New Hero[ | ]
New Hellbourne Strength Hero: 
Deadlift
- Deadlift is a corrupted melee hero with the power to raise the dead-even dead allied heroes!
Abilities[ | ]
- Ability 1:
Death Grip
- Target a location to begin channelling, dealing 75/150/225/300 Magic Damage in a line and Immobilizing the first enemy hero hit for up to 2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds depending on channel duration
- Activate again while channelling to turn the wave toward your cursor
- Ability 2:
Onslaught
- Target an enemy unit or structure to force all nearby non-hero units to attack the target for 5 seconds
- The target receives up to an 80% tapering movement speed slow over 1.5 seconds depending on how many units were in the target area
- Grants attackers 50/75/100/125% Attack Speed and max Movespeed for the duration
- Ability 3:
The Dead Shall Rise
- Target location to summon 2 undead units and deal 90/110/130/150 Magic Damage to enemy heroes, consuming 8% of your maximum health
- Passively makes nearby units that die rise and fight for you for 20/30/40/50 seconds with a limit of 3/4/5/6 undead. They deal 50/75/100/125% of their Attack Damage and take 200% damage
- Ability 4: Resurrection
- Target a Gravestone that was left by a dying ally to revive them at 50/75/100% health and mana after a full 4/3/2 second channel.
- New Debut Edition Deadlift Alt Avatar: The Great Druid Deadlift
- The Great Druid is the master of the forests of Newerth and a friend to all of nature, from the World Tree to the Sefir Tree.
- New Deadlift Alt Avatar: Medevac Deadlift
- Medic! This avatar can be a lifesaver on the battlefield-literally.
- For complete lore on Deadlift and his avatars, please visit lore.heroesofnewerth.com/deadlift
General[ | ]
- HonTV button has been removed
- Removed Bring them Back feature
- New Lobby music: "A death does not become an end"
- New In-game music: "Death is the Answer"
Bots[ | ]
- New Bot: Succubus
- Authored by Anakonda
- Includes rune bottling, puzzlebox usage, and teamfight aggression
- Anakonda recieves 6800 gold coins, an alt avatar of his choice, and another Robot Courier forum award!
- Earn gold rewards for contributing on the bot subforums!
- Create your own bot, or review submission code! All of these bots were vetted by community contributors and the Community Bot Team. Join us on the bot forums or on IRC and earn gold!
- See the Bots forum for the current Bounty List!
New Content[ | ]
- New Deadlift Ward
- Get a better look at all the enemies who will soon need fresh graves with the Deadlift ward!
- New Ultimate Valkyrie URSA Corps Avatar: Brunhild Valkyrie, Commander of the URSA Corps
- Ultimate Valkyrie leads her URSA warriors in the fight against all enemies of justice, both Legion and Hellbourne
- For complete lore on Brunhild, Ultimate Valkyrie, please visit lore.heroesofnewerth.com/brunhild
- Ultimate Valkyrie Details
- Level 1-3
- Standard Armor
- Level 4-7
- Winged Valkyrie Boots
- Level 8-11
- Upgraded Lower Body Armor
- Level 12-15
- Upgraded Upper Body Armor
- Level 16+
- URSA Valkyrie Helmet
- Altered Voice
- Level 1-3
- Ultimate Valkyrie Items
- Nullfire
- Black wings with midnight blue sheen and flame effects.
- Wingbow
- Golden wings with green sheen and mystic effects.
- Frostburn/ Dawnbringer
- Orange and blue wings with ice and flame effects.
- Energizer
- Green wings with yellow sparks and lightning.
- Geometer's Bane
- Purple wings with purple sparkles.
- Shieldbreaker
- Golden wings with red dripping blood.
- Charged Hammer
- Blue/purple wings with white lightning.
- New Monkey King Avatar: Lu Bu
- Lu Bu descends from the clouds of the Monastery of the Way with the elusive skills of an elite Guardian, yet he is burning to stand before the advancing enemy and send them back to the craters and crypts from which they crawled.
