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Description

7.35

• Reduced Bulldoze movement speed bonus from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +200 Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus ➜ +400 Bulldoze universal damage barrier capacity.

  LVL 20

   

  +25% Greater Bash movement speed as damage ➜ +17% Greater Bash proc chance.

  LVL 25

   

  +500 Bulldoze damage barrier capacity ➜ +200 Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus.

  LVL 25

   

  +20% Greater Bash proc chance ➜ +25% Greater Bash movement speed as damage.

7.34e

• Increased Charge of Darkness cooldown from 21/18/15/12 to 22/19/16/13.
• Reduced Greater Bash creep damage multiplier from 1.5 to 1.3.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Charge of Darkness cooldown from 8 to 9.

7.34d

• Increased Greater Bash movement speed as damage from 20%/25%/30%/35% to 25%/30%/35%/40%.

7.34c

• Increased Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus from 250/300/350/400 to 275/325/375/425.
• Increased Nether Strike damage from 150/225/300 to 175/250/325.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +40 attack damage increased to +45.

7.34

• Reduced Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus from 325/350/375/400 to 250/300/350/400.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +17% Greater Bash proc chance ➜ +25% Greater Bash movement speed as damage.

  LVL 25

   

  +25% Greater Bash movement speed as damage ➜ +20% Greater Bash proc chance.

7.33d

• Reduced base armor from 2 to 1.
• Increased Charge of Darkness cooldown from 17/15/13/11 to 21/18/15/12.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Charge of Darkness cooldown from 7 to 8.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  -4s Bulldoze cooldown reduced to -3s.

7.33c

• Increased strength gain from 3 to 3.3
• Charge of Darkness
  • No longer can target debuff immune enemies without Ability Upgrade. [?]
  • Reduced mana cost from 120 to 100.
• Increased Bulldoze status resistance bonus from 35%/45%/55%/65% to 40%/50%/60%/70%.
• Greater Bash
  • Increased movement speed as damage from 15%/20%/25%/30% to 20%/25%/30%/35%.
  • Reduced cooldown from 1.5 to 1.2.
• Reduced Nether Strike cooldown from 90/70/50 to 70/50/30.

7.33b

• Increased Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus from 300/325/350/375 to 325/350/375/400.
• Increased Nether Strike damage from 125/200/275 to 150/225/300.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +13% Greater Bash proc chance increased to +17%.

7.33

• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Reduced Charge of Darkness stun duration from 1.5/1.8/2.1/2.4 to 1.2/1.5/1.8/2.1.
• Reduced Greater Bash stun duration from 0.9/1.2/1.5/1.8 to 0.9/1.1/1.3/1.5.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Planar Pocket magic resistance bonus from 25% to 75%.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +10% Greater Bash proc chance increased to +13%.

  LVL 25

   

  +800 health ➜ +500 Bulldoze universal damage barrier capacity.

7.32c

• Reduced Charge of Darkness cast point from 0.3 to 0.1
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • No longer reduces Charge of Darkness cast point to 0.1.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Planar Pocket no longer triggers if the enemy unit-targeted ability is targeted at Spirit Breaker.

7.32

• Increased base mana regeneration from 0 to 0.5.
• Increased Charge of Darkness stun duration from 1.2/1.6/2/2.4 to 1.5/1.8/2.1/2.4.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Old
    Nether Strike
    • Grants self a 2-second spell immunity.
    • Increases damage by 200.
    • Applies a 4-second Break on the affected target.
  • New
    Grants Spirit Breaker the Planar Pocket ability.

Planar Pocket

Barathrum distorts the fabric of planar space, increasing his own magic resistance and briefly redirecting one targeted enemy hero spells in a radius towards him.

Radius: 900

Magic resistance bonus: 25%

Duration: 6

Cooldown: 20

Mana cost: 75

Notes: Uses the same mechanics as Spell Reflection.

7.31

• Increased Charge of Darkness mana cost from 100 to 120.
• Bulldoze
  • Reduced movement speed bonus from 10%/16%/22%/28% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
  • Rescaled status resistance bonus from 34%/46%/58%/70% to 35%/45%/55%/65%.
• Rescaled Greater Bash movement speed as damage from 14%/20%/26%/32% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +200 Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus reduced to +175.

