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Heroes of the Storm Live Patch Notes: December 1

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Blizzard released a new patch for Heroes of the Storm and here are the official Patch Notes with all the changes.

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Our next Heroes of the Storm patch is live! Read on for more information.

NOTE: Orange text indicates a change between PTR and Live notes.

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General

  • New Skin: Bonny Butcher

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  • New Skin: Warthog Gear Head Thrall

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  • Players will now receive an announcement when a quest milestone is reached. This will only announce to the player who achieved the milestone.
  • Ranges of abilities on numerous Heroes have been updated to be more consistent. This may cause certain abilities ranges to reduce or increase.
  • Brawl
    • Starting January 2026, Brawls will only be open the first 5 days of every month.
  • Updated Homescreen and Startup Music.

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Map Updates

  • General
    • A new Fallback Tower has been added to the longer lanes on each of the following battleground maps. This new tower will die when its corresponding Fort dies: Alterac Pass, Battlefield of Eternity, Blackheart's Bay, Braxis Holdout, Cursed Hollow, Dragon Shire, Garden of Terror, Hanamura Temple, Infernal Shrines, Sky Temple, Tomb of the Spider Queen, Volskaya Foundry, and Warhead Junction.
    • Attacks from the Core, Keeps, Forts, Fallback Towers, and Towers near Keeps will now reduce Hero armor, and the reduction has been increased from -10/-20 Armor to -20/-40 Armor.
    • Fallback Towers have the same HP and Attack Damage as Keep Towers.
    • Forts, Keeps, and the Core will no longer grant Allied Heroes that take damage in their radius 35 Armor for 4 seconds.
    • The comeback system has been slightly magnified, particularly at wide level gaps.
  • Alterac Pass
    • Objective capture timer reduced by 5 seconds in each phase. The first phase only spawns a single defending unit.
    • Cavalry now gain more health in the later stages of the game.
    • Cavalry now take 60% damage from structures (up from 50%).
  • Braxis Holdout
    • Early objectives have lowered in health by 15%, but scaling has been increased significantly after 15 minutes.
  • Garden of Terror
    • Garden Terror health scaling increased.
    • Garden Terror structure disabling plant bulb now damages itself at 10% per second (up from 6%).
  • Infernal Shrines
    • Early objectives have lowered in health by 15%, but scaling has been increased significantly after 15 minutes.
  • Warhead Junction
    • Nuke damage has been changed to flat, scaling damage. Scaling is updated when a Warhead is picked up.
    • Nukes now deal double damage versus Forts, Keeps, and the Core.

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Balance Update

General

  • Pinnacle Rewards have been added to mutiple Heroes. These will be hard to obtain but provide powerful rewards.

Heroes

Falstad

Base

  • Lightning Rod [W]
    • Cooldown reduced from 13 seconds to 12 seconds.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Dishonorable Discharge
      • REWORK: No longer reduces CD. Bonuses are now provided at 20/45/75 hits. At 20 hits, gain 30% damage. At 45 hits, gain an additional 75% damage and reduce the cooldown by 2 seconds. Pinnacle Reward: At 75 hits, Lightning Rod provides 2 additional strikes and Stuns for 1.25s on its last strike.
    • 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 an additional 50 Attack Damage. Pinnacle Reward: At 300 stacks, gain an additional 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 an additional 50% damage. Pinnacle Reward: At 150 stacks, gain an additional 70% damage.
      • REWORK: Lose 8 stacks on death, but can not lose milestones that have already been completed.
  • Level 7
    • Charged Up
      • Moved to be a Level 13 Talent.
      • No longer provides additional hits, but instead provides cooldown refresh on Hero takedowns.
  • Level 13
    • Thunderstrikes
      • Moved to be a Level 7 Talent.

Guldan

Base

  • Corruption [E]
    • Mana cost increased from 80 to 90.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • 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%".
      • Progress is now reset upon death and can not lose progress upon completion.

Johanna

Base

  • Punish [Q]
    • Slow on enemies reduced from 60% to 50%.

Talents

  • Level 4
    • Subdue
      • Slow on enemies reduced from 80% to 70%.

Kael'thas

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Convection
      • REWORK: Every 20th Hero hit permanently increases Flamestrike damage by 150 and Kael'thas's maximum Health by 50.

