Howdy guys!!
If you’ve been around for some time, you probably got to experience at least one of the multiple reworks Tyrande has gone trough and, although I’m not totally displeased with them and I like her current position, it could be a lot better and smoother.
But that’s only one of the problems. You see, I read somewhere on Reddit (in the HotS subreddit) that someone said that “after so many iterations, the original purpose is lost”. And it’s true. Every rework is a different iteration of a given character, and every rework went trough many different iterations before even hitting the PTR, this causes the original ideas and caracteristics of the character to slowly fade away.
And that is what I’ll try to acomplish in this rework: Give Tyrande new, shiny tools that allow a smoother gameplay, while recovering some of the things that were lost on the way.
Now, let’s waste no more time and head to the Tyrande rework:
Tyrande
Base:
- Stats
- Health increased from 1511 to 1560.
- Health Regen increased from 3.1484 to 3.25.
- Weapon
- Attack damage increased from 55 to 65.
- Sentinel [W]
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 12 seconds.
- Damage increased from 120 to 140.
- Lunar Flare [E]
- Damage increased from 150 to 170.
- Hunter’s Mark [D]
- Armor reduction increased from 15 to 20.
- Duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds.
- Range increased from 6 to 7.
- Elune’s Chosen [1]
- Activate to make Tyrande’s Basic Attacks heal the targeted allied Hero for 150% of the damage dealt. Lasts 10 seconds. 30 seconds Cooldown. Can be used on Tyrande at 50% power.
Talents:
Level 1 (Tier 1):
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Elune’s Might: Revealing a hero with Sentinel or Stuning a hero with Lunar Flare increases the healing of your Light of Elune by a 10% for 3 seconds.
If a Hero dies within 1.5 seconds of being Stunned or 5 seconds of being Revealed, increase your Light of Elune’s healing by a 20% for 5 seconds. -
Mark of Mending: Tyrande’s Basic Attacks heal her for 3% of her maximum health. If an enemy dies while under the effects of Hunter’s Mark, reset it’s cooldown.
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Trueshot Aura: Activate to share this bonus with all nearby allies for 5 seconds.
Passive: Tyrande gains 10% bonus Basic Attack damage and Spell Power.
Level 4 (Tier 2):
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Lunar Blaze: !Quest: Hit enemy Heroes with Lunar Flare. Heroes that die within 1.5 seconds of being hit grant 3 stacks.
Reward: Hitting a Hero with Lunar Flare permanently increases its damage by 5%.
Reward: After hitting 10 heroes, increase Lunar Flare’s range by 30%. -
Ranger: Sentinel’s width is increased by 25%, it now pierces all targets and deals up to 250% more damage based on distance traveled.
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Huntress Fury: Increases Tyrande’s Basic Attack range by 1. Basic Attacks reduce Hunter’s Mark cooldown by 1 second. Every third Basic Attack splashes to nearby enemies for 30% more damage, reduces Hunter’s Mark cooldown by an additional second and reduces the armor of non-Heroes by 10 for 2 seconds, stacks with Hunter’s Mark.
Level 7 (Tier 3):
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Moonlit Arrows: Basic Attacks decrease the cooldown of Light of Elune by an additional 0.75 seconds.
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Kaldorei Resistance: Light of Elune grants the target 15 spell armor for 3 seconds. If used twice in the same target, grant 15 armor instead.
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Divine Priesthood: Reduce Light of Elune’s cooldown by 6 seconds and increase its healing by a 30%, but Basic Attacks no longer reduce it’s cooldown.
Level 10 (Tier 4):
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Shadowstalk: Grant all allied Heroes Stealth for 10 seconds and heal them for 380 health over 10 seconds. Reveals all enemy heroes for 2 seconds. Remaining stationary for at least 1.5 seconds while Stealthed grants Invisible. Cooldown: 90 seconds.
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Starfall: Deal 88 damage per second, apply Hunter’s Mark and Slow enemies by 25% in an area. Lasts 8 seconds. Cooldown: 70 seconds.
Level 13 (Tier 5):
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Celestial Attunement: Light of Elune removes Stuns, Silences and Slows from it’s target.
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Everlasting Light: If Light of Elune is cast on a different target than the last, it heals 60% more and it’s cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds.
Hitting a Hero with Sentinel or Lunar Flare grants one charge of Light of Elune. Healing or damaging a Hero with Light of Elune reduces Sentinel’s and Lunar Flare’s cooldown by 2 seconds.- Max Light of Elune’s charges is still 2, so it only replenishes already used charges.