7.30e

• Increased base strength from 27 to 28.
• Increased base movement speed from 290 to 295.
• Increased Nether Strike damage from 100/175/250 to 125/200/275.

7.30

• Reduced base strength and gain from 29 + 3.1 to 27 + 3.
• Increased Charge of Darkness mana cost from 70/80/90/100 to 100 on each level.
• Increased Greater Bash creep damage multiplier from 1 to 1.5.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Charge of Darkness
    • No longer increases charge speed bonus by 175.
    • Now reduces cast point to 0.1.
    • Now fully pierces spell immunity.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +10 health regeneration ➜ -4s Bulldoze cooldown.

  LVL 20

   

  -5.5s Bulldoze cooldown ➜ +200 Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus.

  LVL 20

   

  +12% Greater Bash movement speed as damage ➜ +10% Greater Bash proc chance.

  LVL 25

   

  +20% Greater Bash proc chance ➜ +25% Greater Bash movement speed as damage.

7.29

• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
• Reduced Bulldoze movement speed bonus from 12%/18%/24%/30% to 10%/16%/22%/28%.
• Reduced Nether Strike cast point from 1.2 to 1.
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +650 health increased to +800.

7.28a

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Nether Strike
    • No longer reduces cast time to 0.
    • No longer has a 1.2-second effect delay.
    • Now grants self a 2-second spell immunity upon cast.

7.28

• Reduced Nether Strike cooldown from 100/80/60 to 90/70/50.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Charge of Darkness
    • Increased charge speed bonus from 100 to 175.
    • Increased cooldown from 6 to 7.
• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Spirit Breaker:
  • Nether Strike
    • Reduces cast point to 0.
    • Adds a 1.2-second effect delay to the ability effects during which Spirit Breaker is spell immune and can act freely.
    • Increases damage by 200.
    • Applies a 4-second Break on the affected target.

7.27b

• Reduced Charge of Darkness cast time from 0.47 to 0.3.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +30 attack damage increased to +40.

7.26c

• Increased base movement speed from 285 to 290.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +5 armor reduced to +4.

  LVL 10

   

  +600 nighttime vision reduced to +500.

  LVL 15

   

  +40 attack damage reduced to +30.

  LVL 15

   

  +12 health regeneration reduced to +10.

  LVL 20

   

  -7s Bulldoze cooldown reduced to -5.5s.

  LVL 20

   

  +15% Greater Bash movement speed as damage reduced to +12%.

  LVL 25

   

  +800 health reduced to +650.

  LVL 25

   

  +25% Greater Bash proc chance reduced to +20%.

7.26a

• Reduced Bulldoze movement speed bonus from 14%/20%/26%/32% to 12%/18%/24%/30%.

7.25

• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old
    Nether Strike
    • Applies Greater Bash in a 350 radius around the target.
    • Increases cast range to 950.
    • Reduces cooldown to 20.
  • New
    Charge of Darkness
    • Increases charge speed bonus by 100.
    • Reduces cooldown to 6.

7.24

• Reduced Bulldoze cooldown from 22 on each level to 22/20/18/16.

7.22f

• Increased Bulldoze mana cost from 25/30/35/40 to 30/40/50/60.
• Reduced Nether Strike damage from 120/185/250 to 100/175/250.

7.22e

• Increased Charge of Darkness cooldown from 11 on each level to 17/15/13/11.

7.22d

• Reduced Nether Strike damage from 150/200/250 to 120/185/250.

7.22

• Increased base health regeneration from 0.75 to 1.25.
• Reduced Charge of Darkness mana cost from 100 on each level to 70/80/90/100.
• Bulldoze
  • Increased status resistance bonus from 30%/40%/50%/60% to 34%/46%/58%/70%.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 12%/18%/24%/30% to 14%/20%/26%/32%.
• Greater Bash
  • Increased movement speed as damage from 8%/16%/24%/32% to 14%/20%/26%/32%.
  • Reduced stun duration from 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8 to 0.9/1.2/1.5/1.8.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Nether Strike
    • Increased cast range from 850 to 950.
    • Increased Greater Bash radius from 250 to 350.

