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Published on November 25, 2024

Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - November 14, 2024

Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting.

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Heroes:

Battlegrounds & Map Updates

Volskaya

The Triglav Protector will now gain 25% increased energy regeneration and the Pilot and Gunner Abilities will both recharge 25% faster while both slots are occupied.

Hero Balance Updates (10)

Chen

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 10

Wandering Keg

Wandering Keg updated to be a targeted forced Quick cast instead of a Self cast.

D.Va

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

General Base Stats

Max Health increased from 2100 to 2150.

Defense Matrix [W]

Damage reduction increased from -50% to -60%.

Talent Changes

Level 1

Liquid Cooling

Bonus duration increased from 35% to 50%.

Level 7

Get On The Point!

Movement Speed increase duration increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
Timer reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.

Level 10

Bunny Hop

Damage increased from 70 to 78.
Proc bonus damage reduced from 100% to 80%.

Micro Missiles

Cooldown between charges reduced from 5 to 3 seconds.
Cooldown per charge reduced from 20 to 19 seconds.

Level 13

Target Locked

Armor reduction and Slow are now refreshed in duration if the enemy Hero already has the debuffs.
Reduced the amount of time that enemy Heroes need to be in the Defense Matrix from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.

Level 16

Diverting Power

Healing reduced from 35 to 31.

Emergency Shielding

Duration increased from 4 to 8 seconds.
Shield increased from 280 to 290.

Bug Fixes

Base Self Destruct [E] Exploding Mech visibility has been updated from the detonation area to the expanding warning indicator area.

Li Li

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 1

Free Drinks

Can now reduce the cooldown multiple times per cast (Example: Combined with Two For One).

Level 20

Shake It Off

Armor now persists for 2 seconds after Stun, Silence, or Root expires.

Bug Fixes

Base Cloud Serpent [W] Fixed an issue that caused crit floating modifiers to not apply to Cloud Serpent damage.
Fixed an issue that caused Defense Matrix to not apply to any Cloud Serpent damage.
Fixed an issue that caused Spell Power to not apply to Cloud Serpent healing.

Murky

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 13

Egg Shell

The Shield now regains an amount equal to 35% of Murky's current Health when Murky places a new Egg.

Arthas

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 13

Frost Strike

Rework: If Death Coil hits a target Slowed by Frost Strike, they will be Silenced for 1 second.

Rework: No Longer reduces the cooldown of Frostmourne Hungers.

Level 16

Frostmourne Feeds

Rework: The cooldown for Frostmourne Hungers now starts as soon as the first empowerment is used.

Rework: The second Frostmourne Hungers empowerment now only applies after hitting a Hero and lasts for 4 seconds.

Medivh

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 20

Glyph of Poly Bomb

Rework

Target an area to apply Poly Bomb to all enemy Heroes in the area. Poly Bomb activates a second time 1 second after.

Samuro

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Base Abilities & Stats

General Base Stats

Order of buffs in the Buff bar has been updated to match the order in which talents are gained.
Samuro can no longer target a Mirror Image that is affected by launch effects (Example: Phase Prism).
Samuro will no longer mirror Hearthstone and Mount commands on his Mirror Images if the command is sent while selecting a Mirror Image and not Samuro.
Tooltips have been updated to reduce confusion.

Image Transmission [Trait]

Advancing Strikes will now copy Samuro's state for the following: creating a new Mirror Image, Image Transmission, Deflection, Press the Attack.

Wind Walk [E]

Wind Walk will no longer cancel move and attack commands in the command queue when activated.

Critical Strike [W]

Activating Critical Strike while Samuro's Basic Attack is being swung will now apply to that attack, rather than the next attack, and will carry the attack reset over to the next Basic Attack.
Samuro can now see his Critical Strike progress below his Healthplate.
Samuro can now see the remaining duration of Critical Strike's activation around the ability button.

Critical Strike will now copy Samuro's state for the following: creating a new Mirror Image, Image Transmission, Deflection, Press the Attack.

