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3.2.2d - The Dark Ruines and Ancient Magic
Welcome to Kaliron
What is TKoK? - TKoK (short for The Kingdom of Kaliron) is a multiplayer save/load RPG designed for 4 to 7 players that features many ground breaking systems to give you a whole new experience unlike most other RPGs for warcraft 3
Features:
Custom Hero Stat System - Each hero has 3 main stats (Power, Agility, Energy) and 8 sub stats (Strength, Constitution, Endurance, Dexterity, Reflexes, Intelligence, Wisdom, Spirit) which will effect all aspects of your hero. Each hero also has Attack Power, Attack Critical Chance, Attack Critical Power, Spell Power, Spell Critical Chance, Spell Critical Power, Dodge chance, and Block chance. All of these which are derived from your stats.
Playable Heroes - All heroes are playable now: Arcanist, Pyromancer, Hydromancer, Warrior, Cleric, Chaotic Knight, Phantom Stalker, Ranger, Paladin, Barbarian, Shadowblade, and the Druid
A Threat System - As seen in most RPG's that have an aggro/threat system, TKoK has something similar allowing the tanks to actually control the mobs and protect the rest of the party from damage.
Equipment System - TKoK has a full screen GUI inventory system for holding and equipping items for your hero
Talent Tree System - TKoK also has a full screen GUI talent tree system to teach your hero new abilities, improve the effects of the abilities, or improve the abilities directly.
Enemy Ability System - A dynamic enemy ability system that allows monsters to have completely custom scripted abilities that are dynamic
Scripted Mini bosses & Bosses - All monsters deemed a mini boss are now scripted events with boss like abilities that you will have to think and react to. This is a huge improvement from the 2.0 versions where mini bosses just hit harder and had more HP than normal monsters. Many new bosses have been added and even more to come
Bonus optional challenges - Something that we are calling VX mode (short for Vexcellent mode) offers extra hard challenges to players that seek them, with the rewards of bonus loot that normally wouldn't drop off that boss.
Broodmother - 'Ahh!! Spiders!' - Defeat the Broodmother without killing any of the eggs in phase 2
Narith the Fallen - 'Elemental Chaos' - Defeat Narith the Fallen after invoking VX mode (attack the shade until it is at 75% HP while not killing any of the containers)
Sand Golem - 'Snack Attack' - Defeat the Sand Golem without killing any of the Rock Shards that spawn.
Karrix - 'Baby Killer' - Defeat Karrix after you kill all 5 baby scorpions causing him to enrage.
Avnos - 'Die In a Fire' - Defeat Avnos after spawning the Flame Orb
Karnos - 'Frostbitten' - Defeat Karnos while he has 50 or more stacks of Frostbite
Karavnos - 'A Tale of Frost and Fire' - Defeat Karavnos after becoming imbued with Fire or Frost in phase1
Muarki - 'A Big Brawl!' - Defeat Muarki with all 4 adds still alive after they resurrect
Vjaier - 'Supercharger' - Allow 90% or more of all the pulses to reach Vjaier
Crueltis - 'Tunnel Vision the Boss!' - Let Darkness kill every Centaur Add. Players cannot kill any of them.
Tal'Navi - 'Rollin Rollin Rollin' - Never kill a Living Boulder during the fight.
M'Karsa - 'Holy Crab!' - Insert the rune into the fiery brazier before M'Karsa destroys it (Hint: The rune is located near by, but not inside his battle area)
Ancient Hydra - 'Bullet Hell!' - Charge the Dark Pedestal first, then charge the other 3 (Ignore the Dark Pedestal to skip VX mode)
Saving / Loading - Like any Warcraft 3 multi-player map, this supports saving and loading via a password system.
Chat Commands - Some in game chat commands you may not know exist:
-rewards - displays and pings the map of all turn in points for finished quests you have not claimed
-qitems - displays which player has what quest items
-clear or z (no dash) - clears all chat text
-rm - resets the damage meters for your hero
-suicide - kills your hero instantly (in case you are stuck or something)
-fog - toggle on/off the fog (requires entering a new zone when turning back on)
-music - toggle on/off the music (requires entering a new zone when turning back on)
-cview - cycle through camera viewing options
-cdist - cycle through camera distance to target options
-m1 -m2 -mc - 3 new commands for the target marking system, Red, Blue, Clear
-inv - shortcut to open inventory
-tt - shortcut to open talent tree
-totals - display all damage and healing totals
-ctfix - if you have the rare bug where your combat timer gets "stuck" as always in combat, use this command to reset it
-status - dump display of all hero status effect counters (helps with debugging / bug reporting)
-cct - displays current time left in combat
-timerdump - player Red only - displays all currently in use timers (helps with debugging)
3.2.2e Patch Notes - 10/07/12
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System Improvements
Finally got a working system inplace for recycling projectile units. Less unit creation in the long run
curi helped me trackdown a system flaw in the projectile system that was causing an excess 'leak' of data over long periods of time (most noticeable with the hydra) Projectile spam will no longer cause massive slow downs over long periods of time
Pyro
The Pyro has rejoined the fight to save Kaliron and no longer harms her allies with Dragon's Breath
3.2.2d Patch Notes - 10/06/12
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System Improvements
Aggro system has had an engine tuneup. I removed the private global SystemUnits group and all of the ForGroup() methods attached to it. The loops for updating aggro, attacking targets, and the aggro bar X,Y,Z loc now use a new system of integer array lookups. The end result is a near instant lookup of the units to process commands on. Less trigger and function calls, less data look ups overall, and faster performance.
Projectile system optimizations on the cleanup/destroy end of projectiles to lessen the CPU load. Next up will be optimizations on the create end, but that will most likely be for another patch as that will require some major work.
Fixed random pointer leaks throughout the map. Several functions leaked some unit variables (not nulled at the end) and some (not commonly repeated or used) functions leaked group variables (not destroyed). All in all, approx 20 small minor leaks fixed
Even more System Improvements - By Duos
Special thanks to Duos for taking time in Stage 1 of Project Cleanup Kaliron! Over time Duos will be helping out by going through old code and functions, as well as newer stuff, to help optimize performance, help avoid small handleID leaks that wc3 has naturally, and various other things to improve the overall quality of TKoK's performance.
Generic Fixes
Corrected a bug with LifePercent values on damage event triggers with some of the older events that were not using the proper Life values (considering the incoming damage). Related mainly to Naztar, and some other events
Possible fix for the save/load code corruption (where a valid code will still load but screw everything up about the hero. The corrupted codes CANNOT be fixed. Once the data is corrupted, there is no reverting it. Sorry.
Possible fix of an array overflow inside a struct returning data that does not belong to that set. This is kind of hard to test specifically because it doesn't happen 100% of the time.
Now, to use the waypoint in the Outer Cloister, 1 of 2 conditions must be met: A - you paid the 20k for the Special Teleport, or B - the actual door to the Outer Cloister has been opened by completing the quest line
Corrected some math and hardcap issues with Hybrid Crit (effects SB/CK/Druid). Included in this fix is a Natures Mastery talent fix for the druid.
Arcanist
Increased range bonus from Arcanic Outreach talent.
Druid
The druid now conforms to the laws of physics when 'gripped'. Thanks to Fled for helping me figure this wc3 bug out and the work around.
Paladin
Mark of Replenishment's graphic has been changed to the 2.xx graphic of Blessing of Wisdom
Pyromancer
Buffed improved fireball and empowered fireball talents, and improved fireball aoe size.
Ancient Hydra
Picking up a book now triggers the wave to spawn, rather than the wave being on a timer. The faster you kill a wave, and pick up books, the faster you get through phase1
Adjusted the Hit Box Radius of all projectiles and explosions to be more visually accurate
Arcane Orbs now show a warning graphic for 2.5s before spawning for damage / beam connections
Fixed Rain of Fire void zone spawns so it cannot hit and tick at almost the same instance
Increased the range of all projectiles so they cover the entire room
Adjusted the delay between each poison casts in general as well as adjusting the start up warning pattern timers. More space/time overall.
Adjusted the 2nd pattern of Poison Volley to be easier to dodge (if you understand the pattern, and the pattern did not change). The break is now longer to allow a more visible dodge area and to allow larger parties to make use of the break without screwing each other over from pathing issues.
Fixed a bug that caused white damage to not always work in phase4
Phase1 and Phase2 arcing projectiles (that spawn other projectiles or adds) have been slowed to 1/2 of normal speed
Fixed a full inventory bug with the VX book that would cause it to become 'stuck' for the rest of the fight until reset
3.2.2c Patch Notes - 8/29/12
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General Fixes[list][*] Fixed just a few minor things and made a few minor adjustments, no need to go into the detail[*] Fixed 1 last Init issue with the Outer Temple warp just in case people do not pick up all the quests first
3.2.2b Patch Notes - 8/27/12
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General Fixes
Reworked the Outer Cloister Skip/warp and readded the Waypoint (it is now near the Side entrance to the Inner Temple)
Fixed a decimal point error with the threat system that caused an insane amount of threat on high level tanks
Fixed a reference error with Hydra items, he will no longer drop M'Karsa loot
3.2.2 Patch Notes - 8/27/12
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New Content Available
Some new quests + quest item rewards
The Ancient Hydra boss + VX mode - To activate VX - charge the Black obelisk first
The follow up quest after the Hydra to update your game distance
Generic Fixes / Improvements
Added a new text command '-sab' - This toggles on and off the visibility of ALL aggro bars for that player. (Will help with framerate improvements on those with lesser computers, all threat calculations for the visuals do not function while bars are hidden.)
Added hotkeys to all the Waypoint system destinations - Q W E R A S D F are now in use for the current spots. All special waypoint destinations (paid ones) continue to have no hot key to help prevent accidental usage.
There is no minimum on hero level for saving anymore
Fixed a bug that prevented a second -load 'password' if the first one was incorrect
Removed a destructible from the hider system that could cause a desync if hidden
Created a new system based on the theory of the Destructable Hider that can safely hide invisible platforms, elevators, and interactable objects to boost performance gain even further
Reworked all of the 'behind the sceens' UnitAddBuffs and UnitDamageTargetEx to be .execute() functions to run in their own threads. This is an attempt to fix desyncs on fights with lots of adds/heroes/AoE with tons of data execution in 1 function loop.
Fixed a bug with Hardcaps that would cause you to perm lose a stat rating if a buff pushed you over, then the buff wore off.
Increased the UnitBonusMod system to handle more than +512 to a stat (mainly for Damage/Armor)
Items
Fixed an exploit with TP scrolls that caused them not to be consumed
Fixed a reference error that caused rank3 healing wards to use rank2s healing aura
Barbarian
Corrected Improved Bladestorm to properly work for both talents, giving the 10% bonus it should with the 2nd point
Bladestorm changes: Improved bladestorm now provides 10% damage reduction per point. Empowered Bladestorm now reduces the movement speed penalty to 10% (40% without Empowered)
Pyromancer
Due to the changes, all Pyros will receive a free respec!
1 Point removed from Improved Dragon's Breath, values unchanged (this yes this a slight nerf)
1 Point removed from Pyromaniac, values unchanged (yes, nerf)
Burning Desire no longer increases mana regen or +damage. Instead it now increases all ability damage by 5%
Added Improved Burning Desire, this re-adds the mana regen effect of 0.25 (0.75 to the Pyro)
Fire Form no longer increases critical bonus damage.
Added Improved Fire Form. This will re-add the Critical Bonus Damage but 25% instead of 22%
Ranger
Poison trap now applies a debuff to the target and uses the Buff System's Damage over time effect for dealing it's damage. (End result is this debuff no longer stacks with itself)
Warrior
Changed the damage debuff on Intimidating Shout. It was not working as intended and only reducing 20% of the bonus damage a unit had (+green number). The ability is now a damage event that will reduce the targets 'white damage' by 10%
Enemies
Fixed a rare crash bug with the Vjaier Water Elemental. He can no longer die while 'hidden' and cause a crash.
3.2.1 Patch Notes - 08/01/12
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Big list of fixes / balance changes and so on. The Hydra is being tested and will be released soon, that's a promise. Ortakna (the Obsidian Statue) is still being designed on paper.
Systems
Added a new DestructableHider by Zwiebelchen. This helps improve Wc3's performance when dealing with destructables and can/should improve overall performance of TKoK. (Link here for the system: Click me!)
Generic Fixes
-load 'code' is now an acceptable form of loading (the older method still works)
Moved the loading text messages so they actually appear now before the Clear screen call is made.
Fixed a bug that was not properly giving the Blocked damage reduction
Fixed a bug that was not properly reducing damage taken by 5% from the 'threat stance' talents with the warrior and CK
Made the Game Masta's model size larger and gave him a glow so he is more noticeable. Remember, he has lots of info on game mechanics and other useful TKoK Related info!
Using the Digging Tools for the Visions quest now notifies all players when you begin digging, not just after you finish.
Fixed lots of typos (missing spaces before colored words) in the text for many quests.
Fixed a bug with Leg/HC mode and quest level requirements. The intent was for quests to count as higher level to increase the amount of experience you gain, but in reality it was making the quest level requirement higher as well. The proper quest level is now counted and you still gain +1 or +2 levels worth of base exp from the quest.
Consumables
Fixed a condition error with Potion of Battle, will now function properly
Arcanist
Reduced the overall mana efficiency of the Arcanist
Slightly lowered the AoE Damage combo from Arcanic Missile / Arcanic Blast
C. Knight
Fixed a bug that caused you to not respawn if you died from CotC's dot effect (could also cause a double free of type buff)
Fixed a bug with Armor Break if it was active on a unit when the unit reset. It was gaining the lost armor when the debuff wore off after its total armor was reset back to normal
Druid
Increased Empowered Bark Skin's bonuses
Made bear form attack a little slower (2.1 from 2.0)
Tranquility aura now has a heal effect when it ticks.
The stats multiboard now displays all aura/passive information
Leveling up while not in human form properly gives you your stat gains. If you experienced this bug personally, no worries. Every time you -load your hero, the stats will be auto corrected if there are any errors.
Fixed a bug that could occur if you spammed a shapeshift button as fast as you can that resulted in the druid dying.
The druid's life percent is now properly carried over to the new form in all situations (works properly with gaining or losing
HP now)
Fixed a bug that caused you to not respawn if you died from Enrage's dot effect (could also cause a double free of type buff)
Fixed a shifting penalty bug that was only restoring 4 of the 5 ticks of lost SP/AP/HP
Fixed a bug that would prevent caster aura from starting if learned in Caster form
Paladin
Increased Imp Light Infusion bonuses
Increased healing from Divine Light
Phantom Stalker
Bladefurry now increases your armor by 30 for the duration
Improved Bladefurry now adds 10% movement speed for the duration
Increase damage of some abilities.
Shadow Blade
Fixed a struct data leak with Time Strike. Could be very well responsible for game desyncs in the long run.
