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General
- Updated Homescreen and Startup Music.
- Updated Shop Bundles and Items.
Map Update
- Snow Brawl has been added too Custom Games.
Volskaya
- The Triglav Protector will now gain 25% increased energy regeneration and the Pilot and Gunner Abilities will both recharge 25% faster while both slots are occupied.
Hero Updates
Chen
Talents
- Level 10
- Wandering Keg
- Wandering Keg updated to be a targeted forced quick cast rather of a Self cast.
- Wandering Keg
Samuro
general
- Order of buffs in the buff bar has been updated to match the order in which talents are gained.
- Samuro can no longer target a Mirror Image that is affected by launch effects (Example: Phase Prism).
- Samuro will no longer mirror hearthstone and Mount commands on his Mirror Images if the command is sent while selecting a Mirror Image and not Samuro.
- Tooltips have been updated to reduce confusion.
Base
- Image Transmission [Trait]
- Advancing Strikes will now copy Samuro’s state for the following: creating a new Mirror Image, Image Transmission, Deflection, press the Attack.
- Wind Walk [E]
- Wind Walk will no longer cancel move and attack commands in the command queue when activated.
- Activating Critical Strike while Samuro’s Basic Attack is being swung will now apply to that attack, rather than the next attack, and will carry the attack reset over to the next Basic Attack.
- Samuro can now see his critical Strike progress below his Healthplate.
- Samuro can now see the remaining duration of Critical Strike’s activation around the ability button.
- critical Strike will now copy Samuro’s state for the following: creating a new Mirror Image, Image Transmission, Deflection, Press the Attack.
Talents
- Level 1
- Way of illusion
- Way of Illusion quest progress is now correctly mirrored between different Mirror Images and Samuro.
- Way of illusion
- Level 7
- Burning Blade
- Burning Blade is now an additive modifier for both Samuro and his Mirror Images instead of just his Mirror Images.
- Burning Blade
- Level 13
- Kawarimi
- Kawarimi Mirror Images will now clear their command queue of Hearthstone commands when created.
- Kawarimi
- Level 16
- Harsh Winds
- Harsh Winds is now an additive modifier.
- Harsh Winds
Balance Update
Heroes
Arthas
Talents
- Level 13
- Frost strike
- Rework: If Death Coil hits a target Slowed by Frost Strike, they will be Silenced for 1 second.
- Level 16
- Frostmourne Feeds
- Rework: The cooldown for Frostmourne Hungers now starts as soon as the frist empowerment is used.
- Rework: The second Frostmourne Hungers empowerment now onyl applies after hitting a Hero and lasts for 4 seconds.
- Frostmourne Feeds
- Max Health increased from 2100 to 2150.
- Defense Matrix [W]
- Damage reduction increased from -50% to -60%.
- level 1
- Liquid Cooling
- Bonus duration increased from 35% to 50%.
- Liquid Cooling
- level 7
- Get On The Point!
- Movement Speed increase duration increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
- Get On The Point!
- Damage increased from 70 to 78.
- Proc bonus damage reduced from 100% to 80%.
- Frost strike
- Micro Missiles
- Cooldown between charges reduced from 5 to 3 seconds.
- Cooldown per charge reduced from 20 to 19 seconds.
- Target Locked
- Armor reduction and Slow are now refreshed in duration if the enemy Hero already has the debuffs.
- Reduced the amount of time that enemy Heroes need to be in the Defense Matrix from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.
- Diverting Power
- Healing reduced from 35 to 31.
- Emergency Shielding
- Duration increased from 4 to 8 seconds.
- Shield increased from 280 to 290.
Greymane
Talents
- Level 16
- Lord Of His Pack
- New: Replaces Executioner. Basic Attacks against Slowed, Rooted or Stunned enemy Heroes deal 25% additional damage for 3 seconds, increased to 50% while in Worgen Form.
- Level 10
- Wrath of the Angiris
- Rework: Damage reduced from 375 to 250.
- Rework: Now deals 20% additional damage for each Valorous Brand marker on the target when landing.
- rework: valorous Brand markers placed by Imperius will no longer be removed when launching the target into the air. Thes can still expire while in the air.
- Wrath of the Angiris
- Level 1
- Free Drinks
- Can now reduce the cooldown multiple times per cast (Example: Combined with Two For One).
- Free Drinks
- level 20
- Shake It Off
- armor now persists for 2 seconds after Stun,Silence,or Root expires.
