Heroes of the Storm Patch Notes — July 11, 2017

Map Rotation Update

• The Ranked Map Rotation has been updated to include the following:
  • Hanamura
  • Dragon Shire
  • Tomb of the Spider Queen
  • Cursed Hollow
  • Infernal Shrines
  • Garden of Terror
  • Warhead Junction
  • Haunted Mines
  • Towers of Doom

Hanamura

• Core Life increased from 7 to 8
• Sapper Minions will no longer spawn for the enemy team after a Keep is destroyed
• Map Objective:
  • First Payload spawn time increased by 15 seconds
  • Second Payload spawn time increased by 15 seconds
  • Payloads now grant 1200 XP upon reaching their destination
• Mercenaries:
  • Fortification Camp
    • Turret power-up will now prioritize attacking Heroes
    • Turret power-up health has been increased by 10%
    • Turret power-up now deals double damage to Minions
  • Recon Camp
    • Dragon Spirits power-up no longer dismounts enemy Heroes
  • Support Camp
    • Initial Spawn time increased by 15 seconds
    • Health total decreased by 10%
    • Base attack damage decreased by 12%
    • Attack damage scaling reduced by roughly 60%
    • Self-heal ability cooldown increased by 2 seconds

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General

• Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.

A.I.

• Hanamura – Fixed an issue with AI players pacing near Payloads if a stealthed enemy was contesting.

Art

• Alarak – Lightning Surge will now display its effect when cast on Forts and Keeps.
• Auriel – Fixed a visual issue with Auriel’s Bestow Hope crown when placed on a Tassadar in Archon form.
• Uther – Fixed an issue with the Beacon of Light talent causing it to display the wrong icon.

Battlegrounds

• Hanamura – Fixed an issue preventing Turret power-ups from being damaged by the Boss’s Energy Ring ability.
• Hanamura – Fixed an issue preventing Mercenaries from attacking Turret power-ups.
• Haunted Mines – Fixed an issue that prevented skulls from being collected if a Haunted Miner was killed while over unpathable terrain.
• Haunted Mines – Fixed a rare issue that could cause Grave Golems to push the same lane twice.
• Mercenaries – Fixed an issue causing the Raven Mercenary’s Seeker Missile reveal effect to occasionally persist after the Seeker Missile detonated.
• Sandbox Mode – Fixed an issue that caused duplicate D.Va Mechs to appear when using the ‘Move Here’ command with D.Va.
• Warhead Junction – Fixed an issue preventing the damage-over-time effect applied by the Boss’s Podling spawns from being cleansed by abilities intended to cleanse these effects.
• Warhead Junction – Fixed an issue causing players to be incorrectly flagged as AFK when standing near or collecting Warheads.

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents

• Alarak – Fixed an issue that prevented Rite of Rak’Shir from going on a reduced cooldown if used on a Nova Holo Decoy that expired.
• Arthas – The attack speed slow applied by Frozen Tempest is now consistent with what is stated in the ability’s tooltip.
• Chen – Fixed an issue preventing the stun duration of Anub’arak’s Burrow Charge from being reduced by Purifying Brew.
• D.Va – Fixed an issue causing D.Va’s Mech to ignore ‘Hold Position’ commands.
• D.Va – Fixed a rare issue that caused D.Va to become unresponsive if Big Shot was fired into the enemy Hall of Storms immediately before calling down a Mech.
• D.Va – Fixed that issue that allowed D.Va’s Boosters to push enemies that were affected by Time Stop.
• D.Va – Fixed an issue causing D.Va to destroy map mechanic pickups (such as Doubloons) when using Call Mech near them.
• D.Va – Fixed an issue causing Defense Matrix to unintentionally reduce the effects of percentage damage abilities.
• D.Va – Fixed an issue preventing pilot D.Va from immediately exiting her Mech after casting Self Destruct if there was not ample space available nearby.
• Genji – Fixed an issue causing Genji to take partial damage from abilities that ended Deflect early, such as stuns and silences.
• Greymane – Fixed an issue that could occasionally grant additional Go for the Throat procs after casting the free charge.
• Kharazim – Fixed an issue that Stitches’ Vile Gas to deal damage to Kharazim while casting Seven-Sided Strike.
• Murky – The Fish Eye talent will now properly reveal stealthed targets at the edge of its sight radius.
• Murky – Fixed an issue causing Murky’s Fish Eye talent to permanently reduce his mounted movement speed. 
• Murky - Fixed an issue preventing Murky from gaining stealth when spawning from his Egg after learning the Egg Hunt talent.
• Nova – Fixed an issue preventing Holo Decoy from being cast in several locations on Garden of Terror and Infernal Shrines.
• Probius – Fixed an issue preventing Probius from gathering minerals while inside the Garden Terror on Garden of Terror
• Tassadar – Fixed an issue causing Tassadar to gain healing from the damage dealt by his Focused Beam talent.
• Tychus – The primary target damage amount displayed in Overkill’s tooltip is now consistent with the damage dealt by the Ability.

Sound

• Diablo Announcer – Fixed an issue causing the Diablo announcer pack game start countdown to become out of sync.
• Draft Mode – Fixed an issue causing Hero selection voiceover lines to occasionally echo.
• Muradin – Fixed an issue causing a pop in Muradin’s Avatar voice lines when playing in certain locales.

User Interface

• Collection - Fixed an issue preventing the “Unseen Items” flag from clearing after viewing all highlighted items in the Collection.
• Nova, Samuro – Fixed an issue preventing debuff timers from showing below clone’s health bars.
• UI – Fixed an issue that could occasionally fail to display one team’s current experience total.