If you're a fan of aggressive strategies in Dota Auto Chess, you're gonna have a good time starting today. Drodo Studio just pushed through a number of changes, buffing a couple of Assassins, as well as bringing consistency to the class' trait.

Both Sand King and Morphling now are a little more durable, seeing their health increased by 50 points. Though Phantom Assassin won't be any sturdier, she did get a little more frightening, with her base attack damage being increased by 5. To top it off, one of Assassins' best counters, Kunkka and his accompanying ultimate Ghostship, will be on a longer cooldown as well.

A neat Quality of Life improvement has been added too: players can now have three units automatically merge, even when sitting on the bench. This means less worrying about having a full bench when rolling and buying, which caused plenty of unnecessary anxiety.

Full patch notes:

- Added an option to enable auto combination of pieces (disabled by default, you can enable it on the top right hand corner). When enabled, three identical pieces on waiting bench will automatically combine and promote into a +1★ piece. Druids don't benefit from this feature.

- Triple kill sound effect will now be played when any piece eliminates 3 enemy pieces in a row.

- Rampage sound effect and global announcement will be played when any piece eliminates 5 enemy pieces in a row. The piece gets puffed up as well.

- Remade Alchemist: Chemical Rage now autocasts Acidic Spray around Alchemist, reducing the armor of nearby enemies. Lasts 15 sec.

- Balanced Coup de Grace (Assassin's Perk) critical strike chance from 10%/15%/20% to 15%/15%/15%.

- Increased Phantom Assassin's base attack damage by 10.

- Increased Medusa's base attack damage by 5.

- Decreased Medusa's Stone Gaze stone duration from 2/3/4 sec to 2/2.5/3 sec.

- Balanced Doom duration from 20 sec to 10/15/20 sec.

- Balanced Kunkka's Ghostship cooldown from 10 sec to 15/12/9 sec.

- Increased Omniknight's Purification damage / heal by 50.

- Increased Morphling's base HP by 50.

- Increased Sand King's base HP by 50.

- Decreased Mirana's Sacred Arrow cooldown by 2 sec.

- Redecorated cosmetic appearances for Gyrocopter★★ and Gyrocopter★★★. Splendid!

- Fixed a bug which English language players who own Hwytty & Shyzzyrd cannot see their courier list.

- Fixed a bug which Terrorblade's Metamorphosis can cause the target being transformed into a ghostly zombie when exchanging HP at the instance the target dies.

- Optimised some base level mechanisms and security issues.