- Cao Cao is a shrewd, crafty leader who designed the flawless, impenetrable security of the Monastery of the Way who now carries those strategies to the enemies of Newerth. He prefers to remain calm and collected during battle, but if his fellow Guardians are threatened, the wrath of the Sang-La Mountain spirits may possess him...
- New A.R.M.S. Kane Avatar: Invader Kane
- As soon as Kane heard about the Invader Suits he elbowed his way to the front of the line for the first fittings. Anything that offers more opportunities to close with the enemy and bash him into submission is welcome in Kane's arsenal, though he laments the fact that the helmet messes up his hair and his victims cannot see his smirking face as they die. Their loss.
- New Ward Bundle: Classic Jungle Heroes
- Display your elemental superiority with the Tempest ward!
- Observe nature in all its glory with the Keeper of the Forest ward!
- Infest the map with Parasite wards to see who needs a facehug!
- Spread your judgement, touch, and wrath across the map with the Ophelia ward!
- Grab this ward and extend your shining rays into the darkest corners of Newerth!
- Show your Hellhounds where the cowards are hiding with the War Beast ward!
- You can't trample 'em or hook 'em if you can't see 'em. Make sure you can with the Cthulhuphant ward!
- New War Effort Reward Taunt: Treasure Chest Taunt
- Complete the second cycle of The War Effort to claim this booty-filled taunt!
- New POGs Avatar: Voodoo Jester
- These high definition skins will be released one-per-patch and will be available via the store, Plinko, or both, depending upon the region.
Bug Fixes and Optimizations[ | ]
- Certain abilities such as War Beast's Battle Cry now properly give assist gold
- Illusions will no longer leave visual model parts behind when killed
- Dying to neutral creeps no longer ends your kill streak
- When the opposing team kills you after you die to neutral creeps, kill streak bonuses will be properly awarded to the enemy team
- Skills with different max level values (4 for regular skills, 3 for ultimate skills) should now auto-level properly in Hero Guides
- Example: Flux's Polarity Swap (E), Tarot's Luck of the Draw (R)
- Example:
- Skill selection should no longer transfer to different units
- When using the select avatar icon on the hero pick screen it will no longer select the regular avatar if you select an Alt Avatar
- Ward slot now displays properly if the minimap is swapped to the right side of the UI
- Silver coins are now displayed properly in Midwars and other matchmaking maps
- The ladder and quest button while viewing the ladder have been spaced properly
- Autoattacks that damage self will no longer deal extra autoattack damage to self (e.g. Maliken's Sword of the Damned's Enchanted Flames)
- Updated textures and sounds for Clown Devourer
- Mangler Engineer's Steam Turret spawn projectile now matches the turret model
- Penitent Lodestone properly retains its 3D portrait after using Shatterstorm
- Heap Lodestone properly displays the body in the 3D portrait after using Shatterstorm
- No longer has white textures on his shoulder pieces or his drill weapon while on Low graphics settings
- Sword of the Damned stances now propagate to illusions correctly on all alt avatars
- Bonus damage on Enchanted Flames still does not function on illusions since it provides direct +damage
- Bonus damage on
- Master of Bows' illusion attack sounds now match Master of Bows' attack sounds
- Capricorn Ophelia's Nature's Wrath no longer causes white textures to appear on the target on the Mac client with medium graphics settings
- Infest No longer mistakenly heals Parasite if the Infested Creep is insta-killed by another source
- The Consume subability on the Infested Creep still heals Parasite properly
- The
- Arbinger Silhouette's Relentless Salvo attack projectile now has the correct model
- Golden Valkyrie textures and effects have been updated
- No longer applies the magic armor debuff when the attack misses
- No longer applies its debuff on all of Moon Queen's Multi-Strike bounces
- The following items now indicate their current upgrade level via charges
