Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Flash Heal [Q]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Flash Heal's channel effects to persist when interrupted.

Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Pursued by Grace [Trait]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Pursued by Grace to activate while Blinded or against an Evading Hero.
• Level 4
  • Surge of Light
    • Fixed an issue that caused Surge of Light to lower the cooldown of Chastise while Blinded or against Evading enemies.
• Level 16
  • Inner Focus
    • Fixed an issue that caused Blinds to not prevent Anduin's Physical damage to lower the cooldown of Inner Focus.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Lightwell [Active]
    • Added a button indicator for remaining activations.
• Level 16
  • Renew [Q]
    • Added a duration indicator.

Bug Fixes

• Can once again hold his sword high and proud.

Bug Fixes

• Divine Star Sword will no longer be destroyed when leaving the base during the game start period.
• Fixed an issue that caused Piercing Light to treat the first hit as the second.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Moral Compass to hit Invulnerable enemies.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Speed of the Pious to not grant cooldown reduction when bringing an allied Hero to full health with Divine Star.

Updates

Base

• Pursued By Grace [D]
  • Healing increased from 26 to 32.
• Flash Heal [Q]
  • Mana cost reduced from 25 to 20.
  • Healing increased from 270 to 280.
• Chastise [E]
  • Cooldown reduced from 10 to 9 seconds.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Evenhanded Blessings [Q]
    • Healing bonus increased from 10 to 15%.
  • Lightwell [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 80 to 75 seconds.
    • Individual healing cooldown reduced from 1 to .875 seconds.
• Level 4
  • Surge of Light [E]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from .5 to .75 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Binding Heal [Q]
    • Healing increased from 115 to 135.
  • Desperate Prayer [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 40 to 35 seconds.
    • Healing increased from 360 to 375.
• Level 16
  • Renew [Q]
    • Healing per second increased from 26 to 30.
    • Duration increased from 5 to 6 seconds.
  • (New) Inner Focus [Active]
    • New functionality:
      • Activate to reset the cooldown of Flash Heal and its next cast heals for 25% more.
      • Damaging enemy Heroes reduces this cooldown by 1 second.
      • 20 second cooldown.

Developer Comment: Anduin is performing a little lower than we'd like, so we're buffing his base power as well as his under picked talents. Players have asked for Inner Focus, so we're returning it with a slightly different flavor – please let us know how this feels to play with.

Bug Fixes

• Renew's effect is no longer lost by dying.
• Moral Compass's range bonus is no longer lost by dying.

Updates

Base

• Basic Attack
  • Attack speed increased by 20%.
• Flash Heal [Q]
  • Cooldown increased from 4 to 5 seconds.
• Divine Star [W]
  • Cooldown increased from 9 to 10 seconds.
• Leap of Faith [Trait]
  • New Passive Functionality - Pursued By Grace
    • Basic Attacks against Heroes heal the lowest Health ally near Anduin for 26 .

Talents

• Level 1
  • Evenhanded Blessings [Q]
    • Moved from level 16.
    • Healing bonus reduced from 20 to 10%.
    • Cooldown bonus reduced from 50% to 40%.
  • Power Word: Shield [W]
    • Moved from level 7.
    • Additional Functionality: While travelling outwards, allies in the path of Divine Star gain a shield absorbing 128 damage over 4 seconds.
  • Lightwell [Active]
    • Moved from level 16.
    • Healing amount reduced from 75 to 50.
    • Charges increased from 10 to 15.
• Level 4
  • Moral Compass [W]
    • No longer has a maximum number of targets for the apex Basic Attacks.
    • Basic Attack Damage increased from 70 to 100%.
    • Additional Functionality: Increase Basic Attack range by 1.1.
  • (New) Surge of Light [E]
    • Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Chastise by .5 seconds. Basic attacks against Heroes rooted by Chastise launch an additional Basic Attack and restore 25 Mana .
  • (New) Piercing Light [E]
    • Chastise pierces to hit an additional target.
    • Quest: Hitting two Heroes with a single Chastise permanently increases Spell Power by 1, to a maximum of 10.
• Level 7
  • Desperate Prayer [Active]
    • Moved from level 20.
    • Cooldown increased from 30 to 40 seconds.
    • Heal amount reduced from 530 to 360.
• Level 13
  • Push Forward! [Trait]
    • New Functionality: Damaging an enemy Hero increases your Movement Speed by 2.5% and the amount healed by Pursued By Grace [Trait] by 5% for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 8 times.
• Level 16
  • Inner Focus [Active]
    • Removed.
  • Renew [Q]
    • Moved from level 1.
    • New Functionality: Flash Heal heals for an additional 130 over 5 seconds. The duration of this heal is refreshed each time Anduin hits an enemy Hero with a Basic Attack.
  • Holy Nova [W]
    • Damage increased from 105 to 150 .
  • Glyph of Faith [Trait]
    • Moved from level 20.
• Level 20
  • (New) Inner Fire [R2]
    • The target of Light Bomb gains 40% movement speed and 50 Armor for 3 seconds.
  • (New) Censure [E]
    • Chastise stuns for .75 seconds and its Root duration is increased by .5 seconds.