Kerrigan

Base

  • Primal Grasp [E]
    • Cooldown reduced from 10 to 8.
    • Delayed damage reduced from 195 to 165.
    • Initial damage increased from 25 to 40.
  • Ravage [Q]
    • Damage reduced from 130 to 115.
    • Now includes a baseline quest: Kill enemies within 1.5 seconds of hitting them with Ravage. Minions grant 1 progress and Heroes grant 5. At 75 stacks, Ravage gains 125 damage. Pinnacle Reward: At 125 stacks, Ravage gains 200 additional damage.
  • Impaling Blades [W]
    • Cooldown reduced from 12 seconds to 9 seconds.
    • Damage reduced from 165 to 140.
    • Radius increased from 1.5 to 1.65.
    • Stun duration reduced from 1 second to .75 seconds.
  • Assimilation [D]
    • Increased the amount of shield gained from Basic Attacks from 10% to 20% of damage dealt.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Fury of the Swarm
      • No longer increases shields gained from Basic Attacks.
  • Level 4
    • Sharpened Blades
      • Talent has been removed.
    • Ravaging Ferocity
      • NEW: Gain 25% attack speed for 3 seconds after using Ravage.
  • Level 7
    • Boundless Fury
      • Cooldown increased from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.
    • Queen of Blades
      • Cooldown reduction increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
  • Level 10
    • Summon Ultralisk
      • Damage reduced from 250 to 225.
  • Level 13
    • Chrysalis
      • HP lowered from 750 to 650.
      • Reduced the amount of health regenerated from 5% max health per second to 4%.
  • Level 16
    • Painful Spikes
      • Damage reduced from 70 to 60.
  • Level 20
    • Omegastorm
      • Increased extended duration from .25 seconds per hit to .4 seconds per hit.

Sylvanas

Base

  • Black Arrows [D]
    • Black Arrows now refers to what was previously called "Banshee's Curse".
    • New Baseline Quest: Deal damage to Heroes or Structures with 3 stacks of black arrows. At 250 stacks, increased the damage bonus of Black Arrows to 50%. Pinnacle Reward: At 400 stacks, heal for 25% of damage dealt against enemies with 3 stacks of Black Arrows, doubled against Heroes.
    • Reduced base damage bonus of Black Arrows to 15%.
    • Activatable portion of Black Arrows has been removed.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Unfurling Shadows
      • Talent has been removed.
    • Unrelenting Torment
      • NEW: Increases the damage of Shadow Dagger by 20% and increase its duration by 1 second.
  • Level 4
    • 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.
  • Level 7
    • 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.
  • Level 13
    • Windrunner
      • Recast window reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.

Thrall

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Crash Lightning
      • REWORK: Bonuses are now provided at 15 and 30 stacks. At each milestone, Chain Lightning gains 270 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 gains an extra charge and will bounce one additional time. Pinnacle Reward: At 100 stacks, Chain Lightning will fork to an additional target each time it bounces.
    • Rolling Thunder
      • Moved to be a Level 7 Talent.
      • No longer increases Chain Lightning bounces by 1.
  • Level 7
    • Maelstrom Weapon
      • Moved to be a Level 1 Talent.
      • REWORK: Bonuses are now provided at 20/40/100 stacks, rather than incremental gains. At 20 stacks, gain 20 damage and increase the movespeed bonus to 40%. At 40 stacks, gain an additional 40 damage and Thrall permanently gains 15% increased movement speed. Pinnacle Reward: At 100 stacks, Frostwolf Resilience now provides +200% Healing.
  • Level 16
    • Tempest Fury
      • No longer provides additional quest stacks.
    • Thunderstorm
      • Increased damage bonus provided at max stacks from 25% to 30%.
  • Level 20
    • Wind Rush
      • Cooldown increased from 80 seconds to 90 seconds.

Tyrael

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Ardent Restoration
      • Maximum healing stacks reduced from 10 to 8.
  • Level 4
    • Reciprocate
      • Damage reduced from 190 to 170.
  • Level 7
    • Burning Halo
      • Damge per second reduced from 15 to 12.
  • Level 10
    • Sanctification
      • Cooldown reduced from 90 seconds to 85 seconds.
      • Mana cost reduced from 75 to 70.
  • Level 20
    • Aspect of Justice
      • Cast time reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
      • Cooldown reduction per enemy Hero hit increased from 10% to 15%.

