Today Blizzards has released Patch 1.31.0. One of the many patches released for Warcraft 3 this year. According to Metelitsa; They re updated the map editor seriously, patched their servers, improved the rendering technology, corrected another batch of errors and game errors.
Progress isn’t without its compromises. The team did their damnedest to get Arranged Teams working within the legacy system. And they re said; We’ve made strides to that end, but were unhappy with the experience. We decided it was more important to get this behemoth of a patch out the door then continue to delay. That means AT will return with Reforged, not before.
HORDE
Blademaster
Windwalk
Cooldown now occurs when Windwalk breaks.
Reduced the cooldown of Windwalk from 5 seconds to 2 seconds across all levels.
Critical Strike
Now benefits from all damage once again, not just base damage
Kodo Beast
Devour can target Mountain Giants without Resistant Skin
Tauren
Pulverize
Tauren now start with a reduced Pulverize that deals 20 damage
The Pulverize upgrade has been changed to “Upgrade Pulverize,” which increases the damage of Pulverize to 60
Upgrade Pulverize lumber cost reduced from 250 to 225 lumber
Spiked Barricades
Reduced the number of upgrade levels from 3 to 2
Tier 1 is 5 base damage + 20% of the attacker’s damage
Tier 2 is 5 base damage + 50% of the attacker’s damage
ALLIANCE
Knight
New Upgrade: Sundering Blades
Researched at the Barracks
Requires Castle, Lumber Mill, and Blacksmith
100 gold / 100 lumber / 40 second research time
Increases Knight’s damage against Medium armor by 15%
Paladin
Equipping Orbs no longer slows attack speed when attacking air units
Animal War Training
Knight base Hit Points increased by 50
Gryphon Rider base Hit Points increased by 50
Dragonhawk Rider base Hit Points increased by 50
Animal War Training provides 100 Hit Points, down from 150
Animal War Training lumber cost reduced from 175 to 125
Control Magic
Additional mana cost up from 35% to 45%
Orb of Fire
Bonus Damage reduced from 10 to 7
No longer gives area of effect damage
New effect: Decreases the effectiveness of healing abilities and hit point regeneration by 35% for 3 seconds
NIGHT ELF
Ultravision is now applied to Mountain Giants, Spirits of Vengeance, and Avatars of Vengeance
Dark Ranger
Life Drain
Life Drain now applies the Dark Minion effect of the current rank of Black Arrow (Requires at least 1 point in Black Arrow)
Demon Hunter
Mana Burn
Mana cost reduced from 60 to 50 across all levels
Druid of the Claw
Base Stats
Minimum damage in bear form increased from 22 to 23
Glaive Thrower
Vorpal Glaives Upgrade
Now increases projectile speed from 1400 to 2000
No longer guaranteed to hit its primary target
No longer changes to do damage in a line, instead Glaive Throwers keep their pre-upgrade circular area of effect damage.
Hippogryph Rider
Base Stats
Base hit points increased from 780 to 785
Keeper of the Grove
Base Stats
Night vision radius reduced from 900 to 800
Base Intelligence reduced from 19 to 18
Tranquility
Invulnerability duration reduced from 3 seconds to 1
Force of Nature
Treant base damage reduced from 15 to 14.
UNDEAD
Gargoyle
Base Stats
Movement Speed increased from 350 to 375
Gold Cost reduced from 185 to 175
Necromancer
New Spell Order
Cripple → Raise Dead → Unholy Frenzy
Cripple
Now 85 mana
Reduces movement speed by 75%, reduces attack speed by 10%, and reduces attack damage by 35%
Unholy Frenzy
Renamed to Incite Unholy Frenzy
Sacrifices a target friendly Undead unit
All nearby non-mechanical units gain Unholy Frenzy — including neutral and enemy units
Raised to 175 mana
Added a 5 second cooldown
Ability area of effect is 250
Attack speed bonus reduced from 75% to 50%
Skeletal Mastery
Now requires Necromancer Adept Training to unlock
Ghoul Frenzy
Increase attack speed bonus from 25% to 35%
(New Item) Ritual Dagger
Shop Details
Bought from Tomb of Relics
Available at Tier 1
125 Gold, 2 Charges
Stock 1
90 second restock time
Item Details
Sacrifices a friendly Undead unit to heal 100 hit points to all friendly non-mechanical units
Damage interrupts regeneration
5 second cooldown between charges
400 cast range
300 effect radius
NEUTRAL UNITS
Alchemist
Healing Spray
Cooldown increased from 0 to 6 seconds
Acid Bomb
Level 1: Primary damage reduced from 6 to 5, and secondary damage reduced from 4 to 3
Level 2: Primary damage reduced from 11 to 10, and secondary damage reduced from 7 to 6
Transmute
Bonus gold granted reduced from 125% to 100%
Firelord
Soul Burn
Mana cost reduced from 85 to 65
Level 1: Damage reduced from 125 to 80
Level 2: Damage reduced from 270 to 200
Level 3: Damage reduced from 450 to 340
Pandaren Brewmaster
Breath of Fire
Level 1: Increased damage from 5 to 7
Level 2: Increased damage from 10 to 14
Level 3: Increased damage from 15 to 21
ITEMS
Boots of Speed
Removed from the default creep camp drop table
Starts with 2 stock on Goblin Merchants after initial cooldown
Cloak of Shadows
Heroes carrying this item can now Shadowmeld during the day as well as at night
Using this Hide ability also works with units that have Shadowmeld
Crystal Ball
Item level decreased from 5 to 3
Gold price reduced from 500 to 300
Lion Horn of Stormwind
Devotion Aura effect increased from 1 bonus armor to 2
Periapt of Vitality
Gold price reduced from 350 to 325
Rings of Protection
All levels: Gold price adjusted to be the same as other permanent items of the same level
Level 2: Damage reduction increased from +2 to +3
Level 3: Damage reduction increased from +3 to +4
Level 6: Damage reduction increased from +4 to +5
Level 7: Removed from creep drop tables
Scourge Bone Chimes
Vampiric Aura effect increased from 15% to 20%
Sentry Wards
Duration decreased from 5 minutes to 3 minutes
Tome of Experience
No longer a random drop from creep camps
Warsong Battle Drums
Now provides the same ‘War Drums’ Command Aura buff as Kodo Beasts
CHANGES
Plunder Isle LV has been removed from 1v1 ladder
Tirisfal Glades LV has been removed from 1v1 ladder
Nomad Isles has been added to 1v1 ladder
Ancient Isles has been added to 1v1 ladder
Battleground has been removed from 3v3 ladder
Battleground LV has been added to 3v3 ladder
Timbermaw Hold (RoC version) has been removed from 3v3 ladder
Timbermaw Hold (TFT version) has been added to 3v3 ladder
Blasted Lands has been removed from 4v4 ladder
Nerubian Passage has been added to 4v4 ladder
Review patch from: FFAqwest (Channel)