Patch 1.18

Released: March 1, 2005

Version: 1.0.18

Build: 6030

FEATURES

- 6 maps from our Bonus Map program including (4)Excavation Site, (2)Echo
  Isle, (6)Hinterland Raid, (6)Ruins of Stratholme, (8)Azeroth Grand Prix,
  (8)Extreme Candy Wars 2004.

FIXES

- Fixed a problem that prevented selection sounds from playing when 
  units were drag-selected.
- Fixed a problem that caused Gargoyles to become stuck in Stone Form.
- Fixed a problem with Dark Ritual or Death Pact leaving an unusable
  corpse.
- Fixed a problem that caused a player's units to continue to harvest
  resources after they were dropped and no one has control of them.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Ethereal units to take Physical damage from
  missiles that were in flight as they became Ethereal.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Magic Immune units to take Magical damage
  from missiles that were in flight as they became Magic Immune.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Unstable Concoction to kill the casting
  Batrider even after its target became Ethereal.
- Fixed the visibility of the Flamestrike de-buff icon.
- Fixed a problem with Defend not absorbing Piercing splash damage.
- Fixed a problem with melee units with Incinerate not damaging any units
  that they would Incinerate.
- Fixed a problem that caused Heroes holding items that increase their 
  primary attribute to display an increase in their base damage on the
  info panel. Their actual damage was not affected.
- Fixed a problem that allowed morphing units in their alternate form to
  retain their alternate form bonuses when killed by a Mana Flare when
  activating their alternate form.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Destroyers to use Devour Magic on Watcher
  Wards.
- Fixed a problem that prevented Watcher Wards from being revealed by the
  Dust of Appearance.
- Fixed a problem that removed the Summoned state from Carrion Beetles
  when they burrow.
- Fixed a problem with Metamorphosis and Chemical Rage that allowed the
  timer to remain active after the Hero had died.
- Fixed a problem with Goblin Zeppelins being considered Undead instead of
  Mechanical in custom Reign of Chaos maps.
  
MAPS

- (8)Crossroads - Fixed a grammatical error.

BALANCE CHANGES

Undead
- Banshee build time has been reduced to 28 seconds from 35 seconds.

Neutral
- Drunken Haze movement reduction has been changed to increase by level.  
  The new ranks are: 15% / 30% / 50% from the previous 50% / 50% / 50%.
- Breath of Fire initial damage reduced to 65/125/170 from 65/130/175.  
- Tornado mana cost has been reduced to 200 mana from 250 mana.
- Incinerate can now be turned on or off.  When turned on, it 
  consumes 6 mana per attack.  It is otherwise unchanged.
- Lava Spawns now require 15 attacks to replicate, up from 14.
- Summon Quilbeast cooldown increased to 25 seconds from 20 seconds.
- Summon Hawk mana cost increased to 50 mana from 35 mana.
- Pocket factory hit points increased to 300/450/600 by level from
  300/400/500.
- Healing Spray effect per wave increased to 40/55/70 from 35/50/65

Items
- Staff of Teleportation gold cost has been increased to 150 gold from 100
  gold.
  
WORLD EDITOR FEATURES

Trigger Editor
- Added new functions:
  - Environment: Terrain Pathability
  - Environment: Terrain Tile Type
  - Environment: Terrain Tile Variance
  - Floating Text: Permanent/Expires
  - Floating Text: Suspend/Resume
  - Floating Text: Change Position to Point
  - Floating Text: Change Position to Unit
  - Floating Text: Change Age
  - Floating Text: Change Lifespan
  - Floating Text: Change Fadepoint
  - Floating Text: Change Text
  - Game: Enable/Disable Selection (Functionality and/or UI)
  - Game: Enable/Disable Pre-Selection (Functionality and/or UI)
  - Game: Enable/Disable Drag-Selection (Functionality and/or UI)
  - Trigger: Get Trigger Name
- Added new unit states:
  - Plagued
  - Snared
  - Stunned
  - Poisoned
  - Polymorphed
  - Sleeping
  - Resistant
  - Ethereal
  - Magic Immune
- Lightning triggers now have their own category.
- Lightning triggers now use the Z coordinate of the specified Location.
- Custom Lightning triggers can now use an explicit Z coordinate.

WORLD EDITOR FIXES

- Fixed custom buff support for Black Arrow, Cloud of Fog, Inferno, Aerial
  Shackles, and Tornado.
- Fixed multiple-level support for Shadowmeld.
- Fixed Rain of Chaos' order id.