Heroes of the Storm Changelog

What's new in Heroes of the Storm 37.0

Sep 5, 2018

BUG FIXES:
General:
Loading Screen: Fixed an issue that could cause a vertical black line to appear on loading screens in certain resolutions.
Custom Games: Fixed an issue that could cause game stalls when launching custom games with more than 8 players.
Art:
Fixed an issue that could cause Heroes to appear to walk on their mounts if certain abilities were cast immediately after mounting.
Battlegrounds:
Volskaya Foundry: Fixed an issue that caused Time Stop effects to fail to cancel channels on the Volskaya Protector.
User Interface:
The Unstoppable effect now has a status duration bar underneath nameplates.
Alarak: Alarak's Deadly Charge now has an icon in the death recap screen.
Ana: Ana's abilities amplified by Nano Boost's Spell Power buff now display critical effects.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Cassia: Fixed an issue that could cause the stun effect from Valkyrie to end early if the target collided with terrain.
Diablo: Fixed an issue that prevented Diablo from being thrown by Garrosh’s Wrecking Ball if Diablo was casting Overpower.
Johanna & Li-Ming: Fixed an issue that prevented some “marked” effects from being consumed if the target was Shielded or Protected.
Lunara & Stitches: Fixed an issue that could cause permanent screen shaking if Lunara was hooked by Stitches under certain conditions.
Mac:
Fixed an issue that caused responsiveness degradation when using the middle-mouse button on fullscreen settings.

New in Heroes of the Storm 36.2 (Aug 22, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 36.1 (Aug 17, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 36.0 (Aug 8, 2018)

GENERAL:
Reduced the amount of bandwidth required to transfer gameplay information between the client and server.
Reduced the size of replay files.
BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Fixed an issue causing some abilities to repeatedly automatically cast if right-click was held.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from responding to whispers from other players with the “Only allow friends to send me messages” option enabled.
Quick Cast: Fixed an issue causing some vector targeted abilities to behave as if quick cast was always enabled.
Quick Cast: ‘On Release’ commands are now immediately fired when the hotkey for another ability is pressed. This should prevent some ‘lost keypress’ issues when firing abilities in rapid succession.
Sound:
Increased the volume of Alarak’s announcer pack.
Art:
Diablo: Fixed an issue with the geometry of Diablo’s tail.
Battlegrounds:
Alterac Pass: Fixed an issue that could cause the Cavalry’s aura effect to fail to display on low settings.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abathur: Fixed an issue causing Abathur’s Monstosity to fail to gain damage when nearby enemy Minions are slain.
Chromie: Fixed an issue that could cause Chromie’s next attack after landing a Sand Blast hit to fail to gain the Bronze Talons effect if she was attacking from maximum range.
Hanzo: The Target Practice quest tracker will now differentiate between targets that have been hit 3 times and those who haven’t been hit at all.
Jaina: Fixed an issue that allowed the Water Elemental’s attacks to progress the Frostbite quest progress against unchilled targets.
Leoric: Fixed an issue causing the visual effect seen on Heroes affected by Ominous Wraith to fail to appear.
Lt. Morales: Healing Beam will no longer heal units affected by Time Stop.
Medivh: Medivh the Black’s raven has been updated to match the theme of the skin.
Medivh: Medivh can now be selected while in Raven Form when attempting to view his target info panel.
Medivh: Portal Mastery portals can now be affected by cooldown reduction.
Stukov: Fixed an issue that could prevent Virulent Reaction from rooting targets if the Poppin Pustules talent was chosen.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/22012454/

New in Heroes of the Storm 35.2 (Jul 31, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 35.1 (Jul 26, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 35.0 (Jul 11, 2018)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art:
Diablo: Will no longer appear to face the wrong direction while walking after Shadow Charge is interrupted.
Malthael: Fear the Reaper’s icon art in the buff bar now correctly matches its icon art in the Talent pane.
Battlegrounds:
Haunted Mines: Fixed an issue that could cause the Grave Golem in the Mines to stop issuing Basic Attacks and casting its Root Ability when defending against nearby Heroes.
Warhead Junction: Visual effects created by Boss and Podling Abilities are no longer visible through the Fog of War.
Try Mode: Changing the Enemy Hero setting to None and then using the Set Level button no longer causes an enemy Hero to spawn.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abilities: Fixed an issue in which certain Abilities, like Stukov’s Lurking Arm, could be unintentionally canceled immediately after casting.
Alarak: Deadly Charge will now always fire in the direction the player clicked, instead of the direction Alarak was facing when the Ability was cast.
Alexstrasza: Can no longer use Cleansing Flame to switch between the upper and lower levels of Haunted Mines.
Alexstrasza: Fixed an issue that could cause Cleansing Flame to fail if it was cast in the same moment that Dragonqueen was ending.
Cassia: Fixed an issue in which the Plate of the Whale Talent required more Basic Attacks to be absorbed per Health Regeneration stack than intended.
Deckard: Can now correctly use Healing Potions while affected by Zarya’s Graviton Surge.
Deckard: Canceling Stay Awhile and Listen no longer prevents the next source of damage from waking Sleeping enemies.
Diablo: No longer becomes unable to use any Abilities if Shadow Charge fails to cast.
Diablo: Fixed an issue that could prevent Diablo from using additional Abilities after casting Shadow Charge on an enemy who is using a dash, like Chen’s Flying Kick or Illidan’s Dive.
D.Va: Shift-queuing movement commands during Boosters no longer causes D.Va to become stuck indefinitely.
Garrosh: Can now correctly cast Into the Fray on Unstoppable allied Heroes.
Garrosh: Warlord’s Challenge no longer cancels Abilities that end upon taking damage, like Muradin’s Second Wind or Fenix’s Shield Capacitor.
Nova: After learning Anti-Armor Shells, the Target Info Panel now displays the correct amount of Basic Attack damage dealt.
Sleep: Damage over time effects that do not initially apply damage, like Gul’dan’s Corruption and Blaze’s Combustion, will now correctly wake Sleeping enemies.
Stukov: Healing Pathogen’s timer is no longer visually removed if the target becomes Polymorphed.
Takedown Credit: Fixed an issue in which takedown credit could still be granted to a Hero even if they left combat long before the target was killed.
The Butcher: Ruthless Onslaught’s visual effects will no longer persist on the target if they interrupt the Ability by entering Stealth.
Valeera: Sinister Strike’s targeting indicator now more closely matches the Ability’s area of effect.
Varian: Colossus Smash now moves Varian to a valid landing location, rather than placing him within a space that’s already occupied by the target.
Sound:
Sonya: The La Pantera Sonya skin no longer plays sword impact sound effects when attacking Structures.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21940930/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-july-10-2018-2018-7-10/

New in Heroes of the Storm 34.3 (Jul 4, 2018)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art:
Diablo: Will no longer appear to face the wrong direction while walking after Shadow Charge is interrupted.
Malthael: Fear the Reaper’s icon art in the buff bar now correctly matches its icon art in the Talent pane.
Battlegrounds:
Haunted Mines: Fixed an issue that could cause the Grave Golem in the Mines to stop issuing Basic Attacks and casting its Root Ability when defending against nearby Heroes.
Warhead Junction: Visual effects created by Boss and Podling Abilities are no longer visible through the Fog of War.
Try Mode: Changing the Enemy Hero setting to None and then using the Set Level button no longer causes an enemy Hero to spawn.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abilities: Fixed an issue in which certain Abilities, like Stukov’s Lurking Arm, could be unintentionally canceled immediately after casting.
Alarak: Deadly Charge will now always fire in the direction the player clicked, instead of the direction Alarak was facing when the Ability was cast.
Alexstrasza: Can no longer use Cleansing Flame to switch between the upper and lower levels of Haunted Mines.
Alexstrasza: Fixed an issue that could cause Cleansing Flame to fail if it was cast in the same moment that Dragonqueen was ending.
Cassia: Fixed an issue in which the Plate of the Whale Talent required more Basic Attacks to be absorbed per Health Regeneration stack than intended.
Deckard: Can now correctly use Healing Potions while affected by Zarya’s Graviton Surge.
Deckard: Canceling Stay Awhile and Listen no longer prevents the next source of damage from waking Sleeping enemies.
Diablo: No longer becomes unable to use any Abilities if Shadow Charge fails to cast.
Diablo: Fixed an issue that could prevent Diablo from using additional Abilities after casting Shadow Charge on an enemy who is using a dash, like Chen’s Flying Kick or Illidan’s Dive.
D.Va: Shift-queuing movement commands during Boosters no longer causes D.Va to become stuck indefinitely.
Garrosh: Can now correctly cast Into the Fray on Unstoppable allied Heroes.
Garrosh: Warlord’s Challenge no longer cancels Abilities that end upon taking damage, like Muradin’s Second Wind or Fenix’s Shield Capacitor.
Nova: After learning Anti-Armor Shells, the Target Info Panel now displays the correct amount of Basic Attack damage dealt.
Sleep: Damage over time effects that do not initially apply damage, like Gul’dan’s Corruption and Blaze’s Combustion, will now correctly wake Sleeping enemies.
Stukov: Healing Pathogen’s timer is no longer visually removed if the target becomes Polymorphed.
Takedown Credit: Fixed an issue in which takedown credit could still be granted to a Hero even if they left combat long before the target was killed.
The Butcher: Ruthless Onslaught’s visual effects will no longer persist on the target if they interrupt the Ability by entering Stealth.
Valeera: Sinister Strike’s targeting indicator now more closely matches the Ability’s area of effect.
Varian: Colossus Smash now moves Varian to a valid landing location, rather than placing him within a space that’s already occupied by the target.
Sound:
Sonya: The La Pantera Sonya skin no longer plays sword impact sound effects when attacking Structures.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-gb/blog/21907096/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-notes-july-2-2018-2018-7-2/

New in Heroes of the Storm 34.2 (Jun 17, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 34.1 (Jun 13, 2018)

BUG FIXES:
Hotfix Additions:
Home Screen: The leftmost tile on Yrel’s Home Screen now correctly opens her Hero page in the Collection.
Ragnaros: Lava Wave now correctly dissipates after reaching the end of the targeted lane on Towers of Doom.
Thrall: The Feral Resilience Talent now correctly states that it grants 50 Physical Armor, rather than 75.
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
A.I.:
Chromie: A.I. Chromie will no longer cast Temporal Loop on Vehicles, like the Dragon Knight or Garden Terror.
Art:
Abathur: Removed an excess visual effect that could appear after casting Symbiote on a Monstrosity while using the Xenotech Abathur skin.
Abathur: Ultimate Evolution clones of Lil’ Ragnaros will now use the correct death model when the Ability expires or the clone is destroyed.
Gall: The Double Back Talent now displays the base Dread Orb icon art the Talent selection pane.
Genji: Genji no longer occasionally uses a default pose after being affected by a Time Stop effect during Dragonblade.
Greymane: Hunter Greymane no longer hides his face behind his shoulder pad on the post-match summary screen.
Leoric: The Consume Vitality Talent now displays the base Skeletal Swing icon art in the Talent selection pane.
Medivh: The Mystic Assault Talent and Arcane Rift’s quest icon now display the base Arcane Rift icon art.
Tassadar: The Psi-Infusion Talent now displays the base Psionic Storm icon art in the Talent selection pane.
Battlegrounds:
Try Mode: A.I. Heroes will now ignore Mercenary Camps. However, an allied Hero will still engage a Mercenary Camp if the player attacks it while that ally is following them.
Volskaya Foundry: Minions can no longer clip through the northern Wall near the Fort in the bottom lane.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Artanis: Purifier Beam is now correctly interrupted if its target is a Hero with a post death effect, like Leoric or Uther, who is killed while the Ability is being cast.
Deckard: Stay Awhile and Listen’s book model no longer visually persists if the Ability is interrupted by a Taunt effect.
Deckard: Casting Horadric Cube while on a conveyor belt no longer causes the Ability’s area of effect to disjoint from its visual effects.
Deckard: Casting Scroll of Sealing while on a conveyor belt no longer causes the Ability’s area of effect to disjoint from its visual effects.
Deckard: Fixed an issue that could prevent a Healing Potion from being picked up if it was placed between an injured ally and Deckard when Deckard is at full Health.
Fenix: Offensive Cadence will no longer stop functioning if Fenix is killed when his next Basic Attack would have triggered the Talent’s bonus damage.
Li-Ming: Fixed an issue causing Disintegrate to deal one less damage tick than intended.
Ragnaros: When cast on Ragnaros in his normal form, Alarak’s Rite of Rak’shir and Alexstrasza’s Blessing of the Red will not persist after casting Molten Core. However, Ragnaros will regain those marks once Molten Core expires.
Sound:
Abathur: Increased the volume of Xenotech Abathur's voiceover lines during Symbiote.
Announcers: A number of Announcers’ countdown lines that play at the start of a match will no longer end earlier than intended.
Hero Interactions: Fixed an issue that prevented unique voiceover lines from playing when a clash between two specific Heroes, such as Arthas vs. Uther, resulted in a kill.
Leoric: Reduced the volume of Leoric’s Basic Attack sound effects.
Tychus: Enemy A.I. Tychus was a little too chatty on the battlefield. He’s been ordered to do less talkin’ and more fightin’.
User Interface:
Abathur: Symbiote now correctly creates a crown icon above an allied target’s minimap portrait.
Artanis: Damage dealt by the Plasma Burn Talent now displays correctly in Death Recaps.
Stukov: Healing done by the Superstrain Talent no longer displays as “Unknown” in Death Recaps.
Tychus: The Event Log now correctly displays the yellow Run and Gun icon upon completing the Dash Talent’s quest.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21849060/

New in Heroes of the Storm 33.1 (Jun 6, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 33.0 (May 25, 2018)

General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
A.I.:
General: After casting Hearthstone, A.I. Heroes will now wait in the Hall of Storms to restore most of their Health and Mana before leaving.
D.Va: Fixed an issue that prevented A.I. D.Va from casting Boosters.
Deckard: Learning Bottomless Flask no longer causes Allied A.I. Heroes to remain near a Healing Potion’s location indefinitely.
Sgt. Hammer: A.I. Sgt. Hammer will no longer become stuck in a Vent behind the opposing bottom-lane Fort on Battlefield of Eternity.
The Butcher: Fixed an issue in which A.I. Butcher would repeatedly cast and then cancel Ruthless Onslaught.
The Butcher: Fixed an issue that prevented A.I. Butcher from casting Butcher’s Brand.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Artanis: The Target Purified Talent no longer causes Purifier Beam to acquire Invulnerable targets after its initial target dies.
Chromie: Time Traps revealed by Abilities like Tassadar’s Oracle can now be correctly auto-acquired as Basic Attack targets.
Fenix: The Talent tooltips for Singularity Charge and Mobile Offense now correctly append to the Ability tooltip for Weapon Mode: Phase Bomb.
Garrosh: Casting Into the Fray on Abathur now correctly interrupts Symbiote Channeling.
Genji: A damage over time preview now correctly appears in Genji’s Health bar when affected by Lunara’s Nature’s Toxin.
Johanna: Can no longer escape Zagara’s Devouring Maw early if Iron Skin expires while inside the Maw.
Junkrat: Can now move himself while he is Unstoppable by detonating a nearby Concussion Mine.
Malfurion: Reduced Healing applied by Strangling Vines now correctly lasts for its full 3 second duration, even if Entangling Roots expires or its Root effect is removed.
Medivh: Dying while attempting to redirect Ley Line Seal after learning Medivh Cheats! no longer causes its targeting indicator to visually persist on the terrain.
Nova: Fixed an issue that could cause Holo Decoys to stop attacking nearby targets.
Nova: Fixed an issue in which Holo Decoys would not Basic Attack enemy Heroes if Nova did not have enough Mana to cast any of her Abilities.
Nova: Armor reductions granted by Anti-Armor Shells and Crippling Shot now stack correctly when applied to the same target.
Sonya: Battle Rage no longer grants bonus damage versus Monsters.
Tassadar: Plasma Shield Healing done after completing the Khaydarin Resonance quest is now correctly tracked on the in-game stats screen (TAB).
Tassadar: The Talent tooltip for Khala’s Light now correctly states that only Heroes will gain Armor when Plasma Shield expires or breaks. This was only a tooltip correction; functionality has not been changed.
Thrall: Invulnerable Heroes who are within bounce range after casting Chain Lightning on a nearby target will no longer grant Crash Lightning quest progress.
The Lost Vikings: Casting Spin to Win! no longer causes offscreen Vikings to play false “under attack” voice lines.
Zul’jin: Using Guillotine with the Buzzsaw Talent to kill Nova’s Holo Decoys or Samuro’s Mirror Images no longer grants Healing.
Sound:
Lt. Morales: Replaced incorrect voice processing for voice lines used by the base Lt. Morales and First Lt. Morales skins.
Volskaya Foundry: Achieving victory will now correctly cause Overwatch-themed music to play.
User Interface:
Loadouts: The Hero’s name at the top of the Loadout pane will now update correctly when switching among Heroes during Hero Select.
Collection: Fenix now correctly appears when using the terms “Protoss” and “Dragoon” to filter the Hero roster.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21788602/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-may-22-2018-2018-5-22/

New in Heroes of the Storm 32.2 (May 10, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 32.1 (May 5, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 32.0 (Apr 25, 2018)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
A.I.:
Hanzo: Fixed an issue that could cause A.I. Hanzo to repeatedly Channel and cancel Storm Bow.
Art:
Blaze: Icon art has been swapped for the Adhesive Petroleum and Oil Dispersal Talents.
Lunar Sylvanas: Fixed an issue causing Lunar Sylvanas to play an incorrect animation on the Most Played screen.
Battlegrounds:
Checkpoint: Hanamura (Brawl): The Brawl Info tooltip now correctly states that Health Packs restore 35% Health and Mana.
Tomb of the Spider Queen: The left-side team’s bottom Fort can no longer attack enemy Heroes who are just beyond the Gate.
Try Mode: Tychus’ Dash Talent now correctly grants its Movement Speed reward after using the Complete Quests button.
Try Mode: Uther’s Silver Touch Talent now correctly grants its second Mana cost reduction reward to Holy Light after using the Complete Quests button.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abathur: The number of Minions Absorbed stacks no longer appear inconsistent in the Buff bar after Abathur dies while a Monstrosity is active.
Abathur: Fixed an issue causing Spike Burst’s visual effects to appear much larger than intended when cast while targeting a Mercenary with Symbiote.
Alarak: Free Lightning Surge casts granted by the Lightning Barrage Talent now correctly display its cast range indicator.
Ana: Nano Boost’s duration bar now appears next to, rather than replaces, any existing Ability duration bars for the targeted Ally, like Sonya’s Whirlwind.
Brightwing: Can now correctly cast Blink Heal on Turrets and Biotic Emitters that were placed by Brightwing herself.
Cho: Entering a Stasis effect, like Zeratul’s Void Prison, while Surging Fist is charging no longer places Surging Fist on full cooldown.
Fog of War: Hitting an enemy with certain targeted, ranged Abilities, like Sylvanas’ Shadow Dagger, just before the target enters Fog of War or a Line of Sight Blocker now correctly reveal that enemy.
Fog of War: Fixed an issue in which attempting to cast a targeted Ability through the Fog of War on a snapshot of a unit that no longer exists could cause the Hero to path into the terrain and become stuck.
Greymane: Partial progress earned toward the Wizened Duelist Talent’s next attack damage bonus will no longer persist after dying.
Hanzo: Natural Agility now activates correctly after being hit by Phase Prism near a tower.
Illidan: Can now correctly cast Dive on Ragnaros in Molten Core form.
Kel’Thuzad: Phylactery can no longer be activated before its animation completes.
Li-Ming: Spell Armor granted by the Force Armor Talent is now correctly consumed when hit by Ability damage from non-Heroic sources.
Rexxar: The tooltip for Misha, Focus! no longer lists a cooldown.
Rexxar: Switching seats in a Triglav Protector no longer causes Rexxar to become unresponsive.
The Lost Vikings: Stealth granted by the Spy Games Talent is now correctly applied for 3 seconds after Erik moves.
Thrall: Killing Minions who were hit by Chain Lightning now correctly causes Echo of the Elements quest progress visual effects to appear near Thrall, rather than allies.
Uther: Fixed an issue in which Uther could briefly use activated Talents after death, but prior to entering Eternal Vanguard form.
Uther: The Silver Touch Talent’s quest rewards no longer incorrectly benefit Flash of Light.
Zagara: The Infest Talent now correctly boosts nearby Ranged Minion damage by 100%.
Zeratul: After death, Zeratul’s body will no longer teleport to the location of his last Vorpal Blade target.
Sound:
Gul’dan: The voiceover line that plays while idling on Gul’dan’s Hero page in the Collection no longer ends early.
User Interface:
Pings: Fixed an issue in which muting a player would not prevent icons related to that player’s pings from appearing.
Hotkeys: Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause Heroes to ignore Force Move commands.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21719349/

