Hero Push 4.3

Heroes: - BM of the Blackrock Clan: ulti -> Phoenix Slice (AoE line) - Betrayer: Dark Energie -> Blade Dance (mobility + AoE dmg) - Burning Archer: ulti -> Arrow Forge (AoE line) - Dragonspawn Overseer: ulti -> Azure Strike (AoE 3 cones) - Fire Lord: ulti -> AoE Soulburn - Flesh Golem: ulti -> Reconstruction (AoE debuff + mobility) - Frost Mage: Q Shatter (nuke or AoE combo with Ice Prison) - Grand Marshal: ulti -> Summon Nozdormu - High Priest Inner Fire -> Gift of the Naaru (AoE heal) - Hydralisk ulti -> Needle Shower - Kabal Courier: main attribute changed to Intelligence - Naga Myrmidon + Tuskarr Chieftain: W -> Ensnare - Naga Summoner: ulti -> Fishy Tactics (+ int, extra summons) - Nerubian Queen: ulti -> The Web (AoE Web) - Priestess of the Moon: ulti -> Lunar Eclipse (AoE stun) - Sea Giant: ulti -> Seaquake (AoE dmg) - Space Marine: Inner Fire -> Fantaicism - Wendigo Shaman main attribute changed to Agility - Siphon Soul and Life Drain steal 10 times over 5 seconds - Most channeled ultimates cast faster (same total damage) Main units: Added tooltip for Huntress Glaive Mercenaries: Increased the AoE of Overlord's Terrifying Pressance and damage reduction to 15% Creeps: Attack speed of Sky Barges +10%, Dark Wizard cost set to 400g and reduced Silence duration on Heroes Upgrades: - Set the attack rate bonus per upgrade of Frenzy to 8% - Increased the base magic resistance of Magic Defiance by 5% Items: Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian got new effects Game Mechanics & more: Reduces magical bonus damage on ethereal units 66%->50% and various other minor balance changes

Heroes (total of 99): Strength (33 total): Crusader (former Light Prince): Blessing of Kings (AoE buff), Plague of Sins (AoE armor debuff) Divine Shield, Retribution (growable dmg AoE) Deeplord Revenant: Spawn Fountain, Wrath of the Tides, Whirlpool (AoE + slow), Seaquake (instant AoE) Agility (33 total): - Intelligence (33 total): Elemental Keeper: Summon Lava Spawn, Water Elemental, Lightning Elemental, Malygos Fel Mage: Demon Bolt (nuke), Infernal Strike (AoE, stun), Advanced Fel Magic (+int, +Q dmg), Fel Ward (Mana Flare Ward) Fire Revenant: Pyro Blast (nuke), Soul Burn, Holy Fire, Fires of Olympus (AoE heal/dmg) Shadow Troll Priest (replacing Shadow Ogre Magi): Shadow Nova, Curse of Weakness, Shadow Form (movements speed, no unit collision), Shadow Totem (AoE) Wizard: Arcane Torrent (AoE), Plasma Pulse (dot + nuke), Summon Spirit Bears, Time Warp (CD reset) Creeps: - Mercenaries&Upgrades: - Items: - 3 new secret item: Gul'dans Gloves, Khadgar's Ring of the Archmages, XXXX - Added the Black, Green and Red Dragon Roost, which contain various finished items of the Goblin Laboritory recipes Game Mechanics & more: - New Quest: Hero Builds - Split the Hidden & Secret Items Quests in 2 seperate and added more information about secret items - Known issue: Animate Dead cannot be reverted to it's original form

