Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting until April 8th. As always, if you encounter any bugs during your PTR play sessions, please stop by the PTR Bug Report forum to let us know about your experiences.
New Hero: Deathwing (Bruiser)
Deathwing the Destroyer, formerly known as Neltharion the Earth-Warder, was one of the five Dragon Aspects and leader of the black dragonflight. Ages ago, Neltharion was empowered by the Pantheon with dominion over the earth and the deep places of Azeroth. However, driven mad by the Old Gods, he turned against the other Aspects during the War of the Ancients, eventually abandoning his title of Aspect of Earth in favor of being the Aspect of Death. Becoming one of the greatest terrors of the known world, his name too became one whispered with a feeling of fear and contempt among both mortals and dragons.
Trait
- Oxyacetylene Barrage (D/Trait)
- Upon taking 770 damage, activate to cause your next 3 basic attacks to deal 25% more damage and attack 200% faster, dealing 150 damage over 3 seconds, stacks 3 times, Deathwing heals for 80% of the damage dealt with Oxyacetylene Barrage. Deals 50% less damage to structures.
Basic Abilities
- Fireball (Q)
- Launch a flaming Fireball that deals 200 damage in an area and 300 damage over 3 seconds.
- Scaling Up (W)
- Flame the air around you, dealing 160 damage to nearby enemies and gain 35 armor for 3 seconds
- Charge (E)
- Charge forward into the first nearby enemy (prioritize Heroes) dealing 90 damage and stunning them for 1 second, if the target collides with terrain they are stunned for 2 seconds and take 160 damage.
Heroic Abilities
- Armageddon (R)
- Summon a mighty storm, raining meteors that deal 150 damage in an area and 300 damage over 2 seconds, lasts for 10 seconds. Deals 25% less damage to structures.
- Blessings of the Destroyer
- After 2.5 seconds, unleash a roar that shatters the mightiest armor dealing 75 damage to all heroes and remove all their positive armor and reduce their armor by 25 for 5 seconds.
- Passive: Deathwing gains 15 armor, stacks with Scaling Up.
Mount
- Flight
- Activate to fly to a visible location, dealing 150 damage on impact.
All Random, All Mid (ARAM)
Now has itās own separate queue and tab section where you can team up with another 4 players to play!
- Walls will now be destroyed if their connected Towers and Gate are also destroyed. Walls can still be attacked normally.
- Every player has one reroll to use, giving them the chance to choose up to 6 different heroes each game.
- Passive XP gain in ARAM increased by 20%.
Quick Match
- Removed.
Heroes
Chromie
Abilities
- Timewalker (D)
- Chromie will still be able to pick her talents two levels early, but will only gain the benefits of the chosen talents once she reaches the appropriate level where everyone else unlocks the respective talent tier.
Talents
- Level 18
- Blessing of the Bronze
- Basic Ability recharge rate increased from 30% to 60%.
- Movement Speed increased from 10% to 15%.
- Blessing of the Bronze
Genji
Talents
- Level 7
- Augmented Guard
- Removed.
- (New Talent) I need healing
- Healing received while standing still increased by 100% but moving reduces the healing received by 100%.
- Augmented Guard
Tracer
Stats
- Basic Attack damage reduced from 26 to 25
Abilities
- Blink (Q)
- Blink Range increased by 25%.
Talents
- Level 7
- Jumper (Q)
- Removed
- Bullet Time (Q)
- Adjusted Functionality:
- Your Basic Attacks have a 50% chance to lower your Blink cooldown by 0.2 second.
- Adjusted Functionality:
- Echo Spatial (Q)
- Removed
- (New Talent) Trail of Flames (Q)
- Blink has a 50% chance to leave a burning trail, damaging everyone (including Tracer) for 150 damage per second, up to 3 seconds.
- (New Talent) Glitch (Active)
- Your next Blink has a 15% chance to Blink twice as far and 85% chance to Blink in the opposite direction.
- 5 second cooldown.
- Jumper (Q)
Valeera
Abilities
- Blade Flurry (W)
- Damage reduced from 130 to 80.
- Energy cost increased from 40 to 60.
Talents
- Level 4
- Relentless Strike (Q)
- Energy reduction reduced from 15 to 5
- Relentless Strike (Q)
- Level 7
- Mutilate (Q)
- Damage bonus reduced from 125% to 50%.
- Mutilate (Q)
Abathur
Stats
- Basic Attack Damage Reduced from 26 to 20.
- Health increased from 685 to 700.
- Health Regeneration increased from 1.4257 to 1.5.
Murky
- Basic Attack received new animations.
Stats
- Basic Attack Damage increased from 60 to 120.
- Basic Attacks now cleave in a radius of 4 in an arc in front of Murky.
- Basic Attack Speed reduced from 1.25 to 1.
Abilities
- Octo-Grab
- Damage dealt increased from 1 to 137.
- Cooldown increased from 50 to 70.