7.21d

• Reduced Charge of Darkness cooldown from 12 to 11.

7.21c

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.75.

7.21

• Increased strength gain from 2.7 to 3.1.

7.20d

• Increased movement speed from 280 to 285.
• Reduced Greater Bash movement speed as damage from 12%/20%/28%/36% to 8%/16%/24%/32%.

7.20c

• Reduced Greater Bash movement speed as damage from 16%/24%/32%/40% to 12%/20%/28%/36%.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Charge of Darkness
  • Changed
    charge speed from a fixed 600/650/700/750 to CurrentMS + 300/325/350/375.
  • Now also changes Spirit Breaker's movement speed to match the charge speed value, so that it now affects Greater Bash's damage.
  • Now also unlocks the max movement speed limit during the charge.
• Greater Bash
  • No longer grants 17% movement speed bonus for 3 seconds upon proccing.
  • Rescaled movement speed as damage from 12%/24%/36%/48% to 16%/24%/32%/40%.
• Replaced
  Empowering Haste with Bulldoze.

Old

Empowering Haste

Causes Spirit Breaker to gain power with higher movement speed. His presence increases the movement speed of nearby allied units. Can be cast to improve the movement speed bonus for 6 seconds.

Radius: 900

Self move speed bonus: 8%/12%/16%/20%

Ally move speed bonus: 4%/6%/8%/10%

Active move speed bonus increase: 3%/4%/5%/6%

Active speed bonus duration: 6

Aura linger duration: 0.5

Cooldown: 20

New

Bulldoze

Spirit Breaker gains movement speed and status resistance to ram through enemies. Can be used while charging.

Movement speed bonus: 12%/18%/24%/30%

Status resistance bonus: 30%/40%/50%/60%

Duration: 8

Cast time: 0

Mana cost: 25/30/35/40

Cooldown: 22

• Nether Strike can no longer be cast while rooted.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +10 health regeneration increased to +12.

  LVL 20

   

  +400 Charge of Darkness speed ➜ -7s Bulldoze cooldown.

  LVL 20

   

  +30% Greater Bash movement speed as damage reduced to +15%.

7.17

• Increased Greater Bash stun duration from 1/1.2/1.4/1.6 to 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8.
• Reduced Nether Strike damage from 150/250/350 to 150/200/250.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +400 nighttime vision increased to +600.

7.16

• Increased base health regeneration from 1 to 1.5.

7.14

• Increased Greater Bash movement speed bonus from 15% to 17%.
• Nether Strike
  • Now knocks enemies back for twice the Greater Bash distance.
  • Increased knockback distance from 140/180/220/260 to 280/360/440/520.

7.13b

• Reduced base armor from 3 to 2.
• Reduced base movement speed from 285 to 280.

7.12

• Empowering Haste
  • Casting ability no longer reduces the movement speed bonus after the initial 6 seconds after activating.
  • Increased cooldown from 12 to 20.

7.07c

• Empowering Haste
  • Now grants different movement speed bonus values for Spirit Breaker and his allies.
  • Increased movement speed bonus on self from 6%/10%/14%/18% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.
  • Reduced movement speed bonus for allies from 6%/10%/14%/18% to 4%/6%/8%/10%.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +30 attack damage increased to +40.

7.07b

• Increased Nether Strike cooldown from 80/70/60 to 100/80/60.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0.5 to 1.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Increased turn rate from 0.4 to 0.5.
• Fixed Charge of Darkness always going on cooldown on death.
• Reduced Greater Bash movement speed as damage from 22%/30%/38%/46% to 12%/24%/36%/48%.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed ➜ +5 armor.

  LVL 10

   

  +5 all stats ➜ +400 nighttime vision.

  LVL 15

   

  +5 armor ➜ +40 attack damage.

  LVL 15

   

  +20 attack damage ➜ +10 health regeneration.

  LVL 20

   

  +30% Greater Bash movement speed as damage ➜ +400 Charge of Darkness speed.

  LVL 20

   

  +120 Gold per minute ➜ +30% Greater Bash movement speed as damage.

  LVL 25

   

  +500 Charge of Darkness charge speed ➜ +800 health.

