Aghanim's Labyrinth: The Continuum Conundrum - Gameplay Update 19.01.22

General

A new set of legacy combat encounters have been added for Act 1 at Magician and higher difficulties
Surge ascension modifier move speed increase reduced from 50% to 40%, and the enemies can now be slowed
Reduced base armor on many bosses and captains
Reduced health and damage sensitivity of Toothy Toothums
Reduced health regeneration of enemy Alchemist Chemical Rage
Reduced damage of Brain Sap and Fiend's Grip in Demonic Woods
Glarf's Bloodlust option has been improved from 2 encounters, 50 bonus attack speed, 12% bonus movement speed to 3 encounters, 60 bonus attack speed, and 15% bonus movement speed
Fixed Carrie not leveling up with Ascension in Bug Bait
Fixed Bogdugg's Cudgel and Femur not working
Fixed cases of patrolling units being exploitable via attacks outside their aggro radius
Bosses will now only begin their fights once they've seen the player
Fixed being able to drop movement speed items to circumvent movement speed cap for trap rooms
Trap Room base movement speed increased from 350 to 360
The following items are no longer purchasable from the main shop: Creature Blade Mail Outworld Meteorologist Meteor Hammer Continuum Key
Fixed Pudge Encounter map on west side having too a narrow channel for Pudge to get through

Heroes Bane

Enfeeble: Cast reduction minor shard increased from 3 to 4%
Fiend's Grip: Mana drain minor shard combined with damage per second minor shard

Clinkz

Singe: Knockback distance increased from 50 to 72
Singe: Knockback duration increased from 0.1 to 0.2
Singe: Slow duration increased from 1 to 2

Dawnbreaker

Solar Guardian: Cooldown reduced from 120/110/100 to 100
Lightbringer: Mana cost reduced from 100 to 75
Lightbringer: Duration increased from 5 to 6
Lightbringer: Cooldown decreased from 60 to 45
Sun Sentinel: Duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds
Death of a Star: Fixed some cases where the cast would not start
Death of a Star: Now increases base heal by 75

Disruptor

Glimpse: Bonus damage minor shard increased from 40 to 50
Static Storm: Cooldown reduced from 90/80/70 to 60/55/50
Shocking Travel: Increased damage from intelligence from 70% to 100%
Pacific Storm: Damage reduction increased from 30 to 50%, and also slows movement speed by 50%.

Drow Ranger

Gust: Bonus blind percent minor shard increased from 5 to 7
Marksmanship: Active cooldown reduced from 70 to 60
Silent Echo: Now also grants Drow 2 agility for every enemy hit and 4 agility for every captain hit for 12s.
Fleet-Footed: Now applies a basic dispell on allies.

Gyrocopter

Missile Ride: Area of effect increased from 90 to 120
Missile Ride: Now deals 2x damage
First Strike: Fixed it having no effect if cast again while already having Flak Cannon active

Juggernaut

Blade Fury: Duration minor shard decreased from 1.0 to 0.75
Detonate Ward: Now increases Healing Ward radius by 150.
White-Hot Katana: Ignite duration increased from 5 to 10
White-Hot Katana: Ignite damage increased from 25% to 50%

Kunkka

Torrent: Damage shard increased from 50 to 75
Tidebringer: Damage increased from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80
Tidebringer: Damage shard increased from 15 to 20
Ghostship: Cooldown reduced from 80/70/60 to 60
Ghostship: Removed rum absorb minor shard
Ghostship: Added 150 damage minor shard
Tsunami: Now fires a single wave forward that deals 250% of Tidebringer's damage as magic.

