Version 6.6

Posted on January 04, 2019

Balance changes:

• Included most of Balance changes from Copen With The Stress Mod (Thanks Copen With The Stress).
• Every hero will now be invincible for 5 seconds upon spawning/respawning. (Thanks Leigh)
• Wizards: base HP improved from 30 to 40

The Mesmer:

• Gift of Gaben skill bonus improved from 25% to 30% gold discount.
• Base HP improved from 85 to 100
• Base attack improved from [6, 7] to [8, 9]
• Attack gain reduced from [2, 4] to [1, 3]
• Added a new Passive Skill: Loki's Pendant (not available for Dark Mesmer)
  • Grants an extra 5/8/10 seconds of invulnerability upon spawning (improves with EL)

The Arbalest:

• Speed gain reduced from 2 to 1.7

The Crimson Archer:

• Base attack increased from [11, 15] to [13, 16]
• Attack speed reduced from 1s to 0.95s
• Range improved from 90 to 100

The Chaos Mage:

• Base HP improved from 70 to 90
• Circle Burst cooldown improved from 60 to 50

The Dark Mage:

• Base attack increased from [5, 8] to [7, 8]
• Attack speed reduced from 1.1 to 1.05
• Lightless now only reduces healing from fountains by 50% (was 75%)

The Frost Archer:

• HP gain reduced from 22 to 16
• Attack speed reduced from 0.5 to 0.6
• Base speed reduced from 100 to 80
• Speed gain reduced from 1.4 to 0.8
• Ability base duration improved from 4s to 8s
• Ability duration gain reduced from 0.4 to 0.25
• Ability cooldown increased to 130 (was 80)

The Phantom:

• Base HP reduced from 65 to 60
• Hp gain reduced from 10 to 5
• Base attack changed from [16, 60] to [18, 30]
• Attack gain changed from [1, 7] to [2, 6]
• Attack speed improved from 1s to to 0.7s

The Replicant:

• Base HP improved from 50 to 60
• HP gain increased from 5 to 8
• Base attack reduced from [4, 4] to [2, 2]
• Attack speed improved from 0.18s to 0.16s
• Replica skill cooldown improved from 20s to 16s
• Base speed increased from 50 to 56

The Tank:

• Spirit Breaker Arrow cooldown increased to 22s (was 13)
• Spirit Breaker Arrow weaken times reduced from 7/15/30s to 6/11/17s
• Weaken effect will now wear off upon enemy Hero respawn
• Healing Fountain II will no longer cure effects such as Burn or Weaken.

The Valkyrie (Rework):

• Removed previous skill that was supposed to be removed but wasn't: it granted immunity against mage at EL3.
• Removed skill Odin's supply that granted price reduction on warehouses
• Base HP reduced from 135 to 100
• HP Gain reduced from 18 to 10
• Base attack reduced from [13, 15] to [11, 13]
• Range reduced from 90 to 85
• Base speed improved from 100 to 120
• Holy Bow now requires EL2.
• Attack speed reduced from 1s to 0.6s
• Einherjar Summon:
  • EL1: now creates 10 EL2 soldiers instead of 20
  • Divine Archer: attack reduced from [300, 350] to [250, 300] (damage reduction to heroes is still 50%)
  • Divine Archers now give 30 times more gold upon defeat. (they now give 5 times more gold than a Gold Archer)
• Added new Skill: Soul of Heroes.
  • Everytime an ally defeats a Hero (illusions excluded), an Einherjar will be summoned near your king with the exact same stats.
  • EL2: summons 2 Einherjars.
  • EL3: summons 3 Einherjars.
• Added a new Skill: Gear of Valhalla
  • EL2: Gains 250 max HP and unlocks Holy Bow, which reduces attack speed by 0.4s (1s instead of 0.6s), improves range from 85 to 100 and grants an additional +10 attack. Reduces speed by 20.
  • EL3: Gains an additional 750 max HP, but reduces speed by 25. Unlocks Lightful skill.
• Added a new Skill: Lightful (requires EL3)
  • Grants +100% healing.

The Wizard:

• HP gain improved from 13 to 15

Blessings:

Added Blessing of the Lotus:

• Grants +25% gold
• Grants +10% HP gain for heroes
• -20% base damage
• -20% base speed

Multiplayer

• Fixed Kings not attacking
• Fixed meta text appearing on player disconnects under certain circumstances
• Fixed damage from dead heroes not being applied under certain circumstances (this mostly affects Chaos Mage's spell not working and Arbalest's damages upon death). Non-hero units will still not deal any damage when dead (unlike solo)
• Fixed non-Valkyrie host being able to auto attack stealth phantom
• Fixed structure repairs not working
• Host can now sell default structures
• Added a pre-multiplayer screen to change nickname and display data usage warning before actually connecting

Misc:

• AI heroes from difficulty 6 will be more aggressive towards player camping inside their base
• Valkyrie's sprite will now change when upgrading EL.
• Fixed some Mesmer and Helper hair sprite issue when moving south
• Fixed Valkyrie and Dark Mage's merchant level particles not being displayed after loading a game
• Dark Mage will now start with less particles
• Added some small tweaks to lvl 11 bis battle to accomodate Godrik's Active Skill change from previous update.
• Desktop version is now resizable
• Fixed Godrik AI staying idle a long time and then building everything at once
• Fixed Replicant illusions being able to move when created at low HP and then healed (thanks Charlie)
• Re-added benchmark mode