Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm Balance Patch Notes — February 19, 2026

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We’ve just released a patch to the live servers in order to apply some balance and bug fixes.

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Balance Updates

Deathwing

Base

  • Incinerate [W]
    • Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 7 seconds.

Talents

  • Level 7
    • Death Drop
      • Duration of Spell Armor decreased from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.

Muradin

Base

  • Storm Bolt [Q]
    • Quest requirements reduced from 50/200 to 40/160.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Give 'Em The Axe
      • Bonus Damage reduced from 50% to 40%.
  • Level 4
    • Sledgehammer
      • Now also reduces the cooldown of Storm Bolt by 1.5 seconds.
  • Level 7
    • Perfect Storm
      • Internal cooldown reduced from 10 seconds to 8.5 seconds.
      • Now also restores 25 Mana on reset.
  • Level 13
    • Healing Static
      • Heal per Hero hit increased from 5% to 6%.

Murky

Base

  • Spawn Egg [D]
    • Revive Shield duration increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.

Talents

  • Level 10
    • March of the Murlocs
      • Cooldown reduced from 110 seconds to 100 seconds.
  • Level 13
    • Egg Shell
      • Shield increased from 35% to 50% of Murky's Health.
      • Shield now lasts until destroyed.
  • Level 20
    • Never-Ending March
      • Will now last a minimum of 7 seconds, even if stopped.

Sylvanas

Talents

  • Level 7
    • Lost Soul
      • Extra 10% damage bonus provided by Lost Soul has been removed.

Tyrande

Base

  • Lunar Flare [E]
    • Mythic reward requirements reduced from 45 hits to 40 hits.

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Bug Fixes

Battlegrounds

  • Hanamura Temple
    • The Samurai Sentinel camp is now properly displayed with a Bruiser icon.
  • Braxis Holdout
    • Fixed an issue that caused terrain to be rendered incorrectly.

Heroes

  • Azmodan
    • Level 4
      • Battleborn
        • Now properly reduces the cooldown of Demon Lieutenant.
    • Level 10
      • Black Pool
        • Now properly deals reduced damage to non-Heroes.
  • Deathwing
    • Base
      • Form Swap
        • AI can no longer use the removed Form Swap ability.
  • Gul'dan
    • Level 16
      • Ruinous Affliction
        • Fixed an issue that caused Ruinous Affliction to deal bonus damage on the 3rd and 5th hit, instead of the 3rd and 6th hit.
  • Jaina
    • Base
      • Frostbite [Trait]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Ice Block to not show the correct cooldown value in the tooltip.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Ice Cold to allow Jaina to move through pathing blockers and stationary targets.
  • Muradin
    • Base
      • Dwarf Toss [E]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Dwarf Toss to go on cooldown when used on invalid terrain.
    • Level 1
      • Dwarf Block
        • Can no longer stack beyond 3 charges.
  • Murky
    • Murky will no longer revive faster than intended.
    • Murky's level 20 talents have been rearranged to match skill order.
    • Base
      • Pufferfish [W]
        • Puffed Up will now display first in the Buff Bar.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Murky to lose his increased size after death.
      • Spawn Egg [D]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Murky to respawn faster than intended.
    • Level 1
      • Shell Game
        • Shell Game now shows the Trait button for the talent, instead of an Active button.
    • Level 20
      • Faster Fish
        • Faster Fish now also causes the animation of the Pufferfish to play faster.
        • Faster Fish now shows the W button for the talent, instead of the Trait button.
  • Rehgar
    • Level 20
      • Elemental Conduit
        • Fixed an issue that caused Elemental Conduit's Shields to not refresh to 5 seconds.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Elemental Conduit's refresh to search for allies to give the Shield around the targets hit, instead of Rehgar's location.
  • Thrall
    • Level 1
      • Echo of the Elements
        • Fixed an issue that caused Echo of the Elements bounces to bounce to cloaked targets.
    • Level 7
      • Rolling Thunder
        • Rolling Thunder damage now displays as a crit.
    • Level 16
      • Alpha Wolf
        • Alpha Wolf damage now displays as a crit.
  • Zagara
    • Base
      • Infested Drop [E]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Roaches melee attacks to launch missiles instead of directly hitting.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Roaches to not display correctly in the death recap.

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