Lich

Frost Shield: Damage reduction increased from 5/10/15/20 to 7/14/21/28
Chain Frost: Cooldown reduced from 100/80/60 to 60/55/50
Anti-Magic Shield: Duration is now 50% of Frost Shield's duration

Lina

Fiery Soul: Removed stack duration minor shard
Fiery Soul: Removed mana cost / cooldown minor shard
Fiery Soul: Attack and movement speed shards combined into one upgrade
Dragon Trail: Now creates a Light Strike Array for every 250 distance rather than a fixed 4 (base power unchanged)
Ignition: Now uses Laguna Blade's damage instead of Dragon Slave's

Luna

Eclipse: Cooldown reduced from 140/130/120 to 90
Lunatic Frenzy: Lifesteal increased from 20 to 25%
Lunatic Frenzy: Duration multiplier increased from 3 to 4

Magnus

Empower: Removed cooldown/mana cost shard
Reverse Polarity: Cooldown reduced from 90 to 75
Over-Empower: Now triggers a 50% strength Reverse Polarity at the target when cast instead of granting full bonuses.
Shock and Awe: Now stuns instead of slows targets. Damage reduction changed from 75% for 2.5 seconds to 50% for 2.5 + stun duration seconds.
Too Many Waves: Internal cooldown decreased from 4 to 3.

Mars

Arena of Blood: Cooldown reduced from 90 to 75
Anyway, Here's Spearwall: Now causes soldiers to attack twice as fast and knock enemies back half the amount
Stunning Rebuke: Now grants 2 charges of God's Rebuke. The stun duration is now 50% of the knockback slow duration.

Omniknight

Guardian Angel: Cooldown reduced from 160/140/120 to 120
Guardian Angel: HP Regen minor shard increased from 8 to 12
Heal Life Angel: Purification Trigger chance from 20 to 25%

Queen of Pain

Sonic Wave: Cooldown reduced from 125 to 100
Fervent Assault: Buff duration increased from 4 to 10. Effect can now stack multiple times.
Hall of Pain: Area of effect increased from 80 to 125
Discordant Force: Attack damage increased from 10 to 15, and now gives 1% spell amplification per hit instead of attack speed.
Haunting Echoes: No longer creates a scream at the start location

Sand King

Base armor increased by 1
Burrowstrike: Damage upgrade from 60 -> 75
Burrowstrike: 0.75 stun duration minor shard has been added
Sandstorm: Blind and Slow have been combined into one upgrade
Caustic Finale: Explode damage minor shard from 40 to 50
Caustic Finale: Damage over time minor shard from 7 to 8
Caustic Finale: Slow minor shard has been removed
Epicenter: Attack Speed slow minor shard has been removed
Epicenter: Cooldown reduced from 120/110/100 to 100
Transport Burrow: Now creates an Epicenter at the arrival destination that pulses once for each second of Burrowstrike Stun duration.
Independent Sandstorm: Now also gives Sand King bonus movement speed equal to the slow

Slark

Pounce: Damage shard increased from 50 to 75
Pounce: Distance shard now also increases speed
Brackish Bath: Now always also affects Slark when another unit is targeted
Gone Fishing: Now also grants 2 charges of Pounce.
Lucky Catch: Proc chance increased from 15% to 20%.

Snapfire

Mortimer Kisses: Cooldown reduced from 120/110/100 to 90
Lil Friendly Shredder: Now also grants 3 additional attacks

Tusk

Ice Shards: Base duration from 3.0 to 3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5
Ice Shards: Duration minor shard from 0.5 to 0.75
Ice Shard Extension: Now also grants 2 charges of Ice Shards
Snow Fort: Now also grants Snowball 20% spell lifesteal that is shared with teammates in the snowball
Cool Party: Lifesteal increased from 8% to 12%
And Another Punch!: Now also refunds 50% of the Walrus Punch mana cost, and can occur if the death occurs during the slow debuff rather than only on a direct kill.

Ursa

Earthshock: Removed Earthshock slow minor shard
Ferocity: Now grants allies the current level of Overpower instead of bonus attack speed.
Cannonball: Now also increases Earthshock damage by 25%.
Ursa Minor: Swipes modifier increased from 25% to 35%

Viper

Shedding Skin: Aura radius increased from 900 to 1600
Shedding Skin: Damage increased by 50%

Void Spirit

Resonant Pulse: Absorb Per Unit minor shard increased from 15 to 20
Phantom Attack: Critical strike damage increased from 200% to 300%

Weaver

Time Lapse: Cooldown reduced from 70/55/40 to 60/50/40
Back To Basics: Now also casts Shukuchi on the ally afterwards.
Explosive Reality: Now triggers explosions all along the path rather than only the start and end positions.

Winter Wyvern