Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Condemn [W]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Condemn to pull Unstoppable targets.

Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Condemn [W]
    • Fixed an issue that caused the knockback to move the target in the direction they are moving when first applied.
    • Fixed an issue that caused the knockback to not knock all targets back an equal distance.
• Level 13
  • Blessed Hammer
    • Fixed tooltip not listing the correct cooldown reduction amount.

Bug Fixes

• Level 4
  • Eternal Retaliation
    • Updated Eternal Retaliation's visual effect to only be visible to Johanna.
• Level 10
  • Blessed Shield
    • Fixed an issue with the display priority for the duration bar of Blessed Shield.

Updates

Base

• Shield Glare [E]
  • Mana cost increased from 45 to 55.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Divine Fortress
    • Health bonus starting value increased from 20% to 25%.
  • Zealous Glare
    • Damage bonus reduced from 75% to 70%.
• Level 7
  • Steed Charge
    • Duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.
• Level 13
  • Blessed Hammer
    • Damage reduced from 74 to 65.
• Level 16
  • Holy Renewal
    • Cooldown reduction reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
  • Shrinking Vacuum
    • Damage reduction increased from 25% to 30%.
    • Duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
    • Slow increased from 25% to 30%.

Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Punish [Q]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Punish to be instantly removed on targets with reduced duration on being Slowed.

Bug Fixes

• Level 20
  • Indestructible
    • Ability will no longer be shaded as though it is disabled when off cooldown.
    • Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.

Updates

Talents

• Level 13
  • Holy Fury [Passive]
    • Added to the Buff Bar.

Bug Fixes

• Difficulty updated from Medium to Easy.
• Fixed an issue that caused Blessed Momentum's Attack Speed bonuses to stack multiplicatively with other Attack Speed bonuses and maluses.
• Fixed an issue that caused Holy Fury's damage aura to display as a critical when damage was not increased.
• Fixed an issue that caused Blessed Shield to hit and target Invulnerable enemies.
• Heaven's Fury will no longer cause allies to be incapable of collecting Experience Globes while inside a Shrub for 2 seconds.
• Blessed Hammer will now reveal the effect area for 0.75 seconds.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Zealous Glare [E]
    • Bonus damage reduced from 125% to 75%.
• Level 13
  • Roar [Q]
    • Maximum Punish damage bonus reduced from 175% to 150%.
  • Blessed Hammer [Active]
    • Basic Ability cooldown reduction reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Heaven's Fury [R1]
    • Maximum targets hit per barrage increased from 4 to 6.
    • Cooldown reduction per bolt reduced from 2 to 1 second.
    • Damage reduced from 68 to 50.

Developer Comment: Johanna is dealing too much damage, so we're partially reverting some of her recent buffs. We're also taking this opportunity to alter how Heaven's Fury functions. Heaven's Fury previously fired 8 barrages of bolts, hitting up to 2 enemies and up to 2 allies with each barrage. We're increasing both enemies and allies hit up to 3 while lowering its cooldown reduction to further differentiate good and great casts of Falling Sword.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Sins Exposed's duration after being refreshed.

Updates

Base

• Iron Skin [D]
  • Cooldown reduced from 25 to 22 seconds.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Divine Fortress [Passive]
    • Physical Armor per Basic Attack increased from 8 to 10.
    • Duration increased from 2.5 to 4 seconds.
    • Changed Functionality: Basic Attacks against any target grants Physical Armor.
  • Zealous Glare [E]
    • Additional Functionality: Shield Glare deals 125% additional damage.
• Level 4
  • Hold Your Ground [D]
    • Cooldown reduction reduced from 5 to 2 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Sins Exposed [Q]
    • Duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
  • Steed Charge [Active]
    • Bonus Iron Skin duration increased from 1 to 2 seconds.
• Level 13
  • Roar [Q]
    • Passive Punish damage bonus increased from 25% to 50%.
• Level 20
  • Heaven's Fury [R1]
    • Damaged reduced from 75 to 68.
    • Healing reduced from 75 to 68.

Developer Comment: Competing against strong Shield Glare talents, Divine Fortress' Physical Armor wasn't super appealing. We hope this change provides a comparable option for dealing with Physical damage while feeling and playing differently. While we're here, we continue to drag part of Hold Your Ground's benefit baseline in our endless journey to make the tier more competitive. Other than that, we have mild buffs for weak talents, and a whisper of a nerf to Heaven's Fury.

