Updates

Base

• Spawn Egg [Trait D]
  • Health is reduced by 80% of its current value.
  • Now has a Shield equal to the amount of Health removed.
  • Shield starts regenerating after 5 seconds.
  • Shield takes 8 seconds to re-fill from empty to full.

Bug Fixes

• Level 10
  • Octo-Grab
    • Fixed an issue that caused Octo Grab's cooldown to reset when not interrupted.

Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Pufferfish [W]
    • Minimum cast range removed.
    • No longer bypasses flight time when cast inside Murky's space.

Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Pufferfish [W]
    • Now has a minimum cast range of .05.

Updates

Talents

• Level 13
  • Egg Shell
    • The Shield now regains an amount equal to 35% of Murky's current Health when Murky places a new Egg.

Bug Fixes

• Level 10
  • Octo-Grab
    • Fixed an issue that caused Octo-Grab to be placed on full cooldown if the target moves out of reach.
• Level 13
  • Rejuvenating Bubble
    • Now displays in the Death Recap.

Updates

Base

• Quickcast Settings
  • Removed Cancel March of the Murlocs.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Fish Eye [D]
    • Added a range indicator for Fish Eye once the Respawn Egg has been placed.

Bug Fixes

• Egg Hunt Egg is no longer killed in one hit by Structures.
• Fixed an issue that caused Fishy Deal to stack off of Possessed minions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Big Tuna Kahuna's health bonuses to stack multiplicatively with other health bonuses.
• Fixed an issue that caused Time To Krill to heal the target Murky if they have selected Fish Tank.
• Fixed an issue that caused Time To Krill to not heal the applying Murky if they have selected Fish Tank.
• Murky no longer reveals in area around him after his Egg is slain.
• Octo-Grab will now reveal the target while active, instead of for a fixed 4 seconds in a 0.75 radius.
• Octo-Grab will now reveal the target for 2 seconds when first cast.
• Slime will now reveal targets hit for 2 seconds.
• Pufferfish will now reveal targets hit for 2 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Wrath of Cod now properly follows DoT rules.

Updates

Base

• Spawn Egg [Trait]
  • Health increased from 324 to 420.
  • Health Scaling changed from 30 to 4% per level.

Developer Comment: We're changing Murky's Spawn Egg to have the standard 4% scaling that is present in most other places throughout the game. This is a buff to the egg's Health for most of the game, with its Health value being the same as its current level at around the Level 20 mark.

Bug Fixes

• Murky's Egg Health now properly scales at 4% per level.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Murky A.I. to continually attempt to place an egg outside of follow leash range.

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Slime Time [Q]
    • Required number of times enemy Heroes need to be Slimed to receive quest rewards reduced from 15/30 to 10/20.
  • Living the Dream [Passive]
    • Maximum Spell Power bonus increased from 20% to 25%.

Developer Comment: Mrrgl mrrgl mrrrrrrrgl. Mrrrrrgl! Mrgl?

Updates

Abilities

• Spawn Egg (Trait)
  • Cast time reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds

Talents

• Level 4
  • Living the Dream (Trait)
    • Maximum stacks increased from 15 to 20%

Bug Fixes

• Egg Hunt's Slime no longer benefits from Slime talents.

Updates

• Level 13
  • Fish Tank (Passive)
    • New functionality:
      • Murky is healed for 25% of all damage he deals with Basic Attacks and Basic Abilities

Developer Comment: We're adjusting Fish Tank to not be so binary in the situations where it is powerful. While granting 75 Physical Armor was an appropriate amount of power against the other talents on the tier, it resulted in some situations where Murky could not be killed when playing against certain enemies. We're changing the talent to be more generally useful so that Murky can get a lot of value as long as he is hitting enemies, but he can still be killed by more conventional methods.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause A.I. Murky to repeatedly place Egg in the same location, even if its existing Egg was undamaged.

Bug Fixes

• Spawn Egg with the Egg Hunt Talent can now be cast correctly on Volskaya Foundry's conveyor belts.

Bug Fixes

• The Fish Eye talent will now properly reveal stealthed targets at the edge of its sight radius.
• Fixed an issue causing Murky's Fish Eye talent to permanently reduce his mounted movement speed.

Bug Fixes

• Octo-Grab's model will no longer persist on the target if Murky is Stopped in the same moment that the Ability is cast.
• Can now properly collect Regeneration Globes during Safety Bubble.