Zul'jin

Base

  • Basic Attack Damage decreased from 96 to 94.
  • You Want Axe? [D]
    • No longer has a cap on stacks.
    • Now causes Zul'jin to lose 3 stacks (15 hits) on death.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Headhunter
      • Increased damage bonus per hero kill from 2% to 2.5%.

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Bug Fixes

Map

  • Blackheart's Bay
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Battleground Objective to not start if a particular chest is the last destroyed chest.
    • Fixed an issue that caused the help text for attacking the Treasure Chest to not disappear if a particular chest is attacked.
  • Warhead Junction
    • Fixed Warhead Junction Nuke Damage Dealt tracking.

Heroes

  • Cho'gall
    • Base
      • Eye of Kilrogg [Skill 1]
        • Fixed an issue that caused the Eye of Kilrogg's cast range indicator to be slightly larger than the ability range.
    • Level 1
      • We See You!
        • Fixed an issue that caused We See You's range increase tooltip value to display incorrectly after being selected.
  • D.Va
    • Fixed an issue that caused D.Va's Mech to not respawn with the correct amount of Blackheart's Bay Doubloons.
    • Base
      • Defense Matrix [W]
        • Fixed missing icon in D.Va's Quick Cast setting for Retarget Defense Matrix.
  • Gazlowe
    • Level 16
      • Firin' Mah Lazors
        • Fixed an issue that caused Firin' Mah Lazorz's warning to not display correctly.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Big Top Gazlowe's Firin' Mah Lazorz to create permanent visuals.
  • Kael'thas
    • Base
      • Living Bomb [W]
        • Living Bomb will not activate its effects on a target that becomes immune to Living Bomb.
        • Living Bomb will now apply its effects if the target dies with Living Bomb.
  • Raynor
    • Base
      • Adrenaline Rush [E]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Adrenaline Rush to not display the base duration in its tooltip after selecting Give Me More.
  • Stukov
    • Level 1
      • Reactive Ballistospores
        • Fixed Reactive Ballistospores tooltip.
  • Tychus
    • Base
      • Overkill [Q]
        • Overkill retarget can now also be targeted in a direction. When clicking near or on a target, it will attach to that target, but if no targets are nearby, Overkill will start firing in that direction. If Overkill hits a target while firing in a direction, that target will become Overkill's primary target.
        • If Overkill is active when there are no possible targets, Overkill will no longer be cancelled, and instead will start firing in the direction of the last primary target.
        • Fixed an issue that caused mounting to not interrupt Overkill.
  • Valla
    • Base
      • Hatred [D]
        • Fixed Hatred Tooltip.
    • Level 20
      • Storm of Vengeance
        • Fixed an issue that caused Storm of Vengeance to not grant 2% Attack Speed per Hatred stack.
  • Zagara
    • Level 1
      • Infest
        • Fixed Infest active current bonus tooltip.
    • Level 16
      • Mutalisk
        • Fixed Mutalisk tooltip.

