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7.06e

• Level 20 right talent: Increased Spiders attack damage bonus from 12 to 14.

7.06b

• Increased Spin Web health regeneration bonus from 2/4/6/8 to 3/5/7/9.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.8.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.

7.05

• Increased Incapacitating Bite slow from 14%/24%/34%/44% to 16%/26%/36%/46%.
• Level 15 left talent: Increased health bonus from 325 to 350.
• Level 25 left talent: Increased Spiders health bonus from 200 to 225.

7.04

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased lifesteal from 60%/90%/120% to 60%/100%/140%.
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 60/90/120 to 60/100/140.

7.03

• Level 15 left talent: Increased health bonus from 250 to 325.
• Level 20 left talent: Increased attack speed bonus from 50 to 70.
• Level 20 right talent: Increased Spiders attack damage bonus from 8 to 12.

7.02

• Level 10 left talent: Increased experience bonus from 15% to 25%.
• Level 10 right talent: Replaced 10 agility bonus with +60 Spawn Spiderlings damage.
• Level 15 left talent: Replaced 7 armor bonus with 250 health bonus.
• Level 20 right talent: Replaced 300 health bonus with +8 Spiders attack damage.

7.01

• Increased Incapacitating Bite slow from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 14%/24%/34%/44%.

7.00

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Is no longer dispellable.
  • Increased lifesteal from 60%/80%/100% to 60%/90%/120%.
• Added talents:
  • Level 10: +15% experience gain or +10 agility
  • Level 15: +7 armor or 20% cooldown reduction
  • Level 20: +50 attack speed or +300 health
  • Level 25: +200 spiders health or +8 max Spin Webs

6.87

• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
• Spawn Spiderlings is now dispellable.

6.86

• Reduced Spawn Spiderlings damage from 75/150/225/300 to 70/140/210/280.
• Spiderlings damage type changed from Chaos to Hero.

6.85b

• Reduced Poison Sting movement speed slow from 12% to 8%.

6.84c

• Reduced Poison Sting movement speed slow from 15% to 12%.

6.84

• Incapacitating Bite is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier.
• Increased Insatiable Hunger attack damage bonus from 60/80/100 to 60/90/120.

6.83

• Reduced Spiderlings' and Spiderites' day vision reduced from 1400 to 1100.

6.82

• Spin Web:
  • Now has 1/2/3/4 charges with a 40 second replenish time, instead of a 30 second cooldown

    Still has a max of 2/4/6/8 Webs total.

  • Unobstructed movement is now lost for 6 seconds upon taking damage, instead of 3.
  • Movement speed bonus is now doubled while having unobstructed movement.
  • Unobstructed movement and movement speed bonuses now affect Spiderlings and Spiderites.
  • Spin Webs are now selectable and have an ability to destroy themselves.
  • Can now be cast from anywhere as long as the new web touches another.
  • Whenever Broodmother or her spiders lose the unobstructed movement, trees around them are destroyed.

6.81

• Increased Poison Sting damage per second from 4 to 8.
• Spin Web
  • Unobstructed movement is no longer lost when enemies have vision over Broodmother.
  • Unobstructed movement is now lost for 3 seconds when Broodmother takes damage.

    Uses the same damage source rules as Blink Dagger.

• Increased Insatiable Hunger lifesteal from 40%/60%/80% to 60%/80%/100%.

6.80

• Spin Web
  • No longer provides 200 vision.
  • No longer allows Broodmother to leave the map boundaries.
  • Unobstructed movement is now lost when enemies have vision over Broodmother.

6.79

• Removed from Captain's Mode.
• Spin Web
  • Increased radius from 650 to 900.
  • Increased cast range from 600 to 1000.
  • Increased cast point from 0.2 to 0.4.
  • No longer destroys trees.
  • Now grants Broodmother unobstructed movement (can walk over cliffs, trees, etc).
  • Bonuses no longer linger and are instantly lost upon leaving a spin web.

6.78

• Increased Spawn Spiderlings number of Spiderlings from 1/2/3/3 to 1/2/3/4.
• Increased Incapacitating Bite enemy miss chance from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 30%/40%/50%/60%.

6.75

• Increased Spiderite gold bounty from 11-13 to 16-21.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • No longer grants 2/4/6/8 attack damage.
  • Increased enemy miss chance from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.

6.72d

• Increased collision size from 12 to 24.

