swarm cooldown reduced from 36/33/30/27 to 35/30/25/20

Winter Wyvern

  • Winter's Curse no longer affects Spell Immune enemies in the area, but it still affects the primary target

Witch Doctor

  • Death Ward damage increased from 60/90/120 to 60/105/150
    Scepter now deals the same damage
  • Death Ward no longer bounces once at level 3
    Still bounces 4 times with Scepter

Wraith King

  • Base damage increased by 7
  • Vampiric Aura does not show the healing effect if Wraith King is in the fog of war or is invisible to the enemy
  • Reincarnation Aghanim's Scepter ally death delay increased from 5 to 7 seconds
  • Reincarnation Aghanim's Scepter ally wraith aura now remains active during Reincarnation

Items

Aegis of the Immortal

  • Aegis now provides temporary ground vision near your death area while reincarnating [
    Similar to Wraith King's Reincarnation

Bloodstone

  • Respawn time reduction reduced from 4 per charge to 3 per charge
  • Bloodstone no longer reduces gold lost on death
  • Bloodstone no longer grants vision/experience where its owner died

Bottle

  • Health/mana restore reduced from 135/70 to 110/70

Crimson Guard

  • Recipe cost reduced from 825 to 600

Diffusal Blade

  • Purge cooldown reduced from 8 to 0

Drum of Endurance

  • Endurance active buff increased from 20 to 25 bonus attack speed

Dust of Appearance

  • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 30

Enchanted Mango

  • Cost reduced from 150 to 125
  • Cast range increased from 250 to 400

Ethereal Blade

  • Ether Blast cooldown reduced from 30 to 20

Eul's Scepter of Divinity

  • Cyclone cast range reduced from 700 to 575

Glimmer Cape

  • Glimmer fade time increased from 0.4 to 0.6
  • Glimmer buff is now purgeable
  • Glimmer buff magic resistance reduced from 55 to 45%
  • Glimmer buff cast range reduced from 900 to 800
  • Glimmer buff mana cost reduced from 130 to 110
  • Glimmer visual effect on initial cast is now more obvious

Guardian Greaves

  • Mend cooldown reduced from 45 to 40

Heart of Tarrasque

  • Health restore per second increased from 3.25 to 4%

Heaven's Halberd

  • Can now be disassembled

Helm of Iron Will

  • Cost reduced from 950 to 900

Helm of the Dominator

  • Now sets the Dominated unit's health to a minimum of 1400
    If the Dominated unit's base health is higher than the minimum, its health will not be changed

Lotus Orb

  • Echo Shell mana cost reduced from 100 to 75
  • Echo Shell cooldown reduced from 17 to 15

Manta Style

  • Mirror Image range/melee cooldown reduced from 50/35 to 45/30
  • Mirror Image mana cost reduced from 165 to 125

Medallion of Courage

  • Can no longer target Spell Immune enemies
  • Reduces armor values by half against Roshan

Mjollnir

  • Chain Lightning targets count increased from 8 to 12

Moon Shard

  • No longer requires a recipe

Necronomicon

  • Necronomicon Warrior and Archer health increased from 600/700/800 to 700/800/900

Octarine Core

  • Fixed interaction with Guardian Greaves
    The stack limit was previously fixed to 45 seconds rather than the cooldown

Phase Boots

  • Phase duration reduced from 3.6 seconds to 2.5 seconds
  • Phase bonus speed increased from 16% to 24% for melee heroes, 20% for ranged

Pipe of Insight

  • Insight Aura now works on the carrier

Power Treads

  • Attack speed reduced from 30 to 25

Quelling Blade

  • Chop cooldown reduced from 5 to 4 seconds (same for Battle Fury)

Radiance

  • Recipe cost reduced from 1425 to 1350

Ring of Health

  • Ring of Health cost reduced from 875 to 850

Scythe of Vyse

  • Cooldown reduced from 35 to 30

Solar Crest

  • Evasion and miss chance reduced from 30% to 25%
  • Can no longer target Spell Immune enemies
  • Reduces armor values by half against Roshan

Town Portal Scroll

  • Town Portal Scroll cost reduced from 100 to 75

Veil of Discord

  • Recipe cost reduced from 1100 to 900

Void Stone

  • Void Stone cost reduced from 875 to 850

Source: https://www.dota2.com/685