New in Heroes of the Storm 31.3 (Apr 20, 2018)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
A.I.:
Hanzo: Fixed an issue that could cause A.I. Hanzo to repeatedly Channel and cancel Storm Bow.
Art:
Blaze: Icon art has been swapped for the Adhesive Petroleum and Oil Dispersal Talents.
Lunar Sylvanas: Fixed an issue causing Lunar Sylvanas to play an incorrect animation on the Most Played screen.
Battlegrounds:
Checkpoint: Hanamura (Brawl): The Brawl Info tooltip now correctly states that Health Packs restore 35% Health and Mana.
Tomb of the Spider Queen: The left-side team’s bottom Fort can no longer attack enemy Heroes who are just beyond the Gate.
Try Mode: Tychus’ Dash Talent now correctly grants its Movement Speed reward after using the Complete Quests button.
Try Mode: Uther’s Silver Touch Talent now correctly grants its second Mana cost reduction reward to Holy Light after using the Complete Quests button.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abathur: The number of Minions Absorbed stacks no longer appear inconsistent in the Buff bar after Abathur dies while a Monstrosity is active.
Abathur: Fixed an issue causing Spike Burst’s visual effects to appear much larger than intended when cast while targeting a Mercenary with Symbiote.
Alarak: Free Lightning Surge casts granted by the Lightning Barrage Talent now correctly display its cast range indicator.
Ana: Nano Boost’s duration bar now appears next to, rather than replaces, any existing Ability duration bars for the targeted Ally, like Sonya’s Whirlwind.
Brightwing: Can now correctly cast Blink Heal on Turrets and Biotic Emitters that were placed by Brightwing herself.
Cho: Entering a Stasis effect, like Zeratul’s Void Prison, while Surging Fist is charging no longer places Surging Fist on full cooldown.
Fog of War: Hitting an enemy with certain targeted, ranged Abilities, like Sylvanas’ Shadow Dagger, just before the target enters Fog of War or a Line of Sight Blocker now correctly reveal that enemy.
Fog of War: Fixed an issue in which attempting to cast a targeted Ability through the Fog of War on a snapshot of a unit that no longer exists could cause the Hero to path into the terrain and become stuck.
Greymane: Partial progress earned toward the Wizened Duelist Talent’s next attack damage bonus will no longer persist after dying.
Hanzo: Natural Agility now activates correctly after being hit by Phase Prism near a tower.
Illidan: Can now correctly cast Dive on Ragnaros in Molten Core form.
Kel’Thuzad: Phylactery can no longer be activated before its animation completes.
Li-Ming: Spell Armor granted by the Force Armor Talent is now correctly consumed when hit by Ability damage from non-Heroic sources.
Rexxar: The tooltip for Misha, Focus! no longer lists a cooldown.
Rexxar: Switching seats in a Triglav Protector no longer causes Rexxar to become unresponsive.
The Lost Vikings: Stealth granted by the Spy Games Talent is now correctly applied for 3 seconds after Erik moves.
Thrall: Killing Minions who were hit by Chain Lightning now correctly causes Echo of the Elements quest progress visual effects to appear near Thrall, rather than allies.
Uther: Fixed an issue in which Uther could briefly use activated Talents after death, but prior to entering Eternal Vanguard form.
Uther: The Silver Touch Talent’s quest rewards no longer incorrectly benefit Flash of Light.
Zagara: The Infest Talent now correctly boosts nearby Ranged Minion damage by 100%.
Zeratul: After death, Zeratul’s body will no longer teleport to the location of his last Vorpal Blade target.
Sound:
Gul’dan: The voiceover line that plays while idling on Gul’dan’s Hero page in the Collection no longer ends early.
User Interface:
Pings: Fixed an issue in which muting a player would not prevent icons related to that player’s pings from appearing.
Hotkeys: Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause Heroes to ignore Force Move commands.

New in Heroes of the Storm 31.0 (Mar 28, 2018)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Loot Chests: Fixed a rare issue that could prevent players from receiving a Loot Chest on Hero level-up.
A.I.:
Chromie: Fixed an issue preventing A.I. Chromie from casting Sand Blast.
Gazlowe: A.I. Gazlowe will no longer interrupt its own Doubloon turn-ins on Blackhearts Bay in order to place Rock-It! Turrets.
Leoric: A.I. Leoric will no longer remain stationary after activating Wraith Walk.
Malfurion: A.I. Malfurion will no longer attempt to cast Entangling Roots on non-Heroic enemies.
Medivh: A.I. Medivh wil no longer become stuck after attempting to use a Mine Entrance on Haunted Mines while in Raven Form.
Murky: Fixed an issue that could cause A.I. Murky to repeatedly place Egg in the same location, even if its existing Egg was undamaged.
Art:
Gazlowe: Dying and respawning after learning Robo-Goblin will no longer remove the player’s selected skin from the Robo-Goblin model.
Malthael: Reaper's Mark visual effects will no longer persist if the target is killed just before Reaper’s Mark is applied.
Nazeebo: Choosing the Superstition Talent while Nazeebo is dead will no longer cause Spell Shield visual effects to persist on the terrain after subsequent deaths.
Loot Chests: The D.Haka portrait will no longer display placeholder art on the Loot Chest rewards screen.
Mecha Tassadar: Attacking while using the Mecha Morph Mount will no longer cause Distortion Beam to visually originate above Mecha Tassadar’s head.
Battlegrounds:
Battlefield of Eternity: Destroying a Healing Fountain in the middle lane will no longer cause Minimap icons for Healing Fountains in other lanes to disappear.
Braxis Holdout: Destroying a Healing Fountain will no longer cause Minimap icons for Healing Fountains in the top lane to disappear.
Haunted Mines: Queueing movement commands during Hearthstone Channeling while in the Mines will no longer cancel Hearthstone.
Volskaya Foundry: Fixed an issue that could cause Heroes who were piloting a Triglav Protector to become unresponsive after the Protector is destroyed by a Damage over Time effect.
Warhead Junction: Fixed an issue that could cause Heroes to teleport back to the Hall of Storms after moving to a specific area of terrain before the game begins.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abathur: Monstrosities will no longer deal area of effect damage on death if Abathur hasn’t learned the Volatile Mutation Talent.
Alarak: Rite of Rak’shir can no longer be removed when Samuro casts Mirror Image or Chen casts Storm, Earth, Fire.
Anub’arak: Cocoon will no longer trap Pilot-form D.Va if she has already successfully cast Call Mech.
Blaze: After learning Oil Dispersal, Oil Spill’s targeting indicator now correctly increases in size to reflect the Ability’s new area of effect.
Blaze: Casting Flame Stream on a target who is standing in an unignited Oil Spill will now correctly register as two Flame Stream hits, rather than one.
Blaze: Unignited Oil Spills will no longer reduce enemy Structures’ Attack Speeds after learning the Nanomachine Coating Talent.
Blaze: Flame Stream is no longer visible through the Fog of War when cast near the edge of the enemy team’s vision.
Dehaka: Fixed an issue that could cause Drag visual effects to persist indefinitely if the Ability connected across unpathable terrain.
D.Va: Self-Destruct’s charge percentage will now correctly reset to 0% between rounds during Heroes Brawls.
Gall: Shove can no longer be cast while Cho is being pulled by Stitches’ Hook.
Genji: Fixed an issue that could cause enemy targeted Abilities to hit Genji rather than the intended target during Dragonblade.
Greymane: Fixed an issue that could cause Razor Swipe’s area of effect and damage to become disjointed from Greymane’s location.
Hanzo: Reactivating Dragon’s Arrow via the Play of the Game Talent after the Arrow has traveled beyond Warhead Junction’s playable area will no longer teleport Hanzo to an unreachable location.
Illidan: Hitting two Heroes with Sweeping Strike at maximum range will now correctly apply the bonus damage granted by the Battered Assault Talent.
Kel’Thuzad: Chilling Touch can now correctly deal damage to Gall’s Eye of Kilrogg.
Kharazim: Seven-Sided Strike will now correctly target Stealth enemy Heroes who have been revealed.
Leoric: Will no longer become permanently Unstoppable if he is affected by Stasis during Wraith Walk.
Li Li: Casting Cloud Serpent on Pilot-form D.Va just before she casts Call Mech will no longer prevent the Serpent from following Mech-form D.Va.
Lunara: Queued Leaping Strikes will no longer continue to target an enemy Hero who enters Stealth before the Heroic Ability actually fires.
Malfurion: Entangling Roots will no longer affect non-Heroic targets.
Malfurion: Regrowth can no longer be cast on non-Heroic targets.
Ragnaros: Blind and Evasion effects will no longer cause Empower Sulfuras’s Ability Damage to miss.
Rexxar: Completing the Hunter-Gatherer Talent’s quest now correctly grants bonus Armor to Misha.
Rexxar: Misha, Focus! will now correctly grant Misha its passive 15% Movement Speed bonus.
Samuro: Casting Mirror Image now correctly clears any Move commands that had been queued for the real Samuro.
Stitches: Hook visual effects will no longer persist indefinitely if the target is thrown by Garrosh’s Wrecking Ball while being pulled toward Stitches.
Stukov: Will no longer become unresponsive after attempting to cast Lurking Arm behind the allied Hall of Storms.
The Lost Vikings: Spin to Win! visual effects are no longer visible through the Fog of War near the edge of the enemy team’s vision.
Tracer: Can no longer cast Pulse Bomb while Channeling to launch a Nuke on Warhead Junction.
Tyrande: Fixed an issue that could cause Sentinel’s visual effects to become slightly disjointed from the Ability’s path of travel.
Uther: Devotion’s tooltip now more clearly communicates that allied Heroes affected by Uther’s Basic Abilities will gain Armor, rather than Heroes Healed by Uther’s Basic Abilities. This is a tooltip correction only; the Trait’s functionality has not been changed.
Valeera: Activating Crippling Poison, Wound Poison, or Thistle Tea will no longer clear queued orders or Abilities.
Valla: Fixed an issue that could prevent Hungering Arrow from seeking, or dealing damage to, targets after the first when cast at maximum range.
Sound:
Hanzo: Will no longer play an incorrect voiceover line to allies upon casting Hearthstone.
Illidan: The volume for Illidan’s voiceover during The Hunt has been reduced to better match other game sounds.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21646098

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.6 (Mar 22, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.4 (Mar 9, 2018)

GENERAL:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
ART:
Abathur: Fixed a pair of small holes in Xenotech Abathur’s model.
Blaze: Talent icons for Adhesive Petroleum and Oil Dispersal now use different colors so they are easier to differentiate at a glance.
Greymane: Greymane’s Health bar will no longer move during his victory animation.
Greymane: The Doctor Wolf & Stein skin’s Inner Beast visual effects no longer appear misaligned during Greymane’s Hearthstone animation.
Sgt. Hammer: Neosteel Plating’s visual effects now correctly match Sgt. Hammer’s model while in Siege Mode.
Tassadar: Moving while in the Mecha Tassadar Skin’s Mount form on Sky Temple will no longer cause flickering visual effects to appear on-screen.
Valeera: After activating Crippling Poison and Wound Poison, visual effects on Valeera’s blades will no longer flicker while she is riding certain mounts.
BATTLEGROUNDS:
Mage Wars (Brawl): Kael’thas can now correctly cast Verdant Spheres as soon as its cooldown completes.
Mercenaries: Fixed an issue in which neutral Mercenaries could spawn twice at their Mercenary Camp under specific circumstances.
Try Mode: Zul’jin’s Headhunter Talent will now progress correctly after killing The Lost Vikings.
HEROES, ABILITIES, AND TALENTS:
Brightwing: Soothing Mist will no longer Heal allies who are standing nearby while Brightwing is inside Anub’arak’s Cocoon, Lt. Morales’ Medivac, Stitches’ Gorge, or Zagara’s Devouring Maw.
Brightwing: Phase Shift can no longer be cast on Allies who are in Stasis.
D.Va: Fixed an issue that could cause Big Shot to deal no damage after learning the Pew! Pew! Pew! Talent and becoming affected by another damage or Spell Power reduction effect.
Gall: Shadow Bolt Volley’s targeting reticle is no longer visible to enemies through the Fog of War.
Hanzo: Casting Storm Bow with Quick Cast turned off will no longer prevent the player from issuing movement commands by holding down right-click.
Hanzo: Issuing a Stop or Hold command will now correctly halt Hanzo’s movement and cancel Storm Bow’s primed state.
Hanzo: Casting Storm Bow immediately after Dragon's Arrow will no longer cause Hanzo to become stuck in Storm Bow’s primed state.
Hanzo: Striking an enemy Hero with Sonic Arrow just before they enter their Hall of Storms will no longer cause Sonic Arrow to display odd visual effects.
Nazeebo: Using a mine entrance or exit on Haunted Mines during Gargantuan’s summoning animation will no longer cause Nazeebo to lose control of the Gargantuan.
Raynor: Cooldown reduction granted by A Card to Play will no longer trigger twice after killing Leoric or Uther.
Rexxar: Entering a Garden Terror while Misha is dead will no longer prevent Rexxar from issuing commands to Misha after she respawns.
Samuro: Can no longer swap places with a Mirror Image that is in the allied Hall of Storms. After some consideration, we believe this tactic can make for clever plays and have decided to revert this change.
Samuro: Mirror Images now correctly play Level Up and Quest Completion visual effects when Samuro levels up or completes a quest.
Sgt. Hammer: Commands can now correctly be queued while Sgt. Hammer is returning to Tank Mode.
Tassadar: Fixed an issue that could cause Basic Attacks in Archon form to deal splash damage twice to secondary attack targets after learning Prismatic Link.
Tassadar: Completing the Templar’s Will quest and learning Twilight Archon will no longer grant extended range to Tassadar’s first Basic Attack in Twilight Archon form.
Tracer: The Bullet Spray Talent now correctly increases the Melee’s radius by 40%.
Tyrael: The remaining duration on bonus Armor granted by the Stalwart Angel Talent after using El’Druin’s Might to teleport will now correctly appear in the Buff Bar.
Tyrande: The Darnassian Archery Talent’s Buff Bar icon now correctly displays the current number of stacks in addition to its duration.
Zagara: Fixed an issue that could cause Heroes who were caught in the center of Devouring Maw to display their exit locations before Devouring Maw expired.
General: Fixed an issue that allowed certain Abilities to affect enemy Heroes in their own Hall of Storms:
Alarak – Telekinesis [W]
Brightwing – Emerald Wind [R]
Dehaka – Drag [Q]
Medivh – Ley Line Seal [R]
Stitches – Hook [Q]
SOUND:
Ana: Debilitating Dart activation is no longer audible when the player camera is far from Ana’s location.
Falstad: Lightning Rod is no longer audible to enemies through the Fog of War.
Greymane: Gilnean Cocktail will now correctly play sound effects when it hits a target in the Fog of War.
USER INTERFACE:
Draft Mode: Using the voice volume control in a draft lobby will no longer prevent players from viewing teammates’ profiles using the right-click context menu.
Minimap: Ping icons will no longer appear faded on the Minimap while shaders are set to medium.
Score Screen: The in-game Score Screen will now correctly track quest progress for D.Va’s Crash Course Talent.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21594628

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.3 (Feb 22, 2018)

GENERAL:
Voice Communication: Voice Communication has been added to Heroes of the Storm! Read the Voice Communication blog for more information about how to use it in-game.
BUG FIXES:
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Diablo: Lightning Breath sound effects will no longer stop playing before the Ability is finished channeling.
Junkrat: Heroes killed by Concussion Mine will no longer respawn at their death location and then slide across the Battleground.
Junkrat: Issuing movement commands during Rocket Ride will no longer cause Junkrat to become separated from his Mount.
Junkrat: Movement commands that the player did not issue will no longer appear on the terrain in front of RIP-Tire’s model.
Junkrat: Targeting unpathable terrain with Rocket Ride will no longer cause Total Mayhem Grenades to visually persist on the Battleground.
Junkrat: Concussion Mine can no longer displace Leoric from Wraith Walk’s starting location if the Mine is detonated in the same moment that Wraith Walk ends.
Li Li: After learning the Lighting Serpent Talent, Cloud Serpent attacks that are bouncing to additional targets when the Ability expires will now correctly deal damage.
Lt. Morales: The tooltip for the Healing Beam icon next to Lt. Morales’ in-game portrait will now correctly display the Ability’s cooldown duration.
Malfurion: An ally who is affected by multiple Regrowths will now be correctly healed by Moonfire and have Stuns, Roots, and Slows removed by Nature’s Cure.
Movement Abilities: Certain movement-based Abilities, like Greymane’s Dark Flight or Chen’s Flying Kick, will no longer fail to move the Hero toward a target currently affected by Varian’s Taunt or Garrosh’s Warlord’s Challenge.
Sgt. Hammer: Can now correctly deploy Biotic Emitters on Volskaya Foundry while in Siege Mode.
The Butcher: Fixed an issue that prevented The Butcher from collecting Meat while piloting the Triglav Protector, Dragon Knight, or Garden Terror.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
https://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21535475

