Updates

Abilities

• Toxic Nest (W)
  • Abathur is now locked out of casting Toxic Nest for .5 seconds after exiting Symbiote

Updates

Abilities

• Lightning Surge (E)
  • Range increased by roughly 10%

Bug Fixes

• The targeting reticle for Lightning Surge will now correctly match the Ability's casting range after learning Extended Lightning.
• Deadly Charge no longer be cancelled and be placed on full cooldown if Alarak's destination would place him in terrain.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent Counter Strike from dealing damage if Alarak was killed as the Ability's effects were triggered.
• Unstoppable and Invulnerable effects will no longer prevent Alarak from pushing himself via Telekinesis.
• Changing Heroes of the Storm's text language settings will no longer prevent Lightning Surge visual effects from displaying.

Bug Fixes

• The game camera will no longer become stuck if Stitches uses Gorge on Brightwing while she is casting Phase Shift.

Bug Fixes

• 50% of Shields gained by channeling Fortifying Brew will now properly persist after learning Freshest Ingredients.
• The Buff Bar tooltip for the Freshest Ingredients Talent will now display the correct amount of Health Regeneration gained.
• Regeneration Globes gathered by Storm, Earth, Fire Spirits now properly contribute to the Freshest Ingredient Talent's quest progress.

Bug Fixes

• The tooltip for Eye of Kilrogg now properly indicates the maximum number of charges it can store.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Unending Hatred (Passive)
    • Increased Basic Attack damage bonus upon quest completion from 10 to 20
  • Battered Assault (W)
    • Added functionality:
      • Now also increases the duration of Sweeping Strike from 3 to 5 seconds
    • Increased the bonus damage gained from hitting 2+ Heroes with Sweeping Strike from 125 to 150%
• Level 4
  • Unbound (W)
    • No longer reduces the cooldown of Sweeping Strike
    • Added Functionality:
      • Quest: After hitting 30 Heroes with Sweeping Strike, gain a second charge of Sweeping Strike
• Level 7
  • Thirsting Blade (Trait)
    • Increases healing amount of 50 to 60%
• Level 16
  • Marked for Death (Q)
    • Damage reduced from 225 to 180

Developer Comment: We're aiming to make a few of the earlier talent choices for Illidan more competitive options, and open up a greater variety of playstyles for Illidan players. By increasing the bonus of Unending Hatred, we think farming Minion waves and Hunting into fights will be enticing on certain Battlegrounds. By allowing Unbound to grant 2 charges of Sweeping Strike, we think that Talents like Battered Assault and Blades of Azzinoth will showcase an Illidan that can dance across an enemy team and do a lot of damage while doing so.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause odd movement behavior after learning Unbound and then casting Sweeping Strike.

Updates

Abilities

• Breath of Heaven (W)
  • Healing increased from 280 to 290

Talents

• Level 1
  • Iron Fists (Trait)
    • Added Functionality:
      • Every third Basic Attack now also increases your Movement Speed by 30% for 2 seconds.
• Level 4
  • New Talent: Spirit Ally (Active)
    • Place a Spirit Ally that heals allies in a large area around it for 2% of their maximum Health every second for 10 seconds. Has 150 Health. You can Radiant Dash to Spirit Allies. 45 second cooldown.
  • New Talent: Earth Ally (Active)
    • Place an Earth Ally that reduces Heroic Basic Attack damage nearby allied Heroes receive by 50%. Has 400 Health and lasts 10 seconds. You can Radiant Dash to Earth Allies. 30 second cooldown.
  • New Talent: Air Ally (Active)
    • Place an Air Ally that grants vision of a large area around it for 40 seconds. Has 70 Health. You can Radiant Dash to Air Allies. 20 second cooldown. 2 charges.
  • Healing Ward (Active)
    • Removed
  • Foresight (Q)
    • Removed
  • Overtake (E)
    • Removed
  • Protective Shield (Active)
    • Removed
• Level 7
  • New Talent: Heavenly Zeal (W)
    • Increases the Movement Speed bonus of Breath of Heaven on other allies from 10 to 25%
  • Blinding Speed (Q)
    • Moved from level 16
  • Blazing Fists (E)
    • Moved from level 16
    • Cooldown reduction per Basic Attack reduced from 1 to .75 seconds.
  • Clairvoyance (Active)
    • Removed
  • Cleanse (Active)
    • Removed
• Level 13
  • Fists of Fury
    • Deadly Reach duration bonus increased from 50 to 100%
• Level 16
  • New Talent: Cleansing Touch (Q)
    • Radiant Dashing to an allied Hero grants them Unstoppable for 1 second
  • New Talent: Dash of Light (W)
    • Radiant Dashing to an ally increases the healing they received from Breath of Heaven by 50% for 3 seconds
  • Echo of Heaven (W)
    • Moved from level 7
    • Delay between heals increased from 2 to 3 seconds
    • Second heal amount increased from 35 to 75%
    • Now also reduces the initial heal amount of Breath of Heaven to 75%
  • Way of the Hundred Fists (Q)
    • Moved from level 7
    • Now deals a volley of 6 Basic Attacks that each deal 50% of your Basic Attack damage.
  • Circle of Life (W)
    • Removed
  • Soothing Breeze (W)
    • Removed

