Bug Fixes

• Apocalypse will now activate even if Diablo is interrupted during the cast time.

Bug Fixes

• Shadow Charge terrain impact will now always display as a crit.
• Fire Stomp now combines damage text.

Hero Updates

• Difficulty updated from Medium to Hard.

Abilities

• Fire Stomp [W]
  • Fire Stomp no longer grants vision-obscured sight. Undocumented
  • Fire Stomp now reveals the area extended by 1 for 0.75 seconds. Undocumented

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Black Soulstone's health bonuses to stack multiplicatively with other health bonuses.
• Fixed an issue that caused Hell Fire's damage aura to display as a critical when damage was not increased.
• Fixed an issue that caused Dying Breath Apocalypse to display incorrectly in the Death Recap.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Black Soulstone [D]
  • Additional functionality: Upon reaching Level 10, Souls consumed when resurrecting is decreased from 100 to 75.

Talents

• Level 13
  • Devastating Charge [Q]
    • Armor reduction increased from 15 to 20.
  • Hellfire [W]
    • Damage per second increased from 30 to 33.

Developer Comment: Diablo is weakened longer than we would like after resurrecting with Black Soulstone, and we want him back wreaking havoc sooner.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Feast on Fear [Q/E]
    • Healing per second reduced from 4% to 2.5%.
    • Additional functionality: Now heals immediately when first applied.
• Level 4
  • Sacrificial Soul [Q]
    • Base Armor reduced from 25 to 20.
    • Armor at 100 Souls reduced from 50 to 40.
    • Armor duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
  • Life Leech [Passive]
    • Base healing reduced from 2% to 1.75%.
    • Healing at 100 Souls reduced from 4% to 3.5%.
• Level 13
  • Hellfire [W]
    • Damage per second increased from 17 to 30.
• Level 16
  • Debilitating Flames [W]
    • Slow per hit increased from 5% to 6%.
    • Slow amount required to affect damage dealt reduced from 25% to 24%.

Developer Comment: We're happy with the Lord of Terror's ability to wage wanton destruction, but we think he should do so at greater risk to himself. The hits to his survivability may be too heavy handed, in which case we are ready to grovel for Diablo's forgiveness and resolve it with our next update. While we're here, we had an excuse to tune up Fire Stomp's later tier talents.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Eternal Flames [W]
    • Additional functionality: Reduce the cooldown of Fire Stomp by 1 second.
    • Mana return when Stunning enemy Heroes with Shadow Charge or Overpower increased from 35 to 45.
  • Diabolical Momentum [Passive]
    • No longer reduces the cooldown of Fire Stomp.
• Level 13
  • Hellfire [W]
    • Bonus Spell Power per stack increased from 2% to 3%.
    • Maximum stacks for bonus damage per second to nearby enemies reduced from 15 to 10.

Developer Comment: Diablo has recently risen in the ranks to once again being a high demand Warrior for his team. Overall, his talents are in a fairly good place, but we want to fix a design issue where Diabolical Momentum is simply too good at doing everything since it has synergy with all of his other potential ways of playing. To reduce its power and help his Level 7 tier be more diverse, we're removing its ability to reduce the cooldown of Fire Stomp and giving Eternal Flames a boost in its role as a key talent for players who want to build around the ability.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Shadow Charge [Q]
  • Cooldown reduced from 13 to 12 seconds.
  • Mana cost reduced from 70 to 65.
• Overpower [E]
  • Cooldown reduced from 13 to 12 seconds.
  • Mana cost reduced from 40 to 35.

Talents

• Level 4
  • Life Leech [Passive]
    • Healing increased from 1.5% to 2% maximum Health when not at full Souls.
    • Healing increased from 3% to 4% maximum Health when at full Souls.
• Level 13
  • Hellfire [W]
    • Damage per second to nearby enemies increased from 15 to 17.

Developer Comment: Diablo is slightly underperforming compared to other Warriors, so we're giving him some small base kit and talent buffs.

Bug Fixes

• The following damage effects no longer activate tower aggro: Undocumented
  • Diablo Hellfire

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Devastating Charge [Q]
  • Damage when hitting enemies into terrain increased from 120 to 130.

Talents

• Level 7
  • Diabolical Momentum [Passive]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 1.25 to 1.5 seconds.