Bug Fixes

• Can no longer call down a Nuke during Safety Bubble on Warhead Junction.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Egg Hunt (D)
    • Cooldown reduced from 6 to 3 seconds
  • Fish Eye (D)
    • Vision bonus increased from 200 to 300%
• Level 4
  • Tufferfish (W)
    • Bonus damage increased from 35 to 50%
• Level 7
  • Slippery When Wet (E)
    • Movement Speed bonus increased from 40 to 50%
    • Now also reduces the cooldown of Safety Bubble by 2 seconds
• Level 13
  • Fish Tank (Passive)
    • Armor duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds
• Level 16
  • Wrath of Cod (W)
    • Damage increased from 10 to 15% of maximum Health

Developer Comment: These tuning changes were made to add a greater variety of viable Talent builds. Overall each of these Talents weren't performing to Murloc-Standard-Efficiency (MSE), so they've been buffed up to regulations.

Updates

Stats

• Murky Base Maximum Health reduced from 761 to 730
• Base Health Regeneration reduced from 30.43 to 29.20

Abilities

• Slime (Q)
  • Slow duration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds
  • Slime slow amount reduced from 25 to 20%
• March of the Murlocs (R)
  • Cooldown increased from 80 to 110 seconds

Talents

• Level 1
  • Fishy Deal (Active)
    • Number of Bribe stacks needed to bribe a Mercenary increased from 7 to 8
    • Maximum stacks increased from 30 to 32
  • Egg Hunt (Trait)
    • Vision range of Fake Eggs reduced by 1
• Level 4
  • Slime Time (Q)
    • Slow reduced from 35 to 30%
• Level 7
  • Slippery When Wet (E)
    • Movement Speed bonus increased from 35 to 40%
  • Time to Krill (Passive)
    • Slow reduced from 8 to 7%
• Level 13
  • Rejuvenating Bubble (E)
    • Healing reduced from 50 to 40% of maximum Health

Developer Comment: Murky slimed his way back to the top of the Nexus, and we're all still cleaning the gunk out of our shoes as a result. His release pushed him much further than intended, so we're targeting a series of nerfs at some of the frustrating aspects of the Hero. Overall, his effectiveness will be less reliable, and his ability to slow and zone opponents will be less powerful. Nerrrrfgggle Mrrggl.

Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health increased from 635 to 761

Abilities

• Spawn Egg (D)
  • Resurrect time while Murky's Egg is active increased from 5 to 8 seconds
• Slime (Q)
  • Slow amount increased from 20 to 25%
• Pufferfish (W)
  • Now deals 50% damage to Structures
  • Pufferfish can now be targeted by Structures
  • Pufferfish now has 225 Health and takes damage from Abilities
  • Explosion radius increased by 50%
  • Now scales at 5.5% additional health per level, instead of the standard 4%
• March of the Murlocs (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 100 to 80 seconds
  • Increased the Movement Speed of the tiny murlocs by 30%

Talents

• Level 1
  • Fish Tank (Passive)
    • Moved to level 13
    • Redesigned: Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes grant Murky 75 Basic Attack Armor for 2 seconds
  • Bubble Breeze (E)
    • Renamed to Slippery When Wet
    • Moved to level 7
    • Increased the Movement Speed bonus from 20% to 35%
    • Now also allows Murky to pass through enemies while Safety Bubble is active
  • Assault Egg (D)
    • Renamed to Fish Eye
    • Bonus Health reduced from 150% to 100%
    • Sight Radius bonus increased from 150% to 200%
    • Now reveals Stealthed enemies
    • Now increases Murky's Mounted Movement Speed to 45% for 5 seconds after spawning
  • Bribe (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Egg Hunt (Active)
    • Activate to place a fake Egg. If the fake Egg dies, it casts Slime. Maximum 3 fake Eggs. 6 second cooldown
    • Upon spawning from an Egg, Murky is Stealthed for 5 seconds
  • New Talent: A Fishy Deal (Active)
    • Killing an enemy Minion with Pufferfish grants 1 stack of Bribe. Use 5 Bribe stacks to capture a single Mercenary. Maximum of 20 stacks
      • Stacks required to gain a charge of Bribe increased from 5 to 7
      • Maximum charge count increased from 20 to 30
• Level 4
  • Bigger Slime (Q)
    • Moved to level 7
    • Renamed to Black Lagoon
  • Tufferfish (W)
    • Redesigned: Now causes Pufferfish to deal 35% more damage to Slimed targets, and it gains 50 Spell Armor
  • Envenom (Active)
    • Removed
  • Living The Dream (Passive)
    • No longer passively grants Ability Power
    • Instead of granting 1% Ability Power every 5 seconds, now grants 5% Ability Power every 15 seconds. Max 15% bonus Ability Power.
  • New Talent: Slime Time (Q)
    • Quest: Slime enemy Heroes that are already Slimed
    • Reward: After Sliming 15 Slimed Heroes, increase Slime's bonus damage by 125. This damage does not scale with level.
    • Reward: After Sliming 30 Slimed Heroes, increase Slime's slow amount to 35%
• Level 7
  • Slime Advantage (Q)
    • Removed
  • Hindering Slime (Q)
    • Removed
  • Compressed Air (W)
    • Removed
  • Clairvoyance (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Time to Krill (Passive)
    • Basic Attacks against Heroes deal an additional 8 damage per second and Slow the target's Movement Speed by 10% for 5 seconds. This effect can stack up to 5 times
      • Damage per second reduced from 8 to 7
      • Duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds
      • Slow amount reduced from 10% to 8% per stack
• Level 13
  • Continuous Slime (Q)
    • Renamed to Making Inky
    • Moved to level 20
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 1 to 2 seconds
  • Wrath of Cod (W)
    • Moved to level 16
    • New Functionality:
      • Pufferfish deals bonus damage to Heroes equal to 10% of their maximum Health over 5 seconds
  • Bubble Machine (E)
    • Removed
  • Hidden Assault (D)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Egg Shell (D)
    • Respawning from an Egg grants Murky a Shield equal to 100% of his maximum Health. This Shield lasts indefinitely
• Level 16
  • Slimy End (Q)
    • Removed
  • Rejuvenating Bubble (E)
    • Moved to level 13
  • Blood for Blood (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Toxic Buildup (Q)
    • Attacking an enemy Hero 3 times causes a Slime to cast from their position
  • Slimy Pufferfish (W)
    • Renamed to Fish Oil
• Level 20
  • Rewind (Active)
    • Removed
  • Bolt of the Storm (Active)
    • Removed
  • Never-Ending Murlocs (R)
    • Redesigned: March of the Murlocs can now be channeled indefinitely
  • New Talent: Big Tuna Kahuna (Trait)
    • Murky's maximum Health and Egg respawn times are doubled.