Barbarian
Improved base attack speed from 2.2 to 2.1
Increase life regen from warcry
Warrior
Increased whirlslash damage
Enemies
Lowered armor on many enemies, both regular and bosses. Some enemies lost a lot of armor. This will help physical damage classes the most, especially PS and barb.
Fixed a bug that caused the Tidal Makrura's to cast their cleave/stun way too often
Fixed a bug with the AoE size of the Tidal Makrura's stun being too wide
Adjusted some 'camp' sizes and max units in the Ruined Temple area
Increased the respawn timers on the Ruined Temple 'trash' mobs.
Mini / Bosses
Increased Avnos's attack range so he will no longer move
Fixed the lightning offsets during Karavnos fight so they work properly with our new LightningSystem
Corrected a bug that could happen if you take too long to clear a Crueltis 'trash wave' under certain conditions, that would cause the next wave not to spawn.
Fixed a bug with 'Power Slam' on the guardian statues that would cause it to warp to 0,0 on the map.
Fixed a bug that caused Fire of the Ancients to not be removed when M'Karsa dies
Vjaier's elemental pillars are now properly hidden until the quest is discovered
The fire orbs from the Phantasmal Spirit properly cleanup themselves once again
Adjusted several timing issues with M'Karsa, mainly related to Living Water Growth, Delay for Rock Throw, and Tidal Wave's first spawn. Should flow smoother now.
3.2.0 Patch Notes - 06/29/12
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Generic Fixes
Fixed an issue that locked out additional hero load attempts if you tried to load a single player code into multiplayer
Items dropped into the AOT entrance pillar are no longer lost forever!
Fixed calculation errors on damage events with the Magic Resist stat. Working as intended now.
Changed damage reduction numbers to only display if the value is greater than 10 (technically, less than -10)
Fixed the Random 1 aggro function for freshly spawned boss adds to work properly with the Aggro max range reset function
Fixed Caution and Rage elixirs to work with healing threat
Fixed a bug in conditions with the Talk command. Under certain circumstances, the function would ignore all the checks for special units resulting in NULL text errors or other incorrect messages
Talk has a new icon!
Fixed a visual display issue with text tags for abilities that are physical damage. The value displayed was BEFORE armor was taken into effect. Auto attack damage was not effected by this bug.
Adjusted quest rewards. quests now give xp as if they are 1 level higher on leg, 2 on hc. quest base xp scales up per level a bit less now. quest default gold reward scales up per level a lot more now. also set custom xp on specific quests in the new zone.
Empowered flash of light, holy fire and divine touch now increase the damage in addition to the healing.
Fixed a bug that was making block overpowered.
Adjusted threat (aggro) generation numbers.
You can now buy talent or substat respec tomes at the Vormur Gardens
Stats
Reflex: increased ACP from reflexes substat by 50%, lowered agi slightly. This is an overall buff to the stat.
Items
Enchanted and epic items: nerfed ap and sp amounts by 5%. in return, gave 5% buffs to: hp, block, crits, main stats, gold gain. not intended as a buff or nerf overall, just trying to balance ap/sp compared to other stats. Also buffed magic resist.
Wisdom elixir price changed from 500 to 375
Spirit elixir had a bug and was giving extra mana (2 different tick patterns). It now restores 2% of your mana pool plus 2, every 3s. (New design mechanic)
Raised cooldown on smoke to 45 seconds
Added cooldowns to item tooltips for smoke, heal wards, mana wards, campfires
Stackable items (like heal potions and elixirs) can now stack to 99 max instead of 5.
Town portal scrolls are now a stackable item.
Buffed a large number of the weaker stats for blue items, too many to list (this applies to the base and level coef of ALL blue items. It was a change to the affix type)
Adjusted armor on all enchanted and epic items. Reduced default armor amount on chain items and increased on cloth. Also slightly reduced the amount of block and armor found on items with a bonus to those stats. This is intended to make cloth a little less squishy, and make enemies need to hit a little less hard to hurt the tank.
Raised base white damage on enchanted and epic weapons a little.
New Consumables
Quickness Potion
Speed Scroll
Battle Potion
Stoneskin Potion
Small Rejuvenation Potion
Greater Mana Potion
Greater Health Potion
Rank 3 healing wards
Healing Scroll
Death Ward
Regeneration Elixir
Wealth Elixir
Boss Bugs/Balance
Naztar
Fixed visual issues if his 10% or less health trigger fired in the middle of a channeled mana drain
Muarki
Fixed aggro bars on adds that could become permanently hidden
V'jaier
Fixed an issue where you can get thrown out and run back in before the fight can actually start once the elementals die
Fixed an issue that allowed you to start the fight without actually entering the battle zone
Fixed an issue that could prevent his portals from spawning in phase2
Tal'Navi
Fixed a move speed issue with VX boulders. Not regaining all of their speed after they get healed
Hero Fixes / Changes
General Healer changes: increased some healer emp talents to make up for their sp loss with only hp/ene in return. emp mos, emp flash heal and emp divine touch to 8%, and buffed emp holy fire too. they were weak talents and the sp change hurt healers a little.
Druid
Raised range on Pounce from 500 to 625
Fixed a aura related bugs with respecs/loads/talents
Fixed an issue where the Weaken buff would not restore all of your health sometimes
Fixed an issue that had the caster form spells being reduced by armor.
Hydro
Lowered Ice Nova coefficient to 1.0 from 1.15
Increased Purify's cooldown from 5 to 6, if you max the emp purify talent it goes back down to 5. Also increased mana cost from 20 to 25
Raised Ice Barrier mana cost from 25 to 30
Phantom Stalker
Lowered some spell cooldowns
Increased Hail of Blades coefficient from 0.85 to 1.0 and base damage from 11 to 17
Barbarian
Lowered some spell cooldowns
Pyro
Lowered Dragon's Breath cooldown from 6 to 5
Ranger
Poison trap now lasts 30 seconds instead of 10 seconds. total damage increased, but damage per second lowered. this is to make it more different from fire trap.
The freeze AOE effect on water arrow can no longer proc on Mini/Bosses
Lowered some spell cooldowns
Water Arrow's cooldown drops to 5s (from 6s) with max level Empowered Water Arrow
Content
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Ruined Temple enemies: Here, we took a new route than the usual. There are no "packs" this time around, but there are camps. Camps are just a bunch of enemies grouped up in an area, they can patrol within that area, but do not patrol out of that area. On top of this, there are normal zone patroling mobs. As these mobs die and respawn, there is a chance a Brutal version of these mobs will spawn. Brutals have a lot more HP, hit a lot harder, and have different abilities. Brutals always drop good loot. Camp mobs that respawn have a chance to spawn a Super version of that unit, which acts like a hard mini boss. Think V'jaier Elementals hard and in the middle of a zone with lots of other enemies around.
Ruined Temple Powers: Every unit (except the 2 bosses + the optional boss) can gain a Ruined Temple Power upon spawning. There are several powers, each unit can only get one. These powers make that mob harder and more of a threat in some way. Be it reduced damage taken, bonus damage dealt, healing abilities, AOE damage auras, and so on.
Guardian Statues - the original guards of the temple gates once again make their return from 2.xx. They have 7 abilities in total. One of the abilities they always have, and 2 others are chosen at random for a total of 3 abilities per statue. They also can get the random temple power buff. Good luck with this though, if they random one of the nastier buffs it will make the fight harder!
M'Karsa - One of 2 temple guardians. For those who remember Clamps mini boss from 2.xx. Good news, he is back and much stronger (and a new name!)
Obsidian Statue - an optional mini boss that will be extremely hard, hence why it is optional! The rewards shall be good!
Ancient Hydra - the 2nd temple guardian. Like Clamps, he has been upgraded to boss like status, and the fight shall be epic! This fight will be long and slightly complex, not to mention hard to execute. It will not be the original Karavnos hard, but it will take practice to get down.
3.1.5 Patch Notes - 03/05/12
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General Bug Fixes / General Changes
Fixed a few minor exploits and 1 major exploit
Fixed a bug that made Stave weapons considered Mithril Armor type
Fixed a bug with Mouse Over display on main stats (apparently wc3 doesn't like commas in the tooltips for that area)
Added '-stats' command, which displays Power, Agility, Energy to the local player unrounded
Added '-hcmb' command, Hide Combat Multiboard, toggles the display of this multiboard off/on
Added a target dummy in the Vormur Temple just inside the actual gate across from Captain Renolds - It is a red tinted large footman that you can beat up to test your DPS and rotations. Use the command '-td x' where x is the amount of armor you want the dummy to have. Its default armor is 0
Aggro reduction on damage over time spells lowered from 30% to 20%
Wisdom elixir mana gain nerfed from 150 to 100, ap/sp percent gains nerfed from 5/10% to 3/6%, and price raised from 150 to 500 gold
Increased cooldown on all elixirs from 5s to 15s
Fixed issue where adding 1 aggro to a random nearby hero was not random. This affected Crueltis' minions.
Fixed issue where the centaur waves before Crueltis' could be split up. They now will aggro random players.
Druid
Pounce is no longer usable while entangled or ensnared
Respecing while Shapeshift is on cooldown no longer gives back the ability when the cooldown is finished (it now checks for the talent each time)
Corrected a logical error that would cause a spammable Double Free of Type Buff when dying with Enrage active
Corrected a bug that allowed maul to receive bonus damage from Enrage without the talent
The rejuve talent that allows it to bounce will now function if you shift out of tree form
Warrior
Charge is no longer usable while entangled or ensnared and now properly checks pathing to the unit
Pyro
Improved ignition no longer consumes your burning buffs. It combos with them for free like empowered water bolt combos. It's damage bonus is now 15/30% instead of 20/40.
Naztar
Corrected yet another error with his death conditions. I swear, he will work this time, unless he doesn't and I'll have to do something else.
Karavnos
Updated Avnos' and Karnos' damage functions to still trigger from dot damage. They still do not apply stacks from DoT ticks to the heroes. This prevents them from going below 50% and possibly dying from pure DoT damage
Tal'Navi
For 3 or less players on VX Mode, the number of boulders is capped at 1, and when the second boulder fails to drop then it will get a speed bonus. 4+ players still get up to 2 boulders, no speed bonus.
3.1.4 Patch Notes - 02/27/12
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Generic Info / Bugs
All save files now goto the 3.1.4 folder
Clarification: Over heals do not apply full aggro. Only the amount healed will apply aggro. A 100% overheal applies 1 threat (before any mods)
Raised the aggro multiplyer for when you block an attack by 50%
Corrected a bunch of mobs that should be immune to knockback
If the AOT Grunt is knockbacked during Bladespin, his X,Y void area is now updated as well as the graphic
Fixed Guardian Angel's damage type to properly be AOE
Redid Naztar's death event... 1 more time! It is now fully optimized and bug free
Corrected an exploit with the -suicide command on certain fights
Corrected a few various other minor exploits
Corrected more Tooltips / Talent Tips
Deleted now unused enemies from the struct database of enemy info
Fixed the descriptions when you mouse over your primary stat on wc3's default UI
Fixed the bug with Drain Spirit as well as recoded when/how/why it stops early
Added a delay when Crueltis switches to his final phase directly after a darkness so the adds do not spawn right on the players that just took the darkness damage
Fixed ALL of the NULL Release lightning displays (this did not cause any problems, it was my added message to help me track them all down an prevent them from attempting release). This includes the 100% display with Narith, Avnos, Karnos, Karavnos, Vjaier, Crueltis, etc.
Adjusted some under the hood mechanics and calculations with the new Aggro system and the 15% buffer for pulling threat vs displays
Fixed a bug with my "echo" function for certain debug displays where some players would not see the results
Fixed a bug with players leaving the game without selecting a hero and screwing up game scaling
Block damage reduction to increased to 50% for all tanks (CK requires shield training to get to 50%)
Karavnos
Moved the reset force move spot for Karavnos so if you force reset after buying a warp, it is not wasted
Offset the Fire and Frost waves in Karavnos Phase1 so they cannot appear in/on the walls but go right up agains the walls (messes with the visibility of the graphics)
Fixed a bug with the new lightning system that prevented the graphics from the phase switch in Karavnos to display properly
Muarki
Changed the way Muarkis adds 'die' in phase1 and added new code to all of their spells for this new death detection. It prevents a few rare cases when the hidden units would become unpaused and start attacking you while hidden and when they should not be. This also fixes the problem with seeing their threat bars sometimes while hidden
Vjaier
Fixed a bug that could sometimes make Vjaiers tornado graphics not vanish on a reset
Fixed an issue that could Double Free a Timer with Vjaier's reset
Vjaier's death removes the stacks from the orbs.
Tal'navi
Added a new Fog type to Tal'navi's room. Should also make visibility with the higher camera angles better.
Adjusted when/how/where Tal'navi's forced exit/enter when the fight is active.
If you are standing on the spot where Tal'navi's force wall appears when it does, you are moved out of the way instead of being stuck
Tal'navis Dust Storm (dust rings) now properly stops when the fight resets instead of finishing the sequence out
Adjusted the graphics for the warning with Tal'navis Cyclones. It should be easier to see now.
Tal'navi's HP and living boulder hp has been reduced by 5%
Added a short delay after Tal'navi's burn phase knockback and the start of the cyclones
Lowered the flying speed of Tal'navi's minions projectiles by 5%
A few minor and various adjustments to the fight (consider them slight nerfs)
Druid
Corrected the druid shapeshift bug with wc3's system and unit swapping + spell books. No longer will you shift and have to click off your unit then back on to gain control again.
Raised damage of Crush to help bear's AoE aggro.
Fixed bugs where Crush were benefiting from improved talents you didn't actually have
The bonus to crush from emp maul was never coded, it only existed in the talent tree description. and it sounded too strong. it's removed. empowered wild might is strong enough without it.
Fixed a bug that miscalculated the Bears block by not including the Base Block value
Warrior
You can no longer talent Empowered Heroic Should before getting Improved
Fixed a bug that made the warrior charge "hidden" units that got moved to Heaven when they die (more specifically, Tal'navi's golems)
Charge now has a distance offset for the same reason as pounce.
Added a 'stop' command when charge finishes to regain control of your hero right away instead of waiting for the wc3 casting system to finish the spell
Increased the casting range of Charge to 750
Mana gain on Battle Orders was reduced to 40% of HP gain.
3.1.3 Patch Notes - 02/08/12
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Generic Info
New save system. Your save code will now be written to a text file in a tkok saves folder in you war3 folder. You can also save in the old way. The path is: x:\pathtowarcraft\TKoK_Save_Files\TKoK_3.1.3\ each version will have its own sub folder. The heroes are saved in this format: HeroType-ExpTotal-Goldtotal.txt to help prevent overwriting data. You will have to manually manage the different copies. This also helps makes backups.. just in case! When in doubt, just sort the folder by date for the latest copies. Inside the text file will be stored more info besides just your password.
New lightning system. The chain lightning spell is no longer used in the map. This is intended to fix some crashes (like at narith, muarki, and vj's air elemental) releated to the possibility of double DestroyLightning calls and wc3's special indexing of lightning.