Developer Comment: Since we changed Devastating Charge Diablo has fallen off a bit. While we believe he's in a more healthy spot overall, we understand how players miss the unique role he had as a tank who had the ability to burst down enemies who are out of position. We're giving a little bit of that back in the form of a baseline buff to Shadow charge so that he can have some of that fantasy back no matter how players choose to build him.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Sacrificial Soul [Q]
    • Souls gained from Stunning an enemy Hero with Shadow Charge increased from 5 to 10.

Developer Comment: Sacrificial Soul is not performing as well as its peers, so we're buffing it!

Hero Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 2670 to 2825.

Abilities

• Black Soulstone [Trait]
  • Bonus Health reduced from 0.4% to 0.3% per Soul.

Talents

• Level 10
  • Apocalypse [R1]
    • Mana cost reduced from 100 to 50.

Developer Comment: Diablo, surprisingly, is one of the lowest winning Heroes in the game. That doesn't mean that he's not extremely powerful at times or unpopular, so we don't feel the need to make drastic changes right now. However, we are making a few small adjustments to make him better when he's behind in a game by increasing his Health until he's around 75 Souls. To allow Diablo to more commonly attempt to land his entire combo with Apocalypse, we're reducing the Mana cost. Interestingly, Apocalypse is chosen a lot more often, but is actually a 5% lower win rate, so we want to make the Heroic win more without drastically shifting the perception of its power.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Eternal Flames [W]
    • Additional functionality: Also refunds 35 Mana when Stunning enemy Heroes with Shadow Charge or Overpower.
  • Diabolical Momentum [Passive]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 1 to 1.25 seconds.
• Level 13
  • Adjusted the order of talents to match other heroes (Q, W, E, etc.).
  • Devastating Charge [Q]
    • Damage bonus reduced from 80% to 50%.
    • Adjusted functionality:
      • Quest: Hit 5 enemy Heroes against terrain with Shadow Charge.
      • Reward: Hitting enemy Heroes against terrain with Shadow Charge reduces their Armor by 15 for 4 seconds.
  • Hellfire [W]
    • Additional functionality: When at maximum stacks, Diablo deals 15 damage to nearby enemies.

Developer Comment: We've had a lot of discussion recently on Diablo's place in the meta and what makes him such a consistently popular pick, despite having a low win rate. We love the hero, and believe he's an incredibly fun Warrior to play, but we've heard complaints from players about his burst potential, and we agree that it can be a bit much to be killed in a double Shadow Charge combo post 16. To help free up other options on his 13 and 16 tiers and to address issues with his burst, we are changing Devastating Charge to be a little less about his own burst damage, and more about debuffing his target so that his team can take advantage of his powerful initiation. In addition, we're buffing up his other builds so that they can be more viable compared to the double wall-stun combo that currently dominates his late-game playstyle. We hope that these changes still retain the fun of lining up the perfect Domination combo for those who love the playstyle while also bringing other ways to play him into the forefront.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Mana cost increased from 30 to 35

Developer Comment: As we promised in the past, we took a look at the overall Mana tension of all the Heroes in the game. We also have some philosophies about Mana that we want to keep going forward. They are:

1. Mana should be a meaningful part of the game, particularly in the early stages when wave clear is at a higher premium. We believe that as the game progresses, Mana tension should become less important as Heroes gain more base Mana and the game's focus shifts to team fighting.
2. Mana tension doesn't have to be the same for every Hero, but every Hero should feel it to some degree, otherwise it serves no purpose.
3. We like that some talents heavily mitigate Mana tension.

When we took a look at Mana tension in the game, we saw that, overall, things are in a fairly healthy spot, but could be fine-tuned and improved upon. We like the tension that the heroes who are closer to the middle of the spectrum have, with some examples being Malfurion, Tychus, and E.T.C. Our goal with these changes is to bring the outliers closer to the center. We are open to your feedback going forward if you think that the game needs to be stricter or more lenient in this area, or if you believe there are any outliers that we missed.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Shadow Charge (Q)
  • Cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds
• Overpower (E)
  • Cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds

Developer Comment: Diablo, while not winning outside of our normally acceptable bounds, is banned a disproportionate amount compared to other heroes in the game. We're slightly reducing how available his combo is so that enemy players have a larger window of time to take advantage of his threatening abilities being on cooldown.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Soul Shield (Passive)
    • Soul Shield will now dynamically update if Diablo gains Souls while the Spell Armor is active