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      Our next Heroes of the Storm patch is live! Read on for more information.
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    • Elitesparkle
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      Lunar Flare [E] Damage bonus per stack reduced from 3.5% to 3%. Talents
      Level 13  Quickening Blessing Movement Speed bonus on Light of Elune's target increased from 20% to 25%. Level 20 Commander of Sentinels Cooldown increase removed. Bug Fixes
      Fixed an issue causing respawn timers from Level 10 to 23 to be lower than intended. Fixed an issue causing increased Movement Speed visual effects to be created when joining a Toy Train. Fixed an issue causing Heroes to collect more Skulls than allowed during the Objective phase on Haunted Mines. Fixed an issue causing Arthas's Frost Presence to fire the Quest Completed notification twice. Fixed an issue causing Arthas's Frost Presence to give double Quest progress when hitting an enemy Hero with both the path and the circle. Fixed an issue causing Arthas's Rime to heal Arthas even when not Stunned, Rooted, or Slowed. Fixed an issue causing Ghouls summoned by Arthas's Army of the Dead to have a duration instead of losing Health over time. The tooltip for Arthas's Frost Presence has been updated from "Root enemy Heroes" to "Hit enemy Heroes". Fixed an issue causing Garrosh's Wrecking Ball to show the mark on targets barely not in range. Fixed an issue causing effects related to the duration of Mal'Ganis's Necrotic Embrace to not work correctly. Fixed an issue that caused Medivh's Guardian of Tirisfal to not increase Arcane Rift's search duration. Fixed an issue causing Ragnaros's Living Meteor to not deal the landing damage.
    • Elitesparkle
      Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes: March 30
      By Elitesparkle
      Blizzard released a new PTR patch for Heroes of the Storm and here are the official Patch Notes with all the changes.
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      Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting. As always, if you encounter any bugs during your PTR play sessions, please stop by the PTR Bug Report forum to let us know about your experiences.
      Quick Navigation:
      General Map Updates Balance Update Bug Fixes General
      Unranked Mode has been removed. Respawn timers have been reduced in the mid-to-late game. By level 22, respawn timers are back at 65 Seconds. Updated Homescreen and Startup Music. Return to Top
      Map Updates
      Garden of Terror Classic The original Garden of Terror has returned to Custom Games! The name has been changed to Garden of Terror Classic to differentiate from the current Garden of Terror. Haunted Mines Haunted mines has returned to Quick Match! Map objective is now complete when one team collects 55 Skulls, rather than when all 100 Skulls have been collected. Hero vision is reduced while in the mines. Warhead Junction Cast time for Nuke increased from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds. Cast time for Nuke now breaks upon taking damage. DoT damage from Nuke increased by 100%. Damage to Forts and Keeps from Nuke increased from 100% to 125%. Return to Top
      Balance Update
      Heroes
      Arthas
      Arthas has been fully reworked! All abilities and talents will be listed below.
      Base
      Death Coil [Q] Mana: 40. Cooldown: 9 seconds. Deals 164 damage to target enemy. Can be self-cast to heal for 262 health. Howling Blast [W] Mana: 50. Cooldown: 10 seconds. Root enemies within the target area for 1.25 seconds and deals 68 damage. Frozen Tempest [E] Mana: 13 per second. Cooldown: 1 second. Deals 36 damage per second to nearby enemies and Slow their Movement Speed by 10% per second, stacking up to 40%. Heroes hit also have their Attack Speed Slowed by 10% per second, stacking up to 40%. Frozen Tempest's effects last for 1.5 seconds. Army of the Dead [R] Charge Cooldown: 18 seconds. Consume all charges to summon an equal number of Ghouls that last 15 seconds and attack for 20 damage. Ghouls can be sacrificed to heal Arthas for 240 Health. Stores up to 6 charges. Every time an enemy minion dies nearby, reduce the charge cooldown of this ability by 1 second. Takedowns reduce the charge cooldown of this ability by 6 seconds. Summon Sindragosa [R] Mana: 100. Cooldown: 100 seconds. Deals 230 damage and Slows enemies by 60% for 4 seconds. Also disables Minions, Mercenaries, Monsters, and Structures for 20 seconds. Frostmourne Hungers [D] Cooldown: 12 seconds. Activate to make Arthas' next Basic Attack strike immediately and deal 71 bonus damage. Dealing damage restores 40 Mana. QUEST: Killing a Minion or hitting a Hero with Frostmourne Hungers permanently increases its bonus damage and Arthas' Basic Attack damage by 1. Talents