Passwords for 3.1.3 will not be backwards compatible because of the talent system changes.
Warriors, C. Knights, and Rangers will get a free talent respec due to the edits to their trees.
All 3 Naga units within the Temple of Sanctity (beyond the Trails area) have been weathered by the heat of the desert (HP reduced by 15%)
Lady Myren multishot spell is now physical damage and reduced by armor. Increased base damage. This is a nerf.
The saved inventory items was increased to 15
The inventory is now 2 colors. The first 15 slots (saved ones) are gold like usual, the non saved slots are now gray
Crit text tags now move upward at 1/2 the speed of normal text tags
Added a new Target Mark system:
-m1 to mark your selected unit with a Red mark
-m2 to mark your selected units with a Blue mark
-mclear to clear all marks
Endurance now gives more block
The -1 level of xp penalty, for normal mode only, now applies to enemies level 27+ instead of 28+
Respec price formula changed. Now cheaper at lower levels. Also now available at Tol Calm Front Gate. This is intended to help newer players who mess up their stats.
+Gold items now effect gold earned from selling to vendors
Magic resist has a hard cap of 50%
Vials of Blood for both Barrens quests now have a unique model (easier to see them now)
Waypoints now require the proper quests to be completed to use them
Added a second elixir merchant at Grom'Gol so you can do all your shopping in one place.
Replaced hard/medium/easy difficulty text at hero selection with a new Tip that may be a little more helpful
Enrage and Curse of the Chaotic will no longer put you in combat, do less damage (.7 per level from 1 per level), and cannot be reduced by damage prevention
Threat System
The aggro bars now fill from empty (white) towards full (now orange). If you have aggro the bar will instead empty from red to black as someone catches up, instead of staying solid red.
The Threat Calc system has undergone a complete rehaul. Individual spells no longer have aggro bonuses (except taunts put you to 120% of leader: chaotic grasp and charge). Tanks now have a multiplier to damage and healing aggro of: (3 + (level * 0.05))
The aggro system changes will make it easier to off-tank. For example you now gain some aggro when enemies attack you. The increased ability to off-tank can be considered a buff to the barbarian and some other classes.
You now gain aggro for the following things:
Dealing damage gives aggro
Dots have a 30% aggro reduction for non-tanks
AoEs have a 50% aggro reduction for non-tanks
Crits have a 60% aggro reduction to the bonus damage from critting, for non-tanks
Heals give aggro in 675 aoe. It had a 25% reduction.
Dodging, blocking and being hit gives aggro
Generic Bug Fixes
Fixed item drops from Crueltis and Tal'Navi to properly always drop the loot they should (fixed items that had a chance not to drop as well)
Fixed an "Issued Order" command that could fire the incorrect trigger. (Most commonly seen with the Arcanists Blast spell triggering the -lastpass command)
Fixed an issue with -tt and spending talents outside of the Actions Menu
Implemented a new TerrainPathability system (by Rising_Dusk) to help with pathing for Knockbacks, Tossing, Grips, Pullins, Pounce, and the new Charge ability
Lord Naztar properly rewards exp/gold again
All "Pack" mobs now auto gen 1 threat on near by party members when first pulled if they have no threat on them at all
Fixed an issue with Narith's Frozen ability that can break the buff system and cause other issues down the road
Fixed an issue with Narith's Frozen ability that caused it to deal no damage
Many more talent / tooltip adjustments and fixes
Fixed some spellings of fierce and cutthroat, and the icon on a leather helm
Fixed elixir of spirit tooltip to match the numbers in code (no change to how good it is)
Mark of Replenishment, mana ward and ranger's Viper talent can restore fractional mana but only display a whole number in blue. Changed the displayed number to round to the closest number instead of rounding down.
Fixed an overflow recalc issue with the HeroAbility struct. Full recalcs could wipe out hero data from the wrong column causing the "1" damage or healing bug until your hero gets recalced.
Fixed what could possibly have caused the Vjaier Air Elemental random crash
Removed the threat system/bars from a bunch of units that did not need it (stationary objects to attack, portals, Centaur Ranger vipers, etc.)
Arcanist
Damage increase for arcanic blast
Barbarian
Damage increases for deep slice, blade storm and berserker rage spell damage
Cleave spell now correctly affected by armor
Chaotic Knight
Empowered Chaotic Grasp is now a 2 point talent for 35/70% (was 3 points 25/50/75)
Increased aoe range for mindblade
Added Chaotic Stance to the talent list: 1 point talent that adds bonus threat generation to the Knight and reduces all damage taken by 5%
Fixed chaotic grasp to do damage *after* putting you on top of the aggro list, not before
Changed chaotic attacks. mindblade no longer has a debuff. it now makes mind blade have a 50% stun chance on main target, and 20% on splash targets. it used to only be able to stun main target. if you roll stun on a boss, you get 20% dmg instead.
Druid
No talents are required for bear form tanking anymore. Just being in bear form adds bonus threat generation
Added Hero Glow to all forms
Pounce can now target allies for a quick easy escape. Targeting an ally will give both you and the target a Courage buff. The buff increases movement speed by 15% and reduces all damage taken by 10% for 8 seconds. The buff will vanish if the 2 linked units move further than 400 units apart.
Fixed bug where wolf and bear damage skills were not being reduced by enemy armor. Re-balanced some ability coefs to lessen the nerf.
Druid now has a special stat calculation formula for Attack Power while in Tree/Caster form as to not gimp Strength / Dexterity builds in this form. Bear and Wolf forms remain unchanged in the way Attack Power is calculated
Frenzy duration increased from 5s to 8s
Empowered Moonfire changed. Less splash damage, but now has a single target damage bonus. Also fixed bug with moonfire splash damage
Increased power gain from Enrage
Hydromancer
Damage increases for tsunami and ice nova single target
Buffed thick ice
Buffed purity of water (note: i just found out it doesn't multiply with talents like emp purify or emp tsunami, they both increase from the base value)
Paladin
Changed armor/dodge talent to scale less at higher levels
Changed paladin +dmg talent. better at low levels, about the same now, won't scale up as much in the future
Mark of Sanctuary AoE can now crit heal
Divine Touch with Light Infusion AoE can now crit heal
Imp Light Infusion now heals more with larger range
Phantom Stalker
Hail of Blades has a new animation
AoE Radius on Bladefurry increased from 300 (from 250)
Gash and Puncture cooldowns lowered from 4 to 3
Ranger
Nerfed sniper training and deadeye to normal values
Increased damage of multishot a little. Note: its damage is reduced by armor (so is hail's)
Deleted imp poison trap (it never worked, btw!). Moved the point to deadeye
Buffed imp frost trap damage
Buffed emp hail of arrows
Nerfed emp explosive arrows single target bonus from 15% to 12%
Shadowblade
Soul Drain no longer keeps ticking if the unit dies with the debuff still active
Imp Dark Blast now only increase a specific defbuffs duration 10 times. If the buff expires then is reapplied, the cap is reset.
Buffed time strike damage 10%
Nerfed unholy embrace heal amount
Adjusted unholy mastery and dark tap
Decreased dark blast buff duration additional increase per level
Warrior
Defensive Stance removed from the game (along with all its talents and mods)
Counter-Attack removed from the game (along with all its talents and mods)
Armored to the Teeth talent removed from the game
Ignore the Pain talent removed from the game
Charge! Added to the warrior's ability list. Allows the warrior to charge to the selected target causing a knockback (if it can be) and dealing line damage to all units in the path. Improved Effect will make Charge! also taunt the target (the way Chaotic Grasp does)
Intimidating Shout renamed to Intimidating Bellow
Heroic Shout Added to the warrior's ability list. Grants you 55% damage reduction for 3 seconds and will increase your threat on all near by enemies by based on your level. Imp talent gives 35% damage reduction to near by allies. Emp adds 2/3 of a second duration
Added Defensive Stance (passive) to the talent list: 1 point talent that adds bonus threat generation to the warrior and reduces all damage taken by 5%
Added Natural Resistance to the talent list: 2 point talent that adds magic resist to the warrior
Changed warrior mitigation talents to use flat values
New Battle Orders formula and no more bonus effect on yourself
Imp shield slam deals 20% bonus dmg on targets it can't stun
Increased damage for shield slam a little, and reduced damage for intimidating shout a little
Muarki
Lowered hp of his minions by 10-15%
Vjaier
Portal Spawned mobs now spawn with 1 threat on a random player in range of the fight
The exit X,Y loc for the Toss Out and generic forced exit was moved slightly more west to avoid walking back into the fight right before it resets and causing bugs
Crueltis
Crack the Sky (starfall) damage in phase3 reduce by 20%
Adjusted Shockwave, Hail of Arrows, Warrior's Cleave, and Crack the Ground (moving earthquakes) to properly be physical damage instead of spell
Tal'Navi
Shardling Minions melee damage reduced by 30%
During phase1 and phase3, the boulders now take 100% damage reduction from AoE classified spells (currently 75%)
Adjusted the damage types of the minion landing bolt, flying boulders, and boulder crush damage to properly be physical damage instead of spell.
Made a few adjustments to make the fight a little easier on legendary and HC mode
Lowered damage of rock throw 15% and made them slower
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3.1.2 Patch Notes - 12/17/11
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New Content
NEW BOSS: Tal'Navi - the Sand Lich: Located directly behind Crueltis. There is no trash or mini bosses between Crueltis and Tal'Navi. Defeat Crueltis and the path will unlock to proceed into the Orcs Tomb Chamber, where Tal'Navi has taken up residence... and he is pissed at you for killing his beloved Sand Golem.
Generic Bug Fixes
Corrected timer utils to stop using Hash Tables and use array indexes once again for faster more efficient lookups
Fixed Hydro's bubble to properly deal damage if the initial tick kills a unit
Fixed Narith's death and reset fucntions so they no longer double release the towers and associated timers
Muarki can no longer Toss a rock trapped unit, and the visuals of the rock trap update new X/Y locations if a unit is knocked away
Muarki can no longer Double Rock Trap a unit
Adjusted pathing blockers in Muarki's room to prevent you from getting trapped in awkward places when thrown
Fixed the issue with Broodmother and phase2 (planting eggs and hiding in the shadows)
Fixed the issue with Lightning / Target Projectiles / Grips that can crash the game (Muarki/Vjaier/AirElemental)
Baby Scorpions from Karrix no longer leave corpses when they burrow at 90% hp
Vjaier's Reset/Death properly removes all buffs/debuff from the fight
Fixed visual hero issues with dying while mid Knockback/Grip/Pullin/Cyclone Flying
Fixed a buff/timer system leak with players leaving while they still had buffs/debufs on them
Fixed issues with Crueltis Event/Gauntlet/Trash and resets that can seldom occur causing double waves to spawn
Optimized Ithan's (IsUnitFacingUnit) function for turning away from Blinding Light
Paladin's Divine Light no longer has an AoE target area, this is a temp adjustment for some testing, it will return to normal later
Fixed a few game distance warp exploits as well as boss cheezing exploits (I will NOT go into detail as to how)
Shapeshifting has a random / seldom wc3 bug where sometimes you lose a huge chunk of your mana pool. I coded protection against this, shifting now properly restores your current mana % to your new form.
Fixed an issue with Karnos' VX stack removal on resets
When the Frost Puzzle in AOT is complete and the mini boss spawns, The orb in the center is now removed
Lots of other various minor optimizations and bug fixes that arn't worth going into detail
Generic Hero Fixes
Adjusted normal attack range, and acquisition range, on all heros. this is a ranged hero nerf and melee hero buff.
Small increases to spell damage for: dark blast, berserker rage, bladestorm, gash, puncture, shuriken, hail of blades
Chaotic Knight
Aggro bug fixed and AoE aggro multipliers were increased
Mindblade AoE damage improved (30/60 from 43/43 with 1/2 points of imp mind blade)
Aggro modifiers for Mindblade and Imp Chaotic Grasp increased
Druid
Passive aggro in Bear Form increased
Small nerf to wolf imp shifting crit bonus, but scales less at higher level, and now gives spell crits too so that it's better for hybrids
Caster form buffed and serenity now gives some AP (only to the druid, enough to cancel out hybrid)
Added emp pounce's debuff added to the game (was missing). You must have it talented to receive the damage bonus. You cannot gain the bonus from another druid's debuff
Hydromancer
All spells base damage altered to be similar to pyro and arc (give or take a few points)
Paladin
lowered divine wrath radius from 475 to 445
Pyro
Dragon breath and meteor dots fixed/nerfed (were doing significantly more damage than intended)
Dragon breath mana cost lowered and damage slightly lowered
Imp fireball splash damage lowered slightly
Ranger
Multishot now has 1s less cd with imp
Slightly increased damage of ice arrow
Items & Stats
lowered life regen on items
nerfed crit chance on blue weapons
very small crit power nerf for intelligence
Bosses
Karavnos
Slightly lower base HP
Vjaier
Vjaier now has 50% damage reduction in the portal spawning phase and some minor buffs
Crueltis
Lowered Crueltis' hp and armor a little
Lowered earthquake, starfall and dark beams damage slightly
Changed the order of special abilities based on life %: Earth quakes start sooner and stop when the starfall phase begins (which happens sooner as well)
Adds can now only get 3 stacks of the damage buff instead of 5
3.1.1 Patch Notes - 12/17/11
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Note: there was over 400 things that the TKoK team has found and I corrected for this 3.1.1 patch. No way I am going to list them all, here are just the major things.
Generic Bug Fixes
Camp Fire no longer shares a cooldown with wards
Terrain changed around VJ's air and earth elementals to prevent luring them out without starting the fight.
Found issue with VJ air elemental code that could explain the fatal reported and some other random problems. Fixed it.
Using Save & Quit, Dying on HC, and Leaving the game now all share one common 'cleanup' function for undoing the hero setups and removing quest items and so on. This also fixes the issue of leaving/dying with buffs on and causing an issue (HC/Save & Quit)
Fixed an issue with the logic behind Time Strike's multiple hits and unit death events
Changed the way Muarki's add's death events function (fixes an exploit also is a game play improvement)
Karnos' visual attachment for him becoming Empowered for hardmode now properly is removed on reset or death
Fixed a logical flaw in all boss death cleanup functions that may cause some errors over long games (with multiple boss kills per game)
Removed the "ID==0 on 'unit name'" debug message. You would really only see this message in the Frost Side of the temple, not a bug, just letting me know a unit died that wasn't in the indexing system, which in this case was just a hidden dummy caster with a timed life. No cause for alarm people, move along now.
Corrected an issue with spawn events that didn't properly init a much needed variable for some damage event conditions. The most noticeable bug fixed was Naztar's instant death.
Fixed an issue with HC deaths that caused a game to goto single player mode.