Design & Gameplay

Armor

• Now, just like Movement Speed modifiers, the game will apply only the highest (or lowest) amount of Armor to a Hero at any given time. We've adjusted ability/talent Armor values on a per Hero basis to account for this change:
  • Diablo
    • Sacrificial Soul (Q)
      • Armor increased from 20 to 25
      • Armor at max Souls increased from 40 to 50

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Fixed an issue where Diablo would not be displaced by knockback and similar effects while casting Overpower.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Lightning Breath (R)
  • ​Cooldown increased from 70 to 90 seconds

Talents

• Level 7
  • Diabolical Momentum (Passive)
    • ​Cooldown reduction increased from .75 to 1 second per Basic Attack

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Fixed an issue that prevented Diablo from being thrown by Garrosh's Wrecking Ball if Diablo was casting Overpower.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Lightning Breath (R)
  • Slow amount per tick reduced from 5 to 4%
  • Maximum slow amount reduced from 50 to 40%

Bug Fixes

• Diablo – Fixed an issue causing Diablo's Shadow Charge to not push stunned targets the full expected distance after choosing the Domination talent.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

• Diablo: No longer becomes unable to use any Abilities if Shadow Charge fails to cast.

• Diablo: Will no longer appear to face the wrong direction while walking after Shadow Charge is interrupted.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 2,618 to 2,670.
• Health Regeneration increased from 5.45 to 5.56.

Abilities

• Apocalypse (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 100 to 90 seconds.
• Lightning Breath (R)
  • Cooldown increased from 60 to 70 seconds.

Talents

• Level 13
  • Cruelty (W/E)
    • Bonus Attack Speed duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Dying Breath (R)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 20 to 25 seconds per Hero hit

Hero Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 2,567 to 2,618.
• Health Regeneration increased from 5.3515 to 5.4542.
• Basic Attack speed increased from 0.91 to 0.95.

Abilities

• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Healing increased from 125% to 130% of the damage dealt.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Feast on Fear (Q/E)
    • Healing per second increased from 3.75% to 4%.
    • Duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
  • Devil's Due (Trait)
    • Regeneration Globe and Healing Fountain bonuses increased from 2% to 2.25% per Soul.
  • Soul Shield (Active)
    • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 45 seconds.
• Level 4
  • Sacrificial Soul (Q)
    • Armor increased from 15 to 20.
    • Armor granted after gathering 100 Souls increased from 30 to 40.
  • Souls to the Flame (W)
    • Healing increased from 1.25% to 1.3% per Soul.
• Level 13
  • Devastating Charge (Q)
    • Initial damage bonus reduced from 100% to 80%.
    • Quest damage bonus increased from 15% to 20% per stack.
    • Maximum quest damage bonus increased from 75% to 120%.

Developer Comment: Diablo is underperforming since his recent rework, so we've increased his baseline survivability. We expect him to rise as players settle into new builds and playstyles, but there was still room to buff the Lord of Terror. We've also addressed a few of the Talents that weren't as strong as their counterparts. Additionally, we've reduced the duration of Feast on Fear, but increased its healing per tick, so Diablo players can get more value out of a few healing ticks before overriding it.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Lightning Breath's visual effects can no longer be right-clicked.

• Diablo: The visual effects that display within Diablo's Hero ring after he has collected 100 Souls will no longer appear underneath Vehicles that Diablo is piloting, such as the Dragon Knight.

Hero Updates

Catch additional details in our recent Lunara and Diablo Gameplay Updates Blog.

Abilities

• Shadow Charge (Q)
  • Range increased from 7 to 8.5.
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 70.
  • Damage reduced from 75 to 40.
  • Terrain collision damage reduced from 150 to 120.
  • No longer grants Armor.
  • Now also increases Movement Speed by 15% for 2 seconds.
• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Now unleashes fire waves in a large cone in the chosen direction, rather than a 360° area around Diablo.
  • Number of fire waves reduced from 8 to 5.
  • Multiple fire waves can now hit the same target.
  • Cooldown increased from 6 to 8 seconds.
  • Mana cost reduced from 40 to 30.
  • Outgoing fire wave damage reduced from 54 to 12.
  • Returning fire wave damage reduced from 81 to 36.
    • Damage dealt by returning fire waves now counts as critical damage.
  • Now Heals Diablo for 125% of the damage dealt to Heroes.
• Overpower (E)
  • Mana cost reduced from 60 to 40.
• Lightning Breath (R)
  • Range increased from 10.5 to 12.
  • Each tick of Lightning Breath damage now also Slows enemies hit by 5% for 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 50%.

