Chess Piece Updates
● New Chess Piece Added: Spirit Breaker ($1 Tauren Assassin)
Greater Bash: Attacks have a chance to stun and knockback the enemy and deal bonus damage.
● New Chess Piece Added: Earthshaker ($4 Tauren Shaman)
Fissure: Slams the ground with a mighty totem, creating an impassable ridge of stone. Enemy chess pieces along the line are stunned and knocked to nearest vacant squares, and suffer physical damage.
● Templar Assassin has been promoted from $4 to $5! Refraction now has passive Psi Blades.
Psi Blades: Templar Assassin's psi blades slice through the attacked chess piece, damaging enemies directly behind it.
● Death Prophet has been temporarily removed from the game. She will be back after rework or rebalancing.
● Increased Lion's base armor from 0 to 2.
● Redecorated Chaos Knight, Doom, Tidehunter, Enigma, Legion Commander, Pudge and Templar Assassin with items from Immortal Treasure II.
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Synergy Updates
● New Species Trait: Tauren - Totem of the Clan
(2) Taurens: Summons a Taunt Totem at the start of the battle.
Totems: A stationary guardian that does cannot attack, cast or restore health. The Totem has health equal to 3x current number of enemy chess pieces on board and takes 1 damage at a time.
Taunt: Enemies must attack this chess piece first whenever they can.

● (4) Shamans: Friendly chess pieces transformed by Hex will not have items equipped any more.
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Bug Fixes
● Attempted to fixed the bug which causes items to lost if given to Hexed chess pieces. Reworked Hex algorithms to allow items be given to cheering chess pieces after a win.
● Fixed Chaos Knight's Chaos Bolt not stuning the target for correct duration.
● Fixed knockback abilities affecting chess piece on the bench.
● Fixed Mars has a chance to immediate cast Shield Bash and the start of the battle.
● Fixed Hexed Drow Ranger still retain her Precision Aura effect.
● Fixed Sven's God's Strength incorrrect stacking issue.
● Fixed Vesture of the Tyrant unable to obtain (4) Shaman's Hex effect.
● Fixed Lv.16 Courier can only recruit $1 chess pieces.
● Now Linken's Sphere can correctly block Force Staff.
● Fixed Lion being unable to be dismissed with Demons.
● Fixed sound effects issues with some neutrals and summoned units.
● Fixed incorrect portrait postion of Ember Spirit and Storm Spirit in tooltips for Assassin and Mage.
● Fixed Earth Spirit shown in purple colour in post game panels.
● Moved positions of some unreacheable trees on the chessboard.

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End-of-Season Rewards
● The EoS rewards for S8 Spirit Beast (01/07 to 31/08) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S8 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + S8 Crown (valid for S9) + Black Brightskye | Refresher Orb (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + Black Brightskye | Soulstone (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Black Brightskye | Gem (Rare Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + Black Brightskye | Yarn (Common Courier).
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
● Top 20 Queens are rewarded based on their final places and the other ranks are rewarded for the highest rank achieved in the season.
● As usual, the last of the season (31/08) will be the off season break to award the execellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S9 Strange Egg starts from 01/09!

● fix bug

-fix bug

Return of the Demon Witch Update
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Chess Piece Updates
● Lion ($2 Demon Wizard) has now rejoined the game after a short break.
● Viper's Viper Strike now has a priority to target the highest-leveled enemy chess piece.
● Balanced Visage's Familiars Grave Chill attack speed steal from 20/40/80 to 30/40/60.
● Redecorated Rank 3 Sven, Jakiro, Slardar and Witch Doctor with the latest items from Immoratal Treasure II.
● [Least Wins Prize] Increased Shadow Fiend's Requiem of Souls damage from 100/150/200 to 100/175/250 per line.
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Synergy Updates
● Balanced Shaman's Hex:
(2) Shamans: Transforms a random enemy chess piece to a random piece of the same level when battle starts. (From transforming an enemy into harmless animal for 6 seconds.)
(4) Shamans: Transforms all friendly Shaman pieces to random chess pieces that are 2 levels higher when battle starts. (From randomly transforming enemies that kill the Shaman pieces.)
● Balanced Humans' Spark of Mind:
(3) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge when battle starts.
(6) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge when battle starts. An extra Tome of Knowledge is rewarded for winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human survived.
Tome of Knowledge: Activate to add 1/16 of Courier XP for the current Courier level (Rounds up to nearest integer). Bonus Courier XP granted via Tome of Knowledge is unlimited to the maximum Courier Level. (From adds 2 Courier XP.)

