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## Version History

VersionDescription

7.35
* Talents:
+ LVL 20 +4s  Ice Vortex duration ➜ +5s  Ice Blast duration.

7.34e

* Reduced  Ice Vortex damage per second from 12/20/28/36 to 12/18/24/30.
* Reduced  Ice Blast duration from 10/11/12 to 10 on each level.

7.34

* Ice Vortex
	+ Increased flying vision radius from 200 on each level to 200/220/240/260.
	+ Reduced duration from 6/9/12/15 to 6/8/10/12.

* Talents:
+ LVL 20 +5%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction ➜ +4s  Ice Vortex duration.

7.33c

* Reduced  intelligence gain from 3.4 to 3.1.

7.33b

* Increased  Cold Feet cooldown from 12/11/10/9 to 15/13/11/9.

7.33

* Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
* Reduced  Cold Feet stun duration from 2/2.5/3/3.5 to 1.6/2/2.4/2.8.
* Ice Vortex
	+ Now deals 12/20/28/36 damage per second to affected enemies within the radius.
	+ Reduced duration from 16 on each level to 6/9/12/15.
	+ Increased cooldown from 7/6/5/4 to 10/8/6/4.
* REWORKED  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
	+ OLD  Ice Vortex
		- Now deals 40 damage per second.
		- Reduces attack speed slow by 16/19/22/25.
	+ NEW  Ice Blast applies  Cold Feet based on its current level to affected enemies, with a 60% stun duration percentage.

* Talents:
+ LVL 20 U +5%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction no longer increases attack speed slow.

7.32e
* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +200  Chilling Touch attack range increased to +300. LVL 15 +150  Cold Feet break distance increased to +300.

7.32

* Ice Vortex
	+ Increased radius from 275 to 300.
	+ Reduced duration from 16 to 14.
* Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
	+ Rescaled  Ice Vortex attack speed slow from 20 on each level to 16/19/22/25.

* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +8% spell damage amplification ➜ +40  Cold Feet damage per second.

7.31

* Reduced  Cold Feet damage interval from 1 to 0.5. []
* Ice Vortex
	+ Rescaled movement speed slow from 15%/20%/25%/30% to 16%/19%/22%/25%.
	+ Increased magic resistance reduction from 12%/16%/20%/24% to 16%/19%/22%/25%.
* Chilling Touch
	+ Reduced damage from 50/90/130/170 to 40/80/120/160.
	+ Reduced mana cost from 30/45/60/75 to 30/40/50/60.
	+ Reduced cooldown from 15/11/7/3 to 12/9/6/3.

* Talents:
+ LVL 20 +6%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction reduced to +5%. []

7.30c
* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +175  Chilling Touch attack range increased to +200. LVL 15 +150  Cold Feet break distance increased to +200. LVL 20 +70  Chilling Touch damage increased to +80. LVL 25 500 AoE  Cold Feet reduced to 450.

7.30

* Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
* Increased  Cold Feet cooldown from 10/9/8/7 to 12/11/10/9.
* Increased  Ice Blast cooldown from 40 on each level to 60/50/40.

* Talents:
+ LVL 15 +12 health regeneration ➜ +150  Cold Feet break distance.

7.29d

* Reduced  Ice Vortex magic resistance reduction from 15%/20%/25%/30% to 12%/16%/20%/24%.
* Reduced  Ice Blast explosion damage from 250/350/450 to 250/325/400.

7.29

* Ice Vortex
	+ Reduced mana cost from 40/55/70/85 to 40/50/60/70.
	+ Increased cooldown from 4 on each level to 7/6/5/4.
* Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
	+ Now also reduces  Chilling Touch mana cost by 50%.
* ADDED  Attribute Bonus.

7.28

* Reduced  Chilling Touch mana cost from 30/50/70/90 to 30/45/60/75.
* Reduced  Ice Blast max travel time from 2 to 1.75.
* ADDED  **Aghanim's Shard upgrade for  Ancient Apparition**.
	+ Ice Vortex
		- Now deals 40 damage per second within its radius.
		- Now reduces attack speed by 20 within its radius.

* Talents:
+ LVL 20 U +6%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction ➜ +6%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/attack speed slow/magic resistance reduction.

7.27d
  HAPPENED BETWEEN 7.20 AND 7.27D
* Ice Vortex no longer grants affected enemies phased movement.

7.27b

* Reduced  Ice Vortex mana cost from 40/60/80/100 to 40/55/70/85.

* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +140  Chilling Touch attack range increased to +175. LVL 20 +65  Chilling Touch damage increased to +70.

7.26b
* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +10% spell damage amplification reduced to +8%. LVL 10 +175  Chilling Touch attack range reduced to +140. LVL 15 +15 health regeneration reduced to +12. LVL 15 -2.5s  Ice Vortex cooldown reduced to -2s. LVL 20 +80  Chilling Touch damage reduced to +65. LVL 20 +8%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction reduced to +6%. LVL 25 +5%  Ice Blast shatter health threshold reduced to +4%. LVL 25 625 AoE  Cold Feet reduced to 500.

7.24

* Increased  Ice Blast kill threshold from 10%/11%/12% to 12%/13%/14%.

* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +90 Gold  per minute ➜ +175  Chilling Touch attack range.

7.23

* Ice Blast's impact damage now pierces spell immunity. []
* REWORKED  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
	+ OLD Increases  Ice Blast duration to 17.
	+ NEW Removes  Chilling Touch cooldown.

7.22f

* Reduced  Cold Feet break distance from 740 to 715.
* Increased  Ice Blast mana cost from 150 to 175.

* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +20 health regeneration reduced to +15.

7.22e

* Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.

* Talents:
+ LVL 25 700 AoE  Cold Feet reduced to 625.

7.22

* Reduced  Ice Vortex mana cost from 50/70/90/110 to 40/60/80/100.
* Ice Blast's initial tracer projectile is no longer visible on enemy minimaps when flying through an area where the enemy has vision and True Sight over.

7.21c

* Increased  intelligence gain from 3 to 3.4.
* Increased  Ice Blast duration from 9/10/11 to 10/11/12.

7.21

* Increased  intelligence gain from 2.6 to 3.
* Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.
* Reduced  Ice Vortex mana cost from 65/80/95/110 to 50/70/90/110.
* Increased  Chilling Touch damage from 50/85/120/155 to 50/90/130/170.

* Talents:
+ LVL 25 +4%  Ice Blast shatter health threshold increased to +5%. LVL 25 900 AoE  Cold Feet reduced to 700.

7.20

* Increased  strength gain from 1.7 to 1.9.
* Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
* Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
* Ice Vortex no longer grants self movement speed bonus by 15%/20%/25%/30% within its radius. []
* REWORKED  Chilling Touch.

OLD  *Chilling Touch*
*A frigid gust enchants allied heroes, granting them bonus magical damage for a given number of physical attacks. Each attack slows the enemy movement speed. Ancient Apparition always receives the buff.*
Cast range: 800
Radius: 525
Number of attacks: 3/4/5/6
Damage per attack: 20/40/60/80
Movement speed slow: 30%
Slow duration: 0.3
Buff duration: 20/24/28/32
NEW  *Chilling Touch*
*Enhances Ancient Apparition's attack with increased range, heavy magic damage, and movement slow.*
Attack range bonus: 60/120/180/240
Damage: 50/85/120/155 (Magical)
Movement speed slow: 100%
Slow duration: 0.5
Mana cost: 30/50/70/90
Cooldown: 15/11/7/3

7.19

* Reduced  Ice Vortex mana cost from 80/90/100/110 to 65/80/95/110.

7.18

* Increased  Ice Blast duration from 8/9/10 to 9/10/11.

7.17
* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +60 Gold  per minute increased to +90.

7.15

* Reduced base  intelligence from 25 to 23.
* Increased base attack damage from 19-29 to 21-31.

7.14

* Chilling Touch
	+ Rescaled damage from 30/45/60/75 to 20/40/60/80.
	+ No longer pierces spell immunity. []

7.13b

* Increased base  strength from 18 to 20.

7.10
* Talents:
+ LVL 15 -1.5s  Ice Vortex cooldown increased to -2.5s. LVL 25 4  Cold Feet charges ➜ 900 AoE  Cold Feet. []

7.07

* Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
* Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
* Chilling Touch
	+ No longer slows allied attack speed by 20.
	+ Now applies a stacking 30% movement speed slow on attacked targets, lasting 0.3 seconds each.
	+ Reduced damage from 50/60/70/80 to 30/45/60/75.
	+ Rescaled buff duration from 30 on each level to 20/24/28/32.
	+ U Can no longer be removed with  `Left Click` on the buff icon.