Developer Comment: Kharazim's Talents have been updated to create more compelling choices at every tier. To do this, we've made sure that Iron Fists / Bruiser style Kharazim is viable by increasing its damage uptime, removed a lot of the generic Talents and replaced them with Kharazim specific options like Mystic Allies, and re-arranged a lot of the tree so that you don't have to sacrifice as much healing to pick mobility, utility or damage.

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

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

• The Hardened Focus Talent will no longer reduce Innervate's cooldown.
• The casting range for Entangling Roots is now correctly increased by 30% after learning Elune's Grace.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue which could allow Medivh to path into the terrain after launching a Nuke on Warhead Junction while in Raven form.

Bug Fixes

• After learning Cover Ops, Pinning Shot will now correctly Slow the target's Movement Speed by 60%.

Updates

Abilities

• Adrenaline Rush (E)
  • Now displays a visual effect under Raynor's feet to indicate that Adrenaline Rush is off cooldown

Bug Fixes

• Way of Illusion Talent stacks now properly grant bonus attack damage to Mirror Images.
• Mirror Image Health bars will now reflect the number of Doubloons that Samuro is carrying on Blackheart's Bay.

Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Possession (Active)
    • Can now be used on Catapult Minions

Updates

Abilities

• Earthquake (R)
  • Added functionality:
    • Now deals 50 damage to Heroes with each pulse (will now trigger Frostwolf Resilience)
• Sundering (R)
  • Stun duration reduced from 1.25 to 1 seconds

Developer Comment: We have mentioned before that sometimes we will stubbornly hold on making balance changes to some Heroic abilities because we believe they are actually very powerful in their current form, even if they are not currently seeing much play. This has been the case with Earthquake, but Sunder has consistently been the go-to pick since Thrall's inception. We hope this change will help shake up the pick rates of Thrall's Heroic abilities.

Bug Fixes

• Visual and Sound effects will now properly play upon completing the Untouchable Talent quest.

Bug Fixes

• Uther's Health bar will no longer disappear if he is revived via the Redemption Talent after being killed by Devouring Maw.

Bug Fixes

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

Releases

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

Trait

• Heroic Strike
  • Every 18 seconds, Varian's next Basic Attack deals bonus damage. Each Basic Attack reduces this cooldown by 2 seconds.

Basic Abilities

• Lion's Fang (Q)
  • Launch a shockwave that travels in a straight line, dealing damage and slowing enemies by 30% for 1.5 seconds.
• Parry (W)
  • Parry all incoming Basic Attacks for 1.25 seconds, reducing their damage by 100%.
• Charge (E)
  • Charge to the target enemy, dealing light damage and slowing them by 75% for 1 second.