● Balanced Assassins' Coup de Grace:
(3) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 300% damage.
(6) Assassins: All allies have 15% chance to critical hit for 400% damage.
(9) Assassins: All allies have 5% chance to critical hit for 500% damage, and gains a Backstab Leap move after killing an enemy. (From gaining Backstab Leap only)
● Balanced Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy:
(2) Trolls: All friendly trolls have +35 attack speed.
(4) Trolls: All allies have +30 attack speed.
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +15 attack speed for each succcessful attack. Maximum 15 stacks. (From 10 bonus attack speed per stack and maximum 20 stacks.)
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Bug Fixes
● Fixed the bug causing Linken's Sphere fail to block the following spells:
Mirana's Sacred Arrow, Treant Protector's Leech Seed, Scythe of Vise, Dagon, Shamans' Hex, Oracle's Fate's Edict.
● Player Info Panel now correctly instnatly updatesif a player levels up the Courier by using the Tome of Knowledge.
● Fixed a bug that Storm Spirit's Ball Lightning and Earth Spirit's Rolling Boulder pierce through spell immunity.
● Fixed chess piece model preloading bugs with Pandaren pieces and IO.
● Fixed Rank 3 Shallow Grave duration bug. Now correctly lasts 5 sec on each targetted ally, in stead of 4/4/5 sec.
● Fixed a bug that causing Mars immediately casts Shield Bash when battle starts.
● Fixed Monkey King's Jinggu Mastery missing tooltip.
● Fixed that bug cauing (6) Undeads' Horror Wraith pieces attacking your own Courier.
● Fixed various chessboard decoration bugs.
● Fixed a bug with dismissing that causes double gold spent.

『小型平衡補丁』
● 寒冬飛龍-極寒之擁的冷卻時間由12/9/3秒平衡為10/8/4秒
● 樹精衛士-寄生種子的影響範圍由500降低為400，傷害/治療效果由50/100/150平衡為60/90/120，持續時間由5/6/7秒平衡為5秒
● 靈魂守衛-魔化變身後的攻擊力加成由80/100/140降低為70/90/120
● 影魔-魂之挽歌的魔能波的初始/最終撞擊寬度由125/425平衡為200/400
● 死靈法師-死亡脈沖影響範圍由475提高為500/550/600，冷卻時間由7/6/5秒降低為6/5/4秒
● 雙頭龍-烈焰焚身的燃燒持續時間由3秒提高為4秒
● 【本周弟弟棋子】上帝之手的基礎生命值由800提高為900，並移除了神聖勸化0.3秒的施法前搖（1秒的持續施法時間不變）
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● 修復了（6）獸人在棋子BUFF欄只顯示兩個強壯身軀圖標的bug
● 修復了部分貪魔信使模型有時會顯示ERROR的bug

『LOADING優化和BUG修復』
● 嘗試優化loading的棋子模型加載，目的是減少低配置環境的loading加載失敗的現象
● 修復了小小原地投擲棋子導致格子被錯誤占用、兩個棋子卡在同壹個格子上的bug
● 修復了邪惡鐮刀、原力法杖可以作用於魔法免疫棋子的bug
● 修復了鯊魚棋棋信使模型無法選中的bug
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『DOTA7.27和7.27b版本更新的影響』
● 由於底層護甲機制的改動和英雄技能的大規模調整，對自走棋也造成了壹些影響，比如部分原版技能失效，護甲收益變大，物理攻擊傷害偏高等。我們會在後續更新更多的平衡補丁來解決發現的各種問題~
● 電炎絕手-霹靂鐵手的被突突突的敵方棋子現在會受到可疊加的護甲降低效果（原為攻速降低）
● 修復了祈求者-混沌隕石、邪影芳靈-詛咒王冠、幹擾者-靜態風暴等技能失效的bug
● （2）（4）（6）亡靈-恐懼的護甲降低效果由4/4/4降低為2/4/4
● 獸王-鬥熊的基礎護甲由15降低為12
● 巨魔戰將因為被舉報涉嫌辱罵隊友（？？？），暫時從棋庫中移除，等待修改調整或者重做後再回來~
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● 【本周弟弟棋子】樹精衛士，重做了寄生種子的效果
樹精衛士在敵方棋子體內種下吸血的種子，降低它的攻擊/移動速度，每秒造成魔法傷害，並對附近每壹個友方棋子進行等量的治療。
寄生種子的施法AI類似末日守衛-末日，會較傾向於對敵方較高等級的棋子釋放。

fix 7.27b