Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Frostmourne Hungers [D]
    • Fixed an issue that caused impact visuals and sound effects to be created on Arthas.

Bug Fixes

• Level 10
  • Summon Sindragosa
    • Can now be cast over the Minimap.

Updates

Talents

• Level 13
  • Frost Strike
    • Rework: If Death Coil hits a target Slowed by Frost Strike, they will be Silenced for 1 second.
    • Rework: No Longer reduces the cooldown of Frostmourne Hungers.
• Level 16
  • Frostmourne Feeds
    • Rework: The cooldown for Frostmourne Hungers now starts as soon as the first empowerment is used.
    • Rework: The second Frostmourne Hungers empowerment now only applies after hitting a Hero and lasts for 4 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Frostmourne Hungers [Trait]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Frostmourne Hungers to not display correctly against Blinded or Evading enemies.

Updates

• Base

  • Health Regeneration increased from 5.957 to 6.208 .
  • Maximum Health increased from 2860 to 2980.
  • Death Coil [Q]
    • Healing increased from 262 to 285.
  • Frozen Tempest [E]
    • Mana cost per second reduced from 13 to 11.

  Talents

  • Level 13
    • Biting Cold [E]
      • Damage increase is now additive.
  • Level 16
    • Embrace Death [Q]
      • Now grants an additive bonus to Death Coil's damage.

• Base

  • Quickcast Settings
    • Removed Sacrifice Ghoul.

  Talents

  • Level 4
    • Icy Talons [E]
      • Added to the Buff Bar.

Bug Fixes

• Legion of Northrend's bonus healing is now additive.
• Rime now has a Block visual.

Updates

Base

• Howling Blast [W]
  • Range increased from 8 to 9.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Frost Presence [W]
    • Bonus range to Howling Blast reduced from 30% to 20%.
• Level 20
  • Death's Advance [Active]
    • Is now an E talent.
    • New functionality: Increase Movement Speed by 10%. Frozen Tempest's maximum Slow and Attack Speed Slow increased from 40% to 60%.

Developer Comment: Howling Blast has been the same for a very long time, almost since the inception of our game. Many things have changed since then, and we believe a range increase is warranted due to how average ranges of various abilities and effects have changed since that time.

Bug Fixes

• Army of the Dead Ghouls no longer stop following Arthas when affected by certain abilities.

Updates

Base

• Health increased from 2782 to 2860.
• Health Regeneration increased from 5.80 to 5.96.

Talents

• Level 7
  • Rune Tap [Passive]
    • Healing increased from 4% to 5% maximum Health.
• Level 10
  • Army of the Dead [R1]
    • Tooltip now states how much damage Ghouls do.
• Level 20
  • Legion of Northrend [R1]
    • Additional functionality: Increase Ghoul Basic Attack damage by 50%.
  • Absolute Zero [R2]
    • Root duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds.
    • Slow duration increased from 3.5 to 4 seconds.
  • Death's Advance [Active]
    • Active Movement Speed bonus duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds.
  • Anti-Magic Shell [Active]
    • Duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.

Developer Comment: Arthas is slightly underperforming compared to other Warriors, so we're giving him a small baseline Health buff which we feel is appropriate since he doesn't have the mobility that a lot of other Warriors bring to the table. We've also taken a look at his Level 20 talents and beefed them up all be much more epic.

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Deathlord [Q]
    • Additional functionality: Increase the range of Death Coil by 30%.

Developer Comment: We heard you Kyle and Garrett. We're sorry we took it away. Here, have it back.

Bug Fixes

• Updated the Deathlord's advanced tooltip description.

Updates

Talents

• Fixed Arthas's talents so that they appear in the same order as other Heroes [Q, W, E, etc.]
• Level 4
  • Deathlord [Q]
    • No longer increases the range of Death Coil.
    • Additional functionality: If Death Coil is used on an enemy Hero, its Mana cost is refunded.

Developer Comment: Deathlord has been a fairly awkward talent for a long time, providing Arthas with little output and utility, even when going for a Q build. We're changing it to now give Arthas a fairly potent Poke tool by making it possible for him to infinitely drain the Health of enemy Heroes over time if they stay near him, which should only become more powerful as he gets his other Q talents as the game goes on.