Talents

• Level 1
  • New Talent: Feast on Fear (Passive)
    • Stunning an enemy Hero with Shadow Charge or Overpower Heals Diablo for 15% of his maximum Health over 4 seconds.
  • Soul Shield (Active)
    • Moved from Level 7.
    • New functionality:
      • Activate to gain Spell Armor equal to 25 plus 50% of Diablo's current Souls for 4 seconds. 60 second cooldown.
      • Every time Diablo damages an enemy Hero, reduce this cooldown by 1 second.
  • Bulwark (Q)
    • Removed.
• Level 4
  • New Talent: Sacrificial Soul (Q)
    • Stunning an enemy Hero with Shadow Charge grants 5 Souls and 15 Armor for 4 seconds. While at 100 Souls, increase this Armor to 30.
  • New Talent: Souls to the Flame (W)
    • Fire Stomp grants 1 Soul every 3 times it damages an enemy Hero and Heals for an additional 1.25% of its damage dealt per Soul.
  • Life Leech (Passive)
    • Moved from Level 1.
    • New functionality:
      • Diablo gains 1 Soul and Heals for 1.5% of his maximum Health for every Basic Attack against an enemy Hero. While at 100 Souls, increase this Healing to 3% of his maximum Health.
  • From the Shadows (Q)
    • Removed.
  • Speed Demon (Passive)
    • Removed.
  • Demonic Strength (E)
    • Removed.
• Level 7
  • New Talent: Eternal Flames (W)
    • When Diablo Stuns an enemy Hero with Overpower or Shadow Charge, Fire Stomp's cooldown is reset.
  • New Talent: Malevolence (Passive)
    • Using Basic Abilities causes Diablo's next Basic Attack within 6 seconds to deal an additional 100 Spell Damage. Stores up to 2 charges.
  • Soul Feast (Trait)
    • Removed.
  • Diabolical Momentum (Passive)
    • Basic Attacks now also reduce Fire Stomp's cooldown.
    • Cooldown reduction granted per Basic Attack decreased from 1.5 to 0.75 seconds.
• Level 13
  • Devastating Charge (Q)
    • Adjusted functionality:
      • Now increases Shadow Charge's terrain collision damage by 100%, rather than a percentage of the target's maximum Health.
      • Quest: Each time an enemy Hero takes terrain collision damage, increase this bonus by 15%, to a maximum of 75%.
  • New Talent: Cruelty (Passive)
    • Stunning an enemy Hero with Shadow Charge or Overpower increases Diablo's Attack Speed by 50% for 5 seconds, up to 100%.
  • Hellfire (W)
    • New functionality:
      • Each enemy Hero hit by Fire Stomp grants 2% Spell Power for 10 seconds, up to 30%.
  • Fire Devil (W)
    • Removed.
• Level 16
  • Debilitating Flames (W)
    • New functionality:
      • Enemy Heroes hit by Fire Stomp are Slowed by 5% for 4 seconds, up to 50%. Heroes Slowed 25% or more by Debilitating Flames deal 50% less damage.
  • New Talent: Overpowering Nightmare (E)
    • Gain 2 additional charges of Overpower, with a 2 second cooldown between uses.
  • Fearful Presence (Active)
    • Removed.
• Level 20
  • Dying Breath (R)
    • Now reduces Apocalypse's cooldown by 20 seconds per enemy Hero hit (to a minimum total cooldown of 5 seconds), rather than reducing its cooldown by a static amount.
  • Hellstorm (R)
    • No longer increases Lightning Breath's range.
    • Bonus duration increased from 50% to 200%.
  • Lord of Terror (Active)
    • Now also grants 5 Souls per enemy Hero hit.

• (!) indicates a Questing Talent.
• Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
• Bold text indicates a MOVED Talent.

Developer Comment: Diablo's update aims to give the Lord of Terror more control over his kit and add fun new gameplay without compromising his core identity in the Nexus. We're putting the power in the hands of Diablo players by allowing them to target their Fire Stomps and allowing multiple fire waves to hit the same Hero to help execute the perfect combo. We're adding self- healing to Fire Stomp so that Diablo has a way to maintain his health beyond relying on a Support to heal him. Shadow Charge now grants increased Movement Speed to reduce situations where enemies are just beyond Overpower's reach after charging in. Diablo's level 4 Talents all allow him to collect souls in new ways, so he can still get the most out of his Trait during low takedown games. There is also a spiderweb of fun synergies and interactions between the Talents in his tree, so we're excited to see what creative combinations players will latch onto.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Fixed a visual issue affecting Fenix’s walk animations after being hit by Overpower.

