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Heroes 5 Manual - 3.0 changelog
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Legend:
- FIX: bug correction or important missing detail in previous manual
- UPD: update due to a balance change or new feature in the latest patch
- NEW: new content (new section, new comment...)

[Generic]
- UPD: new 3.0 official texts used
- UPD: game mechanics updated (some changes are listed here, refer to the game readme for a more detailed list)

[Heroes]
- NEW: Stronghold heroes and hero specializations
- NEW: additional heroes in other factions
 * Necropolis: Arantir, Ornella
 * Fortress: Hangvul
 * Haven: Alaric, Benedikt, Bertrand, Gabrielle
- NEW: Hero specializations comments where needed (Necropolis/Avatar of Death, some Stronghold specializations)
- UPD: Cavalry Commander Jousting bonus is now 10%+Level*1% (instead of (Level+1)*2%)
- UPD: Heroes reorganized (standard, campaign), with source tags and "where to find them" notes
- UPD: Duel Heroes (with ToE artifacts and sets bonuses taken into account for the heroes stats)

[Skills]
- NEW: Barbarian skills with comments where needed
- NEW: "Not/Only for Barbarian" tags added on duplicated skills (Enlightenment, Sorcery/Shout, Magic/Shatter Magic)
- UPD: Banish (Summoning Magic), Excruciating Strike (Attack), Weakening Strike (Dark Magic)
- UPD: Skill Wheels
- UPD: Skill Trees

[Creatures]
- NEW: Stronghold creatures
- NEW: alternate upgrades in all races
- UPD: Haven alternate upgrades have been tweaked
- NEW: ToE creature abilities have orange left border, HoF abilities have silver border
- UPD: first table with base creatures only, second table with both upgrades
- NEW: new creature abilities listed with comments where needed, and a few icons
- NEW: intro added with upgrade/retrain cost, and link to casters' spellbook section
- UPD: experience gained for killing each creature added in the tables
- UPD: abilities in the creatures table are now links to their description in the abilities section

[Spells]
- NEW: Barbarian Warcries
- NEW: additional spells
 * Dark Magic: Sorrow (1), Vampirism (5)
 * Destructive Magic: Deep Freeze (5)
 * Light Magic: Regeneration (2), Divine Vengeance (4)
 * Summoning Magic: Arcane Crystal (2), Blade Barrier (3), Summon Hive (4)
- UPD: Firewall moved to Destructive Magic
- NEW: Barbarian relation to magic (in spells intro) - Talismans of Earth and Sky
- NEW: spells comments on new spells as needed
- UPD: details updated for some spells
 * Dark Magic: Frenzy (damage increase), Blindness (duration), Puppet Master (duration)
 * Destructive Magic: Armageddon (rock damage)
 * Light Magic: Magical Immunity (max level)
 * Summoning Magic: Summon Elementals (number of Elementals), Arcane Armor (Hit Points), Conjure Phoenix
- UPD: spell damage updated for Level 4-5 spells with mastery None/Basic

[Artifacts]
- NEW: additional artifacts (with orange border, HoF artifacts have a silver border)
- NEW: artifacts details inserted in description where needed
- NEW: Artifact Sets section, with added comments for details
- NEW: set artifacts' name written in green (with "Part of ... set" note)
- UPD: Wands usually have 6 charges, except for the listed exceptions
- UPD: "Amulet of Necromancy" now reduces the Dark Energy cost to raise undead by 10%

[Towns]
- NEW: Stronghold City Plan and building list
- UPD: both upgrades are indicated in dwelling lists
- NEW: Stronghold town specializations
- NEW: Heroes can now sell artifacts in the Marketplace in town (for half its original cost)
- NEW: comments added on some buildings where needed (like selling price details for the Stronghold Slave Market)

[Map Locations]
- NEW: ToE adventure map locations (orange border - HoF locations have a silver border)
- NEW: new map locations details added in the Advanced Mechanics section
- NEW: comments added where needed (resource range for treasures, resources sites...)
- NEW: new ToE terrain - Taïga - added in the terrains list (with orange border)

[Weeks]
- UPD: weeks of orcish creatures (last 7)

[Racial Skills]
- NEW: "Barbarian: Blood Rage" section
- UPD: Necromancy transform table updated
- UPD: Necromancy - when raising an upgraded undead creature, the choice of the upgrade is given
- UPD: Avenger - when choosing a creature, the base creature and both its upgrades become favoured enemies

[Hero Development]
- NEW: Barbarian added in tables
- UPD: updated Ranger's probability of gaining skills "Attack" (2% -> 6%) and "Sorcery" (8% -> 4%)
- UPD: skill strategies partly reworked (they will be more completely updated in a later version)

[Game Mechanics]
- NEW: Taïga added in the terrains table (Movement on the Adventure map)
- NEW: Note added about the Warpath ability (Movement on the Adventure map)
- NEW: Paragraph added about Urghat (Tracker) (Movement on the Adventure map)
- NEW: Hero direct damage against tier 8 units (Wasp Hive, Avatar of Death)
- NEW: Orcs casters added in list
- UPD: Djinns and Djinn Sultans have the Random Curse and Random Blessing ability respectively (Creatures Spell Damage)
- NEW: Stronghold native war machine is the Ballista
- UPD: Ballista now has 100 shots (instead of 50)
- UPD: Barbarians have 60% of their level-ups in Attack+Knowledge (Ballista)
- NEW: Stronghold Tower and Moat
- UPD: Haven Moat Multiplier is now 1.2 (instead of 1.0)
- NEW: ToE ATB-impacting features added in the ATB modifiers table (Initiative)
- UPD: Note about Shout in the Sorcery paragraph (Heroes' Initiative)
- UPD: Morale and Luck values are not bound in [-5;+5] anymore. Max prob is still 50%.
- UPD: Morale relationships (Orcs are evil)
- NEW: Advanced Mechanics section about Magic Protection/Resistance/Immunity and Irresistible Magic
- NEW: Advanced Mechanics section about Goblins' treacherous activities (Set Snares, Defile Magic)
- NEW: Advanced Mechanics section about Map Locations (Memory Mentor, Sacrificial Altar, Spell Shop, Fortuitous Sanctuary, Astrologer Tower)

[Difficulty Levels]
- UPD: Human/Easy starting resources increased to 50000 gold (from 40000) and 25 of precious resources (instead of 20)

[Sphinx Riddles]
- NEW: Answers are now listed in random order, and the solutions are given at the end