...Invisible Units: Ways to reveal them : Gyrocopter, Dust of Appreance, Crytsal Ball, (Arcane) Tower(s), Sentry Ward of a Tuskarr Trapper ...Summoned Units: Orb of Lightning, Wand of Negation, Troll High Priest (Dispel Magic), Voidwalker/Ancient Faerie Dragon/Skull of the Man'ari (Devour Magic) and Dark Wizard (Purge), deal huge damage to them. Note that units created by Animate Dead can be dispelled aswell. ...a base with Fire Orb/Searing Blade: The Gyro Copters Cloud can be used to significantly slow down the attackspeed of the base. With the way fire splash works, try to make few strong units instead of many small and try to split thier positioning. Sindragosa can freeze and disable buildings entirely. ...Air Units: Nether Dragons deal splash damage to air units. Tuskarr Trapper can ensnare them so they can be killed. ...a Hero with Items: Slow him down with the Voidwalker's spells and try to kill his base with a Masterscroll. Make sure that you kill his items after! ...a Frozen Spellbook user: If you destroy his Pedestal of Frost Magic, he can't use the skills until he builds a new one. Another way to stop him is the Silence skill of a Dark Wizard. Also you can protect your hero from his nuke with Runed Bracers/Mystical Diamond. Note that Armor Upgrades give your units 5% resistance to spell damage.

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From Hartog: Thanks to : Clan wTc for helping me play and test this map, and especially Compit for explaining the basics of the editor long, long time ago. Thanks to : Misha, Kwaliti, PeeKay, lelyanra Frankster at Hiveworkshop for your models or icons. Thanks to : Hylko for helping me with some of the more advanced functions in the editor. And thanks to anyone else i might have forgotten :/ From wTc[Dragon aka Spyro#2622]: I want to thank all the people that supported me keeping this game alive and developing the map. Hartog, wTc[Compit] and of corse the entire Hero Push community, you guys are awesome! Special thanks to wTc[hex] and wTc[VenDetTa] for their work as proofreaders, PuCk and Zodiac for helping me test and balance new content, WTii for making the awesome youtube videos with me about this map, to my friend Christopher for the loading screen and to childoftree aka twitch.tv/HoofStomp for the hours we spend making the new terrain!

-cam XXXX (for ex. 3000) Sets camera distance -info Shows your current mercenary spawns and the total supply of your non-controllable units -afk Gives/removes your mate total control over your units and buildings Emotes: There is a number of sound files of unit quotes that can be played with -e + XXX. When an emote is played, the function is disabled for 15s in order to prevent spam. hello / gn8 / lol / haha / happy / trouble / sorry / nana / taunt / amuse / work / plan / crew / peace / doom / games / end / last / speak / wtii

Welcome to Hero Push! Income and XP for kills are evenly shared with your ally. Sell your Boots of Speed --> upgrade to tier 1 OR Buy a worker at the Creep Camp --> build a mercenary center --> purchase the Outlaw contract. Then start upgrading damage, armor and life before tier 2. Continue by mixing upgrading units, base and getting contracts. Later you should check out the other quests and tooltips(!) to discover all the different aspects of this game!

Your Hero is your most important tool to kill units--> make gold and push the enemy base. To get the maximum value out of your Hero make sure it has synergy with your units! For example : Brilliance Aura with Naga or Bloodelf race / Death Coils with Undead or Demon race. If your hero has skills like Cleaving Attack, Critical Strike or Pulverize u may choose to win the game with items. Another way to improve the power of Strength and Agility based Heroes is discovering the secrets in the Altar of Storms, meanwhile Intelligence based heroes can use the Frozen Spellbook. For more informations look into the Hero Build and Item Quests. Hotkey system : Q W E R / (D for Attribute Bonus, special abilities and Shadowmeld)

Main Base Units 20% of your units are under your control. The Unit Cap for all controllable Units is 500 (non-controllable 500) and each unit uses 4-6 food. The top right corner shows the total supply of your controlable units and the -info command of your total non-controlables. Collect a decent sized army to push for the win. Support from Creeps and Items will increase your chance to succeed! Mercenary Units There are 28 different mercenary units of which you can add 4 to your basic unit spawn. The Stolen Contract upgrade can increase the limit by 1 (max. +2). Unless you specifically need an ability, make sure that the unit fits in your race upgrade! Creeps These can be hired at the Creep Camp which you can find next to the item shops (--> Creep Camp Quest). Summoned Units Creeps and Summoned Units can be upgraded with multiple upgrades from the Research Center. Intelligence based Heroes can use the Arcane Spellbook (--> Items Quest) to create an army of Summoned Units. Hotkey system : Q W E R Mechanical Units The Ship Factory allows you to construct powerful ships to support your forces. Note that Mechanical Units are immune to a fair amount of spells!