Corrected a few unit death cleanup events that could result in a Double Free of Aggro type
Altered the AggroBar text tag system to use 1 variable and client side edits. This corrects the 'dead threat bar' issue
Fixed a few issues with Muarki and altered the way the adds 'die' in phase1. Helps prevent some pathing exploits, revival code, death event issues and some other things I won't go into
Fixed an issue with Tank Toss with Muarki that causes the fight to reset if the tank is the only player left in the box at the moment.
Fresh level 1 characters now properly get their first talent point again at level 1. Don't worry, if you save and reload into a fresh game, TKoK detects you are missing a talent point and rewards it back to you.
Fixed a few issues with boss cleanups, dummy units, and other things that would cause a Double Free or an ID==0 bug on several fights
Revamp of every Ability tooltip in the game (Thank you Hally for taking the time to do this) and edits to a lot of Talent Tooltips to fix errors, mis-data, and other things of the sort
Cleric
Inner Power is now an AoE buff instead of single target. Cooldown and mana cost adjusted
Pyro
Burning Desire is now an AoE buff instead of single target. Cooldown and mana cost adjusted
Adjusted the offset of Dragons Breath to be able to hit point blank targets better
Adjusted meteors explosive timer to be more visually correct with the graphic of it landing
Hydro
Fixed an issue that can cause the Hydro's Nova to sometimes do 1 damage to surrounding enemies, but not always.
Hydro's Tsunami now always leave a 'frost' debuff even if you do not have it improved. The improved still adds the slow as usual.
Adjusted the offset of Purify to be able to hit point blank targets better
Druid
Fixed an issue that caused Starfall to do what seemed to be random damage. Starfall will now do its true damage all the time
Fixed issues with the multiboard and the druid along with the broken icons.
Changed the shapeshift cooldown to the proper shapeshift icon
Fixed a the respec issues with the Druid and his auras
Fixed the bug with Serenity aura's magic resist along with the bear form and abilities magic resist. They will now add the proper values
Fixed bug with mending touch and rejuvenation. And you can now get a double heal with mending if they have rejuv and lesser rejuv both.
Fixed bug with emp barkskin + peaceful mind or mending touch
Fixed tooltips for ignition, bark skin, mending touch and arcanic missile
Fixed bug with moon fire buff being instantly confused by the moonfire's own damage
Fixed issue with bear block
Fixed an issue with Shape shifting during several abilities that last over a period of time
If you cast Hibernate while you have enrage on, enrage recasts itself the moment Hibernate ends
Adjusted the offset of Fury Swipes to be able to hit point blank targets better
Vjaier Related:
The Fire Elemental can no longer knock people into the side walls or barrier and get them stuck in certain spots
The pulse counter no longer counts pulses mid-air when Vjaier dies (Can screw up a VX mode since it technically cannot hit Vjaier if he dies mid flight)
It is possible in some situations that a Tornado spawned by Vjaier will not do a 'Pull In' at the end of its path. Won't go into details, but I found the issue and corrected it. Doesn't happen with every tornado, only under certain circumstances.
Vjaier now has a proper stats display when the fight ends letting you know how many pulse there were, how many hit Vjaier, and the %. (90% or more required for VX)
Crueltis Related:
Larthils Spears now drop from a players inventory if they die during the fight
Fixed an issue that would cause Ithan and Larthil's threat to not reset when you reset the waves
If during Crueltis' opening speech everybody exits the area and does not re-enter before the speech finishes, Crueltis will reset at the last chat message. This is correct, however, Crueltis will not change from a friendly mob into an enemy mob if reset in this manor. Thus when the fight is started a 2nd time, the opening speech does not trigger and he remains owned by Player 10 (Citizens). To avoid this for now, if you choose to reset the fight as he is spawning to re-group, heal, or whatever. Wait until he actually begins the fight before running out to reset.
Fixed an exploit with Crueltis' adds (spawned centaurs)
Fixed issue that caused Crueltis not to do his Dark Beams ability sub 20% hp
The Light Beams for protection from Crueltis now last 3s after Darkness happens. Also to clarify something: A Light beam protects against ALL forms of Crueltis spell damage. This includes Crack The Ground (the moving earthquakes), Power Wave (the ability he uses on the chief), etc.
Crueltis Adds stop using abilities once darkness begins to fall
General Crueltis adjustments to his damage output, VX mode, several bug fixes and other adjustments with his buffs. VX mode buffs nerfed a bit, healing Cruel receives remains the same
Fixed a few different exploits regarding darkness and the adds
Fixed an issue that could sometimes crash Crueltis during phase3, the last stand
Generic Balance Edits:
Cruel Nerfed
Karav and VJ nerfed a bit too
PS base attack speed is 1.7 (from 2). Barb, SB and ranger now 2.2 (from 2.5, 2, 2.25 respectively)
PS spell damage coefs increased (especially remorseless) and some cool downs lowered, but some mana costs increased
Barb increased spell damage part of Berserker Rage and bladestorm. also buffed battle lust.
Damage increased on some PS spells, especially Remorseless Strikes
Fireform adjusted (in between 3.0.4 and 3.1.0 versions, plus less scaling in future)
Meteor cool down increased
Paladin armor/dodge talent nerfed
Drain spirit damage gain per tick buffed
Arcanic disruption debuff duration to 4s (from 2)
Druid adjusted
Cruel base hp lowered 44k to 42k and his level is fixed (should be 29), moonbeams now start at 25% life (from 15%), and lowered the hail of arrows
damage from his summoned centaur from 45 to 40.
Randomized XP and Gold rewards (+/- 20%) and fixed rounding issues with gold/xp gain items. Randomizing avoids breakpoints with certain xp/gold gain percent bonuses against certain enemies. Quest rewards are not randomized.
wisdom sp is .7 from .75, ene sp is .5 from .4
Enemies level 28+ on normal now count as one level lower for XP
Halved the mana bonus from Battle Orders but increased damage from counter attack
3.1.0 Patch Notes - 11/17/11
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The wait / delay is finally over. Now that we have located / resolved the issue that held this patch up for a solid 3 months. I can explain what was happening. Unit Death events / Buff system / Unclean Up were all tied together to cause broken aggro bars (ones that appeared detached from the unit after it died), random Double Free of Type Buffs, incorrect buff timers, broken struct references, and several other things that didn't happen often, but it pretty much happened every game and caused a lot of problems. Thanks to lots of monotonousness testing editing, code rewriting and patience, we tracked down the source of the issue the corrected the logic.
So without further ado:
System
Unit recycling system removed. We felt that the bonus of saving 1 unit event vs the whole recycling process, the code, events, and everything that goes on with preventing a unit death then faking it with triggers is more troublesome and problematic than dealing with the extremely small event memory leak.
Re-coded the entire UnitStatus function. UnitStatus library handles events like: Freeze, Stun, Silence, Disable, Root. The overall improvements protect against those 'permastun' or 'permaroot' bugs we have seen in the past.
Projectile system altered to guard against long code loops with MANY projectiles on the screen at once (7 players + Karavnos phase2, or 7 players and Muarki). Each loop iteration is now run in its own separate trigger execution instead of every projectile in 1 big loop. While this may have no been a problem, it definitely won't be one ever now.
Altered the buff system to reset its private global buff before every .execute() call to ensure that with all the other triggers running, that the proper buff is always being referenced. In moments of extremely intense processing with lots of buffs and debuffs flying around, I had a strong feeling from past experiences that a wrong buff was being returned at some point to a function call.
Fixed fatal errors with Muarki and Frostmaster.
Finally tracked down the elusive Double Free of type Buff bug. This one took MONTHS of debugging to figure out what was happening.
Rewrote the entire unit death event system and clean up system to streamline and optimize the process
Many, Many, Many other bug fixes
Items
Reduced the power gap between epic and enchanted items
Reduced how much higher level items scale up
Items can now have Magic Resist, bonus gold gain percent, and bonus xp gain percent
Leather and Chain items now get bonus magic resist instead of bonus hp
There's new items from the new bosses, of course!
FYI blue items only go up to level 24. The item system has been changed so you can no longer see the level/prefix/suffix of blue items without picking them up. This will help improve map load times and fix some problems. In the next zone (ruined temple) regular enemies will start dropping enchanted items (repeats of old enchanteds, plus two full sets of new weapons).
Boss Balance / Skips
Karavnos Phase1 made slightly easier and more forgiving. Timers between graphic warnings and actual ability cast slightly increased and overall damage on heroes has been reduced slightly (normal game mode). The boss is easier to tank and deal with Threatening and Insignificance in phase2. The mechanics behind these abilities changed from removal of total threat to reduction in dealt threat. These stacks still need to be managed and cleared.
Several balance changes and bug fixes on Muarki along with an exploit. Muarki's mechanics have been altered code wise and you should see a lot of improvement and the spells should flow better.
Saving
Saving now has a cooldown. 10/25/40 minutes for normal/legendary/heartcore
New "Save & Quit" option. Ignores the save cooldown. Permanently removes your hero from the game so it no longer scales enemies (you can still watch).
Hero Balance
Some general changes. A few specific ones listed for individual heros below.
Standardized based attack speed of all heros to 2s. Except ranger is 2.25 and cleric and barbarian are 2.5
Reduced damage and attack crit chance bonuses on items
ACC elixer reduced to 11% from 15%
Hero Fixes / Changes
Where to begin with this one...
Arcanist
Arcanic Blast is now based off the ability Channel, it will no longer have some hardcoded targeting issues against certain mobs
Drain spirit re-coded in some spots to help guard against faulty EventEnds of the channel (dealing with monster death, or effects spawning on the player)
Cleric
Holy Fire is now based off the ability Channel, it can now target heroes already at full HP.
Chaotic Knight
Cleanse is now based off the ability Channel, it can now target heroes already at full HP.
Re-coded Chaotic Grasp and altered it's order of events. This spell is much more efficient in processing and will no longer randomly crash the game when it is the killing blow
Paladin
Divine Touch is now based off the ability Channel, it can now target heroes already at full HP.
Re-coded Divine Light, this ability will no longer randomly crash the game
Fixed a bug with Mark of Sanctuary that would cause improper healing to be done with the improved effect
Fixed a bug with Divine Touch and Light Infusion that would cause improper AoE healing
Corrected the bug with Time Strike, it now functions properly all the time with no leak
Corrected a buff bug with Shadow Bind
Time Strike stacking debuff and bug that could cause a double free corrected
Pyromancer
Fireform buffed.
Dragon's Breath now has more range/aoe (to match purify).
Hydromancer
Lowered damage from watery bubble explosion when it ends.
Druid
Introducing the druid... which had TONS of bug fixes and wc3 limit work arounds to deal with. That was fun, not even going to mention all the bull s*** we had to deal with on this one... The point is he works now and he's the most complicated hero and he's awesome.
The Druid has 4 forms: Caster, Treant, Bear, Wolf. Each form comes with its own set of abilities / rule sets / aura / and fun
Caster Form contains the following:
Moonfire
Earthen Grasp
Starfall
Essence of Water
Serenity Aura
Wolf Form contains the following:
Bite
Fury Swipes
Howl
Pounce
Pack Leader Aura
Bear Form contains the following:
Maul
Crush
Enrange
Hibernate
Frenzy
Treant Form contains the following:
Rejuvenation
Barkskin
Mending Touch
Peaceful Mind
Tranquility Aura
The druid can do the following: Melee DPS, Caster DPS, Healer, Tank
While the druid can do all of the following with 1 gear set, keep in mind that the druid is a Jack of All Trades, not the Master of All Trades. You will be able to fill a need in a party, but you will not be the best for the need. The druid will start in caster form and each ability learned in the talent tree will unlock an ability in all forms. You learn shapeshifting at level 4 so you can visit the other forms.
Content
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Vjaier, The Centaur Conjurer. Begin the next step to uncovering the mystery and darknes surrounding Kaliron as you dabble into Vjaier's dark secrets and the mysterious energy barrier cutting Nebu Harbor off from Tol'Calm and Vormur. Defeat his 4 elemental guards to bring down Vjaier's defenses so you can take on the Conjurer of Storms. He has a new mechanic not seen before in TKoK that you will have to learn and understand to prevent him from absorbing power from his Energy Orbs.
Crueltis, The Centaur Warlord. For those that remember TKoK2.0, Defense of Grom'Gol. This new event, mini bosses, trash waves, and boss replaces that old event. After Vjaier is defeated, the centaur make their counter attack. Travel through the narrow valley into a centaur ambush. Deal with the minions while avoiding the archers high above raining arrows down onto you while you battle through the valley to find Crueltis and his 2 commanders, Ithan and Larthil. Survive the onslaught of centaur, defeat Ithan and Larthil to bring forth Cruelti's full reign of power. This fight also has new mechanics never before seen in TKoK. There are no buff or debuff descriptions to read to help you with this one, but once you see it, you will understand it or you will be destroyed instantly. Protect the Tauren Chieftain from Crueltis as they battle each other.
Vjaier VX Mode - 90% or more of all the pulses must reach Vjaier
Crueltis VX Mode - Let Darkness kill every Centaur Add. Players cannot kill any of them.
To be included in 3.1.1 - After Crueltis is defeated, you can venture forth into the sacred shrine of the Orcs, buried under the sand. Seek the wisdom of their Ancient Elders passed for clues how to remove the energy barrier from Nebu to free the town... but be prepared for what lurks in the sand below, reaching the elders will be no easy task[/spoil]
There are no new zones in this patch but do not let this fool you. There are 6 new super mini bosses that are actually boss fights, but shorter. There are 3 new intense bosses with new mechanics and VX modes. There are new quests to complete, and new gear to be had.
There are 2 new segments attached onto the Trials area in Grom'gol, a new valley entrance has been build that leads into the valley and down to their Shrine below the sand. I am not calling this a new zone due to it's small size, but it does provide a new area to explore and battle through.
3.0.4 Patch Notes - 12/15/10 - Final Copy of 3.0.4!
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Fixed a bunch of bugs! (Including the original bug that haunted TKoK for a long time, Thanks to RaiN` for discovering the cause)
Several ranger balance changes, overall a buff
Reduced bonus damage from armor break, empowered curse of the chaotic, and bladestorm
Raised damage from mindblade and berserker rage
Balance changes to karavnos to make the fight shorter but more intense
Changed quiver and orb offhands to have crits (if you want the old way back, get a book or dagger)
Increase xp gain in some zones (does not change level cap, just rate of leveling up)
Spells that give extra bonuses on yourself (BO, BD, WB) now give bonus for anyone of your class
3.0.4beta920 Patch Notes - 11/27/10 - Public Beta Copy
This is a beta version. It is NOT bug free. But it's looking a lot better.