  LVL 25

   

  17% Greater Bash proc chance increased to +25%.

7.06f

• Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2.4 to 2.7.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.75 to 0.5.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -40s respawn time ➜ +30% Greater Bash movement speed as damage.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +15 movement speed increased to +20.

7.00

• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +15 movement speed

    

  +5 all stats

  +5 armor

    

  +20 attack damage

  -40s respawn time

    

  +120 Gold per minute

  +500 Charge of Darkness charge speed

    

  17% Greater Bash proc chance

6.88

• Increased Greater Bash movement speed as damage from 22%/28%/34%/40% to 22%/30%/38%/46%.

6.87

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.

6.86

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.

6.85

• Greater Bash now uses pseudo-random distribution.

6.84

• Spirit Breaker is no longer restricted from buying Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade.
  • Both Bash and Bash are still disabled on Spirit Breaker.
• Reduced Empowering Haste active cooldown from 16 to 12.

6.83

• Reduced Empowering Haste active cooldown from 20 to 16.

6.82

• Charge of Darkness
  • Reduced cooldown from 35 to 12.
  • Now goes into cooldown upon reaching the target or cancelling the charge, instead of upon cast.
• Added
  new Empowering Haste active component.
  • Does not interrupt channeling abilities upon cast.

Activate to temporarily improve the speed bonus values by 50%. However, afterwards, the values are reduced by 50% for the remaining cooldown.

Passive movement speed bonus: 6%/10%/14%/18%

Active movement speed bonus: 9%/15%/21%/27%

Inactive movement speed bonus: 3%/5%/7%/9%

Active duration: 6

Active cooldown: 20

Inactive duration: 14

• Increased Greater Bash movement speed as damage from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 22%/28%/34%/40%.

6.81

• Nether Strike
  • Increased cast range from 400/550/700 to 700 on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 75 on each level to 80/70/60.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Nether Strike cast range from 550/700/850 to 850 on each level.

6.80

• Nether Strike now exposes the target during the cast point.

6.79

• Increased base attack time from 1.7 to 1.9.
• Greater Bash no longer works while Doomed.
• Nether Strike
  • No longer has a 1-second effect delay.
  • Increased cast point from 0.3 to 1.2.

6.78

• Charge of Darkness now also procs a Greater Bash based on its current level on the charged target upon reaching it.

6.75

• Increased base strength from 23 to 29.
• Increased base attack damage from 22‒32 to 31‒41.
• Charge of Darkness
  • No longer has a buff indicator.
  • Increased charge speed from 425/500/575/650 to 600/650/700/750.
• Empowering Haste
  • No longer increases attack damage based on movement speed.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 6%/8%/10%/12% to 6%/10%/14%/18%.
• Greater Bash
  • Now affects spell immune units.
  • Changed
    damage from a fixed 25/50/75/100 to CurrentMS * 10%/20%/30%/40%.
  • Increased duration from 0.95/1.15/1.35/1.55 to 1/1.2/1.4/1.6.

6.73

• Charge of Darkness
  • Reduced cooldown from 40 to 35.
  • Increased Greater Bash radius from 250 to 300.
• Increased Nether Strike damage from 100/200/300 to 150/250/350.

6.72d

• Reduced strength gain from 2.8 to 2.4.
• Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.
• Changed
  Spirit Breaker hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO. [?]
  • Reduced collision size from 18 to 27.
  • Increased bound radius from 12 to 24.
• Charge of Darkness
  • Fixed ability interactions with Reincarnation.
  • Reduced stun duration from 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6 to 1.2/1.6/2/2.4.
• Nether Strike now procs Greater Bash based on its current level, instead of always using Level 4.

6.72c

• Changed
  Spirit Breaker hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL.
  • Reduced collision size from 27 to 18.
  • Reduced bound radius from 24 to 12.
• Charge of Darkness
  • Added
    an ally-only minimap ping upon cast.
  • Increased indicator radius from 2500 to 3000.

6.72b

• Updated Charge of Darkness ability effects. [?]

6.72

• Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.75.
• Increased attack range from 100 to 128.
• Reworked
  Charge of Darkness.
  • Removed
    End Charge.

