Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting.
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Balance Updates
ARAM
- Same Hero mode now enables Health & Mana regeneration at base, reduced from 8% per second to 3.2% per second.
No more waiting for fountain to be ready again.
Also Blaze nerfs. What a surprice.
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- Hatred [Trait]
- Duration reduced from 6 seconds to 5 seconds.
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Flame Stream
No longer able to deal additional damage to Structures
This is the only practical thing in the entire patch I can agree with. He was a lane bully with his off-specialization but other nerfs for his main tank role seem a little heavy handed.
Also a good adjustment to Garrosh W behavior, although it might reduce the level of micro management.
Won’t even notice Hanzo or Valla AA reduction. It’s like 150 dmg less to an average assassin over 5 seconds.
Everything else feels unecessary. Did you guys have some kind of a word count quota to fill?
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Those Blaze nerfs are pretty huge. I will have to play with it, but this feels like they want to make him a pure offlaner.
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Oh, I don’t know, I rather like the small buffs to Thrall and Mephisto’s Spite getting a little tap on the head. When not in ARAM, Thrall’s Crash Lightning can be a less attractive pick over the other two, as it usually takes more time to complete than Echo of the Elements or the instant benefits of Rolling Thunder, so the small damage increase is welcome.
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And for aram I don’t know what would make mirrors more enjoyable, perhaps a 10 minute cap in the match length and tally up total damage done at the end to determine the winner?
Just make it an opt-in feature already. Seeing 10 LiMings autoattacking each other won’t make it more fun.
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I like this idea, more than the upcoming changes, which IMO make it feel even less in the spirit of what I enjoy about ARAM.
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No please I was only joking.
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Valla getting some tweaks is nice. Manticore getting thumped a bit while Punishment’s efficiency getting a noticeable boost.
Rest are rather substational. Chen getting quite a few buffs has me wanting to drop a Nerf Chen joke that was commonplace back in the day.
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Did Thrall actually need these baseline buffs???
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Thank you. One of many ideas that would be an easy fix. Would take 5 minutes of programming.
I hope Tyrael’s lvl13 “law and order” will be fixed aswell!
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All the problems normal ARAM have wont magically disappere if mirrors are gone. You will still have the typical Mephisto/Zuljin/Azmo haters that want those 3 removed. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
People who afk in base or have a mental breakdown and keep walking into towers will still exists. Remove one problem an another one will just take its place as the new hot stuff to complain about.
Blaze update:
We don’t want people to play this character anymore. We didn’t make him a better tank, but we made him a worse bruiser.
What changes exactly?
But he’s worse at offlaning than before. Attack speed bonus is nerfed, incinerator gauntlets are nerfed, and his siege is nerfed. They even removed his temporary AA reduction.
It’s like they want Thrall to replace him.
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It would have been better to make all hero mode easier to die and easier to push structures down just to get it over with faster. Every time you get a kill it does damage to the core or towers or fort or all three at once to both teams lol
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I assume it has to deal with the enemy breaking line of sight as you approach them after issuing the command which would in turn interrupt your movement and leaves you standing still. Probably helps against forced blind (vision field reduction) from Stukov as well. It’s in line with all these new vision changes where attacking someone maintains a lingering reveal effect on them.
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Thrall buffs, lmao, I appreciate you guys buffing spirit shield but like grace of air is garbage fire, buff that one please.
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Pls some love to Yrel, 1.5 sec for a basic ability cast outdated so hard, esp after baseline speed increase (already years ago)
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While I will miss being able to reduce enemy spell power down to 90% (I combo his spell power reduction and his lv two dmg reduction) I am glad that the toned down blaze
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