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.2 (Feb 19, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.1 (Feb 12, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.0 (Feb 7, 2018)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art:
Jaina: Corrected some minor clipping affecting Arcanist Jaina’s clothing.
Samuro: Shadows will no longer appear to flicker behind Monkey King Samuro on the post-match score screen.
Battlegrounds:
Battlefield of Eternity: Fixed a visual issue that could cause the outlines generated by Natural Agility to dip below the terrain in certain locations.
Braxis Holdout: Fixed an issue in which A.I. Heroes would pace near an enemy Gate rather than attack the Core.
Garden of Terror: Fixed an issue in which Structures affected by Overgrowth could stop attacking indefinitely under specific circumstances.
Blackheart’s Revenge Brawl: Damage will no longer interrupt channeling while Heroes are attempting to use teleportation portals.
Escape from Braxis Brawl: Bosses can no longer push unpathable terrain created by Tyrael’s Holy Ground Talent.
Try Mode: The effects of Ana’s Aim Down the Sights Talent are now correctly removed after using the Reset Talents Button.
Try Mode: Sgt. Hammer’s bonus attack range, granted by the Graduating Range Talent, is now correctly removed after using the Reset Talents Button.
Volskaya Foundry: Fixed an issue that allowed Junkrat to permanently displace and leash Fortification Camps.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Ana: Shrike Doses after the first will now correctly deal bonus damage when Ana is affected by increased Spell Power.
Auriel: Basic Attack damage dealt by Auriel’s Bestow Hope target will no longer generate less than the intended amount of Energy.
D.Va: A.I. Heroes will now attempt to flee the area surrounding D.Va’s Mech during Self-Destruct.
Junkrat: Will no longer become separated from his rocket when issuing movement commands during Rocket Ride.
Li Li: Blinding Wind will now correctly deal damage to neutral Mercenaries.
Li-Ming: The Astral Presence icon is no longer missing its mouseover tooltip.
Lunara: Leaping Strike can no longer be cast while Rooted.
Rehgar: Fixed an issue preventing the Hunger of the Wolf Talent from applying bonus damage to Ghost Wolf attacks at level 16.
Tassadar: The Psionic Echo Talent’s timer bar will now correctly appear next to the Archon timer when both are active at once.
Valeera: The Cheap Shot tooltip appended to Blade Flurry after breaking Stealth now correctly states it will Blind the target.
Zeratul: Blink will now correctly break invisibility.
Sound:
Valeera: Thistle Tea activation is no longer audible to nearby enemies while Valeera is in Stealth.
Settings: Hero voice reactions are no longer audible when the Voices setting is disabled.
User Interface:
Hotkeys: Basic Hotkeys can now be assigned to mouse buttons.
Loading Screen: Removed an outdated loading screen tooltip relating to Tower Ammunition.
Details regarding this update are available at:
https://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21509171

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.9 (Jan 27, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.5 (Dec 22, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.4 (Dec 15, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art:
Kharazim: Kharazim's arms and upper body now animated correctly during his dizzy animation.
Leoric: The Shroud of the Dead King Talent will now correctly play an animation and a sound when activated.
Samuro: Monkey King Samuro’s model will no longer exhibit flickering during Hero Select while running Medium or High graphic settings.
The Lost Vikings: Fixed an issue causing Baelog to cast superfluous shadows on the terrain.
Battlegrounds:
Sky Temple: Fixed an issue that could prevent Temple lasers from appearing correctly on the Minimap.
Structures: Auriel's Blinding Flash and Artanis' Suppression Pulse can no longer Blind Structures.
Towers of Doom: The Headless Horseman Boss is no longer incorrectly categorized as a Monster.
Volskaya Foundry: Fixed an issue in which Heroes on the outer edge of the Hall of Storms would not receive Healing or protection.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Alexstrasza: Life-Binder is no longer interrupted when entering or exiting Dragonqueen.
Diablo: Fixed an issue that could cause Shadow Charge to deal its collision damage multiple times under certain circumstances.
Garrosh: Casting Wrecking Ball on Mercenaries will no longer cause them to leash while in combat.
Gul'dan: Movement caused by a conveyor belt will no longer cancel Rain of Destruction channeling.
Kel'thuzad: The Power of Icecrown Talent will now correctly grant bonus Spell Power for enemy Heroes Slowed by Chains of Kel’Thuzad with the Chains of Ice Talent.
Li-Ming: Zei's Vengeance and Arcane Orb tooltips have been updated to clarify bonus damage functionality. Damage amounts have not been changed.
Lt. Morales: The Second Opinion Talent will now correctly grant cooldown reduction when one of the Heroes struck by Displacement Grenade is piloting a Vehicle, like the Garden Terror.
Lunara: Fixed an inconsistency that allowed Lunara to cast Leaping Strike over some, but not all, allied units after learning Boundless Stride.
Medivh: Creating a Portal entrance after learning Portal Mastery and then entering the Triglav Protector will no longer prevent him from using the Protector’s abilities.
Muradin: Learning Reverberation no longer incorrectly updates the Attack Speed Slow amount in Thunder Clap’s tooltip.
Murky: Spawn Egg with the Egg Hunt Talent can now be cast correctly on Volskaya Foundry’s conveyor belts.
Nazeebo: Fixed an issue preventing the Superstition talent effect from being removed by Hero basic attacks after Nazeebo died with this talent.
Sgt. Hammer: The Hyper-Cooling Engines talent will no longer grant cooldown reduction from basic attacks against non-Heroic targets while in Siege Mode.
Tychus & Stitches: Tychus can now be affected by Stitches’ Gorge while in Commandeer Odin.
Zeratul: Fixed an issue causing the Void Slash talent to display an incorrect value for the damage increase.
User Interface:
Death Recap: Fortification Camp Turret attacks now display a Turret icon in the Death Recap screen.

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.2 (Nov 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.0 (Nov 15, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
AI:
Ana: AI Ana will no longer attempt to Heal allied Garden Terrors, Dragon Knights, or Triglav Protectors.
Haunted Mines: Fixed an issue in which AI Heroes would “B-Step” after the neutral Grave Golem was killed, rather than completing their Hearthstone casts.
Melee Lane Units: Melee Minions, Mercenaries, and Braxis Holdout’s melee Zerg units will no longer ignore an enemy Ragnaros in Molten Core form.
Art:
Malthael: Movement Speed bonus visual effects will now correctly appear if Malthael learns On a Pale Horse while mounted.
Mounts: Visual effects that appear around the Golden Nexus Charger will now correctly animate while using Low graphic settings.
Varian: Will once again leap toward his Colossus Smash target.
Battlegrounds:
Cursed Hollow: Sgt. Hammer’s Spider Mines will now correctly attack enemy Structures affected by the Raven Lord’s Curse.
Dragon Shire: Removed two targeting indicators for Dehaka’s Brushstalker that appeared in locations where no Brush was present.
Try Mode: Kel’Thuzad’s Master of the Cold Dark Trait Quest will now correctly apply its cooldown reduction bonus after using the Complete Quests button.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abathur: Casting Ultimate Evolution on Jaina will no longer cause Abathur’s Calldown: MULE Talent icon to permanently switch to the icon for Improved Ice Block.
Abathur: Attempting to cast Toxic Nest in an area that is already densely populated by existing Nests will no longer consume a charge without placing a new Toxic Nest.
Alarak: Learning Counter-Strike or Deadly Charge at level 20 will now correctly append that Ability’s description to the Sadism Trait tooltip.
Azmodan: All Shall Burn’s tooltip has been updated to clarify that its bonus Structure damage is a flat amount, rather than percentage-based.
Ana: A targeting indicator will now correctly appear when using Healing Dart charges granted by Active Reload.
Chromie: Fixed an issue in which certain Abilities, like Artanis’ Blade Dash, could prevent Temporal Loop from returning the target to its original location.
Brightwing: Arcane Flare’s targeting indicator will no longer visually persist on the terrain if cast outside the Gate during the pre-game countdown.
Garrosh: Stukov’s Weighted Pustule will no longer be removed from targets hit by Wrecking Ball or Into the Fray.
Gazlowe: Fixed an issue preventing Deth Lazor from being cast with less than 60 Mana after learning Hyperfocus Coils
Johanna: Blessed Hammer can no longer be activated during Falling Sword.
Junkrat: Fixed an issue in which certain Abilities, like Genji’s Dragonblade and Stitches’ Hook, could hit Junkrat during Rocket Ride just before he makes impact.
Kel’Thuzad: Glacial Spike will now correctly deal bonus damage granted by Ability Power gains.
Kel’Thuzad: The Hungering Cold Talent will now correctly deal its bonus damage to non-Heroic enemies rooted by Frost Nova.
Lt. Morales: Fixed an issue in which Lt. Morales could become immune to certain Stasis effects like Void Prison and Devouring Maw until death.
Lt. Morales: Casting Reinforcements in the allied Hall of Storms will no longer permanently remove Heroes inside the Medivac within from the Battleground’s playable area.
Lúcio: Learning Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop and then walking over Junkrat’s Steel Trap will no longer cause that trap to visually persist on Lúcio’s model.
Stukov: Nazeebo will now correctly be pushed if he is hit by Massive Shove while channeling Ravenous Spirit.
Tassadar: The Prismatic Link Talent will no longer cause Tassadar’s Basic Attack to chain to Kharazim during Seven-Sided Strike.
Tassadar: The Templar’s Will Talent’s second reward will no longer increase Basic Attack range in Archon form.
Uther: After learning Divine Protection, Devotion Armor will now stack correctly when Healing an allied Hero using Flash of Light during Eternal Vanguard.
Uther: Will no longer be teleported back to the allied Hall of Storms if Redemption’s cooldown completes while in Eternal Vanguard form.
Valla: Manticore will no longer deal its bonus damage to Valla’s Basic Attack target while Valla is Blind or the target is Evading.
Zagara: Nydus Network can no longer prevent Heroes from walking out of their Hall of Storms.
User Interface:
Death Recap: The Ability icon and description for Gazlowe’s Rock-It! Turret will now correctly appear on the Death Recap screen.
Hotkeys: The Move command’s Quick Cast hotkey is no longer customizable.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21182210

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.5 (Nov 2, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.4 (Oct 30, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.3 (Oct 18, 2017)

New Special Event: Hallow's End 2017:
Play 25 games during Hallow’s End in any mode except Custom Games, Training, or Heroes Brawl to earn spooky new items!
Here are some of the treats you’ll be able to unwrap by completing the three-part quest chain:
Part 1: Play 2 Games during Hallow’s End
Reward: Cartoon Headless Horseman Spray
Part 2: Play 8 Games during Hallow’s End
Reward: Hallow’s End Warcrest Banner
Part 3: Play 15 Games during Hallow’s End
Reward: Headless Horseman Portrait
Hallow's End Loot Chests:
Once Hallow’s End begins after October 17, all Loot Chests you earn through progression (except Hero-Specific Chests), or purchase using Gems will be replaced with Hallow’s End Loot Chests. Weekly Brawl Rewards after October 20 will also award one Hallow’s End Chest.
Also starting with Hallow’s End, special event Loot Chests will now guarantee at least one of the limited-time items from that event—including portraits, sprays, skins, and mounts!
Until Hallow’s End concludes during the week of November 13, you’ll pick up one of these limited-time Loot Chests every time you level-up or earn a weekly Heroes Brawl reward. You can also head to the Loot tab in-game to purchase Rare Hallow’s End Chests directly using Gems. Additionally, please note that any Loot Chests you already own prior to the start of the event will not convert to Hallow’s End Chests.
Hotkeys:
The hotkeys to switch between the Stats, Talents, and Death Recap tabs of the leader panel (currently F1, F2, and F3) can now be rebound in the Hotkeys menu.
These hotkeys now provide quick access to the respective tab of the leader panel when the hotkey is held down.
BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
AI:
AI Heroes controlling the Garden Terror will no longer become unresponsive.
Art:
D.Va: The keychain attached to D.Va’s Light Gun will now correctly appear during Hero Select.
Leoric: Fixed an issue preventing Leoric’s Basic Attack cleave animation from playing when using certain skins.
Tyrande: The area of effect indicator for Eagle Eye Tyrande’s Lunar Flare should now be more visually apparent when cast on Sky Temple while using Low graphic settings.
Zeratul: Zeratul’s face mask will no longer appear to stretch in the Collection while using Low graphic settings.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Brightwing: The channel for Phase Shift will now properly cancel if the allied target dies.
Brightwing: The channel for Phase Shift will now properly cancel if Brightwing is Rooted.
Garrosh: Casting Body Check with the Brute Force Talent on a Boss will no longer cause a Healing debuff icon to appear next to its Health bar.
Garrosh: Fixed an issue causing Body Check to receive less bonus damage than intended after casting Double Up to reach 50 Armor.
Jaina: Fixed an issue that prevented Summon Water Elemental from being cast on the opposite side of unpathable terrain in areas that are within range and visible to the player.
Johanna: Fixed an issue causing the Shield Glare to lower the cooldown of the Blinded by the Light talent by an incorrect amount.
Kel’Thuzad: Shadow Fissure can now be cast on the minimap.
Kel’Thuzad: Shadow Fissure can now be cast between map levels on the Haunted Mines battleground.
Leoric: Fixed an issue causing enemy Heroes affected by Leoric’s Entomb ability to lose allied vision after Leoric had chosen the Buried Alive talent.
Lunara: Fixed an issue preventing Lunara from Leaping over several different friendly units after choosing the Boundless Stride talent.
Rehgar: Fixed an issue that drastically reduced the attack range of Feral Lunge.
Stukov: Abilities that move Heroes, like Alarak’s Telekinesis and Stiches’ Hook, no longer remove Weighted Pustule from the affected Hero.
Valla: Caltrops will no longer display Health bars or selection rings when clicked.
User Interface:
Right clicking a player in your friends list and choosing the Whisper option will once again open the chat input field.
Score Screen: Counters for Chromie’s Sand Blast and The Butcher’s Fresh Meat quests will now continue to increment on the in-game score screen after reaching their soft caps.
Score Screen: The counter for Lt. Morales’ Clear! Talent will no longer disappear from the in-game score screen while she is inside a Medivac.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21116539

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.0 (Sep 29, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art:
Zeratul: Zeratul’s mask will no longer stretch and bend oddly during Hero Select or in the Collection on low graphic settings.
Battlegrounds:
Blackheart’s Bay: Fixed an issue that could allow Medivh and Falstad to enter and stand in certain areas inside the enemy Hall of Storms.
Haunted Mines: The right-side team’s top Keep can no longer hit enemy Heroes who path into the Gate.
Try Mode: The You Want Axe? Talent will now correctly grant bonus Basic Attack range after using the Complete Quest button.
Try Mode: Garrosh will no longer continue to benefit from the Warbreaker Talent after clicking Reset Talents.
Try Mode: Toggling off Minion spawns will no longer cause AI Heroes to wait at their Fort Gates indefinitely.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Alarak: Rite of Rak’shir will no longer be placed on a dead target if it was cast just as that target took fatal damage.
Auriel: Fixed an issue causing the Energized Cord talent to grant slightly too much Hope with Auriel's Basic Attacks.
Diablo: Fixed an issue that could prevent Diablo from traveling with his Shadow Charge target if another Hero stood between Diablo and his target.
D.Va: Using Boosters to smash destructible barrels on Blackheart’s Bay will no longer place the Ability on full cooldown.
D.Va: Fixed an issue that could cause D.Va to inconsistently activate Healing Wells while using Boosters.
D.Va: Dying while casting Call Mech will no longer create an untargetable Mech that persists until D.Va respawns.
D.Va: Mech deaths that occur while no enemy Heroes are nearby will now correctly grant XP and update D.Va’s death count on the in-game score screen.
D.Va: A Nuke’s area of effect indicator will no longer disappear if D.Va finishes channeling Nuke in the same moment that her Mech is destroyed.
Garrosh: Wrecking Ball will no longer end Rehgar’s Ghost Wolf.
Garrosh: Using Body Check with the Brute Force Talent on a Boss no longer causes the Healing debuff icon to appear next its Health bar.
Garrosh: Bloodthirst will no longer cause Garrosh to automatically retarget his Basic Attacks to the closest enemy.
Garrosh: Into the Fray will no longer place targeting indicators on attacking Hydralisks on Braxis Holdout.
Genji: Fixed an issue that could prevent Fort attacks from Slowing Genji if he has Dodge charges remaining, and there is another Genji on the opposing team.
Genji: Fixed an issue that could cause Dodge to behave inconsistently against Sylvanas’ and Lunara’s Basic Attacks.
Genji: Dragon Blade will no longer benefit from cooldown reduction abilities such as Innervate and Nano-boost.
Illidan: Abilities that can interrupt Dive, like Li-Ming’s Wave of Force, will no longer cause Illidan to become briefly unresponsive.
Jaina: Fixed an issue that prevented Jaina from casting Water Elemental if unpathable terrain existed between Jaina and the desired casting location.
Jaina: Fixed a typo in the Icy Veins tooltip which incorrectly stated that the Talent provided a 300% cooldown recharge rate , rather than 200%. This only affected the tooltip, and the Talent's functionality has not changed.
Johanna: Abilities that block pathing, such as Sonya’s Arreat Crater and Tassadar’s Force Wall, will no longer block Johanna’s movement during Falling Sword.
Leoric: Fixed an issue that could prevent the Mithril Mace Talent from granting bonus Attack Speed for Minion and Hero kills.
Leoric: Percentage damage dealt by the Spectral Leech Talent will now properly count as Ability damage rather than Basic Attack damage.
Probius: Floating Combat Text will now indicate the amount of Shields granted to Probius by a Pylon after learning Shield Battery, rather than displaying zero for each tick.
Stukov: Abilities that move Heroes, like Alarak’s Telekinesis and Stiches’ Hook, no longer remove Weighted Pustule from the affected Hero.
Sylvanas: Withering Fire can no longer target destructible barrels on Blackheart’s Bay.
The Lost Vikings: Can no longer clip into Gates on Braxis Holdout during the pre-game countdown.
The Lost Vikings: Casting Longboat Raid immediately after one of the Vikings is killed will no longer prevent the player from using Mortar during the Heroic Ability’s duration.
Tychus: The That’s the Stuff! Talent’s Heal indicator will no longer disappear if Tychus stops attacking before Minigun expires.
Tyrande: Sentinel can no longer leave the starting zone during the pre-game countdown.
Valla: Enemy Heroes who were broken out of Stealth by Hungering Arrow can now correctly be hit by subsequent Hungering Arrow strikes.
Valla: Caltrops dropped by the Vault Talent will no longer display Health bars, and are no longer selectable.
Zagara: Creep Tumors no longer exhibit a short delay before granting vision of the area affected by Creep.
Sound:
Li-Ming: Templar Li-Ming will now correctly play death sounds when killed.
Valeera: Enemy Heroes will no longer hear when Valeera primes her activated Talents, like Crippling Poison, when she is Stealthed.
User Interface:
Hotkeys: The Dragon Knight and Garden Terror will now correctly follow Force Move commands.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21072294

