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Version history

Version

Description

7.22f

• Increased Elder Dragon Form Aghanim's Scepter magic resistance bonus from 30% to 40%.
• Level 20 right talent: Increased gold per minute bonus from 180 to 210.

7.22c

• Increased base intelligence from 15 to 18.
• Level 10 left talent: Increased Breathe Fire attack damage reduction bonus from 25% to 30%.
• Level 15 left talent: Increased health bonus from 350 to 400.

7.22

• Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Dragon Knight: Adds a 4th level to Elder Dragon Form. Transforms into a black dragon, which has 50% more Corrosive Breath damage, Splash damage, and Frost Breath slow, 450 more attack range, and 30% magic resistance.

7.21d

• Increased Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath movement/attack speed slow from 30%/30 to 40%/40.
• Level 10 left talent: Increased Breathe Fire attack damage reduction bonus from 20% to 25%.
• Level 15 left talent: Increased health bonus from 300 to 350.
• Level 20 right talent: Increased gold per minute bonus from 150 to 180.
• Level 25 left talent: Increased Dragon Tail stun duration bonus from 1.75 to 2.

7.21

• Increased strength gain from 3.1 to 3.6.
• Increased movement speed from 285 to 295.
• Increased Dragon Blood health regen bonus from 4/7/10/13 to 4/8/12/16.
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form frost attack speed slow still being 20 since 7.06, instead of 30.
• Level 20 left talent: Replaced 2x Dragon Blood regen/armor with +25 strength.
• Level 25 right talent: Replaced +40 strength with 2x Dragon Blood regen/armor.

7.20d

• Increased movement speed from 280 to 285.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Increased Dragon Blood health regen bonus from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/13.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Poison and frost breath no longer pierce spell immunity.
  • No longer applies the 50% of the splash damage on missed attacks.
  • Now deals 75% damage in 300 radius, instead of 100% in 150 radius, 50% in 225 radius and 25% in 300 radius.
• Level 10 right talent: Increased mana regen bonus from 2 to 3.

7.18

• Level 15 right talent: Reduced attack damage bonus from 35 to 30.

7.16

• Reduced movement speed from 285 to 280.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form movement speed bonus from 25 to 30.

7.13b

• Reduced base armor from 1 to 0.
• Reduced movement speed from 290 to 285.

7.10

• Reduced agility gain from 2.2 to 2.
• Level 10 left talent: Replaced +30 attack speed bonus with +20% Breathe Fire attack damage reduction.

7.07b

• Level 15 right talent: Replaced 40% experience gain bonus with 35 attack damage bonus.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Rescaled Dragon Blood health regeneration bonus from 3/6/9/12 to 4/6/8/10.
• Breathe Fire
  • Now reduces total attack damage, instead of just base attack damage and damage gained from primary attributes.
  • Reduced attack damage reduction from 35% to 25%.
  • Increased cast time from 0 to 0.2.
  • U
    Increased cast range from 500 to 600.
  • Increased travel distance from 650 to 750.
• Reworked talents:

Old:

Level 10: +30 attack speed or +10 strength

Level 15: +40 attack damage or +40% experience gain

Level 20: +300 health or +120 gold per minute

Level 25: Double Dragon Blood health regen and armor values or +75 movement speed

New:

Level 10: +30 attack speed or +2 mana regeneration

Level 15: +300 health or +40% experience gain

Level 20: Double Dragon Blood health regen and armor values or +150 gold per minute

Level 25: +1.75s Dragon Tail stun duration or +40 strength

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2.8 to 3.1.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath attack speed slow from 20 to 30. [?]

7.05

• Level 10 right talent: Increased strength bonus from 9 to 10.
• Level 10 left talent: Increased attack speed bonus from 25 to 30.
• Level 15 right talent: Increased experience bonus from 35% to 40%.

7.03

• Level 10 right talent: Increased strength bonus from 7 to 9.
• Level 10 left talent: Increased attack speed bonus from 20 to 25.
• Level 25 right talent: Increased movement speed bonus from 60 to 75.

