Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - November 3, 2025

Crash Lightning

REWORK

• Bonuses are now provided at 15 and 30 stacks. At each milestone, Chain Lightning gains 240 damage. Lose 6 stacks on death, but can not lose milestones that have already been completed.

Echo of the Elements

REWORK

• Bonuses are now provided at 20/40/100 stacks. At 20 stacks, reduce mana cost of Chain Lightning by 20. At 40 stacks, Chain Lightning will bounce one additional time. **Pinnacle Reward:** At 100 stacks, Chain Lightning gains an extra charge.

Rolling Thunder

• No longer increases Chain Lightning bounces by 1.

REWORK

• Bonuses are now provided at 20/40/100 stacks, rather than incremental gains. At 20 stacks, gain 20 damage. At 40 stacks, gain 40 damage in addition to the previous benefits. **Pinnacle Reward:** At 100 stacks, Frostwolf Resilience now provides +200% Healing.

Maelstrom Weapon

Tempest Fury

• No longer provides additional quest stacks.

Thunderstorm

• Increased damage bonus provided at max stacks from 25% to 30%.

Wind Rush

• Cooldown increased from 80 seconds to 90 seconds.

Dishonorable Discharge

REWORK

• Bonuses are now provided at 20/45/75 hits. At 20 hits, gain 30% damage. At 45 hits, gain 75% damage and reduces the cooldown by 2 seconds. **Pinnacle Reward:** At 75 hits, Lightning Rod provides 2 additional strikes.

Frequent Flyer

REWORK

• Reduced attack speed bonus from 40% to 25%. Now provides 1 stack per minion and 5 stacks per Hero. At 50 stacks, gain 20 attack damage. At 125 stacks, gain 50 attack damage. **Pinnacle Reward:** At 300 stacks, gain 125 attack damage.

Gathering Storm

REWORK

• Bonuses are now provided at 30/80/150 stacks, rather than incremental gains. At 30 stacks, gain 30% damage. At 80 stacks, gain 50% damage. **Pinnacle Reward:** At 150 stacks, gain 70% damage.

REWORK

• Lose 8 stacks on death, but can not lose milestones that have already been completed.

Charged Up

• No longer provides additional hits, but instead provides cooldown refresh on Hero takedowns.

Thunderstrikes

Echoed Corruption

• Increased stack requirement to 60. **Pinnacle Reward:** At 100 stacks, Corruption now heals for 50% of the damage dealt.

Pursuit of Flame

• Increased radius from 10% to 15%.
• Reworded to say "Fel Flame's area is increased by 33%".
• You now lose 6 stacks upon death and can not lose progress upon completion.

Headhunter

• Increased damage bonus per hero kill from 2% to 2.5%.

Fury of the Swarm

• No longer increases shields gained from Basic Attacks.

Sharpened Blades

• Talent has been removed.

Ravaging Ferocity

NEW

• Gain 25% attack speed for 3 seconds after using Ravage.

Boundless Fury

• Cooldown increased from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.

Queen of Blades

• Cooldown reduction reduced from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.

Summon Ultralisk

• Damage reduced from 250 to 225.

Chrysalis

• HP lowered from 750 to 650.
• Reduced the amount of health regenerated from 5% max health per second to 4%.

Painful Spikes

• Damage reduced from 70 to 60.

Omegastorm

• Increased extended duration from .25 seconds per hit to .4 seconds per hit.

Unfurling Shadows

• Talent has been removed.

Unrelenting Torment

NEW

• Increases the damage of Shadow Dagger by 20% and increase its duration by 1 second.

Haunting Arrows

NEW

• You can now activate Black Arrows to cause all damage dealt to stun non-heroes. 90 second cooldown, reduced by 3 seconds when attacking a structure.

Possession

• Now a Baseline ability. 25 seconds to restore each charge, 2 seconds cooldown. Max 4 charges.

Barbed Shot

• Bonus damage increased from 350% to 400%.

Lost Soul

REWORK

• Reduces the cooldown of Shadow Dagger when attacking non-minions with 3 stacks of Black Arrows by .75 seconds, doubled against Heroes.

Windrunner

• Recast window reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.