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.5 (Sep 26, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.4 (Sep 9, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.3 (Sep 6, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Battlegrounds:
Boss: Captured Bosses will now correctly use their area of effect Abilities when attacking down a lane.
Haunted Mines: Fixed an issue that could cause Heroes to become Invulnerable for a fraction of a second while entering or exiting the Mines.
Try Mode: Sentinel will now correctly gain bonus damage after completing the Ranger Talent’s quest using the Complete Quests button.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Stasis: Fixed an issue in which cooldowns for self-cast Stasis effects, such as Ice Block, or Chromie’s Time Out, would not count down until respawn if the Hero was killed immediately after that Stasis effect concluded.
Arthas: After learning the Shattered Armor Talent, Heroes rooted by Frost Presence’s quest reward will now correctly have their Armor reduced.
Azmodan: Manually clicking the All Shall Burn Ability will no longer cause a framerate drop.
Chen: Will no longer gain multiple Freshest Ingredient stacks when collecting a single Regeneration Globe if multiple allied Heroes are nearby.
Chen: Medivh’s Ley Line Seal can no longer cause Chen and his Storm, Earth, Fire Spirits to exist at the same time.
Cho: Rune Bomb’s area of effect indicator will no longer visually shrink if Cho’gall was affected by the Shrink Ray Talent while casting Rune Bomb.
D.Va: Fixed an issue that could cause D.Va to become unresponsive when entering the Dragon Knight or Garden Terror after using Lt. Morales’ Medivac.
Garrosh: Intimidation will no longer slow non-Heroic enemies’ attack speeds.
Garrosh: Fixed an issue that could cause Wrecking Ball to fail to throw a target but go on a full cooldown.
Greymane: Can now correctly cast Go for the Throat a second time after using the Ability to kill D.Va’s Mech.
Muradin: Haymaker will now properly knock back and damage secondary targets in its path.
Muradin: Fixed an issue that caused Muradin’s abilities to cast quickly and without animations if queued up during Dwarf Toss.
Li-Ming: Learning the Zei’s Vengeance and Arcane Orbit Talents will no longer cause Arcane Orb to deal reduced damage at close-range.
Lt. Morales: Medivac UI will no longer persist on-screen when entering the Medivac as it is destroyed.
Samuro: Switching places with a Mirror Image will no longer cancel queued commands.
Samuro: Clicking a control group to select a Mirror Image after learning Illusion Master will no longer cancel active Move Commands being carried out by that Image.
Stitches: Hook will now cancel abilities that can be channeled while moving, such as Azmodan’s All Shall Burn.
The Butcher: Floating Combat Text will now correctly display Crit damage dealt by Basic Attacks benefitting from the Brutal Strike Talent.
Sound:
Stukov: Massive Shove’s sound effects will no longer persist after the target is killed or collides with terrain.
User Interface:
Draft Mode: Fixed an issue preventing players from selecting the Lunar Rooster Mount in Draft Lobbies.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21043671

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.2 (Aug 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.0 (Aug 9, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Battlegrounds:
Mercenaries: Heroes will no longer be pushed when allied Mercenaries path into them.
Minions: Catapults that are destroyed while their projectiles are mid-air will no longer deal half-damage.
Heroes Brawl: Fixed an issue that could cause increased loading times when entering Heroes.
Try Mode: The Reset Talents button now properly removes bonus damage earned by completing Medivh’s Arcane Charge Questing Talent.
Try Mode: The Reset Talents button now properly removes the range and cooldown bonuses granted by Genji’s Agile Dismount Talent.
Braxis Holdout: Fixed a rare issue that could cause large units to get stuck on the corners of Structures.
Warhead Junction: AI players will no longer become stuck in the southwest hand corner of the Battleground when retreating down the bottom lane.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Alarak: Marking The Lost Vikings with Rite of Rak'Shir during their Longboat Raid Ability and then killing the Longboat will now correctly grant bonus Sadism and Rite of Rak’shir cooldown reduction.
Alarak & Artanis: Fixed an issue causing Deadly Charge to go on a full cooldown if Alarak is hit by Phase Prism while channeling.
Arthas: After Arthas completing the Frost Presence Questing Talent the Shattered Armor Talent will now correctly apply Armor Reduction to Heroes who have been rooted by Howling Blast.
Cassia: Blinding Light will no longer reveal Stealthed enemy Heroes.
Chen: Medivh’s Ley Line Seal can no longer cause Chen and his Storm, Earth, Fire Spirits to exist simultaneously.
D.Va: Now properly contests Objective Capture Points while exiting her Mech.
D.Va: Now properly contests and pushes Hanamura Payloads while exiting her Mech.
D.Va: D.Va’s Basic Attacks are now halted during her Taunt and Dance animations.
D.Va: The Call Mech status bar that appears under D.Va’s party frame portrait no longer persists after she dies and respawns in Mech Mode.
Kharazim: Seven-Sided Strike will no longer target D.Va's Mech during Self-Destruct.
Genji: X-Strike can now be properly self-cast.
Greymane: Can now correctly cast Go For the Throat a second time after using the Ability to kill D.Va’s Mech.
Lt. Morales: Entering a Medivac as it is destroyed will no longer cause the Medivac UI to persist on-screen.
Probius: Pylons that are affected by a time stop, such as Zeratul’s Void Prison, will no longer cause Warp Rift’s cooldown to be paused for the duration of the effect.
Ragnaros: Lava Wave now correctly contributes to Ragnaros’ Siege Damage.
Rexxar: Fixed an issue that could cause Misha to become briefly unresponsive after respawning if she was killed while Rexxar was affected by time stop effect.
Samuro: Selecting Mirror Images via control groups will no longer cancel their active movement commands.
Sonya: The Ancient Spear model will no longer visually persist when cast on an allied Gate prior to game start.
Stasis: Fixed an issue in which cooldowns for self-stasis effects, like Chromie’s Time Out, would not begin counting down until the Hero respawned if that Hero was killed immediately after the self-stasis effect concluded.
Stealth: Fixed an issue that could cancel the Stealth effect provided by Valeera’s Vanish and Tyrande’s Shadowstalk when cast at a specific moment during those Heroes’ Basic Attacks.
Sylvanas: Can no longer cast Possession on units spawned by Bosses on Warhead Junction.
Thrall: Fixed an issue allowing Sundering to be seen and heard through fog of war.
The Butcher: Fixed an issue preventing Ruthless Onslaught from activating when targeting an enemy that moves into fog of war.
Tracer: Ricochet will no longer cause Tracer’s Basic Attacks to bounce to Stealthed Heroes.
Tychus: Fixed an issue preventing Drakken Laser Drill from displaying a range indicator.
Tyrael & The Butcher: Fixed an issue that allowed Sanctification to go off despite Tyrael being stunned by Ruthless Onslaught.
Valla: Fixed an issue that prevented the Death Dealer talent from refreshing the cooldown of Vault after killing a structure.
Valeera: Fixed an issue that caused Valeera to break Stealth if Sinister Strike was cast immediately before attempting to Vanish.
Zul’jin: Fixed an issue preventing Zul’jin from self-casting Guillotine.
Sound:
Stukov: Fixed an issue causing Massive Shove sound effects to play for too long if the target was pushed an exceptionally long distance.
Genji: Fixed an issue preventing the Shingan talent from playing quest tracking sounds if a target was hit with all 3 Shurikens.
Hero VO: Fixed an issue that occasionally caused Heroes to play a previously selected Heroes’ voice line when locking in during draft mode.
User Interface:
Quests: Fixed an issue causing Daily Quests to appear delayed upon initial login.
Heroes Brawls: Fixed an issue that could cause players to become stuck on ‘Waiting for Game Results’ after finishing a Heroes Brawl.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20944073

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.4 (Jul 27, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.3 (Jul 12, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
A.I.:
Hanamura – Fixed an issue with AI players pacing near Payloads if a stealthed enemy was contesting.
Art:
Alarak – Lightning Surge will now display its effect when cast on Forts and Keeps.
Auriel – Fixed a visual issue with Auriel’s Bestow Hope crown when placed on a Tassadar in Archon form.
Uther – Fixed an issue with the Beacon of Light talent causing it to display the wrong icon.
Battlegrounds:
Hanamura – Fixed an issue preventing Turret power-ups from being damaged by the Boss’s Energy Ring ability.
Hanamura – Fixed an issue preventing Mercenaries from attacking Turret power-ups.
Haunted Mines – Fixed an issue that prevented skulls from being collected if a Haunted Miner was killed while over unpathable terrain.
Haunted Mines – Fixed a rare issue that could cause Grave Golems to push the same lane twice.
Mercenaries – Fixed an issue causing the Raven Mercenary’s Seeker Missile reveal effect to occasionally persist after the Seeker Missile detonated.
Sandbox Mode – Fixed an issue that caused duplicate D.Va Mechs to appear when using the ‘Move Here’ command with D.Va.
Warhead Junction – Fixed an issue preventing the damage-over-time effect applied by the Boss’s Podling spawns from being cleansed by abilities intended to cleanse these effects.
Warhead Junction – Fixed an issue causing players to be incorrectly flagged as AFK when standing near or collecting Warheads.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Alarak – Fixed an issue that prevented Rite of Rak’Shir from going on a reduced cooldown if used on a Nova Holo Decoy that expired.
Arthas – The attack speed slow applied by Frozen Tempest is now consistent with what is stated in the ability’s tooltip.
Chen – Fixed an issue preventing the stun duration of Anub’arak’s Burrow Charge from being reduced by Purifying Brew.
D.Va – Fixed an issue causing D.Va’s Mech to ignore ‘Hold Position’ commands.
D.Va – Fixed a rare issue that caused D.Va to become unresponsive if Big Shot was fired into the enemy Hall of Storms immediately before calling down a Mech.
D.Va – Fixed that issue that allowed D.Va’s Boosters to push enemies that were affected by Time Stop.
D.Va – Fixed an issue causing D.Va to destroy map mechanic pickups (such as Doubloons) when using Call Mech near them.
D.Va – Fixed an issue causing Defense Matrix to unintentionally reduce the effects of percentage damage abilities.
D.Va – Fixed an issue preventing pilot D.Va from immediately exiting her Mech after casting Self Destruct if there was not ample space available nearby.
Genji – Fixed an issue causing Genji to take partial damage from abilities that ended Deflect early, such as stuns and silences.
Greymane – Fixed an issue that could occasionally grant additional Go for the Throat procs after casting the free charge.
Kharazim – Fixed an issue that Stitches’ Vile Gas to deal damage to Kharazim while casting Seven-Sided Strike.
Murky – The Fish Eye talent will now properly reveal stealthed targets at the edge of its sight radius.
Murky – Fixed an issue causing Murky’s Fish Eye talent to permanently reduce his mounted movement speed.
Murky - Fixed an issue preventing Murky from gaining stealth when spawning from his Egg after learning the Egg Hunt talent.
Nova – Fixed an issue preventing Holo Decoy from being cast in several locations on Garden of Terror and Infernal Shrines.
Probius – Fixed an issue preventing Probius from gathering minerals while inside the Garden Terror on Garden of Terror
Tassadar – Fixed an issue causing Tassadar to gain healing from the damage dealt by his Focused Beam talent.
Tychus – The primary target damage amount displayed in Overkill’s tooltip is now consistent with the damage dealt by the Ability.
Sound:
Diablo Announcer – Fixed an issue causing the Diablo announcer pack game start countdown to become out of sync.
Draft Mode – Fixed an issue causing Hero selection voiceover lines to occasionally echo.
Muradin – Fixed an issue causing a pop in Muradin’s Avatar voice lines when playing in certain locales.
User Interface:
Collection - Fixed an issue preventing the “Unseen Items” flag from clearing after viewing all highlighted items in the Collection.
Nova, Samuro – Fixed an issue preventing debuff timers from showing below clone’s health bars.
UI – Fixed an issue that could occasionally fail to display one team’s current experience total.

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.2 (Jun 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.0 (Jun 17, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
A.I.:
Hanamura: A.I. players will no longer pace back and forth near the payload when a Stealthed enemy Hero is nearby.
Art:
Diablo: Prime Evil Diablo’s model while no longer freeze in place during its victory animation.
Murky: Octo-Grab’s model will no longer persist on the target if Murky is Stopped in the same moment that the Ability is cast.
Tyrande: Trueshot Aura will now correctly display visual effects on the terrain when graphics are set to Low.
Battlegrounds:
Braxis Holdout: Fixed an issue in which players could be kicked for inactivity while defending the Beacons.
Cursed Hollow: A small shadow will no longer appear at the location where a new Tribute is about to spawn when graphics are set to Low.
Dragon Shire: The Dragon Knight’s Savage Charge Ability will no longer cancel Anub’arak’s Burrow Charge.
Hanamura: The Mega Enforcer will no longer leash after consuming a Hero.
Hanamura: When the player is not holding an item, the Map Mechanic Ability button tooltip now correctly explains that Hanamura-specific Abilities can be earned by defeating Mercenaries.
Hanamura: Map Mechanic Turrets can now correctly attack the Mega Enforcer and Mercenaries.
Towers of Doom: Capturing an Altar will now properly reset that player’s AFK warning timer.
Try Mode: The Complete Quests button will now properly complete Gazlowe’s Clockwerk Steam Fists Quest Talent.
Try Mode: Complete Quests will now properly grant Ragnaros’s Catching Fire Quest Talent rewards.
Try Mode: Refresh Forts will no longer cause the cooldown timer above the Healing Fountain to disappear.
Mercenaries: Captured enemy Mercenaries will no longer drop Fresh Meat stacks for The Butcher or Mineral stacks for Probius.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Basic Attacks: Splash and Cleave damage will now correctly reveal targets who are hit while inside Bushes and Vents.
DoT Effects: Illidan’s Evasion, Chen’s Elusive Brew, and Xul’s Shade Armor will no longer prevent Damage over Time effects from displaying properly in their Health bars.
DoT Effects: Enemy Health bars will now correctly display damage over time effects after being hit by Swift Strike with the Strike at the Heart Talent.
Polymorphs: Fixed several issues in which Polymorph effects could incorrectly knock Heroes out of Stealth.
Abathur: Locusts will now assist Heroes who are attacking a Mercenary Camp rather than immediately traveling to a lane.
Abathur: Can now correctly cast Symbiote on an allied Nova’s Holo Decoys.
Anub’arak: An active Cocoon will no longer be destroyed if it is moved by Abilities that block pathing, such as Tyrael’s Holy Ground or Tassadar’s Force Wall.
Azmodan: All Shall Burn will now properly cancel any active Movement commands issued to Azmodan prior to casting.
Azmodan: General of Hell will now assist Azmodan while he is attacking a Mercenary Camp rather than immediately traveling to a lane.
Diablo: Fixed an issue that could allow Shadow Charge to Stun enemies who did not collide with the terrain.
Gazlowe: Can no longer cast Deth Lazor if he has less than the required amount of Mana.
Greymane: Insatiable will no longer cause Basic Attacks to restore Mana when Inner Beast is not active.
Greymane: After learning Viciousness, Cursed Bullet will now correctly refresh Inner Beast’s duration.
Illidan: Evasion will no longer prevent damage over time effects from displaying on Illidan’s Health bar.
Kharazim: Duration bars for Echo of Heaven and Deadly Reach will now appear simultaneously if both are active at once.
Li-Ming: Wave of Force will no longer cancel Sonya’s Whirlwind animation.
Murky: Can now properly collect Regeneration Globes during Safety Bubble.
Nazeebo: The tooltips for Nazeebo’s Voodoo Ritual Trait now properly indicate that it contains a Quest.
Nazeebo: Silencing the Zombies that were created by Zombie Wall with the Dead Rush Talent will no longer prevent them from uprooting.
Ragnaros: Empower Sulfuras’s animation will no longer play without dealing damage if the attack was cancelled by issuing Movement Commands.
Stitches: Hook can no longer pull Stealthed enemy Heroes through allied Gates.
Tassadar: Fixed an issue causing the first tick of Psionic Storm to deal slightly less damage than intended.
Tassadar: After learning Prismatic Link, Basic Attacks that bounce to a secondary target will now properly reveal that enemy.
The Butcher: Minions that die near The Butcher will now always drop Fresh Meat stacks.
The Butcher: Fresh Meat earned via Hero Takedowns, and collected while piloting the Garden Terror or Dragon Knight, will now correctly increment The Butcher’s Fresh Meat stacks.
The Butcher: Insatiable Blade’s Movement Speed bonus is now properly granted when Butcher’s Brand is applied to non-Heroic targets.
Valeera: Wound Poison’s reduced Healing debuff will now correctly display a red plus symbol next to the affected Hero’s status bar rather than a purple plus overhead.
Valeera: Will no longer be revealed when entering the Haunted Mines or using the Tunnel on Towers of Doom.
Varian: The cooldown for Victory Rush will now be properly reduced when nearby Monsters are killed.
Sound:
Collection: Brightwing will no longer play voiceover when navigating away from her Hero page in the Polish game client.
Genji: Dragonblade voiceover now plays correctly and will no longer be interrupted by other sound effects.
User Interface:
In-game: Zul’jin’s You Want Axe? Quest Talent will not appear complete on the in-game Score Screen’s Talents tab prior to reaching 120 stacks.
In-game: Zarya’s Maximum Charge Quest Talent will not appear complete on the in-game Score Screen’s Talents tab prior to reaching 150 stacks.
Mastery Taunts: Players who have Mastery Taunts will no longer receive Desync errors when loading into a game.
Quick Cast: The Quick Cast setting for Varian’s passive Heroic Strike Trait has been removed from the Quick Cast Settings menu.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20838723

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.5 (Jun 6, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.4 (May 17, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
Art:
Ghost Tracer: Recall visual effects will now correctly display on Ghost Tracer’s model when using Recall.
Lúcio: Will no longer appear elevated on the Ranked screen.
Prime Evil Diablo: Apocalypse visual effects will no longer persist on Prime Evil Diablo’s model when casting Apocalypse immediately after Hellgate.
Battlegrounds:
Braxis Holdout: Fixed an issue that could cause players to receive an AFK warning while contesting a Beacon.
Braxis Holdout: Beacon UI that appears below the minimap will now correctly appear neutral if they are not controlled by either team.
Towers of Doom: Heroes can no longer clip into the edges of the terrain when moving near the edges of the allied Hall of Storms.
Try Mode: The Refresh Forts button will no longer cause Malfurion to spawn when Allied Hero is set to None.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abathur: Fixed an issue in which Networked Carapace provided a lower than intended Shield amount.
Abathur: Secondary Shields granted by Networked Carapace will no longer benefit from Sustained Carapace.
Azmodan: When Demonic Invasion is cast on an area of terrain that is not pathable, the Demonic Grunts will now be placed as close as possible to the casting location, rather than failing to spawn.
Azmodan: Issuing a Move Command during All Shall Burn’s wind-up time will no longer cancel the Ability cast.
Cassia: Inner Light’s tooltip now consistently states that range is increased by 25% before and after taking the Talent.
Cassia: Martial Law will no longer apply bonus damage to slowed or stunned Minions and Mercenaries.
Cassia: Fixed an issue that could cause Valkyrie to pull its target farther than intended if Cassia was Stopped.
Dehaka: Basic Attacks will now correctly reduce Drag’s cooldown after learning Feeding Frenzy.
Gall: Can now properly cast Shove while channeling Shadow Bolt volley.
Gazlowe: Fixed an issue preventing Rock It! Turrets from being self-cast or placed beneath unit and Hero models.
Kerrigan: Bladed Momentum will no longer grant cooldown reduction for secondary targets hit by Basic Attacks after learning Fury of the Storm.
Tracer: Can now correctly attack Minions who are affected by Sylvanas’ Possession.
Sound:
Announcers: Will now play their “Prepare for Battle” voiceover lines during the opening moments of a match.
Hero Select: Fixed an issue that could cause some heroes’ voiceover to echo after clicking Ready during Hero Select.
Hero Select: Lúcio will now correctly play voiceover upon searching for a match in the Portuguese and Chinese game clients.
User Interface:
Collection: The Collection screen will no longer appear cut off when screen resolution is set to 1280x1024 or 1152x864.
Collection: Hovering the cursor over a truncated item name in the Collection will now correctly display a tooltip that states the item’s full name.
Emojis: Emojis whispered between Heroes of the Storm players will now display their shortcodes when the whisper is viewed in the Blizzard Launcher’s chat window.
Quick Cast: Fixed an issue causing abilities to fail when quick-casted over the minimap with the "Right Click through Minimap" option enabled.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20783378