7.02

• Level 10 right talent: Increased strength bonus from 6 to 7.
• Level 15 right talent: Increased experience bonus from 25% to 35%.
• Level 25 right talent: Increased movement speed bonus from 50 to 60.

7.00

• Elder Dragon Form Corrosive Breath now affects the splashed targets.
• Dragon Tail now uses a projectile traveling at 1600 speed while in dragon form, instead of being instant.
• Added talents:

Level 10: +6 strength or +20 attack speed

Level 15: +25% experience gain or +40 attack damage

Level 20: +120 gold per minute or +300 health

Level 25: 2x Dragon Blood regen/armor or +50 movement speed

6.87

• Increased base attack damage from 27-33 to 31-37.
• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
• Breathe Fire
  • Increased attack damage reduction from 20%/25%/30%/35% to 35% on each level.
  • Rescaled cooldown from 12 on each level to 14/13/12/11.
• Reduced Elder Dragon Form attack range bonus from 372 to 350. [?]

6.86

• Increased Dragon Blood health regeneration bonus from 2/3/4/5 to 3/6/9/12.
• Increased Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath slow radius from 250 to 300.

6.85

• Increased Breathe Fire damage reduction duration from 8 to 11.

6.84

• Breathe Fire now reduces hit enemies' attack damage by 20%/25%/30%/35% for 8 seconds.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Corrosive Breath's damage is now lethal.
  • Increased splash radius from 100/200/250 (for 100%/75%/50% damage) to 150/225/300.

6.83

• Corrosive Breath passive from Level 1 and 2 Elder Dragon Form now carries over to Level 3.

6.80

• Rescaled Dragon Tail cooldown from 9 to 12/11/10/9.

6.78

• Corrosive Breath passive from Level 1 Elder Dragon Form now carries over to Level 2.

6.75

• Reduced armor from 2 to 1 (total armor is now 3.66).
• Increased Dragon Blood armor bonus from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • No longer grants 0/5/14 attack damage bonus.
  • Rescaled splash damage radius:

  100% splash radius from 75 to 100.

  75% splash radius from 150 to 200.

  50% splash radius remains the same (250).

6.73

• While in Elder Dragon Form, Dragon Tail cast range is increased from 150 to 400.

6.72d

• Increased collision size from 12 to 24.

6.72c

• Reduced collision size from 24 to 12.

6.72

• Increased attack range from 125 to 128.
• Increased Breathe Fire damage from 75/150/225/300 to 90/170/240/300.

6.71

• Increased Dragon Blood health regeneration from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5.

6.54

• Rescaled Elder Dragon Form movement speed Bonus from 10/35/60 to 25 on each level.

6.52

• Reduced Breathe Fire mana cost from 100/115/130/150 to 100/110/120/130.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Improved attack animation from 0.94/0.56 to 0.5/0.5.
  • Increased cooldown from 100 to 115.

6.51

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Reduced mana cost from 100/150/200 to 50 on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 135 to 100.

6.50

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form lasting 2 second too short (it lost 2 seconds of it since it no longer uses a transformation time).

6.45

• Increased base agility and gain from 17 + 1.7 to 19 + 2.2.

6.35

• Increased base armor from 1 to 2 (total armor is now 4.38).
• Dragon Blood now grants 2/4/6/8 armor again.

6.30

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Reduced mana cost from 175/225/300 to 100/150/200.
  • Increased Corrosive Breath damage from 8 to 20.
  • Corrosive Breath now damages buildings.

6.25

• Dragon Knight can now level up his spells while in Elder Dragon Form.

6.20

• Reduced Breathe Fire damage from 85/170/255/320 to 75/150/225/300.
• Elder Dragon Form
  • Dragon Knight can no longer be Tossed while under the effect of Elder Dragon Form.
  • No longer grants a health bonus (100/200/0 -> 0).
  • No longer uses 1 second transformation time.

6.19b

• Breathe Fire no longer causes a small damage over time on units which were affected by Drunken Haze upon hit (this behavior was never intended).

