General
New Event: Fall of King’s Crest
Battlegrounds
Unranked Battleground Rotation
Art
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents
User Interface
Heroes
Assassin Support KerriganBrightwing
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Assassin
Kerrigan
Abilities
New Event: Fall of King’s Crest
- The Fall of Kings Questline is now available for players. The hunt is on for the generals of the Raven Lord!
- Loot Chests have been replaced with Seasonal Loot chests for the duration of this event.
- 2018 Ranked Season 4 Has Begun!
- Ranked rewards have been granted to players based on their performance during 2018 Ranked Season 3.
- Learn more about the rewards that are up for grabs during the new season by checking out our 2018 Ranked Season 4 Dates and Rewards blog.
- Team League
- Team League now supports all party sizes, including solo players.
- All solo players will need to choose which League to play for the first time after the patch.
- Team League now supports all party sizes, including solo players.
Developer Comment: Heroes of the Storm is primarily a team-based experience and, with this change, we’re hoping to make it easier to have that experience without putting restrictions on party size. In our current system, competitive solo players do not have many opportunities to find groups of players to play with in a ranked queue. To give these players more options for their competitive experience, we have removed all party size queue restrictions from Team League. Our hope is that this leads to a more robust Team League experience and that solo players find more regular groups to play with.
Battlegrounds
Unranked Battleground Rotation
- The Battleground Rotation for all Unranked modes has been adjusted to the following:
- Hanamura Temple
- Cursed Hollow
- Alterac Pass
- Towers of Doom
- Garden of Terror
- Dragon Shire
- Garden of Terror has received significant gameplay and layout changes. Find out more in the Garden of Terror Spotlight video or on the updated Garden of Terror Battleground site.
Art
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents
- Kerrigan and Brightwing have received some new and updated art to coincide with their gameplay updates.
User Interface
- Mercenary Camp and Banner floating text has received readability improvements.
Heroes
Assassin Support KerriganBrightwing
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Assassin
Kerrigan
Abilities
- Ravage (Q)
- Charges increased from 1 to 2
- Range reduced from 8 to 6
- Mana cost reduced from 40 to 20
- Damage reduced from 210 to 130
- Added functionality:
- Now also refunds 20 Mana when used on an enemy that dies within 1.5 seconds
- Impaling Blades (W)
- Damage reduced from 261 to 180
- Primal Grasp (E)
- Pull damage reduced from 114 to 25
- Added functionality:
- 2.5 seconds after using Primal Grasp, Kerrigan damages all nearby enemies for 180 damage
- Summon Ultralisk (R)
- Splash radius increased from 1.5 to 2
- The initial cast of Ultralisk is now directional skill shot that causes the Ultralisk to charge in the targeted direction until impacting an enemy Hero. It deals 250 damage and stuns for .5 seconds to the first Hero it hits.
- Assimilation (Trait)
- Shield amount increased from 10 to 15% of damage dealt
- Level 1
- Siphoning Impact (Q)
- New functionality:
- Using Ravage on an enemy Hero grants an additional 90 Assimilation Shield
- New functionality:
- Assimilation Mastery (Trait)
- Moved from level 7
- No longer increases the duration of Assimilation Shield
- In addition to increasing Kerrigan’s Health and Mana Regeneration by 100% while Assimilation is active, now also causes Regeneration Globes to grant 40 Assimilation Shield per second while active
- Fury of the Swarm (Passive)
- Moved from level 4
- New functionality:
- Kerrigan gains 10% more Assimilation Shields from Basic Attacks. Casting Ravage causes Kerrigan’s next 2 Basic Attacks within 3 seconds to splash for 100% damage around the target
- Sharpened Blades (W)
- Removed
- Block (Passive)
- Removed
- Siphoning Impact (Q)
- Level 4
- New Talent - Sharpened Blades (Q)
- !Quest: Every time an enemy Minion or Hero dies within 1.5 seconds of being damaged by Ravage, increase Ravage's damage by .5 (5 for Heroes), up to 50
- !Reward: After reaching 50 damage, gain an additional 50 damage
- New Talent - Kinetic Fulmination (W)
- Damaging an enemy increases the damage of Kerrigan's next Impaling Blades by 15%. Stacks up to 150%. Lasts 10 seconds.
- Psionic Pulse (E)
- New functionality:
- Primal Grasp deals damage a second time 2.5 seconds after the initial burst
- New functionality:
- Clean Kill (Q)
- Removed
- Envenom (Active)
- Removed
- New Talent - Sharpened Blades (Q)
- Level 7
- New Talent - Queen of Blades (Q)
- Every time Primal Grasp's pull or explosion hits an enemy Hero, reduce the cooldown of Ravage by 4 seconds
- New Talent - Boundless Fury (Q)
- Casting Ravage on an enemy Hero grants a charge of Ravage. Can only occur on each Hero once every 10 seconds
- Bladed Momentum (Passive)
- Now only triggers when attacking enemy Heroes
- Now works with splash damage from Fury of the Swarm
- Blade Torrent (W)
- Removed
- New Talent - Queen of Blades (Q)
- Level 13
- New Talent - Psionic Barrier (E)
- Kerrigan gains 15 Spell Armor for 4 seconds for every enemy Hero she hits with Primal Grasp's pull or explosion
- New Talent - Volatile Power (Trait)
- Increase the base Shield amount gained from Assimilation by 15%, but reduce the duration of Assimilation Shields from 6 to 3 seconds
- New Talent - Chrysalis (Active)
- Activate to place Kerrigan in a chrysalis with 550 Health for 5 seconds. Kerrigan regenerates 5% Health per second while inside the chrysalis. 90 second cooldown.
- Eviscerate (Q)
- Removed
- Double Strike (Q)
- Removed
- Queen’s Rush (Active)
- Removed
- New Talent - Psionic Barrier (E)
- Level 16
- New Talent - Mounting Potency (Q)
- Casting Ravage on an enemy increases Kerrigan's Spell Power by 5% for 4 seconds, stacking up to 40%
- New Talent - Painful Spikes (W)
- After stunning an enemy with Impale, Kerrigan deals an additional 75 damage the next 6 times she damages them within the next 5 seconds
- New Talent - Unbridled Energy (R)
- When Kerrigan damages a Hero with a Heroic Ability she gains 30% Spell Power for 4 seconds
- Aggressive Defense (Trait)
- Removed
- Essence for Essence (Active)
- Removed
- Overdrive (Active)
- Removed
- New Talent - Mounting Potency (Q)
- Level 20
- Omegastorm (R)
- New Functionality:
- Maelstrom's duration is increased by .125 seconds every time it damages an enemy Hero
- New Functionality:
- New Talent - Assimilation Blades (Trait)
- Damaging an enemy increases Kerrigan's Basic Attack damage by 4%, up to 40%, for 5 seconds
- Psionic Shift (Active)
- Shield amount is now doubled when damaging enemy Heroes
- Nexus Blades (Passive)
- Removed
- Omegastorm (R)
Developer Comment: Kerrigan is receiving an update to increase the tactical depth of using her abilities and increase the impact that her Talents have on her playstyle. We've reduced the range on Ravage but added a second charge so that smart Kerrigan players can use it to maneuver on the battlefield, as well as utilize a lot of her Talents to get the most out of the ability. We've added a secondary explosion to Primal Grasp so that Kerrigan will want to continue to worry about her positioning after her initial engagement occurs, as well as provide the opportunity for new Talent interactions. We've also added a skillshot component to Ultralisk so that the Heroic can feel like it has a big moment when it is first unleashed. Overall, Kerrigan should play mostly the same, but have increased room for mastery and playstyle specific builds.
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