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System Changes
fixed timer leak with unit statuses -- this was the main bug in 910
fixed bug with unit reycling
fixed bug with damage bonus and reduction
watery grave tick bonus nerfed to 3% from 5%
ice barrier now affected by 20% of spell power. but 12 hp per level from 15. not a buff.
nerfed drain spirit mana/hp regen, now costs 20 mana, and lowered its bonus damage per tick from 12% to 10%
dodge and crit elixirs buffed to 15% from 9.25% and aggro elixirs to 40% from 33%.
fire and ice wing teleports now cost 500 gold per player per use
new portals to naztar and karavnos at the end of the orc trials. price is 10,000 gold. consider them optional.
increased gold drops from naga and AoT packs, and some bosses
many minor bug fixes and balance adjustments
If you didn't see yet, 910 added a bank. That means the top 2 rows of your equipment screen (10 items max) are saved in your save code, so you can store alternative gear. That's why save codes got longer. It also means the save codes cannot load in older versions before the bank.
3.0.4beta910 Patch Notes - 11/24/10 - Public Beta Copy
Please keep in mind - THIS IS BETA - We have fixed a lot of things and made the map very stable, it is still not flawless, but we are working on it. The issues are not cut and dry.
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System Changes
Damage system has been totally deleted and replaced with a brand new system. This system now prevents any normal attacks from dealing damage, then processes all the damage and damage events (bonus, reduction, absorbs, whatver) before ever dealing a single piece of damage to the target. This system is now highly efficient and flawless for our recycling system.
Buff system has undergone a few internal changes and some order of events for calling buffs has been altered. The end result is, no unit that is going to 'die' from a hit will ever be attempted to be given a buff. There is a whole list of reasons why I needed to do this, and I'm not going to explain it all
Damage Event system has also been updated to have 2 types of damage events, I won't go into the details for players will never see this, but the end result is pretty awesome by wc3 standards.
Unit status system has been deleted and recoded from scratch, much cleaner, neater, and efficient. Unit Statuses are things like: Silence, Disable, Snare, Freeze, Stun, etc.
Hero Stats / Balance
Every player has been given a free stat respec. Please READ THE DAMN TOOLTIPS before spending your new stats. Lots of little changes. There will be some more changes and some of the stats will be renamed to better fit their new roles, but I am saving that for 3.1.0 (the next big patch)
3.0.4beta801 Patch Notes - 11/15/10 - Public Beta Copy
Please keep in mind - THIS IS BETA - There will be some issues we are still trying to clean up. These are not new bugs, but as we clean up the systems, the bugs become more clear and obvious. We are getting close to resolving the rest of these, bare with us.
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Systems
DamageEvent system has been totally modified and optimized. Greatly reduces the processing required upon each damage event as well as fixes the order of events for +/- damage mods. This should also resolve some issues with death events and recycling events
Modified the max number of timers to a much lower number. While it shouldn't effect anything, no reason for the number to be so high.
Optimized a few things with damage events and making better use of In-lining variables
Bosses
Boss debuffs properly stack once again
Several issues were resolved in the Muarki fight as well as improved balance
Altered a few mechanics to some of the abilities with Muarki
Fixed some possible leaks with Serpent and Nether Wards in the Muarki fight
Muarki VX mode epics are now active
Cleric
Adjusted his talents to not have 4 levels which exceeds the save system's limit currently. (This is what is screwing up on loads)
curi's list
moved Scared of the Dark ring reward to shamanistic magic quest
there is now a -inv command. use this if your mana goes below 0 for taking off gear.
type -check [password] to see if you typed it in correctly
new command -totals (shows total damage/heals since last -rm)
new command -showheaven (for debugging)
fixed buffs not stacking
imp dark blast is now 15% duration increase
shadow bind now can only stack 5 times and some values tweaked
IP, BD, WC +dmg slightly nerfed
block and dodge caps from 60/60 to 75/50
block now prevents 40% damage on warr (from 30) and ck now 40 (from 37) when fully talented
mindblade, cleanse, curse dmg raised
avoidance to 9/18 from 10/20
hybrids now use 60% of each crit type instead of 50% of each
nerfed MoR mana leech (note: it displayed rounded numbers but actually adds fractions)
fixed bug with Unholy Embrace
fixed bug with improved Time Strike
fixed bug with improved hasten
fixed watery bubble and time strike tooltips
Time Strike now has 3 hits base (from 5)
Changed Time Strike graphics to look cooler (more black tinted)
Balance Changes to Muarki
Changed elixir pricing and availability
Fixed bugs with which heals cleric's IP and DP can boost. Also any heal that's a percentage of a heal that could crit, now cannot crit (no double crits).
Holy fire now displays the heal per tick in the multiboard for the HoT
reduced armor break dmg reduction to 7/14 from 10/20
emp curse now amplifies dmg 10% on enemies instead of yourself
moved 4th point out of cleric sp talent, added it as third point for emp angel
fixed damage bonus bugs with fireform, armor break, emp curse
fixed karnos enchanted drops (can no longer drop hp shoulders)
several substat tweaks (see tooltips)
some item formula balance adjustments
added 0.6 hp per item level to all leather epics and enchanteds
added 1 hp per item level to all chain epics and enchanteds
fixed bug with displayed damage to karav phase 1 enemies
fixed some bugs with damage events
fixed math with bonus and reduced damage
swap bags bug fixed
buffed arcane disruption and meteor damage
fixed karavnos damage reduction
fixed unstable power to do 15/30 damage boost instead of 0/15
improved muarki balance
nerfed bladestorm damage
3.0.4beta7 Patch Notes - 10/27/10 - Public Beta Copy
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Note from Vexsin: Special thanks goes out to curi for this patch. As some know, but most don't, I have been out of the TKoK loop only working on it maybe 2 times a week. I have a lot going on in real life, I won't go into the details, but I am sad to say it has really grinded progress with TKoK to a halt. Curi stepped in to pick up the slack, learn the workings of TKoK and apply his/mine/the teams ideas to TKoK that you see below. While I helped out with some of the major things in this patch, 90% of the work and credit goes to curi. If it wasnt for him, TKoK might have died... again... Anywho, lets look forward to more content soon! Enjoy!
This is a very big patch with many balance and talent changes, and bug fixes. This list isn't totally complete.
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New Save Codes: You will get free stat and talent respecs the first time you load in the new version. When you save, you will get a version 2 code. Version 2 codes will not be loadable in older maps, and won't get the free respecs anymore.
Substats: reworked spirit and wisdom. Did balance changes. Added much better tooltips to substats and main stats, so read what they do!
Items: All boss drops regenerated from updated formulas to be more balanced. New epic drops added to Karavnos.
Consumables: Raised prices on elixirs, rebalanced some elixers and potions.
Difficulty modes: epic drops by mode from .5/1/2 to .2/1.2/3
respecs: changed back to 250 per level, but lowered base cost to 1000 from 2500
New elixers Rage and Caution give more/less aggro gain.
added -suicide command
Fixed some bugs with respecs
fixed aot shaman bloodlust which wasn't adding attack speed, only removing it when it expired
removed scaling advantage for tanks and healers over dpsers. and removed advantage for large parties (6+).
some new gear has penalties: it will lower some of your stats. be careful not to lower your hp or mana below 1 or you will have serious problems. for other stats it should be ok to go negative.
enabled a few druid item drops that were disabled
the broodmother quest rewards (your first offhands) may have been bugged. they should all be correct now.
added extra 20 second respawn delay on leg.
haste elixer now uses your base movement speed. and simplified some movement speed code.
catacomb pack killing quest should now work again (3 packs were removed so i lowered the number of packs you need to kill for it)
fixed hp and mana regen display on multiboard.
changed all boss drops and skills to give mana per second instead of percentage mana regen.
fixed bug where mana per second stats on items were not displayed when inspecting them in your inventory
fixed shadow blade overhealing and his HPS should show up on multiboard correctly now
fixed pala mana regen numbers all showing up on pala's screen instead of the player getting mana back
increased hc gold gain from 135% to 140%
quest gold and xp is now modified by game mode
vx mode bosses now worth flat 20 xp extra (if you would gain any xp). also 150 bonus gold.
changed xp decay to 18% per level difference. this lowers the level cap by 1.
improved the levels of some quests. also lowered karav to 26 and muarki to 27. (from 27/28). for reference av/ka are 25.
fixed purify and cleave offsets so the cone starts at the back of the hero
set icons for a bunch of new items. found/added tons of icons for future equipment
added new item tooltip display in inventory for decimal but no percent for mana per second
fixed karavnos portal to muarki fight not to spawn on top of his item drops
fixed ooc regen bug
fixed several spells being incorrectly effected by armor
spirit no longer affects OOC regen. you just get 10% regen per 3s.
recycle system fixed. this should greatly improve performance in long games.
Content
Muarki is now available but epic drops are disabled for him until he's balanced more. He's not totally ready, fight him at your own risk.
Generic Class Changes
Balance summary: DPS classes buffed, except SB. CK and SB nerfed. Warrior buffed a bit. Biggest buffs to Ranger and PS, then arc.
Equipment changes: warriors can use swords, shields, axes, offhand axes, offhand daggers, maces, and leather armor. warriors are masters of fighting effectively with many different weapons.
ck can use swords, shields, axes and offhand axes
pyro,hydro,arc,clr can now use offhand books in addition to staffs and orbs.
ranger can now use offhand daggers besides bows and quivers.
sb can no longer use axes or offhand axes (just swords and daggers). very sorry if you had one.
Heal Crits: All cleric and paladin heals can now crit except for MoR leech. No heals from other classes can crit.
New Heal Spells: Watery Grave, Frost Arrows, and Drain Spirit can now heal.
Hero Changes: All characters were changed to have the right number of talent points (31). Many weak talents were buffed, especially passive talents. Substat gain on level up was changed for a few classes when it was bad. A few spells now gain a lower cooldown when talented. And the damage on a lot of spells was balanced better.
CK and SB now use a 50/50 mix of attack and spell crits for their spells.
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pala: buffed divine guardian, divine hammer, and path of the divine. added a second talent point to emp light infusion. small nerfs to imp and emp light infusion. some spells now have lower cooldowns, usually triggered by talenting them. MoS aoe heal no longer hits the main target, only people around him. Mark of Replenishment now gives a lot more healing when you attack the target and it triggers. the mana gain is slightly lowered. MoR now counts on hps meters
pyro: buffed some weak talents like fire power, burning soul, boiling point, no mercy, pyromaniac. buffed meteor, buffed burning desire mana regen. burning desire now gives triple mana regen when cast on yourself
hydro: lowed some aoe damage but raised some single target damage. fixed issues with tsunami and watery grave effects not matching tooltips. ice nova now does 25% extra damage if it procs root on a target it can't root (boss or mini boss). watery grave is now watery bubble and can heal
ranger: explosive arrow cd to 3 from 6. emp aspect of hawk buff. emp frost arrow dmg buff. viper nerf. emp hail dmg bonus doubled. lowered hawk cd. significantly increased hawkeye and sniper training. tripled emp explosive arrow single target dmg increase. lowered imp frost arrow level requirement to 18 from 24. buffed imp multishot dmg. emp explosive arrow has a third point available now. frost arrows is now water arrows and can heal
barb: double emp deep slice. raise deep slice dmg a little and lower cd when talented (if you put a dot on someone twice, it will just refresh the duration). buffed warcry. nerfed his bonus to crits. buffed imp rage ias. fixed some typos on barb and made warcry gain damage from AP. also emp warcry has 2 points now. emp deepslice reduced to 2 points max (also buffed a little). improved emp cleave talent description and nerfed cleave amount to 70%
cleric: buff emp ip, nerf blind faith
arc: lowered unstable power cd, buffed emp arcane missle, emp drain spirit, emp arcanic blast. buffed passives. small increases to drain spirit, arc disruption, arc explo coefs. drain spirit now drains life for the arc too
ps: buff gash, puncture, shuriken coefs, emp gash, gash and puncture cd a little, and passives
warr: buffed some passives, slightly dmg on shield slam and intim shout. BO is based on AP not power in the code. fixed tooltip. warrior defensive stance buffs (magic resist to 10% from 5%, more block from talent). bo now gives double life gain to the warrior who cast it
ck: nerfed cleanse heal, buffed cleanse dmg, nerfed mindblade coef but buffed emp mindblade. buffed shattered armor, imp hasten, emp hasten. nerfed shield training. buffed curse damage. buffed emp grasp. raised imp cleanse duration to 5s. nerfed cleanse cast range. hasten now gives dodge instead of attack speed
sb: nerfed time strike damage and raised mana cost to 15 from 10, buffed dark blast damage but heavily nerfed imp dark blast until an exploit is fixed. nerfed unholy mastery. fixed emp dark blast tooltip (it's actually twice as good as it said) and buffed it a little after. fixed dark tap tooltip and nerfed a little. buffed nether touched and unholy desire. shadow form is now stronger on hybrid classes.
Added the long overdue '-clear' command to clear the screen of text messages
General Bug Fixes
FINALLY found the cause for the random system breakage with timers. It is now corrected and things are functioning as intended again.
Fixed an issue with the new TimerUtils and OOC regen and the InCombatTimer. They will function as intended again
Fixed an incorrect index on Narith's VX loot table that could cause him not to drop an epic sometimes.
Finally fixed the Null Talk errors with some quest mobs that are not currently in use until later on
Fixed the item level requirement tooltip on the Broodmother items from level 10 to the proper level 8
Re-worked a few things and added checks for null variables with destructables and units for the Talking library (NPC interactions)
Fixed an unintentional bug with Talents and pre-reqs. If an ability requires 2 or more points and is a pre-req to another talent, you must now spent all points in that talent to get the other. (Basically an Improved Talent that requires 2 points now must have 2 points to get the Empowered talent)
Bosses
If you are in the presence of a boss and the boss is Active, you are now always in combat
Karnos' Blizzard was not functioning as intended, making VX much harder (due to buff time out) and making the blizzard tick 2x as strong, this is corrected. You should now see overlapping blizzards as intended
Karavnos's complete buff list is now instantly cleared from players when you reset the fight or kill Karavnos
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Upon dying, your Teleport Scroll location is now cleared.
Zones
The catacombs has been tweaked to reduce 'lag' even more. The catacombs now follows suit with the TOS and AOT in the respect that mobs do not spawn until you get near their spawn point. All spawn points are marked on the map with a ground effect.
Items
Added Camp Fire to the game. Costs 75g for a stack of 3, lasts 25s. Can be placed at any time. The aura will restore 15% of your max health and mana pool every 3s to all those within 500 units of the Camp Fire and ONLY while out of combat.
Hydromancer
Fixed a order of operations error with Watery Grave that caused the AOE explosion not to be calculated properly.
Watery Grave is now a base of 5s duration with a cooldown of 11s (up from 4s and 9s). Empowered now adds 2.5s to the duration (making the ability last 10s in total up from its old 8s)
Changes to Watery Grave: Base is now 8 with a coefficient of 30% (Up from 7 and 25%). On application it now ticks instantly (instead of waiting 1s for the first tick). Watery Grave now gains 5% more of its tick damage per tick (this extra damage does not stack with itself, its 5% more of the base tick not the last tick).
Watery Grave now properly explodes on unit death for the total damage it dealt up to that point as intended.