6.72c

• Reduced movement speed from 310 to 295.
• Reduced collision size from 24 to 12.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Reduced number of spiderlings from 1/2/3/4 to 1/2/3/3.
  • Rescaled mana cost from 80/100/120/140 to 120 on each level.
  • Spiderlings and Spiderites are now affected by Spin Web.
  • Changed Spiderlings' and Spiderites' armor type from normal to heavy (damage taken from towers from 100% to 125%).
  • Changed Spiderlings' attack type from normal to chaos (damage against buildings from 70% to 40%, against heroes from 75% to 100%).
  • Increased Spiderlings' model size to make them easier distinguishable from Spiderites.
• Spin Web
  • Increased radius from 500 to 650.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 20%/23%/26%/29% to 20%/25%/30%/35%.
  • Reduced cooldown from 90/70/50/30 to 30 on each level.

6.71

• Reduced movement speed from 315 to 310.
• Spawn Spiderlings
  • Increased debuff duration from 0.9 to 2.
  • Increased mana cost from 75/90/105/120 to 80/100/120/140.

6.69

• Increased Spiderlings experience bounty from 20 to 31.

6.68

• Reduced base armor from 2 to 0 (total armor is now 2.52).

6.63

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased lifesteal from 40%/55%/70% to 40%/60%/80%.
  • Increased duration from 12 to 14.

6.60

• Changed Spiderlings' and Spiderites' armor type from medium to normal (damage taken from towers from 50% to 100%).

6.55

• Spin Web
  • Reduced vision radius from 500 to 200.
  • Reduced mana cost from 140 to 50.
  • Reduced cooldown from 90/75/60/45 to 90/70/50/30.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 60/75/90 to 60/80/100.
  • Reduced lifesteal from 40%/60%/80% to 40%/55%/70%.
  • Reduced duration from 20 to 12.

6.54

• Increased transparency of Spin Webs (to prevent them from blocking vision).

6.52

• Rescaled Insatiable Hunger cooldown from 60/45/30 to 45 on each level.

6.50

• Spin Web
  • No longer provides True Sight.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 20% on each level to 20%/23%/26%/29%.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Is no longer dispellable.
  • Increased lifesteal from 40%/50%/60% to 40%/60%/80%.
  • Reduced cooldown from 60 on each level to 60/45/30.

6.49

• Reduced attack point from unknown to 0.4.
• Reduced all spells' cast point from 0.5 to 0.2.

6.40

• Increased Spiderling health from 350 to 450.

6.39

• Fixed Poison Sting slowing attack speed, instead of movement speed.
• Increased Spin Web health regeneration bonus from 2 on each level to 2/4/6/8.

6.35

• Increased base armor from 0 to 2 (total armor is now 4.52).
• Changed Spiderlings' and Spiderites' armor type from heavy to medium (damage taken from towers from 125% to 50%).

6.34

• Spin Web
  • Now provides vision within its radius.
  • No longer blocks neutral creep camps.

6.24

• Fixed an issue with Spin Webs in Death Match mode.

6.20

• Reduced Insatiable Hunger duration from 30 to 20.

6.18

• Fixed Spiderlings giving way more experience than intended.

6.17

• Increased movement speed from 313 to 315.
• Increased Spiderling attack damage from 15-16 to 18-19.
• Increased Spiderite attack damage from 7-8 to 9-10.
• Spin Web
  • Reduced mana cost from 200 to 140.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 10% to 20%.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Reduced attack damage bonus from 60/90/120 to 60/75/90.
  • Increased duration from 20 to 30.
  • Reduced mana cost from 125/145/175 to 100 on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 100/90/80 to 60 on each level.

6.15

• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 40/75/85 to 60/90/120.
  • Increased duration from 15 to 20.

6.10

• Spin Web now provides True Sight within its radius.

6.00

• Increased strength gain from 2.0 to 2.5.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Reduced enemy miss chance from 10%/20%/35%/45% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 15%/25%/40%/50% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Reduced attack damage bonus from 50/75/100 to 40/75/85.
  • Reduced mana cost from 125/175/225 to 125/145/175.

5.74

• Incapacitating Bite
  • Increased proc chance from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 100%
  • Reduced enemy chance to miss from 90% on each level to 10%/20%/35%/45%.
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 80% on each level to 15%/25%/40%/50%.
  • Now passively grants Broodmother 2/4/6/8 attack damage.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 25/50/75 to 50/75/100.
  • Increased duration from 10 to 15.

5.72

• Changed Spin Web invisibility type.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Reduced chance to proc from 100% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
  • Increased enemy chance to miss from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 90% on each level.
  • Increased movement speed slow from 25%/35%/50%/65% to 80% on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 4 to 0.

5.65

• Increased Poison Sting movement speed slow from 10% to 15%.
• Reworked Spawn Spiderite

Old Spawn Spiderite:

Can inject an egg in an enemy unit to create a Spiderite. Lasts 3 seconds. If the unit dies during these 3 seconds, a Spiderite is born.

