2.5a6 Released - Balance and Performance

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We've released a new update for the map, focused on polishing some of the problems found in the past week. Undead have received a slight nerf, and Talemba has provided many performance fixes.​

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2.5a6 Changelog​

Content​

Undead

• Added the Creeper to teal spawns
• Added a market to Kentbridge

Balance

Defense

• Titanium Greatshield Mana% reduction changed to 20%/15%/10% from 30%/25%/20%
• Levy Crossbowman base damage increased to 300 from 250

Dark Crusade

• Greylight Spire health increased to 3000 from 1200
• Greylight Spire armor increased to 10 from 5

Border Guard

• Ranger attack speed changed to 1.5 from 1.8

Rapid Response

• Blacksteel Lance mana cost reduced to 15 from 25
• Increased Stormcharge tertiary damage to 400/500/600 from 250/300/350

Paladin

• Safeguard mana cost reduced to 200 from 500
• Solace mana cost reduced to 500 from 1000
• Sanctify mana cost reduced to 500 from 1000

Palonian

• Golems will no longer remain at the location on death
• Mage Golem gold cost reduced to 800 from 1500
• Mage Golem training time reduced to 60 from 90
• Battle Golem gold cost reduced to 800 from 1500
• Battle Golem training time reduced to 60 from 90
• Shadow Prodigy train time reduced to 30 from 45
• Shadow Prodigy food cost reduced to 6 from 8
• Dark Intuition base gold cost reduced to 600 from 1000
• Dark Intuition base lumber cost reduced to 300 from 500
• Dark Intuition base research time reduced to 60 from 90

Items

• Undead Reaper will now restore 50 health on killing undead
• Undead Cleaver will now restore 100 health on killing undead
• Iron Maul attack speed reduction reduced to -30% from -50%
• Field Marshall’s Helm aura radius increased to 250 from 200

Undead

• Acid Sprayer range reduced to 800 from 1200
• Corrupted Ranger range reduced to 800 from 1000
• Skeletal Warlock range reduced to 800 from 1000
• Insectoid Crowdmelter range increased to 1200 from 1000
• Insectoid Crowdmelter health increased to 3000 from 2400
• Infernal Cultist damage scaling reduced to 6 from 10
• Night Stalker health reduced to 4000 from 6350
• Zombie base armor reduced to 4 from 6
• Mutated Zombie base armor reduced to 8 from 10
• Altered the variance of boss spawning

Bugs/QoL/Performance

• Fixed a bug where Shrine of Conviction wouldn’t automatically cast Sanctify
• Gethis should no longer be invulnerable forever at his nest
• Dracul should no longer get stuck and will use Rain of Fire
• Fixed issues with Valiths tactical retreat and demon summoning
• Re-optimized cavalry passive
• Re-optimized On-the-Run
• Grognaw should no longer get stuck
• Detection for bosses regarding 0 damage events should be fixed
• Improved detection against magic immunity for certain ranges
• Hylexxan should no longer get stuck
• Fixed a bug where Hallowed was never triggering
• Fixed a bug where red fog over valith portals wouldn’t disappear on death
• Fixed a bug where on leaving the game Hero downed effects would linger
• Fixed a bug where heroes killed by spell damage may not have been downed
• Fixed an issue where some items would only check the count of the first item in the recipe for crafting (Bonesire Gauntlets)
• Fixed an issue where Undead Cleaver couldn’t be crafted
• Fixed a bug where Iron Battleaxe wouldn’t reduce armor
• Fixed an issue where Acid Sprayers wouldn’t spawn for teal
• Fixed a bug where Man the Battlements! Would trigger an upgrade level lower than intended
• Fixed a bug where the Defensive Tacticians aura wouldn’t increase in level from upgrades
• Fixed a bug where Iron Core Strategems would provide their effect when doubled up
• Fixed a bug where Titanium Reinforcement was required for Man the Battlements! to trigger
• Changed the priority of certain units so they appear first in the unit cards