v2.55.15

BALANCE

Published on May 11, 2026

Heroes of the Storm Balance Patch Notes - May 11, 2026

We’ve just released a patch to the live servers in order to apply some balance and bug fixes.

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Battlegrounds & Map Updates

Haunted Mines
- Skull scaling increased from 5% to 7%.
- Golem scaling before 5 minutes decreased.
- Golem scaling later in the game significantly increased.

Hero Balance Updates (6)

Chen

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Flying Kick [Q]

Damage increased from 120 to 130.

Fortifying Brew [D]

Delay before being able to interrupt decreased slightly.
Shields provided per tick increased from 90 to 95.

Talent Changes

Level 1

Accumulating Flame

Initial hit now provides a quest stack.
Stack requirements increased from 20/75 to 25/80.

Bug Fixes

Base Breath of Fire [W] Fixed an issue that caused Breath of Fire to not deal impact damage.

Murky

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 20

March of Murlocs

Cooldown reduced from 100 seconds to 90 seconds.

Arthas

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

General Base Stats

Health increased from 2625 to 2750.

Death Coil [Q]

Healing increased from 262 to 275.

Frostmourne Hungers [D]

Attack damage per quest stack reduced from 1 to 0.75.
Damage bonus on charged attacks increased from 1 to 3.

Talent Changes

Level 1

Frost Presence

Upon unlocking the line Damage, targets can now be hit by both the line AND the final area.
Death Coil Slow benefit duration increased from .75 seconds to 1.25 seconds.

Level 7

Icebound Fortitude

Now removes Slows and Roots upon activation.

Level 20

Path of Frost

Now increases minimum Movement Speed to 140%, rather than providing +40% Movement Speed.

Bug Fixes

Level 1 Rime Fixed an issue that caused Rime's Healing to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.

Gazlowe

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Rock-it Turret

Damage increased from 37 to 43.

Talent Changes

Level 1

One Man Wrecking Crew

Damage bonus increased from 60% to 75%.

Deathwing

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Molten Flame

Damage per tick increased from 19 to 20.

Talent Changes

Level 20

Destroyers Rampage

Duration reduced from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.

Mal'Ganis

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 1

Will of Tichondrius

Damage bonus per stack reduced from 0.5 to 0.25.
Required damage to unlock quest reward decreased from 40 to 20.

Winged Guard

Stack generation reduced from once every 6 seconds to once every 5 seconds.

Level 13

Deep Sleep

Movespeed bonus increased from 10% to 15%.

Level 20

Wrath of Nathreza

Transferred damage increased from 75% to 85%.

Bug Fixes

Map

Volskaya Foundry
- Fixed an issue that caused the Triglav Protector's Particle Cannon charge to cause other players' cursors to highlight in an area.

Heroes

Arthas
- Level 1
  - Rime
    - Fixed an issue that caused Rime's Healing to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.
- Level 16
  - Remorseless Winter
    - Fixed an issue that caused Remorseless Winter's Healing to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.
Chen
- Base
  - Breath of Fire [W]
    - Fixed an issue that caused Breath of Fire to not deal impact damage.
Muradin
- Base
  - Storm Bolt [Q]
    - Fixed an issue that caused Storm Bolt's quest progression indicator to show around the target that killed the Hero.
- Level 7
  - Perfect Storm
    - Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm's Mana refund to not be granted.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm's Mana refund to increase Muradin's Self Healing score.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm to be able to go on cooldown when already on cooldown.
Rexxar
- General
  - Fixed an issue that caused Misha to not respawn when her Respawn Timer expires.
Tychus
- Level 10
  - Infest
    - Infest now displays as a Quest Bonus.
Tyrande
- Base
  - Lunar Flare [E]
    - Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze to not grant quest progress when the targeted Hero dies and they have a non-standard death state.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze to not grant quest progress when the targeted Hero is killed by a non-Hero.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze's quest progression indicator to show around the target that killed the Hero.
Zagara
- Level 1
  - Infest
    - Infest now displays as a Quest Bonus.

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