* Talents:
+ LVL 10 +8% spell damage amplification increased to +10%. LVL 15 +30 health regeneration reduced to +20. LVL 15 -1s  Ice Vortex cooldown increased to -1.5s. LVL 20 +8%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction ➜ +80  Chilling Touch damage. LVL 20 +400 health ➜ +8%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction. LVL 25 +100  Chilling Touch damage ➜ +4%  Ice Blast shatter health threshold.

7.06f

* Increased  Ice Blast mana cost from 100/125/150 to 150 on each level.

7.06c

* Increased  Cold Feet stun duration from 1.25/2/2.75/3.5 to 2/2.5/3/3.5.

7.06

* Increased  strength gain from 1.4 to 1.7.
* Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
* Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
* Increased attack range from 600 to 675.
* Ice Vortex now grants self movement speed bonus by 15%/20%/25%/30% within its radius. []

* Talents:
+ LVL 20 -35s respawn time ➜ +8%  Ice Vortex movement speed slow/magic resistance reduction. LVL 20 +35 movement speed ➜ +400 health.

7.05

* Cold Feet
	+ Rescaled damage per second from 37.5/50/62.5/75 to 30/50/70/90.
	+ Reduced cooldown from 13/11/9/7 to 10/9/8/7.

7.04

* Reduced  Cold Feet mana cost from 150 to 125.

7.03
* Talents:
+ LVL 25 +80  Chilling Touch damage increased to +100. LVL 25 3  Cold Feet charges increased to 4.

7.02
* Talents:
+ LVL 15 +25 health regeneration increased to +30. LVL 15 +15  intelligence ➜ -1s  Ice Vortex cooldown. LVL 20 -30s respawn time increased to -35s.

7.00

* Cold Feet can no longer be cast on a unit already affected by Cold Feet. []
* REMOVED  Attribute Bonus.

* ADDED  Talents:
+ +8% spell damage amplification  +60 Gold  per minute+25 health regeneration  +15  intelligence-30s respawn time  +35 movement speed+80  Chilling Touch damage  3  Cold Feet charges

6.87

* Increased base health from 180 to 200.
* Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
* Cold Feet
	+ Increased damage intervals from 0.8/1.6/2.5/3.4 to 0/1/2/3.
	+ Reduced cooldown from 15/13/11/9 to 13/11/9/7.

6.86

* Increased base health from 150 to 180.

6.85

* Increased  Cold Feet cast range from 700 on each level to 700/800/900/1000.

6.84

* Ice Vortex no longer ignores ancient creeps,  Roshan and creep-heroes.
* Chilling Touch buff can now be removed by  `Left Click` on the buff icon.

6.81b

* Reduced  Ice Vortex movement speed slow from 18%/22%/26%/30% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.

6.81

* Increased  Chilling Touch attack speed slow from 15 to 20.

6.80

* Ice Vortex
	+ Increased magic resistance reduction from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.
	+ Increased aura linger duration from 0.1 to 0.5.
	+ Increased duration from 12 to 16.

6.79

* Reduced night vision from 1400 to 800.
* Reduced  Ice Vortex cooldown from 5 to 4.
* Chilling Touch
	+ The buff is now always applied to  Ancient Apparition even if he is not within the target area.
	+ Reduced cooldown from 50/46/42/38 to 50/42/34/26.
* Reduced  Ice Blast cooldown from 45 to 40.

6.78

* Reduced  Ice Vortex cooldown from 6 to 5.
* Increased  Ice Blast projectile and initial radius from 225 to 275.
* ADDED  **Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for  Ancient Apparition:**
	+ Increases  Ice Blast duration to 17 on each level.

6.77

* Reduced  Chilling Touch mana cost from 140 on each level to 110/120/130/140

6.76

* Increased  Chilling Touch number of attacks from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6.

6.75

* Chilling Touch
	+ Now also applies the damage and uses a charge when attacking non-hero units.
	+ Increased radius from 450 to 525.
	+ Increased damage from 40/50/60/70 to 50/60/70/80.
	+ Reduced duration from 40 to 30.
* Rejuvenation Aura no longer heals heroes with  Ice Blast debuff.

6.73

* Updated hero model.

6.72d

* Fixed ability interactions between  Ice Blast and Ethereal sources:

6.72

* Reduced base armor from 1 to -1.
* Fixed ability interactions between  Ice Vortex and Magic Resistance item sources.

6.71

* Fixed enemies being able to see  Ice Blast's tracer on the minimap.

