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hoihoi8s Custom Hero Survival 1.21

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Special thanks to Airandius from the HiveWorkShop.com forums for converting the load screen to a smaller size.

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- All Minor Skills Upgrade To Level 20-
- All Ultimate Skills Upgrade To Level 3-
- Players Will Receive 300 Gold and 200 Lumber Between Each Wave.
- All Players Have 7 Skill Slots So Choose Wisely.
- Original Map By Briza187, fsmc07a, CDRbaby
- Based off Custom Hero Survival 8.0

fixes for 1.21 2/10/08
- Nerubian Seer no longer has melee damage upgrade
- text fixed for skills command: Rain of Chaos and Essance of Blight work properly.
- you can get Rain of Choas on random now.
- You can no longer get chemical rage on random which causes a crash
- Health potion cost reduced. Mana poition cost reduced. All potions contain 4 charges.
- New Items: Helm of Valor, Hood of Cunning, Medallion of Courage
- only 1 dood man final boss spawns no matter how many players. His stats were boosted slightly. Game ends when he dies or timer runs out.
- Spells added to enemies
- Most spells have mana cost increased to minimum of 50 at higher levels
- Summon Hawk lvls 1-9 spawn a hawk that does damage
- Item: Spell shield removed from Heart of the Wizard Lord Zy
- Added feature: Random hero
- Spirit Walker lost Corporeal Form ability
- non-melee heros have range modified. In general, chaos range heroes have range of 550, normal & hero type 600, and all others 650

KNOWN BUGS IN 1.21
-None

MY FAVORITE BUILDS: (note-I usually buy a skill up to lvl 20 before getting the next skill)

Build Name: Lightning Shield Fun
Hero: Str Hero (seige Panda has most HP)
Items: Items: 6 Dark Elven Guantlets
Items Late: 6 Arthus Armor
Tomes: All STR
Skills in order bought: Finger of Death lvl 1, Lightning Shield, War Stomp, Holy Light, Divine Shield, Drunken Haze, Unholy Aura, Finger of Death

Build Name: Summoner
Hero: Ranged Agility Hero
Items: 1 Striker Star (for aura), 4 Arthus Armor, 1 Tri-Mage's Orb of DragonKind
Tomes: All Manual of Health
Skills in order bought: Lava Spawn, Phoenix, Infernal, Tranquility, Summon Hawk, Avatar of Vengence, Doom

Build Name: Critical Striker
Hero: Melee agility hero
Items mid game: Anhk, Mask of Death, 2 Agility Sword, rest gloves of haste
Items late game: 1 Tentacle Whip, 5 ultimate cleavers
Tomes: Most AGI, some Manual of Health
Skills in order bought: Melee Aura, Drunken Brawler, Holy Light, Cleave, Critical Strike, Roar, Reincarnation, Reincarnation

Build Name: AOE Paladin
Hero: Melee Strength Hero. I like Earth Panda, since he gets more STR overall
Items mid game: Anhk, 5 Dark Elven Guantlets
Items late game: 1 Silencer, 5 Arthus Armors
Tomes: All STR
Skills in order bought: Blizzard, Divine Shield, Holy Light, War Stomp, Rain of Fire, Evasion, Reincarnation

Build Name: Exploding Melee
Hero: Melee agility hero
Items mid game: maybe an Agility Sword
Items late game: 1 Silencer, 5 Tentacle Whip
Tomes: Mostly AGI, some Manual of Health
Skills in order bought: Melee Aura, Vampiric Aura, Incinerate, Cleave, Holy Light, Pulverize, Critical Strike

Build Name: Heavy Damage Caster
Hero: Melee intelligence hero
Items game: 6 Heart of the Wizard Lord Zy
Tomes: All INT
Skills in order bought: Shockwave, War Stomp, Mana Shield, Fan of Knives, Thunder Clap, Carrion Swarm, Immolation

More builds to come

CHANGE LOG:

V1.00 10/30/08
-All spells rebalanced. In general AOE was nerfed, single target buffed.
-New spells added: Resurrection, Shockwave, Inferno, Cluster Rockets, Soul Burn

fixes for V1.01 11/02/08
-All spells: Most spells rebalanced. Instant win spells nerfed. Underpowered and underused spells buffed
-Fixes: resurrection works properly
-New spell: defend, pulverize
-Removed spell: battle roar
-New individual bosses after group bosses. Have a single target spell ready.
-Almost all tool tips updated and are more helpful
-The hard chaos enemies can't spawn in rounds 1-3
-Final level summons received chaos damage

