Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm Patch Notes – September 19, 2018

Blizzard Entertainment

We’ve just released a new Heroes of the Storm patch to apply a number of balance changes and bug fixes.

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Sentinel and Engineer camps have had their XP and XP scaling values adjusted to grant more overall experience
Recon camps have had their kill and capture XP adjusted to grant slight less overall experience
NOTE: These changes are intended to slightly increase the amount of overall experience available from mercenary camps, but in a more consistent spread.

Heroes

Assassin	Specialist	Support	Warrior
Chromie	Sgt. Hammer	Deckard	Anub'arak
Falstad		Tyrande	Arthas
Fenix		Whitemane	Blaze
Genji			E.T.C.
Mephisto			Tyrael
Nova			Yrel
Raynor

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Assassin

Chromie

Stats

Base Maximum Health increased from 1323 to 1390
Health Regen increased from 2.76 to 2.9

Abilities

Dragon’s Breath (W)
- Cooldown reduced from 9 to 8 seconds
Bronze Talons (Trait)
- Bonus attack damage increased from 125 to 140%

Talents

Level 1
- Mounting Sand (Q)
  - Bonus Echo damage increased from 40 to 50%
- Deep Breathing (W)
  - Damage per quest stack increased from 3 to 5
  - Hits required to complete quest reduced from 20 to 12
Level 5
- Mobius Loop (W)
  - Cooldown reduction for Hero hit increased from 2 to 3 seconds
  - Mana refund from Hero hit increased from 50 to 100

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Falstad

Abilities

Hammerang (Q)
- Mana cost reduced from 70 to 60
Lightning Rod (W)
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 13 seconds
- Mana cost reduced from 70 to 60
Barrel Roll (E)
- Cooldown reduced from 14 to 13 seconds
- Mana cost reduced from 75 to 70
Flight (Z)
- Cooldown increased from 55 to 60 seconds

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Fenix

Abilities

Purification Salvo (R)
- Cooldown increased from 75 to 90 seconds

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Genji

Abilities

Swift Strike (E)
- Damage reduced from 205 to 190

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Mephisto

Abilities

Lightning Nova (W)
- Damage reduced from 48 to 45
- Damage bonus reduced from 4% to 3%
- Maximum damage bonus reduced from 40 to 30%
Consume Souls (R)
- Slow amount reduced from 40 to 25%
Durance of Hate (R)
- Missile Speed increased by 25%
- Ability range increased by 25%
- Root duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds
- Damage increased from 160 to 250 over its duration

Talents

Level 1
- Unyielding Power (Q)
  - Damage bonus upon hitting 20 Heroes increased from 60 to 100
- Anger (Passive)
  - Basic Ability cooldown reduction from Basic Attacking Heroes increased from .75 to 1 second
Level 4
- Static Barrier (W)
  - Shield amount reduced from 50% to 40% of Lightning Nova’s damage dealt to Heroes
Level 16
- Lightning Reaction (Q)
  - Damage reduced from 144 to 138
- Static Field (W)
  - Damage reduced from 12% to 10% of enemies maximum Health
Level 20
- Shade Lord (E)
  - Cooldown reduced from 60 to 40 seconds

Developer Comment: Mephisto is certainly making an impact on the Nexus. He's been on the higher end of Hero winrates and, judging from how players with a lot of games are performing with him, we expect that he will continue to rise as players gain experience. Our goal with these changes is to bring his overall damage down, balance out a few of the Talent tiers performance, and increase the consistency of Durance of Hate.

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Nova

Talents

Level 1
- Advanced Cloaking (Trait)
  - Movement speed bonus increased from 5 to 10%

Level 7
- Perfect Shot (Q)
  - Cooldown reduction on Hero hit increased from 3 to 4 seconds

Level 16
- Explosive Shot (Q)
  - Area of effect damage increased from 70 to 80%

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Raynor

Stats

Basic Attack Damage reduced from 103 to 101

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Specialist

Sgt. Hammer

Abilities

Neosteel Plating (E)
- Cooldown increased from 12 to 16 seconds

Talents

Level 4
- Siege Tactics (E)
  - Shifting out of Siege Mode now removes the Unstoppable effect.