      Level 1 Frost Presence Increase the area of Howling Blast by 20%. QUEST: Root enemy Heroes with Howling Blast. REWARD: After Rooting 15 Heroes, Howling Blast's range is increased by 20% and it hits enemies in its path. REWARD: After Rooting 30 Heroes, Death Coil Slows Heroes hit by 50% for 0.75 seconds. Borean Winds After Frozen Tempest has been active for 2 seconds, Arthas gains 10% Movement Speed. PASSIVE: Frozen Tempest's Slowing effects last an additional 0.5 seconds and its Mana cost is reduced by 4 per second. Rime Every 5 seconds, gain 75 Physical Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing the damage taken by 75%. Stores up to 3 charges. PASSIVE: While Arthas is Slowed, Rooted, or Stunned he heals 24 Health a second. Level 4 Shattered Armor Enemy Heroes hit by Howling Blast have their Armor reduced by 15 for 4 seconds. Icy Talons Gain 3% Attack Speed for 2 seconds every time a Hero is damaged by Frozen Tempest, to a maximum of 60%. Frost Strike Frostmourne Hungers deals an additional 115 Ability damage in an area and slows Heroes hit by 20% for 2 seconds. Level 7 Immortal Coil Gain the healing effect of Death Coil even when used on enemies. If Death Coil is used on Arthas, it heals for an additional 75% bonus healing and its cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds. Rune Tap Every 3rd Basic Attack heals Arthas for 5% of his max Health. PASSIVE: Each stack of Frostmourne Hungers increases Arthas' Maximum Health by 10. Icebound Fortitude Cooldown: 35 seconds. Activate to gain 25 Armor and reduce the duration of Stuns, Slows, and Roots against Arthas by 75% for 3 seconds. Each Hero Rooted by Howling Blast reduces the cooldown of this ability by 2 seconds. Level 13 Deathlord If Death Coil is used on an enemy Hero, launch an additional Death Coil at a nearby enemy Hero. PASSIVE: Death Coil deals more damage the lower Arthas' current Health is, to a maximum of 50% bonus damage. Deathchill Howling Blast's damage is increased by 2 for each stack of Frostmourne Hungers. Howling Blast deals 100% additional damage and Roots for an additional 0.25 seconds against Heroes under 50% health. Biting Cold Each second an enemy is damaged by Frozen Tempest, it deals 15% bonus damage, up to 75% bonus damage. Level 16 Remorseless Winter Enemy Heroes that remain within Frozen Tempest for 2.5 seconds are Rooted for 1.25 seconds and heal Arthas for 3% of his maximum Health. This effect has an 8 second cooldown per target. Frostmourne Feeds Reduce the cooldown of Frostmourne Hungers by 6 seconds. Arthas heals for 75% of the Basic Attack damage dealt by Frostmourne Hungers. Anti-Magic Shell Cooldown 60 seconds. Activate to make Arthas immune to Spell Damage for 4 seconds and heal Arthas for 25% of the damage prevented. Level 20 Legion of Northrend Reduce Army of the Dead's charge cooldown by 5 seconds. Each charge consumed spawns an additional Ghoul to attack nearby enemies. These Ghouls cannot be sacrificed. Absolute Zero Sindragosa flies twice as far. Enemy Heroes are Rooted for 2.5 seconds, and then Slowed by 60% for 4 seconds. Death Pact Instantly double your stacks of Frostmourne Hungers, but it no longer gains stacks from hitting Heroes or killing Minions. PASSIVE: Takedowns grant 2 stacks of Frostmourne Hungers. Path of Frost Activate to instantly mount with 10% additional Movement Speed. Taking damage does not dismount Arthas from this mount. Lasts up to 5 seconds. When Arthas dismounts, Slow all nearby enemies by 30% for 2 seconds and deal 66 damage. Chen
      Base
      Keg Smash [W] Breath of Fire initial damage lowered from 85 to 40. Breath of Fire duration increased from 3 seconds to 6 seconds. Breath of Fire no longer costs Energy. Keg Smash energy cost increased to 35 from 30. Fortifying Brew [D] Drinking now stops additional commands for a fraction of a second. Talents
