Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Drain Hope [W]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Stasis on Leoric or Drain Hope's target to not break Drain Hope.

Bug Fixes

• Level 1
  • Fealty Unto Death
    • Healing increased from 31.85 to 32. Updated the tooltip to display number instead of percentage.

Bug Fixes

• Level 20
  • Buried Alive
    • Now displays in the Death Recap.
  • Shroud of the Dead King
    • Shroud of the Dead King now shows floating text for the amount of damage prevented.

Bug Fixes

• Level 7
  • Willing Vessel [W]
    • Now displays as a crit.

Bug Fixes

• Skeletal Swing mana refund now displays as a crit.

Bug Fixes

• Difficulty updated from Easy to Medium.
• Fixed an issue that caused Buried Alive's silence to be reduced in duration by Abolish Magic's duration reduction.
• Fixed an issue that caused Burning Despair's damage aura to display as a critical when damage was not increased.
• Fixed an issue that caused Drain Hope and Drain Essence to remain active on targets after they enter a Vehicle.
• Leoric's Self Healing is no longer increased by Drain Essence's Undying death timer reduction.
• Leoric is no longer capable of activating Ossein Renewal while Undying is active.
• Wrath of the Bone King effect reveal duration reduced from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.

Updates

Base

• Skeletal Swing [Q]
  • Additional functionality: Skeletal Swing deals an additional 75% damage to Minions.
• Wrath of the Bone King [Trait]
  • Third Basic Attack damage bonus increased from 100% to 125%.

Talents

• Level 4
  • Kneel, Peasants! [Q]
    • Changed functionality: Skeletal Swing deals an additional 75% damage to Mercenaries and Monsters, and they activate Skeletal Swing's cost and cooldown refund.

Developer Comment: Being the King brings many duties, and being the Skeleton King is no different. Leoric players are often expected to fill a wave clearing role that is dependent on the current Kneel, Peasants! to succeed. We're bringing much of its benefit baseline, and trying something a little weird with Kneel, Peasants! Let us know if you consider it treasonous.

Updates

Base

• Basic Attack damage increased from 109 to 115.

Talents

• Level 13
  • Unyielding Despair [W]
    • Cooldown reduction while Drain Hope is active increased from .5 to .75 seconds.
    • Cooldown reduction if Drain Hope lasts its full duration reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Hardened Bones [W]
    • Removed.
  • Burning Despair [W]
    • Added Crit kickers when Burning Despair deals bonus damage during Drain Hope.
    • Additional functionality: While Drain Hope is active, gain 40 Armor.
  • Shroud of the Dead King [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 30 to 25 seconds.

Developer Comment: Leoric is slightly out of the meta and is currently sitting at around a 48% win rate. We're giving him some small buffs with a focus on his Level 20 talents to make them more interesting and powerful to use.

Updates

Base

• Skeletal Swing [Q]
  • Cooldown reduced from 14 to 12 seconds.
  • Mana cost reduced from 80 to 70.

Talents

• Level 13
  • Unyielding Despair [W]
    • Cooldown reduction if Drain Hope finishes increased from 2 to 3 seconds.

Developer Comment: Swinging giant maces is awesome. Undead skeleton kings are awesome. Leoric's now a little more awesome. Play him.

Bug Fixes

• Updated Wraith Walk's Movement Speed to correctly get up to a 50% bonus.

Updates

Base

• Health increased from 2468 to 2550.
• Health Regeneration increased from 5.141 to 5.313.

Talents

• Level 20
  • Hardened Bones [W]
    • Armor increased from 40 to 50.
  • Shroud of the Dead King [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 30 seconds.

Developer Comment: Too many traitors have escaped Leoric's grasp lately. It's time that they paid.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Leoric's Basic Attack and Wrath of the Bone King animations would desync with his attack cycle

Updates

Talents

• Level 13
  • Spectral Leech (Passive)
    • Moved from Level 20
• Level 20
  • Hardened Bones (W)
    • Moved from Level 13

Developer Comment: Since his rework, Ominous Wraith at Level 13 has largely defined Leoric's place on a team at more competitive levels of play. Rather than nerf something that we consider to be a fairly cool and unique playstyle, we're instead looking to buff up the other ways that players can build Leoric. Now all of his key build-around talents will be at Level 13, which should make his Basic Attack playstyle come online much sooner, and give him more options if he wants to build into Drain Hope, as he can now combine Unyielding Despair with Hardened Bones.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Fealty unto Death (Trait)
    • Health restoration increased from 1 to 1.25% maximum Health
    • Mana restoration increased from 5 to 6
• Level 13
  • Hardened Bones (E)
    • Armor bonus increased from 20 to 40
    • Bonus Armor duration decreased from 3 to 2 seconds
• Level 20
  • Shroud of the Dead King (Active)
    • Cooldown reduced from 75 to 60 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that allowed Drain Hope's damage and healing to persist through time stop effects.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the visual effect seen on Heroes affected by Ominous Wraith to fail to appear.