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.3 (May 10, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.2 (May 9, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.1 (Apr 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.0 (Apr 26, 2017)

Heroes of the Storm 2.0 contains all-new progression and rewards systems, a wealth of new cosmetic items, new Hero customization options, and much, much more.
BUG FIXES:
General:
Mac: Launching Heroes of the Storm using the Mac 10.12 OS will no longer adjust the player’s mouse acceleration setting.
Battlegrounds:
Battlefield of Eternity: Fixed a rare issue in which an Immortal could be awarded to the wrong team if both Immortals were killed at nearly the same time.
Haunted Mines: The terrain surrounding Sapper Merc Camps will now correctly block vision of the camp.
Haunted Mines: Leoric will no longer fail to respawn properly after being killed via damage dealt by a nearby spawning Grave Golem.
Tomb of the Spider Queen: Webweavers will no longer become distracted by Summoned units.
Try Mode: The Complete Quests button will now correctly set Zul’jin’s You Want Axe quest to 120 attacks, rather than 500.
Try Mode: The Reset Talents button will now correctly remove bonus Hungering Arrow strikes earned by previously completing the Puncturing Arrow quest.
Try Mode: Tassadar’s Oracle cooldown will now be correctly reduced by 15 seconds when completing the Mental Acuity quest via the Complete Quests button.
Art:
Cyber Ram: Fixed an issue in which the Cyber Ram’s hind legs appeared slanted.
Gazlowe: Restored missing visual effects during Gazlowe’s transformation into Robo-Goblin form.
Greymane: Restored missing visual effects during Go for the Throat.
Rexxar: Misha, Focus! now uses the same Ability icon in-game as it does on Rexxar’s detail page in the Collection.
Valla: Strafe visual effects will no longer continue to play after the Ability expires.
Varian: Will no longer appear scaled-down on the Ranked Play screen.
Xul: Will no longer appear offset on the Ranked Play screen.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Quest Talents: Fixed a bug that caused quest talents that track every second to ping continuously. They will now only ping every 5 seconds as intended.
Regeneration Globes: Will now play an animation upon expiration rather than suddenly disappearing.
Spell Shield: Toggling Spell Shield will no longer cancel an active Hearthstone channel.
Abathur: Heroes can no longer push a player-controlled Monstrosity by walking into it.
Auriel: Detainment Strike will now correctly stun enemies who collide with corners of terrain.
Auriel: Fixed an issue that could cause Resurrect’s revive message to appear on the MVP screen.
Chen: Freshest Ingredients will no longer grant 3 Health Regeneration stacks for Regeneration Globes collected during Storm, Earth Fire.
Diablo: Fixed an issue preventing Diablo from using Basic Attacks against his Overpower target if Overpower was interrupted by Zeratul’s Void Prison.
Cho: Twilight Hammer will now deal damage to Murky’s Pufferfish.
Gall: Fixed an issue that could cause Gall to use his base skin on the MVP screen despite using an alternate skin during the match.
Gazlowe: Can now correctly issue commands to active Rock-It! Turrets while dead.
Illidan: Fixed an issue that could cause Illidan to respawn at his death location if he cast Sweeping Strikes in the same moment that he was killed.
Murky: Can no longer call down a Nuke during Safety Bubble on Warhead Junction.
Nazeebo: Corpse Spiders will no longer prioritize Kharazim’s Air Ally or Lúcio’s Boombox over enemy Heroes.
Probius: Pylons and Photon Cannons will no longer be affected by Power Overflowing when Probius is not inside a Pylon’s Power Field.
Samuro: Way of Illusion will no longer continue to generate quest progress icons after its quest is complete.
Tassadar: Prismatic Link will no longer cause Basic Attacks to continue to hit the tertiary target if the primary and secondary targets move out of range of one another.
The Butcher: Victuals will no longer stop functioning after completing Fresh Meat’s quest.
The Butcher: Butcher’s Brand visual effects will no longer persist on a Punisher until it is killed.
The Butcher: Will now properly receive Healing for Basic Attack damage dealt to a Punisher affected by Butcher’s Brand.
The Lost Vikings: Fixed an issue causing Olaf to begin attacking the nearest enemy after using Charge, rather than the intended target.
Tracer: After using Blink, Tracer will now correctly continue to walk in the direction she was originally moving prior to the cast.
Tyrael: Fixed an issue that could cause Archangel’s Wrath to immediately explode on death, and prevent Tyrael from respawning.
Varian: After learning Second Wind, Varian will now correctly earn bonus Healing for bonus damage dealt by Shattering Throw against a Shielded target.
Zagara: Damage dealt by Hunter Killer and Roach summons will no longer be reduced by Armor.
Zeratul: A revealed icon will no longer appear above enemies hit by Rending Cleave.
Zul’jin: Taz'dingo! Will now correctly prevent Zul’jin from dying when cast at the same moment that he would have taken fatal damage.
Sound:
E.T.C.: Enemies affected by a Mosh Pit that was cast from inside of a bush or vent will now correctly hear the Ability’s sound effects.
User Interface:
Hotkeys: Control group hotkeys in the default Standard for Lefties profile now correctly mirror the Standard profile, with the first slot bound to the 7 key.
Heroes Brawl: Brawls that only require completion of 2 matches will no longer state that 3 matches are needed in order to earn rewards.
Kill Feed: The Kill Feed will no longer display blank portraits for Heroes who are killed by an Immortal while the Immortals are dueling on Battlefield of Eternity.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20721900

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.6 (Apr 21, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.5 (Apr 13, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.3 (Mar 31, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.2 (Mar 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.1 (Mar 20, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.0 (Mar 15, 2017)

General:
A number of typos and tooltip errors have been corrected across several aspects of the game.
A.I.:
Diablo: Fixed an issue that could cause the Unstoppable effect from A.I. Diablo’s Lightning Breath to persist for its full duration even if channeling was immediately cancelled after casting.
Art:
Kerrigan: The Countess Kerrigan skin now plays animations while Maelstrom is active.
Kharazim: There is no longer a pop in the Air Ally’s animations.
Nazeebo: Zombie Wall zombies will no longer create holes in the terrain when they die after choosing the Dead Rush talent.
Observer Mode: Excess Regeneration Globe visual effects will no longer appear for Observers and other neutral players while watching replays or custom games.
Battlegrounds:
Braxis Holdout: Fixed an issue causing Zerg melee units to crowd around enemy objects that were in the process of arming, such as Toxic Nests or Time Traps, rather than ignore them.
Cursed Hollow: Fixed a rare issue that could fail to provide players with vision of an active Raven Lord Tribute.
Haunted Mines: Pinging allied or enemy Goblin Sappers will now properly create “assist” or “kill” notifications in chat.
Try Mode: Destroying the opposing Fort will now correctly despawn Misha when Rexxar is set as the enemy Hero.
Try Mode: Toggle Cooldowns will now correctly reset Diablo’s Lightning Breath cooldown.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Azmodan: Damage dealt by the Sin's Grasp Talent will now correctly benefit from Ability Power gains.
Brightwing: Fixed an issue causing Emerald Wind to push enemies away from Brightwing’s current location rather than the original casting location.
Chen: Silence effects will no longer cause Purifying Brew to go on cooldown while Chen is Unstoppable during Wandering Keg.
Dehaka: Becoming targeted by Kharazim’s Divine Palm while affected by Dehaka's Contagion Talent will no longer cause Isolation’s model to persist indefinitely above the target.
E.T.C: Echo Pedal will now correctly deal damage to Doubloon Chests on Blackheart's Bay.
Kharazim: Fixed an issue that prevented shift-queuing Radiant Dash casts to allied Heroes.
Gul'dan: Drain Life can now be properly cast when Gul’dan has 0 mana.
Gul'dan: Fixed an issue that could cause Ruinous Affliction’s damage bonus to be applied on Echoed Corruption’s fourth consecutive strike against a target, rather than the third.
Malfurion: Learning Lunar Shower will no longer cause portions of Druid of the Flame Malfurion’s Moonfire visual effects to fail to generate.
Medivh: Entering Raven Form should no longer clear shift-queued Movement commands.
Nazeebo: The targeting indicator for Plague of Toads will now visually increase in size after learning Thing of the Deep.
Ragnaros: Vehicles piloted by Ragnaros will no longer benefit from Resilient Flame.
Ragnaros: Fixed an issue in which Empower Sulfuras would not benefit from Hand of Ragnaros when killing a secondary Heroic target.
Ragnaros: Casting a displacement Ability that pushes Ragnaros out of channeling range for Molten Core will no longer cause Ragnaros to become unresponsive.
Rexxar: Misha will no longer ignore orders to use a Healing Fountain when Rexxar is only missing Mana.
Rexxar: Fixed an issue causing Spirit Swoop to deal bonus damage to Mercenaries after learning Bird of Prey.
Samuro: Critical Strike's cooldown will no longer be paused while Samuro is dead.
Samuro: After learning Illusion Master, selecting a Mirror Image just as it dies will now correctly reselect the real Samuro.
Stitches: Casting Devour will no longer cause floating Talent Quest progress icons to appear before Stitches learns Savor the Flavor.
Tassadar: Fixed an issue that could prevent Archon from refreshing Dimensional Shift’s cooldown.
The Lost Vikings: Olaf will no longer Charge destroyed Structures.
Tyrande: Fixed an issue that prevented enemies from seeing Starfall’s area of effect indicator when it was cast inside of Brush or Vents.
Valeera: Shift queuing movement commands followed by a Hearthstone or Mount command will no longer break Stealth before channeling begins.
Valeera: Stitches’ Putrid Bile will no longer cause a red “revealed” icon to appear over Valeera’s nameplate while she is inside Smoke Bomb’s area of effect.
Varian: The cooldown for Victory Rush will no longer be reduced when nearby enemy Structures are destroyed.
Zarya: Damage that occurs just before Zarya’s Barrier breaks will now correctly grant her energy.
Sound:
Artanis: Allies will no longer hear Artanis’s death voiceover globally.
Voiceover: Fixed an issue in which an excessive number of left-clicks were required in order to play certain Hero voiceover lines.
Medivh: Will now play his Ready voiceover when locked in during draft selection.
User Interface:
Kerrigan: Fixed an issue in which Essence for Essence would always follow the player’s global Quick Cast settings.
Lunara: Changing Lunara's Skin selection during draft mode will now correctly update her draft portrait.
Hero Select: Tyrande will now appear in the list of available Heroes when “Hearthstone” is used as a search term during Hero Select.
Observer Mode: The Follow Player Camera hotkey (C) will now correctly follow the selected player while observing a match or watching a replay.
Observer Mode: The Quick View Player hotkey (V) will now limit the Observer’s vision to the selected player as long as it is held down.
Score Screen: Echoed Corruption’s Talent Quest will now correctly appear complete on the Talents tab at 40 stacks rather than 35.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20581822

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.5 (Feb 28, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.4 (Feb 18, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.3 (Feb 15, 2017)

GENERAL:
Mac: Launching the Heroes client on a Mac will no longer automatically increase mouse acceleration.
A number of typos and tooltip errors have been corrected across several aspects of the game.
Corrected the scaling damage caps for several Talents that deal damage based on a percentage of the target’s maximum Health, including:
Gall: Giant Scorcher
Rehgar: Hunger of the Wolf
Ragnaros: Giant Scorcher
Tracer: Quantum Spike
Xul: Backlash, Giant’s Curse
ART:
Nova: Nova’s status bar will no longer pop above her head while running.
Samuro: Monkey King Samuro will now correctly play his victory animation after destroying the enemy Core.
Tracer: Hologram visual effects will now correctly display on Master Tracer’s model while using Recall.
Sky Temple: Fixed an issue in which Temple attacks could briefly appear to fire beyond the Core.
BATTLEGROUNDS:
Braxis Holdout: Fixed an issue that could cause Zerg units to become stuck in the walls of their pens.
HEROES, ABILITIES, AND TALENTS:
Anub'arak: Chitinous Plating will now correctly reduce the cooldown for Harden Carapace.
Chromie: After completing Deep Breathing’s quest, its buff bar tooltip will now display the correct number of Heroes hit.
E.T.C.: If Stage Dive’s landing location is blocked, E.T.C. will now land as close as possible to the intended area rather than returning to his original casting location.
Medivh: Will now properly benefit from Regeneration Globes while transforming into Raven Form.
Ragnaros: Will now properly benefit from Hand of Sulfuras when Empower Sulfuras scores a killing blow after striking multiple enemy Heroes.
Ragnaros: Lava Wave's cooldown will now be paused during Zeratul’s Void Prison.
Rehgar: Will no longer be pulled out of Ghost Wolf form upon dealing damage via an allied Ragnaros’s Blast Wave.
Rexxar: Spirit Swoop will now correctly deal damage to Monsters.
Samuro: Fixed an issue that could refresh the duration of Advancing Strikes after landing a critical strike.
Samuro: Shift-queueing Hearthstone will no longer break Stealth until Hearthstone begins casting.
Samuro: Burning Blade area of effect damage will now properly benefit from bonus damage granted by Way of Illusion.
Samuro: Bladestorm will no longer occasionally fail to activate after casting Mirror Images and Bladestorm in rapid succession.
Samuro: Fixed an issue in which the Score Screen could display an incorrect number of Gems for Samuro if he collected them while Mirror Images were active on Tomb of the Spider Queen.
Thrall: Fixed an issue in which Feral Spirit could fail to trigger Follow Through after earning Seasoned Marksman stacks.
Valeera: Rupture and Hemorrhage no longer benefit from another Valeera’s Garrote.
Valla: Killing enemy Heroes who have post-death states, like Tyrael and Leoric, after learning Death Dealer will now correctly refresh Vault’s cooldown.
Zul'jin: Fixed an issue causing Zul’jin to have a slightly higher Health Regeneration rate than intended.
SOUND:
Illidan: The Hunt voiceover will no longer play slightly early.
Zarya: Graviton Surge and Expulsion Zone voiceover will no longer play slightly early.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20554028

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.2 (Feb 8, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.1 (Jan 28, 2017)

BUG FIXES:
General:
Rooster Race: Turning in the final Lunar Festival item required just before time expires will now properly grant credit for completing the Rooster Race.
A.I.:
General: Error messages will no longer display on-screen when A.I. players use Abilities.
Try Mode: Fixed an issue causing Abathur to behave strangely when chosen as an ally in Try Mode.
Art:
Samuro: Monkey King Samuro’s Mirror Images will no longer use a different skin variation than the real Samuro.
Battlegrounds:
Battlefield of Eternity: Tyrael’s Holy Ground and Zagara’s Devouring Maw can no longer be used to displace the opposing Immortal while the Immortals are fighting.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Chromie: Timewalker’s Pursuit quest rewards will no longer be granted immediately upon selecting the Talent.
Dehaka: Essence Devourer will now grant the intended amount of Essence per Regeneration Globe collected before and after completing its quest.
Dehaka: Bonus Essence granted by Regeneration Globes after completing the Essence Devourer quest will now properly grant credit toward Enhanced Agility and Tissue Regeneration quests.
Greymane: Marked for the Kill now correctly reduces the target’s armor by 25, increasing their damage taken.
Ragnaros: Fixed an issue that made it possible for Empower Sulfuras to occasionally deal double damage.
Rexxar: After learning Thrill of the Hunt, Misha’s Basic Attacks will no longer provide Rexxar with a Movement Speed bonus.
Stitches: The Hungry for More talent will now correctly grant maximum Health bonuses after collecting Regeneration Globes.
Stitches: Savor the Flavor no longer grants bonus Health Regeneration after using Devour on non-Heroic targets.
Tassadar: Fixed an issue causing damage absorbed by Plasma Shield to display as double on the tab/score screen.
Tassadar: Khala’s Light will no longer grant Armor to Structures affected by Plasma Shield.
Tassadar: Fixed an issue in which Basic Attacks did not always count toward Templar’s Will quest progress.
The Lost Vikings: Fixed an issue causing the Viking Hoard talent to fail to grant bonuses to Health Regeneration.
Tychus: Fixed an issue causing Overkill to deal less damage than expected.
Valeera: Dealing Shield damage to a Stealthed Valeera after the Unrevealable phase of Vanish has expired will now properly reveal her.
Valla: Hungering Arrows after the first will no longer fail to deal damage when cast multiple times on the same target.
Zeratul: Bonus Ability Power granted by Grim Task is now properly removed on death.
Zeratul: Fixed an issue in which Vorpal Blade could fail to teleport Zeratul the full distance to his target.
User Interface:
Draft Mode: Fixed an issue that prevented players from selecting the Lunar Rooster and Festive Treasure Goblin Mounts in Draft Lobbies.

