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Published on November 25, 2019

Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - November 25, 2019

The next Heroes of the Storm patch has arrived! The update brings a new Hero, Deathwing the Destroyer, a new Nexus Anomaly feature, Toys 2 events, and much more! Dive on in for more information.

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General Updates

Storm League

Players who are Master or above may only queue for Storm League in a party with a maximum of one other player. The second player must also be Master or above. Both players in the party must be within 5000 Rank Points of each other.
Players who have completed their placement games may no longer play Storm League in a party with players who have not completed their placement games.

Toys 2 Event Quests

Toys 2 is the winter event for Heroes of the Storm running from the week of December 16 to the week of March 3, PST. Roll dice, complete quests, and join Tickle Mephisto on a board game adventure in the Nexus for awesome rewards... and sweet revenge!

Loot Chests

During the Toys 2 event, all Loot Chests you earn through progression, Heroes Brawl, or by spending gold will be Toy 2 Loot Chests. (Except Hero-specific Chests, which will remain unchanged.) Most limited-time items shown above have a chance to drop from Toy 2 Loot Chests only. You can also score Items from previous years’ winter events limited-time loot chests!

User Interface

User Interface improvements for heroes with multiple forms have been added to the Hero Collection and Hero Select Ability screens for Deathwing and to the Hero Select Ability screen for Greymane.

AI will now pay more attention to lanes that need to be defended or attacked.
AI will no longer be aware of the status of mercenary camps they cannot see.
AI will path through enemy towns less often.
AI will more highly value preventing a mercenary camp from leashing.
Mercenary camp goal base scores have been standardized on all maps. This will make it easier to observe and tweak AI agent mercenary capture behavior.
Many map goal objective scores have been standardized on all maps. This will make it easier to observe and tweak AI agent objective behavior.
Volskaya Foundry
- AI will no longer wait 8 seconds before using the Triglav Protector unless there is a human player on their team.
- Agents will be much more consistent and willing to pick up and use Turrets and Bio Emitters on Volskaya Foundry.

Hero Balance Updates (2)

Mephisto

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Developer Comment

** Mephisto’s talents have been largely unchanged since his release.  While many of them seem to be in a good spot, some talents and talent tiers had some systemic issues that we felt could be improved with some changed functionality.  We’re not looking to overhaul the Mephisto that you know and love, but we felt that he could use some new builds to play with.

Talent Changes

Level 1

Furious Spark [W]

Bonus damage is now dealt every 3rd hit.
Damage reduced from 95 to 72.
Additional functionality: Now also grants Mephisto 2 Mana when dealing damage with Furious Spark.

Malicious Intent [E]

Additional functionality: If Mephisto hits enemy Heroes at least 20 times with Basic Abilities while Shade of Mephisto is active, then increase the duration of the Spell Power bonus to 10 seconds after it ends.

Level 4

Spite [Passive]

Regeneration Globe duration increased from 125% to 150%.
Cooldown reduction increased from .75 seconds to 1 second.

Level 7

Frost Storm [E]

No longer Slows enemy Heroes near the Shade of Mephisto.
Additional functionality: Enemy Heroes who are hit by Lightning Nova while Shade of Mephisto is active are Slowed by 15% for 1 second.

Trickery [E]

No longer removes Slows and Roots from Mephisto.
Additional functionality: If Mephisto hits enemy Heroes at least 20 times with Basic Abilities while Shade of Mephisto is active, then reset its cooldown.

Level 13

Hysteria [Trait]

Additional functionality: Mephisto gains 15% of his maximum Health and Mana when he casts his Heroic Ability.

Level 16

Animosity [W]

New functionality: Increase the duration of Lightning Nova by .5 seconds Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes while Lightning Nova is active increase the duration of Lightning Nova by an additional .25 seconds.

The Lost Vikings

Hero Balance Adjustments

Stats Builds Impact

Developer Comment

** Due to the changes to how experience is gathered, we expect the Lost Vikings to have a harder time filling their role on a team. To help them out a bit, we’re giving them a bit of a baseline buff, as well as buffing Longboat Raid.

Base Abilities & Stats

Baleog

Health increased from 1095 to 1180.
Health Regeneration increased from 2.22 to 2.46.
Basic Attack damage increased from 73 to 78.

Erik

Health increased from 767 to 840.
Health Regeneration increased from 1.6 to 1.75.
Basic Attack damage increased from 60 to 65.

Olaf

Health increased from 1424 to 1540.
Health Regeneration increased from 2.97 to 3.21.
Basic Attack damage increased from 52 to 57.

Talent Changes

Level 10

Longboat Raid [R1]

Mortar damage increased from 205 to 228.
Viking Stun duration when the Longboat is destroyed reduced from 1.5 to 1 second.

Bug Fixes

General

Fixed an issue where some parts of Sky Temple and Blackheart’s Bay would be invisible when using Low graphics settings.

Heroes

Genji
- Fixed an issue where Swift Strike's reset UI appeared when Genji hit an enemy Hero with Dragonblade but did not have The Dragon Becomes Me talent.
Nova
- Nova Holo Decoy Snipe no longer deals full damage if the Decoy dies while Snipe is in flight.
Samuro
- Samuro's Press The Attack Talent will now correctly grant Attack Speed on his first Basic Attack.

Mac

Fixed an issue that could cause Blackheart’s Bay to crash on load.
Fixed an issue where some parts of Sky Temple and Blackheart’s Bay would render with a strobing/flickering effect when using Low graphics settings.

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