Bug Fixes

• Shield Glare's damage now scales with level.

Updates

Base

• Iron Skin [D]
  • Shield increased from 674 to 810.

Talents

• Level 4
  • Hold Your Ground [D]
    • Shield percent increase reduced from 60% to 40%.
• Level 7
  • Sins Exposed [Q]
    • Healing reduction increased from 25% to 35%.
  • Steed Charge [D]
    • Cooldown reduced from 30 to 20 seconds.
• Level 10
  • Falling Sword [R1]
    • Damage Increased from 150 to 225.
• Level 13
  • Holy Fury [Passive]
    • Periodic damage increased from 12 to 15.

Developer Comment: Hold Your Ground's talent tier has some competitive options, but it still feels more necessary than we'd like. We're baking in some of its benefit, and those who love the talent will still have its current power - Hold Your Ground's shield is increasing from 1078.4 to 1134. Johanna has landed fairly well, so we're also lightly helping some of her weaker talents.

Bug Fixes

• Falling Sword no longer impacts enemy Heroes twice.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Reinforce [Passive]
    • Removed.
  • Zealous Glare [E]
    • Moved from Level 7.
    • New Functionality: Gain a second charge of Shield Glare.
  • Laws Of Hope [Active]
    • New Functionality:
      • Activate to Heal 20% of your maximum Health over 5 seconds.
      • Quest: Every 10 Regeneration Globes collected increase the heal amount by 5% of your maximum Health.
  • (New) Divine Fortress [Passive]
    • Loan: Instantly gain 20% maximum Health. Every death reduces this bonus by 5%.
    • Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes grant 8 Physical Armor for 2.5 seconds, stacking up to 40.
• Level 4
  • Subdue [Q]
    • Moved from Level 7.
  • Eternal Retaliation [W]
    • New Functionality: Hitting enemies with Condemn marks them for 10 seconds. Johanna's next Basic Attack removes the mark, lowering the cooldown of Condemn by 1 second, refunding 10 Mana, and killing Minions.
  • Hold Your Ground [D]
    • Moved from Level 1.
• Level 7
  • Sins Exposed [Q]
    • New Functionality: Heroes hit by Punish receive 25% reduced Healing for 2 seconds. Basic Attacks against them refresh this duration.
  • Conviction [W]
    • Moved from level 4.
    • Bonus Movement Speed bonus while Condemn is charging reduced from 25% to 20%.
    • Additional Functionality: Gain 10% Movement Speed.
  • (New) Steed Charge [D]
    • Increase Iron Skin duration by 1 second. Activate to instantly become Mounted for 3 seconds, and damage dealt to Johanna during this time doesn't dismount her.
• Level 10
  • Falling Sword [R1]
    • Damage decreased from 210 to 150.
    • Enemies hit are no longer Slowed.
    • Cast range decreased from 15 to 10.
    • Additional Functionality: While in the air, allies underneath Johanna gain Unstoppable.
• Level 13
  • Blessed Hammer [Active]
    • Hammer damage reduced from 84 to 74.
    • Adjusted Functionality: Damaging enemies with Basic Abilities reduce Blessed Hammer's cooldown by 3 seconds.
    • Additional Functionality: Passive: Every 3rd Basic Attack against enemy Heroes releases a hammer.
• Level 16
  • Fanaticism [D]
    • Removed.
  • Imposing Presence [Active]
    • Removed.
  • (New) Shrinking Vacuum [W]
    • Enemies Heroes hit by Condemn have their damage reduced by 25% and are slowed by 25% for 2 seconds.
  • Holy Renewal [E]
    • New Functionality: Enemy Heroes hit by Shield Glare heal for 5% of Johanna's maximum Health and reduce its cooldown by 1.5 seconds.
  • Blessed Momentum [Passive]
    • Moved from Level 7.
    • New Functionality: Basic Attacks grant 10% Attack Speed for 4 seconds (up to 40%) and lower the cooldown of all Basic Abilities by .5 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Heaven's Fury [R1]
    • Cooldown reduction per holy bolt impact from 3 to 2 seconds.
    • Additional functionality: Holy bolts can now also hit allies, healing them for 75.

Developer Comment: It's been a while since we really dove deep into Johanna's Talent Tree and her incoming cosplay skin gave us a good chance to do just that. On top of that, we are experimenting with a new Loan style Talent type and would love to hear your guys' feedback on them!