Shadowblade
Fixed an issue with Soul Drain that caused it to heal the enemy for every ally in range instead of healing all the allies.
Reduced the healing effect of Soul Drain to a base of 2 with a 4% coefficient (down from 3 and 10%)
Reduced the damage of Timestrike to a base of 12 with a 20% coefficient (down from 15 and 35%)
3.0.4beta5 Patch Notes - 7/22/10 - Public Beta Copy - NEW CONTENT
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Content
Added a new Equipment vendor that sells level 24 blue gear to the AOT Camp
Added one new boss available after defeating Avnos and Karnos
Added AOT wing skips - After defeating the new boss, the 2 waypoints in the AOT will be useable and saved to your character. You can only access these two new waypoints from the AOT Portal Master. They will take you to the inner Fire and inner Frost teleporters upon use. This allows you to skip a bunch of trash to get to Avnos, Karnos faster.
Arcanist
Arcanist Drain Spirit is now a channeled Damage Over Time ability that does it's damage every tick. The tick is based on the spells duration, which gets shorter as you level up making the ticks faster. The ability can be channeled to a maximum of 2x it's duration (if uninterrupted). The longer the ability channels, the stronger each tick gets.
Chaotic Knight
Cleanse Cooldown increased to 5s from 4s
Corrected Empowered Hasten to properly reward the bonus and buffed it to 20% to all aspects.
Cleric
Reduced Guardian Angel's heal base from 150 to 85, coefficient remains at 60%
Hydro
Corrected conditions with Ice Barrier to properly prevent death in appropriate situations if the barrier had enough HP to absorb the damage or reduce it to below lethal levels.
Paladin
Divine Touch Cooldown reduced to 4s from 5s
Shadow Blade
Corrected some visuals with Soul Drain to not be so clutterly and processor intensive
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Fixed 2 more timer leaks and accidental timer destruction. Should resolve many issues with systems that weren't actually broken
Fixed an issue with dummy casters that prevented negative effects to effect players in some cases (e.g. Spirit Shroud on the Frost Side)
Avnos
Changed how VX mode is activated. Touching one of the 4 flame rects now spawns an add rather than just give Combustion debuff. The combustion debuff no longer has anything to do with starting VX mode, but is just a side effect of spawning the required adds. Killing the adds spawn the flame orb shard. Once all 4 shards spawn, VX mode will begin
Flamestrike's casted by the Flame orb now come every 6s (was 10s).
The Flame orb now has a charge ability. It will pick a random player, channel a red beam to that spot for 2s, then charge doing damage to everything in its path.
Karnos
Adjusted some timers with Karnos to make abilities not line up so well (technically a nerf)
Fixed an issue that could cause Karnos not to count his death as VX if VX was enabled
Karnos's Frostbite now adds +4 damage and reduces attack speed by 1.10% (was 3 and 1.25%)
Path of Frost damage increased from 145 to 160
3.0.4beta4.5 Patch Notes - 6/29/10 - Public Beta Copy
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Fixed the following game breaking issues:
Reverted to an older TimerUtils library (resolved quite a few issues with timers and attached data references becoming mixed up). This change resolved so many issues, it's not even funny.
Fixed 2 timer leaks with hero abilities and several group leaks on Karnos/Avnos
Fixed an issue with the paladin that could cause a desync or a crash (dual boxing tests showed this to be fixed, but there is a possibility the bug is still there, if we can get any detailed info on how to reproduce it if it exists, please contact Vexsin)
Other things fixed
Fixed Karnos's movespeed debuff and the way it was applied/removed under certain conditions (caused some issues, I won't go into details)
Fixed the scaling damage bonus debuff on Improved Whirlwind for the Barbarian
Optimized several more damage events to only load and register if that hero is present
Optimized several hero abilities to store their proper effects in the attached buff instead of recalcing on every damage event with the buff. (if you dont understand this, don't worry about it, it just improves overall game performance by making it less taxing on the CPU)
Fixed some issues with roots/snares on some abilities vs Mini Bosses and Bosses that are meant to be immune
Fixed an issue with a unit dying mid air while under the effects of Chaotic Grasp
Fixed an issue that could cause a unit effected by Chaotic Grasp to not return to 0 fly hight at the end
Tweaked a few things in Avnos VX mode
Smoke Cloud was finally nerfed (% miss and move speed reduction are much lower)
Fixed the scaling % bonus threat of the Warrior's Defensive Stance (it was scaling +5% per level when it was meant to scale 0.5% per level).
3.0.4beta3.8 Patch Notes - 6/17/10 - Public Beta Copy
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Corrected an unexpected error with the Widgetizer (load and lobby lag) and fixed some very odd issue with unit death & recycle events. Map is in working order again.
3.0.4beta3.7 Patch Notes - 6/17/10 - Public Beta Copy
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The Frost Wing is now unlocked and Karnos is now available for testing
Note: this patch should be stable enough to play (I wanted to get a stable patch out to fix the HP scaling issue), however there are a few known issues that are unresolved as of yet.
Generic Bugs
Catacombs Ghoul - Should no longer see left over ghouls invulnerable and without pathing lying around.
Catacombs Skeleton Warrior - Should no longer see left over skellies invulnerable and without pathing lying around.
Timer leak with the new OOC regen system has been fixed. This leak over time would lead to many issues (this includes the random out of control HP scaling with mobs.)
Corrected an issue with Force Recycled mobs (boss adds, etc) that would cause them to be double scaled every time they were re-used
Corrected 2 crash bugs in the AOT Fire Pack mobs
Removed Hex from the Ancient Troll Witch Doctors in the AOT
Chaotic Attacks and Mindblade now properly work with each other
Corrected a bug with Dead heroe's still being counted as alive under some conditions with boss targeting for abilities (mainly this only effected Karrix's Spikes when chasing a player from what I have seen)
Per the correction above, Karrix's spikes can no longer target players that died and respawned in town.
Corrected the priority on Karrix's adds on VX mode so the MT will not ignore the boss and run off after them
Adjusted Karrix's Tail Lash Void zones (VX only) so they appear further behind him for better visual effect. These void zone's also had their range adjusted to fix the graphic better
Karrix's Poison Lob now favors people at 500+ range while still targeting anybody 400+. The rule remains that he will ignore melee as long as somebody is at least 400+, but if there are multiple players, the further players will be chosen first.
Corrected the duration of Curse of the Chaotic so it actually functions now
The AOT Waypoint now has access to Grom'Gol
Fixed several hero ability tooltips that displayed the ability code for cooldown instead of the actual text
Hasten's agility bonus now properly updates Attack Power, Dodge, and Crit Chance based on the bonus agility
Starting a certain quest no longer updates your teleporter access to a zone when not intended
Fixed a massive struct leak issue related to anything that used the JumpCode (Ghoul Leap, Chaotic Grasp, Renolds Death with Haggart, etc)
Fixed a bug that prevented Unstable Power from applying the buff
Mobs inside the AOT camp can no longer move
Both waypoints before the 2 waygates now function properly inside the AOT
Fixed a few spelling/grammar errors
Corrected some issues with the Fire Side packs that may have been the source of some Desyncs/crashes
The general merchant in the AOT camp now sells the proper AOT portal scroll
3.0.4b2 Patch Notes - 6/1/10 - Public Beta Copy
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Note: Several people have reported that the barrier on th frost wing does not dissipate at any time. This is CORRECT. The current beta only allows access to the Fire wing. At one point I will switch the wings and close off the fire wing and open the frost wing.
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Corrected a struct error that resulted an a continuous loop of 'destroy', which caused multiple system failures that used timers that were being free'd by this incorrect loop
Ranger Snare Trap now properly displays the missile graphic
Corrected a few visuals with the Shadowblade's Soul Drain
Centaur Multishot & Multisnare no longer directs all the group missiles at a single target, it now properly targets everybody in range
Fixed a possible infinite loop bug with Lord Myren (Naga Mini Boss on the North Path) when he casts Boil Water or Destroy Land
3.0.4b1 Patch Notes - 6/1/10 - Public Beta Copy
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Note: In this public beta you are able to unlock the AOT (Ancient Orc Tomb), fight Karrix, the Tomb Guardian, Unlock a new waypoint inside the tomb, clear the Fire Wing and face Avnos the Fire Lord. The frost wing is currently blocked off and not accessible in this beta. There is NO password wipe, and all passwords given in this version will be valid in the official non-beta release of 3.0.4 when it launches.
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Added some optimization to the damage event conditions array to improve performance overall. This includes the similar setup to the hero spell events, all hero damage events are now only registered and setup when a hero is present.
Fixed several multiboard displays when dealing with real numbers and rounding
System overhaul
A buff system has been installed to allow full control over all buffs, debuffs. This allows us to have stacking buffs/debuffs, control their duration mid stream, categorize the effects and many many more things I will not go into in this post. All spells have been converted (both player and enemy) to use this system. This will fix all issues with different buffs not stacking due to baseID's being the same on some abilities, as well as other issues.
A projectile system has been installed to allow full control over all missiles. All spells have been converted (both player and enemy) to use this system.
Many changes / code rewrites have occurred to all player spells to improve the dynamic effects of the abilities as well as optimize the code better to support any talent changes / fixes in future builds
Many base abilities have been recoded to use different base abilities to work better with the above mentioned systems
New Content
The Ancient Orc Temple - a new zone is now unlocked which is beneath the Jaharra barrens. Once you recovered the keyfragment and rid the temple of sanctity of the naga, you can take the keystone to the entrance and use it to open the portal within. This new zone is an instance like place with monster packs that pull / reset as a group. There are 5 bosses inside split between the 2 sides of the temple: The Fire side, and the Frost side. Each boss will have a VX mode. There will be 1 orc camp inside after the first boss that you can teleport too in a fresh game to bypass the trials, ToS and go right to the AOT. Completing the first quest for the AOT will be a requirement to use this portal.
New Bosses
Karrix - The Scorpion King - First boss you will encounter before you can actually begin your journey through the AOT. In a fresh game, to get to this boss you must re-clear the Temple of Sanctity. VX Mode: Baby Killer! - Slay all 5 baby scorpions before they burrow.
Avnos - The Fire Lord - This is the boss of the fire side of the AOT. In a fresh game, you can warp to the AOT and begin clearing the packs to him. VX Mode: Die In A Fire! - Spawn the Fire Orb before defeating Avnos.
Karnos - The Frost Lord - This is boss of the frost side of the AOT. In a fresh game, you can warp to the AOT and begin clearing the packs to him. VX Mode: Frost Bitten - Defeat Karnos with 50 or more stacks of Frostbite on him.
????? - ????? - The 4th boss of the AOT. Accessible after Avnos and Karnos are defeated and their seals are removed from the central chamber door. VX Mode ????? - ??????
????? - ????? - The 5th and final boss of the AOT. Accessible after the previous boss is defeated and the magical seal to the final tomb is removed. VX Mode ????? - ??????
Many new Enchanted and Epic items added
New Hero - Shadowblade
A Damage/Support hybrid Agility/Energy Hero based around the dark arts of shadow magic and power stealing / draining
Features 6 abilities and 21 talents
Monster
Monster reset (Evading) has been altered. Now when mobs hit a reset point, they vanish into a cloud of dust and teleport back instantly.
Mobs that die that are part of a pack can no longer respawn as part of another pack while their original pack is still active (fixes several issues in the Temple of Sanctity and the new Ancient Orc Tomb)
Monster Balance
Vormur Gardens
Black Spirits - increased aura damage slightly
Green Spirits - heal is now 20% of max hp instead of flat amount (so the heal works better with player scaling)
Risen Zombies - Are now level 14 (up from 12) and Give 10 exp 15 gold (up from 7 and 4)
Vormur Catacombs
Skeleton Warriors - Whirlslash has been re-designed to new mechanics, same spell, more deadly to non-tank melee
Catacombs Priest - heal is now 25% of max hp (same reason as the Green Spirits)
Ghoul - leap is now a 2s stun (down from 3), the DoT has been removed, base damage of the ability has been increased
Heartcore Game Mode
All ability damage increased by an additional 5%
Monster scaling gains an additional 1.0 Player Scale (for those that do not understand how my player scaling works... well to bad =P)
Items
Corrected the Teleport Scroll tooltips and error messages to display the proper quests you need to complete before they can be used by a Hero.
Generic Hero Threat
Threat from Dodge increase to 145% up from 115%
Threat from Blocking increases to 225% up from 175%
Threat from Block Value increased to 575% up from 425%
C. Knight
C. Knight's can now use 1h Main Hand Axes
Mindblade now does 45% of it's damage as AoE (up from 35%)
Threat Changes
Hasten now increases threat by 180% (up from 160%)
Mindblade now generates 175% threat (up from 140%)
Hydro
Corrected a bug with Ice Barrier that would cause a unit to die if they took more damage than they had current HP regardless of how much damage the Ice Barrier can prevent
Pyro
Burning Desire now increases damage by 6 + 7% of your spell power and increases mana regen by 30%
Fireform has been altered - Now increases all spell damage by 10% + 3% of your Spell Power (the old was 15% and a flat amount per level), bonus spell crit damage remains at 15%
Warrior
Warriors can now use 1h Main Hand Axes
Corrected a bug with Ignore the Pain that caused it to not heal properly when blocking
Threat Changes
Defensive Stance - Passive threat gain increased to 75% from 60%. You also gain 0.6% more threat per level
Shield Slam - Threat increased to 175% up from 160% - Improved now adds 30% up from 25%
Intimidating Shout - Threat increased to 240% up from 200% - Improved now adds 40% up from 35%
Whirlslash - Threat increased to 190% up from 175%
3.0.3d Patch Notes - 2/10/10
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Generic
Corrected the crash bug in 3.0.3c
Fixed several minor things not worth mentioning
3.0.3c Patch Notes - 2/5/10
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Generic
Corrected Endurance's tooltip to display +0.20 to power
Corrected the starting info for the Cleric
Corrected the Mana Regen display in the multiboard. While it was being calculated correctly, the display value was not accurate.
Re-worked some of the order of events / mechanics / and messed with the global converting them into local variables for some of the functions that deal with recycling / respawning units. While I can't say for certain if this will fix some of the rare / weird issues, it couldn't hurt.
Generic Enemy Abilities
Fixed an issue that could still cause a Frontal Wave to double hit.
All DoT effects can no longer stack on a player (of the same exact ability). Instead it will just refresh the duration. This will prevent 2-3 mobs randomly targeting 1 player and them dying way to fast due to stacking DoT effects.
NORMAL MODE ONLY:
Naga Cleave had its damage reduced a bit
Naga Warstomp stun now only lasts 0.75s (down from 2s)
Naga Shockwave stun now only lasts 0.75s (down from 2s)
Naga Impale stun now only lasts 1.5s (down from 3s) and had a small initial damage decrease
Quests
Gaining access to the Valley of Trials via the Fragment turn in's is no longer required. Gaining access to the Teleporter in the first place still requires turning in the fragments then completing the trials. Once you do this, you can start a new game, teleport to Grom'Gol and go right into the trials bypassing the barrens.