Old

Charge of Darkness

Spirit Breaker fixes his sight on a target, starting to charge speed at place. Can charge for up to 4 seconds. After having charged up, he starts charging towards he target based on how much time he spent charging up. When charging for the full 4 seconds, he also turns spell immune during the charge. Upon reaching the target, it gets stunned.

Cast range: Global

Max charge duration: 4

Speed per charged second: 15%

Stun duration: 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6

Cooldown: 40

Mana cost: 75

Notes: After running-in-place and charging up for 4 seconds, he gets the full movement speed bonus and also turns spell immune until reaching the target or the charge stops. Changes Spirit Breaker's opacity until completely transparent based on the charged up time. The target is marked with an allied only visual indicator and gets a status buff icon when Spirit Breaker is within 2500 range. Using the sub-ability or any order during the charge-up time cancels the charging and Spirit Breaker starts running towards the target.

New

Charge of Darkness

Spirit Breaker fixes his sight on a target, immediately starting to charge towards it through all objects at a certain speed. Any enemy unit which he gets in contact with during the charge gets hit by his current level of Greater Bash. Upon reaching the target, it gets stunned.

Cast range: Global

Charge speed: 425/500/575/650

Greater Bash radius: 250

Stun duration: 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6

Cooldown: 40

Mana cost: 75

Notes: The ability's charge speed does not affect movement speed. He charges through everything, including trees and impassable terrain. Spirit Breaker is not spell immune during the charge. Any unit which comes within 250 range during the charge gets bashed. The primary target gets not bashed, only stunned. Disables interrupt the charge. The target is marked with an ally-only visual indicator and gets a status buff icon when Spirit Breaker is within 2500 range. If the target dies during the charge, it gets transferred to the closest enemy unit.

• Greater Bash
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Now grants self 15% movement speed bonus for 3 seconds when proccing.
• Updated Nether Strike ability operations.
  • Now prevent cases that teleport the hero into the enemy fountain.

6.71

• Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.8.
• Fixed the following abilities' interactions with Bash sources (e.g. Greater Bash):
  • Relocate
  • Sun Ray
• Fixed Nether Strike visually granting a spell immunity buff.

6.70

• Added
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Spirit Breaker has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.69

• Greater Bash
  • No longer messes up the affected target's commands.
  • Updated ability icon.
  • Fixed ability showing a dummy unit with a health bar.
• Reduced Nether Strike mana cost from 200/250/300 to 125/150/175.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Now also causes Nether Strike to apply Greater Bash to all units within 250 radius around the target.

6.68

• Charge of Darkness
  • Reduced movement speed bonus per interval from 15% to 7.5%.
  • Reduced movement speed bonus interval from 1 to 0.5.
  • Added
    the End Charge sub-ability. Can be cast to end the charge up prematurely and start charging toward the target.
  • Added
    a visual indicator, showing how long it is being charged up.
• Increased Empowering Haste movement speed bonus from 4%/6%/8%/10% to 6%/8%/10%/12%.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Now also increases Nether Strike cast range to 550/700/850.

6.67

• Added
  to Captain's Mode.
• Charge of Darkness
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Fixed a death-related issue while casting ability.
  • Rescaled movement speed bonus per second 10%/15%/20%/25% to 15% on each level.
  • The movement speed bonus now lingers for 2 seconds after reaching the target or the charge is canceled.
  • Increased stun duration from 1/1.5/2/2.5 to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6.
• Greater Bash no longer loses focus on the attack target when it procs.
• Updated Nether Strike ability icon.

6.66

• Reworked
  Charge of Darkness.

Old

Charge of Darkness

Spirit Breaker starts charging towards the target unit. During the charge, he gets faster and becomes transparent the longer the charge lasts. Upon reaching the maximum speed bonus from the charge, Spirit Breaker turns spell immune for the remaining charge. Upon reaching the target, it gets stunned.

Cast range: Global

Speed acceleration: 10%/15%/20%/25% every 4 seconds

Movement speed bonus cap: 40%/60%/80%/100% (reached after 12 seconds charging)

Stun duration: 1/1.5/2/2.5

Mana cost: 120

Cooldown: 40

Notes: Becomes fully transparent after having charged for 30/25/20/15 seconds. He also turns black upon becoming spell immune. The target is marked with an allied only visual indicator and gets a status buff icon when Spirit Breaker is within 2500 range.