Talent Changes

Level 1

Way of Illusion

Way of Illusion quest progress is now correctly mirrored between different Mirror Images and Samuro.

Level 7

Burning Blade

Burning Blade is now an additive modifier for both Samuro and his Mirror Images instead of just his Mirror Images.

Level 13

Kawarimi

Kawarimi Mirror Images will now clear their command queue of Hearthstone commands when created.

Level 16

Harsh Winds

Harsh Winds is now an additive modifier.

Bug Fixes

Base Image Transmission [Trait] Fixed an issue that allowed Samuro to cast Image Transmission on a destroyed Mirror Image if it was queued to happen directly after Mirror Image was cast.
If Samuro activates Image Transmission or if a new Mirror Image is created, any Mirror Images that are updated will copy Blessing of the Red if it is present on Samuro instead of increasing their maximum Health as if Blessing of the Red were cast on them.

Varian

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 20

Demoralizing Shout

Cooldown of Demoralizing Shout and Parry are reduced by 2.5% whenever an enemy Hero affected by Demoralizing Shout deals damage to a Hero.

Greymane

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 16

Lord Of His Pack

New

Replaces Executioner. Basic Attacks against Slowed, Rooted or Stunned enemy Heroes deal 25% additional damage for 3 seconds, increased to 50% while in Worgen Form.

Imperius

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Talent Changes

Level 10

Wrath of the Angiris

Rework

Damage reduced from 375 to **250**.

Rework

Now deals 20% additional damage for each Valorous Brand marker on the target when landing.

Rework

Valorous Brand markers placed by Imperius will no longer be removed when launching the target into the air. These can still expire while in the air.

Bug Fixes

General

Fixed issues with Block and Basic Attacks that Ignore Armor.

Map

Cursed Hollow
- Fixed an issue that caused Cursed Hollow's Call for Help's Armor reduction to not be cleared by Stasis or Invulnerable.