Fixed an issue that would cause some NPC's to drop 'null' item placeholders when you complete the quest
Items
Both Tome of Re-Training and Re-Spec now cost 0g to purchase. What the item does when you pick it up is now run a formula based on hero level to calculate a gold cost. If you do not have enough gold, it says so. This makes the items cost scale with your hero level. The formula is as follows: 2500g + (HeroLevel * 200). A level 25 hero would now cost 7500g to respec.
Bosses
Corrected an issue with the Sand Golem and his new reduced stun duration Boulder Barrage
Mini Bosses
Corrected an issue that prevented items from spawning and exp gained if you kill the mini boss first before the adds.
Upon reset, Lord Naztar now properly resets mana to 0 and clears the mana shield buff
Lord Naztar's damage reflection is now only 25% on normal (down from 35%) and up to 40% on Leg/HC.
Barbarian
Deep Slice base damage is now 17 and coefficient is now 90% (up from 14 and 80%)
Warcry base damage is now 4 and damage per level is now 0.65 (up from 3 and 0.6)
Berserker rage now adds +3 damage per hit (with a round down value of 0.05 per level) with the final hit now doing a base of 20 with a coefficient of 95% (up from +2 / 0.05 and 14 / 85%)
Battle Lust now heals a base of 7 with + 0.45 per level (up from 6 and 0.40) and now adds 10% crit base (up from 5%). The + 0.15% crit per level is unchanged
Bladestorm base damage is now 16 and coefficient is now 35% (up from 14 and 30%)
Fixed an issue with the attack speed bonus from Improved Berserker Rage
C. Knight
Fixed an issue that prevented the AoE damage from procing if Mindblade did the killing blow on a unit.
Fixed an issue with Improved Hasten and the +Agility bonus
Empowered Hasten now works as intended.
Hydromancer
Fixed an issue with Empowered Purify
Pyromancer
Fixed a different issue with Dragon's Breath that caused Imp Ignition not to function
Fixed an issue that prevented No Mercy from reaching level 2 damage. It always counted as level 1 (10% more)
Ignition base damage is now 18 and coefficient is now 90% (down from 20 and 95%), cooldown is now 2s (up from 1s)
Dragon's Breath base damage is now 15 and coefficient is now 75% (down from 18 and 80%)
Paladin
Improved Light Infusion works now... serious this time.... seriously
Phantom Stalker
Puncture debuff no longer stuns bosses when used with Remorseless Strike (still counts for the mana restore, however)
Ranger
Empowered Frost Arrows now properly roots units as stated in the talent. Also reduced the proc chance to 15%/30% and duration to 1.5s (it is the same as Improved Ice Nova from the Hydro)
Warrior
Shield slam will now leave a debuff on targets that it could not stun for use with the whirlslash combo.
3.0.3b Patch Notes - 1/29/10
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Quests
Fixed the (null) error with the Medicinal Purposes quest
Fixed an issue that prevented incorrect items from being dropped when handed in on quests that were already completed.
Fixed an issue with Beyond Our Gates that interferes with The Betrayal quest
Recoded the second area of the Trial of Agility a bit (The part with the spawning fire bombs). The fire bombs now last 1.75s (up from 1.25s) giving a bit more time to dodge considering WC3 delays / lag. They now spawn slightly faster though, 0.6s instead of 0.8s. The fire bombs can now also only spawn in the assigned regions, making the 2 safe spots actually safe spots. Bombs stop spawning for those heroes when standing in the area and now the bombs can never spawn in that area randomly.
The Trial of Agility fire damage was incorrectly using hero armor to reduce the damage. This has been corrected. All heroes will now take the same amounts of damage.
Enemy Abilities
Recoded the Frontal Wave ability which is used for: Flamewave, Firewave, Waterwave, etc. Once hit, you are now put in a group so you cannot get hit again by the same wave. Since you will not get hit 2,3,4 times from the same wave, the damage on each wave has been increased approx 240%
The following edits are for NORMAL MODE ONLY
Naga in the Temple of Sanctity now have reduced damage by about 15-25% with their abilities
Naga in the Temple of Sanctity now have reduced stun durations on their abilities
Mini-Bosses
Corrected an issue with the Haggart mini boss fight. He now does his 2nd ability as intended instead of just announcing it and doing nothing.
Altered the way Lord Naztar casts his abilities a bit. This is all 'under the hood' mechanic stuff, but should improve the smoothness of his fight and fix some issues.
The following edits are for NORMAL MODE ONLY
Naga in the Temple of Sanctity now have reduced damage by about 15-25% with their abilities
Naga in the Temple of Sanctity now have reduced stun durations on their abilities
Lord Myron's damage ticks on the water / sand are now 1.5s apart (up from 1s)
Lady Varlyn has reduced multishot damage and range
Lord Naztar's Mana shield explosion's damage has been reduced
Lord Naztar's Mana drain's damage has been reduced and only burns 7% of the hero's mana (down from 14%)
Bosses
Corrected a reset issue with BM and the eggs/spiders that spawn. They will properly be cleaned up now
Sand Wave from the Sand Golem now adds your hero to a hidden group watch list putting you on the safe list for 4s after getting hit. This will block any double hits from the sand wave which are unintentional.
The following edits are for NORMAL MODE ONLY
Narith Frozen now ticks every 2.5s (up from 1.75s) and tick damage is reduced by 15%
Narith Poison Sparks void zones now last 5s (down from 8s)
Narith Poison Volley base and tick damage reduced by 15%
Sand Golem Boulder Volley stun duration reduced to 1s (down from 3s) and damage reduced by 15%
Sand Golem Dust Tornado move speed reduced to 125 (down from 135)
Sand Golem Sand Wave cast time increased to 2.75s (up from 2.5s)
Barbarian
Fixed an issue with Bladestorm
Hydromancer
Improved Ice Barrier will now only shield adjacent targets for 45% of the HP the shield gives to the target (instead of the full 100% sheild HP)
Ranger
Improved Frost Arrow now properly does it's AoE radius damage
Pyromancer
Improved Ignition now works as intended for a 25%/50% damage bonus on targets on fire from Dragon's Breath
3.0.3a Patch Notes - 1/21/10
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Generic Bug Fixes
Fixed the Widgetizing bug that causes lobby / game create / loading lag.
Quests
Fixed a name reference that results in a fatal error with the Save the Fallen quest. The front left gunner in the Vormur Gardens
Items
The Broodmother quest now properly gives the Barbarian his offhand axe, instead of the druid Idol. If you repeat the quest in a new game, you will get the proper item if you are missing it.
Generic Monster Related
Re-programmed the spell/ability damage scaling for Leg/HC modes only. It now scales difference % values depending on the base damage of the spell. The lower the base damage, the higher % it will scale, so the higher values scaling will not out scale the players HP scaling on Leg/HC modes.
Bosses
Narith VX mode now properly starts phase 2 with Narith at 75% HP as intended instead of full 100%
Narith's passive damage aura will no longer tick once the death sequence has started.
Arcanist
Fixed an issue that prevented Improved Arcanic Disruption from working
Barbarian
Fixed a visual display bug with cleave showing incorrect damage values
Paladin
Possibly fixed the problem with Improved Light Infusion not procing the AoE heal effect on targets that was not the paladin
General
Added HCL Bot support. Using the bot commands will automatically bypass the game mode selection and go right into selecting/loading a hero. The commands are:
-n or -nm for Normal mode
-l or -lg for Legendary mode
-h or -hc for Heartcore mode
3.0.3 Patch Notes - 1/20/10
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Content
Catacombs terrain has been morphed by the evil presence within and has a totally new look to it.
A new Tol'Calm Front Gate camp has been added. It includes generic shops for potions, clouds, wards, etc and a teleporter waypoint. Completing the quest: Beyond Our Gates, which you can now take after Narith is dead will allow you to use this new waypoint. 8 New quests so far have been added to this new camp.
The Jaharra Barrens is now open for exploration but has been taken over by the Centaur Clans who seem to have it out to destroy all Humans that enter the desert. Also spotted are Scorpions and Coyotes.
The city of Grom'Gol is now open with changes and expansion. Behind the city is a new valley, The Valley of Trials along with a temple and attached caves that is now part of the main story quest line.
Centaur Vagabond - The warrior of the clans, melee unit. Has the ability to Toss his axe at a player doing initial damage and leaving a bleed over time effect.
Centaur Ranger - The hunter of the clans, ranged unit. Has the ability to throw a bola trap ensnaring the target for initial damage and damage over time. Also has the ability to use Spread Shot, which fires 1 arrow at every player close by the Centaur Ranger
Centaur Stormchaser - The caster of the clans, ranged unit. Has the ability to cast chain lightning that will bounce 3 times. (No damage reduction between the bounces)
Along with the ranks of the centaur in the clans comes the dreaded Centaur Lords. There are 4 lords that you will face. Nature Caster, Wind Caster, Ranger, Warrior. Each lord has a high amount of HP and high basic attack damage, paired up with 2 or 3 unique abilities for each lord which makes them tricky.
There is now a quest chain you have to complete to unlock the Orc City of Grom'Gol instead of just walking up to the city like you could in 2.xx. Completing the main story quests (Including the Valley of Trials) will unlock use of the teleporter in that city.
Naga Protector - The warrior of the naga, melee unit. Has Shockwave that is a frontal cone damage/stun ability and Warstomp which is a 360 AoE damage/stun.
Naga Ravager - The strong fighter of the naga, melee unit. Has Impale which is a direct damage attack that will stun and apply a bleed effect. It also has a casted cleave that will do damage in a frontal arc area.
Naga Wraithguard - The caster of the naga, ranged unit. Has a 15% direct heal and can cast Water Wave, which is a frontal wave of water damage.
There are also 3 new mini bosses to fight inside the Temple of Sanctity. As usual with the super mini bosses, they have very unique abilities and should pose quite a challenge. These is no end of the patch Boss like there was with Narith. The sand golem is the 1 new major boss in this patch.
Bosses
The Sand Golem mini boss concept has been turned into an actual boss. He is guarding the entrance to Grom'Gol and must be defeated before you can enter the city, but to spawn him, you need to complete some tasks and solve a little mystery.
Items
There is a new item type: Enchanted. It is a step up from Magical and a step down from Epic. All Bosses will drop Enchanted items from normal modes.
Epic items will now only be found from VX mode bosses
New Elixirs:
Elixir of Resilience: Reduces all ability damage taken by 12%
Elixir of Haste: Increases attack speed by 25% and move speed by 7%
Elixir of Fortification: Increases max HP by 12% and dodge by 4%
Elixir of Wisdom: Increases max MP by 24% and spell power by 5%
Elixir of Spirit: restores 1.25% of your max mana every 3s
Stat Changes
Constitution: Now gives +3 HP and +0.20 Power per point (up from +2 HP and 0.15 Power)
Reflexes:
Now gives 0.060 dodge per point (up from 0.050)
Now gives 0.275 attack power per point (agility heroes only) (up from 0.175)
Now gives 0.032 attack crit power per point (up from 0.023)
Intelligence
Now gives 0.675 Spell Power per point (up from 0.550)
Now gives 0.115 Spell Crit Bonus (up from 0)
No longer gives Spell Crit Chance
Wisdom
Now gives 0.525 Spell Power per point (up from 0)
Mana per point is unchained (still +1 per point)
Energy
Now gives 0.525 Spell Power per point (down from 0.625)
Now gives 0.050 Spell Crit Chance per point (down from 0.055)
Mana per point is unchained (still +1 per point)
Generic Bug fixes
Wisps in the Vormur Gardens now function as intended and are the proper colors
Narith - corrected a bug with the Lightning Phase (Normal Mode). If you end the Lightning Phase while the Timer for Stormcloud is counting, the timer will not be paused and Stormcloud / Endless Lightning cycle will continue for the rest of the fight. If Stormcloud has just gone off and you end the phase before Endless Lightning goes off, it will function properly.
Generic Monster Related
Redid and optomized several things with the aggro system and aggro bars to cut back on the overall processing load.
Properly destroy and clean up all units that do not need to be recycled (boss adds, catacombs packs, etc)
Catacombs now spawns in 3 groups instead of all at once. This reduces the number of units the aggro system needs to keep track of and also fixes a few exploits with doors and them not being LoS blockers
(Note: People that experienced bad FPS in the catacombs should now see a HUGE improvement from the above 3 optimizations)
Monster that go into reset mode will no longer have pathing to prevent bottlenecking and some exploits.
Generic Hero Related
All improved abilities now update the tooltips for the abilities to display their bonus effects
Healing Spells are now capable of crits. HoT's are still not.
Added a new function that will fix the issue with damage absorption abilities (including Dodge), which was: if the amount of damage taken + current life was greater than max life, you would still take damage.
New Hero - Barbarian
The Barbarian is a physical DPS dealer that relies on sheer brute force to cut down his enemies. The Barbarian also brings several party buffs to the table besides his DPS abilities.
His abilities are:
Cleave - Causes 75% of his auto attack damage to be split in a frontal radius around him (works with right click autocast). Costs 5 mana, 2s cooldown
Deep Slice - based off attack power, strikes a single target for physical damage. Costs 10 mana, 6s cooldown. Improved effect adds a physical damage bleed based on Deep Slices damage.
Warcry - buffs the players around the Barbarian adding damage. Costs 5 mana, 35s cooldown. Improved effect also increases the passive HP regen rates of the players
Berserker Rage - the Barbarian goes into a frenzy causing every white attack to increase his base damage. This bonus damage stacks up to 8 times. After the 8th stack all the built up rage will unleash on the target hit for a strike based off attack power. Costs 10 mana, lasts 22s
Battle Lust - buffs the players around the Barbarian causing them to regain health with each attack. Costs 15 mana, 50s cooldown. Improved effect also increases Attack & Spell Critical Strike Chance
Bladestorm - The Barbarian goes into a spinning frenzy reducing his movement speed by 40%, disables his abilities and attacks and deals damage to all near by enemies with each spin. Costs 20 mana, 30s cooldown. Improved effects apply a debuff to every mob hit that causes them to take additional damage from all sources for 8s.
Arcanist
Kinetic Shield removed from the game. New Ability: Arcanic Blast
Single target, direct nuke, 8s coodown, costs 20 mana. Base damage is 27, coefficient is 115%. An improved version will cause any unit with the Arcanic Missile debuff to explode upon impact doing 40% of the Blast's damage as a 375 radius AoE. Empowered versions increase damage of the blast by 10/20%
Cleric
Heavenly Rain redone: No longer requires channeling, once casted the cleric is free to move around, it ticks every 1s from the clerics current position (not where casted). Base duration is now 8s with + 0.04s per level. Base heal is 10, coefficient is 15% per tick
C. Knight
Mindblade reworked so the bonus damages from talents add correctly. Also added a constant 35% AoE damage to the Improved Mindblade talent.