Here you can hire powerful units that can handle every situation. Important creeps are : Worker : This units most important quest is to build you the different centers in order to buy additional mercenary units and more upgrades! It also builds the shop with the most powerful items! Troll High Priest : Use him to dispel buffs and summoned units and also support your army with healing wards. Dark Mage : Purge can be used to deal with buffs/debuffs of your enemies like Hex and Lightning Shield. Silence might save your day when you can't stop other heroes from channeling with your own. Storm Reaver : This caster is made to support a hero that goes for items. Heal your hero with Rejuvenation while it deals damage with Lightningshield. Kodo Beats, Ice Troll Warlord and Battle Tank support your army with auras while defending or pushing.

The Summoning Stone contains powerful hero creeps to help you win the game. A worker can build this after the timer in the top right corner expired. Khan Gragtor and the Bloodelf Artifact have strong Auras to support your unit play style. All units are yet to be optimized, the goal is to make them good at supporting or countering specific strategies.

There are 8 different races, each has 5 tiers and it's own race upgrade. When your main base dies you lose the game so make sure it's well protected because basefocus is a valid strategy to win the game. In order to do so use the 2 Item slots in your base (for ex. with a Potion of Invulnerabitily) and workers with autorepair on. An Orb of Fire will cause your base to deal splash damage that will help you defend in the early/mid game. Notice that your main base gives an aura that restores the mana and life points of your hero and increases the armor of all nearby friendly units by 5. Remember towers are a great way to defend your base but they are not going to help you to push the enemy base and win! You can gain an advantage by observing the damage and armor types of your and the enemy units. In that sense sometimes it's better to stick on a tier and invest more gold into upgrades. Make a balance between tier upgrades, additional units and general upgrades. Tier one with 12 damage upgrades or tier 4 with almost no upgrades won't work well!!! More Upgrades can be found in the Research Center and War Mill.

General Informations Only one hero per team should go for items, since you still need units to push and as a meat shield. Therefore you should support your ally by buying the Orb of Persererance for him. The movement speed of the auras will also help you get hero kills (lifesteal is also very important for melee heores, if you need more, look for a Staff of Blessings). Mobility is very important, so after getting your first key item, you should consider to buy a Staff of Teleportation and upgrade your Boots of Speed to a Stalker's Amulet. Agility or strength based heroes can discover the secrets in the Altar of Storms to get stronger. Certain heroes struggle in the early and mid game. A away around this is to first upgrade units and then transition into a Hero build (this is also more resilliant to basekills). Note that the bounty for your hero will be increased for each research in the Altar of Storms, Pedestal of Frost Magic and each item you carry (5% of their total cost). A Dark Mage from the Creep Camp can be very helpful to move around the map invisble, searching for easy kills and securing them with the slow effect of Purge. The 'How to deal with...' Quest describes ways to protect your base from a snipe.

Strength As a strength hero, you want to be the tank for your ally's units, while also dealing decent damage. The best starting item is the Cloak of Flames and it's upgraded version. After Crown of Life into Crown of Vitality is a good choise. Now that you are tanky enough you might look for more damage output like a Searing Blade or The Fire Reaper. Staff of the Phoenix is also a valid option if you need more mana and it also stacks with the cloak. Pulverise stacks with Searing Blade and Cleaving Attack has good synergie with The Fire Reaper's armor reduction. Agility Most agility based heroes are designed to kill enemy heroes, in order to get a gold and level advantage to win the game. The best item to start with is Charm of the Wind and then upgrading it to Fury of the Wind. After you can decide to go for a legendary weapon or depending on the game state, a Crown of Life. Mind that certain heroes cannot use orbs without Mask of Death or the Weapon of the Dragonslayer.