Updates

Abilities

• Frozen Tempest (E)
  • Mana cost reduced from 15 to 13 per second

Talents

• Level 4
  • Frozen Wastes (E)
    • Mana cost reduction reduced from 4 to 2 per second

Developer Comment: For Arthas's Mana tension, we decided to give him some of the benefit for taking Frozen Wastes at Level 4 baseline. We still like that he has relatively high Mana tension that he can reduce by taking Eternal Hunger or Frozen Wastes, but we feel that he is currently too dependent on taking one of these talents, so we are reducing the opportunity cost for going with other options.

Updates

Abilities

• Summon Sindragosa (R)
  • No longer disables enemy Summons
  • Enemy Summons are now slowed by 60% for 4 seconds

Developer Comment: This change is primarily being made to address cases where Sindragosa would disable high-impact Summons like Jaina's Water Elemental for exceptionally long periods of time. Now enemy Summons who find themselves in the sights of a giant, undead Frost dragon will only tremble in fear instead of being frozen by it.

Updates

Stats

• Base Physical Armor removed.
• Health increased from 2,524 to 2,650.
• Health Regeneration increased from 5.258 to 5.52.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Rime (Passive)
    • Physical Armor bonus increased from 60 to 75.

Bug Fixes

• After learning the Shattered Armor Talent, Heroes rooted by Frost Presence's quest reward will now correctly have their Armor reduced.

Bug Fixes

• After Arthas completing the Frost Presence Questing Talent the Shattered Armor Talent will now correctly apply Armor Reduction to Heroes who have been rooted by Howling Blast.

Bug Fixes

• The attack speed slow applied by Frozen Tempest is now consistent with what is stated in the ability's tooltip.

Updates

Stats

• Physical Armor decreased from 15 to 10

Talents

• Level 16
  • Remorseless Winter (E)
    • Root duration from decreased from 1.75 to 1.25 seconds

Developer Comment: We're happy with the performance of Arthas, particularly as a capable solo-warrior that brings something unique to the team with Frozen Tempest. We've added a lot of power to this ability, so we're reducing his Physical Armor from 15 down to 10 to better enable enemy heroes to get more value by poking him down. We're also reducing the Root duration of Remorseless Winter to be more in line with similar effects.

Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 2404 to 2524
• Health Regeneration increased from 5.0117 to 5.2578
• Basic Attack damage reduced from 99 to 95

Abilities

• Frostmourne Hungers (Trait)
  • Now deals a bonus 99 damage when hitting enemies (is no longer based on his normal Basic Attack damage)
• Death Coil (Q)
  • Heal increased from 238 to 262
• Frozen Tempest (E)
  • Damage lowered from 26 to 20. Now slows enemy movement speed and attack speed by 10% per second, up to 40%. This now stacks over 4 seconds instead of 5.
  • Now functions as an aura (same as Lúcio's Crossfade) when concerning Stuns and Silences
    • If Arthas is Stunned or Silenced, he will not be able to toggle Frozen Tempest on or off, but if it is active it will persist for the duration of the Stun or Silence.
• Army of the Dead (R1)
  • Cooldown lowered from 100 to 80 seconds
  • Mana cost lowered from 100 to 80
  • Ghoul attack damage increased from 18 to 20
  • Ghoul Health increased from 960 to 1060

