Heroes of the Storm patch is live! Read on for more information.
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Seems like the bot dont provide us our balance patches any longer and we have to post them insteed. The Blizzard banner almost made me think it was a bot with Tyrande avatar.
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Scarlet Wrath
- REWORK: Now also restores .5% Mana to all Zeal targets
Holy shi-
you mean my idea was good
shoulda been a game balancer
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Silenced players are now allowed to play ranked, and are no longer silenced in chat…
Explain?
Xen did before I had finished typing this! Otherworldly stuff Xen!
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Other communities (eg reddit) had asked about the silence oddity prior to today’s patch.
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I just spoke to someone in ranked who had this silenced icon. They said they weren’t silenced in voice chat or text chat, maybe a glitch?
Inquisitors prayer
These changes are noticeable however still not enough to merit picking them over other two, I collected a lot of stack but I often found myself wanting the increased lash damage and attack speed to proc the stacks on AA. on the plus side with the increased mana you can now use radiance a little more, again not enough to merit choosing them but at least it’s available.
I was fortunate enough to be able to get a Whitemane in an ARAM to see if I can start choosing her over the other healers. unfortunately inquisitors prayer still suffers the same problems it had before as you can’t get properly close enough to lash people before every dps in a 100 mile radius homes in on you like a bunch of food starved seagulls.
the mana regen given by scarlet wraith is useful to other players you barely notice the mana increase when you zeal yourself unless you use in tandem with Inquisitors prayer but then you get the same problem I’ve noticed consistently where your attack speed is just too slow to get a decent amount of mana back.
I see it working well with a CC heavy team and a mana hungry mage however that is just one instant. there’s niche talents but this is ridiculous.
Whitemane’s play style hasn’t changed, at best a little change when the planets align and a blue moon is out. Inquisitors prayer has improved so I won’t be quite as annoyed when seeing other people choose it but it’s still lacking and they’d still be better off using the other talents.
conclusion: neh
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Is the maskless call skin old?
She got glue stuck in her mouth
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Nice to see this talent get some love. It’s actually really fun to use if you have a beefy team it’s a crazy amount of sustain, this should definitely help with that same situation.
Yep. Neither of those buffs will get me to pick those talents in any new situations. It should improve my win rate in the rare matches where I do pick them though.
Inquisitors prayer I only pick vs valeera to get hp to survive her silence.
Scarlet Wrath I only pick with 3 frontline melee in the team who can all benefit from the sustain.
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A plausible usage for inquisitors prayer but even that seems far too unreliable. Also for the giggles I picked it against a samuro and ETC managed to get around 300 stacks in Ai highly funny that I had more health than our frontline.
on paper I agree with you when playing around with scarlet wraith I did feel stronger in sustain healing
in practice most of the sustain damaging assassins dish out more than what whitemane can, even with the inquisition lash combo. the talent lacks a certain “omph” the other two options have and until they find said “omph” it’s still not viable
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I have seen that “bug” the last 2 weeks so is not really “new”.
And well, about “Dehaka balance” even if my opinion helped a little to fix the previous Hero Stalker “balance” idea, i still think it was a bad nerf. For example no one is nerfing Vala AA lvl 1 quest even if it makes her have an absurd basic attack dmg because there are ways to counter that (blind, stun, inmortality, etc…), and the same happened with the previous Hero Stalker talent (cmon is not pretty hard to avoid a circle arround a player, and you can kill a dehaka with 2-3 seconds of stun/silence making him unable to eat the essence stored) so why nerf an unused talent that is so easy to counter?
But meh, I hope that one day the balance guys will make a real balance to the less used and worst Dehaka talents in the future before the game dies…
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Thank goodness they finally shortened the timers, I’m currently banning and there’s still so much time spent waiting for normies to figure the most basic things out.
People are allowed to think. Trying to push people into insta lock heroes they are trash with is not how you play ranked.
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I certainly hope this is not intended!
Um, I don’t remember giving this permission.
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I’m glad they toned down the dehaka nerfs for the swarm build. Yes its strong but its not OP. TBH it’s more about ARAM balance since a lot of people just play that now…
I’ve been able to confirm that players who have received a silence, can now still chat, and play ranked. I’ve talked to several random players with the icon, who confirmed that their account was silenced, but they no longer are silenced in chat or prevented from playing ranked matches.
Not only that, but I don’t think this change makes any sense at all, if they aren’t going to actually silence someone for abusive chat, and let them play ranked, why bother with a silenced icon?
Perhaps the new philosophy behind punishments is a form of public shaming, but if that was an effective deterrent, then I wouldn’t meet people who wish death on others because someone picked Nova in ranked.
Hi i was one of those guys in the past, now i said nothing in team chat but i said everything i want in general chat to avoid the IA punishment 
Anyway picking nova in ranked when the team need an assasin is much different than picking it at last pick just for trolling when the team already have assasins and need a tank/healer 
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Make no sense. Like why add a silence icon on someone if it does nothing ? If this is not a bug then this is a huge mistake from whoever added this. Part of being silenced is to tell people that others had enough of you and dont want to deal with your behavier hence they cant use chat or play ranked where talking matters more.
This is like telling a bully to go to the principal office to get his punishment just for him to get a handshake and an icecream as his reward.
Huge step backwards what punishing trolls goes for. And if they really wanted to public shame them then they could just add a clown icon on everyone affected.
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Honestly, a clown icon would be more of a punishment than a microphone icon, which at first glance, can indicate a player is using voice chat, rather than being silenced.
As this appears to be an undocumented change, and I’m quite curious to find out what the rationale is for this particular change, because, as you noted, this change seems counterintuitive.
I understand, and personally I only pick Nova in QM and the moon has to be extremely blue for that happenstance. Despite my annoyance when players take Valeera, or Nova, when the team needs a tank, it’s still not grounds for abuse or even a report, so long as they participate and try to win, but yeah, it is annoying.