      Level 1 Accumulating Flames Moved from Level 4 to Level 1. REWORK: Quest: Gain stacks from hitting Heroes with DoT damage from Breath of Fire. Each stack provides 0.25 damage. At 20 damage, Keg Smash becomes ranged. Mythic Reward: At 75 damage, Breath of Fire lowers enemy armor by 20 and is refreshed from Chen's Basic Attacks. Level 4 Eye of the Tiger Moved from Level 1 to Level 4. Level 7 Elusive Brawler Movement Speed reduced from 30% to 20%. Level 10 Wandering Keg Cooldown increased from 50 seconds to 60 seconds. Level 13 Pressure Point Slow duration increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds. Deathwing
      Base
      Onslaught [E] Cooldown increased from 5 seconds to 6 seconds. Dragonflight [Z] Cooldown increased from 15 seconds to 20 seconds. Talents
      Level 16 Gaze onto Destruction Duration reduced from 5 seconds to 3.5 seconds. Falstad
      Talents
      Level 1 Frequent Flyer Range to receive kill credit reduced from 14 to 8.5. Garrosh
      Base
      Wrecking Ball [E] Range reduced from 6.5 to 6. Search range reduced from 2.5 to 2.25. Talents
      Level 1 Unrivaled Strength Ranged bonus reduced from 20% to 15%. Gazlowe
      Base
      Rock-It! Turret [Q] Turret Health increased from 510 to 600. Mal'Ganis
      Base
      Necrotic Embrace [W] Now benefits double the amount from Vampiric Touch. No longer provides Armor for 3 seconds. Talents
      Level 1 Will of Tichondrius Moved from Level 7 to Level 1. REWORK: Hit Heroes with Fel Claws to gain 0.5 damage. Hit 4 Heroes in the first two swipes to cause the last wipe to provide 2 additional damage. Upon reaching 40 stacks, Fel Claws now steals 4% health from opponents and stuns for an additional 0.5 Seconds. Level 4 Vampiric Aura Moved from Level 1 to Level 4. Self healing increased from 30% to 40% and healing of nearby Allies increased from 15% to 20%. Might of Sargeras Now provides 25 Armor for 3 seconds when using Necrotic Embrace. Level 7 Fueled by Torment Moved from Level 4 to Level 7. Now causes Necrotic Embrace to Slow by 25% for 3 seconds. Medivh
      Talents
      Level 1 Winds of Celerity Movement speed bonus increased from 50% to 75%. Raven's Intellect Bonus increased from 75% to 125%. Level 4 Raven Familiar Slow reduced from 30% to 20%. Level 7 Force of Magic Spell Power increased from 30% to 35%. Level 13 Circle of Protection No longer increases the cooldown of Force of Will. Level 20 Guardian of Tirisfal Now also increases the range of Arcane Rift by 50%. Muradin
      Base
      It's Hammer Time! [Q] Muradin gains 5 stacks if a target dies within 3 seconds of being hit by Storm Bolt. Stack requirement for pierce increased from 40 to 45. Talents
      Level 20 Mountain King Dwarf Toss cooldown increased by 2 seconds. Thunder Clap cooldown increased by 2 seconds. Thrall
      Talents
      Level 1 Crash Lightning Amount stacks lost on death reduced from 6 to 4. Echo of the Elements Damage done by the chain lightning bounces rewarded from obtaining the Mythic Reward reduced from 85 to 70. Tyrande
      Base
      Lunar Flare [E] Tyrande gains 1 stack if the target dies within 3 seconds of being hit. Mythic Reward now also increases attack range by 1. Lunar flare damage from hitting a hero reduced from 4% to 3.5%. Talents
      Level 20 Commander of Sentinels Cooldown of Sentinel increased by 3 seconds. Return to Top
      Bug Fixes
      General
      Fixed an issue that caused Unstoppable targets to not be immune to Blinds. Maps
      General Fixed an issue that caused Bosses to attack Summoned units. Blackheart's Bay Fixed an issue that caused the AI to have issues turning in coins. Heroes
      D.Va Base Defense Matrix [W] D.Va's Mech will now retarget Defense Matrix when controlled by an AI. Deathwing Base Dragonflight [Z] Fixed an issue that caused Dragonflight's cooldown to increase upon taking damage to only occur when the cooldown is below 4 seconds. Garrosh Level 4 In For the Kill Fixed an issue that caused In For the Kill to not completely reset the cooldown of Bloodthirst. Gul'dan Base Drain Life [W] Fixed an issue that caused Drain Life to not always be interrupted if the target leaves its range. Jaina Base Improved Ice Block [1] Fixed an issue that caused Improved Ice Block and Ice Cold to not be used correctly by AI-controlled Jaina. Kael'thas Level 20 Rebirth Fixed an issue that caused Rebirth to not be used correctly by AI-controlled Kael'thas. Li Li Base Cloud Serpent [W] Fixed an issue