Developer Comment: Anduin has a wealth of effective talents, but most of them were stuck in the later talent tiers. We'd like to shake that up and let him have some fun earlier in the game.

Updates

Talents

• Level 20
  • Light of Stormwind [R1]
    • Additional functionality: If Holy Word: Salvation lasts for its full duration, then reduce its cooldown by 60 seconds.
  • Desperate Prayer [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 40 to 30 seconds.

Developer Comment: We're experimenting with a change to Light of Stormwind to allow for Anduin to have higher highs when using Holy Word: Salvation to its full potential. When he gets a full cast off he will now have a greatly reduced cooldown, allowing it to be used multiple times in a single fight.

Updates

Base

• Flash Heal [Q]
  • Healing increased from 260 to 270.
• Chastise [E]
  • Damage increased from 155 to 175.
• Leap of Faith [Trait]
  • Cooldown reduced from 80 to 70 seconds.

Talents

• Level 10
  • Holy Word: Salvation [R1]
    • Healing increased from 25% to 30% maximum Health.

Developer Comment: Anduin is in a good place overall, with great talent diversity and a fun base kit. However, he isn't quite measuring up to other Healers when it comes to his overall performance, so we're simply increasing his power to bring him up to par.

Bug Fixes

• Anduin's Light of Stormwind now correctly removes damage over time effects.

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Holy Reach [E]
    • New functionality: Increase the Root duration of Chastise from 1.25 to 1.5 seconds. After hitting an enemy with Chastise, Anduin's next Basic Attack deals 75% more damage and heals allied Heroes near him for 100.
• Level 13
  • Speed of the Pious [W]
    • Additional functionality: Each allied Hero healed by Divine Star on its return to Anduin reduces its cooldown by 1 second.
  • Enchant Boots – Lion's Speed [Trait]
    • Additional functionality: Allies pulled by Leap of Faith are healed for 280 over 4 seconds.
  • Push Forward! [Passive]
    • Now labelled as a Chastise talent [E]
    • Additional functionality: While gaining 20% bonus Movement Speed, Chastise's cooldown recharges 25% faster.
• Level 20
  • Desperate Prayer [Active]
    • No longer places Flash Heal on a 10-second cooldown.

Developer Comment: Anduin's Level 13 talents are a little too similar, so we're adding reasons for players who choose one talent over the other outside of how they want to gain Movement Speed.

Updates

Base

• Chastise [E]
  • Damage increased from 145 to 155.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Pursued By Grace [Passive]
    • Healing increased from 33 to 35.
• Level 7
  • Binding Heal [Q]
    • Healing amount increased from 104 to 115.
  • Divine Star [W]
    • Shield amount increased from 172 to 185.
• Level 16
  • Evenhanded Blessings [Q]
    • Additional functionality: If Flash Heal is cast on a different target than its last, it heals for 20% more.
• Level 20
  • Light of Stormwind [R1]
    • New functionality: While inside Holy Word: Salvation, Anduin's allies are Invulnerable.

Developer Comment: While decently popular, from a win rate perspective Anduin has been underperforming compared to other Healers, so we're giving him some buffs largely to underperforming talents to help him out.

