Balanced Hero Survival alter v21.1g

--- alter v21.1g patch notes ---
New item was a bit too ambitious. My bad, my bad.

Aspect of the Phoenix renamed to Phoenix Soul and reworked:
Health: +250
Mana: +150
Unique Effect: While not on active cooldown, your attacks deal an extra 20% as spell damage to a small area and 20% of ALL damage you take will be healed by the next Phoenix you summon over its lifespan.
On Use: Summon a 100ATK Phoenix for 6 seconds that attacks with a spell damage AoE. This effect is forcibly activated if you are attacked by a hero 3 times.
Cooldown: 25 seconds

--- alter v21.1f patch notes ---

HOTFIX: Fixed Aspect of the Phoenix. No longer breaks the game, yay!
Aspect of the Phoenix effect now takes 3 hits to activate.
Corrected some wrong descriptions.
Power Staff active cooldown 19 -> 16 seconds.

--- alter v21.1e patch notes ---

New Item: Aspect of the Phoenix.
Strider's initial stats and stat gain per level slightly nerfed.
Heart of Aszune now also gives +3 armor.
Frost Cloak active cooldown 18 -> 15 seconds.
Firehand Gauntlet effect impact damage restored back to 200 from 160.
Power Staff intelligence bonus 14 -> 18.
Staff of Lightning active cooldown 12 -> 10 seconds, intelligence bonus 4 -> 14.
Chain Lightning mana cost 120-210 -> 85-130.
Death and Decay level 1 mana cost set to 250.
Purge summon damage 500-2300 -> 500-1400, mana cost 65-290 -> 65-110.
Cripple no longer slows attack speed.

--- alter v21.1d patch notes ---

Finally fixed the Immolation swap bug! Swap fearlessly, from now on and forever!
Ironed out some more Animate Dead weirdness.

--- alter v21.1c patch notes ---

Kill command now requires confirmation from a second player if used on another player's unit.
Traits with cooldowns now refresh on wave and duel start.
Fixed Endurance Aura not being able to be swapped into slot 6.
Fixed Mask of Death getting insta-activated by owner-hero having perma immolation.
Ather Orb no longer procs on corpses spawned from Skeletal Rod.
Fixed Summon Water Elemental description stating wrong cooldown.
Auras now affect wards.
Horn of Doom effect reverted: +10 damage per (35->30) base attack damage over 150.
Spellbook price back from 3000 to 2500.
Siphon Mana reworked.
Forked Lightning damage 100-775 -> 190-775, targets 3->3/4/4/5/5/6/6/7/7/8, mana cost 100-495 -> 100-450.
Chain Lightning range increased from 700 to 1000.
Faerie Fire armor reduction buffed on levels 8-10: -11/12/14 -> -12/14/16.
Frost Armor buffed armor effect 4-8.5 -> 4-13.
Force Push and Telekinesis force effect now scales with ability level.
Flamestrike cast time made consistent and slightly reduced at all levels.
Dark Ritual mana cost 75 -> 25, cooldown 15s -> 2s.

--- alter v21.1b patch notes ---

Fixed Animate Dead weirdness (for real this time)
Experience Bonus trait +40% -> +33% experience gained
Tome Power trait +2 -> +1.5 primary attribute per level

--- alter v21.1a patch notes ---

4 new heroes!
Sacrificial Skull now deals spell damage and has a new effect: Gain +1 to all stats for every 3% of your total HP missing, up to a maximum of +30.
Stat adjustments to Flame Knight, Demon Hunter, Warden, Luckiest Player, Blademaster, Avatar of Vengeance, Tauren Druid, Priestess of the Moon.
Dragonspawn Mage and Overlord now include range bonus in description.
Wind Walk movement speed bonus 10-100% -> 8-80%.
Spell Book price 2500 -> 3000g.
Spell Book Stasis Trap activation time 3s -> 2s.
Spell Book new spell: Invisibility.
Spell Book new spell: Mirror Image.
Spell Book Breath of Frost now activates Cloak of Frost.
Summon Water Elemental CD 24 -> 21s, armor changed to Heavy on all levels, attack cooldown 1.5 -> 1.25s, HP increased on levels 8-10.
Summon Quillbeast mana cost 75-120 -> 75-210, level 3 quillbeast HP 950 -> 700.
Summon Bear mana cost reduced by 50 at all levels.
Force of Nature mana cost 100-145 -> 100-190.
Fixed Animate Dead not getting the HP up from Heart of Searinox. CD 30 -> 40s.
Fixed other Animate Dead and Skeletal Rod weirdness.
Skeletal Rod now spawns corpses ranging from levels 4 to 10 (was all over the place, mostly buffed).
Aether Orb cooldown 15 -> 10s.
Fixed Mirror Images activating Royal Guard Helmet.
Horn of Doom effect +10 damage per (30->35) base attack damage over 150.
Thorns Aura 8-20% -> 1.5-15%.
Book of Heresy HP 400 -> 250, Active HP 300 -> 500, active now has a mana cost of 75.
Royal Guard Helm now has a mana cost of 50.
Pendant of Mana MP 600 -> 700.
Fixed wrong impact damage number in Firehard Gauntlet description.
Spiked Shield moved lower in the damage order.
Mask of Death no longer procs on spike shield damage.
Lightning Javelin no longer ignores item spell resistance.
Changed Amulet of Spell shield special effect to Resurrection.

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Big thanks to OverClocked!!

This is a patch on OverClock's Balanced Hero Survival. It comes with bugfixes, some rebalancing and quality of life changes.

Credits to:

• Villagerino for the Rhapsody skin! (Trobairitz)
• Jab1z for the Mars skin!
• HerrDave Strider skin!
• Explobomb and Lefroit for the Dragonspawn skins!
• icantfindthem for the Skeleton Horseman skin!
• icantfindthem for the Lizard Archer skin!
• icantfindthem for the Orc Archer skin!
• icantfindthem for the Twinblade Rogue skin!
• Hotel for the Chorister of the Heretic Legion skin!
• Maximal for the Dark Troll Monk skin!
• Gluma for the Witch Elf skin!
• Myself for the red monsoon icon!

My hope here is that these changes will encourage a greater number of viable builds. It's all been done with balance in mind, without taking away the fun.

The Ax versions were a beta test for the alter versions, so if you're playing that, play this instead!

--- patch by Garathor -----------------------------

Hope you enjoy! ^_^

Changes between OverClock's and alter include:
1. 21 new heroes.
2. Ralancing for abilities, items, hero stats and traits.
3. Replacing Blue Flag with Aether Orb, replacing Healing Wards with Lucky Doll and an Obsidian Ring rework.
4. New effects for items, enabling more viable builds.
4. An extensive variety of bugfixes!
5. Mostly, my own take of what is fun.

"im ok with edits to the map" -OverClocked