Talents

• Level 1
  • Block (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Eternal Hunger (Trait)
    • New functionality:
      • !Quest: Using Frostmourne Hungers on an enemy Hero permanently increases the Mana it restores by 4, up to 40
      • !Quest: Using Frostmourne Hungers on an enemy Hero permanently increases its damage bonus by 4
  • Frost Presence (W)
    • New functionality:
      • !Quest: Root 5 heroes to reduce the cooldown of Howling Blast by 2 seconds.
      • !Quest: After rooting 10 heroes, increase Howling Blast's range by 30%. Quest: After rooting 20 heroes, Howling Blast roots enemies on its path.
  • New Talent: Rime (Passive)
    • Every 5 seconds, reduce the next Hero Basic Attack by 60%. Stores up to 3 charges.
• Level 4
  • Biting Cold (E)
    • Moved to Level 13
  • Frozen Wastes (E)
    • New functionality:
      • !Quest: After hitting enemy Heroes 150 times with Frozen Tempest, the Movement and Attack Speed slows of Frozen Tempest last for an additional 1.5 seconds against enemy Heroes.
  • New Talent: Icy Talons (E)
    • Increase Arthas's attack speed by 3% each time an enemy Hero is hit by Frozen Tempest for 1.5 seconds, stacking up to 60%.
  • Deathlord (Q)
    • Increase the range bonus on Death Coil from 25 to 30%.
    • Increase the cooldown reduction from 2 to 3 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Immortal Coil (Q)
    • New functionality:
      • Bonus healing now applies to self-casting Death Coil.
      • Bonus healing reduced from 100 to 50%.
  • Icebound Fortitude (Active)
    • Reduced the cooldown from 40 to 35 seconds
• Level 13
  • Trail of Frost (W)
    • Removed
  • Frigid Winds (E)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Shattered Armor (W)
    • Enemy heroes rooted by Howling Blast have their Armor reduced by 15 for 4 seconds.
  • Frost Strike (Trait)
    • Slow increased from 40 to 50%.
  • Biting Cold (E)
    • New functionality:
      • Frozen Tempest does 12.5% increased damage per second to enemies, up to 50% bonus damage (over 4 seconds).
• Level 16
  • Embrace Death (Q)
    • Added Functionality:
      • Now also affects the healing of Death Coil.
• Level 20
  • Anti-Magic Shell (Active)
    • New functionality:
      • No longer provides 100 Spell Armor. Arthas now takes 0 damage from Spells instead and heals for 25% of the damage prevented.

Developer Comment: Arthas has long walked the line between being a bruiser and a tank, though we always intended him to be more of a tank as opposed to a bruiser. With Armor coming into the game, we saw the opportunity to really embrace him being that slow-approach-of-death that he encapsulated so well in Wrath of the Lich King. Arthas's crowd control capability and survivability have been significantly increased in this rework. Now he should really shine as the Warrior to bring to battle if the enemy team has multiple melee Heroes, or just a lot of Heroes who are heavily dependent on their auto-attacks. His damage has been reduced to compensate for the extra control he's getting in team fights. Since he won't put out damage as quickly as he did before, his ability to kill enemies will greatly rely on how long he can keep them trapped inside his Frozen Tempest. Once they're in the Tempest, it will be very difficult for them to escape without enhanced mobility.

Bug Fixes

• Army of the Dead will no longer fail to summon Ghouls if it is cast in the same moment that Arthas is targeted by Auriel's Crystal Aegis.

Updates

Stats

• Now has 15 Physical Armor
• Health decreased from 2582 to 2404
• Health Regeneration decreased from 5.36 to 5.01

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Frozen Wastes (E)
    • Mana cost reduction increased from 3 to 4 Mana Per Second
• Level 7
  • Rune Tap (Passive)
    • Heal amount increased from 3% to 4% of Maximum Health
  • Icebound Fortitude (Active)
    • Cooldown reduced from 50 to 40 seconds

Developer Comment: As part of our ongoing process to improve our talent system, we are doing a pass on all heroes in the game to increase the health of their talent trees. We know that there are a fair number of talents that feel like they are either mandatory or insignificant, and this is our first pass on putting in fixes. These fixes take many forms, and can range from simply buffing or nerfing numbers to changing functionality. We're excited to keep our heroes feeling fresh, and you can look forward to additional changes to more of our heroes in upcoming patches.