Bug Fixes

• The Consume Vitality Talent now displays the base Skeletal Swing icon art in the Talent selection pane.
• Reduced the volume of Leoric's Basic Attack sound effects.

Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage increased from 105 to 109.

Abilities

• Drain Hope (W)
  • Cooldown reduced from 11 to 10 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing Leoric from casting Hearthstone while in Undying form.

Bug Fixes

• A.I. Leoric will no longer remain stationary after activating Wraith Walk.
• Will no longer become permanently Unstoppable if he is affected by Stasis during Wraith Walk.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing Towers to spawn if Leoric was directly impacted by Sonic Arrow.

Bug Fixes

• The Shroud of the Dead King Talent will now correctly play an animation and a sound when activated.

Updates

Abilities

• Entomb (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 50 seconds

Talents

• Level 4
  • Kneel Peasants! (Q)
    • Damage bonus to Minions increased from 75 to 100%

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing Leoric's Basic Attack cleave animation from playing when using certain skins.
• Fixed an issue causing enemy Heroes affected by Leoric's Entomb ability to lose allied vision after Leoric had chosen the Buried Alive talent.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing enemy Heroes affected by Leoric's Entomb ability to lose allied vision after Leoric had chosen the Buried Alive talent.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Mithril Mace Talent from granting bonus Attack Speed for Minion and Hero kills.
• Percentage damage dealt by the Spectral Leech Talent will now properly count as Ability damage rather than Basic Attack damage.

Updates

Abilities

• Entomb (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 75 to 60 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause Leoric to become invisible after exiting Zagara's Devouring Maw.

Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack Damage reduced from 150 to 105
  • New functionality – Wrath of the Bone King
    • Leoric's first two Basic Attacks cleave for 100% damage. His third Basic Attack deals 100% additional damage to his main target

Abilities

• Skeletal Swing (Q)
  • No longer deals bonus damage to non-Heroic targets
  • Cooldown increased from 8 to 14 seconds
  • Mana Cost increased from 50 to 80
  • Damage increased from 125 to 150
  • Additional Functionality:
    • If Skeletal Swing hits a Hero, refund 50% of the Cooldown and Mana Cost
• Drain Hope (W)
  • Lowered damage and healing from 25% to 20% of the target's maximum Health
• Drain Essence (W)
  • Lowered healing from 12.5% to 10% of target's maximum Health
  • Lowered cooldown from 11 to 9 seconds
• Entomb (R)
  • Cooldown increased from 50 to 75 seconds
  • Mana cost increased from 75 to 90
• March of the Black King (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 80 to 50 seconds
  • Mana cost reduced from 100 to 75
  • Damage increased from 183 to 250
  • Heal increased from 7% to 12%

