nerfed armor bonuses (besides armor) from assault cuirass items, mostly the -armor aura and attackspeed bonuses
rescaled attackspeed buffs from items that are not butterfly (making butterfly the best attackspeed items)
fixed axe ult and rebalanced its scaling

reverted ng+ i give up

instead of removing all your items in ng+, now non-eligible items will be removed and other items will be replaced by artifact items; these grant minor bonuses and can be sold for gold. if you don't get an artifact you will instead get the sell gold as if you had gotten one. Dropped items, items in stash and items on the courier will still be removed entirely.
Added asura's essence, can be bought for 4 cores and sold for 10k
in future updates artifact items will be upgradeable with asura essence

nerfed burning aura to 450 instead of 900
lowered burning aura damage
burning aura now halves health regen
entangling now halves health regen
stopped ng+ courier abuse

elites in ng+ now gain 2 abilities instead of 1
tweaked ng+ health and damage scaling a bit; didnt touch armor all that much
elite evil core no longer gets useless abilities (ones that require attacking), will now only receive auras
all items now properly get removed, no more drop and stash abuse possible
strength now adds magic resistance, stacks diminishly up to 60ish magic resistance
all heroes start with 0 magic resistance now
readded int scaling to spell damage, but heavily nerfed (1% per 200 int)
added blinking elites

fixed getting cores pre-ng+

reworked ng+' concept. you will lose all gold and all items when entering ng+, but receive 6 asura cores. you keep your level
mob hp, armor, damage and magic resistance rescaled.
rescaled all asura items to be more in line with the new power curve
made all perks and asura items cheaper in terms of asura cores
fixed some unwanted interaction with elites, llike evil core gaining 100k hp
removed boss master

berserker elite bash procs pierce evasion now
entangling elite root procs pierce evasion
adjusted small elites base hp boost
round 1 elites no longer have increased health
added freezing elites
adjusted how unstable elites find targets; more randomized but increased proc chance

fixed axe bosses (and spiders but itd crash before that) crashing the server
small minion elites like the baby slardars receive a base hp buff to make them more imposing

fixed hp scaling setting elite health to 0 sometimes