Bug Fixes

• Level 7
  • Wild Vigor
    • Fixed an issue that caused the 4th Basic Attack to not display impact effects.
    • Now applies to the next 4 Basic Attacks fired, instead of the next 4 Basic Attacks that connect.
    • Now applies to the next attack fired instead of the next attack that hits.

Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Splintered Spear
    • ADDED FUNCTIONALITY: Now grants 3 stacks of Splintered Spear. A stack is consumed when an extra target is attacked. Can have a maximum of 3 stacks and all stacks can be consumed in a single attack.
• Level 13
  • Endless Spores
    • Now also refunds 50 Mana.
• Level 20
  • For The Wildlands!
    • NEW TALENT: Thornwood Vine now shoots out 4 additional Vines in an arc.
  • Forest's Wrath
    • Can now be selected with either Heroic.

Bug Fixes

• Level 10
  • Leaping Strike
    • Fixed an issue that caused Leaping Strike to stall game logic.

Bug Fixes

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

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Hippity Hop [Z]
    • Will now show on the Buff Bar while active.
• Level 7
  • Splintered Spear [Q]
    • Added to the Buff Bar.
  • Wild Vigor [W]
    • Added to the Buff Bar.
• Level 13
  • Endless Spores [W]
    • Now causes the Crippling Spores button to pulse when activating it would grant reduced cooldown.
• Level 16
  • Accelerated Contamination [Q]
    • Now causes the Noxious Blossom button to glow when the cooldown is recharging faster.
  • Invigorating Spores [W]
    • Added to the Buff Bar.
  • Star Wood Spear [W]
    • Added to the Buff Bar.

Bug Fixes

• Nature's Toxin [Trait]
  • Now acts similarly to other heals.
• Level 13
  • Abolish Magic [Active]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Abolish Magic to not reduce the duration of Silences, Fears, and Taunts.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Splintered Spear to not display correctly while Blinded or against an Evading enemy.
• Splintered Spear will no longer attack inactive Mercenaries unless the triggering attack is against an inactive Mercenary.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Invigorating Spores to be capable of activating on-death effects multiple times on enemies.
• Fixed an issue that caused Invigorating Spores to deal damage while Blinded or if the target is Evading.
• Fixed an issue that caused Invigorating Spores to deal damage on an attack that brings the target to full stacks of Nature's Toxin.
• Splintered Spear will no longer target Hidden or Neutral targets.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Abolish Magic reducing crowd control effects too much.

Updates

Base

• Nature's Toxin [Trait]
  • Damage dealt reduced from 36 to 33.

Talents

• Level 7
  • Choking Pollen [Q]
    • Damage bonus against enemies with 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin decreased from 200% to 175%.

Developer Comment: Lunara has hopped a little higher than we expected, so we're diluting her poison.

Bug Fixes

• Accelerated Contamination can no longer grant CDR from dead Heroes.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Hippity Hop [Z]
    • Cooldown reduced from 4 to 2 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Choking Pollen [Q]
    • Damage against enemies with 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin increased from 150% to 200%.
  • Wild Vigor [W]
    • Damage bonus increased from 50% to 70%.
• Level 10
  • Thornwood Vine [R1]
    • Damage increased from 176 to 184.
• Level 13
  • Abolish Magic [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 30 to 20 seconds.

Developer Comment: Lunara has been doing some weeding, and now some of her lesser picked talents have begun to bloom.

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Blossom Swell [Q]
    • Adjusted functionality: Increase Noxious Blossom's range by 25% and its radius by 20%. Blossom Swell applies 2 stacks of Nature's Toxin to enemies hit.
• Level 16
  • Accelerated Contamination [Q]
    • Adjusted functionality: Reduce the Mana cost of Noxious Blossom from 60 to 40. While at least 1 enemy Hero is afflicted by Nature's Toxin, Noxious Blossom's cooldown recharges 75% faster.
  • Starwood Spear [W]
    • Adjusted functionality: Increase Lunara's Basic Attack range by .5. Using Crippling Spores increases Lunara's Basic Attack range by an additional 2.25 for 6 seconds.