Talents

• Level 1
  • Mana Thirst (Q)
    • Removed
  • Block (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Reanimation (Trait)
    • Removed
  • Fealty Unto Death (Passive)
    • Moved from Level 4
  • Consume Vitality (Q)
    • Moved from Level 16
    • New Functionality:
      • Lowers the Cooldown of Skeletal Swing by 2 seconds
      • Heroes hit by Skeletal Swing heal Leoric for 4% of his maximum health
      • No longer adds any additional effect while in Undying form
  • Ossein Renewal (Active)
    • Moved from Level 7
    • New Functionality:
      • Activate to heal Leoric for 30% of his maximum Health over 5 seconds. Regeneration Globes lower the Cooldown of this ability by 20 seconds. 120 second cooldown.
• Level 4
  • Ghastly Reach (Q)
    • Moved from Level 7
  • Paralyzing Rage (Q)
    • Moved from Level 7
  • (New) Kneel, Peasants! (Q)
    • Increase the damage of Skeletal Swing to Minions and Mercenaries by 75%
• Level 7
  • Drain Momentum (W)
    • Moved from Level 13
    • No longer grants a movement speed bonus (removes the self-slow)
    • Added Functionality:
      • If Drain Hope lasts the full duration, gain 30% movement speed for 4 seconds
  • Lingering Apparition (E)
    • Removed
  • Willing Vessel (W)
    • Moved from Level 4
    • Drain Hope's healing is increased from 20% to 25% of the target's maximum Health
    • Added Functionality:
      • If Drain Hope lasts the full duration, immediately heal for an additional 5% of your max health
• Level 13
  • Burning Rage (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Spell Shield (Active)
    • Removed
  • Unyielding Despair (W)
    • Moved from Level 16
    • Cooldown reduction per second Drain Hope is active decreased from 1 to .5 seconds
    • Added Functionality:
      • If you complete a full duration Drain Hope, lower its Cooldown by an additional 3 seconds
  • Hardened Bones (W)
    • Moved from Level 4
    • New Functionality:
      • Leoric gains 20 Armor while Drain Hope is active. If Drain Hope lasts the full duration, the Armor remains for 3 seconds
  • (New) Ominous Wraith (E)
    • Wraith Walk lasts 100% longer and lowers the damage of all enemy Heroes passed through by 50% for 4 seconds
• Level 16
  • Renewed Swing (Q)
    • Removed
  • Imposing Presence (Active)
    • Removed
  • Royal Focus (E)
    • Moved from Level 4
    • New Functionality:
      • Increase the damage of your next Skeletal Swing by 50% after using Wraith Walk. Every enemy Hero hit with Skeletal Swing lowers the Cooldown of Wraith Walk by 7 seconds
  • Crushing Hope (W)
    • Moved from Level 13
    • Bonus damage dealt by a full duration Drain Hope increased from 10 to 15% of target's maximum Health
  • (New) Mithril Mace (Passive)
    • Gain 20% Attack Speed
    • !Quest – Kill Minions and Heroes
    • For every 10 Minions or 1 Hero kill, increase your Attack Speed by an additional 3%, up to a maximum bonus of 30%
• Level 20
  • Hardened Shield (Active)
    • Removed
  • Buried Alive (R)
    • Added Functionality:
      • Enemies inside the Entomb are silenced. The duration of Entomb is lowered from 4 to 3 seconds
  • Death March (R)
    • New Functionality:
      • The attached Drain Hopes are now gain all talent bonuses
  • Spectral Leech (Passive)
    • Leoric's Basic Attacks deal an additional 2.5% of the targets max HP and heals Leoric for twice that amount
  • (New) Burning Despair (Passive)
    • Deal 40 damage in an area around yourself. Double the damage and area of effect while Drain Hope is active.
  • (New) Shroud of the Dead King (Active)
    • Activate to become Protected for 3 seconds. 75 second cooldown.

Developer Comment: The Dead King has been reanimated with a plethora of new talents and mechanics. One of our main goals with his rework was to add some depth into his wave clear routine. Early in development we noticed the cadence and deliberateness of his Basic Attacks and wanted to build around that. Between Wrath of the Bone King and the tuning changes to Skeletal Swing, we feel like we hit that goal. The other big focuses with this update were to remove the death state healing interactions of talents and update the talent tree to our newer philosophies. We know it was a long time in coming, but we appreciate your patience and look forward to your feedback!

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

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which Renewed Swing dealt more damage than intended.

Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage increased from 138 to 150

Abilities

• Skeletal Swing (Q)
  • Damage increased from 116 to 125

Talents

• Level 16
  • Renewed Swing (Q)
    • Bonus swing damage increased from 50 to 80%

Developer Comment: All shall suffer.

Bug Fixes

• The Camera will now properly follow Leoric's Wraith form during Wraith Walk while Camera Follow is enabled.

Updates

Abilities

• March of the Black King (R)
  • Will no longer deal damage in a 90 degree arc behind Leoric

Developer Comment: We realize that we have a lot of Leoric players that are looking for talent changes and calling for buffs (especially to Skeletal Swing). We want you to know that we actively hear you and although this art-driven change came a bit earlier than our other changes, you spooky skeleton players should be able to rejoice in a future patch.

Bug Fixes

• Minions will no longer path around Leoric when he is in Undying form.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Hopelessness (W)
    • Range increase changed from 20 to 25%
• Level 4
  • Royal Focus (E)
    • Now also increases the damage of the next Skeletal Swing by 50% in addition to its current functionality.

Bug Fixes

• The tooltip for Drain Essence now correctly states that it Heals up to 12.5% of maximum Health, rather than 10%.
• The Drain Hope effect applied by the Death March Talent no longer deals less damage than intended.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Mana Thirst (Q)
    • Removed the cap to Mana earned from targets hit by Skeletal Swing
• Level 7
  • Lingering Apparition (E)
    • Increases Wraith Walk duration from 60% to 80%
• Level 13
  • Drain Momentum (W)
    • Now increases Leoric's Movement Speed by 10% while Drain Hope is active
• Level 20
  • Buried Alive (R)
    • Increased damage from 34 to 45

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.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a visual issue in which the Reanimation Talent's Quest could appear incomplete despite satisfying all requirements for completion.

Updates

Abilities

• Drain Hope (W)
  • Damage has been increased from 20% to 25% of target's maximum Health
  • Healing has been increased from 20% to 25% of Leoric's maximum Health
  • Healing in Undying form increased from 10% to 12.5% of Leoric's maximum Health

Talents

Level 4

• Willing Vessel (W)
  • Healing increased from 25% to 30% of Leoric's maximum Health
  • Healing in Undying form increased from 12.5% to 15% of Leoric's maximum Health

Updates

• Health increased from 2373 (+4% per level) to 2468 (+4% per level).
• Health Regeneration increased from approximately 4.95 (+4% per level) to 5.14 (+4% per level).
• Reanimation (Talent) has been changed to match Regeneration Master's new functionality.
  • Upon gathering 30 Health Regeneration Globes, Leoric will respawn 10 seconds faster.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that made Leoric unable to walk through enemy Gates while in Undying form.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause Leoric's Drain Hope to end prematurely.

