We’ve just released a patch to the live servers in order to apply some balance and bug fixes.

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Map Updates

  • Haunted Mines
    • Skull scaling increased from 5% to 7%.
    • Golem scaling before 5 minutes decreased.
    • Golem scaling later in the game significantly increased.

Balance Update

Heroes

Arthas

Base

  • Base Stats
    • Health increased from 2625 to 2750.
  • Death Coil [Q]
    • Healing increased from 262 to 275.
  • Frostmourne Hungers [D]
    • Attack damage per quest stack reduced from 1 to 0.75.
    • Damage bonus on charged attacks increased from 1 to 3.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Frost Presence
      • Upon unlocking the line Damage, targets can now be hit by both the line AND the final area.
      • Death Coil Slow benefit duration increased from .75 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
  • Level 7
    • Icebound Fortitude
      • Now removes Slows and Roots upon activation.
  • Level 20
    • Path of Frost
      • Now increases minimum Movement Speed to 140%, rather than providing +40% Movement Speed.

Chen

Base

  • Flying Kick [Q]
    • Damage increased from 120 to 130.
  • Fortifying Brew [D]
    • Delay before being able to interrupt decreased slightly.
    • Shields provided per tick increased from 90 to 95.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Accumulating Flame
      • Initial hit now provides a quest stack.
      • Stack requirements increased from 20/75 to 25/80.

Deathwing

Base

  • Molten Flame
    • Damage per tick increased from 19 to 20.

Talents

  • Level 20
    • Destroyers Rampage
      • Duration reduced from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.

Gazlowe

Base

  • Rock-it Turret
    • Damage increased from 37 to 43.

Talents

  • Level 1
    • One Man Wrecking Crew
      • Damage bonus increased from 60% to 75%.

Mal'Ganis

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Will of Tichondrius
      • Damage bonus per stack reduced from 0.5 to 0.25.
      • Required damage to unlock quest reward decreased from 40 to 20.
    • Winged Guard
      • Stack generation reduced from once every 6 seconds to once every 5 seconds.
  • Level 13
    • Deep Sleep
      • Movespeed bonus increased from 10% to 15%.
  • Level 20
    • Wrath of Nathreza
      • Transferred damage increased from 75% to 85%.

Murky

Talents

  • Level 20
    • March of Murlocs
      • Cooldown reduced from 100 seconds to 90 seconds.

Bug Fixes

Map

  • Volskaya Foundry
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Triglav Protector's Particle Cannon charge to cause other players' cursors to highlight in an area.

Heroes

  • Arthas
    • Level 1
      • Rime
        • Fixed an issue that caused Rime's Healing to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.
    • Level 16
      • Remorseless Winter
        • Fixed an issue that caused Remorseless Winter's Healing to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.
  • Chen
    • Base
      • Breath of Fire [W]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Breath of Fire to not deal impact damage.
  • Muradin
    • Base
      • Storm Bolt [Q]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Storm Bolt's quest progression indicator to show around the target that killed the Hero.
    • Level 7
      • Perfect Storm
        • Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm's Mana refund to not be granted.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm's Mana refund to increase Muradin's Self Healing score.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm to be able to go on cooldown when already on cooldown.
  • Rexxar
    • General
      • Fixed an issue that caused Misha to not respawn when her Respawn Timer expires.
  • Tychus
    • Level 10
      • Infest
        • Infest now displays as a Quest Bonus.
  • Tyrande
    • Base
      • Lunar Flare [E]
        • Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze to not grant quest progress when the targeted Hero dies and they have a non-standard death state.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze to not grant quest progress when the targeted Hero is killed by a non-Hero.
        • Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze's quest progression indicator to show around the target that killed the Hero.
  • Zagara
    • Level 1
      • Infest
        • Infest now displays as a Quest Bonus.

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