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.0 (Jan 25, 2017)

BUG FIXES
General:
Fixed an issue that could cause the game client to hang when attempting to close Heroes of the Storm.
Display: Fixed an issue that prevented some laptops with Nvidia graphics cards from using Fullscreen mode.
Display: Fixed an issue that could cause the game client to switch to Windowed Fullscreen on startup. This bug fix has been reverted due to additional complications discovered during PTR testing. We plan to resolve this and roll out a new fix in a future patch.
Fixed a number of typos and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art:
Diablo: Fixed a visual issue affecting Diablo's tail during certain animations.
Li-Ming: Fixed a minor animation issue affecting Li-Ming’s ball that could occur after exiting Archon form.
Muradin: Fixed an issue causing Magni Muradin’s leg plates to appear to clip into his thighs.
Try Mode: Grassy terrain will no longer appear inside of the allied Storm Portal.
Battlegrounds:
Braxis Holdout: The Archangel will no longer leave its leash range to attack a nearby Murky Egg.
Haunted Mines: The Neutral Grave Golem will no longer chase an invulnerable Hero beyond its normal leash range.
Structures: Fixed an issue in which the Core could continue to reveal enemy Stealth Heroes in a small radius outside its intended reveal range.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Fixed an issue in which certain debuffs could still be applied to Invulnerable Heroes.
Scouting Drone: Will now properly reveal Creep Tumors and Toxic Nests.
Alarak: Telekinesis will now correctly interrupt a Hero who is channeling to launch a Nuke on Warhead Junction.
Alarak: The targeting reticle for Deadly Charge will no longer persist on the terrain if Alarak is killed while channeling.
Anub'arak: Burrow Charge will now correctly allow Anub'arak to escape Zarya's Graviton Surge.
Arthas: Army of the Dead will no longer fail to summon Ghouls if it is cast in the same moment that Arthas is targeted by Auriel’s Crystal Aegis.
Auriel: A.I. Auriel can no longer cast Resurrect on Murky after he has already revived at his Egg.
Brightwing: Polymorph will now properly interrupt an enemy Hero who is channeling on the Dragon Knight.
Brightwing: The Critterize Talent’s negative effects will now be correctly removed if the target is Cleansed.
Brightwing: The negative effects of Critterize will no longer persist beyond Polymorph’s duration.
Diablo: Shadow Charge will now be properly interrupted if it would cause him to enter E.T.C.’s Mosh Pit.
Gazlowe: Gazlowe’s Nuke Ability icon on Warhead Junction will no longer be visually replaced with a lock icon after casting Rock-It! Turret while carrying a warhead.
Greymane: The tooltip for the Block buff granted by the Thick Skin Talent now correctly states that it reduces the next incoming Basic Attack by 50%, rather than 75%.
Kael'Thas: The Burned Flesh Talent will now correctly deal damage equal to 8% of targets’ maximum Health, rather than 5%.
Kael'thas: Fixed an issue in which Sun King's Fury could deal bonus damage to targets who were already affected by Living Bomb.
Kharazim: Air Ally will now properly reveal Creep Tumors and Toxic Nests.
Kharazim: Fixed an issue that could prevent Kharazim from automatically acquiring a new target after activating Deadly Reach outside of his attack range.
Li-Ming: Casting Disintegrate a moment before Li-Ming would be hit by Abilities like Falstad’s Gust of Wind will no longer cause a short delay before she is pushed.
Medivh: The second Portal granted by the Portal Mastery Talent can no longer be self-cast.
Nova: The Holo Decoy’s Pinning Shot will no longer reset Nova’s Covert Ops Talent stacks.
Raynor: Killing Samuro’s Mirror Images after learning A Card To Play will no longer reduce Raynor’s Heroic Ability cooldowns.
Rehgar: Fixed several issues affecting Rehgar’s pathing while attempting to attack in Ghost Wolf form.
Rehgar: Becoming Rooted while attacking an enemy from maximum lunge range in Ghost Wolf form will no longer cause Rehgar to continue the lunge when the Root effect expires.
Rehgar: Fixed an issue causing Rehgar to become stuck in an attack animation when attempting to attack a moving Medivac Dropship while in wolf form.
Rehgar: Fixed an issue causing Rehgar to exit wolf form if he deals damage with a Ragnaros Blast Wave.
Rexxar: Fixed an issue with using the Hold Position (Hotkey: H) command causing Misha to move in an unintended way.
Tracer: Fixed an issue prevent Tracer from attacking a revealed stealth Hero.
Tracer: Fixed an issue preventing Tracer from changing directions immediately when using Quick Cast Blink (Q) while holding Right-Click to move.
Uther: Benediction can no longer reduce the cooldown of two abilities if used in rapid succession.
Valla: Fixed some inconsistencies with abilities that would reveal Valla at the edges of Fog of War or from Brush.
Varian: Can no longer be selected through Autoselect – Support.
Zagara: Fixed an issue causing the Creep Tumor tooltip to display an incorrect value.
Zarya: Fixed an issue preventing the “Drop and give me Twenty” quest indicator from disappearing after the quest was completed.
Zeratul: Fixed an issue preventing Zeratul from using Wormhole after casting a Blink gained from the Rewind talent.
Sound:
Mounts: When ridden by a Hero in Stealth, mechanical Mounts will no longer play sound effects that are audible to nearby enemy Heroes.
Quest Talents: Kharazim’s Insight will now properly play its quest completion sound effect.
Tassadar: Distortion Beam will now correctly play sound effects when attacking enemy Walls, Gates, and Towers.
User Interface:
Profile: Fixed a visual issue that could cause Hero Kills to double after switching from an individual Hero’s stat page in the Hero Collection to the Profile’s Statistics tab, and back again.
Further details regarding this update are available at:
http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20481262

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.7 (Jan 13, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.6 (Jan 6, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.5 (Jan 5, 2017)

Brings a new Hero, a new Custom Games draft mode, balance updates, and more to the Nexus.
NEW HERO: ZUL'JIN:
Before the elves and their Alliance, the forests of Lordaeron belonged to the trolls of the Amani empire. As their warlord, Zul’jin has united the tribes into an army that stands ready to take back what is theirs and to slay the elves who stole it from them.
BUG FIXES:
General:
Corrected a number of typos and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art:
Chromie: Chromie’s Hourglass will no longer appear to flicker after casting Hearthstone while moving.
Samuro: A bowl no longer appears at Samuro’s feet during his dance animation.
Battlegrounds:
Punisher Arena: Casting Zeratul’s Void Prison on Punishers just before they leap will no longer prevent them from attacking when Void Prison ends.
Temple Arena: Fixed an issue that could prevent Temples from activating correctly during the second round of the Brawl.
Battlefield of Eternity & Infernal Shrines: Fixed an animation pop affecting Towers on the Heaven side of Diablo-themed Battlegrounds.
Sky Temple: Fixed an animation pop affecting Temple Guardians.
Try Mode: Fixed an animation issue affecting the allied Keep.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Alarak: Telekinesis will now correctly interrupt E.T.C.’s Mosh Pit.
Diablo: The Hellgate Talent is no longer removed after being struck by Falstad’s Hinterland Blast Heroic.
Diablo: The Hellgate Talent is no longer removed after being struck by the Archangel’s Bulletstorm Ability on Braxis Holdout.
Gazlowe: Rock-It! Turret range indicators will now correctly display while they are active.
Kharazim: Becoming trapped by Chromie’s Time Trap while using Radiant Dash with the Way of the Hundred Fists Talent will no longer prevent Kharazim from issuing Basic Attacks until Radiant Dash is cast a second time.
Raynor: Fixed an issue causing Hyperion to gain benefits from several of Raynor’s Basic Attack Talents.
Samuro: The cooldown for Critical Strike will no longer stop counting down when he is killed.
Samuro: Casting Mirror Image after learning Way of Illusion will no longer cause a Talent Quest progress sound to play.
Samuro: Fixed an issue that could cause certain Hero Abilities and Summons to continue tracking the primary Samuro after casting Mirror Image.
Thrall: The Earthquake tooltip has been updated to reflect that it pulses once every 4 seconds.
Tychus: The range indicator for Overkill will now correctly display while the Ability is active.
Tychus: The range indicator for Drakken Laser Drill will now correctly display while the Ability is active.
Zeratul: Fixed an issue that could prevent Shields granted by the Shroud of Adun Talent from fully recharging.
Zeratul: Shroud of Adun will no longer accumulate Shields while using Hearthstone.
Zeratul: Seeker in the Dark’s duration is now correctly paused while a target affected by Singularity Spike is caught within Void Prison.
Sound:
Core: Fixed an issue that could prevent the Core on the Hell side of Battlefield of Eternity and Infernal Shrines from playing certain attack sounds.
User Interface:
Death Recap: Fixed an issue that could cause Death Recaps to show inaccurate final blow damage.
Minimap: Catapult Minimap icons are now slightly lighter in color to help players more easily differentiate them from other Minions.
Profile: Fixed an issue in which the player portrait would not update correctly after selecting the Blackheart's Revenge portrait.
Further details regarding this update are available at http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20407400.

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.3 (Dec 16, 2016)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.0.48027 (Nov 23, 2016)

New in Heroes of the Storm 20.2.46787 (Sep 30, 2016)