Intelligence With a Crown of Lore most heroes do not run out of mana anymore and can cast all their spells off cooldown (Spellbook excluded). A pure item build could look like this: Phoenix Staff -> The Stormbringer -> another Magic Wand, if need for mana, or and item that grants more attackspeed. Summons with and without Spellbook The Research Center contains multiple upgrades that increase the power of your summons. With 2 or more such spells on your hero it is worth it at some point in the midgame to invest in these upgrades. The meta build looks to start with a Phoenix Staff or Wand of Necromancy for early game feed and mana to summon. Then you get your Spellbook, upgrade 2 summons to level 4 and then mixing it up with the summon upgrades. In the late game, after all researches are done, you can look for a Scythe of Elune in the Dragon Roost. Damage Spellbook Phoenix Staff -> Spellbook (Q W E R to level 4) -> second staff (Archus, Greatstaff of Antonidas for hero kills, Wand of Weakening for unit farm) -> Senariox Secret After you maxed out your damage spells you can either go with summons or aquire a Heart of Deathwing from the Dragon Roost. After learning these basics, feel free to experiment with you own builds, that could include some secret items (which i can't mention here for obvious reasons).

Army Support The 2 most important items to support your army are the Orb of Perserverance and the Masterscroll. The recipes for these and more powerful items can be found in the Goblin Laboratory. Later in the game the Orb can be upgraded (check the recipe). Wand of Negation grants your Hero a way to dispell debuffs and Summoned Units. List of other useful items : Healing Wards, Moon Shard, Arcane Shard, Beast/Ghost/Speed Scroll, Dust of Appearance/Crystal Ball, Amulet of Spell Shield, Runed Bracers (tooltips!). Hero Support Another way to play the game is to go for items. Strength Heroes should start with Merizid's Fiery Cloak and Agility Heroes with Charm of the Wind. A Crown of Life can increase the survivability of your Hero. After these you may want to look for one of the legendary weapons/magical wands and the powerful items of the Blue Dragon Roost. Intellience Heroes should use the Arcane Spellbook (constructed by a worker) to either go for an army of Summoned Units or multiple damage spells. A Crown of Lore will give your Hero the necessary mana. There is even some items like the Scythe of Elune that generate more summons. All summons can be upgraded in the Research Center. The tooltips of the magical wands, legendary weapons and hidden items can be found in the following quests.

Chitin Blades : Increases damage by 240, armor by 15, attack rate by 75% when carried. The poisonous attacks slow down attack rate and movement speed by 30% and deal 110 damage per second. Lasts 6 seconds. Frostguard : Increases damage by 265, attack rate by 50%, armor by 15 and has a frost attack with a chance to deal critical damage. Searing Blade : Increases damage by 270, armor by 15, attack rate by 75% and has 110 fire splash damage. Doomhammer : Increases damage by 275, armor by 8, attack rate by 50% and has a chance to purge and bash the target. The Fire Reaper : Increases damage by 300, armor by 10, attack rate by 100% and reduces armor of the target by 15. Weapon of the Dragonslayer : Increases the attack damage of the Hero by 420 , armor by 15, attack rate by 50% and gives 25% lifesteal when worn.

Staff of Blessings: Grants the hero 15 agility, 15 strength and 30 intelligence. Nearby melee units will also recieve the Aura of Blessings which grants 15% lifesteal. Atiesh, Highstaff of the Guardian: Increases intellegence by 20, mana regeneration by 175% and reduces magical damage taken by 50% when worn. Also grants the Rune of the Guardians ability, which increases the armor of nearby friendly units within 700 range by 12 and grants them 1200 points spell damage protection. Archus, Greatstaff of Antonidas: Increases the mana regeneration by 175% and intelligence by 20 when worn. Can be used to banish a target unit, making it 66% more vulnerable to spells and magic attacks and slowing it's movement speed by 45%. Lasts 16(8) seconds (30 seconds cooldown). The Storm Bringer: Increases intelligence by 30, attack rate by 50% and the mana regeneration by 250%. In addition each attack deals 75 bonus lightning damage and has a 30% chance to unleashe a Chain Lightning. (This is an orb effect and requires mana.) Staff of the Phoenix: Increases intelligence by 20, attack rate by 50% and mana regeneration by 175%. Nearby enemy units will be damaged by phoenix fire. Wand of Necromancy: Increases intelligence by 30, mana regeneration by 175%, attack rate by 50% and damage by 40. When an attacked enemy unit is killed 2 skeletons will raise from its corpse. The Dark Minions last 30 seconds. Warning: Your base cannot use this effect! Wand of Weakening: Increases the intelligence of the hero by 40 and mana regeneration by 175%. Has the Curse of Weakness ability, causing nearby enemy units wihtin 700 range to take 30% more magic damage for the next 10 seconds. Skull of the Man'ari: This powerful wand can Devour Magic, restoring 50 life and 20 mana points per consumed buff (2500 damage to summons). Also increases intelligence by 30 and mana regenration by 175%.