New

Charge of Darkness

Spirit Breaker fixes his sight on a target, starting to charge speed at place. Can charge for up to 4 seconds. After having charged up, he starts charging towards he target based on how much time he spent charging up. When charging for the full 4 seconds, he also turns spell immune during the charge. Upon reaching the target, it gets stunned.

Cast range: Global

Max charge duration: 4

Speed per charged second: 10%/15%/20%/25%

Stun duration: 1/1.5/2/2.5

Cooldown: 40

Mana cost: 75

Notes: After running-in-place and charging up for 4 seconds, he gets the full movement speed bonus and also turns spell immune until reaching the target or the charge stops. Changes Spirit Breaker's opacity until completely transparent based on the charged up time. The target is marked with an allied only visual indicator and gets a status buff icon when Spirit Breaker is within 2500 range. Any order during the charge-up time cancels the charging and Spirit Breaker starts running towards the target.

• Nether Strike now grants spell immunity during the 1-second effect delay.

6.60

• Empowering Haste
  • Increased radius from 500 to 900.
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 2%/4%/6%/8% to 4%/6%/8%/10%.
• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Spirit Breaker:
  • Reduces Nether Strike cooldown to 20.

6.58

• Charge of Darkness
  • Now grants self spell immunity after the acceleration finishes.
  • The status buff icon on the target is now only visible for the target when Spirit Breaker is within 2500 range of it.

6.57

• Increased Empowering Haste radius from 300 to 500.

6.55

• Added
  an allied-only visual effect to Charge of Darkness.

6.54

• Reduced base intelligence from 15 to 14.

6.47

• Fixed Greater Bash ability bug.

6.46

• Nether Strike now applies its damage instantly after the teleport, rather than being added as extra damage to the next attack.

6.44

• Nether Strike now always applies Level 4 Greater Bash.
• Fixed Greater Bash ability bug.

6.35

• Increased base armor from 2 to 3.
• Increased Empowering Haste radius from 200 to 300.

6.33

• Charge of Darkness now stops properly when the target gets purged.
• Nether Strike can no longer be cast on ancient creeps.

6.31

• Fixed movement speed bug with Charge of Darkness in Deathmatch mode.

6.30

• Nether Strike now applies Greater Bash based on its current level.

6.28

• Reduced base strength from 25 to 23.
• Reduced Nether Strike cast range from 700/800/900 to 400/550/700.

6.27

• Charge of Darkness
  • Fixed various ability issues.
  • Rescaled model transparency from 20% every 4 seconds to 3.33%/4%/5%/6.66% per second.
  • Rescaled reaching 100% model transparency from 20 on each level to 30/25/20/15.
• Fixed Nether Strike ability issues.

6.26

• Fixed a major bug with Greater Bash.

6.20

• Removed
  Charge of Darkness Autocast functionality.

6.19

• Increased hero model size.
• Increased base strength and gain from 24 + 2 to 25 + 2.5.

6.17

• Increased base strength from 20 to 24.
• Increased base movement speed from 290 to 295.

6.13

• Updated Charge of Darkness ability animations.
• Greater Bash
  • Reduced knockback distance from 240/270/300/330 to 140/180/220/260.
  • Increased damage from 20/40/60/80 to 25/50/75/100.

6.11

• Greater Bash
  • Changed
    from applying its effects 0.5 seconds after the attack begins to applying its effects as the attack begins.
  • Fixed some ability lag issues.

6.10

• Fixed Nether Strike not applying Greater Bash when the ability was on cooldown.

6.09b

• Fixed Greater Bash stun lasting too long.

6.09

• Reduced strength gain from 2.1 to 2.
• Increased Charge of Darkness cooldown from 30 to 40.
• Changed
  Empowering Haste from applying damage 0.5 seconds after the attack begins to applying damage bonus as the attack begins.
• Greater Bash
  • Updated and improved ability's proc chance backend operations.
  • Increased cooldown from 0 to 2.
• Increased Nether Strike mana cost from 100 on each level to 200/250/300.

