Winter Wyvern/Changelogs
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Talents:- LVL 10+25 Cold Embrace heal per second reduced to +20.
- LVL 15+300 Splinter Blast shatter radius reduced to +250.
- LVL 25+1.25s Splinter Blast stun reduced to +1s.
- Increased base attack damage from 15-22 to 16-23.
- Increased base attack range from 425 to 450.
- Reduced Arctic Burn attack range bonus from 275/300/325/350 to 250/275/300/325.

Talents:- LVL 25+55 Winter's Curse attack speed increased to +60.
- Increased base attack damage from 14-21 to 15-22.

Talents:- LVL 10+30 attack damage increased to +35.
- LVL 15+400 Splinter Blast radius reduced to +300.
- LVL 25+1.5s Splinter Blast stun reduced to +1.25s.
- Winter's Curse
- The debuff-affected enemy unit no longer has
physical damage-type immunity sourced from Winter Wyvern and her
player-controlled units. - Increased cooldown from 85/80/75 to 100/90/80.

Recursive no longer applies a 125% of physical, magical and pure damage incoming damage amplification on damage sources sourced from Winter Wyvern.
- The debuff-affected enemy unit no longer has
- Winter Wyvern no longer is a
Universal hero and now has
Intelligence as a primary attribute. - Increased base
strength and gain from 20 + 2.2 to 22 + 2.5. - Increased
agility gain from 1.5 to 1.7. - Increased
intelligence gain from 2.8 to 3.6 - UIncreased base attack damage from 0-5 to 14-21.
- Increased base attack speed from 90 to 100.
- REMOVEDthe following facets:
- Cold Embrace
- ADDEDthe

Winterproof facet.
- Enables ally buildings targeting.
- Applies a incoming physical damage reduction for the entire duration.
- After the buff duration, applies a 6-second
0.6building attack damage bonus factor. - Pauses the Cold Embrace buff duration while Glyph of Fortification is active.
- Does not apply to

lane creeps.
- Winter's Curse
- ADDEDthe

Recursive facet.
- All affected enemy units within the radius now receive 125% of physical, magical and pure damage sourced from Winter Wyvern.
- Whenever the cursed enemy dies, Winter's Curse is recast on the lowest health enemy hero affected by the Curse.
- Has a
0.5duration factor. This applies to the min, max, and bonus duration.
- Increased Essence of the Blueheart mana restored per health restore factor from 0.2 to 0.24.
- Increased Essence of the Blueheart mana restored per health restore factor from 0.15 to 0.2.

Talents:- LVL 10+35 attack damage reduced to +30.
- Reduced Arctic Burn attack range bonus from 300/325/350/375 to 275/300/325/350.
- Rescaled

Dragon Sight damage per attack range from 0.04/0.05/0.066/0.1 to 0.025/0.033/0.05/0.1. - Reduced Splinter Blast damage from 100/180/260/340 to 80/160/240/320.
- Increased base attack damage from (-3)‒2 to 0‒5.
- Increased
nighttime vision from 800 to 1200. - ADDEDthe Eldwurm Scholar innate ability for Winter Wyvern:
- Grants
0.2 * XPBonusto the other 3 heroes that would not benefit from it, whenever an ally activates the Wisdom Rune.
- Grants
- ADDEDthe

Essence of the Blueheart ability.
- Selecting the corresponding facet unlocks this ability.
- All Winter Wyvern's healing source restores
0.15 * HealValueof the affected ally's mana.
- ADDEDthe

Dragon Sight ability.
- Selecting the corresponding facet unlocks this ability.
- Grants 0.04/0.05/0.066/0.1 attack damage bonus per attack range over 400-attack range.
- This component levels up with Winter's Curse.
- Arctic Burn
- No longer grants 400
nighttime vision bonus. - Reduced attack range bonus from 350/400/450/500 to 300/325/350/375.
- Reduced damage interval from 1 to 0.5.
- No longer grants 400
- Splinter Blast
- ADDED
Ally/Target Unitfunctionality. Cannot self-target. - Increased min first projectile speed from 750 to 1200.
- Reduced max first projectile speed from 4000 to 1200.
- The projectile speed no longer has a max 1-second duration or a variable projectile speed based on the distance of the target.
- Reduced cast range from 1200 to 1150.
- Rescaled enemy movement speed slow from 30% on each level to 28%/32%/36%/40%.
- Winter's Curse
- No longer has a 2.5-second nearby allied units check timer, and does not ends prematurely if no enemy units are around the affected enemy unit.
- Now has a max 4/5.5/7-second duration.
- Rescaled duration from 4.5/5/5.5 to
2 + 2 * TauntedEnemy + 0.5 * TauntedCreep. - Reduced mana cost from 200/225/250 to 150/200/250.