Updates

Base

• Iron Skin [Trait]
  • Cooldown increased from 20 to 25 seconds.

Talents

• Level 20
  • Radiating Faith [R2]
    • Blessed Shield Stun duration against all targets reduced from 2 seconds to 1.75 seconds.

Developer Comment: Similar to E.T.C., we're increasing the cooldown of Iron Skin due to its ability to get Johanna out of a host of bad situations. This should give enemy teams a bigger window of time to plan and play around Iron Skin's cooldown.

Updates

Base

• Health reduced from 2700 to 2625.
• Health Regeneration reduced from 5.625 to 5.469.
• Condemn [W]
  • Damage reduced from 58 to 55.

Developer Comment: Johanna's become a dominant force in the tanking world, and is currently the #1 most picked hero at high level play. Because of this, we're slightly reducing her Health, as well as reverting her previous Condemn buff.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Reinforce [Passive]
    • Physical Armor amount reduced from 75 to 50.
    • Adjusted functionality: Casting a Basic Ability gives Johanna 60 Physical Armor for 2.5 seconds.

Developer Comment: Reinforce has been a bit of an awkward talent compared to others on the tier. Instead of giving Johanna charges of Block, we're changing it to give her Physical Armor for a duration. This should give Johanna the option to space her Abilities out to maximize the duration of the bonus.

Updates

Base

• Condemn [W]
  • Damage increased from 55 to 58

Abilities

• Level 1
  • Hold Your Ground [Trait]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 4 to 5 seconds
    • Shield bonus increased from 50% to 60
• Level 4
  • Eternal Retaliation [W]
    • Cooldown reduction per enemy hit increased from .5 to .75 seconds
    • Maximum targets reduced from 10 to 8
  • Zealous Glare [E]
    • Shield Glare duration increased from .75 seconds to 1 second
• Level 20
  • Radiating Faith [R2]
    • Additional functionality: Additional enemies hit by Blessed Shield are now Stunned for its full duration

Developer Comment: Johanna is a solid, versatile Warrior that brings a strong frontline presence to her team. In addition to giving her some talent buffs, we're increasing the damage of Condemn to further push her unique role as a Warrior who brings a considerable amount of waveclear.

Updates

Abilities

• Falling Sword (R)
  • Damage increased from 183 to 210
  • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 50 seconds
  • Mana cost reduced from 90 to 60

Talents

• Level 1
  • Reinforce (Passive)
    • Maximum stacks increased from 2 to 3
  • Hold Your Ground (Trait)
    • Shield bonus increased from 30% to 50%
• Level 4
  • Eternal Retaliation (W)
    • Mana refund increased from 2.5 to 3
• Level 7
  • Zealous Glare (E)
    • Blind duration bonus increased from .5 to .75 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented some “marked” effects from being consumed if the target was Shielded or Protected.

Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 2,540 to 2,700.
• Health Regeneration increased from 5.289 to 5.625.

• Level 4
  • Eternal Retaliation (W)
    • Now also restores 2.5 Mana for each enemy hit by Condemn.

Updates

Abilities

• Base Physical Armor removed.
• Health increased from 2,350 to 2,540.
• Health Regeneration increased from 4.895 to 5.289.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Reinforce (Passive)
    • Armor bonus increased from 50 to 75.

Bug Fixes

• Can no longer escape Zagara's Devouring Maw early if Iron Skin expires while inside the Maw.

Bug Fixes

• Learning Holy Renewal and casting Shield Glare while using one of Johanna's Enforcer Skins no longer causes placeholder art to appear at her feet.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing a placeholder sphere to appear when using Johanna's Shield Glare ability with an Enforcer skin equipped.

Updates

Abilities

• Falling Sword (R)
  • Johanna can no longer take damage or be targeted while initially casting Falling Sword

Updates

Abilities

• Iron Skin (Trait)
  • Mana cost removed

Bug Fixes

• Blessed Hammer can no longer be activated during Falling Sword.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the Shield Glare to lower the cooldown of the Blinded by the Light talent by an incorrect amount.

Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health increased from 2179 to 2350
• Health regen increased from 4.5 to 4.9

Abilities

• Falling Sword (R)
  • Slow duration increased from 2.5 to 3 seconds

Talents

• Level 1
  • Hold Your Ground (D)
    • Additional Shield amount increased from 20 to 30%
• Level 13
  • Roar (Q)
    • Damage for hitting 2 or more Heroes increased from 125 to 150%
  • Blessed Hammer (Active)
    • Damage increased from 80 to 84

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the Shield Glare to lower the cooldown of the Blinded by the Light talent by an incorrect amount.