6.70

* ADDED to Captain's Mode.
* ADDED new Bound Radius mechanic. []
	+ Ancient Apparition has the `DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO` hull size. []
	+ This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.68

* Reduced base armor from 2 to 1.
* Increased  Ice Blast cooldown from 44/32/20 to 45 on each level.

6.67

* Increased  Cold Feet mana cost from 90/10/110/120 to 150 on each level.
* Fixed ability interactions between the following abilities:
	+ Chilling Touch and  Templar Assassin.
	+ Ice Blast and  Reincarnation.

6.66

* Increased  Cold Feet mana cost from 90 on each level to 90/100/110/120.
* Ice Blast
	+ No longer ignores  Shallow Grave.
	+ Debuff is now dispellable.
	+ Reduced second projectile min speed from 800 to 750.
	+ Fixed the following ability interactions:
		- Last Word
		- Time Lapse

6.65

* CREATED

## Patch History

Patch
Description

05 Oct 2023

* UPDATE 2
	+ Updated hero backend strings.

30 Aug 2023

* Increased versus scale from 0.75 to 0.84.
* Increased loadout scale from 0.75 to 0.84.
* ADDED new Adjectives attributes. []
	+ Ancient Apparition has the following values: Blue `1`, Flying `1`, Icy `1`, Legs `0` and Nose `0`.

19 Jul 2023

* Increased polygons and texture size limits.
	+ Increased head slot max polygons LOD0/LOD1 from 3000/500 to 3000/1200.

14 Jun 2023

* Fixed ability interactions between  Charge of Darkness and  Ice Blast.

09 Jun 2023

* Updated  Ice Vortex ability backend strings.

06 Feb 2023

* Updated  Chilling Touch ability backend strings.

15 Nov 2022

* Updated  Ice Vortex ability backend strings.

11 Nov 2022

* Updated  Cold Feet ability backend strings.

03 Nov 2022

* UPDATE 2
	+ Updated   Ice Vortex ability descriptions.

22 Sep 2022

* Updated  Cold Feet ability notes.

03 Sep 2022

* Updated  Chilling Touch ability tooltips.

29 Aug 2022

* Fixed  Ice Blast not freezing health as intended.

29 Jun 2022

* UPDATE 2
	+ Updated   Ice Vortex ability tooltips.

26 May 2022

* Fixed the following ability interactions sometimes not granting its kill credit bonus sometimes when the target is affected by  Ice Blast:
	+ Duel
	+ Finger of Death
	+ Essence Shift
	+ Reaper's Scythe (kill credit and health regeneration bonus)

13 Aug 2021

* UPDATE 2
	+ Reduced legs from 2 to 0.

24 Jun 2021

* Updated default hero model and animations.
* Updated default shoulder icon in the loadout.

14 Jul 2020

* Updated default hero model.

05 Dec 2019

* Ice Blast no longer triggers its shatter if the hero has  Phoenix Ash in its inventory.

29 Nov 2019

* Ice Blast
	+ Fixed impact damage not being applied to spell immune units.
	+ Fixed ability preventing  Track gold from triggering if the enemy died to the kill threshold.

01 Mar 2018

* Cold Feet can now target units already debuffed by it again. []

01 Feb 2018

* Fixed  Ice Blast tracer blocking neutral creep camps.

28 Nov 2017

* Fixed an issue with loadout slot being marked as armor instead of tail.
* Reduced LOD0/LOD1 rocks poly budget from 2300/1230 to 1000/500.

07 Nov 2017

* Fixed an animation issue with  Release.

02 Nov 2017

* Added new shoulder, arms and tail slot to Dota2 Workshop entries.

31 Oct 2017

* Updated default hero model.
* Added to Dota2 Workshop.

15 Dec 2016

* UPDATE 2
	+ Fixed default item build.

12 Dec 2016

* UPDATE 2
	+ Updated  Cold Feet ability tooltips.

24 Mar 2016

* Added  Arcane Rune responses.
* Fixed visual bugs with  Chilling Touch in Fog of War.
* Ice Blast
	+ Fixed radius visual being inaccurate sometimes.
	+ Fixed the  Release sub-ability proccing  Magic Stick.

23 Jul 2015

* Added head loadout slot.

29 Apr 2015

* Ice Blast
	+ UPDATE 4 (TEST) and UPDATE 5 (TEST)
		- Fixed ability interactions with   Wraith Delay.