Design & Gameplay

Trait Quests

• The following Hero Traits are now categorized as Repeatable Quests:
  • Diablo: Black Soulstone
    • Quest progress and completion visual and sound effects will now play when Diablo gains Souls.
    • Quest completion will now appear in the Event Log on the left side of the screen.
    • Diablo’s Black Soulstone Quest will now appear in the in-game Score Screen (TAB).

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Lightning Breath sound effects will no longer stop playing before the Ability is finished channeling.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Fixed an issue that could cause Shadow Charge to deal its collision damage multiple times under certain circumstances.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: The Devastating Charge Talent will now correctly apply its bonus damage to enemies stunned by Shadow Charge.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Fixed an issue that could prevent Diablo from traveling with his Shadow Charge target if another Hero stood between Diablo and his target.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Casting Shadow Charge on Sgt. Hammer while she is in Siege Mode will no longer cause Diablo to pass through her.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Fixed an issue that could allow Shadow Charge to Stun enemies who did not collide with the terrain.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Fixed an issue preventing Diablo from using Basic Attacks against his Overpower target if Overpower was interrupted by Zeratul’s Void Prison.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo - Fixed an issue that caused Devastating Charge damage to show as damage dealt to Diablo on the Death Recap screen.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Lightning Breath (R)
  • Increase turn rate by 25%
  • Damage reduced from 100 to 50
  • Damage effects per second increased from 2 to 4

Talents

• Level 4
  • From the Shadows (Q)
    • No longer grants additional stun time.
    • Additional range increased from 33 to 40%
• Level 13
  • Fire Devil (W)
    • Bonus attack damage reduced from 25 to 20%
  • Hellfire (W)
    • Bonus damage from Heroes hit increased from 10 to 12%
    • Max damage value increased from 100 to 120%
• Level 16
  • Domination (E)
    • No longer grants cooldown reduction on Overpower
• Level 20
  • Hellgate (Active)
    • Cooldown increased from 90 to 100 seconds

Developer Comments: It's nice to see the Lord of Terror running amok inside the Nexus once again. These changes are targeted at talents that are slightly over or under tuned and should help equalize some of his Talent tiers.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Shadow Charge will now be properly interrupted if it would cause him to enter E.T.C.’s Mosh Pit.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Initial damage reduced from 60 to 54
  • Return damage reduced from 90 to 81

Talents

• Level 13
  • Fire Devil (W)
    • Damage reduced from 22 to 20 per second

Bug Fixes

• 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.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health reduced from 2647 to 2567
• Health Regen reduced from 5.52 to 5.35

Talents

• Level 1
  • Bulwark (Q)
    • Duration increase on Shadow Charge's Resistance decreased from 3 to 2 seconds
• Level 7
  • Soul Shield (Passive)
    • Ability damage reduction per Soul reduced from .35 to .25%
• Level 20
  • Hellgate (Active)
    • Cooldown increased from 70 to 90 seconds

Developer Comments: It's been nice to see the positive reactions to the Lord of Terror's recent changes. That said, the latest rework gave him some new survivability talents that are slightly over-performing. The new stacking Resistant system is making the interaction between Shadow Charge, Bulwark and Soul Shield a bit too strong, so we are making some adjustments to compensate.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage reduced from 118 to 105 Undocumented

Abilities

• Shadow Charge (Q)
  • Base damage from 94 to 75
    • New Functionality:
      • Diablo gains 25% resistance for 2 seconds after charging
      • If Diablo’s target collides with terrain they take an additional 150 damage
• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Base damage from 106 to 60
    • Added Functionality:
      • Fire Stomp fireballs return to Diablo, dealing 90 damage
• Black Soulstone (Trait)
  • Bonus max Health per Soulstone stack from .2 to .4%