Fixes for V1.02 11/04/08
-More spell and skill balancing
-Spell added: Dispel Magic
-More enemy types. Went from 33 to over 100
-Ness can use barrage now
-Force of Nature - since there are only 4 trees in arena, final level summons 4 trees. Thorns aura added
-Carion Beetles - skeletal mages removed from final level

Fixes for V1.03 11/12/08
-More spell balance
-Spells added: Feedback, Ensnare, Raise Dead, Envenomed Spears
-Removed repick cheats
-Changes a few hero models

Fixes for V1.04 11/14/08
-More spell balance
-Number is units between levels is based off of round number instead of hero level
-Firebolt removed from Salamanders
-Spells Added - Rejuvenation
-16 more enemy units added
-Item: Tri-Mage's Orb of DragonKind - Frost Wurm attack and defense now updrade with creeps, attack speed increased, attack increased, HP increased
-Tooltips now include ability incompatabilities

Fixes for V1.05 11/18/08
-More spell balance
-Spell Added - Charm (Note: On a rare occasion, if you charm the final enemy of the wave, you may have to kill him to trigger the round over.)
-All showroom heroes are now level 10
-Number of skills is really capped at 7 now. You can no longer buy passive skills and have them work if you already have 7 skills.
-Resurrenction and Infernal give back the right ammount of wood when retrained
-jumbled text fixed

Fixes for V1.05a 11/18/08
-added more conditions to the round ending code. Shouldn't get stuck anymore.

Fixes for V1.06 11/19/20
-Bugs Fixed: Charm (and all the bugs it caused like getting stuck after a round)
-Spell added: Roar
-Regular summoned units now get small attack upgrades. (less than half of enemy and ultimate summons)

Fixed for 1.07 11/20/08
-Spell Balance
-Spell added: Faerie Fire
-Bugs Fixed: fixed a bug where skills wouldn't level up if you had 7 skills
-All enemy units have at least 200 mana. Some spells added to enemies.
-Bug fixes: Frost armor now autocasts.

Fixes for 1.08 11/21/08
-spells progression evened out some
-Spell Added: Pocket Factory
-enemies between rounds removed except for bosses
-all boss except giant wolf have spell shield
-spell immunity removed from rock golem and war golem. Now have spell shield
-added attack sfx to heros without them

Fixes for 1.08a 11/21/08
-Hydra can not spawn randomly before lvl 40

Fixes for 1.09 11/22/08
-Death Coil fixed
-Avatar of Vengence Fixed
-Spells Added: Acid Bomb
-Siege Heroes got additional primary stat bonuses
-XP gained by heroes upped by 5%
-Enemy damage increases decreased slightly

Fixes for 1.10 11/23/08
-difficulty slightly decreased: Enemies only upgrade once at 15 instead of twice. XP gained increased slightly.
-upgrade for enemy attack speed accidently was 10x the correct ammount. Attack speed now only goes up 20% per upgrade instead of 200%
-Vampiric Aura now works on all enemies

Fixes for 1.10a 11/23/08
-Vampiric Aura fixed

Fixes for 1.11
-Difficulty increased, last version was to easy
-Spells nerfed: banish, divine shield, Stomp
-Spells buffed: wind walk
-Consumable items and starter items repriced. Tome of Knowledge added.
-All bugs with retrain should be FIXED

Fixes for 1.12 11/24/08
-Magic attack removed from all enemies
-Spells added to enemies
-Spells nerfed: Mana shield, spiked carpace, thorns aura
-Spells buffed: Barrage
-Tome price raised 10%

Fixes for 1.12a 11/25/08
-Players 2-12 tp back to the shop area after rounds

Fixes for 1.13 12/07/08
-Spell rebalance
-Spells fixed: Healing Wave now heals targets past 1st target.
-War Stomp, Fan of Knives, and Thunder Clap now all effect mechanical enemies
-Major overhaul of damage system. Enemies now only gain 6 armor per tier instead of 50. Enemy HP increased per tier. Melee enemies gained a Melee Evasion skill so they aren't pushovers.
-Life steal percentages dropped to accomodate more damage being dealt per hit due to lower armor.
-Agility Heros: Agility per level decreased. Str per level increased. Attack speed per agi point decreased. Armor per agi point decreased.
-Str Heroes: HP regen per str slightly increased. Agi per level increased.
-Seige enemies: splash damage removed. Minimum attack range removed.