Developer Comment: : Mrrgrgrlgrl! Rise my brother murlocs! Mrrrgrgrlrlgrl! Vengeance will be ours! In examining Murky, his original health and egg timers are vestiges of a different time, created before even Jaina entered the Nexus. We wanted to give him more base health to make him a little harder to burst down, but traded it for a little longer time to respawn from his Egg. This has the added bonus of allowing a bit more counter-play to hunting our fishy friend. We also wanted to adjust Pufferfish, as an increasingly high amount of the roster could immediately explode it. Finally, his talent tree has been updated to come in line with our new philosophies. We've not only found this Murky much more fun to play as, with some exciting talents in each tier, but also more fair to fight against! Mrrgrgrlgrl!

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

Updates

Abilities

• Slime (Q)
  • Damage increased from 82 to 86
• Pufferfish (W)
  • Damage increased from 390 to 410

Developer Comment: “Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle!” Translated, that means he's getting a 5% buff to most of his damage, but expect to see larger Talent changes in the early part of next year.

Updates

Abilities

• Octo-Grab (R)
  • Murky is now Unstoppable while casting Octo-Grab
  • Killing Murky now immediately cancels the Octo-Grab effect

Bug Fixes

• The camera will no longer automatically snap to Murky's Egg location if he is killed with camera follow enabled.

Bug Fixes

• When Murky's Pufferfish is cast in a Bush or Vent, its explosion radius will now briefly appear to enemies with its area of effect before the Pufferfish explodes.
• Murky's Egg will no longer be destroyed if Murky is Stuck by Tracer's Pulse Bomb, but killed before the Pulse Bomb explodes.

Bug Fixes

• Murky's Egg location will no longer be revealed if he is killed by Tracer's Melee Ability.

Updates

• Block (Talent) renamed to Fishtank
  • Fishtank provides 2 Block charges. Each charge reduces damage taken from the next incoming Basic Attack by 50%
• March of the Murlocs (R)
  • Damage increased from 19 (+4% per level) to 25 (+4% per level)

Bug Fixes

• Murky's Pufferfish should now be easier to click when attempting to destroy it with Basic Attacks
• Murky's Egg will no longer briefly display on the minimap if he is killed by Nova's Pinning Shot.

Bug Fixes

• Artanis's Purifier Beam will no longer track Murky back to his Egg if Murky was killed just as the Ability was cast.

Bug Fixes

• The visual and sound effects for Murky's Octo-Grab will no longer persist if the target is killed at the same moment that the Ability is cast.
• The sound effects for Murky's March of the Murlocs will no longer continue to play if casting is interrupted.

Bug Fixes

• Murky can no longer use Pufferfish to permanently reveal parts of the fog of war before the match starts.

Updates

• Living the Dream (Talent)
  • Initial Ability Power bonus decreased from 10% to 5%
• Slime (Q)
  • Damage increased from 55 (+6 per level) to 56 (+6.2 per level)
• Pufferfish (W)
  • Damage increased from 130 (+35 per level) to 134 (+36 per level)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could prevent Murky's Egg from being placed on diagonal paths.