HOTFIX

Published on June 28, 2017

Heroes of the Storm Hotfix Notes – June 28, 2017

We just released a new patch for Heroes of the Storm in order to apply balance changes along with a few bug fixes.

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Heroes:

Hero Balance Updates (13)

D.Va

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

General Base Stats

Mech Basic Attack Damage reduced from 22.5 to 21
Mech Health reduced from 2060 to 2000
Mech Health Regeneration reduced from 4.86 to 4.17

Talent Changes

Level 1

General

Hit the Nitrous (Q)
Damage bonus reduced from 100% to 50%

Genji

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 4

General

Shuriken Mastery (Q)
Bonus damage reduced from 30 to 25
Dragon Claw (Active)
Damage required reduced from 375 to 330
Damage dealt increased from 180 to 190
Dodge (Passive)
Cooldown increased from 8 to 12 seconds

Uther

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Developer Comment

 ***When we looked at how to nerf our Paladin, we knew that Uther was designed to be great at shutting down enemy teams with lockdown, and we want to continue with that as one of his major strengths, but Guardian of Ancient Kings negated these enemy plays too well. Statistically, it isn’t outperforming the other Talents on the tier by a significant margin unless you look at the highest levels of play, but at those levels the power of this talent could feel frustrating to play against. After these changes, we think it will be a situational pick against teams with a lot of hard disables, but may not be the best choice if the team only has 1 or 2 things that will provide the increased Armor. ### Warriors

Talent Changes

Level 1

General

Hammer of the Lightbringer (E)
Cooldown reduction per Basic Attack increased from 1 to 1.5 seconds
Pursuit of Justice (E)
Movement Speed increased from 20% to 25%
Guardian of Ancient Kings (Trait)
Armor reduced from 75 to 50
Benediction (Active)
Cooldown increased from 40 to 60 seconds

Dehaka

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

General Base Stats

Basic Attack damage reduced from 110 to 105

Brushstalker (Z)

Cooldown increased from 50 to 60 seconds

Talent Changes

Level 13

General

Ferocious Stalker (W)
New functionality:
Increase the damage of Dark Swarm by 40% while the Brushstalker buff is active

Lúcio

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Developer Comment

 ***The idea here is to give back his intentional healing since we took out so much of his passive healing away. This may also hopefully help Reverse Amp/Bring it Together pick rates on their tiers as well.

Base Abilities & Stats

Healing Boost (W)

Amp it Up Healing increased from 14.5 to 15.5

Talent Changes

Level 16

General

Up the Frequency (E)
Cooldown per Basic Attack increased from .35 to .45 seconds

Medivh

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 7

General

Raven Familiar (E)
Ravens created by this talent will now only attack Heroic targets

Thrall

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Frostwolf Resilience (Trait)

Heal amount increased from 210 to 223

Talent Changes

Level 1

General

Rolling Thunder (Q)
Mana return increased from 10 to 12
Feral Resilience (W)
Added functionality:
Heroes hit by Feral Spirit grant Thrall 3 charges of Frostwolf Resilience
Spirit Shield (Passive)
Cooldown reduction per Frostwolf Resilience stack increased from 5 to 8 seconds
Wind Rush (Active)
Cooldown increased from 70 to 80 seconds

Probius

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Pylon Overcharge (R)

No longer gives Pylons bonus Health

Zeratul

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 16

General

Sentenced to Death (W)
Bonus damage decreased from 50% to 40%

Zul'jin

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Guillotine (R)

Base damage increased from 210 to 350
Damage multiplier at extremely low health decreased from 500% to 300%

Talent Changes

Level 20

General

Ensnare (Active)
Range increased from 7.8 to 10
Cooldown reduced from 60 to 45 seconds
Duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds

Malthael

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Developer Comment

 ***Death has arrived, and he’s definitely doing his job (somewhat too well). His winrate has climbed a lot faster (and higher) than anticipated, so the majority of these changes are nerfs. In particular, there was really powerful synergy between Trait focused Talent choices and Tormented Souls. We think that by reducing the power of each individual part, it will bring this angel down to Earth.

Base Abilities & Stats

Tormented Souls (R)

Cooldown increased from 80 to 100 seconds

Talent Changes

Level 4

General

Throwing Shade (E)
Cooldown reduction increased from 2 to 4 seconds
Added functionality:
Now also reduces the Mana cost of Death Shroud on quest completion from 50 to 25
Ethereal Existence (Trait)
Armor reduced from 15 to 10 per Hero hit
Maximum Armor bonus increased from 45 to 50
Inevitable End (Active)
Cooldown reduced from 30 to 20 seconds
Memento Mori (Trait)
Damage bonus reduced from 100% to 80%
Reaper of Souls (R)
Added functionality:
Now passively increases the duration of Tormented Souls by 1 second

Bug Fixes

Chromie: Fixed an issue that could allow two instances of Slowing Sands to exist at once.
Dehaka: Completing Tissue Regeneration’s Quest will no longer prevent Essence earned via Hero takedowns from Healing Dehaka.
Samuro: Fixed an issue causing Windwalk to last 9 seconds rather than 10.
Tassadar: Nullification will now correctly apply multiplicatively when the target is also affected by other damage reduction effects.
Tassadar: Can no longer use his Basic Attack during Dimensional Shift while in Archon form.
Thrall: Percent Health damage dealt by Basic Attacks after casting Feral Spirit with the Alpha Wolf Talent now correctly count as Ability Damage.
Thrall: The bonus Heal amount granted by Frostwolf's Grace will no longer apply to all Frostwolf Resilience procs.
Tyrande: The Bonus Damage amount that appears in Ranger's buff bar tooltip will now update properly.

Tassadar

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Plasma Shield (Q)

Lifesteal amount reduced from 45% to 40%

Talent Changes

Level 1

General

Khaydarin Resonance (Q)
First unlock shield value bonus increased from 15% to 20%
Second unlock shield bonus increased from 30% to 40%
Templar’s Will (Passive)
Damage bonus of first quest unlock reduced from 150% to 125%
Khala’s Embrace (Q)
Life steal amount reduced from 90% to 75%

Brightwing

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

Pixie Dust (E)

Movement Speed duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds
No longer grants Block charges
New functionality:
Grants 30 Spell Armor for 3 seconds

Talent Changes

Level 13

General

Shield Dust (E)
Added functionality:
Pixie Dust also grants 50 Physical Armor for the duration

Bug Fixes

General

Fixed several issues that could cause the game client to crash.

Art

Malthael: Casting Last Rites multiple times on the same target will no longer cause overhead visual effects from the second cast to appear untextured.

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents

Chromie: Fixed an issue that could allow two instances of Slowing Sands to exist at once.
Dehaka: Completing Tissue Regeneration’s Quest will no longer prevent Essence earned via Hero takedowns from Healing Dehaka.
Samuro: Fixed an issue causing Windwalk to last 9 seconds rather than 10.
Tassadar: Nullification will now correctly apply multiplicatively when the target is also affected by other damage reduction effects.
Tassadar: Can no longer use his Basic Attack during Dimensional Shift while in Archon form.
Thrall: Percent Health damage dealt by Basic Attacks after casting Feral Spirit with the Alpha Wolf Talent now correctly count as Ability Damage.
Thrall: The bonus Heal amount granted by Frostwolf's Grace will no longer apply to all Frostwolf Resilience procs.
Tyrande: The Bonus Damage amount that appears in Ranger's buff bar tooltip will now update properly.