that caused Cloud Serpent to not be made visible when damaging a target while in the Fog of War. Medivh Level 10 Poly Bomb Fixed an issue that caused Poly Bomb to not be used correctly by AI-controlled Medivh. Nazeebo Level 13 Superstition Fixed an issue that caused Superstition to display a blank ability for the damage dealt by its Corpse Spider. Samuro Base Mirror Image [Q] Mirror Images will no longer move towards Samuro's attack move target point on creation. Mirror Images will now properly have their AI enabled when Samuro has their AI enabled. Thrall Base Feral Spirit [W] Fixed an issue that caused Feral Spirit to not be extended correctly if it is about to expire. Return to Top
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    • Elitesparkle
      Heroes of the Storm PTR Update: January 16
      By Elitesparkle
      Blizzard released a new PTR patch for Heroes of the Storm and here are the unofficial Patch Notes with all the datamined changes.
      Map Updates
      Volskaya Foundry
      Objective
      Triglav Protector Damage bonus when both slots are occupied reduced from 45% to 35%. Cooldown reduction when both slots are occupied reduced from 40% to 35%. Triglav Gunner Damage bonus when both slots are occupied reduced from 45% to 35%. Cooldown reduction when both slots are occupied reduced from 40% to 35%. Energy Regeneration when both slots are occupied reduced from 40% to 35%. Balance Updates
      Azmodan
      Base
      Globe of Annihilation [Q] Upon reaching 225 Annihilation, also removes the damage reduction against Monsters. Deathwing
      Stats
      Attack Damage increased from 110 to 117. Talents
      Level 1 Molten Blood Additional functionality: Now grants Form Switch, which can be activated to swap Form. Level 7 Firestorm Cooldown reduction for Deathwing's landing Abilities increased from 2 to 3 seconds. Jaina
      Base
      Frostbite [Trait] Additional functionality: Ice Cold now also gives Unstoppable and immunity to damage over time effects for the duration. Kerrigan
      Base
      Ravage [Q] Minions no longer have to die within 1.5 seconds of being hit by Ravage to grant stacks. Kerrigan now gains stacks when Minions die within 3 range. Time window for cooldown refund reduced from 1.5 to 0.75 seconds. Baseline Quest requirements increased from 85/150 to 100/250. After reaching 100 stacks, enemy Heroes killed grant 14 stacks. Muradin
      Base
      Storm Bolt [Q] Baseline Quest requirements increased from 35/150 to 50/200. Talents
      Level 7 Perfect Storm Additional functionality: The cooldown cannot be reset more than once every 10 seconds. Level 20 Mountain King New: Thunder Clap and Dwarf Toss have an extra charge. Rewind Removed. Tyrande
      Stats
      Mana increased from 450 to 500. Mana Regeneration increased from 2.7 to 3 per second. Base
      Sentinel [W] Mana cost increased from 50 to 55. Lunar Flare [E] Mana cost increased from 60 to 65. Shadowstalk [R1] Mana cost increased from 75 to 85. Starfall [R2] Mana cost increased from 75 to 85. Yrel
      Base
      Divine Purpose [D] Cooldown reduced from 16 to 8 seconds. Zagara
      Talents
      Level 16 Mutalisk Mutalisk's Health decay reduced from 42 to 10 per second. Mutalisk duration effectively increased from 10 to 42 seconds. Bug Fixes
      Fixed an issue causing Doubloon Camps on Blackheart's Bay to be impossible to capture under certain conditions. Fixed an issue causing Anub'arak's Beetles to still have a duration, in addition to losing their Health over time. Fixed an issue causing the Health decay for Azmodan's Demon Warriors to not scale with levels.  Fixed an issue causing Deathwing's Baseline Quest to reset when using Dragonflight. Fixed an issue causing Deathwing's Lava Burst to deal damage after an additional 0.25 seconds. Fixed an issue causing Gazlowe's Rock-It! Turrets to not lose their Health over time. Fixed an issue causing the tooltip for Jaina's Ice Cold to not show correctly. Fixed an issue causing Muradin's Storm Bolt to deal 1 more damage for each stack. Fixed an issue causing the range splat for Muradin's Dwarf Toss to not be visible. Fixed an issue causing Muradin's Skullcraker to Stun before Muradin's post-damage effects happened. Fixed an issue causing the Health Regeneration of Murky's Egg to not scale with levels. Fixed an issue causing Tyrande's Sentinel to not be correctly affected by cooldown reduction effects.