Fixes for 1.14 12/10/08
- Heroes that are undead are now tagged Undead. Use Death Coil as a heal spell instead of Holy Light. Both these spells work correctly now.
- good riddens transmutate. We have to wait no more.
- New Spells: Devour Magic, Lightning Shield

Fixes for 1.15 12/19/08
- more spell balance
- Howl of Terror stats fixed
- New items and some item re balance
- XP gained increased slightly
- Melee evasion slightly decreased
- All enemies have 1500 mana to make Mana Burn and Feedback useful spells
- more Incompatibilities added to spells
- Incinerate tooltip fixed.

Fixes for 1.16 12/21/08
- Due to popular request Evasion removed from all enemies. Enemy HP adjusted to compensate.
- New scoring system.
- 2nd through 12th now receive some gold depending on your place finished.

Fixes for 1.16a
- Scoring for 6 through 12 now works correctly
- Impale stun reduced to 5

Fixes for 1.17
- Spells Added: Spirit Link, Bloodlust, Hardened Skin, Invisibility, Disease Cloud, Steal Spell, Pillage, Elune's Grace
- Spell balanced: lower levels of blink nerfed, AOE of Devour Magic made smaller, Stun of Infernal reduced, Pulverize buffed, final level Treant had HP increased, Berserk damage taken increased, Life Drain and Mana Siphon buffed
- Only 1 of final boss summons, regardless of number of players. Final Boss slightly easier.
- XP gained slightly increased
- Mana of Faceless One Terror reduced
- attack range of Maiden of Pain and Fel Orc Kodo reduced
- Bosses between rounds now have a 5 second spawn delay
- All Heros have the same animation length (set them all equal to just below Demon Hunters default)
- New terrain in bottom right corner of the arena's. No more teleporting pads.

Fixes for 1.18
- NEW: Random spell option! If you choose random spells you get 300 extra gold per round.
- More Spell balance
- New Spells: Firebolt, Cloud, Web
- Range and melee enemies now have seperate damage upgrades. Melee now does more damage per upgrade. Collision size of melee creeps increased and set back to default.
- Several enemies received fortified armor
- Final Dood Man boss and attack cut in 1/2. Hp reduced 25%.
- A few heroes got Fortified armor. A few get increased stats, but get heavy armor.
- Elune's Grace bug fixed. Hero attacks now deal 100% damage instead of 0%

Fixes for 1.19a
- The game doesn't end before the final boss

Fixes for 1.19
- Charm buff - Charmed units now give gold and xp in addition to being charmed
- Spells added: Stasis Trap, Essense of Blight
- More spell balance
- 40 damage per second added to earthquake.
- When picking random spells, melee heroes can't get Frost Arrows, Trueshot, or barrage. Range heroes can not get Melee Aura, Cleave, or Vampiric Aura, pulverize
- Doom guard summon's attack upgrades now
- Mirror image bug where all enemy units would explode should be fixed
- Game ends properly if you survive the final boss, but do not defeat him.
- Load screen added and preview screen to match
- New command: -skills . For example to see player 1's skills type -skills 1

Fixes for 1.20
- Locust swarm tooltip fixed
- Spell balance: Animate Dead nerfed, Stampede AOE reduced, bash buffed, Siphon Mana buffed, Heal buffed, Voodoo now makes caster invulnerable also (length nerfed),
earthquake slightly buffed, Fighter's Fury buffed, healing wave buffed, Wind Walk damage buffed, dark ritual buffed, death coil buffed, orb of annihilation buffed, treant HP buffed, Searing Arrows buffed, Charm buffed, Life drain buffed, Disease cloud buffed, Elune's Grace buffed, Pulverize buffed, essance of blight buffed, Drunken Haze nerfed, Finger of Death buffed, Tornado buffed & no longer channelling,
Cloud nerfed,
- Melee heroes can't get Orb of Annihilation, Black Arrows or Searing Arrows on random
- No hero can get Dark Ritual or Death Pact on random
- Draenei Seer enemy replaced by Furbolg Ursa Warrior
- Range enemy attack slightly decreased
- New Item: Arthus Armor
- small thorns aura added to Plague Treant
- Hopfully the gold specs all over the ground that cause lag have been removed
- These single target and utility spells now only cost 75 wood per level: Firebolt, web, slow, fairie fire, curse, spell steal, entangling roots, hex, ensnare, shadow strike, storm bolt, sleep, dispell magic, devour magic, mana burn
- Skills command now gives the spell level and says "(random)" if the player chose random
- Removed disabled triggers from the map to save space
- INT heroes with lower HP got increased INT progression
- New Spell: Rain of Choas
-Banshee and Lobster hero switched out
-All enemies now have 0% hp regen

Upcoming for V1.22
-More map balance
-Your ideas and balance issues!