Updates

• Health reduced from 2335 (+4% per level) to 2245 (+4% per level).
• Health Regeneration reduced from approximately 4.86 (+4% per level) to 4.67 (+4% per level).
• Twin Blades (W)
  • Artanis's next Basic Attack now also causes him to charge forward a short distance, equal to approximately half the distance provided by the previous iteration of the Zealot Charge Talent.
  • Zealot Charge (Talent)
    • Now increases charge distance by 100%.

Developer Comment: Artanis's survivability directly scales with how much uptime he has, which made a Talent like Zealot Charge incredibly powerful. The effect brought his entire kit together so well, that we've decided to provide part of its former benefit into baseline Twin Blades. Whereas sometimes we feel the need to cut Talents to fill a hole in a Hero's kit, in this case we think that this is a hole that Artanis should be able to partially circumvent from the start. Since this is a substantial increase in his power at the start of the game, we've decided to revert the Health increase that Artanis received recently.

Bug Fixes

• Stacks of Block granted by Artanis's Reactive Parry and Cho's Blazing Bulwark Talents now properly reduce incoming damage from enemy Basic Attacks by 50%.

Bug Fixes

• Crimson Count s Health bar will now appear much closer to his Hero model while in bat form.

Bug Fixes

• Stacks of Block granted by Artanis's Reactive Parry and Cho's Blazing Bulwark Talents now properly reduce incoming damage from enemy Basic Attacks by 50%.
• The list of requirements on the Ranked Play screen now state that Cho'Gall does not count toward the 14 Hero minimum.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which the Reset Talents button in Try Mode would not remove existing stacks of Dehaka's Essence or Nova's Snipe Master.
• Dehaka's Brushstalker will no longer be placed on cooldown if the target location is blocked by other units.
• The graphic effects for Dehaka's Isolation will no longer visually persist on the Battleground if it deals the killing blow to one of Nova's Holo Decoys.

Bug Fixes

• Sylvanas's Mind Control will now properly cancel Abilities that are being channeled by the target, such as E.T.C.'s Mosh Pit and Li Li's Jug of 1,000 Cups.

Bug Fixes

• Gall can now properly cast Runic Blast while channeling Shadow Bolt Volley.

Updates

• Gilnean Cocktail(Q) (D)
  • Incendiary Elixir (Talent) has been redesigned as a Quest Talent that reads as follows:
    • Every time you damage an enemy Hero with the splash damage from Gilnean Cocktail, increase the impact damage by 2 and the splash damage by 6 (stacks up to 20 times). Once you've hit 20 Heroes, also reduce Gilnean Cocktail's cooldown by 2 seconds.

Developer Comment: The idea behind Gilnean Cocktail is that it can do a lot of damage, but the downside is that the primary target takes a lot less. It's designed to be a poking tool to kill the backline. The old version of Incendiary Elixir completely blew out that concept, and instead made the ability a simple area of effect nuke that wasn't special anymore. We've replaced it with this new Incendiary Elixir that rewards players who can show mastery of this skill shot's unique aspects, while preserving the skill cap of the ability.

Bug Fixes

• Illidan's Betrayer's Thirst Trait will no longer provide cooldown reduction for Basic Attacks that miss due to Blind or Evasion effects.
• Illidan's voiceover for The Hunt is no longer audible for players who are not near the target.

Bug Fixes

• Sylvanas's Mind Control will now properly cancel Abilities that are being channeled by the target, such as E.T.C.'s Mosh Pit and Li Li's Jug of 1,000 Cups.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue that could permanently prevent the player from issuing further commands to Lt. Morales if she was killed after casting Medivac Dropship before loading into the Medivac.

Bug Fixes

• Players will no longer occasionally become locked out of issuing further commands to their Hero after being hit by Muradin's Haymaker with the Grand Slam Talent.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which the Reset Talents button in Try Mode would not remove existing stacks of Dehaka's Essence or Nova's Snipe Master.
• The graphic effects for Dehaka's Isolation will no longer visually persist on the Battleground if it deals the killing blow to one of Nova's Holo Decoys.

Bug Fixes

• Sylvanas's Mind Control will now properly cancel Abilities that are being channeled by the target, such as E.T.C.'s Mosh Pit and Li Li's Jug of 1,000 Cups.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Mind Contol's graphic effects to persist until death when two Sylvanas players simultaneously cast Mind Control on one another.
• Fixed an issue that could remove Mind Control's graphic effects when cast on another Sylvanas that was already using Mind Control on an enemy Hero.

Releases

Tracer, Agent of Overwatch, has been added to the Nexus and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of her Abilities.

Trait

• Reload (D)
  • Your Basic Attacks can be fired while moving, and each shot costs ammo.
  • After attacking 10 times, you will automatically Reload your ammo over 0.75 seconds. You can activate Reload to manually replenish your ammo at any time.

Basic Abilities

• Blink (Q)
  • Dash a short distance. Stores up to 3 charges. 6 second charge cooldown.
• Melee (W)
  • Deal damage to an enemy at close range, prioritizing Heroes.
  • Generates 5% of your Pulse Bomb charge when striking an enemy, and 10% when striking an enemy Hero.
• Recall (E)
  • Bound backward in time, returning to the position you were in 3 seconds ago, instantly reloading your ammo, and removing all negative status effects.

Heroic Abilities

• Pulse Bomb (R)
  • Lob a short-range bomb that will adhere to the terrain or the first enemy it hits. The bomb explodes after 1.5 seconds, dealing heavy damage to an enemy caught at the center of the blast, and half-damage to enemies nearby.

Bug Fixes

• Tychus' Overkill will now be properly interrupted upon activating Hearthstone.