6.08

• Increased base strength and gain from 18 + 1.9 to 20 + 2.1.
• Increased agility gain from 1.6 to 1.7.
• Reduced collision size from 40 to 24.
• Changed
  Charge of Darkness ability operations.
  • Rescaled model transparency from 5% per second to 20% every 4 seconds. [?]
  • Increased movement speed acceleration from 5%/10%/15%/20% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
  • Increased acceleration interval from 2 to 4.
  • Reduced amount of accelerations from 10 to 4.
    • The max bonus movement speed is increased from 50%/100%/150%/200% in 20 seconds to 40%/60%/80%/100% in 12 seconds.
  • Reduced cooldown from 60/50/40/30 to 30 on each level.
  • Increased stun duration from 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4 to 1/1.5/2/2.5.
• Empowering Haste
  • No longer damages allies when attempting to attack them.
  • Now grants allies 2%/4%/6%/8% movement speed bonus within 200 radius.
  • Increased movement speed as damage from 3%/6%/9%/12% to 4%/8%/12%/16%.
• Greater Bash
  • Can no longer proc on allies.
  • No longer deals 5/10/15/20 damage per tree the knocked back unit collides with.
  • Increased damage from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80.
• Reduced Nether Strike cooldown from 40 on each level to 40/35/30.

6.07

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

30 Oct 2023

• Renamed
  from Spirit Breaker to Team Spirit Breaker.

16 Oct 2023

• Fixed ability interactions between X Marks the Spot and Bulldoze.

27 Sep 2023

• Typing Barathrum in the hero selection now highlights Spirit Breaker.

08 Sep 2023

• Fixed Charge of Darkness charge speed bonus not updating the movement speed values on the HUD while active.

30 Aug 2023

• Reduced versus scale from 0.8 to 0.74.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Spirit Breaker has the following values: Blue 1, Bearded 1, Horns 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

30 Aug 2023

• Fixed Bulldoze granting an infinite universal damage barrier.

13 Jul 2023

• Fixed Charge of Darkness crashing the game when interrupted.

26 Jun 2023

• Charge of Darkness
  • Updated ability backend strings.
  • Updated ability target-related error messages.

14 Jun 2023

• Charge of Darkness
  • Fixed ability not going into cooldown if the target dies too far away from Spirit Breaker before reaching it.
  • Fixed ability interactions with Ice Blast.

30 May 2023

• Charge of Darkness
  • Fixed not being dispelled on death.
  • Fixed ability being on indefinite cooldown and no longer usable.

15 May 2023

• Fixed Charge of Darkness having the wrong mana cost.

13 May 2023

• Charge of Darkness
  • Updated ability backend strings.
  • Updated ability tooltips.

25 Apr 2023

• Fixed some cases where a damage barrier (e.g. Bulldoze) could result in negative absorbed damage and dealing extra damage to the owner.
• Nether Strike
  • Fixed ability interactions with Planar Pocket.
  • Fixed ability from wrongly dispelling Spirit Breaker.
• Fixed ability interactions between Death Seeker and spell reflection sources (e.g. Planar Pocket).

22 Nov 2022

• Charge of Darkness
  • Fixed ability Alt+ Right Click text.
  • Fixed ability tooltips.

11 Nov 2022

• Updated Nether Strike ability backend strings.

27 Sep 2022

• Updated Charge of Darkness ability tooltips.
• Fixed the following ability interactions with Planar Pocket: [?]
  • Shuriken Toss
  • Chain Frost
  • Paralyzing Cask

16 Sep 2022

• Fixed ability interactions between Snowball and Planar Pocket.

30 Aug 2022

• Planar Pocket
  • Fixed redirecting of certain abilities cast by allies (e.g. Disruption).
  • Fixed ability from triggering when enemies' abilities targeting Spirit Breaker are cancelled during cast point.

24 Aug 2022

• Fixed the following ability interactions with Planar Pocket:
  • Disruption
  • Doom

24 Aug 2021

• Fixed Nether Strike break debuff modifiers missing descriptions.

14 Jul 2020

• Updated default hero model.

25 May 2020

• Updated default hero model and animations.