Updates

Abilities

• Falling Sword (R)
  • Mana cost reduced from 100 to 90
  • Damage reduced from 365 to 183
  • Added functionality:
    • Now applies a 50% slow for 2.5 seconds after enemies are knocked into the air.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Laws of Hope (Active)
    • Moved from Level 4
      • Health Regeneration reduced from 10 > 1.5
      • Heal increased from 20% > 30% Maximum Health
      • Cooldown reduced from 60 > 40 seconds
  • Regeneration Master (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Righteous Smash (Q)
    • Removed
  • Hold Your Ground (D)
    • Moved from Level 13
    • No longer requires Iron Skin's shield to be broken for the 4-second cooldown reduction
• Level 4
  • Conviction (W)
    • Moved from Level 7
  • Sins Exposed (E)
    • Moved from Level 7
    • Damage increased from 68 > 90
  • Eternal Retaliation (W)
    • Cooldown reduction decreased from .75 seconds to .5 seconds
• Level 7
  • The Crusade Marches On (D)
    • Removed
  • (New Talent) Zealous Glare (E)
    • Increases the Blind duration of Shield Glare by .5 seconds. Your auto-attacks against Blinded heroes increases their Blind duration by 1 second, up to a maximum of 3 seconds
  • Subdue (Q)
    • Moved from Level 13
      • New functionality:
        • Hitting 2 enemy Heroes with Punish causes the slow to be increased to 80% and no longer decay.
        • !Quest: Hit 4 enemy Heroes with a single cast of Punish. !Reward: Punish now always slows enemies by 80% and no longer decays.
• Level 13
  • Roar (Q)
    • Moved from Level 4
    • Damage bonus reduced from 50% > 25%
    • Additional Functionality:
      • Punish deals 125% increased damage if it hits 2 or more enemy Heroes
  • Burning Rage (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Blessed Hammer (Active)
    • Moved from Level 16
      • New Functionality: Activate to create 2 hammers that spiral around Johanna. Hitting enemy Heroes with Shield Glare reduces the cooldown of this ability by 8 seconds. 30-second cooldown
      • Damage increased from 41 to 80
  • (New Talent) Holy Fury (W)
    • Deal damage to enemies around you. Each enemy Hero hit by Condemn increases the damage by 40% for 5 seconds
• Level 16
  • Fanaticism (D)
    • Additional Functionality: Now also increases the duration of Iron Skin by 2 seconds
• Level 20
  • Heaven's Fury (R)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 2 to 3 seconds
  • Indestructible (Passive)
    • Duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds
  • Storm Shield (Active)
    • Removed
  • (New Talent) Blinded by the Light (Active)
    • Activate to grant nearby allies a shield equal to 25% of their maximum Health for 3 seconds. Hitting enemy Heroes with Shield Glare reduces this cooldown by 8 seconds. 60-second cooldown

Developer Comment: To her credit, Johanna has not needed many changes since she was first released into the Nexus. Her talent pick and win rates have been fair compared to most heroes, and she has almost always had a place in the meta. While she is not in dire need of changes, we saw an opportunity to spruce up her talent tree and give her some more interesting options to choose from on various tiers.

Bug Fixes

• Abilities that block pathing, such as Sonya's Arreat Crater and Tassadar's Force Wall, will no longer block Johanna's movement during Falling Sword.

Updates

Stats

• +25 Physical Armor
• Health reduced from 2451 to 2179
• Health Regen reduced from 5.11 to 4.54

Talents

• Level 1
  • Reinforce (Q)
    • Physical Armor reduced from 75 to 50
• Level 4
  • Amplified Healing (Passive)
    • Removed
• Level 13
  • Spell Shield (Passive)
    • Removed

Updates

Abilities

• Condemn (W)
  • Added functionality:
    • Now deals 200% increased damage to Minions and Mercenaries

Talents

• Level 1
  • Knight Takes Pawn (W)
    • Removed

Developer Comment: As our heroes develop over time, we often find niches for their roles that are only available via Talents. While we love that our Talents augment our Heroes in interesting ways, we are wary when a Hero is picked specifically for a role that they are given via a Talent. We did a pass on our current roster and found a couple of these cases in Johanna and Muradin. We like how Johanna is seen as a warrior with good wave clear, and how Muradin is seen as an anti- auto-attacker. We've decided to make these features part of their base kits, and will be keeping an eye on others in the future.