6.19

• Fixed Dragon Blood having no hotkey (is now D).

6.17

• Reduced base strength from 21 to 19.
• Reduced movement speed from 300 to 290.

6.11

• Dragon Tail
  • Reduced stun duration from 2.5/2.75/3.1/3.35 to 2.5/2.75/3/3.25.
  • Rescaled damage from 0/50/100/150 to 25/50/75/100.

6.09

• Increased strength gain from 1.7 to 2.8.
• Increased agility gain from 1.6 to 1.7.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 2.9 to 1.7

6.04

• Elder Dragon Form
  • Frost breath no longer freezes buildings (Freeze fully disabled buildings).
  • Reduced Frost breath duration from 10 to 3.

6.03

• Replaced Roar with Dragon Blood.
  • Removed the armor bonus from Dragon Blood (1/2/3/4 -> 0).
• Replaced Stone Form with Dragon Tail.

6.00

• Replaced Dragon Blood with Roar.
• Replaced Dragon Tail with Stone Form.

Patch history

Patch

Description

28 Apr 2016

• Fixed Dragon Knight having slightly too large of an attack range during Elder Dragon Form (bonus from 372 to 350).

24 Mar 2016

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form not refreshing and updating on recast.

18 Jul 2013

• Fixed Dragon Blood's bonus armor not showing properly in the UI.

12 Jul 2013

• Updated ability icons for Dark Seer and Dragon Knight.

28 Mar 2013

• Fixed Dragon Blood armor bonus not carrying over to illusions.
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form frost slow getting dispelled when target initially becomes spell immune.

14 Feb 2013

• Fixed some wave speed issues with Crypt Swarm, Dual Breath, Breathe Fire, Dragon Slave, Illuminate, Sonic Wave and Shockwave.

07 Feb 2013

• Breathe Fire:
  • Fixed sometimes missing at very close range in Elder Dragon Form.
  • Fixed Breathe Fire travel time being too slow.

08 Nov 2012

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form not splashing on siege units.

09 Aug 2012

• U
  Added victory animations for Anti-Mage and Dragon Knight.

05 Jul 2012

• U
  Added teleport (start & end) animations for Death Prophet, Doom and Dragon Knight.
• U
  Added spawn animations for Doom and Dragon Knight.

10 May 2012

• Fixed very minor inaccuracy on Elder Dragon Form attack range.

19 Apr 2012

• U
  Added injured attack animations and injured idle animations for Dragon Knight.

22 Mar 2012

• U
  Updated Dragon Knight's texture to be more orange.

08 Mar 2012

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form's Corrosive Breath and Frost Breath working with Dragon Knight illusions.
• Dragon Knight plays a range-enabled effect when Dragon Tail is cast while in Elder Dragon Form.

16 Feb 2012

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath slowing units while Doomed
• Fixed unit targeting behavior being bugged for the following abilities: Crypt Swarm, Dragon Slave and Breathe Fire.

12 Jan 2012

• Fixed Dragon Tail ignoring Linken's Sphere.

17 Nov 2011

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form attack properties getting lost when he is purged/ Repelled.
• Fixed Omniknight and Dragon Knight legacy keys.
• Added more movement lines for Dazzle, Dark Seer, Dragon Knight, Nature's Prophet, Huskar, Riki, Skeleton King, Slardar, Spectre and Jakiro.

10 Nov 2011

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form Corrosive Breath damage being lethal.
• Fixed Breathe Fire not working on siege units.
• Enabled Omniknight and Dragon Knight in Captain's Mode.
• Cleaned up some Dragon Knight effects.
• Updated Dragon Knight's run and idle animations.

03 Nov 2011

• Added Dragon Knight and Omniknight!

26 May 2011

• Illusions now copy the state of the morphed hero ( Elder Dragon Form).

17 Mar 2011

• Fixed Elder Dragon Form from being purgeable.

12 Mar 2011

• Fixed an issue where when Dragon Knight in his Elder Dragon Form was affected by hex, he would sometimes not change to the new model.