Since there has been a lot of confusion about Orb Effects and other attack buffers, i decided to explain those specifically for Hero Push. There is three different kind of attack buffers: Orb Effects obtained by certain items and then Legendary Weapons and abilities split in active (Frost Arrow, Exploding Arrow) and passive (Cleaving Attack). Active abilities have the highest priority. Out of the Orb effects, which are the second priority, Lifesteal provided by Mask of Death and Weapon of the Dragonslayer have the highest. The other orbs have the same and their position in the inventory determinates which one is active (top left = prio 1, bottom right = prio 6). Passive abilities have the lowest priority. Last but not least i want to mention that if Naisha the Huntress of Elune uses any Orb effect without Lifesteal she will still display an attack animation but no missile/damage will be done. The Dark Ranger without Lifesteal will lose the additional attacks of multi shot and apply the Orb effect on the target.

Preview: Four teams of explorers finally managed to reach this lost island, where the Temple of Tides was build milleniums ago. They play short battle games to obtain the right to do researches in the temple to restore ancient weapons and armor. Win a game with 8 players (no computers) and you/your team will recieve a hint to discover the secret items, allowing you to use them in future games! Please do not share those hints so other players can have fun finding them on their own!

These are all Hidden Items : Mystical Diamond: 2x Runed Braces + Amulet of Spellshield Reduces magical damage dealt to the Hero by 50% and blocks a negative spell that an enemy casts on the Hero once every 50 seconds. Ring of Superiority: 2x Ring of Regeneration + 2x Potion of Invulnerability Increases the Hero's hit point regeneration by 10 hit points per second and makes the hero invulnerable for 1,25s when used (20 seconds cooldown). Khadgars Gem of Health: 5x Periapt of Vitality Increases the hit points of the hero by 4000 when worn. Khadgars Pendant of Mana: 5x Pendant of Mana Increases the mana capacity of the Hero by 3000 when worn. Khadgars Whisker: Ring of Regeneration + Sobi Mask + Replenishment/Health/Mana Potion Increases the life regeneration by 6 points per second and the mana regeneration by 100% when worn. Has the Replenish ability which regenerates 2500 hit points and 1500 mana over 20 seconds (not in combat). Khadgars Pipe of Insight: Apprentice Staff + Khadgars Whisker + Crystal Ball Increases the mana regeneration of then Hero by 250% when worn and grants nearby allies a 4.5 point mana regeneration aura and True Sight.

Whenever you win a game, you will be granted a hint that helps you discover the secret items in Hero Push. The solution to most riddles is a word that you should then search for in the names of all items across the shops. including the Dragon Roosts. Stalker's Cloak: 2 materials required Shield of the Dragonslayer: 2 materials required Armor of the Dragonslayer: 3 materials required Gauntlets of the Dragonslayer: 5 materials required Crown of the Dragonslayer: 5 materials required Scale Legguards of the Dragonslayer: 5 materials required XXXXX of Medivh: 4 materials required Gul'dan's Gloves: 3 materials required Khadgars Ring of the Archmages: 4 materials required Khadgars Bag of Jewellery: 3 materials required For those that made the effort to read the Quest Log: Join our discord and send me, wTc[Dragon]#1709/Bnet: Spyro#2622, the following message and i will tell you one secret item of your choice: I found your dragon easter egg!