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Elune’s Wrath: Light of Elune increases the damage its target deals by 25% for 3 seconds.
Level 16 (Tier 6):
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Lunar Shower: Hitting an enemy Hero with Lunar Flare reduces its cooldown by 7 seconds and refunds its mana cost.
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Harsh Moonlight: Hitting an enemy with Sentinel reduces it’s cooldown by 2 seconds. The first target hit by Sentinel is slowed by 40% and deals 40% reduced damage.
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Darnassian Archery: Basic attacks against enemy heroes increase your Basic Attack speed and Basic Attack damage by a 3% for 4 seconds.
Basic attacking enemy Heroes reduce their damage done by an 8% for 3 seconds, up to 40%. Enemy Heroes whose damage is reduced by a 40% by this talent receive 25% more damage from Tyrande.
Level 20 (Tier 7):
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Dori’Thur’s Blessing: Activate to reset Sentinel’s cooldown and increase the damage of your next sentinel by a 50%. 60 seconds cooldown.
Passive: Increases Sentinel’s damage by a 25%. Dori’Thur pursues the last enemy hero hit by Sentinel, granting vision over them for up to 10 seconds. This effect can be cleansed. -
Celestial Wrath: Enemies hit by Lunar Flare have their armor reduced by 10 for 3 seconds. This stacks additively with Hunter’s Mark.
If an enemy dies within 1.5 seconds of being hit by Lunar Flare, cast a free Lunar Flare on the closest enemy. This Lunar Flare prefers Heroes and does not benefit from Celestial Wrath. -
Shooting Star: Increases Sentinel’s reveal duration to 10 seconds and Lunar Flare’s stun duration to 1 second.
Hitting an enemy Hero with Lunar Flare increases Tyrande’s Basic Attack speed by a 30% for 6 seconds. Tyrande’s Basic Attacks against enemies revealed by Sentinel deal 1.5% of their maximum life as bonus damage. -
Night Warrior: Activate to turn into the Night Warrior for 20 seconds, which allows you to use Light of Elune on enemies to deal 75% of its healing as damage.
- If Kaldorei Resistance (Tier 3) was picked, Light of Elune reduces enemy spell armor (armor when used twice) by 15.
- If Celestial Attunement (Tier 5) was picked, Light of Elune slows enemy movement speed by a 30%.
- If Elune’s Wrath (Tier 5) was picked, Light of Elune decreases enemy damage dealt by a 25%.
I will be honest, I’ve been iterating and changing back and fort things. I overall like the result, but I feel some things need working. I must admit this was a challenge; while going trough Tyrande’s talents I realized there are many things I still don’t know about her, and while inquiring about popular and efficient builds I noticed there are gaps in talent popularity that are way bigger than I thought, Celestial Attunement for one.
You may notice the changes in Tyrande aren’t as drastic: Many of her actual talents are still there in one way or another, some of them were just merged, and the mayority switched with other talents. This is because Tyrande didn’t have an identity crisis or anything similar, her fantasy was intact, it’s just that some of the tools she has don’t allow her to fully shine. Even so, it was hard to come up with the ideas despite having the actual iteration in a good spot, for some reason.
Now, on to a bit of explanation:
I reduced Tyrande’s attack range a bit to both force her into more risky situations and encourage the use of Huntress Fury(after enough feedback, I decided against this and gave Tyrande her range back), but I increased her health a tiny little bit to compensate for the added risk. I also reduced her overall damage by reducing attack damage and attack speed(Again, feedback, plus the fact I was already kind of unsure if it was the right move). This was to compensate for the Hunter’s Mark buff, which was done to reinforce Tyrande’s capability to enable a kill or burst down an objective.
As for other changes, Lunar Blaze can now be stacked to infinity and beyond. Because everyone likes infinite quests, right? Also, Tier 3 and Tier 5 are completely and solely focused in Tyrande’s Q because they are supposed to be flexible choices that complement whatever build you choose to pursue, but they are meant to be directly exclusive.
The rest of the changes are pretty self-explanatory. If, per chance, you saw my Whitemane rework, you may be seeing a pattern: W, E and D/AA builds. Given Tyrande is a more aggressive healer, with sustained damage but more bursty healing, I decided not to create a Q build out of nowhere because I think that never existed, and instead focused on bringing back Owl build and created instead an E build based off the talents already existant. I also enhanced D/AA build. Unlike Whitemane though, Tyrande’s talents where less thought as builds and more as flexible tools that you can mix and match for different purposes.
