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Is Icefrog introducing a new metagame?
Another version of WC3 DotA
map was launched hours ago and is said to be the new stable version of
the game. 6.74 will surely bring new playstyles and strategies to the
metagame – re-scaling Invoker, adding Rubick, Wisp, and Disruptor to -cm pool, and removing unexplored fog of war. Check out the changelog below:
Major Changes:
- Added Wisp, Disruptor and Rubick to CM
- Removed Unexplored Fog of War
- Rescaled some of Invoker’s skills
- Chaos Meteor damage increased from 80+Exort*30 to 80+Exort*35
- Chaos Meteor land time decreased from 1.5 to 1.3
- EMP can no longer hit Invulnerable/Tornadoed units
- EMP cooldown increased from 25 to 30 seconds
- Sun Strike damage type changed from Magical to Pure
- Sun Strike now reveals the area it will hit before the damage impact
- Tornado cooldown increased from 25 to 30 seconds
- Tornado Damage decreased from 77.5+(Wex+Quas)*23 to 70+(Wex+Quas)*20
- NA’s Urna Swarm replaced with a new spell
- Spiked Carapace:
- Temporarily enhances the Assassin’s chitinous armor with organic barbs, causing him to prevent and reflect the next player based damage instance and stuns the target. Lasts 4.5 seconds.
- Duration: 4.5 seconds
- Damage return: 100% (after resistance on your hero)
- Stun: 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4
- Cooldown: 10
- Manacost: 50
- Note: Only triggers on player based damage, both physical and magical. Does not prevent status debuffs. Spikes visually grow out of the hero when he is in this state.
- Urna Swarm will be reused for a future hero
- Puck
- Ethereal Jaunt now dodges projectiles
- Phase Shift autocast removed
- Phase Shift manacost removed
- Phase Shift level 4 duration increased from 3 to 3.25 seconds
- Aghanim Upgraded Dream Coil no longer increases the manacost from the base spell
- Naga Siren
- Changed Rip Tide cast mechanism
- Rip Tide now casts in a 450 aoe around naga and all of her illusions. Enemies can be fully affected by the Illusion’s aoe. The effect does not stack. No longer uses cast point.