Talents:- LVL 25
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.25 to 0.5.
- Winter's Curse
- Now grants flying vision based on the affected target's vision.
- Increased cast range from 700/750/800 to 800 on each level.
- Reduced mana cost from 250 on each level to 200/225/250.
- Increased Cold Embrace base heal per second from 30/35/40/45 to 40/45/50/55.
- Increased Splinter Blast initial projectile speed from 650 to 750.
- Increased Winter's Curse duration from 4.25/4.75/5.25 to 4.5/5/5.5.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
- Increased base armor from 0 to 1.
- Reduced Arctic Burn cooldown from 38/32/26/20 to 26/24/22/20.
- Splinter Blast
- Reduced mana cost from 105/120/135/150 to 105/115/125/135.
- Reduced cooldown from 7 to 6.

Talents:- LVL 15+2s Arctic Burn debuff duration increased to +3s.
- LVL 20+12% Arctic Burn slow increased to +17%.
- Increased Cold Embrace max health as heal per second from 1.75%/2.5%/3.25%/4% to 2.25%/3%/3.375%/4.5%.
- Winter's Curse
- No longer can deal physical damage to affected units.
- Affected units now receive 30% incoming magical and pure damage bonus from Winter Wyvern. [?]
- Reduced cooldown from 90/85/80 to 85/80/75.
- Reduced base
strength from 22 to 20. - Reduced base attack damage from (-1)‒4 to (-3)‒2.
- Reduced base attack speed from 100 to 90.
- Reduced base attack damage from 0‒5 to (-1)‒4.
- Winter Wyvern no longer has
Intelligence as a primary attribute and is now a
Universal hero. - Reduced
strength gain from 2.5 to 2.2. - Reduced
agility gain from 1.7 to 1.5. - Reduced
intelligence gain from 3.6 to 2.8. - Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
- Reduced base attack damage from 14‒21 to 0‒5.
- Rescaled Arctic Burn current health as damage per second from 6%/7%/8%/9% to 4%/6%/8%/10%.
- Increased Splinter Blast secondary projectile speed from 800 to 1000.
- Reduced Winter's Curse duration from 4.5/5/5.5 to 4.25/4.75/5.25.

Talents:- LVL 25+1.5s Winter's Curse duration reduced to +1.25s.
- Winter's Curse now applies a basic dispel on the affected target upon cast.
- Reduced base
strength and gain from 24 + 2.6 to 22 + 2.5. - Reduced Arctic Burn duration from 10 on each level to 7/8/9/10.
- Reduced Cold Embrace cast range from 1000 on each level to 850/900/950/1000.
- Increased Arctic Burn duration from 8 to 10.
- Increased Splinter Blast secondary projectile speed from 600 to 800.
- Increased Winter's Curse cast range from 700 on each level to 700/750/800.
- Reduced Arctic Burn cooldown from 42/36/28/20 to 38/32/26/20.
- Reduced
agility gain from 1.9 to 1.7. - Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
- Arctic Burn
- Reduced attack range bonus from 350/425/500/575 to 350/400/450/500.
- Reduced movement speed slow from 22%/28%/34%/40% to 16%/24%/32%/40%.
- Reduced Cold Embrace max health as heal per second from 2%/3%/4%/5% to 1.75%/2.5%/3.25%/4%.
- Reduced Winter's Curse cast range from 800 to 700.
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Cold Embrace cooldown reduction bonus from 5 to 4.

