Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Vault [E]
    • Damage bonus now applies to the next Basic Attack fired.
• Level 10
  • Rain of Vengeance
    • Fixed an issue that caused cast visuals to not display correctly.

Updates

Base

• Hatred [Trait]
  • Duration reduced from 6 seconds to 5 seconds.

Talents

• Level 10
  • Strafe
    • Damage per bolt increased from 60 to 70.
    • Mana cost reduced from 80 to 60.
• Level 16
  • Manticore
    • Reduced bonus damage from 5% of maximum Health to 4% of maximum Health.
  • Punishment
    • Reduced the Mana cost of Multishot by 20.

Bug Fixes

• Multishot [W]
  • Fixed an issue that caused Multishot to not apply all hit effects when hitting enemies inside Valla's space.
• Level 13
  • Gloom [Active]
    • No longer displays an empty icon in the Death Recap.

Bug Fixes

• Difficulty updated from Easy to Medium.
• Fixed an issue that caused Manticore's stack display to be displayed incorrectly.
• Manticore icon updated.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected Death Dealer damage bonus.

Updates

Base

• Multishot [W]
  • Damage decreased from 165 to 159.
  • Cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Puncturing Arrow [Q]
    • Damage per enemy Hero hit decreased from 7 to 6.
  • Creed of the Hunter [Trait]
    • Maximum bonus damage from Basic Attacking enemy Heroes increased from 5% to 6%.
    • Gambit Attack Speed increased from 20 to 25%.

Developer Comment: While Multishot is actually being slightly outperformed by Hungering Arrow builds, we feel like its still too powerful for how safe of an option it is. We would also like to see a bit more auto-attack focused builds so we are going to start slowly increasing the strength of some of those Talents, starting with Creed of the Hunter.

Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Arsenal [W]
    • Damage reduced from 120 to 100.
• Level 7
  • Hot Pursuit [Trait]
    • Movement Speed per stack of Hatred reduced from 2.5% to 2%.
• Level 13
  • Gloom [Active]
    • Healing per second reduced from 2.5 to 1.25.
    • Healing per second now scales with level.
    • Passive Spell Armor reduced from 20 to 15.
• Level 20
  • Death Siphon [R1]
    • Removed functionality: Penetrating bolts no longer heals Valla for their damage dealt.

Developer Comment: Valla's damage is nearing close to where we'd like it to be – but her safety while doing so is a bit high.

Bug Fixes

• Gloom's healing per second updates to Hatred stacks when the talent is first chosen.
• Tempered by Discipline's bonus healing updates to Hatred stacks when the talent is first chosen.
• Death Dealer's damage bonus updated to reflect its tooltip.
• Death Dealer now refunds Vault's mana and cooldown when Spell damage kills the target.
• Caltrops ignore Invulnerable enemies

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Puncturing Arrow [Q]
    • Damage bonus per initial Hero hit increased from 6 to 7.
  • Fire At Will [W]
    • Damage bonus per Hero hit decreased from 4 to 2.
    • Additional functionality:
      • Quest: After hitting 20 Heroes, gain 40 additional Multishot damage.

Developer Comment: Valla is still settling into her place in the Nexus, but it's been clear that her Multishot is hitting too hard. We're heavily reducing Fire At Will's ability to scale, while giving it an early push of damage.