02 Mar 2020

• Added lore text to Bulldoze.

08 Aug 2019

• Added a buff while charging that indicates the target of Charge of Darkness.
  • Alt+ Right Click this buff to broadcast this information to your team.

01 Feb 2018

• Fixed Nether Strike vision modifier duration being reduced by status resistance.

22 Nov 2017

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

14 Nov 2017

• UPDATE 2
  • Fear now cancels Charge of Darkness.

21 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default item build.

12 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 9
  • Fixed Charge of Darkness talent from malfunctioning when switching targets.

24 Mar 2016

• Charge of Darkness
  • Fixed getting interrupted when toggling between Observer and Sentry Wards.
  • Fixed not destroying trees at the end of the charge.
  • Fixed not ending when dying to Ice Blast.
• Fixed a rare case where Empowering Haste could stop working.

22 Dec 2015

• Added Russian voiceover lines.
• Fixed ability interactions between Time Dilation and abilities that swap index (i.e. Nether Strike).

17 Dec 2014

• UPDATE 3
  • Fixed Charge of Darkness going into cooldown when Spirit Breaker dies.
  • Fixed Spellblock blocking Greater Bash when procing through the following abilities:
    • Charge of Darkness effect radius
    • Nether Strike

20 Nov 2014

• Added a new ▶️ sound for Empowering Haste activation.

24 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed Empowering Haste not updating movement speed in the HUD properly.

29 Apr 2014

• Fixed being able to cast Charge of Darkness while rooted.
• Fixed Spirit Breaker not sticking on auto attack targets that are hit with Greater Bash.
• Fixed Nether Strike sound effects not respecting the Fog of War.

17 Oct 2013

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed Nether Strike ability sound effects.

23 Sep 2013

• Fixed missing default hero model effects.
• Moved Spirit Breaker's particles onto individual loadout items, to support future cosmetic items.
• Greater Bash
  • Fixed not applying further knockback on units that were already getting knocked back.
  • Fixed knockback distance being too low.

23 Aug 2013

• Fixed Charge of Darkness target being networked to enemy players.

14 Mar 2013

• Fixed spell immune units being ignored by the Greater Bash effect radius procs from Charge of Darkness and Nether Strike.

07 Feb 2013

• Fixed some ability backswing timing issues.

08 Nov 2012

• Fixed case where he could interrupt his Charge of Darkness by previously having given an attack order to his target.

03 Oct 2012

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed Greater Bash ability tooltip.

19 Jul 2012

• Added teleport start and end animations.
• Added idle injured animations.

12 Jul 2012

• Fixed Greater Bash affecting spell immune units when procced via other abilities.

20 Jun 2012

• Fixed allowing Charge of Darkness to charge Razor without moving.

31 May 2012

• Empowering Haste visual no longer shows up on creeps.

24 May 2012

• Fixed Charge of Darkness immediately failing when cast on Unstable Current.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
• Fixed Charge of Darkness not getting interrupted by Ensnare.

10 May 2012

• Fixed turn rate.
• Fixed base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.75.
• Fixed base intelligence.

26 Apr 2012

• U
  Added injured run animations.

19 Apr 2012

• Fixed case where Spirit Breaker could get stuck when using Nether Strike.

12 Apr 2012

• Fixed being unable to target magic immune units with Nether Strike.

08 Mar 2012

• Fixed Nether Strike against Cycloned units.
• Fixed Bash stacking with Greater Bash.
• Changed Empowering Haste Legacy Keys to G to avoid accidentally pressing H (halt).

01 Mar 2012

• Charge of Darkness no longer alert the target to attack the caster if the target is far away.

28 Feb 2013

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed cast backswing behaviors for the following abilities:
    • Empowering Haste
    • Nether Strike

19 Jan 2012

• Added
  to Captain's Mode.
• Charge of Darkness
  • Fixed picking units that are invisible or in the Fog of War when it tries to find a new target.
  • Fixed ignoring hex.
  • Fixed going through spell immunity.
• Greater Bash
  • Fixed working with illusions.
  • Fixed bonus damage working on buildings, wards and denies.
  • Fixed going through spell immunity.

12 Jan 2012

• Added
  Spirit Breaker.