Heroes of the Storm Patch Notes — June 13, 2017

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Map Rotation Update

• Thanks for sharing your Map Rotation feedback with us! As a result of community-driven discussions, we’re making all 13 Battlegrounds available for play in Versus A.I., Quick Match, and Unranked modes.
• Hero and Team League are now the only game modes that will feature a Map Rotation.
• The Ranked Map Rotation has been updated to include the following:
  • Hanamura
  • Dragon Shire
  • Tomb of the Spider Queen
  • Cursed Hollow
  • Infernal Shrines
  • Sky Temple
  • Braxis Holdout
  • Blackheart’s Bay
  • Battlefield of Eternity
• A new Map Rotation icon has been added to the Ranked Play screen.
  • Hover the cursor over the Map Rotation icon to display a list of all Battlegrounds currently available in Ranked matchmaking.
  • Find the Map Rotation icon next to the Grand Master Leaderboard and Ranked Guide buttons.

Minions

• Catapults
  • Can now slightly overlap with one another to help prevent them from becoming stuck against one another when multiple Catapults bunch up around a Core.

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General

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

A.I.

• Hanamura: A.I. players will no longer pace back and forth near the payload when a Stealthed enemy Hero is nearby.

Art

• Diablo: Prime Evil Diablo’s model while no longer freeze in place during its victory animation.
• Murky: Octo-Grab’s model will no longer persist on the target if Murky is Stopped in the same moment that the Ability is cast.
• Tyrande: Trueshot Aura will now correctly display visual effects on the terrain when graphics are set to Low.

Battlegrounds

• Braxis Holdout: Fixed an issue in which players could be kicked for inactivity while defending the Beacons.
• Cursed Hollow: A small shadow will no longer appear at the location where a new Tribute is about to spawn when graphics are set to Low.
• Dragon Shire: The Dragon Knight’s Savage Charge Ability will no longer cancel Anub’arak’s Burrow Charge.
• Hanamura: The Mega Enforcer will no longer leash after consuming a Hero.
• Hanamura: When the player is not holding an item, the Map Mechanic Ability button tooltip now correctly explains that Hanamura-specific Abilities can be earned by defeating Mercenaries.
• Hanamura: Map Mechanic Turrets can now correctly attack the Mega Enforcer and Mercenaries.
• Towers of Doom: Capturing an Altar will now properly reset that player’s AFK warning timer.
• Try Mode: The Complete Quests button will now properly complete Gazlowe’s Clockwerk Steam Fists Quest Talent.
• Try Mode: Complete Quests will now properly grant Ragnaros’s Catching Fire Quest Talent rewards.
• Try Mode: Refresh Forts will no longer cause the cooldown timer above the Healing Fountain to disappear.
• Mercenaries: Captured enemy Mercenaries will no longer drop Fresh Meat stacks for The Butcher or Mineral stacks for Probius.

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents

• Basic Attacks: Splash and Cleave damage will now correctly reveal targets who are hit while inside Bushes and Vents.
• DoT Effects: Illidan’s Evasion, Chen’s Elusive Brew, and Xul’s Shade Armor will no longer prevent Damage over Time effects from displaying properly in their Health bars.
• DoT Effects: Enemy Health bars will now correctly display damage over time effects after being hit by Swift Strike with the Strike at the Heart Talent.
• Polymorphs: Fixed several issues in which Polymorph effects could incorrectly knock Heroes out of Stealth.
• Abathur: Locusts will now assist Heroes who are attacking a Mercenary Camp rather than immediately traveling to a lane.
• Abathur: Can now correctly cast Symbiote on an allied Nova’s Holo Decoys.
• Anub’arak: An active Cocoon will no longer be destroyed if it is moved by Abilities that block pathing, such as Tyrael’s Holy Ground or Tassadar’s Force Wall.
• Azmodan: All Shall Burn will now properly cancel any active Movement commands issued to Azmodan prior to casting.
• Azmodan: General of Hell will now assist Azmodan while he is attacking a Mercenary Camp rather than immediately traveling to a lane.
• Diablo: Fixed an issue that could allow Shadow Charge to Stun enemies who did not collide with the terrain.
• Gazlowe: Can no longer cast Deth Lazor if he has less than the required amount of Mana.
• Greymane: Insatiable will no longer cause Basic Attacks to restore Mana when Inner Beast is not active.
• Greymane: After learning Viciousness, Cursed Bullet will now correctly refresh Inner Beast’s duration.
• Illidan: Evasion will no longer prevent damage over time effects from displaying on Illidan’s Health bar.
• Kharazim: Duration bars for Echo of Heaven and Deadly Reach will now appear simultaneously if both are active at once.
• Li-Ming: Wave of Force will no longer cancel Sonya’s Whirlwind animation.
• Murky: Can now properly collect Regeneration Globes during Safety Bubble.
• Nazeebo: The tooltips for Nazeebo’s Voodoo Ritual Trait now properly indicate that it contains a Quest.
• Nazeebo: Silencing the Zombies that were created by Zombie Wall with the Dead Rush Talent will no longer prevent them from uprooting.
• Ragnaros: Empower Sulfuras’s animation will no longer play without dealing damage if the attack was cancelled by issuing Movement Commands.
• Stitches: Hook can no longer pull Stealthed enemy Heroes through allied Gates.
• Tassadar: Fixed an issue causing the first tick of Psionic Storm to deal slightly less damage than intended.
• Tassadar: After learning Prismatic Link, Basic Attacks that bounce to a secondary target will now properly reveal that enemy.
• The Butcher: Minions that die near The Butcher will now always drop Fresh Meat stacks.
• The Butcher: Fresh Meat earned via Hero Takedowns, and collected while piloting the Garden Terror or Dragon Knight, will now correctly increment The Butcher’s Fresh Meat stacks.
• The Butcher: Insatiable Blade’s Movement Speed bonus is now properly granted when Butcher’s Brand is applied to non-Heroic targets.
• Valeera: Wound Poison’s reduced Healing debuff will now correctly display a red plus symbol next to the affected Hero’s status bar rather than a purple plus overhead.
• Valeera: Will no longer be revealed when entering the Haunted Mines or using the Tunnel on Towers of Doom.
• Varian: The cooldown for Victory Rush will now be properly reduced when nearby Monsters are killed.

Sound

• Collection: Brightwing will no longer play voiceover when navigating away from her Hero page in the Polish game client.
• Genji: Dragonblade voiceover now plays correctly and will no longer be interrupted by other sound effects.

User Interface

• In-game: Zul’jin’s You Want Axe? Quest Talent will not appear complete on the in-game Score Screen’s Talents tab prior to reaching 120 stacks.
• In-game: Zarya’s Maximum Charge Quest Talent will not appear complete on the in-game Score Screen’s Talents tab prior to reaching 150 stacks.
• Mastery Taunts: Players who have Mastery Taunts will no longer receive Desync errors when loading into a game.
• Quick Cast: The Quick Cast setting for Varian’s passive Heroic Strike Trait has been removed from the Quick Cast Settings menu.