Updates

Base

• Basic Attack
  • Damage decreased from 75 to 70.
• Multishot [W]
  • Damage decreased from 172 to 165.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Caltrops [E]
    • Removed.
  • Puncturing Arrow [Q]
    • Moved from Level 4.
    • New Functionality:
      • Increase the bounces of Hungering Arrow by 1.
      • Quest: Hitting enemy Heroes the initial shot of Hungering Arrow permanently increases the initial shot damage by 6 and refunds 40 Mana.
  • (New) Fire At Will [W]
    • Every enemy Hero hit by Multishot grants 2 Hatred.
    • Quest: Enemy Heroes hit by Multishot permanently increase its damage by 4.
  • Creed of the Hunter [Trait]
    • Moved from Level 4.
    • New Functionality:
      • Loan: Gain 20% increased Attack Speed. Every death reduces this bonus by 5%.
      • Quest: Every 50 Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes, increase your damage per Hatred stack by 1%, up to 5%.
• Level 4
  • Repeating Arrow [Q/E]
    • Moved from Level 7.
    • New Functionality: Vault no longer has a Mana cost. Vaulting instantly refreshes the cooldown of Hungering Arrow.
  • Arsenal [W]
    • New Functionality: Increase the range of Multishot by 20%. It launches 3 grenades that deal bonus damage and restore 25 Mana when hitting enemy Heroes.
  • Death Dealer [E]
    • Added Functionality: Lower the cooldown of Vault by 5 seconds. Increase the damage bonus of Vault from 50 to 150%. If the target dies within 1.5 seconds, refund 50 Mana and refresh the cooldown on Vault.
• Level 7
  • Monster Hunter [Q]
    • Moved from Level 1.
    • No longer reduces the Mana cost of Hungering Arrow.
  • Frost Shot [Q/W]
    • Moved from Level 16.
    • New Functionality: Enemies hit by Multishot are Slowed by 20% for 2.5 seconds. Hungering Arrow deals 25% more damage to Slowed enemies.
  • Hot Pursuit [Trait]
    • Moved from Level 1.
    • New Functionality: Increase the Movement Speed bonus per Hatred stack to 2.5%.
• Level 13
  • Siphoning Arrow [Q]
    • Renamed to ‘Siphoning Arrows'.
    • New Functionality:
      • Every Hero hit by Hungering Arrow heals Valla for 4% of her maximum Health.
      • Every Hero hit by Multishot heals Valla for 2% of her maximum Health.
  • Tempered By Discipline [Trait]
    • New Functionality: Basic Attacks heal for 10% of damage dealt. Increase this by an additional 2% for each stack of Hatred.
  • Gloom [Active]
    • Additional Functionality: Heal for 2.5 Health per second for each stack of Hatred.
• Level 16
  • Punishment [W]
    • Moved from Level 7.
    • New Functionality: While at max Hatred Multishot's cooldown refreshes 50% faster.
  • Seething Hatred
    • New Functionality: While at max Hatred, all damage you deal is increased by 10%.
• Level 20
  • Death Siphon [R1]
    • New Functionality:
      • Hitting an enemy Hero with Strafe increases its duration by .125 seconds.
      • Passive: While Strafing, throw out piercing bolts that deal 34 damage and heal for 25% of their damage dealt .
  • Storm of Vengeance [R2]
    • New Functionality:
      • Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes reduce the cooldown of Rain of Vengeance by 5 seconds.
      • Passive: Every stack of Hatred grants 2% Attack Speed. When at max Hatred, gain an additional 30% Attack Speed.
  • Farflight Quiver [Trait]
    • New Functionality: Gain 20% Basic Attack range. At max Hatred, increase this by an additional 30%.
  • (New) Acrobat [E]
    • Gain 2 additional charges of Vault. Vaulting drops 3 Caltrops.

Developer Comment: Our resident Demon Hunter has one of the most diverse Talent Trees in the game, so our main goal with these changes were to inject some new cross-synergies and brighten up the design of some of her blander talents. As with the other reworks, we are testing a new Loan Talent, so please send us your feedback on them!

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Caltrops [E]
    • Additional functionality: Upon completing the quest, Vault's Mana cost is reduced from 50 to 25.

Developer Comment: Since Valla has a fair bit of Mana tension, and to be consistent with other talents that significantly reduce the cooldown of an ability, we're giving a Mana reduction to Vault on Caltrops so that it remains Mana-neutral when the quest is completed.

Updates

Developer Comment: Similar to Greymane, Valla has had a storied history of being a powerhouse hero in the right situations. She has not been meta for some time, so we're buffing her up some to incentivize people to try her a little more often.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could prevent Hungering Arrow from seeking, or dealing damage to, targets after the first when cast at maximum range.

Updates

Abilities

• Multishot (W)
  • Damage increased from 165 to 172

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the Punishment talent to deal less bonus damage than intended.

Bug Fixes

• The color of Lavendar Deputy Valla's scarf has been updated to match the rest of the skin.

Updates

Abilities

• Level 1
  • Monster Hunter (Q)
    • Now tracks stacks instead of damage on the quest tracker

Bug Fixes

• Manticore will no longer deal its bonus damage to Valla's Basic Attack target while Valla is Blind or the target is Evading.

Updates

Abilities

• Hungering Arrow (Q)
  • Primary damage reduced from 151 to 140
  • Secondary (bounce) damage reduced from 86 to 80

Talents

• Level 1
  • Caltrops (E)
    • Time required at 10 stacks of Hatred to unlock reward reduced from 180 to 160 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Caltrops will no longer display Health bars or selection rings when clicked.

Bug Fixes

• Enemy Heroes who were broken out of Stealth by Hungering Arrow can now correctly be hit by subsequent Hungering Arrow strikes.
• Caltrops dropped by the Vault Talent will no longer display Health bars, and are no longer selectable.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the Creed of the Hunter talent to not play quest sound effects when progress was earned.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Death Dealer talent from refreshing the cooldown of Vault after killing a structure.