Talents:- LVL 10+50 attack damage reduced to +35.
- LVL 10
- LVL 15
- LVL 15+275 health ➜ +2s Arctic Burn debuff duration.
- Increased Arctic Burn mana cost from 90 to 100.
- Increased Winter's Curse cooldown from 80 on each level to 90/85/80.
- Increased base armor from -1 to 0.
- Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
- Reduced Arctic Burn cooldown from 50/40/30/20 to 42/36/28/20.
- Winter's Curse
- Now ends prematurely if there are no enemies within the area for 2.5 seconds.
- Increased radius from 500 to 525.
- Increased enemy attack speed bonus from 55 to 65.
- Increased duration from 4/4.75/5.5 to 4.5/5/5.5.
- Reduced cooldown from 90 to 80.
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- No longer increases Splinter Blast damage by 80.
- Now also reduces Cold Embrace cooldown by 5.
- ADDEDAttribute Bonus.

Talents:- LVL 10+1% Cold Embrace max health as heal per second increased to +1.5%.
- LVL 20
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Now also increases Splinter Blast damage by 80.
- Increased base attack damage from 12‒19 to 14‒21.
- Increased Cold Embrace base heal per second from 20/26/32/38 to 30/35/40/45.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Arctic Burn
- Now also grants self 25% movement speed bonus while active.
- Reduced mana cost per second from 30 to 20.
- Arctic Burn
- ADDED
Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Winter Wyvern:
- Causes Cold Embrace to release secondary Splinter Blast projectiles of the current level onto enemies within 1200 range upon expiring.

Talents:- LVL 25+1.2s Winter's Curse duration increased to +1.5s.
- Increased Winter's Curse cooldown from 80 to 90.

Talents:- LVL 10+0.8% Cold Embrace max health as heal per second increased to +1%.

Talents:- LVL 10+60 attack damage reduced to +50.
- LVL 10+1% Cold Embrace max health as heal per second reduced to +0.8%.
- LVL 15
- LVL 15+350 health reduced to +275.
- LVL 20-5s Cold Embrace cooldown reduced to -4s.
- LVL 20+15% Arctic Burn movement speed slow reduced to +12%.
- LVL 25+2s Splinter Blast stun reduced to +1.5s.
- LVL 25+1.5s Winter's Curse duration reduced to +1.2s.
- CHANGEDCold Embrace from granting health regeneration bonus to healing in 0.25-second intervals. [[?]]
- Reduced base
strength from 26 to 24. - Cold Embrace
- Increased base health regeneration bonus from 14/18/22/26 to 20/26/32/38.
- Reduced max health as health regeneration bonus from 3%/4%/5%/6% to 2%/3%/4%/5%.

Talents:- LVL 10
- Winter's Curse no longer blocks damage from Winter Wyvern and her player-controlled units. [?]
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade
- Reduced Arctic Burn mana cost per second from 40 to 30.
- Increased
intelligence gain from 3.1 to 3.6. - Cold Embrace
- Increased base health regeneration bonus from 15 on each level to 14/18/22/26.
- Rescaled mana cost from 75 on each level to 50/60/70/80.
- Increased
strength gain from 2.4 to 2.6. - Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Increased Cold Embrace base health regeneration bonus from 10 to 15.
- Increased Splinter Blast mana cost from 90/110/130/150 to 105/120/135/150.
- Increased base
intelligence from 24 to 26.
- Splinter Blast
- Increased movement speed slow from 25% to 30%.
- Reduced mana cost from 120/130/140/150 to 90/110/130/150.
- Reduced base
intelligence from 26 to 24. - Increased base attack damage from 10‒17 to 12‒19.
- Winter's Curse
- Increased duration from 3.25/4/4.75 to 4/4.75/5.5.
- Reduced curse attack speed bonus from 85 to 55.
- Increased base
intelligence from 25 to 26. - Increased Arctic Burn attack range bonus from 275/375/475/575 to 350/425/500/575.
- Reduced Arctic Burn mana cost from 120/110/100/90 to 90 on each level.

Talents:- LVL 10+50 attack damage increased to +60.
- Reduced Arctic Burn current health as damage per second from 7.5%/8%/8.5%/9% to 6%/7%/8%/9%.
- Reduced Cold Embrace base health regeneration bonus from 15 to 10.
- Reduced base attack damage from 13‒20 to 10‒17.
- Reduced Arctic Burn current health as damage per second from 9% on each level to 7.5%/8%/8.5%/9%.

Talents:- LVL 15
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Increased turn rate from 0.4 to 0.5.
- Reduced Cold Embrace base health regeneration bonus from 25 to 15.