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Support

Deckard

Talents

Level 4
- Potion of Shielding (Q)
  - Shield amount reduced from 135 to 122
Level 13
- Ancient Blessings (Trait)
  - Cooldown increased from 30 to 60 seconds

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Tyrande

Stats

Light of Elune (Q)
- Mana cost increased from 10 to 15
- Heal amount reduced from 275 to 265

Shadowstalk (R)
- Heal amount reduced from 40 to 38

Talents

Level 4
- Lunar Blaze (E)
  - Bonus range from reduced 50 to 40%
- Trueshot Aura (Active)
  - Bonus Basic Attack damage reduced from 20 to 15%
  - Activated Basic Attack damage reduced from 20 to 15%
Level 7
- Elune’s Chosen (Active)
  - Duration reduced from 10 to 8 seconds
Level 13
- Quickening Blessing (Q)
  - Movement Speed granted from Light of Elune reduced from 20 to 15%
Level 16
- Darnassian Archery (Active)
  - Duration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds

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Whitemane

Abilities

Desperate Plea (Q)
- Heal amount reduced from 145 to 140
Searing Lash (E)
- Cooldown increased from 5 to 6 seconds

Talents

Level 1
- Righteous Flame (E)
  - Bonus damage increased from 50 to 75%
Level 4
- Indulgence (E)
  - Mana return on hit increased from 10/25 to 20/40

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Warrior

Anub'arak

Abilities

Harden Carapace (W)
- Cooldown reduced from 7 to 6 seconds

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Arthas

Stats

Base Maximum Health increased from 2650 to 2782
Health Regeneration increased from 5.52 to 5.80

Abilities

Frostmourne Hungers (Trait)
- Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds

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Blaze

Stats

Base Maximum Health increased from 2775 to 2900
Health Regeneration increased from 5.78 to 6.04

Abilities

Flame Stream (Q)
- Mana cost increased from 25 to 30
Oil Spill (W)
- Mana cost increased from 40 to 50
Jet Propulsion (E)
- Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds
Bunker Drop (R)
- Flamethrower damage reduced from 179 to 170
- Cooldown increased from 60 to 80 seconds
- Mana cost increased from 40 to 80
Combustion (R)
- Damage increased from 52 to 55
- Self-Slow amount decreased from 50 to 40%

Talents

Level 1
- Endurance Stimpack (Active)
  - Shield amount increased from 450 to 480
- Neural Stimpack (Active)
  - Mana restoration reduced from 50 to 30
- New Habits (Trait)
  - Regeneration Globe collection cooldown reduction increased from 5 to 8 seconds
Level 13
- Nanomachine Coating (W)
  - Attack Speed slow increased from 40 to 50%
Level 16
- Thermal Protection (E)
  - Cooldown reduction decreased from 2 to 1.5 seconds

Developer Comment: Blaze is performing very well in professional play but is currently our lowest winning Warrior in the game. To balance his effectiveness in the pro scene, we’re increasing the cooldown and lowering the effectiveness of Bunker Drop. His laning phase is also not as interactive as we’d like it to be, so we’re increasing the Mana costs of his abilities to reduce his perpetual wave clear and sustain in the early phases of the game. In exchange for these nerfs, we’re giving him some base survivability buffs, reducing the cooldown of Jet Propulsion, and improving some of his talents.

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E.T.C

Stats

Base Maximum Health increased from 2180 to 2250
Health Regeneration increased from 4.54 to 4.69

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Tyrael

Stats

Health increased from 2468 to 2517
Health Regeneration increased from 5.14 to 5.24

Abilities

Righteousness (W)
- Cooldown decreased from 10 to 9 seconds
- Mana cost reduced from 50 to 45

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Yrel

Abilities

Vindication (Q)
- Mana cost increased from 50 to 65
Righteous Hammer (W)
- Mana cost increased from 50 to 65
Avenging Wrath (E)
- Mana cost increased from 50 to 65

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Bug Fixes

General

Tyrande: Fixed an issue preventing the cooldown for the Ranger talent from appearing in the tooltip.

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents

Li Ming: Fixed an issue that could cause Disintegrate to cast immediately and become uncontrollable if Li Ming’s abilities were reset with specific quick cast settings.
Tyrande: Fixed an issue preventing damage dealt to targets with Hunter’s Mark from splashing to Laning Mercenaries after learning the Huntress’ Fury talent.
Tyrande: Fixed an issue allowing Shadowstalk to affect players in vehicles. (Garden Terror, Dragon Knight, etc)

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