Bug Fixes

• Strafe visual effects will no longer continue to play after the Ability expires.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause Valla's Hatred stacks to drop to 0 while firing Basic Attacks.

Bug Fixes

• Killing enemy Heroes who have post-death states, like Tyrael and Leoric, after learning Death Dealer will now correctly refresh Vault's cooldown.

Bug Fixes

• Hungering Arrows after the first will no longer fail to deal damage when cast multiple times on the same target.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some inconsistencies with abilities that would reveal Valla at the edges of Fog of War or from Brush.

Bug Fixes

• Visual effects for the Movement Speed bonus gained via the Hot Pursuit Talent will no longer persist after Hatred stacks expire.

Updates

Talents

Level 4

• Punishment (W)
  • Bonus damage per Hatred stack decreased from 5 to 4%

Level 7

• Arsenal (W)
  • Cooldown reduction per Hero hit reduced from 3 to 2 seconds

Developer Comment: Valla is sitting in a really good spot right now, but we feel like the damage output compared to ease of use is too high on her Multishot talents. The changes to Punishment and Arsenal should incentivize players into taking the higher skill-vs-reward talents on those tiers.

Updates

Abilities

• Rain of Vengeance (R)
  • Damage increased from 225 to 250

Talents

Level 1

• Caltrops (E)
  • Slow amount increased from 20 to 25%
  • Caltrop damage increased from 45 to 60

Level 7

• Death Dealer (E)
  • Damage per Hatred stack increased from 12 to 14%

Level 16

• Frost Shot (W)
  • Slow duration reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds

Updates

Abilities

• Vault (E)
  • Damage bonus per stack of Hatred increased from 5 to 6%
• Hungering Arrow (Q)
  • Increased base damage from 140 to 151
  • Bounce damage increased from 80 to 86
• Rain of Vengeance (R)
  • Cooldown decreased from 60 to 50 seconds per charge

Talents

• Level 1
  • Monster Hunter (Q)
    • Mana refund amount increased from 30 to 40
    • Minion and Mercenary bonus damage increased from 100 to 150%
• Level 4
  • Puncturing Arrow (Q)
    • Quest reward bonus damage increased from 50 to 75
• Level 7
  • Death Dealer (E)
    • Bonus damage per Hatred stack increased from 10 to 12%

Developer Comment: We're seeing a lot of success with Multi-Shot Valla's builds, but the Basic Attack and Hungering Arrow focused Valla's aren't keeping pace. We really want to reward players for keeping their Hatred at high stacks and landing those Puncturing Arrows on their intended targets.

Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage reduced from 94 to 75

Abilities

• Hatred (Trait)
  • Damage increase per stack increased from 3 to 8%
  • After 6 seconds without landing a Basic Attack, lose all stacks of Hatred
• Hungering Arrow (Q)
  • Cooldown reduced from 14 to 10 seconds
  • Range increased by roughly 10%
  • No longer tracks to nearby units if Hungering Arrow does not directly impact a target
  • Initial damage reduced from 167 to 140
  • Bounce damage reduced from 84 to 80
  • Bounces now prefer Heroic targets
• Multishot (W)
  • Cooldown increased from 8 to 12 seconds
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 75
  • Damage increased from 148 to 165
• Vault (E)
  • Mana cost reduced from 75 to 50
  • New Functionality:
    • Casting Vault causes your next Basic Attack to deal 50% additional damage
• Rain of Vengeance (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 90 to 60 seconds
  • Damage reduced from 350 to 225
  • Mana cost reduced from 100 to 50
  • New functionality:
    • Now has two charges. Each charge will cast one wave of Rain of Vengeance
• Strafe (R)
  • Damage reduced from 68 to 60