General:
New Map Rotation:
Starting September 27, the pool of Battlegrounds available in all modes, except Custom Games, will be temporarily limited to the following:
Warhead Junction
Braxis Holdout
Towers of Doom
Dragon Shire
Battlefield of Eternity
Cursed Hollow
During this time, players can still select and play on any Battleground they wish using Custom Games.
The reduced Battleground pool will remain in effect until the Machines of War event concludes during the week of October 17.
Tutorial Improvements:
The second tutorial mission has received significant changes to gameplay, user interface, and instruction flow. This mission should now better serve to introduce players to some of Heroes of the Storm’s unique mechanics.
New Hero: Zarya:
Aleksandra Zaryanova is one of the world's strongest women and was a promising athlete, but all that changed when the Siberian omnium reawakened. As a soldier in the Russian Defense Force, she now proudly uses her strength to protect the ones she loves.
Trait:
Energy
Each time Zarya’s Personal Barrier or Shield Ally absorbs 10 damage, her Energy is increased by 1. Each point of Energy increases Zarya’s damage by 2%. After 0.5 seconds, Energy decays by 3 per second.
Basic Abilities:
Particle Grenade (Q)
Launch a Particle Grenade that deals damage to enemies within a small area. Deals 50% damage to Structures.
Personal Barrier (W)
Gain a Shield that absorbs damage for 3 seconds.
Shield Ally (E)
Grants an allied Hero a Shield that absorbs damage for 3 seconds.
Heroic Abilities:
Graviton Surge (R)
Launch a gravity bomb that detonates after 1 second and draws enemy Heroes toward the center for 2.5 seconds.
Expulsion Zone (R)
Launch a gravity bomb that deals light damage and creates an expulsion zone for 3.5 seconds. Enemies who enter the affected area are knocked back and have their Movement Speed reduced by 50% for 1 second.
New Battleground: Warhead Junction:
Once a testing facility for nuclear weapons, Warhead Junction has since fallen into ruin. However, the site's abandonment hasn't stopped its glitchy adjutant from continuing to produce and hand out nuclear weapons. Join the arms race of Warhead Junction, build up your stockpile, and rain hell on your enemies!
Warhead Deployment:
Multiple Warheads will spawn periodically across the battleground.
Collect Warheads:
Pick up a Warhead to activate your Nuke. Use it or you will drop it when you die!
Call Down the Thunder:
Launch Nukes to devastate the enemy team's fortifications.
Art:
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Chen and Nazeebo have received updated visual effects to coincide with their Talent reworks.
Performance:
General:
Additional improvements have been made to Heroes of the Storm’s overall framerate, affecting all game modes and Battlegrounds.
Shop:
Bundles:
New Bundles
Thunder Guard Zarya Bundle – Available until October 11, 2016.
Raider Rexxar Bundle – Available until October 11, 2016.
Undying Legends Bundle – Available until October 18, 2016.
Ultimate Undying Legends Bundle – Available until October 18, 2016.
New Hero:
Zarya has been added to the in-game Shop.
Mounts:
Returning Mounts
Judgement Charger
Removed Mounts
Lunar Dragon
Spectre Phantom
Dire Wolf
Skins:
Raider Rexxar
Thunder Guard Zarya
Master Zarya
Price Changes:
Diablo’s prices have been reduced to $3.49 USD and 2,000 Gold.
Muradin’s prices have been increased to $6.49 USD and 4,000 Gold.
Sound:
General:
The second Tutorial mission has received updated sound effects to coincide with its overhaul.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Chen has received updated sound effects for his Elusive Brawler Talent and Storm, Earth, Fire Heroic Ability.
The Seasoned Marksman Talent has received a new sound effect heard when the active ability awarded by the quest is used.
User Interface:
Voiceover will now play on the MVP and Commendation screen when a player receives enough votes to reach Epic or Legendary status.
Battlegrounds:
Braxis Holdout:
All Zerg Units have received the following changes:
Early-game damage scaling significantly reduced
Mid-game damage scaling slightly reduced
Late-game damage scaling moderately increased
Banelings
Base damage increased by 20%
Hydralisks
Base damage increased by 25%
Guardians
Base damage increased by roughly 17%
Ultralisks
Base damage increased by 20%
Developer Comments: We’ve noticed a few more one-sided games than we’d like on Braxis Holdout. The battleground plays faster by design, but we think that a few changes to reduce the early game effectiveness of the zerg will put the balance closer to what we’d like after the battleground goes live.
Heroes:
Assassin
Alarak
Abilities
Discord Strike (Q)
Mana cost reduced from 60 to 55
Lightning Surge (E)
Mana cost reduced from 40 to 30
Damage increased from 90 to 100
Width increased by 50%
Counter-Strike (R)
Damage increased from 250 to 275
Added Functionality:
Now grants Alarak Unstoppable for its duration
Talents
Level 1
Power Conduit (E)
Mana cost reduction decreased from 15 to 10
Wide Lightning (E)
Removed
Level 7
Thunderstruck (E)
Slow duration increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds
Level 13
Hindered Motion (W)
Slow duration increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds
Developer Comments: While we expected Alarak’s win rate to be a bit on the lower side due to how difficult his kit can be to fully execute, we felt that he could use some buffs to make him feel better to play. Across the board Lightning Surge is slightly under-performing, so we’re upping the power of the base ability and its related talents. We hope that this will properly reward Alarak players who take Lightning Surge related talents, particularly those who master the gameplay of clotheslining enemies with the Lightning. When we first designed Counter-Strike, we felt that crowd control was an appropriate counter to the ability since it was so powerful on paper and on a reasonably low cooldown. Since his release, we have seen that Counter-Strike is simply not as reliable as we had predicted since Alarak has 3 potential ways to fail to get value (enemies can fail to damage him, they can dodge the returning skill shot, or they can crowd control him out of his channel). We’ve decided to grant him Unstoppable for its duration to make it more reliable, and we are increasing its damage to further separate it from Deadly Charge.
Chromie
Stats
Base maximum Health increased from 1260 to 1323
Health regen increased from 2.63 to 2.76
Abilities
Sand Blast (Q)
Range increased by 6%
Dragon's Breath (W)
Range increased by 6%
Temporal Loop (R)
Range decreased by 8%
Talents
Level 13
Reaching Through Time (Passive)
Range bonus decreased from 25 to 15%
Developer Comments: Reaching Through Time had a dominating pick rate, for good reason. We’re taking a little bit of that range from the Talent and adding it baseline. While we’re at it, we’re reducing the range on Temporal Loop slightly to require Chromie to put herself more at risk. Temporal Loop isn’t overpowered per se, but the majority of the counterplay required specific Heroes (Medivh, Auriel, Uther) or Cleanse. We’re also buffing her Health so that the sum total of all these changes will result in an improvement to her winrate, since she is slightly less powerful than what we’d like to see.
Gul'dan
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Abilities
Life Tap (Trait)
Base self-inflicted damage decreased from 234 to 222
Fel Flame (Q)
Increased base size by 5%
Drain Life (W)
Base healing increased from 43 to 47
Corruption (E)
Cooldown reduced from 16 to 14 seconds
Mana cost reduced from 90 to 80
Talents
Level 1
Echoed Corruption (E)
Quest completion requirement increased from 35 to 40 Heroes hit by Corruption
Level 4
Health Funnel (W)
Cooldown reduction gained when an enemy dies under the effects of Drain Life changed from 7 seconds to a full cooldown reset
Developer Comments: Gul’dan’s slightly underperforming compared to other assassins, so we’re giving him some throughput buffs as well as buffing his Fel Flame ability. We know that the Echoed Corruption change may not be positively received as it is a slight nerf, but we believe it is better for the health of his talent tier and for him overall. The intent of this talent was for it to be a relatively large power spike but for it to come very late into the game. Currently it’s still being unlocked earlier than we would like, and it has a slightly higher win rate compared to other talents on the tier. We wanted to buff Corruption by lowering its cooldown, so we felt that it was appropriate to slightly increase its quest completion time to help balance it out.
Li-Ming
Abilities
Arcane Orb (W)
Beginning size reduced by roughly 33%
Maximum size reduced by roughly 33%
Explosion radius reduced by roughly 15%
Talents
Level 4
Triumvirate (W)
Now reduces the cooldown of Arcane Orb by 50%, instead of 5 seconds
Travel distance required reduced from 65 to 50%
Level 7
Zei's Vengeance (W)
Added functionality:
Now also reduces the cooldown of Arcane Orb by 25%
Developer Comments: Arcane Orb and the Talents affecting it have been slightly underperforming over the past couple months. We are also unhappy with the unpredictably large explosion radius that occurs at close range detonations. To address these concerns, we have made some base size adjustments to the Orb missile while also buffing Zei’s Vengeance to help round out the full build. While the size changes definitely look like a nerf on paper, in actual testing we felt like they gave players tighter control with a lot less early-detonations on unintended targets.
Return
The Butcher
Abilities
Furnace Blast (R)
Cooldown reduced from 80 to 60 seconds
Tychus
Stats
Base Maximum Health increased from 1836 to 1925
Base Health Regeneration increased from 3.8 to 4
Abilities
Commandeer Odin (R)
Added Functionality:
Now grants Tychus Resistant for the duration of Commandeer Odin, reducing damage taken by 25%
Talents
Level 1
Press the Advantage (E)
Basic Attack Range bonus increased from 25 to 35%
Combat Tactician (E)
Cooldown reduction increased from .75 to .8 seconds per Basic Attack.
Shrug It Off (E)
Removed
Developer Comments: After the change to Relentless Soldier in a previous patch, Tychus had 2 different ways to gain Resistant before level 10. While we like that Tychus is a “tanky Assassin”, we felt that him having more ways to mitigate damage than some melee Assassins to be too much. We decided to remove Shrug It Off because it felt misplaced on a tier that was primarily about Utility and Mobility. To compensate for the loss of Shrug It Off, we’ve decided to buff his baseline Health and Regeneration and the other Talent options at level 1. For players that really want to embrace the “tanky Assassin” role of Tychus, we’ve added Resistant to Odin so that you can truly feel like a scary mech of destruction while it is up.
Valla
Abilities
Vault (E)
Damage bonus per stack of Hatred increased from 5 to 6%
Hungering Arrow (Q)
Increased base damage from 140 to 151
Bounce damage increased from 80 to 86
Rain of Vengeance (R)
Cooldown decreased from 60 to 50 seconds per charge
Talents
Level 1
Monster Hunter (Q)
Mana refund amount increased from 30 to 40
Minion and Mercenary bonus damage increased from 100 to 150%
Level 4
Puncturing Arrow (Q)
Quest reward bonus damage increased from 50 to 75
Level 7
Death Dealer (E)
Bonus damage per Hatred stack increased from 10 to 12%
Developer Comments: We’re seeing a lot of success with Multi-Shot Valla’s builds, but the Basic Attack and Hungering Arrow focused Valla’s aren’t keeping pace. We really want to reward players for keeping their Hatred at high stacks and landing those Puncturing Arrows on their intended targets.
Specialist
Nazeebo
Abilities
Corpse Spiders (Q)
Spiders will now fixate on whatever enemies are hit with the jar, dividing their focus among all available targets. Prefers Heroic targets.
Spiders will now only spawn if you hit an enemy with the jar
Reduced the travel speed of the jar, mostly at close range
Increased the impact radius by 50%
Spiders now move significantly faster toward their target
Impact damage reduced from 91 to 50
Spider Attack's damage increased from 13 to 35 per attack
Mana cost reduced from 60 to 50
Zombie Wall (W)
Zombie Health increased from 183 to 225
Plague of Toads (E)
Number of Toads spawned reduced from 5 to 3
Now has 2 charges
Damage changed from 87 damage on impact to 126 over 6 seconds
Multiple instances of this damage effect can affect the same enemy
Cooldown reduced from 10 to 8 seconds
Mana cost reduced from 55 to 30
Voodoo Ritual (Trait)
Damage over time effect is now only applied to non-Heroes
Duration increased from 4 to 6 seconds
Killing an enemy affected by Voodoo Ritual no longer restores Health and Mana
New Functionality:
You now permanently gain 4 Maximum Health and 1 Maximum Mana if an enemy Minion dies while affected by Voodoo Ritual
Gargantuan (R)
Gargantuan now stays near the area where cast and attempts to attack any enemies that come nearby. Prefers Heroic targets.
Initial impact damage reduced from 151 to 100
Stomp damage increased from 219 to 240
Attack range increased by 50%
Cooldown increased from 60 to 70 seconds
Talents
Level 1
Demolitionist (Passive)
Removed
Death Ritual (Trait)
Removed
Bribe (Active)
Removed
Blood Ritual (Trait)
Moved to level 4
New Functionality:
If an enemy dies while affected by Voodoo Ritual, heal for 2% of your Maximum Health and Mana.
New Talent: Widowmakers (Q)
Quest: After hitting Heroes 100 times with Corpse Spider attacks, their damage is increased by 30%.
New Talent: Pandemic (E)
Quest: After hitting 40 Heroes with Plague of Toads, it spawns 2 additional toads.
Level 4
Spider Cluster (Q)
Removed
Gathering Power (Passive)
Removed
Mercenary Lord (Passive)
Removed
Envenom (Active)
Removed
Promote (Active)
Removed
New Talent: Hexed Crawlers (Q)
Corpse Spiders restore 0.75% of your maximum Health and Mana each time they attack an enemy Hero.
New Talent: Big Voodoo (Trait)
Increases the Health and Mana bonuses from Voodoo Ritual by 100%.
Level 7
Gidbinn (Passive)
Removed
Fresh Corpses (W)
Removed
New Talent: Spirit of Arachyr (Q)
If your jar of Corpse Spiders hits only 1 enemy, spawn an additional spider.
Level 13
Dead Rush (W)
Moved to level 7
Increased zombie damage bonus from 50 to 100%.
Toads of Hugeness (E)
Moved to level 7
Bonus reduced from 20 to 15% per hop, and now caps at 60% bonus.
Thing of the Deep (Passive)
Moved to level 1
Range bonus reduced from 25 to 20%
New Talent: Guardian Toads (E)
If your Plague of Toads explodes on an enemy Hero gain Resistant for 2 seconds, reducing damage taken by 25%
New Talent: Superstition (Passive)
You take 50% less damage from Abilities, but 30% more damage from Basic Attacks
Level 16
Specialized Toxin (Trait)
Removed
Leaping Spiders (Q)
Removed
Infested Toads (E)
Removed
Hardened Focus (Passive)
Removed
New Talent: Spider Colony (Q)
Corpse Spiders recharges twice as fast while you are above 850 (+4% per level) Health.
New Talent: Ring of Poison (W)
Increases the duration of Wall of Zombies by 1 second, and now deals 375 damage over 4 seconds. Damage starts small and increases over the duration.
New Talent: Soul Harvest (Active)
Activate to gain 3% Ability Power and maximum Health for every nearby enemy, up to 15%. Health and Ability Power bonuses last 15 seconds. 15 second cooldown.
Level 20
Humongoid (R)
No longer makes the Gargantuan last indefinitely or increases its Basic Attack damage to non-Heroic enemies
New Functionality:
Reduces the cooldown of Gargantuan by 50 seconds, and the Mana cost by 50%
Bolt of the Storm (Active)
Removed
New Talent: Vile Infection (Trait)
Quest: After reaching 150 stacks of Voodoo Ritual, increase Voodoo Ritual's damage by 200% and cause it to also apply to Heroes.
Developer Comments: Nazeebo is one of the oldest Heroes in the game, and his Talent tree was in dire need of an upgrade. The goal of the revamp was to increase the reward of mastering the Hero’s Abilities, maintain his identity as a zone control and damage over time character, embrace the fun mini-game that was Death Ritual, and provide interesting synergies between Abilities and Talents. We wanted to be sure to reinforce the designed weaknesses of the Hero that are lack of burst and lack of mobility, while still making him viable in the current metagame of Heroes of the Storm. Overall, a lot of his old Talents had to be revamped or replaced, but we find that he still feels a lot like the old Nazeebo, just more interesting!
Kharazim
Talents
Level 13
Sixth Sense (Passive)
Block amount increased from 50 to 75% after being stunned or rooted.
Li Li
Talents
Level 16
Shake It Off (Passive)
No longer has a cooldown
Resistant amount increased from 25 to 50%
Resistant duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds
Malfurion
Abilities
Regrowth (Q)
Cooldown reduced from 7 to 5 seconds
Mana cost reduced from 60 to 35
Duration increased from 10 to 15 seconds
Periodic heal reduced from 75 to 60
Entangling Roots (E)
Increased range by roughly 12%
Delay before initial root reduced from .5 seconds to .25 seconds
Innervate (Trait)
Added Functionality:
Now causes the target’s Basic Abilities to cooldown 50% faster for the duration of Innervate
Talents
Level 1
Harmony (Q)
Removed
Level 4
Rampant Growth (Q)
Healing bonus reduced from 50 to 40%
Level 7
Enduring Growth (Q)
Removed
Developer Comments: While we realize that Malfurion’s talent tree could use some work, and we want to do a deeper dive in the future, we wanted to give him a better niche among our other Support heroes in the meantime. His throughput healing should be higher, and a bigger part of his gameplay should now be rolling his heal-over-time effects among multiple allies to keep them alive. He now also has the unique ability to give allies cooldown reduction in addition to Mana, which should give him a new reason to be considered being added to a team. We’ve also buffed the initial root search for his Entangling Roots, which will enable him to more reliably root enemy Heroes instead of relying on his teammates to secure crowd control.
Warrior
Anub'arak
Stats
Base maximum Health increased from 1926 to 2120
Health regen increased from 4.0 to 4.4
Chen
Abilities
Storm, Earth, Fire (R)
New Functionality:
If all 3 Spirits die, Chen is killed
Spirit Health increased from 50 to 75% of Chen’s maximum Health
Each Spirit grants Chen a special ability:
Storm (Q): Increases the Movement Speed of your Spirits by 50% for 5 seconds
Earth (W): Fire and Earth Spirits leap at the target, slowing enemies in a large area by 70% for 1.5 seconds
Fire (E): Increase the Basic Attack speed of your Spirits by 100% for 5 seconds
Talents
Level 1
Regeneration Master (Passive)
Removed
Keg Toss (W)
Moved to Level 4
New Functionality:
Quest: Hitting a Hero with Keg Smash increases its damage by 3, up to a maximum of 60.
Reward: After gaining 60 bonus damage, Keg Toss’s range is increased by 125% and gains a second charge.
Grounding Brew (Trait)
Ability damage reduction amount increased from 25 to 30%
Consuming Flame (E)
Removed
New Talent: Accumulating Flame (E)
Quest: Setting a Hero on Fire increases the damage over time of Breath of Fire by 2%, up to a max of 60%.
Reward: After gaining 60% bonus damage, Breath of Fire grants 1 second of Resistant per Hero set on fire, reducing damage taken by 25%
New Talent: Freshest Ingredients (Trait)
Quest: Gathering a Regen Globe increases Health Regeneration by 1 per second, up to a maximum of 30.
Reward: After gaining 30 bonus Health Regeneration, 50% of Shields gained from Fortifying Brew are retained indefinitely after drinking.
New Talent: Elusive Brawler (Active)
Activate to avoid all enemy Basic Attacks for 2 seconds. Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Elusive Brawler by 3 seconds. 20 second cooldown.
Level 4
Swift Reflexes (Passive)
Removed
Deadly Strike (Q)
New Functionality:
Flying Kick now deals 100% more damage if Chen has Fortifying Brew shields.
Amplified Healing (Passive)
Removed
Deep Breath (E)
Removed
Level 7
Full Keg (W)
Removed
Combat Stance (Trait)
Removed
Ring of Fire (E)
Moved to Level 4
Periodic damage increased from 30 to 50
Duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds
New Talent: Refreshing Elixir (Passive)
All regeneration and healing effects are increased by 20%. This bonus is increased to 60% while channeling Fortifying Brew.
Level 13
Brew Strike (Q)
Removed
Enough to Share (Trait)
Moved to Level 16
Relentless (Passive)
Removed
New Talent: Withering Flames (E)
Setting an enemy Hero on fire reduces their Ability Power by 25% for 3 seconds.
Level 16
Bottomless Mug (Trait)
Removed
Bolder Flavor (Trait)
Moved to Level 7
New Functionality:
Grants 50% of your full Shield instantly when you use Fortifying Brew, and causes Shields to persist for 1 second after drinking.
Pressure Point (Q)
Moved to Level 13
New Functionality:
Flying Kick slows enemy Movement Speed by 40% for 1 second. This effect is doubled if the target is affected by Keg Smash.
Combination Attack (Q)
Removed
New Talent: Flying Leap (Q)
Increases the range of Flying Kick by 20%
New Talent: Another Round (W)
After hitting an enemy Hero with Keg Smash, the cooldown of the next Basic Ability you cast will be reduced by 3 seconds.
Increases the radius of Keg Smash by 50%
Level 20
Untapped Potential (R)
New Functionality:
Increases Movement Speed of Wandering Keg by 25%
Chen gains 50% damage reduction while in Wandering Keg
Elemental Conduit (R)
New Functionality:
Your Sprits now have 100% of Chen’s Maximum Health.
Storm (Q): Also grants Unstoppable to your Spirits for the duration of the Movement Speed boost
Earth (W): Also reduces the cooldown of Leap by 3 seconds
Fire (E): No longer an Active ability. Spirits now attack 100% faster while the Fire Spirit is alive
Hardened Shield (Active)
Removed
Bolt of the Storm (Active)
Removed
New Talent: Purifying Brew (Trait)
Passively reduce the duration of the next Stun or Silence effect by 75% and reset the cooldown of Fortifying Brew. This can only happen once every 10 seconds.
New Talent: Stormstout Secret Recipe (Passive)
Heal for 1.5% of your Maximum Health every time your Basic Abilities hit an enemy Hero.
Developer Comments: We know how much passion our players have for Chen and spent months upgrading his Talent Tree to our newest philosophies. To give you an idea of what we were looking to improve, here were a couple of our goals with this update: Chen should be able to be a solo-tank for your team and not be afraid to constantly soak enemy skill-shots. Chen should be a constant threat to the enemy’s backline damage dealers. Chen should deal low amounts of burst damage while continually applying sustained damage at pointed targets. Chen should be extremely resilient in the absence of enemy stuns. As always, we are listening to your feedback and appreciate everyone taking the time to send it to us. Enjoy the new Talent Tree, and as Chen has said many times before- “It is important to master the Brew and not let it master you!”
E.T.C.
Abilities
Powerslide (Q)
Range increased by 25%
Rockstar (Trait)
Radius increased by 10%
Talents
Level 1
Rolling Like a Stone (Q)
Removed
Block (Passive)
Removed
Prog Rock (E)
New Functionality:
Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe permanently increases the healing per second of Guitar Solo by 5, up to a maximum of 100.
Reward: After reaching 100 increased healing, Guitar Solo also heals nearby allied Heroes for 53 Health every second while active.
Pwn Shop Guitar (E)
Moved to Level 16
Renamed to Aggressive Shredding
New Functionality:
Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Guitar Solo by 1 second.
New Talent: Block Party (Trait)
Rockstar also grants Allies a stack of Block, reducing the damage from the next Basic Attack by 50% for 8 seconds. Stacks up to 2 times.
Level 4
Double-Necked Guitar (Q)
Removed
Mic Check (W)
Moved to Level 13
Number of targets hit required to reduce Face Melt’s cooldown decreased from 3 to 2
Pinball Wizard (W)
Moved to Level 7
Bonus damage increased from 50 to 150%
New Talent: Crowd Surfer (Q)
Powerslide can now travel over walls and unpathable areas.
Level 7
Just Keep Rockin’ (E)
Removed
Guitar Hero (E)
Moved to Level 1
New Functionality:
While Guitar Solo is active, you heal for 30% of the damage dealt by Basic Attacks. Also increases the Attack Speed bonus from Rockstar from 20% to 25%.
Loud Speakers (W)
Moved to Level 4
Follow Through (Passive)
Renamed to Hammer-on
New Functionality:
After using an Ability, your next 2 Basic Attacks deal 30% more damage.
Level 13
Groupies (E)
Removed
Spell Shield (Passive)
Removed
Show Stopper (Q)
Moved to Level 16
Face Smelt (W)
Slow amount reduced from 80 to 60%
Level 16
Speed Metal (Trait)
Moved to Level 4
Movement Speed bonus reduced from 20 to 10%
Echo Pedal (Passive)
Moved to Level 7
Damage decreased from 59 to 32.
Added Functionality:
Now deals double damage vs. Minions and Mercenaries.
Encore (W)
Moved to Level 13
Developer Comments: We like E.T.C.’s core gameplay, but wanted to improve his talent diversity. Many E.T.C. players end up picking the same talents in most games, especially at Levels 1 and 4, due to the importance of buffing Powerslide. We’ve streamlined that power, and have given him more options to play up the bard aspect of his kit, which should make him more of a team player.
Zarya
Stats
Increased Basic Attack damage from 20 to 24
Increased Health from 2225 to 2336
Increased Health Regen from 4.64 to 4.87
Abilities
Particle Grenade (Q)
Increased base damage from 62 to 74
Personal Barrier (W)
Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds
Energy (Trait)
Energy decay rate reduced from 3 to 1.5 per second
Graviton Surge (R)
Cooldown reduced from 120 to 100 seconds
Developer Comments: We like the way Zarya is playing on live, but her impact is currently lower than we’d like. Her damage is too low and we feel that the rate at which her Energy decays is too quick, so we have adjusted them and will keep an eye on her.
Bug Fixes:
General:
Fixed an issue that prevented players from placing Healing Totems near destructible objects and unpathable terrain.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents:
Abathur: Fixed an issue causing Abathur’s Ultimate Evolution clones to deal damage to nearby enemies on expiration without learning the Volatile Mutation talent.
Anub’arak: It is no longer possible to cast Cocoon on Heroic Vehicles, such as the Garden Terror or Dragon Knight.
Artanis: Fixed an issue that caused Artanis' Shield Overload trait to fail to override existing shields when triggered.
Auriel and Lunara: Fixed an issue causing Lunara’s camera to behave strangely after being resurrected by Auriel’s Resurrect.
Chen: Fixed an issue causing Chen’s Pressure Point talent to also double the duration of Keg Smash’s slow.
Chen: Fixed an issue that caused Chen’s Elemental Conduit talent to grant more attack speed than intended while the Fire spirit was alive.
Diablo: It is no longer possible to cast Overpower on Heroic Vehicles, such as the Garden Terror or Dragon Knight.
E.T.C.: Fixed an issue preventing E.T.C. from gaining stacks of Prog Rock when gathering Regen Globes.
Nova: It is no longer possible for Nova to target Invulnerable Heroes with Triple Tap.
Sonya: Fixed an issue that prevented Ancient Spear from stunning and dealing damage if used while rooted.
User Interface:
Greymane: Fixed an issue causing Greymane’s “Eager Wolf” talent to fail to display in the shop when viewing talents for Greymane’s Worgen form.
Illidan: Fixed an issue causing the tooltip for Illidan’s Friend or Foe talent to display incorrect data.

New in Heroes of the Storm 14.3.38793 Beta (Nov 12, 2015)

New Battleground:
Towers of Doom:
The Grave Keeper and Raven Lord have risen over a dark and mysterious city, each seeking to add it to the territories under their control. Now, these Realm Lords call upon the aid of Heroes in their battle for dominance over the Towers of Doom.
Each Core on this Battleground is surrounded by an indestructible barrier, and cannot be razed by Heroes, Minions, or Mercenaries.
Instead, Heroes must capture the Altars that periodically activate within the city. Upon doing so, each of the Bell Towers controlled by the capturing team will fire a payload that damages the opposing Core.
Bell Tower allegiance is fickle! A Bell Tower that has been destroyed will respawn after a short delay, aligning itself with the team that took it down.
Toppling a Bell Tower not only increases a team’s area of control over the Battleground, but also grants an additional payload in the volleys that fire on the enemy Core after capturing an Altar.
Towers of Doom Available Now on PTR:
Towers of Doom is the only Battleground available for play in PTR matchmaking queues.
Battleground pools on the PTR have been reduced so that more thorough Towers of Doom playtesting can be done, and any bugs discovered during this time can be fixed before the Battleground is officially released.
Please note: Towers of Doom will not be available in the live version of Heroes immediately on patch day, but will remain playable on the PTR until playtesting concludes on November 24.
Art:
General:
Tower targeting ring size reduced by 50%
Heroes:
Artanis has received improvements for his walk animations
Stitches has received additional facial animation polish.
Hero Abilities:
The following Hero Abilities and Talents have received visual polish:
Magni Muradin – Storm Bolt (Q)
Imposing Presence (Talent) – Heroes affected by Imposing Presence’s Attack Speed Slow will now display visual effects.
User Interface:
General:
Party and game invitation pop-ups will now display the inviting player’s portrait frame.
In-Game UI:
In-Game Score Screen
The XP column on the in-game Score Screen has been removed.
The Takedown column on the in-game Score Screen (TAB) has been split into two new columns: Kills and Assists.
Kills can be earned by scoring the final blow on an enemy Hero.
Assists function in much the same way that Takedowns did in previous versions of the game. Any ally that is nearby when an enemy Hero is slain will receive an Assist for that kill.
Minimap
The minimap will now visually indicate when allied Heroes are using Hearthstone to return to the Hall of Storms.
Additionally, a chat message will be displayed whenever an ally activates Hearthstone.
Design & Gameplay:
Scaling Changes:
Health and damage scaling for all Heroes, Battleground Events, Minions, and Mercenaries has been changed from flat, additive values to values that are multiplicative by percentage.
A large portion of Heroes’ total scaling amounts, which were previously gained over the course of a game, have been added to their base values.
Respawn timers have been increased for levels 1 – 10.
Please review our recent blog on scaling and respawn timer changes for more details.
Attack Speed Slows:
Attack speed slows now apply only to Heroes and Summons.
Tooltips:
Several tooltips that lacked specific details regarding delays, charges gained, etc., have been updated with exact details.
Talents:
Gathering Power:
Hero takedowns now increase Ability Power by 2% per kill, up to a maximum of 30%. All stacks are now also lost upon death.
Heroes:
Assassin Support Warrior
Falstad Kharazim Leoric
Jaina Uther Rexxar
Zeratul
Assassin:
Falstad:
Conjurer's Pursuit (Talent) removed
Gathering Power (Talent) removed
Hammerang (Q)
Power Throw (Talent) moved from Level 1 to Level 4
New Talent (Level 1): Gathering Storm
Permanently increases Hammerang's damage by 1 every time it damages an enemy Hero
Flow Rider (Talent)
No longer decreases Barrel Roll’s cooldown
Now causes Basic Abilities to recharge 100% faster while the Tailwind trait is active
Jaina:
Frostbite (Trait)
Deep Chill (Talent)
Bonus to the Movement Speed slow applied by Chill decreased from 35% to 30%
Zeratul:
Focused Attack (Talent) removed
New Talent (Level 4): Master Warp-Blade
Every 3rd consecutive Basic Attack against the same Hero deals 100% bonus damage
Support:
Kharazim:
Insight (Trait)
Mana regeneration granted on every third hit increased from 12 (+0.21 per level) to 14 (+0.36 per level)
Iron Fists (Trait)
Damage bonus granted on every third hit increased from 100% to 125%
Uther:
Eternal Devotion (Trait)
Spirit form duration decreased from 10 to 8 seconds
Divine Shield (R)
Cooldown increased from 70 to 90 seconds
Warrior:
Leoric:
Drain Hope (W)
Cooldown decreased from 12 to 11 seconds
If Leoric is stunned while casting Drain Hope, the stun will no longer cancel the Ability and the missile will continue to travel
Damage dealt and Health gained reduced from 25% to 20%
Damage and healing now increase over time as a flat value
Rexxar:
Misha (Trait) (D)
Misha's death timer portrait will now appear in the death timer bar while she is respawning
The frequency at which Rexxar's voiceover will play when commanding Misha has been reduced
Misha, Fixate (1)
Misha, Fixate has been renamed Misha, Focus!
Bug Fixes:
General:
Fixed an issue which could cause a team with no Support Heroes to be matched against a team with Support Heroes in the Quick Match queue.
Fixed an issue in which the Auto-Select Hero could occasionally fail to give the player a Support Hero on teams that lacked Supports.
Fixed an issue that could cause French AZERTY keyboards to revert to using QWERTY keyboard hotkeys.
Battlegrounds:
The tooltip for the Plant Terror’s Overgrowth Ability no longer states that it does not disable the enemy Core.
Fixed an issue that prevented Hero vision radiuses from displaying on Infernal Shrines and Battlefield of Eternity minimaps.
Heroes and Talents:
Abathur can no longer capture objectives at his body’s location while using Ultimate Evolution.
Abathur’s Adrenal Overload Talent now properly increases Monstrosity’s attack speed while it is under the effects of Symbiote.
Ultimate Evolution Clones and Monstrosities will now properly receive the benefits of Abathur’s Volatile Mutation Talent if it is selected after a Summon is already active.
Heroes with the Relentless Talent that become Polymorphed will now properly receive damage from Brightwing’s Unstable Anomaly Talent when Polymorph expires.
The visual effects for Butcher’s Brand will no longer persist on a target that is protected from death by Kharazim’s Divine Palm.
Chen’s Spirit forms will now properly leave Stealth after casting an Ability during Storm, Earth, Fire.
Heroes that are simultaneously struck by Diablo’s Overpower and Stitches’ Hook will no longer be thrown outside the playable area.
A Hero that activates Ice Block while simultaneously coming under the effects of Stitches’ Gorge will now properly retain Ice Block’s visual effects for the duration of the Talent’s effects.
Fixed a bug that could cause Stealthed Heroes to fire a Basic Attack at a nearby enemy immediately after Mounting.
Fixed an issue that could allow Leoric to change direction while using March of the Black King.
Fixed an issue that could cause a Medivac to persist on the battlefield if Lt. Morales was killed while casting Medivac Dropship.
Damage prevented by Lt. Morales' Safeguard will now always be displayed in whole numbers.
The cooldown for Kerrigan’s Ravage will now be properly reset when it is used to destroy an enemy Structure.
Misha can now properly return to Rexxar if she is on the opposite side of an enemy Gate and an open path exists where a Wall was destroyed.
Sonya’s next Basic Attack after casting Ancient Spear will now properly benefit from the Follow Through Talent.
Heal over time and damage over time previews for Tyrande’s Shadowstalk and Kael’thas’ Living Bomb will now more accurately reflect the burst Healing and burst damage amounts at the end of each Ability’s effects.
User Interface:
Legendary and Epic Hero Skins are now appropriately labeled as such on the Hero Select screen.
Fixed an issue that prevented mouse-wheel scrolling through the Friends List while browsing the Shop.
Players in Hero League draft lobbies can no longer be invited to join a Real-ID friend’s party.

