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Armor

Old Mechanics

Changelogs

Version History

Version

Description

7.32e

Reinforced units receive 10% less damage from the following units:
- Summons, but not including creep-heroes and illusions.
- Dominated Creeps.

7.31

Attack Types and Armor Types are now represented through abilities, most damage remains unchanged.
Added
the new following attack type abilities:
- Runty has 25% and 30% attack damage reduction against Heroes and Reinforced units respectively.
- Piercing has 50% and 65% attack damage reduction against Heroes and Reinforced units respectively.
  - However, they deal 50% more attack damage against Non-Hero units.
- Reinforced has 50%, 30% and 65% incoming attack damage reduction against Heroes, Non-Hero units, and Piercing units respectively.
  - However, they deal 50% more attack damage against other Reinforced units.
The following abilities are not acquirable in any way (e.g. Devour etc.).
The following units now have the Piercing ability:
- Ranged Creep and Mega Ranged Creep
- Serpent Ward
- Plague Ward
- Most neutral creeps' with the previous Piercing attack class now has this ability as well.
The following units now have the Reinforced ability:
- Siege Creep
- All buildings
The following units now have the Runty ability:
- Melee Creep and Mega Melee Creep
Eidolon, Treant and Lycan Wolf no longer have the Basic attack class.
Neutral creeps now all have the standard attack type, and their damage are adjusted so that the net damage is similar.

7.27

Changed
the Armor formula
- Old
  (0.052 × MainArmor)/(0.9 + 0.048 × |MainArmor|)
- New
  (0.06 × MainArmor)/(1 + 0.06 × |MainArmor|)

7.23

Increased siege damage against heroes armor from 85% to 100%.

7.21

Agility heroes no longer gain 25% more main armor bonus per agility.

7.20

Changed
the Armor formula

Old
${\displaystyle \frac {0.05 \times MainArmor}{1 + 0.05 \times \vert MainArmor \vert} }$

New
${\displaystyle \frac {0.052 \times MainArmor}{0.9 + 0.048 \times \vert MainArmor \vert} }$

7.13

Reworked
agility bonuses.
- Agility heroes now gain 25% more main armor bonus per agility than strength and intelligence heroes.
- Reduced main armor bonus per point from 1/6 to 0.16. [?]

7.13

Reduced armor per agility from to 1/6 to 0.16.

7.07

Changed
the Armor formula

Old
${\displaystyle \frac {0.06 \times MainArmor}{1 + 0.06 \times \vert MainArmor \vert} }$

New
${\displaystyle \frac {0.05 \times MainArmor}{1 + 0.05 \times \vert MainArmor \vert} }$

Increased armor per agility from 1/7 to 1/6.

7.06b

Fixed the armor damage multiplier being 0.07 since 7.06, instead of 0.06.

6.87

Renamed
Soft armor to Basic armor.
Removed
Strong armor. [?]
- The following units now use the Basic armor type [?]: Alpha Wolf, Ancient Black Drake, Ancient Black Dragon, Ancient Granite Golem, Ancient Rock Golem, Ancient Rumblehide, Ancient Thunderhide, Centaur Conqueror, Centaur Courser, Dark Troll Summoner, Fell Spirit, Ghost, Giant Wolf, Harpy Scout, Harpy Stormcrafter, Hellbear, Hellbear Smasher, Hill Troll, Hill Troll Berserker, Hill Troll Priest, Kobold, Kobold Foreman, Kobold Soldier, Mud Golem, Ogre Bruiser, Ogre Frostmage, Satyr Banisher, Satyr Mindstealer, Satyr Tormenter, Shard Golem, Vhoul Assassin, Wildwing, Wildwing Ripper, Boar, Eidolon, Skeleton Warrior, Treant, Greater Treant, Forged Spirit, Spiderling, Spiderite, Lycan Wolf, Spirit Bear, Plague Ward, Tombstone, Nether Ward, Psionic Trap, Proximity Mine, Stasis Trap and Remote Mine.
- The following units now use the Hero armor type: [?]: Earth, Fire, Storm, and Roshan.

6.86

Renamed
attack types:
- Chaos ➜ Light
- Hero ➜ Hero
- Normal ➜ Basic
- Pierce ➜ Pierce
- Siege ➜ Siege
Renamed
armor types:
- Unarmored ➜ Soft
- Light ➜ Weak
- Medium ➜ Basic
- Heavy ➜ Strong
- Fortified ➜ Structure
- Hero ➜ Hero
Removed
Light attack type. [?]
- The following units now use the hero attack damage type [?]: Centaur Conqueror, Hellbear, Hellbear Smasher, Wildwing Ripper, Satyr Tormenter, Ancient Granite Golem, Ancient Black Dragon, Forged Spirit, Spiderling, and Warlock Golem.
Removed
Weak armor type. [?]
- The following units now use the Soft armor type [?]: Hawk
Removed
Basic armor type. [?]
- The following units now use the Strong armor type [?]: Kobold Soldier, Vhoul Assassin, Ghost, Hill Troll Priest, Harpy Scout, Harpy Stormcrafter, Boar, Tombstone, Nether Ward, Psionic Trap, Proximity Mine, Stasis Trap and Remote Mine.
Increased siege damage against heroes armor from 75% to 85%.