Releases

Cassia, Amazon Warmatron, has been added to the Nexus and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of her Abilities.

Trait

• Avoidance
  • When moving unmounted, Cassia gains 65 Physical Armor against Heroic Basic Attacks, reducing the damage taken by 65%.

Basic Abilities

• Lightning Fury (Q)
  • Hurl a javelin that damages the first enemy hit, and splits into two lightning bolts that deal damage to enemies in their paths.
• Blinding Light (W)
  • After 0.5 seconds, Blind enemies in the target area for 2 seconds.
  • Passive: Cassia deals 15% increased damage to Blinded targets.
• Fend (E)
  • Charge at an enemy and on arrival channel for 1.5 seconds, damaging enemies in front of Cassia every 0.25 seconds.
  • Deals 50% reduced damage to non-Heroes.

Heroic Abilities

• Ball Lightning (R)
  • Throw a ball of lightning at an enemy Hero that bounces up to 6 times between nearby enemy Heroes and Cassia, damaging enemies hit.
• Valkyrie (R)
  • Summon a Valkyrie that rushes to Cassia after 0.75 seconds, pulling and damaging the first enemy Hero hit and stunning them for 0.5 seconds at the end of her rush.
  • The Valkyrie knocks back all other enemy Heroes in her way.

Updates

Stats

• Health reduced from 2428 to 2100
• Health Regeneration reduced from 5.06 to 4.37

Abilities

• Rockstar (Trait)
  • Redesigned:
    • Instead of increasing nearby allies' Basic Attack speeds, Rockstar now grants E.T.C. 20 Armor for 2 seconds when he uses a Basic or Heroic Ability. This effect does not stack with itself.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Guitar Hero (E)
    • Healing gained from Basic Attacks increased from 35% to 40%.
    • No longer increases Attack Speed.
• Level 7
  • Echo Pedal (Passive)
    • Damage reduced from 29 to 15.
    • Damage bonus against Minions and Mercenaries increased from 75% to 250%.
• Level 16
  • Show Stopper (Q)
    • Armor reduced from 25 to 15.

Developer Comment: These changes to E.T.C. are a continuation of our attempt to align Warriors with a “big picture” role, so that we can continue to see a variety of them regardless of who's really strong at the moment. Alongside a lot of specialization, we need a couple generalist Warriors, and we think E.T.C. (as well as Muradin) should fill that role. They should always be a safe pick for your team because they fit into every team composition or battleground, but may be outperformed by the specialized Warriors in their ideal situations. We found that having Attack Speed on his Trait pointed him toward Basic Attack teams and maps like Battlefield of Eternity, where sustained damage was important. Instead, we've decided to add general Armor, but wanted to make sure that it still had that fun “bard” style gameplay where playing optimally includes spreading out abilities. We've updated Show Stopper to provide less Armor, because stacking Armor makes every point more and more valuable. Lastly, we've reduced Echo Pedal's damage against non-Minions and Mercenaries so that it's the obvious pick when you need wave clear, but Hammer-On and Pinball Wizard are better during a team fight.

Updates

Abilities

• Fresh Meat (Trait)
  • Hold ALT and click the Fresh Meat Ability icon to notify allies of The Butcher's current number of Meat stacks.