Talents

• Level 1
  • Cost Effective Materials (Q)
    • Renamed to Monster Hunter
    • Added functionality:
      • Now also causes Hungering Arrow to deal 100% bonus damage to Minions, Monsters, and Mercenaries
  • Siphoning Arrow (Q)
    • Moved to level 13
    • Heal amount increased from 50 to 75% of damage dealt to Heroes
  • Composite Arrows (W)
    • Removed
  • Rancor (Trait)
    • Moved to level 20
    • New functionality:
      • Gain 2% attack speed per Hatred stack. When at 10 or more Hatred stacks, gain an additional 30% attack speed
  • Punishment (Trait)
    • Moved to level 4
    • New functionality:
      • Multishot deals an additional 5% damage for every stack of Hatred you currently have
• Level 4
  • Vigorous Assault (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Manticore (Passive)
    • Moved to level 16
    • New functionality:
      • Every third Basic Attack against a Hero deals an additional 5% of that Heroes maximum Health in damage
  • Puncturing Arrow (Q)
    • New functionality:
      • Quest: Each time a Hero is directly hit with Hunger Arrow, increase the initial damage by 5
      • Reward: Upon hitting 100 damage, increase the initial damage by an additional 50 and the number of bounces by 1
  • Arsenal (W)
    • Moved to level 7
    • Grenade damage increased from 84 to 120
    • Grenade speed increased to more closely match Multishot
    • Added functionality:
      • Now also lowers the cooldown of Multishot by 3 seconds for every Hero hit by a grenade
  • New Talent: Creed of the Hunter (Trait)
    • Passively gain 10% attack speed
    • Quest: After attacking enemy Heroes 100 times, increase your Hatred Basic Attack damage bonus per stack by 2%
• Level 7
  • Caltrops (E)
    • Moved to level 1
    • Caltrop slow duration decreased from 2 to 1 seconds
    • Caltrop slow amount decreased from 30 to 20%
    • Added functionality:
      • Quest: After spending 180 seconds at 10 Hatred, reduces the cooldown of Vault by 5 seconds
  • Hot Pursuit (Trait)
    • Added functionality:
      • Now also grants 4 Mana per second when you have 10 or more stacks of Hatred
  • Searing Attacks (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Death Dealer (E)
    • Increase the bonus damage granted by Vault from 50 to 100%. If this shot kills your target, refund the mana cost and cooldown of Vault
• Level 13
  • Giant Killer (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Tempered by Discipline (Trait)
    • New functionality:
      • When at 10 or more stacks of Hatred, gain 25% life steal on Basic Attacks
  • Spell Shield (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Frost Shot (W)
    • Moved to level 16
    • Slow amount reduced from 30 to 25%
    • Added functionality:
      • Now also increases the range of Multishot by 20%
  • New Talent: Gloom (Active)
    • Passively grants 20% damage reduction from abilities
    • Activate to consume all Hatred stacks. For each stack lost, reduce all ability damage by an additional 3% for 5 seconds. This ability has a 5 second cooldown.
• Level 16
  • Tumble (E)
    • Removed
  • Executioner (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Blood for Blood (Active)
    • Removed
  • Stoneskin (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Seething Hatred (Trait)
    • Basic Attacks now grant 2 stacks of Hatred and the time before Hatred expires is increased by 2 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Vengeance (R)
    • Added functionality:
      • Heal for 25% of the damage dealt by Strafe
  • Storm of Vengeance (R)
    • New functionality:
      • Basic Attacks against Heroes reduce the cooldown of Rain of Vengeance by 5 seconds
  • Nexus Frenzy (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Bolt of the Storm (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Farflight Quiver (Passive)
    • Increase Basic Attack range by 40%

Developer Comment: We realize this rework may come as a bit of a surprise to our community, especially since Valla's Talent diversity has always been pretty good. The roots of the redesign have been floating around the design bullpen for 6+ months, and after some initial testing we felt like we had to pull the trigger and get it out to you.

Similar to Zagara and our other large reworks, we didn't want to change the ‘feel' of the Hero —Valla users should still feel completely at home while playing her. Our main goal was to increase the potential for amazing Valla players to differentiate themselves from the mediocre ones and aimed the majority of these changes toward lifting her skill-ceiling. We believe that players will still be able to build Valla very similarly to the ways they have in the past, but with more interesting and potentially powerful payoffs. We are excited to bring the new Valla to our community and look forward to hearing what you all think!

Valla Talents

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

Bug Fixes

• Using Rain of Vengeance to score a killing blow on Tyrael or Uther will no longer cause an extraordinarily long respawn timer to appear while in Eternal Devotion or Archangel's Wrath form.

Updates

• Basic Attack damage increased from 91 (+4% per level) to 94 (+4% per level)
• Hatred (Trait)
  • Basic Attack damage gained per Hatred stack increased from 2% to 3%
  • Punishment (Talent)
    • Hatred stacks gained per Ability cast increased from 3 to 4
  • Manticore (Talent)
    • Damage bonus increased from 50% to 60%
• Multishot (W)
  • Damage reduced from 164 (+4% per level) to 148 (+4% per level)
• Vault (E)
  • Caltrops (Talent)
    • Damage increased from 30 (+4% per level) to 45 (+4% per level)
    • Slow amount increased from 20% to 30%
• Rain of Vengeance (R)
  • Damage increased from 256 (+4% per level) to 350 (+4% per level)

Developer Comment: Right now, the safest way to play Valla (Multishot build) is also the most effective. The changes to her Multishot, Hatred, and Basic Attack damage are the first of many adjustments to come that should help to align the efficacy of a Hero's build with the difficulty in which that build plays.