Developer Comment: We're making some functionality changes to some of Lunara's talents, particularly when it comes to her Q build, with the aim of making their benefits more easily accessible. We're also giving a small range increase to Lunara's Basic Attacks to Starwood Spear as a baseline buff for picking the talent. While we know the range increase is small, we are nervous about giving too much of a range increase to a Hero who has a Movement Speed bonus as a baseline feature of the character, so we'll be keeping an eye on this buff and will increase the bonus more if we feel it is appropriate.

Updates

Base

• Nature's Toxin [Trait]
  • Damage scaling per level reduced from 5% to 4%.
  • Damage increased from 30 to 36.

Developer Comment: As the information can be a bit hidden, we're re-evaluating where we have scaling on heroes that deviates from the normal 4% per level. While we have some good balance reasons for doing this, Lunara's Nature's Toxin was not one of them. Because of this, we're changing its scaling to match other heroes, which will result in a decent buff in the early-mid game and a very slight nerf to her in the late game. Overall this should be a moderate buff for her for most of the game.

Updates

• Level 4
  • Blossom Swell [Q]
    • Movement Speed bonus increased from 12% to 15%

• Level 7
  • Choking Pollen [Q]
    • Damage bonus to targets with Nature's Toxin increased from 85% to 100%
    • Damage bonus to targets with 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin increased from 135% to 150%

• Level 10
  • Thornwood Vine [R1]
    • Damage increased from 164 to 176

• Level 13
  • Abolish Magic [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 35 to 30 seconds
  • Endless Spores [W]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 3 to 4 seconds

• Level 16
  • Accelerated Contamination [Q]
    • Additional functionality: Now also reduces the Mana cost of Noxious Blossom from 60 to 40

Updates

Updates

• Talents

  • Level 4
    • Blossom Swell (Q)
      • Movement Speed bonus reduced from 15% to 12%.
      • This Movement Speed bonus now stacks with other Movement Speed bonuses.

  Developer Comment: Due to Lunara's unique Movement Speed mechanics, our recent update to Blossom Swell was not as beneficial to Lunara as we had hoped. To address this, we are slightly reducing its bonus but allowing it to stack with other Movement Speed bonuses, including Lunara's trait, which should dramatically increase the total Movement Speed that she gets from this talent.

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Blossom Swell (Q)
    • Additional functionality:
      • Hitting an enemy Hero with Noxious Blossom increases Lunara's Movement Speed by 15% for 3 seconds

Developer Comment: Blossom Swell has been underperforming compared to other talents on its tier since Lunara's last rework. While her talent diversity is fairly good compared to other heroes in the game, we want to give her Q build some love, and saw this as an opportunity to do so.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing Lunara from playing a voice line when she died.

Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Choking Pollen (Q)
    • Damage bonus to enemies afflicted by Nature's Toxin increased from 75 to 85%
    • Damage bonus to enemies afflicted by 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin increased from 125 to 135%

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Nature's Culling (Trait)
    • Bonus damage reduced from 150% to 125%.
• Level 7
  • Choking Pollen (Q)
    • Bonus damage against enemies who have 1 stack of Nature's Toxin increased from 50% to 75%.
    • Bonus damage against enemies who have 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin increased from 100% to 125%.

Developer Comment: Lunara's rework has put her pick rate, win rate, and Talent pick rates in a pretty good spot. These changes are to address Talent outliers, which we'll continue to keep an eye on going forward.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which the Blossom Swell Talent granted less bonus area to Noxious Blossom than intended.
• The Hippity Hop Talent no longer grants more Movement Speed to Dryad's Swiftness than intended.

Updates

Abilities

• Nature's Toxin (Trait)
  • Damage reduced from 34 to 30.
• Wisp (E)
  • Mana cost removed.
  • Wisp Movement Speed increased by 100%.
  • Vision radius reduced from 7 to 6.
  • Additional functionality:
    • When a Wisp is in a bush for 2 seconds, its vision radius is increased by 75%.