- Shake It Off
- Level 20
- Glyph of Poly Bomb
- Rework: Target an area to apply Poly Bomb to all enemy Heroes in the area. Poly Bomb activates a second time 1 second after.
- Glyph of Poly Bomb
- Level 13
- Egg Shell
- The Shield now regains an amount equal to 35% of Murky’s current Health when Murky places a new Egg.
- Egg Shell
- Level 20
- Demoralizing shout
- Cooldown of Demoralizing shout and Parry are reduced by 2.5% whenever an enemy Hero affected by Demoralizing Shout deals damage to a Hero.
- Demoralizing shout
- Fixed issues with block and Basic Attacks that Ignore Armor.
- Cursed Hollow
- Fixed an issue that caused Cursed Hollow’s Call for Help’s Armor reduction to not be cleared by Stasis or Invulnerable.
- Anubarak
- level 20
- Cryptweave
- Fixed an issue that caused Cryptweave’s duration increase to be granted while Anub’arak is dead.
- Cryptweave
- level 20
- Cassia
- Level 20
- Titan’s Revenge
- Fixed an issue that caused Titan’s Revenge empowered Basic Attacks to consume Block charges.
- Fixed an issue that caused Titan’s Revenge to not apply to Charged Strikes bounce attacks.
- Titan’s Revenge
- Level 20
- Cho’Gall
- General
- Fixed an issue that caused Cho and Gall to become separated if Cho enters a Vehicle the moment the Vehicle expires.
- General
- Fixed an issue that caused Boosters to not be affected by cooldown reduction granted by Allied Heroes.
Imperius
Talents
Li Li
Talents
Medivh
Talents
Talents
Varian
Talents
Bug Fixes
General
Map
Heroes
- Lord Of His Pack
- Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
- Level 20
- Unconquered Spirit
- Ability will no longer be shaded as though it is disabled when off cooldown.
- Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
- Unconquered Spirit
- Base
- Drain Life [W]
- Added a range indicator for Drain Life.
- Hanzo
- Level 16
- Piercing Arrows
- Fixed an issue that caused Storm Bow to not hit targets in close proximity to the first target hit with Piercing Arrows.
- Piercing Arrows
- Level 16
- Johanna
- Level 20
- Indestructible
- Ability will no longer be shaded as though it is indeed disabled when off cooldown.
- Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
- Indestructible
- Level 20
- Junkrat
- Level 7
- Dirty Trickster
- will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try mode.
- Dirty Trickster
- Level 7
- Level 1
- Fealty Unto Death
- Healing increased from 31.85 to 32. Updated the tooltip to display number instead of percentage.
- Fealty Unto Death
- Li Li
- Base
- Cloud Serpent [W]
- Fixed an issue that caused crit floating modifiers to not apply to Cloud Serpent damage.
- Fixed an issue that caused Defense Matrix to not apply to any Cloud serpent damage.
- Fixed an issue that caused Spell Power to not apply to cloud Serpent healing.
- Healing Brew [Q]
- Fixed an issue that caused Healing Brew to be disjointed if the target Teleports.
- Cloud Serpent [W]
- Level 7
- The Good Stuff
- Fixed an issue that caused The Good Stuff’s Fast Feet healing increase to be multiplicative.
- Level 10
- Jug of 1,000 Cups
- Fixed an issue that caused Jug of 1,000 Cups to instantly heal the target if the target Teleports while the jug is on its way to them.
- Jug of 1,000 Cups
- Level 13
- Lightning Serpent
- Fixed an issue that caused Spell Power and other damage mods to not apply to Lightning Serpent damage.
- Lightning Serpent
- Level 16
- Pick Me Up
- Fixed an issue that caused Pick Me Up’s healing increase to be multiplicative.
- Pick Me Up
- Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
- Fixed an issue that caused the cooldown displayed on the ability to show incorrectly.
- Maiev
- Level 4
- Sudden Vengeance
- Fixed an issue that caused Sudden Vengeance to not activate Ruthless Spirit.
- Sudden Vengeance
- Level 4
- Mal’Ganis
- Level 1
- Winged Guard
- Fixed an issue that caused Winged Guard to lose Block charges to all effects that ignore Armor.
- Winged Guard
- Level 1
- Mephisto
- Level 16
- Lightning Reaction
- Fixed an issue that caused Lightning reaction to activate around Shades of Mephisto when Mephisto has not selected Mimic.
- Lightning Reaction
- Level 16
- Fixed an issue that caused Voodoo Ritual and Vile infection to display the incorrect total damage value in their tooltips.