Talents
- Level 20
- ā¦ And A Shark Too! (R)
- Removed.
- (New Talent) Attack of the Kraken (R)
- Octo-Grab now grabs 2 additional targets near the victim.
- ā¦ And A Shark Too! (R)
Nazeebo
Talents
- Level 13
- Guardian Toads
- Duration increased from 2 seconds to 3.
- Armor increased from 25 to 30.
- Superstition
- Spell Armor now only removed by Minions/Mercenaries/Elites basic attacks.
- Ice Block
- Cooldown reduced from 60 to 30.
- Duration increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
- Guardian Toads
Li Li
Abilities
- Blinding Wind (E)
- Cooldown increased by 2 seconds.
Talents
- Level 1
- Wind Serpent
- Now increases Cloud Serpent cooldown by 1 second.
- Wind Serpent
Rehgar
Talents
- Level 1
- (New Talent) Lightning Bond
- Casting Lightning Shield on an ally also casts an untalented version on you.
- (New Talent) Lightning Bond
- Level 10
- Ancestral Healing (R)
- Can no longer be self-cast
- Ancestral Healing (R)
Tassadar
Stats
- Basic Attack reduced from 14 to 12.
- Health reduced from 1287 to 1222.
- Health Regeneration reduced from 2.6796 to 2.5456.
Abilities
- Dimensional Shift (E)
- Cooldown reduced from 30 to 24.
- Mana cost reduced from 75 to 60.
- Oracle (D)
- Slow increased from 20% to 25%.
- Archon (R)
- No longer refreshes the cooldown of Dimensional Shift.
- Force Wall (R)
- Cooldown increased from 8 to 25.
- Mana cost removed.
- No longer increases slow.
- Duration increased from 2 to 4.
- Moved to Level 20.
- (New Ability) Explode (R)
- After 1.5 second become invulnerable then 3.5 seconds later explode and deal 700 damage, Tassadar respawns 5 seconds later upon exploding.
- 100 second cooldown, 100 mana.
Talents
- Level 1
- Psi-Infusion (W)
- First reward increased from 20% to 25%.
- Second reward reduced from 20% to 15%.
- Templarās Will (D)
- First reward increased from 125% to 250%.
- Khaydarin Resonance (Q)
- First reward increased from 20% to 25%.
- Second reward increased from 20% to 25%.
- Psi-Infusion (W)
- Level 4
- Khalaās Celerity (Q)
- Movement Speed bonus reduced from 20% to 15%.
- Khalaās Embrace (Q)
- Life Steel increased from 75% to 85%.
- Khalaās Light (Q)
- Armor reduced from 20 to 15.
- Khalaās Celerity (Q)
- Level 13
- Nullification (Active)
- Now reduces enemy damage and movement speed by 60% for 4 seconds.
- Nullification (Active)
- Level 20
- Force Barrier (R)
- Removed.
- Shield Battery (Active)
- Removed.
- (New Talent) Marked By The Khala(R)
- Enemy Heroes hit by the explosion receive 15% damage increase from all sources while Allies recieve 15% armor, lasts for 3 seconds.
- Passive: Upon dying, cast Explode, this cast doesnāt let Tassadar respawn in 5 seconds.
- Force Barrier (R)
Arthas
- Arthas has recieved new model and animations.
- Arthas Hit Box Size reduced from 0.8125 to 0.75.
Diablo
Abilities
- Shadow Charge (Q)
- Cooldown increased from 13 to 14.
- Terrain Impact Damage reduced from 120 to 108.
- Overpower (E)
- Cooldown increased from 13 to 14.
D.Va
Talents
- Level 16
- Suppressing Fire
- Removed.
- (New Ability) MEKA-Go! (Active)
- Activate to cause D.Va to charge forward and stun the first enemy hero she collide with for 1.25 second and deal 135 damage.
- 15 second cooldown.
- Suppressing Fire
Stitches
Abilities
- Hook (Q)
- New Functionality:
- Deal 150 damage and reduce the target armor by 25 for 2 seconds.
- No longer pulls the target, point and click melee range.
- 12 seconds cooldown, 60 Mana.
- New Functionality:
- Helping Hand (1)
- Removed.
Talents
- Level 4
- Serrated Edge (Q)
- Maximum Health damage increased from 5% to 8%.
- Serrated Edge (Q)
- Level 16
- Fishing Hook
- Removed.
- (New Talent) Deep Wound
- Hook now applies 50 armor reduction that decays over 2 seconds.
- Fishing Hook
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where Probius couldnāt play his death sounds.
- Fixed an issue where Chromie could reset the match on her own will.
- Dehaka can no longer pull the core.
- Fixed an issue where Lucio accidentally plays Despacito.
- Fixed an issue where Genji deals damage to enemy heroes.
- Chen can become drunk again on acceptable levels.
- Morales can no longer drive Medivac to other locations while in middle of the flight.
- Whitemane model has been properly adjusted again.
- Several Bug fixes for the AI.
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