Talents

• Level 1
  • New Talent: Sentinel Wisp (E)
    • When a Wisp is in a bush for 5 seconds, its vision radius is increased by 200% and reveals the surrounding area.
  • Photosynthesis
    • Removed.
  • Cruel Spores (Q)
    • Removed.
  • New Talent: Hippity Hop (Z)
    • After not Basic Attacking or taking damage for 5 seconds, increase the Movement Speed bonus of Dryad's Swiftness by 10%.
• Level 4
  • Timelost Wisp (E)
    • Removed.
  • Skybound Wisp (E)
    • Removed.
  • Dividing Wisp (E)
    • Removed.
  • Blossom Swell (Q)
    • Moved from Level 1.
    • Additional functionality:
      • Now also increases Noxious Blossom's range by 25%.
  • Siphoning Toxin (Trait)
    • Moved from Level 7
    • Heal amount reduced from 18 to 9 Health per second.
    • Additional functionality:
      • When an enemy Hero has 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin, this Healing increases to 28 per second.
  • Nature's Culling (Trait)
    • Moved from Level 7.
• Level 7
  • Choking Pollen (Q)
    • Moved from Level 16.
    • Bonus damage reduced from 125% to 50%.
    • Additional functionality:
      • This damage bonus increases by an additional 50% against enemies who have 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin.
• Level 13
  • Pestering Blossom
    • Removed.
  • New Talent: Endless Spores (W)
    • Casting Crippling Spores while at least 2 enemy Heroes are afflicted with Nature's Toxin reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
  • Let Them Wither (W)
    • Moved from Level 16
    • Adjusted functionality:
      • No longer increases Crippling Spores' Slow amount. Instead, increases Crippling Spores' Slow duration by 1 second and causes it to no longer decay.
  • Giant Killer
    • Removed.
  • Abolish Magic (Active)
    • Moved from Level 20.
• Level 16
  • New Talent: Accelerated Contamination (Q)
    • While at least 2 enemy Heroes are afflicted with Nature's Toxin, Noxious Blossom's cooldown recharges 100% faster.
  • Invigorating Spores (W)
    • Attack Speed bonus reduced from 50% to 30%.
    • Additional functionality:
      • Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes with 3 stacks of Nature's Toxin deal damage equal to 1.5% of their maximum Health.
  • Unfair Advantage (Trait)
    • Moved from Level 13.
    • Bonus damage increased from 50% to 60%.
    • Now also deals this bonus damage to Rooted and Stunned Heroes.
• Level 20
  • Forest's Wrath (R)
    • No longer increases Thornwood Vine's speed.
    • Additional functionality:
      • Thornwood Vine now applies 2 stacks of Nature's Toxin.
  • Boundless Stride (R)
    • Additional functionality:
      • Now also decreases the Leaping Strike's cooldown by 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Intensifying Toxin (Trait)
    • Nature's Toxin deals 40% more damage to enemies afflicted with 3 stacks.

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

Developer Comment: Our goals for Lunara's rework are twofold: first, we want to add some gameplay to Wisp and consolidate its related talents into something more interesting. We also want to give Lunara more potential playstyles, which we're doing by adding some new powerful talents into her tree. Because we added so much more power into her talents, we had to reduce her baseline power by a marginal amount to compensate. We've had a blast with Lunara in our internal playtests, and we're excited to release her new and improved version into the wild!

Bug Fixes

• Queued Leaping Strikes will no longer continue to target an enemy Hero who enters Stealth before the Heroic Ability actually fires.

Bug Fixes

• Leaping Strike can no longer be cast while Rooted.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an inconsistency that allowed Lunara to cast Leaping Strike over some, but not all, allied units after learning Boundless Stride.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing Lunara from Leaping over several different friendly units after choosing the Boundless Stride talent.

Updates

Abilities

• Wisp (E)
  • Move cooldown reduced from 5 to 1 seconds
  • Number of attacks required to kill the Wisp increased from 1 to 2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing Lunara from Leaping over several different friendly units after choosing the Boundless Stride talent.