Bug Fixes

• Condemn will now be correctly interrupted when Johanna becomes Polymorphed.

Updates

• Iron Skin (Trait) (D)
  • Shield amount increased from 613 (+4% per level) to 674 (+4% per level).

Developer Comment: We originally tuned Iron Skin to hold a large portion of the power in Johanna's base-kit. The scaling changes we did in November hurt the strength of the Ability, so we are tuning it up in order to help bring back that original feeling.

Bug Fixes

• Johanna's Falling Sword will now properly cancel enemy Heroic Abilities when its Stun is applied during those Abilities' casting times.

Updates

• Falling Sword (R)
  • Damage increased from 251 (+4% per level) to 365 (+4% per level).

Developer Comment: We want to make some basic improvements to a lot of the lesser-picked/lower win-rate Heroic Abilities. Most of these are pretty simple changes to make them more enticing, like adding more damage, reducing cooldowns, or lowering Mana costs. We realize that the primary use case for Abilities like Li Li's Water Dragon or E.T.C.'s Stage Dive is not damage, but having more of it might help them feel more effective. We're trying to do something a little bit different with Brightwing's Emerald Wind and Malfurion's Twilight Dream by compensating for some of the Support capability you miss out on by picking these Heroics. We're excited to see how these go! In Thrall's case, Sundering was a little too strong, so we're reducing its stun duration.

Updates

• Reinforce (Talent)
  • Damage reduction amount increased from 50% to 75%

Updates

• Falling Sword (R)
  • Cooldown decreased from 80 to 60 seconds
  • No longer slows movement while airborne

Developer Comment: Please see the above Developer Comment for .

Updates

• Condemn (W)
  • Knight Takes Pawn (Talent)
    • Damage bonus against Minions and Mercenaries decreased from 400% to 300%
    • Stun duration against Minions and Mercenaries decreased from 4 to 3 seconds
• Blessed Shield (R)
  • Stun duration decreased from 2 to 1.5 seconds for the first target struck, and decreased from 1 to 0.75 seconds for additional targets.
  • Radiating Faith (Talent)
    • No longer increases Blessed Shield range.
    • Now increases the stun duration to 2 seconds for the first target struck, and 1 second for additional targets

Developer Comment: Johanna is powerful right now, and we think a large part of her strength is due to her ability to quickly clear large Minion waves. We also felt that the stun duration on her Blessed Shield could be frustrating to play against during the mid-game. Players who are looking to get that extra stun duration back can elect to build into it at level 20.

Bug Fixes

• The visual effects for Johanna's Shield Glare are no longer visible through the Fog of War.
• The voiceover for Johanna's Falling Sword and Blessed Shield abilities can no longer be heard globally.

Bug Fixes

• Brightwing's Peekaboo, Diablo's Firestorm (returning fireballs), Johanna's Blessed Hammer, Leoric's Buried Alive, Nova's Railgun, Sgt. Hammer's Napalm Strike (impact damage) and Tychus's Big Red Button (the nuke portion)

Updates

• Shield Glare (E)
  • Affected targets now miss all Basic Attacks throughout Shield Glare's duration.
  • Blind duration reduced from 4 to 1.5 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Johanna's death audio will no longer play globally.

Releases

Johanna, Crusader of Zakarum, has been added to the Nexus and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of her Abilities.

Trait

• Iron Skin (D)
  • Become Unstoppable and gain a Shield that absorbs damage for 4 seconds.

Basic Abilities

• Punish (Q)
  • Deal damage and slow enemies by 60%, decaying over 2 seconds.
• Condemn (W)
  • After a 1 second delay, you pull nearby enemies toward you, stunning them and dealing damage.
• Shield Glare (E)
  • Deal damage to enemies and cause them to miss their next 2 Basic Attacks within 4 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

• Falling Sword (R)
  • You leap toward an area. While in the air, you can steer the landing location by moving. You land after 2 seconds, dealing damage to nearby enemies and knocking them into the air.
• Blessed Shield (R)
  • Deal damage and stun the first enemy hit for 2 seconds. Blessed Shield then bounces to 2 nearby enemies, dealing half damage and stunning them for 1 second.