Heroic Abilities

• Taunt (R)
  • Force the target enemy Hero to attack Varian for 1.25 seconds.
  • Passive: Maximum Health increased by 50%.
  • Passive: Attack speed reduced by 25%.
• Colossus Smash (R)
  • Smash the target enemy, dealing damage and making them Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
  • Passive: Base Attack Damage increased by 75%.
  • Passive: Maximum Health reduced by 10%.
• Twin Blades of Fury (Passive)
  • Basic Attacks reduce Heroic Strike's cooldown by 9 seconds, and increase Varian's movement speed by 30% for 2 seconds.
  • Passive: Attack speed increased by 100%.
  • Passive: Base Attack Damage decreased by 25%.

Updates

Abilities

• Skeletal Mages (R)
  • Is now cast using vector targeting (Click+Drag)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause Graviton Surge's effect to persist indefinitely under certain circumstances.
• The Gain Train Talent can no longer apply a Shield to an ally-controlled Dragon Knight or Garden Terror.

Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health increased from 1545 to 1622
• Base Health Regen increased from 3.22 to 3.38

Abilities

• Singularity Spike (W)
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 80
• Blink (E)
  • Mana cost reduced from 75 to 50

Talents

• Level 1
  • Vorpal Blade (Active)
    • Moved from level 4
  • New Talent: Shadow Hunter (Passive)
    • Gather Regeneration Globes to lower the Mana cost of Blink by 2. After gathering 20 Regeneration Globes, your Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Blink by .75 seconds.
  • Block (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Regeneration Master (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Rapid Displacement (E)
    • Removed
  • Seasoned Marksman (Passive)
    • Removed
• Level 4
  • New Talent: Combo Slash (Passive)
    • After using an ability, your next auto-attack within 6 seconds deals 40% more damage.
  • New Talent: Grim Task (Passive)
    • Hero Takedowns increase Ability Power by 4%, up to a total of 40%. This bonus Ability Power is lost on death.
  • Rending Cleave (Q)
    • Moved from level 16
    • Damage is now dealt over 3 seconds from 5
    • Damage reduced from 50 to 40%
• Level 7
  • New Talent: Slip into Shadow (E)
    • Your Blink has 2 charges and its cooldown is increased by 8 seconds.
  • New Talent: Seeker in the Dark (W)
    • Your Singularity Spike takes 50% longer to explode, and can be reactivated while it is attached to an enemy to teleport to them. After reactivation, your Movement Speed is increased by 30% for 3 seconds.
  • Wormhole (E)
    • Moved from level 13
  • First Aid (Active)
    • Removed
  • Follow Through (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Shadow Spike (W)
    • Removed
  • Searing Attacks (Active)
    • Removed
• Level 13
  • New Talent: Shroud of Adun (Passive)
    • You gain a shield equal to 15% of your Maximum Health over 5 seconds while under Permanent Cloak.
  • Vigorous Strike (Passive)
    • Renamed to Mending Strikes
    • Moved from level 4
    • Healing amount increased from 25 to 40%
  • Giantkiller (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Burning Rage (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Assassin's Blade (Trait)
    • Removed
• Level 16
  • New Talent: Sentenced to Death (W)
    • You deal 50% increased damage to enemies while they have a Singularity Spike attached to them.
  • Master Warp Blade (Trait)
    • Moved from level 4
    • Damage increased from 100 to 125%
  • Void Slash (Q)
    • New Functionality:
      • Cleave deals 40% more damage and its cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds when it hits more than 1 enemy Hero.
    • Moved from level 7
  • Double Bombs (W)
    • Removed
  • Stoneskin (Active)
    • Removed
• Level 20
  • Protective Prison (R)
    • New functionality:
      • Enemies are slowed by 50% for 3 seconds once Void Prison Ends.

Developer Comment: There were two main goals behind this rework: Upgrade Zeratul's talent tree and introduce some interesting new choices, and better sell the fantasy of being a Dark Templar. As always is the goal with our Hero reworks, we didn't want to change the way he is played, but rather amplify and improve upon it. Overall, he has felt the same to play against in our internal testing, but with a couple new tricks up his sleeve. We hope that our current Zeratul fans will find some new toys to play around with, and that new users will feel more like the mobile shadow-assassin you'd expect from a Dark Templar Hero.

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