Cast range: 700

Number of Spiderites: 1

Debuff duration: 3

Cooldown: 14

Notes: Is on autocast by default. The Spiderlings will use this whenever it is off cooldown and an enemy is within range.

New Spawn Spiderite:

Plants Spiderite eggs in enemies. If the unit dies while infested, a Spiderite is born.

Number of Spiderites: 1

Debuff duration: 2

A passive ability, which causes all attacks of the Spiderling to debuff enemies. When an enemy dies with the debuff, a Spiderite is born.

• Increased Spiderite duration from 30 to 60 seconds.
• Spin Web
  • Increased max allowed webs from 1/2/3/4 to 2/4/6/8.
  • Reduced mana cost from 250 to 200.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Increased movement speed slow from 25% on each level to 25%/35%/50%/65%.
  • Added a 4 second cooldown.
• Insatiable Hunger
  • No longer drains 5% of Broodmother's health per second.
  • Increased cooldown from 90/80/70 to 100/90/80.

5.64

• Fixed Spin Web's buffs lasting permanently on Broodmother.

5.63

• Spawn Spiderlings can no longer be cast on allied units.
• Spawn Spiderling (Spiderling ability)
  • Can no longer be cast on allied units.
  • No longer deals 5 damage per second.
  • Increased cooldown from 8 to 14.
  • Renamed to Spawn Spiderite.
  • Now spawns a Spiderite, instead of another Spiderling.

    Spiderites deal 7-8 damage, have 0 armor, 175 health, no abilities and last for 30 seconds. Are not affected by Spin Web.

• Spin Web no longer affects Spiderlings.
• Incapacitating Bite
  • Increased proc chance from 20%/30%/40%/50% to 100% on each level.
  • Reduced enemy miss chance from 50% on each level to 10%/20%/30%/40%.

5.62

• Created.

Patch history

Patch

Description

24 Mar 2016

• Spiderlings and Spiderites can now be set to two different control groups
• Fixed Spiderlings killing nearby trees when they die
• Fixed a rare case where Spiderlings could fail to summon spiderites
• Fixed Spiderling's Poison Sting sometimes not crediting you for the kill
• Fixed Spin Web subability proccing Magic Stick
• Fixed Incapacitating Bite's blind component not affecting illusions
• Fixed a rare case where Incapacitating Bite would stop working when the debuff was placed by illusions first

17 Feb 2016

• Updated Workshop Hero Files of Broodmother and Spiderlings to Source 2.

04 Feb 2015

• Broodmother's webs are now always visible for Broodmother's team and spectators.

04 Feb 2015

• Fixed Spin Web being refreshable.

December 17, 2014 Patch Update 5

• Fixed the damage source of the spiderlings' Poison Sting to be the spiderlings, instead of Broodmother

21 Oct 2013

• Updated ability icons for Spawn Spiderlings, Spin Web, Incapacitating Bite, and Insatiable Hunger.

28 Mar 2013

• Fixed Insatiable Hunger cooldown on level 1 and 3.

30 Nov 2012

• Updated Broodmother's model.

11 Oct 2012

• Fixed Incapacitating Bite working against wards.

02 Aug 2012

• [Undocumented] Added Teleport animations for Beastmaster, Bounty Hunter, Broodmother, Clinkz, Lifestealer, Necrophos and Shadow Shaman.

12 Jul 2012

• Fixed Spiderling passive proccing on magic immune units (like zombies) and spawning mass spiderlings.

26 Apr 2012

• [Undocumented] Updated the hero selection portrait.

28 Mar 2012

• [Undocumented] Updated Broodmother's texture.

08 Mar 2012

• [Undocumented] Added idle injured animations for Broodmother.

01 Mar 2012

• [Undocumented] Added new run animation for Broodmother's Spiderlings.

16 Feb 2012

• [Undocumented] Added injured animations for Broodmother.
• [Undocumented] Added chase animations for Broodmother.

12 Jan 2012

• Fixed Spawn Spiderite working on wards.

16 Dec 2011

• Fixed Insatiable Hunger working against illusions.

08 Dec 2011

• Fixed Broodmother's webs not showing up if you connected after they were created.

27 Oct 2011

• Added Broodmother's Spiderling's voice code.
• Enabled Broodmother, Queen of Pain and Skeleton King in Captain's Mode.
• Fixed Poison Sting from affecting wards.
• Fixed the wrong web sometimes getting removed when a new one is added.
• Fixed the Spiderlings and Spiderite passive abilities working on buildings and mechanical units.
• Fixed Spawn Spiderlings not being a projectile.
• Fixed Insatiable Hunger being purgeable.
• Fixed Insatiable Hunger bonus damage being considered as base damage.

20 Oct 2011

• Added Broodmother, Queen of Pain and Skeleton King!