Updates

• Health increased from 2382 (+4% per level) to 2582 (+4% per level)
• Health regeneration increased from 4.96 (+4% per level) to 5.37 (+4% per level)
• Regeneration Master (Talent) removed
• Mercenary Lord (Talent) removed
• Spell Shield (Talent) removed
• Relentless (Talent) removed
• Stoneskin (Talent) removed
• Rewind (Talent) removed
• New Talent (Level 7): Icebound Fortitude
  • Activate to reduce damage taken by 25% and reduce the duration of silences, stuns, slows, roots, and polymorphs by 75% for 3 seconds. 50 second cooldown.
• New Talent (Level 20): Death's Advance
  • Passively increases Arthas's Movement Speed by 10%. Activate to increase this bonus to 30% for 3 seconds. 50 second cooldown.
• New Talent (Level 20): Anti-Magic Shell
  • Activate to reduce Ability damage taken by 100% for 3 seconds, and heal for 25% of the damage prevented. 60 second cooldown.
• Frostmourne Hungers (Trait) (D)
  • Destruction (Talent) removed.
  • Obliterate (Talent) removed.
  • Eternal Hunger (Talent) has been reworked as a Questing Talent.
    • Quest: Using Frostmourne Hungers on an enemy Hero permanently increases the Mana it restores by 4, up to a maximum of 40.
    • Reward: After hitting 10 Heroes with Frostmourne Hungers, its damage bonus is increased to 125%.
  • Frost Strike (Talent) moved from Level 7 to Level 13
    • Now also reduces the cooldown of Frostmourne Hungers by 2 seconds.
• Death Coil (Q)
  • Death Touch (Talent) removed.
  • Immortal Coil (Talent) moved from Level 16 to Level 7
    • Casting Death Coil on an enemy Hero now restores Health equal to 100% of the damage dealt.
  • Embrace Death (Talent)
    • Damage bonus reduced from 20% to 10% for each 10% of Health missing.
  • New Talent (Level 4): Deathlord
    • Reduces Death Coil's cooldown by 2 seconds and increases its range by 25%.
• Howling Blast (W)
  • Root duration reduced from 1.5 to 1.25 seconds.
  • Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds.
  • Mana cost reduced from 70 to 60.
  • Frost Presence (Talent)
    • Now reduces Howling Blast's cooldown by 5 seconds if it hits an enemy Hero.
  • Trail of Frost (Talent)
    • Now also increases the range of Howling Blast by 30%.
• Frozen Tempest (E)
  • Damage per second increased from 48 (+4% per level) to 52 (+4% per level)
  • Biting Cold (Talent) moved from Level 13 to Level 4
    • Damage bonus reduced from 50% to 30%
  • New Talent (Level 13): Frigid Winds
    • Frozen Tempest reduces enemy Attack Speed by 8% per second, up to 40% maximum.
  • New Talent (Level 16): Remorseless Winter
    • Enemies that remain in Frozen Tempest's area of effect for 3 seconds are rooted for 1.75 seconds. This effect can only occur once every 10 seconds.
• Army of the Dead (R)
  • Ghoul Health increased from 799 (+4% per level) to 960 (+4% per level).
  • Legion of Northrend (Talent)
    • Ghoul bonus Heal amount increased from 25% to 50%.
• Summon Sindragosa (R)
  • Damage reduced from 255 (+4% per level) to 230 (+4% per level).
  • Slow duration increased from 2 to 3.5 seconds.
  • Disable duration against non-Heroic enemies increased from 10 to 20 seconds.
  • Absolute Zero (Talent).
    • Slow duration increased from 2 to 3.5 seconds.

Developer Comment: As one of the very first heroes that we created, and one who hasn't had many changes since his release, Arthas has been on our radar for some time as a Hero whose Talents needed some sprucing up. In addition to giving him some powerful new Talents befitting of the Lich King, we also moved around and modified many of his options so that he has multiple build paths with different playstyles.

Arthas Talents

• (!) indicates a Questing Talent.
• Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
• Bold text indicates a MOVED Talent.

Bug Fixes

• Crimson Count s Health bar will now appear much closer to his Hero model while in bat form.

Updates

• Summon Sindragosa (R)
  • Damage increased from 205 (+4% per level) to 255 (+4% per level)
  • Cooldown increased from 80 to 100 seconds

Developer Comment: Please see the above Developer Comment for .

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could allow Arthas's Summon Sindragosa to be placed on reduced cooldown despite being successfully cast.

Bug Fixes

• Structures disabled by Arthas's Summon Sindragosa will now properly retain frozen visual effects for the full duration.