Hasten is now an AoE buff instead of a single target buff. Threat mods for the CK with hasten active on him still apply the same way they did. (A CK with hasten will generate all the extra threat mods, no hasten buff active will be considered a DPS class and take the minus threat mods)
Adjusted the CK's base block percent value to be 25% (was 15% before the talents). The Shield Blocking talent will now make the CK's block percent value 5% more than the warriors.
Armor Break's base value is now 6 (up from 2.75), armor per level is now 0.45 (up from 0.25)
Soul Shatter removed from the game. The new C. Knight ability will be Chaotic Grip.
Forces the target to fly through the air at the CK moving the CK to the top of the threat list. Improved version will cause damage to the target. This ability will have a 20s cooldown. Does not effect threat if you are already the #1 target. The damage the ability deals will still add threat in this situation. This ability will still work on, but not pull any Mini bosses or Bosses
Hydromancer
Water Bolt is now a 2s cooldown (up from 1.5s)
Overall she gained about 5% to all of her damage coefficients and +2 to all base damage
Purify base heal is now 24 (up from 17) and the coefficient is now 55% (up from 45%)
Ice Barrier base HP is now 120 (up from 90) and the HP per level is now 17 (up from 14)
Corrected some issues with Ice Barrier applications with the Improved talent
Corrected some issues with Watery Grave not procing the AoE properly when a unit died while it was active.
Improved Ice Nova roots can no longer proc on Mini bosses or bosses
Ranger
Ensare Trap can no longer root Mini bosses or bosses in place
Phantom Stalker
Bladefury now increases attack speed by 45% (up from 35%)
When RS is used, the PS now will restore 3% per debuff (9% in total) of her mana pool
Overall her damage output should now be sightly higher if your rotation with RS is performed properly. Coefficients were increased on the base abilities slightly and the scaling factor from RS was increased. Tooltips and talent info has been properly updated.
Pyromancer
Corrected a bug with the DoT effect from Dragon's Breath and Meteor. It was doing about 5x as much damage as it was supposed to. In compensation of correcting this problem and nerfing the Pyro's damage, all of her abilities have been bumped in base and coefficients.
Fireball properly does it's AoE explosion if Fireball killed the unit.
Fire Form now properly increases Spell Crit Bonus damage by 25%
Warrior
Improved Shield Slam talent now also increases Shield Slam threat by 20%
Improved Intimidating Shout now also increases Intimidating Shout threat by 35%
Disclaimer: Every change / edit may not be reflected in the notes listed above. Things such as exploit fixes, edits, work arounds, and some hidden adjustments may be present.
Older Patches
3.0.2d Patch Notes
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Generic Bug fixes
Dragon's Breath & Purify no longer uses the blizzard code of Breath of Fire and looks for the debuffs - it now uses a special GroupEnumUnitsInCone function that works 1000x better
Fixed a minor bug with scaling and players that are currently not loaded. Unloaded heroes are considered a standard DPS instead of their normal class
Found a memory leak issue with Dragon's Breath
Found a memory leak issue with Snare Trap
Fixed a memory leak with the Mana Burn effect with the Undead Mage's Drain Spirit
Removed some global variables and converted them to local to help prevent sharing variable errors.
Corrected the tooltip for Divine Protection to display its effected by Hero Level
Corrected the hero unit name display when saving
Corrected all the of the PS's buff/debuff icons
Arcanist
Arcanic Explosion base damage is now 11 (down from 15)
Arcanic Explosion coefficient is now 55% (down from 60%)
Drain Spirit base channel time is now 2.75 (down from 3.02) (this is a buff)
Disruption Aura base damage is now 10 (down from 13)
Disruption Aura coefficient is now 14% (down from 17%)
Chaotic Knight
Fixed an issue with mindblade that would cause it not to function properly for some players
Ranger
AoE % of Explosive Arrows is now 20% (down from 30%) (empowered still brings it up by 16% to a total of 36% AoE damage)
Explosive Arrows coefficient is now 75% (down from 80%)
Fire Trap base damage is now 7 (down from 8)
Fire Trap coefficient is now 49% (down from 52%)
Frost Trap coefficient is now 40% (down from 50%) (to keep in line with Fire Trap)
Frost Arrow coefficient is now 60% (down from 65%)
Hail of Arrow coefficient is now 9% (down from 14%) (this is per arrow, the # of arrows fired is unchanged)
Phantom Stalker
Due to the nature of the Phantom Stalkers high single target threat, she is now receiving a bonus 25% reduction in threat on top of the normal DPS threat reduction
Units
Undead Mages now properly cancel their Drain Spirit when they die
Reworked a few monster abilities under the hood mechanics, while you will see no change in game play, it should resolve some possible issues and possibly some of the desync problems.
Haggart's Concussion Bomb is now base 90 damage (down from 120), the splash damage is now 65 (down from 90), the DoT is now 3 ticks of 21 (down from 5 ticks of 21), the silence effect now lasts 3 seconds (down from 5). Poor Haggart has been hit with the nerf bat.
Items
Items in merchant windows don't appear as Soul Bound anymore
Healing Ward Rank 2 now gives the proper buff for Rank 2 heal ward (corrects the healing part of it as well)
Bosses
Stormcloud ability has gone under a drastic change that should reduce visual lag and FPS issues. The end result is now the following: The cloud will spawn doing its lightning bolts inside for minor damage. After a short duration as it spawns, for 1s sparks will spawn every 0.05s as those sparks land, 1 giant spark above the cloud will explode causing everybody not under the cloud to take about 500 damage.
Bosses are no longer affected by triggered stuns on abilities (e.g. Warrior Shield Slam, the damage is still dealt, but no stun will be applied)
Bosses are no longer rootable by triggered abilities (e.g. Ranger Snare Trap)
(Mini bosses are still affected by these)
UI
Combat Multiboard no longer displays health and mana bars since the side hero icons also do this. The combat multiboard now only displays Hero Level, DPS, HPS and the game difficulty is now displayed in the title of this board.
3.0.2c Patch Notes
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Heroes
Generic
Fixed some more tooltips
Passwords when displayed now show Hero Type and Level in the code for sorting passwords better with screen shots/GameCapture
Healing a target that is Out of Combat no longer puts you in combat. If the target is In Combat, you will be put in combat as well
Arcanist
Fixed a bug with Arcanic Disruption that would allow multiple hits to generate extra threat, or crit for more than intended bonus damage
Cleric
Guardian Angel's cooldown decreased to 20 (down from 25)
Guardian Angel on the Multiboard no longer displays the healing factor without the talent
Ranger
All coefficients lowered for all damage abilities by 5%
Most abilities base damage reduced by 1, 2, or 3 damage
Poison Trap now does it's damage over 4 seconds instead of 5. Damage is unchanged (0.8s per tick instead of 1)
Paladin
Fixed the targets allowed for Divine Touch so it can target enemies for use as a damage ability
Divine Touch's base heal is now 80 (up from 75) and coefficient is now 115% (down from 130%)
Phantom Stalker
All coefficients raised all damage abilities by 5%
Most abilities base damage increased by 1, 2, or 3 damage
Pyromancer
Corrected a bug that prevented Meteor's DoT damage from working properly
Warrior
Corrected the talent tree tooltip of Counter-Attack to its actual block value, which is now 10% (down from 20%)
Improved Defensive Stance now increases block chance by 3/6% (down from 4/8%)
Improved Battle Orders renamed to Master Commander. The talent now also causes the warrior to regain 3 mana with every critical strike
Counter Attack will now only return a strike on units within 250 range of the warrior
Lowered the Warriors damage output and AoE damage, but boosted the treat to compensate. You should notice no difference in threat, but more balanced DPS.
Misc
Stats
Reduced base Block rate to 0.5% (down from 4.725%)
Reduced base Dodge chance to 3.5% (down from 5.725%)
Reduced HP/s from spirit to 0.025 per point (down from 0.125)
Endurance now adds 0.15 Power per point (down from 0.25)
Now takes 3 points of Endurance to award 1 armor (up from 2)
Block chance from Endurance reduced to 0.045% (down from 0.075%)
Block chance from Dexterity reduced to 0.065% (down from 0.125%)
Block chance from Power reduced to 0.015% (down from 0.025%)
Dodge chance from Reflexes reduced to 0.055% (down from 0.070%)
Dodge chance from Agility reduced to 0.015% (down from 0.025%)
Spirit now increases base MP/s. 5 points in spirit = 0.02 to your 0.75 base.
Spirit still increases your % of base mana regen (0.175% per point)
Reduced the gain of HP/s from spirit to 0.025 (thats 0.025 HP/s per point)
Reduced the Energy gain from each spirit point to 0.15 (down from 0.25)
NOTE: Spirit is tricky to understand, but now should be a good stat. Each point will increase a regen rate by a % of your base, and every 5 points increases your base, making the scaling of the % even better. This will also help increase the effect from any mana regen percent items you have.
Equipment
Vormur Storm Shield: +Block is now 3% (down from 6%)
Vormur Battle Shield: +Block is now 3% (down from 4%)
All rings: +Dodge is now base 2.25% (down from 3.25%) and per level bonus is now 0.12% (down from 0.20%)
All rings: +Block is now base 1.75% (down from 3.25%) and per level bonus is now 0.12% (down from 0.15%)
All amulets: +Dodge is now base 2.25% (down from 4.25%) and per level bonus is now 0.12% (down from 0.20%)
All amulets: +Block is now base 1.75% (down from 3.25%) and per level bonus is now 0.12% (down from 0.15%)
Soul bound items now say so in the item description multi-board
Bosses
Generic
Narith now drops a Paladin mace as intended
Fixed some exploits that made things easier than intended
3.0.2b Patch Notes
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Heroes
Generic
-Fixed several more tooltips, not going to list them all, its too minor
-Power Heroes: Increased the AP gain from Strength to 0.775 (up from 0.650) and AP gain from Power to 0.950 (up from 0.725)
Arcanist
-Increased Drain Spirit's base damage from 33 to 42. Coefficient remains unchanged
-Increased Arcanic Explosion's coefficient from 55% to 60% and decreased its cooldown from 4s to 3s
-Decreased Arcanic Disruption's mana cost from 30 to 25
C. Knight
-Increased threat gen while hasten is active on the C. Knight to 40% (up from 35%)
-Increased threat gen from mindlblade to 40% (up from 30%)
Paladin
-Changed the way the MoR effect heals. No longer do all the heals count for the Paladin's threat/HPS. The player doing the attacking is now considered the healer in terms of threat and HPS.
-Corrected the visual display bug with Divine Light that showed stacking heals/damage. While only a visual bug, the visual figures also generated too much threat.
-Mana cost of Mark of Replenishment increased to 10 (up from 5). Mana gain from MoR reduced by 2 (still percent based of the users max mana pool, but now that value is reduced by 2 before being added to your pool).
-Mana cost of Divine Wrath increased to 20 (up from 15)
-Mana cost of Light Infusion increase to 20 (up from 15)
-Mana cost of Divine Light increase to 25 (up from 20)
Phantom Stalker
-Corrected a target's allowed bug on Remorseless Strike that allowed players to target allies with this ability
-Improved Gash is is now 7/14% of the base damage per tick (up from 6/12)
-Improved Shuriken is now 10% of the base damage per tick (down from 14%)
-Hail of Blades cooldown is now 7s (down from 12s), base damage is now 12 (up from 8) and Coefficient is now 55% (up from 45%)
-Numerous changes to all of her abilities base and coefficient damage to bring her DPS more on par with the Ranger
Pyromancer
-Increased Dragon's Breath base damage from 12 to 16
-Increased Ignition's base damage from 16 to 18 and coefficient from 85% to 90%
-Increased Meteor's base damage from 18 to 21 and decreased its coefficient from 84% to 80%
Warrior
-Increased threat gen from all abilities by 5% and bonus base threat from defensive stance by 5%
Bosses
Generic
-Corrected an order of events check that will prevent bosses from leaving their fight areas without forcing a reset.
Broodmother
-Moved the spawn point for egg #3 and #8 so they are more clearly visible
Narith
-Corrected an issue that would cause his reset to become permanent.
-Corrected an issue that prevented a 2nd VX attempt from functioning properly
Misc
Items
-Small Health Pot cost reduced to 15
-Small Mana Pot cost reduced to 15
-Medium Health Pot cost increased to 40
-Medium Mana Pot now restores 110 mana
3.0.2a Patch Notes
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Save load System:
Corrected a bug with the cleric's talent tree that was corrupting codes. Improved Divine Protection and Heavenly Rain share the same location in the talent tree overwriting each others data. This shortened the talent tree to 18 talents instead of the expected 19. Thus shifting everything in the load code off 1 digit, messing up the load, even though the code is valid
Corrected a bug with the load portion of the Phantom Stalker's talent tree. The passwords generated should be fine, but upon loading there is a small bug that prevents the load from going through all the way.
Moderator Comments (Director's Cut - Highly Recommended)
17:09, 21st Dec 2009, by Rui:
TKoK is, in my opinion, the best RPG out there for Warcraft III. Check my review here. Reviewed and rated 5/5 (Highly Recommended) with a Director's Choice award.
Wow this is really impressive. Easily the best RPG I have played for war3. Much better than Nickba's and dare I say it, Dark Invasion 2.
I'd have to agree, though Dark Invasion II is unique, it is very complicated, I've had a freind turned away from its complexity and I get roflstomped so hard cause I have no clue what's going on.
Save/load is a mega fail anyone with character names over 10 in length will not save i lost a level 8 cleric and a level 8 warrior thanks to this BS!!!
Wow, simply amazing! Everything is flawless, I mean you have a very good damage system, an amazing equipment system and the talent tree addition is fantastic.
Simply the best RPG I've every played. Kudos to the team and +REP for sure.
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hey guys.. can somone tell me 1 thing? in this beta can save from lvl 8.. i hosted this map wiuth my 3 friends... we played map.. all get 8 lvl.. bet than my 2 friends got d/c thna i was in server i am red and my friend was blue... he ot to saver click save he got code.. when i try do that i not saving.. first time i click nothing happen thna i click second time and its say only one per 10 minutes can save... so... is that a bug or only red cant save?... help..
oh now i read ur post.. thna u say over 10 digits name cant save?... damn lol i loose 3 chars 8 lvl.... oh yes.. this map for solo is mega imposible... i will tell why......
when u got lvl 9 u dont get any xp for gnolls/spiders/scorpions.... to get a new city where is higer monsters u need done all quests in first city ... there are 2 quests to kill 2 boses..... for solo its imposible... i try.... i taked bos 20% than i try kil all minions and than go.. but they respawn >.< so.. i am stuck in first city.... and i cant do nothing.... oh yes.. whne u try kill bos and if u die.. he got full hp instantly... sowhat can i do? nowon play this map in eurobattle.net all nobos leave cuz xp.. is to low.. i think so too.. but i still play and like rpg... but i cant get out... even my friends dont want play anymore... but this map is so cool i very want play it but for solo no chance...