Updates

Abilities

• Level 7
  • Blessed Recovery [Passive]
    • Tooltip now shows the required damage taken to proc its effect
  • Blinding Heal [Q]
    • Heal amount increased from 95 to 104

Developer Comment: To give players more insight into what the damage threshold is that they need to meet for its effect, Blessed Recovery will now show the damage required for its effect to proc.

Updates

Base

• Flash Heal [Q]
  • Mana cost reduced from 30 to 25
• Divine Star [Q]
  • Mana cost increased from 45 to 50

Abilities

• Level 1
  • Renew [Q]
    • Healing increased from 23 to 26 per second
  • Pursued by Grace [Passive]
    • Healing increased from 28 to 33
  • Bold Strategy [Passive]
    • Cooldown increase increased from 1 to 2 seconds
• Level 4
  • Holy Reach [E]
    • Bonus Basic Attack damage increased from 50% to 75%
    • Healing increased from 90 to 100
• Level 7
  • Binding Heal [Q]
    • Healing increased from 80 to 95
  • Power Word: Shield [W]
    • Shielding increased from 165 to 172
• Level 10
  • Light Bomb [R2]
    • Shielding increased from 140 to 165

• Level 13
  • Enchant Boots – Lion's Speed [Trait]
    • Movement Speed increased from triple to quadruple while Leap of Faith's cooldown is available
  • Push Forward [Passive]
    • Maximum Movement Speed increased from 15% to 20%
    • Movement Speed per enemy hit increased from 2% to 2.5%

• Level 16
  • Evenhanded Blessings [Q]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 40% to 50%
  • Holy Nova [W]
    • Damage increased from 100 to 105
    • Healing increased from 100 to 105
  • Inner Focus [Active]
    • Cooldown reduction per Hero hit with Divine Star reduced from 10 to 8 seconds
  • Lightwell [Active]
    • Cooldown increased from 70 to 80 seconds

Developer Comment: Anduin's Light is bringing victory! Just about 48% of the time, which is great for a new Hero release. What we're aiming to do though is buff up a lot of the lesser chosen Talents on him so that he feels like he has a greater variety of options. We're also looking to make Bold Strategy a little more bold, and a little less automatic. We're aiming to do this by reducing his higher than typical Mana tension baseline (which Bold Strategy helped alleviated by increasing Flash Heal's cooldown and making his healing more efficient), while also increasing the cooldown penalty for Bold Strategy. This is in addition to buffing up the other two Talents on the tier, which also buffs Bold Strategy. Net result is that Pursued by Grace and Renew will give Anduin a little more consistent healing, and potentially open up synergy with the significantly buffed Binding Heal at level 7.

Releases

Anduin, King of Stormwind, has been added to the Nexus and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of his Abilities.

Trait

• Leap of Faith (D)
  • Faith instantly pulls an allied Hero to Anduin's location, granting them Unstoppable while they travel
    • Cooldown: 80 seconds

Basic Abilities

• Flash Heal (Q)
  • Cast for 0.75 seconds to heal an allied Hero for 260.
    • Cost: 30 mana
    • Cooldown: 4 seconds
• Divine Star (W)
  • Send light that deals 140 damage to enemies and then returns to Anduin, healing allied Heroes for 130 in a wider path. Healing increases by 25% per enemy Hero hit.
    • Cost: 45 mana
    • Cooldown: 9 seconds
• Chastise (E)
  • Shove a swell of light forward, dealing 145 damage to the first enemy Hero hit and Rooting them for 1.25 seconds
    • Cost: 40 mana
    • Cooldown: 10 seconds

Heroic Abilities

• Holy Word: Salvation (R1)
  • After 0.5 seconds, Channel to invoke the Light for 3 seconds. While nearby, allied Heroes heal for up to 25% of their max Health and are Protected.
    • Cost: 70 mana
    • Cooldown: 80 seconds
• Lightbomb (R2)
  • Imbue an allied Hero with the Light. After 1.5 seconds, it explodes, dealing 150 damage to enemies and Stunning them for 1.25 seconds. The target gains a Shield that absorbs 140 damage per enemy Hero hit. Lasts for 5 seconds.
    • Cost: 70 mana
    • Cooldown: 60 seconds