- Removed Septic Shock innate ability
Poison Sting
- Now an innate ability
- Imbues Venomancer's attack with poison, which deals damage per second equal to 9 + 1 per level and slows movement by 10%. Duration: 4.5s + 0.5s per level
Venomous Gale
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade reworked Aghanim's Shard
- Increases cast range and projectile speed by 25%. Creates 2 Plague Wards around every enemy hero hit
Snakebite
- New Basic Ability
- Venomancer summons a Spawn of Aktok to sink its fangs into an enemy, dealing 40/60/80/100 magic damage and applying a deadly toxin which does 20/25/30/35 magical damage per second for 6 seconds. When the target attacks, they take the initial magic damage again. Cast Range: 600. Mana Cost: 70/80/90/100. Cooldown: 20/18/16/14s
Noxious Plague
- Ability reworked
- No longer has AoE effect, now affects only the host
- Now when the plague spreads, it also carries all debuffs placed by Venomancer
- Doesn't stack. Applying plague to an already plague-infected unit will deal projectile damage again, but won't affect the remaining debuff duration. Duration of carried debuffs is fixed and cannot be altered with Status Resistance or Debuff Amplification
- Mana Cost decreased from 200/300/400 to 200/250/300
- Duration decreased from 5s to 4s
- Initial Damage decreased from 200/300/400 to 150/200/250
- Initial Damage is now non-lethal
- Now spreads a second time, but all spreads after the first one deal no initial damage
- Spread Radius decreased from 800 to 700
- Max HP as damage decreased from 3/4/5% to 2/3/4%
- Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter Aghanim's Scepter
- Decreases cooldown by 35s. Reduces Magic Resistance of affected units by 20% and allows additional spreads to deal initial damage
Talents
- Level 15 Talent Poison Sting Slow increased from +5% to +7%
- Level 15 Talent -1s Plague Ward Cooldown replaced with +75 Noxious Plague Spread Radius
- Level 20 Talent +50 Base Damage replaced with -2s Plague Ward Cooldown
- Level 20 Talent +1% Noxious Plague Max HP Damage replaced with +40% Snakebite Damage (applies to both initial damage and damage per second)
- Level 25 Talent Noxious Plague Aura reduces 200 Attack Speed replaced with Snakebite Undispellable