- Fixed an issue that caused Voodoo Ritual to not grant stack progress if the target is killed by the last tick of Voodoo Ritual after completing Vile Infection.
- Gargantuan
- Fixed an issue that caused Gargantuan Stomp damage to not display the correct values in the tooltip.
- Dead Magic
- Fixed an issue that caused Chaos-empowered Basic Attacks from Dead Magic to consume Block charges.
- When selecting Purification, Purge will now be able to target Unstoppable enemy Heroes.
- Unleash the Boars damage updated to have Rexxar deal the damage instead of each Boar dealing its own damage.
- Fixed an issue that allowed Samuro to cast Image Transmission on a destroyed Mirror Image if it was queued to happen directly after Mirror Image was cast.
- If Samuro activates Image Transmission or if a new Mirror Image is created, any Mirror Images that are updated will copy Blessing of the Red if it is present on Samuro instead of increasing their maximum Health as if Blessing of the Red were cast on them.
- Level 20
- Three Blade Style
- Fixed an issue that caused Three Blade Style to increase Mirror Image maximum health if Samuro gained Blessing of the Red between the images being created and the talent being selected.
- Fixed an issue that caused Three Blade Style to reset the duration on an active Mirror Image when selected.
- Three Blade Style
- Sgt. Hammer
- General
- Sgt.Hammer’s level 1 talent icon changes have been reverted.
- General
- Stitches
- Level 13
- Meat Hook
- Fixed an issue that caused the refresh duration to not match the full duration of Meat Hook.
- Meat Hook
- Level 13
- level 7
- Arc Discharge
- Will now be properly reset when ability cooldowns are reset in Sandbox or Try Mode.
- Fixed an issue that caused Arc Discharge to become disjointed when Tassadar stops attacking.
- Arc Discharge
- The Butcher
- General
- Talent sorting for The Butcher has been updated to be the same as other Heroes.
- Base
- fresh Meat [Trait]
- Fresh Meat is now referred to as stacks instead of charges.
- fresh Meat [Trait]
- General
- Thrall
- Level 13
- Spirit Shield
- Tyrande
- Level 1
- Ranger
- Fixed an issue that caused Ranger to allow Sentinel to hit up to 3 targets.
- Ranger
- Level 4
- Everlasting Light
- Added an indicator on targets that will receive additional healing from Light of Elune.
- Everlasting Light
- Level 1
- Whitemane
- Base
- Inquisition [W]
- Added a range indicator for Inquisition.
- Fixed an issue that caused Inquisition to not be cancelled if the target leaves the radius while Stealthed.
- Zul’jin
- Level 16
- No Mercy!
- Fixed an issue that caused empowered Grievous Throw Basic Attacks from No Mercy! To not activate Medivh’s Raven Familiar.
- No Mercy!
- Level 16
- General Fixes:
- Character-Specific Fixes:
- Level 20 Changes for Samuro:
- Sgt. Hammer:
- Stitches:
- Tassadar:
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What are the key general fixes mentioned in the updates summary?
here’s a summary of the updates and fixes mentioned in the text:
Updates and Fixes Summary:
– Lightning reaction now properly activates around Shades of Mephisto.
– Tooltip damage values for Voodoo ritual and Vile Infection corrected.
– Gargantuan Stomp damage values now display correctly in the tooltip.
– Chaos-empowered Basic Attacks from Dead Magic no longer consume Block charges.
– Purification can now target Unstoppable enemy Heroes.
- Rexxar’s Unleash the Boars damage has been restructured to deal damage rather of each Boar dealing its own.
– Samuro fixes:
- Allows casting Image Transmission on a destroyed mirror Image.
– New Mirror Images now copy Blessing of the Red from Samuro correctly.
- Three Blade Style adjustments:
– Fixed maximum health increase for Mirror Images when gaining Blessing of the Red.
– Resolved duration reset issue of active Mirror Image upon selection.
– Level 1 talent icon changes reverted.
– Meat Hook refresh duration issue corrected to match the full duration.
– Arc Discharge resets properly during ability cooldown resets in Sandbox or Try Mode.
– Addressed issue of Arc Discharge becoming disjointed when Tassadar stops attacking.
This summary encapsulates the major points from the updates, focusing on fixes specific to characters and their abilities.
- Inquisition [W]
- Base
- Tyrande
- Spirit Shield
- Level 13
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- The Good Stuff
- Base
- Drain Life [W]