23 Jun 2014

* Added loadout spawn animation.

06 Jun 2014

* Updated  Ice Blast ability tooltip to clarify that it cannot be dispeled.

29 Apr 2014

* Fixed the following abilities being removed after dying from  Ice Blast kill threshold:
	+ Epicenter pulse damage
	+ Diabolic Edict explosions

23 Aug 2013

* Ice Blast debuff will prevent health gain from leveling up, obtaining extra  strength or extra max health.

18 Jul 2013

* Fixed  Cold Feet,  Ice Vortex and  Chilling Touch backswing behavior.

28 Jun 2013

* Fixed being able to heal under  Ice Blast with the following abilities:
	+ Unholy Strength
	+ Morph

21 Mar 2013

* Fixed  Ice Blast cast sounds to only play for teammates or nearby enemies that have vision.

14 Mar 2013

* Death Pact no longer heals  Clinkz under  Ice Blast debuff.

28 Feb 2013

* UPDATE 3 (TEST)
	+ Fixed cast backswing behaviors for the following abilities:
		- Cold Feet
		- Ice Vortex
		- Chilling Touch

13 Dec 2012

* Fixed  Ice Blast status effect ignoring magic immune units (HP Freeze and Shatter).

03 Oct 2012

* UPDATE 3 (TEST)
	+ Fixed  Chilling Touch ability tooltip.

26 Jul 2012

* Fixed  Ice Blast debuff not getting added to units slept by  Song of the Siren.

20 Jun 2012

* Added  Haste Rune run, injured run, victory, spawn and teleport start/end animations.

17 May 2012

* Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
* Fixed the following abilities from preventing the  Ice Blast kill threshold:
	+ Ethereal Form
	+ Guardian Angel

10 May 2012

* Fixed turn rate.

26 Apr 2012

* U Updated the hero selection portrait.

12 Apr 2012

* Fixed  Chilling Touch affecting  Spirit Bear and  Warlock Golem.
* Fixed  Ice Blast impact damage not hurting illusions.

28 Mar 2012

* Fixed a bug where  Ice Blast could get stuck on the map.

16 Feb 2012

* Fixed the  Release sub-ability from not firing off when  Ancient Apparition dies.

17 Nov 2011

* Fixed level 3  Cold Feet doing too much damage.
* Fixed the ability interactions between  Chilling Touch and dispels.
* Fixed the location from which  Ice Blast fires.

04 Nov 2011

* Fixed issues with items that used the negative health regeneration — this fixes the interaction of  Ice Blast with  Unholy Strength.

27 Oct 2011

* Fixed a bug with  Chilling Touch attack speed reduction display.
* Fixed a recent bug with  Ice Blast trail debuff happening a little too early.

20 Oct 2011

* Fixed a recent bug that caused the  Ice Blast trail debuff to not get applied to heroes.

29 Sep 2011

* Fixed bugs when re-casting  Ice Blast before the previous cast finishes.

23 Sep 2011

* Ice Blast should now behave correctly when they are cast, while casting, and being placed in `⇧ Shift-queue` commands.

09 Sep 2011

* Fixed  Ice Vortex debuff lasting a little too long on enemies that leave the area.

05 Aug 2011

* Fixed broken tooltips.

04 Aug 2011

* Removed death effect blood.
* Added quick death effect.
* Added death animations.

29 Jul 2011

* The  Ice Blast ability now shows up for spectators.

22 Jul 2011

* Fixed  Ice Blast's projectile not showing up on the minimap.

16 Jul 2011

* Fixed  Cold Feet being dispelable.

28 Jun 2011

* Ice Vortex
	+ Fixed magic damage amplification from ability not working.
	+ Fixed ability affecting ancient creeps.
	+ Fixed losing the debuff when moving between two patches of Ice Vortexes.
	+ The debuff is no longer dispelable.
* Chilling Touch
	+ Fixed ability affecting allied illusions.
	+ Illusions attacking within effect radius will not consume a charge nor do the extra damage.
* Ice Blast
	+ Changed how the secondary projectile works visually. It now calculates its intended target for the explosion time rather than waiting on a message from the server. This allows it to be accurate regardless of latency.
	+ No longer shatter units below the health threshold that have attack immunity.
	+ Fixed ability affecting illusions.
	+ Fixed release cast point to be 0.

17 Jun 2011

* ADDED  Ancient Apparition.