Updates

Talents

• Level 16
  • Starwood Spear (W)
    • Will now generate an Indicator displaying Lunara's new attack range while active

Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Nature's Culling and Siphoning Toxin have had their icon colors swapped (Siphoning Toxin now has the green icon since it heals.) Their position in the talent tier remains the same.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing Lunara's camera to behave strangely after being resurrected by Auriel's Resurrect.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue in which casting Leaping Strike toward terrain could cause Lunara to run back to her original location after landing.
• Will no longer receive the “Stuck” notification when a Wisp is stuck by Tracer's Pulse Bomb.

Bug Fixes

• Abolish Magic will now correctly reduce the duration of Fear, Root, Silence, Slow, and Stun effects after it is self-cast.

Updates

Abilities

• Leaping Strike (R)
  • Damage increased from 246 to 271

Talents

• Level 1
  • Photosynthesis (W)
    • Mana restoration increased from 8 to 10 Mana per target
• Level 4
  • Skybound Wisp (E)
    • Revealed area size increased by 10%
  • Timelost Wisp (E)
    • Cooldown recharge increased from 100% to 125%
• Level 7
  • Splintered Spear (Q)
    • Number of attack targets increased from 3 to 4
  • Nature's Culling (Passive)
    • Damage to non-Heroes decreased from 200% to 150%
• Level 13
  • Pestering Blossom (Q)
    • Range increase increased from 40% to 50%
• Level 16
  • Choking Pollen (Q)
    • Bonus damage increased from 100% to 125%
• Level 20
  • Abolish Magic (Active)
    • Cooldown reduced from 45 from 35 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.

Bug Fixes

• Leaping Strike can now properly damage enemy Structures after learning the Boundless Stride Talent.
• Landing against the terrain after casting Leaping Strike will no longer occasionally cause Lunara to run back to her original location.
• Forts and Keeps will now properly fire on a Wisp that it is just inside attack range.

Updates

• Noxious Blossom (Q)
  • Choking Pollen (Talent)
    • Damage bonus increased from 50% to 100%
• Crippling Spores (W)
  • Let Them Wither (Talent)
    • The Slow amount applied by Crippling Spores no longer decays over its 3 second duration
    • Slow amount reduced from 60% to 50%

Bug Fixes

• Lunara's Leaping Strike will now fire appropriately when cast at the same moment as the target enters a line-of-sight blocker.

Updates

• Lunara's Basic Attack has received responsiveness improvements
• Ranged Basic Attack animation speed increased by 50%.
• Melee Basic Attack animation speed increased by 300% to match the ranged animation's new speed
• Wisp (E)
  • Mana cost reduced from 50 to 30
  • Cooldown decreased from 45 to 30 seconds, but its duration has not been changed

Updates

• Health increased from 1300 to 1430
• Health Regeneration increased from 2.7083 to 2.9804 Health per second
• Nature's Toxin (Trait)
  • Damage increased from 32 (+4% per level) to 34 (+5% per level)

Developer Comment: We are excited to see how many players are loving Lunara's playstyle, but we feel she is under-tuned and somewhat punished by the current meta. Lunara excels when she is free to get basic attacks in, so we're increasing her survivability to allow that. Also, her damage hasn't quite met our expectations, so we're increasing it to give her more impact. We've heard concerns about issues affecting her stutter-stepping and have changes planned that will also address this soon.

Releases

Lunara, First Daughter of Cenarius, has been added to the Nexus and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of her Abilities.

Mount

• Dryad's Swiftness
  • Lunara cannot use Mounts. Instead, you move 20% faster by leaping short distances.

Trait

• Nature's Toxin
  • Your Basic Attacks and damaging Abilities poison the target, dealing damage each second for 3 seconds.

Basic Abilities >

• Noxious Blossom (Q)
  • After 0.5 seconds, cause an area to explode with pollen, dealing damage.
• Crippling Spores (W)
  • Enemies currently afflicted by Nature's Toxin have its duration increased by 3 seconds and are slowed by 40%, decaying over 3 seconds.
• Wisp (E)
  • Spawn a Wisp to scout an area. Can be redirected once active. Lasts 45 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

• Thornwood Vine (R)
  • Send forth vines that deal damage to all enemies in a line. Can hold 3 charges.
• Leaping Strike (R)
  • Leap over an enemy, attacking and slowing the target by 80% for 0.35 seconds. Can hold 2 charges.