Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes: September 22

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

General

• Ping for Healing Fountain’s cooldown added to its icon in the Buff Bar.

Heroes

Alexstrasza

Base

• Health increased from 1698 to 1780.
• Health Regeneration increased from 3.5375 to 3.7083 per second.

Talents

• Level 16
  • Overprotective
    • Shield reduced from 70% to 50% of the healing done.

Xal’atath

Base

• Attack Range reduced from 7 to 6.5.
• Attack Damage reduced from 69 to 55.
• Attack Damage to enemy Structures is no longer reduced by 10%.

Trait

• Void Volley [D]
  • Damage reduced from 99 to 90.
  • Damage to enemy Structures is no longer reduced by 10%.
  • Damage type changed from Spell Damage to Physical Damage.
  • Damage bonus per stack increased from 0.1% to 1%.
  • Decay time increased from 5 to 6 seconds.
  • Stacks required updated from 30/55/90 to 20/60/100.
  • Cast time reduced from 0.375 to 0.175.
  • Mythic Reward no longer increases Spell Damage.

Basic Abilities

• Shadow Mark [Q]
  • Outer damage increased from 45 to 75.
  • Additional damage in the center increased from 90 to 150.
  • Damage to enemy Structures is no longer reduced by 10%.
  • Now it can also mark Structures.
  • Now used a team-colored ground indicator.
• Dark Heart Ritual [W]
  • Link range to primary targets reduced from 3.5 to 3.
  • Link range to secondary targets reduced from 3.5 to 3.
  • Damage to enemy Structures is no longer reduced by 10%.
  • Damage per second to linked enemies increased from 35 to 50.
  • Detonation damage increased from 180 to 305.
  • Additional detonation damage to Marked enemies increased from 90 to 152.
• Void Step [E]
  • Attack Damage bonus per stack reduced from 25% to 10%.
  • Range reduced from 15 to 11.
  • Cancel cooldown removed (was 0.5 seconds).
  • Abilities can now be cast during Void Step.
  • No longer gives 2 Attack Range while active.

Heroic Abilities

• Void Eruption [R2]
  • Area reveal duration increased from 0.5 to 1.75 seconds.
• Void Convergence [R2]
  • Void Minions now go to the nearest lane.
  • Void Portal
    • Health increased from 1000 to 1200.
  • Void Minion
    • Health reduced from 450 to 300.
    • Maximum duration increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
    • Attack Damage reduced from 95 to 50.
    • Movement Speed reduced from 5.75 to 5.
    • Vision radius increased from 7 to 10.

 Talents

• Level 1
  • Void Adept
    • Moved from Level 7 to Level 1.
    • Damage per stack increased from 5 to 25.
    • Maximum damage increased from to 100 to 500.
    • Now also increases Dark Heart Ritual’s detonation damage by the same amount.
• Level 4
  • Dark Barrier
    • Shield duration added, equal to 5 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Toxic Mark
    • Moved from Level 1 to Level 7.
  • Silence of the Lamb
    • Damage increased from 99 to 250.
    • Damage to enemy Structures is no longer reduced by 10%.
    • Detonation delay reduced from 3.25 to 2.25 seconds.
    • Triangle orientation flipped.
  • Void Summoner
    • Spawn location changed from center to starting location.
    • Spawn delay removed (was 1 second).
• Level 13
  • Talents reordered to follow conventional ordering.
  • Dark Heart’s Protection
    • Silence duration reduced from 2 to 1 second.
• Level 16
  • Talents reordered to follow conventional ordering.
  • Marked Resilience
    • Shield amount reduced from 480 to 160.
    • Shield now starts decaying after 1 second.
    • Now also works on Marked enemy Structures.
  • Relentless Whispers
    • Attack Speed bonus reduced from 200% to 150%.
  • Fractured Reality
    • Damage reduced from 45 to 9.
    • Damage bonus now capped at 300%.
    • Damage frequency increased from 1 hit per second to 1 hit every 0.1875 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Harbringer’s Consumption
    • Additional functionality: Each enemy Hero hit by explosions reduces Void Eruption’s cooldown by 14 seconds.
    • Removed functionality: Cancelling the Ability early causes the orbs to travel faster.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing Anduin’s Leap of Faith to have a brief delay when the target was Rooted.
• Fixed an issue causing Xal’atath’s Basic Attacks to not be paused by Hold Fire.
• Fixed an issue causing Xal’atath’s Basic Attacks, Force Move, and Smart Commands to create extra, white arrows on the ground.
• Fixed an issue causing the Shield decay for Xal’atath’s Marked Resilience to behave inconsistently when enemies were Time Stopped.
• Fixed an issue causing the Shield duration for Xal’atath’s Marked Resilience and its duration bar to not match.
• Fixed an issue causing Xal’atath’s Void Eruption to be impossible to channel if having Quick Cast set to On.
• Fixed an issue causing Xal’atath’s Void Eruption to disappear when cast inside impassable terrain.
• Fixed an issue causing Xal’atath’s Void Eruption to not have its Mana cost listed in its tooltip.
• Fixed an issue causing Xal’atath’s Void Convergence to not have its Mana cost listed in its tooltip.