Talents:- LVL 15+50 attack damage increased to +75.
- LVL 15+20 movement speed increased to +35.
- Increased Arctic Burn movement speed slow from 19%/26%/33%/40% to 22%/28%/34%/40%.
- Increased Cold Embrace base health regeneration bonus from 20 to 25.
- Increased Arctic Burn current health as damage per second from 8% to 9%.
- Increased Arctic Burn duration from 6 to 8.
- Increased
strength gain from 2.1 to 2.4. - Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
- Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
- Increased Winter's Curse cursed attack speed bonus from 70 to 85.

Talents:- LVL 20-35s respawn time ➜ +1s Cold Embrace duration.

Talents:- LVL 15+40 attack damage increased to +50.
- LVL 15+15 movement speed increased to +20.
- The secondary projectile from Splinter Blast can now be disjointed.
- REMOVEDAttribute Bonus.
- ADDED

Talents:
- Reduced Winter's Curse cooldown from 90 to 80.
- Increased base health from 180 to 200.
- Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
- Reduced Winter's Curse cooldown from 120/110/100 to 90 on each level.
- ADDED
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Winter Wyvern:
- Arctic Burn
- Turns into a toggle-ability while removing its cooldown.
- Removes the attack debuff limit per target. [?]
- The initial mana cost is now the activation mana cost is the same as the initial mana cost, and drains 40 mana per second while active.
- Arctic Burn
- Increased Winter's Curse curse attack speed bonus from 50 to 70.
- ADDEDto Captain's Mode.
- Increased base health from 150 to 180.
- REMOVEDfrom Captain's Mode.
- Reduced Arctic Burn movement speed slow from 25%/30%/35%/40% to 19%/26%/33%/40%.
- Increased Cold Embrace cooldown from 17/16/15/14 to 24/21/18/15.
- Winter's Curse
- Cursed target and taunted units are now immune to all damage from their enemies.
- Now grant all taunted units within the radius 50 attack speed bonus for its duration.
- Fixed ability lingering on taunted units if the cursed target dies.
- Increased radius from 400 to 500.
- Increased duration from 2.5/3/3.5 to 3.25/4/4.75.
- Increased cooldown from 110/100/90 to 120/110/100.
- Winter's Curse's taunt no longer pierces spell immunity [?].
- ADDEDto Captain's Mode
- Arctic Burn
- Is now dispellable.
- CHANGEDdamage type from Pure to Magical.
- No longer pierces spell immunity.
- Increased current health as damage per second from 6% to 8%.
- Splinter Blast
- Now can be dispellable.
- Increased initial projectile speed from 500 to 650.
- Reduced initial projectile max travel time from 1.35 to 1.
- CHANGEDCold Embrace from healing the affected target in 0.1-second intervals to granting a fixed health regeneration bonus.
- Winter's Curse
- Now grants all taunted units 70% incoming damage reduction.
- Increased radius from 350 to 400.
- Increased duration from 2.5/2.75/3 to 2.5/3/3.5.
- Increased cooldown from 90/80/70 to 110/100/90.
- Arctic Burn
- Now fully pierces spell immunity.
- Now only grants night vision bonus while ability is active, instead of being a passive component.
- Increased slow duration from 4 to 5. [?]
- Splinter Blast is now properly blocked by Spellblock.
- Cold Embrace
- Now pierces spell immunity.
- MERGEDstun buff and heal/physical damage immunity into the same buff.
- The stun is no longer dispellable.
- Winter's Curse now also forces spell immune units to attack the cursed target.
- Increased
intelligence gain from 2.4 to 3.1. - Arctic Burn no longer provides Flying Vision.
- Reduced Arctic Burn cooldown from 60/50/40/30 to 50/40/30/20.
- Reduced Splinter Blast cooldown from 8 to 7.
- Increased Arctic Burn damage duration from 4 to 5.
- Increased Cold Embrace cooldown from 14 on each level to 17/16/15/14.
- Reduced Splinter Blast initial projectile max travel time from 1.5 to 1.35.
- Reduced Winter's Curse cooldown from 90 on each level to 90/80/70.
- Fixed Splinter Blast slowing spell immune units.
- CREATED
Patch History
[edit]Description
- Fixed Proximity Mines not applying the debuff on units with flying movement (e.g. Arctic Burn).
- Typing
AurothandWWin the hero selection now highlights Winter Wyvern.