    • Elitesparkle
      Heroes of the Storm Balance Patch Notes: February 19
      By Elitesparkle
      Blizzard released a new patch for Heroes of the Storm and here are the official Patch Notes with all the changes.
      20 February 2026: After releasing a hotfix, Muradin has been enabled again.
      19 February 2026: Muradin has been temporarily disabled due to a game-breaking bug.
      (Source)
      We’ve just released a patch to the live servers in order to apply some balance and bug fixes.
      Quick Navigation:
      Balance Update Bug Fixes Balance Updates
      Deathwing
      Base
      Incinerate [W] Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 7 seconds. Talents
      Level 7 Death Drop Duration of Spell Armor decreased from 6 seconds to 4 seconds. Muradin
      Base
      Storm Bolt [Q] Quest requirements reduced from 50/200 to 40/160. Talents
      Level 1 Give 'Em The Axe Bonus Damage reduced from 50% to 40%. Level 4 Sledgehammer Now also reduces the cooldown of Storm Bolt by 1.5 seconds. Level 7 Perfect Storm Internal cooldown reduced from 10 seconds to 8.5 seconds. Now also restores 25 Mana on reset. Level 13 Healing Static Heal per Hero hit increased from 5% to 6%. Murky
      Base
      Spawn Egg [D] Revive Shield duration increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds. Talents
      Level 10 March of the Murlocs Cooldown reduced from 110 seconds to 100 seconds. Level 13 Egg Shell Shield increased from 35% to 50% of Murky's Health. Shield now lasts until destroyed. Level 20 Never-Ending March Will now last a minimum of 7 seconds, even if stopped. Sylvanas
      Talents
      Level 7 Lost Soul Extra 10% damage bonus provided by Lost Soul has been removed. Tyrande
      Base
      Lunar Flare [E] Mythic reward requirements reduced from 45 hits to 40 hits. Return to Top
      Bug Fixes
      Battlegrounds
      Hanamura Temple The Samurai Sentinel camp is now properly displayed with a Bruiser icon. Braxis Holdout Fixed an issue that caused terrain to be rendered incorrectly. Heroes
      Azmodan Level 4 Battleborn Now properly reduces the cooldown of Demon Lieutenant. Level 10 Black Pool Now properly deals reduced damage to non-Heroes. Deathwing Base Form Swap AI can no longer use the removed Form Swap ability. Gul'dan Level 16 Ruinous Affliction Fixed an issue that caused Ruinous Affliction to deal bonus damage on the 3rd and 5th hit, instead of the 3rd and 6th hit. Jaina Base Frostbite [Trait] Fixed an issue that caused Ice Block to not show the correct cooldown value in the tooltip. Fixed an issue that caused Ice Cold to allow Jaina to move through pathing blockers and stationary targets. Muradin Base Dwarf Toss [E] Fixed an issue that caused Dwarf Toss to go on cooldown when used on invalid terrain. Level 1 Dwarf Block Can no longer stack beyond 3 charges. Murky Murky will no longer revive faster than intended. Murky's level 20 talents have been rearranged to match skill order. Base Pufferfish [W] Puffed Up will now display first in the Buff Bar. Fixed an issue that caused Murky to lose his increased size after death. Spawn Egg [D] Fixed an issue that caused Murky to respawn faster than intended. Level 1 Shell Game Shell Game now shows the Trait button for the talent, instead of an Active button. Level 20 Faster Fish Faster Fish now also causes the animation of the Pufferfish to play faster. Faster Fish now shows the W button for the talent, instead of the Trait button. Rehgar Level 20 Elemental Conduit Fixed an issue that caused Elemental Conduit's Shields to not refresh to 5 seconds. Fixed an issue that caused Elemental Conduit's refresh to search for allies to give the Shield around the targets hit, instead of Rehgar's location. Thrall Level 1 Echo of the Elements Fixed an issue that caused Echo of the Elements bounces to bounce to cloaked targets. Level 7 Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder damage now displays as a crit. Level 16 Alpha Wolf Alpha Wolf damage now displays as a crit. Zagara Base Infested Drop [E] Fixed an issue that caused Roaches melee attacks to launch missiles instead of directly hitting. Fixed an issue that caused Roaches to not display correctly in the death recap. Click here to discuss this post with other players in the official Heroes of the Storm forums.

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