Updates

• Drain Hope (W)
  • Cooldown decreased from 12 to 11 seconds
  • If Leoric is stunned while casting Drain Hope, the stun will no longer cancel the Ability and the missile will continue to travel
  • Damage dealt and Health gained reduced from 25% to 20%
  • Damage and Healing no longer gradually increase over the Ability's duration, but instead does a consistent amount of damage and healing with each tick.

Developer Comment: We wanted to remove the scaling damage and heal amount on Drain Hope, but knew the change alone would be a significant buff as much of the value is loaded at the end of the ability. In response, we lowered this value by 5% and also reduced the cooldown by 1 second.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could allow Leoric to change direction while using March of the Black King.

Updates

• Ossein Renewal (Talent)
  • Now dismounts Leoric upon activation
  • No longer causes Leoric to pause briefly when activated while moving
• Skeletal Swing (Q)
  • Damage decreased from 100 (+10 per level) to 85 (+8.5 per level)

Developer Comment: Leoric is too powerful right now. We're targeting his Skeletal Swing, as we believe it does everything a little too well. The damage output for this Ability has been decreased overall, and we've reduced its strength at clearing Minion waves significantly.

Bug Fixes

• Abathur will now properly receive Takedown credit after dealing the killing blow to Leoric.
• Abathur will no longer receive Takedown credit after casting Symbiote on an allied Leoric that is then killed by the enemy team.
• Abathur's Hivemind Symbiote will no longer persist on Leoric after he enters Undying form.
• Camera Follow will no longer cease functioning if Leoric enters Undying form in mid-air.
• Leoric's Reanimation Talent will no longer allow him to regenerate Health after picking up a Regeneration Globe while controlling a Dragon Knight or Garden Terror.
• Nazeebo's Gargantuan will no longer continue to follow an enemy Leoric that has entered Undying form.
• Allied Heroes will no longer tell Leoric to use a Healing Fountain while he is in Undying form.
• Leoric's in-game portrait will no longer switch to his Wraith Walk portrait if an enemy Leoric is killed nearby.

Updates

• Undying (Trait)
  • Many of Leoric's healing effects during Undying are now half as effective
  • Reanimation (Talent)
    • Health regeneration during Undying decreased from 1.5 to 0.75 Health per second
  • Ossein Renewal (Talent)
    • Heal amount during Undying reduced from 20% to 10% of Leoric's maximum Health
  • Ghastly Swing (Q)
    • Consume Vitality (Talent)
      • Healing reduced during Undying from 2% to 1% of Leroic's maximum Health per target hit, capping at 5%
  • Drain Essence (W)
    • Now restores up to 12.5% of Leroic's maximum Health during Undying, rather than a flat amount (was approximately 10%)
    • Willing Vessel (Talent)
      • Now also increases Drain Essence's healing to 15% during Undying
• Skeletal Swing (Q)
  • No longer deals 100% increased damage to structures

Bug Fixes

• Leoric's Reanimation Talent will no longer allow him to benefit from enemy Regen Globes during Undying.
• Fixed a bug that could allow Leoric's Consume Vitality to heal him for more than the five target maximum during Undying.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Leoric's Consume Vitality to trigger multiple times after striking a single target.
• 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)

Releases

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

Trait

• Undying
  • Become a ghost when you die, regenerating Health over time, and resurrecting upon reaching full Health. Your Abilities don't deal damage while in ghost form, but can still heal.

Basic Abilities

• Skeletal Swing (Q)
  • Swing your mace in front of you, dealing damage and slowing enemies by 40% for 2.5 seconds. Deals double damage to all non-Heroic sources.
• Drain Hope (W)
  • Grab an enemy Hero's soul for up to 4 seconds, dealing up to 25% of their maximum Health as damage and healing you for up to 25% of your maximum Health, so long as you remain within range of the target. You are slowed by 20% while Drain Hope is active.
• Wraith Walk (E)
  • Separate from your body, becoming Unstoppable and gaining Movement Speed, accelerating up to 50% over 2.5 seconds. Your body jumps to your wraith when Wraith Walk ends or is canceled.

Heroic Abilities

• Entomb (R)
  • Create an unpathable tomb in front of you for 4 seconds
• March of the Black King (R)
  • Become Unstoppable and swing your mace three times, dealing damage and healing you for 7% of your maximum Health for each enemy Hero hit.