Acolyte of the Lost Arts
● Aeons before he was recognized as the most dangerous magician aliv, in days even he no longer remembers, the Invoker was the adolescent star pupil at an ancient wizard’s academy. Now, harnessing dangerous magics purloined from his headmaster’s secret archives, young Carl has discovered the means to journey forward and join the battle of the Ancients well before his time.
● New Chess Piece added: Invoker ($5 Elf Mage)
● Added seasonal decorations to chessboards, and few items in Candy Store: Drake of the Lost Arts (Pet), Greevil Dancer (Pet), Firesnap Cookie (Projectile effect).
● Due to limitations of DOTA2 native chat interface, we have reworked a brand new chat interface and battle announcer UI.
● Optimized recuitment to minimize the situation that a particular piece never showed up in a game.
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『Balancing Updates』
● Added Backstab Leap for Assassins: The first movement of Assassin pieces in each round causes Assassins to leap over to the back of enemy lineup. The first blow after the leap guarantees a critical strike which the damage is a random number from all possible strikes: 300% for (3) Assassins, 300%/500% for (6) Assassins and 300%/500%/700% for (9) Assassins.
● Increased (4) Orcs' Battle Hardened ally bonus health from 200 to 250.
● Increased Abaddon's base health from 800 to 850.
● Decreased Venomancer's Plague Ward damage from 75/125/175 to 60/90/120.
● Decreased Sven's maximum cleave range from 625 to 500. (now deals cleave damage to a sector area of 2 cells behind the target)
● Decreased Enigma's Midnight Pulse duration from 8 to 7 sec.

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[Bug Fix]
● Fixed a bug that some abilities such as Heat Seeking Missle and Sacred Arrow can deal damage to a magic immune chess piece.
● Fixed a bug which allows Lv.10 Courier to comtinue purchasing XP.
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● Congratulations to Broodmother for winning this week's least wins prize!
● Increased Broodmother's base attack damage from 80 to 95.
● Fixed a bug which spiderlings attack slower than it shows on the stat panel. Spiderlings now have a common base attack cooldown of 1.2 for all ranks.

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● The Chessroom has been cleared! Log in to the game and Claim your end-of-season rewards in Event panel!
● The new season, S5 Lantern has kicked off from 01/01 to 28/02. As usual, all players start from Unranked and the new rank is determined after approximately 5 games. The end-of-season rewards for S5 is determined by the highest rank achieved in the season.
● Fix Heart of Machine bug

● As usual, the last day of the season (31/12) will be the off-season day to award the excellent players. Games played on the day do not affect your rankings. New season (S5 Lantern) kicks off on 01/01/2020!
● Fix Doom bug

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● fix bug

● fix bug

Welcome to New Tinkertown!

● Replaced Mechs' Self Repair with Heart of the Machine:
(3) Mechs: If at least 1 friendly Mech survived the home battle, summon an AWESOME Invention.
(6) Mechs: Heart of the Machine now summons a Golden AWESOME Invention.
● Heart of the Mech: This is a consumable item for your Courier. Click to use: Do a free recruitment.
● Golden Heart of the Mech: This is a consumable item for your Courier. Click to use: Do a special free recuitment. This recruitment is not bounded to the current chess piece pool, and will offer you 5 random $5 pieces to choose from!
● Now Rank ★/★★/★★★ Mech pieces (Clockwerk, Tinker, Timbersaw, Gyrocopter and Techies) have a 5/10/20 base health regeneration.
● Balanced Goblins' Nanobots:
(3) Goblins: Grants a random ally +15 armor and +20 health regeneration. (up from +10 health regen)
(6) Goblins: Grant all allies +15 armor and +20 health regeneration. (up from +10 health regeneration and affecting allied Goblins only)
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● New Chess Piece: Broodmother ($4 Aqir Hunter)
● Chess Piece Returned: Mirana ($2 Elf Hunter)
● Balanced Hunters' Aimed Shot:
(3) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +25 base attack damage and +40% chance to pierce through evasion. (from +25/+45%)
(6) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +35 base attack damage and +60% chance to pierce through evasion. (from +40/+60%)
(9) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +55 base attack damage and +100% chance to pierce through evasion. (New)
● Added (6) Beasts' Power of the Wild:
(2) Beasts: All allies have +15% attack damage, including summoned units.
(4) Beasts: All allies have +25% attack damage, including summoned units.
(6) Beasts: All allies have +40% attack damage, including summoned units.

● Improved Terrorblade's base attack cooldown from 1.4 to 1.2.
● Decreased Dragon Knight's base attack cooldown from 1.2 to 1.4.
● The following pieces now have a seansonal winter decoration: Death Prophet, Sven, Tiny, Treant Protector, Mirana.
● Ogre Magi★★★ now has an exclusive Arcana mount!
● Fixed a bug that guarantees an item drop at Round 10.
● Fixed a bug with worng battle results when -wtf is typed.
● Fixed some bugs that may cause lags and glitches.
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● Congratulations to Lich for winning this week's least wins prize!
● Temporarily removed Lich from the chess piece list for rework.
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[End-of-Season Rewards]
● The EoS rewards for S4 Pumkin (01/11 to 31/12) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S4 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + S4 Crown (valid for S5) + Golden Greevil (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + White Greevil (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Black Greevil (Epic Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + Greevil of random color (Rare Courier).
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
● As usual, the last of the season (31/12) will be the off season break to award the execellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S5 Lantern starts from 01/01!