Heroes

Anubarak
- Level 20
  - Cryptweave
    - Fixed an issue that caused Cryptweave's duration increase to be granted while Anub'arak is dead.
Artanis
- Level 10
  - Purifier Beam
    - Fixed an issue that caused Purifier Beam to last up to an additional 0.5 seconds.
Azmodan
- Level 10
  - Demonic Invasion
    - Fixed an issue that caused Demonic Invasion grunts to attack Stealthed enemies.
Cassia
- Level 20
  - Titan's Revenge
    - Fixed an issue that caused Titan's Revenge empowered Basic Attacks to consume Block charges.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Titan's Revenge to not apply to Charged Strikes bounce attacks.
Cho'Gall
- General
  - Fixed an issue that caused Cho and Gall to become separated if Cho enters a Vehicle the moment the Vehicle expires.
Deathwing
- Level 10
  - Bellowing Roar
    - Fixed an issue to allow Deathwing to cast Bellowing Roar while Dragonflight is active.
Diablo
- Base
  - Black Soulstone [Trait]
    - Fixed an issue that caused Diablo's health gained from Black Soulstone to not be accurate.
D.Va
- Base
  - Self Destruct [E]
    - Exploding Mech visibility has been updated from the detonation area to the expanding warning indicator area.
  - Boosters [Q]
    - Fixed an issue that caused Boosters to not be affected by cooldown reduction granted by Allied Heroes.
    - Will now behave similarly to Defense Matrix and have a fresh cooldown when a new Mech is called.
Fenix
- Level 20
  - Unconquered Spirit
    - Ability will no longer be shaded as though it is disabled when off cooldown.
    - Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
Gul'dan
- Base
  - Drain Life [W]
    - Added a range indicator for Drain Life.
Hanzo
- Level 16
  - Piercing Arrows
    - Fixed an issue that caused Storm Bow to not hit targets in close proximity to the first target hit with Piercing Arrows.
Johanna
- Level 20
  - Indestructible
    - Ability will no longer be shaded as though it is disabled when off cooldown.
    - Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
Junkrat
- Level 7
  - Dirty Trickster
    - Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
Leoric
- Level 1
  - Fealty Unto Death
    - Healing increased from 31.85 to 32. Updated the tooltip to display number instead of percentage.
Li Li
- Base
  - Cloud Serpent [W]
    - Fixed an issue that caused crit floating modifiers to not apply to Cloud Serpent damage.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Defense Matrix to not apply to any Cloud Serpent damage.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Spell Power to not apply to Cloud Serpent healing.
- Level 7
  - The Good Stuff
    - Fixed an issue that caused The Good Stuff's Fast Feet healing increase to be multiplicative.
- Level 13
  - Lightning Serpent
    - Fixed an issue that caused Spell Power and other damage mods to not apply to Lightning Serpent damage.
- Level 16
  - Pick Me Up
    - Fixed an issue that caused Pick Me Up's healing increase to be multiplicative.
Lt. Morales
- Level 4
  - Trauma Trigger
    - Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
    - Fixed an issue that caused the cooldown displayed on the ability to show incorrectly.
Maiev
- Level 4
  - Sudden Vengeance
    - Fixed an issue that caused Sudden Vengeance to not activate Ruthless Spirit.
Mal'Ganis
- Level 1
  - Winged Guard
    - Fixed an issue that caused Winged Guard to lose Block charges to all effects that ignore Armor.
Mephisto
- Level 16
  - Lightning Reaction
    - Fixed an issue that caused Lightning Reaction to activate around Shades of Mephisto when Mephisto has not selected Mimic.
Nazeebo
- Level 10
  - Gargantuan
    - Fixed an issue that caused Gargantuan Stomp damage to not display the correct values in the tooltip.
Orphea
- Level 16
  - Dead Magic
    - Fixed an issue that caused Chaos-empowered Basic Attacks from Dead Magic to consume Block charges.
Rehgar
- Level 7
  - Purification
    - When selecting Purification, Purge will now be able to target Unstoppable enemy Heroes.
Rexxar
- Level 10
  - Unleash the Boars
    - Unleash the Boars damage updated to have Rexxar deal the damage instead of each Boar dealing its own damage.
Samuro
- Base
  - Image Transmission [Trait]
    - Fixed an issue that allowed Samuro to cast Image Transmission on a destroyed Mirror Image if it was queued to happen directly after Mirror Image was cast.
    - If Samuro activates Image Transmission or if a new Mirror Image is created, any Mirror Images that are updated will copy Blessing of the Red if it is present on Samuro instead of increasing their maximum Health as if Blessing of the Red were cast on them.
- Level 7
  - Crushing Blows
    - Fixed an issue that caused Crushing Blows to apply to the triggering Critical Strike.
- Level 20
  - Three Blade Style
    - Fixed an issue that caused Three Blade Style to increase Mirror Image maximum health if Samuro gained Blessing of the Red between the Images being created and the talent being selected.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Three Blade Style to reset the duration on an active Mirror Image when selected.
Sgt. Hammer
- General
  - Sgt. Hammer's level 1 talent icon changes have been reverted.
Stitches
- Level 13
  - Meat Hook
    - Fixed an issue that caused the refresh duration to not match the full duration of Meat Hook.
The Butcher
- General
  - Talent sorting for The Butcher has been updated to be the same as other Heroes.
- Base
  - Fresh Meat [Trait]
    - Fresh Meat is now referred to as stacks instead of charges.
Tyrande
- Level 1
  - Ranger
    - Fixed an issue that caused Ranger to allow Sentinel to hit up to 3 targets.
Whitemane
- Base
  - Inquisition [W]
    - Added a range indicator for Inquisition.
    - Fixed an issue that caused Inquisition to not be cancelled if the target leaves the radius while Stealthed.
Zul'jin
- Level 16
  - No Mercy!
    - Fixed an issue that caused empowered Grievous Throw Basic Attacks from No Mercy! To not activate Medivh's Raven Familiar.

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