- ADDEDnew Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Winter Wyvern has the following values: Blue
1, Female1, Flying1, Icy1, Wings1, Legs2and Nose1.
- Winter Wyvern has the following values: Blue
- Updated Splinter Blast ability descriptions.
- Fixed
Cold Embrace not splintering to invisible hero targets when cast on neutral creeps.
-
- Arctic Burn
- Fixed not updating attack range values in the HUD upon cast.
- Fixed ability interactions between the following abilities:
- Arctic Burn
- Fixed ability interaction between Pulverize and Taunt sources (e.g. Winter's Curse).
-
- Fixed the following abilities' interactions with taunt (i.e. Winter's Curse):
- Updated default hero model.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Fixed hero model starting to fly visually when affected by Duel or taunt.
- Winter's Curse
- Fixed interaction between Battle Trance.
- Fixed kill credit logic being permanently lost when ability is used with Soulbind.
- Removed tail slot from the loadout.
- Added Arcane Rune responses.
-
- Updated default item build.
Arctic Burn
- Fixed toggling On / Off granting charges to Magic Stick.
- Fixed not toggling Off when dropping Aghanim's Scepter.
- Fixed a rare case where Winter Wyvern would not get kill credit with Winter's Curse.
- Enabled for the Dota Workshop.
- Improved hero's selection boxes.
- Winter's Curse no longer prevents
Wraith Delay.
- Fixed hero hitboxes.
- Fixed missing particle for Arctic Burn attacks.
-
- Updated Splinter Blast ability tooltip.
- UFixed cases where Winter's Curse would credit kills wrongly when cast by Rubick's Spell Steal.
- Fixed heroes dying during Winter's Curse to an allied last hit counting as a deny, instead of a kill for Winter Wyvern, when the hero was deniable because of other abilities.
- ADDEDWinter Wyvern.
-
- Updated default hero icon.
- Fixed Arctic Burn affecting spell immune units (buff remains on, but does nothing).
- Splinter Blast
- Fixed secondary projectile speed.
- Fixed secondary targets of Splinter Blast proccing Spellblock.
- Winter's Curse
- Fixed not being sticky on the targets it affects.
- Fixed forcing Exorcism spirits to attack the ally.
- Fixed another case where an enemy with only Winter's Curse debuff could deny an ally.
-
- Fixed Legacy Keys.
- Updated item build.
- Fixed not being enabled in Ability Draft.
- Various tooltip fixes to Arctic Burn and Cold Embrace.
- Added Alt notes to all abilities.
-
- Fixed default hero icon.
-
- Increasing anticipation.
- ADDEDWinter Wyvern to Test Client.
-
- Arctic Burn
- Fixed buff on self and the debuff being purgeable.
- Fixed debuff being dispelled by spell immunity.
- Fixed not increasing acquisition range (the range your hero recognizes an enemy to start auto-attacking).
- Fixed AI issues.
- Fixed debuff being refreshable.
- Fixed being magical instead of pure.
- Fixed projectile speed.
- Fixed ability working on Roshan.
- Fixed debuff not being applied on spell immune units.
- Fixed not destroying trees when duration ends.
- Fixed Arctic Burn landing sound effect.
- Fixed Winter Wyvern's attack point when having ability active.
- Splinter Blast
- Fixed being disjointable.
- Fixed ability ignoring Spellblock.
- Fixed splinter bounces not being able to travel to spell immune units (still does not affect them if they are spell immune upon impact).
- Cold Embrace
- Fixed not being castable on non-hero units.
- Fixed healing tick rate being 1 instead of 0.1.
- Fixed 3rd cast response of ability being blank.
- Winter's Curse
- Fixed ability not forcing enemies to attack a spell immune target.
- Fixed being unable to target non-hero units.
- Fixed ability ignoring Linken's Sphere.
- Fixed being able to Force Staff units out of the Winter's Curse.
- Arctic Burn
-
- Arctic Burn
- Fixed being able to affect the same target multiple times per cast.
- Fixed slow not showing in the HUD.
- Splinter Blast
- Fixed projectile speed from 500 to 600.
- Fixed being purgeable.
- Fixed Cold Embrace being purgeable.
- Winter's Curse
- Fixed ability lasting half second longer.
- Allies are no longer able to deny the cursed target.
- Arctic Burn
- Added particle origin points.