Heroes of the Storm
HEROES OF THE STORM BALANCE UPDATE — October 25, 2016
We've just released a new patch in order to apply a few balance changes and address a few live bugs. Check out the detailed patch notes below.
Assassin
Samuro
Stats
- Base Maximum Health decreased from 1750 to 1650
- Base Health Regen decreased from 3.64 to 3.44
Abilities
- Mirror Images (Q)
- Cooldown increased from 16 to 18 seconds
- Mirror Image timed life increased from 16 to 18 seconds
- Windwalk (E)
- Movement speed bonus reduced from 30 to 25%
- Illusion Master (R)
- Illusion damage bonus reduced from 20 to 15%
Talents
- Level 20
- Three Blade Style (R)
- Mirror Image timed life increased from 32 to 36 seconds
- Three Blade Style (R)
Developer Comments: The Blademaster has been loosed, and is busy carving up a healthy win-rate. We are looking to bring him down a notch with these changes.
Bug Fixes
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents
- Chen – Fixed an issue causing Fortifying Brew shields to not persist indefinitely after completing the Freshest Ingredients quest talent.
- Samuro – Fixed an issue causing Mirror Images to deal an extra swing of Samuro’s full damage if their attacks landed just as the Mirror Images expired.
- Samuro – Fixed an issue causing Samuro to deselect himself after entering Lt. Morales' Medivac Dropship.
User Interface
- Fixed an issue causing an "Unmet Requirements" message to pop up when in a party queued for Heroes Brawl.
- Removed an inaccurate line from the Punisher Arena's Info Panel at the queue screen.
- Fixed an issue causing Heroes Brawl score screens to incorrectly display Hero level ups and gold grants when certain conditions were met.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where players could receive an "Installation Damaged" error message when launching the 64-bit client.