Well, I believe that’s all for now. If you have questions, corrections or suggestions, please feel free to tell me. I’ll gladly discuss anything about the rework and make changes accordingly.
And, in case you haven’t and you feel like doing it, you can check out my Whitemane rework too!!
Changelog:
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10/09/2019: Corrected some spelling mistakes. Oops
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10/11/2019: Made the following balance changes:
- Health increased from 1520 to 1560.
- Health Regen increased from 3.1672 to 3.25.
- Attack Range increased from 5.6 to 6. (Back to live)
- Attack speed increased from 1.3 to 1.33. (Back to live)
- Attack damage increased from 50 to 65.
- Lunar Flare: Stun duration decreased from 1 to 0.75 seconds. (Back to live)
- [NEW] Lunar Flare: Damage increased from 150 to 170.
- [NEW] Sentinel: Cooldown reduced from 15 to 12 seconds.
- [NEW] Sentinel: Damage increased from 120 to 140.
- Hunter’s Mark: Range increased from 6.6 to 7.
- Elune’s Chosen: Duration increased from 7 to 10 seconds.
- Elune’s Chosen: Can now be used on Tyrande.
- Elune’s Might: No longer increases Elune’s Chosen healing or duration. New functionality added.
- Mark of Mending: Tyrande’s Basic Attacks healing increased from 2.5% to 3% of her maximum health. Basic Attacks against targets with hunter’s mark no longer heal the attacker. New function added.
- Trueshot Aura: No longer increases Attack Damage of all allied heroes by 15%.
- Trueshot Aura: Can no longer be activated to increase the bonus Basic Attack damage to 40%.
- Trueshot Aura: Added new functionality.
- Lunar Blaze: No longer increases Lunar Flare’s range passively. Range increase added as a reward. Now rewards more stacks on enemy death.
- Ranger: Now pierces all targets, up from two.
- Starfall: Now applies Hunter’s Mark to enemies inside.
- Starfall: Duration increased from 6 to 8 seconds.
- Starfall: Cooldown reduced from 80 to 70 seconds.
- Everlasting Light: Hitting Heroes with Sentinel or Lunar Flare now grants charges of Light of Elune.
- Everlasting Light: Healing or damaging Heroes with Light of Elune now reduces Sentinel’s and Lunar Flare’s cooldown.
- Harsh Moonlight: No longer reduces Sentinel’s cooldown passively.
- Harsh Moonlight: No longer deals 7% of max health as bonus damage.
- Harsh Moonlight: Now reduces Sentinel’s cooldown on hit.
- Darnassian Archery: No longer increases Attack Speed passively.
- Darnassian Archery: Bonus Basic Attack damage decreased from 10% to 3% per stack.
- Darnassian Archery: Now grants 3% Basic Attack speed per stack.
- Darnassian Archery: Stacks are no longer lost when attacking non-Heroes.
- Darnassian Archery: Now increases damage done on enemies affected by 5 stacks of Damage Reduction.
- Celestial Wrath: No longer bound to Starfall. Now bound to Lunar Flare.
- Celestial Wrath: No longer makes Starfall apply Hunter’s Mark.
- Celestial Wrath: No longer casts free Lunar Flares.
- Celestial Wrath: New functionality added.
- Dori’Thur’s Blessing: No longer increases damage, resets cooldown or refunds mana cost on enemy death.
- Dori’Thur’s Blessing: New functionality added.
- Shooting Star: No longer casts a free Lunar Flare on every 7th Basic Attack.
- Shooting Star: New functionality added.
- Night Warrior: No longer bound to Shadowstalk.
- Night Warrior: No longer increases Shadowstalk’s healing or reveal duration.
- A BIG thank you to MHM for their help.
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Made some changes on the explanation based on the new changes on the rework.
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Also corrected more spelling mistakes.
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10/13/2019: Made the following balance changes:
- Health Regen is now accurate with the last changes.
- Elune’s Chosen: Now it’s only half as strong when used on Tyrande.
- Elune’s Might: Made it’s description clearer.
- Trueshot Aura: No longer doubles Basic Attack Damage and Spell Power bonus when activating.
- Trueshot Aura: Passive Basic Attack damage and Spell Power bonus increased from 5% to 10%.
- Huntress Fury: Basic Attacks against targets with Hunter’s Mark no longer splash or increase Hunter’s Mark duration.
- Huntress Fury: New functionality added.
- Harsh Moonlight: Only the first hero hit is slowed.
- Shooting Star: Made it’s description clearer.
I don’t know if I accomplished it tho.