Nexus Patch Notes

For general changes and/or gameplay updates, check out the official Patch Notes.

Alarak

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue causing Deadly Charge to go on a full cooldown if Alarak is hit by Phase Prism while channeling.
Marking The Lost Vikings with Rite of Rak'Shir during their Longboat Raid Ability and then killing the Longboat will now correctly grant bonus Sadism and Rite of Rak'shir cooldown reduction.

Artanis

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue causing Deadly Charge to go on a full cooldown if Alarak is hit by Phase Prism while channeling.

Arthas

Bug Fixes

After Arthas completing the Frost Presence Questing Talent the Shattered Armor Talent will now correctly apply Armor Reduction to Heroes who have been rooted by Howling Blast.

Auriel

Updates

Auriel's resource bar will now glow when at maximum Hope.

Cassia

Bug Fixes

Blinding Light will no longer reveal Stealthed enemy Heroes.

Chen

Bug Fixes

Medivh's Ley Line Seal can no longer cause Chen and his Storm, Earth, Fire Spirits to exist simultaneously.

D.Va

Updates

Talents

Level 4
- Diverting Power (W)
  - Instead of preventing D.Va from moving during Defense Matrix, this talent now adds an additional 50% slow.

Bug Fixes

Now properly contests Objective Capture Points while exiting her Mech.
Now properly contests and pushes Hanamura Payloads while exiting her Mech.
D.Va's Basic Attacks are now halted during her Taunt and Dance animations.
The Call Mech status bar that appears under D.Va's party frame portrait no longer persists after she dies and respawns in Mech Mode.

Garrosh

Releases

Garrosh, Son of Hellscream, has been added to the Nexus and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of his Abilities.

Trait

Armor Up
- Garrosh gains 1 Armor for every 2% of maximum Health missing.

Basic Abilities

Groundbreaker (Q)
- Deal damage to enemies in an area. Heroes hit on the outer edge are pulled toward Garrosh.
Bloodthirst (W)
- Deal damage to an enemy and Heal for 10% of Garrosh's missing Health. Healing is increased by 100% against Heroes.
Wrecking Ball (E)
- Throw a nearby enemy Hero, Minion, or Mercenary to the target location, dealing damage enemies near the impact and slowing them by 30% for 2.5 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

Warlord's Challenge (R)
- Silence nearby Heroes and force them to attack Garrosh for 1.5 seconds.
Decimate (R)
- Deal damage to nearby enemies and Slow them by 30% for 1.5 seconds. Deals 100% more damage to Heroes, and each Hero hit reduces the cooldown by 1 second.
- Stores up to 3 charges.

Genji

Bug Fixes

X-Strike can now be properly self-cast.
Fixed an issue preventing the Shingan talent from playing quest tracking sounds if a target was hit with all 3 Shurikens.

Greymane

Bug Fixes

Can now correctly cast Go For the Throat a second time after using the Ability to kill D.Va's Mech.

Kharazim

Bug Fixes

Seven-Sided Strike will no longer target D.Va's Mech during Self-Destruct.

Lt. Morales

Bug Fixes

Entering a Medivac as it is destroyed will no longer cause the Medivac UI to persist on-screen.

Probius

Updates

Abilities

Worker Rush (Z)
- Worker Rush can no longer be activated while the Worker Rush buff is still active. This will prevent players from accidentally placing the ability on cooldown when leaving the Hall of Storms.

Bug Fixes

Pylons that are affected by a time stop, such as Zeratul's Void Prison, will no longer cause Warp Rift's cooldown to be paused for the duration of the effect.

Ragnaros

Updates

Abilities

Living Meteor (W)
- Damage reduced from 72 to 68
Blast Wave (E)
- Cooldown reduced from 10 to 9 seconds

Talents

Level 1
- Shifting Meteor (W)
  - Additional Functionality:
    - Each time an enemy is hit by Living Meteor, they take an additional 3% damage from subsequent hits by the same Meteor
- Engulfing Flame (E)
  - Adjusted functionality:
    - No longer grants cooldown reduction on Blast Wave
    - Now also increases the damage of Blast Wave by 75%
Level 7
- Superheated (E)
  - Removed
- New Talent: Blistering Attacks (Passive)
  - Every 10 seconds, your next Basic Attack deals 60% bonus damage. Enemies hit by your Basic Abilities reduces this cooldown by 1 second
- Molten Power (W)
  - Damage bonus increased from 15 to 20% per enemy Hero hit
Level 20
- Lava Surge (R)
  - Cooldown reduction increased from 10 to 30 seconds

Bug Fixes

Lava Wave now correctly contributes to Ragnaros's Siege Damage.

Rexxar

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that could cause Misha to become briefly unresponsive after respawning if she was killed while Rexxar was affected by time stop effect.

Samuro

Bug Fixes

Selecting Mirror Images via control groups will no longer cancel their active movement commands.

Sonya

Updates

Abilities

Whirlwind (E)
- The time required after activation before the ability can be canceled has been increased from .5 to 1 seconds. This should help prevent accidental cancellations.

Bug Fixes

The Ancient Spear model will no longer visually persist when cast on an allied Gate prior to game start.

Sylvanas

Bug Fixes

Can no longer cast Possession on units spawned by Bosses on Warhead Junction.

The Butcher

Updates

Stats

Basic Attack damage lowered from 140 to 130

Abilities

Fresh Meat (Trait)
- Meat required to complete his quest increased from 125 to 200
- Damage bonus per Meat stack decreased from 1 to .5
- Meat dropped by enemy Heroes increased from 5 to 25
- Bonus damage on quest completion increased from 100 to 125
- Once the quest is completed, enemy Heroes continue to drop Meat, giving The Butcher 5 permanent Basic Attack damage per Meat collected

Talents