New in Heroes of the Storm 12.1.36693 Beta (Jul 30, 2015)

New in Heroes of the Storm 21.07.2015 Beta (Jul 30, 2015)

General:
Kill the Treasure Goblins!:
It seems that mischievous Treasure Goblins have snuck into the Nexus alongside the arrival of the Burning Hells. These devious creatures are intent on pilfering as much gold as they can carry, and while their numbers are yet unknown, the fortunes they've scavenged must be returned! Adventurers that manage to slay any Treasure Goblins they encounter during the Eternal Conflict will be handsomely rewarded. A Treasure Goblin will do anything in its power to evade those it deems hostile, so dispose of these timid beings swiftly, lest they open a portal and slip away!
Players will receive a Special Event Quest titled: “Kill a Treasure Goblin!” each day during the Eternal Conflict event.
Before the start of a match, any players with an active Special Event Quest will cause a Treasure Goblin to spawn at a random location near their team’s Core.
Kill the Treasure Goblin before the pregame timer reaches 0, or it will open a portal and escape the Battleground.
Any players with an active Special Event Quest that manage to kill a Treasure Goblin before it escapes will receive 100 Gold for their efforts at the end of the match.
Treasure Goblins may spawn on any Battleground, in any matchmaking game mode (Versus A.I., Quick Match, Hero League, Team League).
This Special Event Quest is available to all players, whether or not they’ve unlocked Daily Quests by reaching Player Level 6.
While players are invited to kill as many Treasure Goblins as they can, this Special Event Quest can only be completed once per day. Incomplete Quests do not stack.
New Portrait Rewards:
Facebook Portrait
The Heroes of the Storm Facebook Page has reached 1 Million Likes! To help celebrate this social media milestone, all players who log in to the game before our next major patch arrives will receive a new, Facebook-themed portrait. Thank you for your support!
Golden Tiger Portrait
Any players that redeem the Golden Tiger Mount key found in the Heroes of the Storm Starter Pack will receive an exclusive new Golden Tiger portrait.
This portrait will also be retroactively granted to players who redeemed their Golden Tiger Mount key prior to today’s patch.
New Battleground:
The conflict between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells has spilled into the Nexus, breeding a new Battleground that is equal parts righteous and wicked. Angels, Demons, and now Heroes clash in ceaseless combat in their struggle for dominance over the Battlefield of Eternity.
Battlefield of Eternity is a two-lane Battleground featuring two massive Immortals that battle endlessly at its center, and teams must compete to defeat the opposing Immortal.
Once its foe has been toppled, the victorious Immortal will be restored to full Health, and proceed to seek out enemy Structures, attacking down the lane with the most remaining defenses.
An attacking Immortal will also gain a Shield, proportionate to the amount of Health it had remaining at the end of the battle.
The Immortal will perform ranged attacks, which each consume a portion of its Shield. Taking damage will also drain the Immortal’s Shield.
Once its Shield has been expended, the Immortal will only attack at melee range.
New Mercenaries:
Fallen Shaman
These malformed demons never stray too far from a pack of Fallen Hounds, and will quickly resurrect any Hounds that are killed in combat. Those who value their souls would be wise to first destroy the Shaman before targeting its Hound companions.
Khazra
The half human, half goat creatures that inhabit Battlefield of Eternity are tough, ranged attackers that won’t hesitate to rain spears on their foes. Defeat the Khazra at their camps to harness their destructive appetite before the enemy team.
New Battleground, More Often:
Starting today, the pool of Battlegrounds available in all modes, except Custom Games, will be temporarily limited to the following:
Battlefield of Eternity
Sky Temple
Tomb of the Spider Queen
Cursed Hollow
This has been done to increase the frequency with which players encounter the new Battleground, Battlefield of Eternity.
During this time, players can still select and play on any Battleground they wish using Custom Games.
All Battlegrounds, including Battlefield of Eternity, will once again be made available for play in all matchmaking game modes on Tuesday, July 7.
New Heroes:
The Eternal Conflict carries on! Leoric, The Skeleton King, has risen from his tomb once more to carry out the will of the Burning Hells against any who would stand against him in the Nexus. Read on for a brief overview of his Abilities, and then launch Heroes to guide this formidable new Warrior in combat.
Trait
Undying
Become a ghost when you die, regenerating Health over time, and resurrecting upon reaching full Health. Your Abilities don’t deal damage while in ghost form, but can still heal.
Basic Abilities
Skeletal Swing (Q)
Swing your mace in front of you, dealing damage and slowing enemies by 40% for 2.5 seconds. Deals double damage to all non-Heroic sources.
Drain Hope (W)
Grab an enemy Hero’s soul for up to 4 seconds, dealing up to 25% of their maximum Health as damage and healing you for up to 25% of your maximum Health, so long as you remain within range of the target. You are slowed by 20% while Drain Hope is active.
Wraith Walk (E)
Separate from your body, becoming Unstoppable and gaining Movement Speed, accelerating up to 50% over 2.5 seconds. Your body jumps to your wraith when Wraith Walk ends or is canceled.
Heroic Abilities
Entomb (R)
Create an unpathable tomb in front of you for 4 seconds
March of the Black King (R)
Become Unstoppable and swing your mace three times, dealing damage and healing you for 7% of your maximum Health for each enemy Hero hit.
The Butcher has been added to Heroes of the Storm and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of this terrifying new Assassin’s Abilities.
Trait
Fresh Meat
Nearby Minions and Heroes drop meat when they die. Pick up meat to gain a 1% bonus to Basic Attack damage, up to a maximum 25%. All meat is lost upon death.
Basic Abilities
Hamstring (Q)
Deal damage and slow enemies by 50%, fading over 2 seconds. Your next Basic Attack will strike immediately.
Butcher’s Brand (W)
Deal damage to an enemy, and cause your Basic Attacks against the branded target to heal you for 75% of the damage done for 5 seconds. Healing doubled versus Heroes.
Ruthless Onslaught (E)
Charge at an enemy, becoming Unstoppable and gaining Movement Speed. If you reach the target, they take damage and become stunned for 1 second.
Heroic Abilities
Lamb to the Slaughter (R)
Throw a hitching post that attaches to the nearest enemy Hero after a 1 second delay. This deals damage, and chains the enemy to the post for 4 seconds.
Furnace Blast (R)
After a 3 second delay, fire explodes around you, dealing massive damage to enemies in the area. Furnace Blast can be cast while using Ruthless Onslaught.
Art:
General:
Many Hero and Mount preview panels in the Shop have received updated camera angles, as well as additional lighting polish.
AOE Cursors have received additional polish.
Battlegrounds:
Various Battleground assets have received additional visual polish.
Various Battleground assets have received additional optimization to help improve performance.
Lighting during the map event on Garden of Terror has been changed to improve overall visual quality and clarity.
The range indicator for the Dragon Knight’s Savage Charge has received visual polish.
Heroes, Abilities, Mounts, and Skins:
Heroes
Brightwing’s in-game Hero portrait has received animation polish.
Hero Abilities
Various Hero Abilities have received additional optimization.
Brightwing has received updated art and visual effects to coincide with her Talent rework.
The range indicator art for several Hero Abilities and Talents have received visual polish:
Azmodan – March of Sin (Talent)
Falstad – Lightning Rod (W)
Rehgar – Earthbind Totem (E)
Tychus – Drakken Laser Drill (R)
Uther – Blessed Champion (Talent)
Valla – Strafe (R)
Shop:
Bundles:
New Bundles
The Mad King Bundle has been added to the Shop for a limited time. (Added July 21)
The Fresh Meat Bundle (removed July 14) was available from the in-game Shop for a limited time.
The following Bundles have been removed from the in-game Shop:
Winter Veil Complete Bundle
Winter Veil Jaina Bundle
Heroes:
Leoric has been added to the in-game Shop! (Added July 21)
The Butcher has been added to the in-game Shop!
Mounts:
New Mounts
Butcher’s Beast – This Mount (removed July 14) was available exclusively by purchasing the Fresh Meat Bundle.
The following Mounts have been removed from the in-game Shop:
Cyber Wolf
Dire Wolf
Reign-deer
Price Changes:
Murky’s prices have been reduced to 7,000 Gold and $8.49 USD.
Skins:
A Master Skin has been added for Leoric. (Added July 21)
The Vrykul Leoric Skin has been added to the in-game Shop. (Added July 21)
A Master Skin has been added for The Butcher.
The Iron Butcher Skin has been added to the in-game Shop.
The following Skins have been removed from the in-game Shop:
Great-father Rehgar
Winter Veil Jaina
Sound:
General:
Even the music that plays while viewing the out of game menus has taken a foreboding turn with the Eternal Conflict’s fierce arrival to Heroes of the Storm.
Enable music in the Sound Options menu (or press CTRL+M) to listen as the sounds of Sanctuary clash with those of the Nexus.
Battlegrounds:
New music has been added for the Battlefield of Eternity Battleground.
In-game music for the Sky Temple, Tomb of the Spider Queen, and Garden of Terror Battlegrounds has been updated.
User Interface:
General:
Notifications that appear near the top-right corner of the out-of-game menus, such as party invitations and promotional rewards, have received updated art.
Hero Progression:
Several Hero Level rewards have been slightly altered:
Hero Level 9 -- A new 750 Gold reward has been added.
This Gold reward will also be retroactively granted to players for each Hero that reached level 9 prior to today’s patch.
Hero Level 15 -- Reward reduced from 1,250 to 1,000 Gold
Hero Level 20 -- Reward reduced from 2,500 to 2,000 Gold
Players will not lose any Gold that had already been earned by reaching Hero Levels 15 or 20 prior to today’s patch.
In-Game UI:
Tab Score Screen
The Healing column on the in-game Stats Screen (TAB) has been reworked, and renamed to the Role column.
The Role column will track healing done by Support Heroes, as well the total amount of damage taken by Warriors during a game.
The Siege Damage column will no longer track damage dealt to uncaptured Mercenaries or other neutral units.
Quest Log:
A Special Event Quests section has been added to the Quest Log.
When a Special Event is taking place, any available Special Event Quests will appear in this section of the Quest Log.
Special Event Quests will display any requirements needed to complete them in the Quest Log.
Much like a normal Daily Quest, players will be notified when they complete a Special Event Quest on the end-of-game Score Screen.
In order to better support Special Event Quests, the Quest Log has been enabled for all Heroes of the Storm players, whether or not they’ve unlocked Daily Quests by reaching Player Level 6.
Daily Quests will remain disabled for players that have not reached level 6, but they can still click the Quest Log to view an active Special Event Quest, or their player progress.
Rejoin System:
Players will no longer receive notifications via chat messages or announcer voiceover when an enemy disconnects from, or rejoins a game in any matchmaking mode.
However, players in Custom Games will still be notified when enemies disconnect or rejoin.
Players will still be notified when an ally leaves or rejoins a game, though notification frequency has been reduced in situations where a teammate repeatedly disconnects and rejoins a game.
Shop:
Featured Tab
The Featured tab will no longer hide items that a player already owns.
The “Hide Owned” checkbox has been added to the Featured Tab, and can be used to hide items on the Featured tab that the player already owns.
Item Preview Panes
Preview panes in the Shop once again indicate Gold prices where relevant.
The “Rare Skin” label has been removed, and Hero Skins are now categorized as follows: Skin, Epic Skin, Legendary Skin.
Item About Pages
Items that a player does not already own will now indicate when they are part of a Bundle Pack that is currently available in the Shop.
Click the View button on an individual item’s page to check out the Bundle Pack associated with that item.
Items and Bundles that have been placed on sale will now list the original price, sale price, and discount percentage on the purchase button itself, rather than above the purchase button.
Design & Gameplay:
General:
The difficulty ratings for many Heroes have been updated to better reflect their ease of play.
The rings found under Heroes in-game have been scaled to more closely match their hitboxes.
Skillshots and Abilities that use an arc pattern will now display their range when hovering the cursor over the associated button on the Ability hotbar.
Several Abilities were unintentionally providing brief moments of Unstoppable behavior during use. The following Abilities no longer provide Unstoppable:
Chen -- Flying Kick (Q)
Falstad -- Barrel Roll (E)
Illidan -- Dive (Q)
Illidan -- Sweeping Strikes (with the Unbound talent) (W)
Kerrigan -- Ravage (Q)
A number of Hero Abilities were not intended to completely Stun enemy targets. In these cases, Stuns have been converted to Dazes, which act similarly, but will no longer interrupt Abilities that can be channeled while the Hero is moving.
For example: Dazing Valla will not stop her from channeling Strafe.
The following abilities will now Daze, rather than Stun, enemy Heroes:
Brightwing -- Emerald Wind (R)
Chen -- Wandering Keg (R)
E.T.C. -- Face Melt (W)
Falstad -- Mighty Gust (R)
Kerrigan -- Primal Grasp (E)
Raynor -- Penetrating Round (Q)
Sgt. Hammer -- Concussive Blast (W)
Tychus -- Frag Grenade (W)
Battlegrounds:
Haunted Mines
Players may now use queued movement commands (Shift + Right-click) to enter/exit the Mines, and continue moving on the level they are traveling to.
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Talents:
New Talent: Vampiric Strike
This is a new version of Vampiric Assault
Basic Attacks heal for 25% of the damage dealt to the primary target
Vampiric Assault has not been changed
Blood for Blood:
No longer slows the target
Damage decreased from 15% to 10% of the target’s maximum Health
Heal amount increased from 100% to 200% of damage dealt
Conjurer’s Pursuit:
Initial +0.5 Mana Regeneration removed
Each Health Globe now grants +0.1 Mana Regeneration
Envenom:
Duration increased from 5 to 10 seconds, but damage has not been changed
Promote:
Minions no longer gain 300% increased Health and 100% increased damage
Instead, the targeted Minion now takes 75% reduced damage from non-Heroic targets, and deals 100% bonus damage to non-Heroic targets
Protective Shield:
Now Shields for 15% of the target’s maximum Health
Regeneration Master:
Initial +4.0 Health Regeneration removed
Each Health Globe now grants +1.5 Health Regeneration
Spell Shield:
Duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds

Heroes of the Storm Changelog

What's new in Heroes of the Storm 37.0

New in Heroes of the Storm 36.2 (Aug 22, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 36.1 (Aug 17, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 36.0 (Aug 8, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 35.2 (Jul 31, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 35.1 (Jul 26, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 35.0 (Jul 11, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 34.3 (Jul 4, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 34.2 (Jun 17, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 34.1 (Jun 13, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 33.1 (Jun 6, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 33.0 (May 25, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 32.2 (May 10, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 32.1 (May 5, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 32.0 (Apr 25, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 31.3 (Apr 20, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 31.0 (Mar 28, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.6 (Mar 22, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.4 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.3 (Feb 22, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.2 (Feb 19, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.1 (Feb 12, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 30.0 (Feb 7, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.9 (Jan 27, 2018)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.5 (Dec 22, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.4 (Dec 15, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.2 (Nov 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 29.0 (Nov 15, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.5 (Nov 2, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.4 (Oct 30, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.3 (Oct 18, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 28.0 (Sep 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.5 (Sep 26, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.4 (Sep 9, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.3 (Sep 6, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.2 (Aug 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 27.0 (Aug 9, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.4 (Jul 27, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.3 (Jul 12, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.2 (Jun 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 26.0 (Jun 17, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.5 (Jun 6, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.4 (May 17, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.3 (May 10, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.2 (May 9, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.1 (Apr 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 25.0 (Apr 26, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.6 (Apr 21, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.5 (Apr 13, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.3 (Mar 31, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.2 (Mar 29, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.1 (Mar 20, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 24.0 (Mar 15, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.5 (Feb 28, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.4 (Feb 18, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.3 (Feb 15, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.2 (Feb 8, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.1 (Jan 28, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 23.0 (Jan 25, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.7 (Jan 13, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.6 (Jan 6, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.5 (Jan 5, 2017)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.3 (Dec 16, 2016)

New in Heroes of the Storm 22.0.48027 (Nov 23, 2016)

New in Heroes of the Storm 20.2.46787 (Sep 30, 2016)

New in Heroes of the Storm 14.3.38793 Beta (Nov 12, 2015)

New in Heroes of the Storm 12.1.36693 Beta (Jul 30, 2015)

New in Heroes of the Storm 21.07.2015 Beta (Jul 30, 2015)

New in Heroes of the Storm 18.05.2015 Beta (May 22, 2015)