Balance Patch Notes Feb 12th

I’m concerned about these DW nerfs. They seem to constantly be nerfing the wrong thing and if the trend continues it seems like they’ll remove what makes him viable to begin with.

It takes a ton of time for that veteran marksman to actually out matches Ace in the Hole.

That change just made Ace in the Hole a must pick lmao.

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Hammer of Justice [E]

  • Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds.

Level 4

  • Holy Shock [Q]
    • Damage reduced from 50% to 40% of Holy Light’s Healing.

The BIG SAD:sob:

Good*

Okay, quick summary:
Mal’Tanis nerfed, but not in a way that would make him less dominating.
Muradin getting small buffs - Playmaker incoming.
Stitches getting insane buffs, getting buffed versions of his 16 talents on level 13!
Tyrael getting buffs, now his trait does more than just deal little damage.
Deathwing nerfs again.
Malthael getting some buffs. The Throwing Shade is finally gonna be viable. But Tormented Souls will still struggle to be a real heroic.
Aba getting small nerfs to his beetles. Which makes sense. He could take down a keep with just 2 backdoors.
Zarya buffs - she was always a strong hero, but maybe not too popular. Now she’ll be even stronger x_x
Ariel nerfs - while I agree that Ariel was the strongest support, I disagree with the nerfs she got. Why couldn’t resurrect just revive targets at 50% HP, upgraded to 100% at level 20? The cooldown increase could be a decent nerf tho.
Malf getting small QoL changes - appreciated.
Uther getting nerfed - LOL, really? From all the supports, Uther is the most powerful one?! I did not see this coming.
My Eve Cruel Chains functionality reverted - okay, I guess.
Azmodan - small buffs. I just love it when a talent is moved to a lower tier and gets BUFFED. It just shows how undertuned it was at the higher tier :smiley: Just look at Chen’s level 1 3,5% HP heal, which used to be a 1,5% HP heal as a LEVEL 20 TALENT! But yeah… they are trying out stuff with his laser build… it could work.
Fenix getting small buffs - more like QoL changes tho.
Jaina changes: Ice Lance cooldown reduction FURTHER nerfed - I quite liked it when it was providing a 2 sec cd reduction, her Q’s timing felt so natural back then. Then it was nerfed to 1,5 sec and her Q started feeling really clunky. Idk why was this further nerf needed, but I admit that I will no longer take this trash talent at the state it is now. What it was providing, that the other 2 talents were not was a PvE bonus. I really wish that her basic attack talent would at least start affecting non-heroes too.
Jimmy buffs. Oh, hell! Why would they buff poor Jimmy?! I think they made a huge mistake and they are not realizing it. I’ll be playing Jimmy till he gets nerfed. He was above average hero even before this buff. I feel like he’ll be completely broken after these changes.
Minor Hammer buff… okay. Nothing special.

It seems like devs don’t want main tank Uther.

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How about they make him a solo support then? Like lowering his healing cooldown, or reducing his healing mana cost.

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I get the hp nerf. (2nd hp nerf in row by the way)

But why the Holy Shock damage? Or stun cd?

He is weak as a solo support due to having incredible cooldowns and mana costs. Stun was what made him viable.

Obviously you can nerf hp to remove the solo tank aspect, but why the other nerfs?

Edit: They could at least compensate lvl1 stun quest for the nerf from 1.5 to 2 second CDR.

You literally pulled words from my mouth lol

Again nothing for Tracer :cry:

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Remove baseline healing from W. Buff W quest greatly.

They reverted Maeiv changes ty blizz

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???
Zarya was just buffed in this patch?!

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Couple weeks ago there was a thread about Malganis on reddit. There were posts about Winged Guard (lvl 1) being bugged, people said that it can sometimes proc much more often that it should (someone mentioned that he saw Malganis having 75 physical armor for 12 full seconds in a fight). I wondered since then it that this can be the reason why is Malganis so strong. I will try to find that thread.

I will start playing her again because of that. Played 0 games with her since the nerf.

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Be happy they at least didn’t reduce her basic attack damage by 1 again.

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So now Azmodan can take all of his E talents… Ok? lol

Nova’s been ignored way longer… And ironically given the XP globe changes, wherein her stealth cannot allow her to soak, I am surprised they still opted to ignore her since it just reduced her presence in lane early game even more LOL.

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I overall liked the changes… I think? I mean, I hope they don’t destroy main tank Uther because one of the things I love about this game is it’s flexibility. But I was affraid they were going to completely slaughter Auriel, and it wasn’t that bad. They also reverted Maiev and buffed a couple others.

I just wish they would stop ignoring Birghtwing. :confused:

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by far the worst patch now i guess? mostly cause of the dumb raynor buff

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