Talents

• Level 1
  • Block (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Devil’s Due (Passive)
    • New functionality:
      • Regeneration Globes and Healing Fountains are 2% more effective for every stack of Black Soulstone
  • Overwhelming Force (Q)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Bulwark (Q)
    • Increase the duration of Shadow Charge’s Resistance effect from 2 to 5 seconds
  • Life Leech (Passive)
    • Moved from Level 13
• Level 4
  • Demonic Strength (E)
    • Slow duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds
    • Slow amount increased from 25 to 30%
  • Soul Catcher (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Essence of the Slain (Passive)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Speed Demon (Passive)
    • Diablo gains 30% Movement Speed for 5 seconds after being Stunned or Rooted
  • From the Shadows (Q)
    • Moved from Level 7
      • Functionality added:
        • Also increases Shadow Charge range by 33%
• Level 7
  • Diabolical Momentum (Q)
    • Functionality changed:
      • Basic Attacks lower the cooldown of Shadow Charge and Overpower by 1.5 seconds
  • Soul Steal (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Devastating Charge (Q)
    • Moved from Level 7 to Level 13
      • Functionality changed:
        • Shadow Charging an enemy into unpathable terrain deals an additional 5% of that targets max Health in damage
        • Quest: Every time you charge an enemy into unpathable terrain, increase the bonus damage by 2%, stacking up to a 10% bonus (15% max health possible)
  • New Talent: Soul Shield (Trait)
    • Each Black Soulstone stack Diablo has grants him 0.35% Resistance to enemy Abilities
  • Soul Feast (Passive)
    • Moved from Level 1
    • New functionality:
      • Each Soulstone stack grants 0.4 Health Regeneration per second
• Level 13
  • Firestorm (W)
    • Removed
  • Spell Shield (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Siphon the Dead (Active)
    • Removed
  • Hellfire (W)
    • Each enemy Hero hit by Fire Stomp increases the damage of the next Fire Stomp by 10%, stacking up to 100%.
  • Fire Devil (W)
    • Moved from Level 4
    • Aura damage increased from 17 to 22
    • Added functionality:
      • Also increases Diablo’s Basic Attack damage by 25% for 6 seconds
• Level 16
  • Rampage (W)
    • Removed
  • Continuous Overpower (E)
    • Removed
  • Domination (E)
    • New Functionality:
      • Lower the Cooldown of Overpower by 4 seconds
      • Using Overpower refreshes the Cooldown of Shadow Charge
  • Imposing Presence (Passive)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Fearful Presence (Passive/Active)
    • Passive: Heroes and Summons that attack Diablo have their Attack Speed slowed by 20% for 2.5 seconds
    • Active: Activate to reduce the damage dealt by nearby Heroes by 30% for 3 seconds
• Level 20
  • Bolt of the Storm (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Hellgate (Active)
    • Activate to teleport a short distance and place a Demonic Rune at that location. After 1.75 seconds the rune explodes dealing 137 damage and stuns enemies for 1.75 seconds

Developer Comments: The Lord of Terror has been under the knife for a couple months and has finally collected enough souls to resurrect himself. He reenters the Nexus with an updated talent tree focusing on maintaining and amplifying his identity. He should still excel as a gank-oriented Warrior, punishing out-of-position enemies, but also brings along some new survivability options. While we had to lower his damage slightly, the baseline addition of Firestorm and larger payoff for Shadow Charging enemies into collision should heavily reward opportunistic Diablo players.

• (!) indicates a Questing Talent.
• Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
• Bold text indicates a MOVED Talent.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Diablo's Basic Attack has received responsiveness improvements

Bug Fixes

• Spell Shield: A cooldown timer will now properly appear when Spell Shield’s effects are triggered in the same moment that the Talent was activated.

Bug Fixes

• Damage Reduction: When two damage reduction effects, such as Resistant (25%) and Hardened Shield (75%), are simultaneously applied to a Hero, the larger effect will no longer be overridden by the lesser effect.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: It is no longer possible to cast Overpower on Heroic Vehicles, such as the Garden Terror or Dragon Knight.

Talents

Imposing Presence (Active)

• New functionality:
  • Heroes that attack you have their Attack Speed slowed by 20% for 2.5 seconds
  • Activate to Slow the Attack Speed of nearby Heroes and Summons by 50% and Slow their Movement Speed by 20% for 2.5 seconds

Developer Comments: We did not like the power of the Attack Speed slow for Imposing Presence given how little counter-play there is. We’ve decided to move some power out of the passive portion of the Talent and give it a new activated effect in order to create some bigger moments for players who choose to take it.

Spell Shield (Passive)

• Added functionality:
  • Spell Shield can now be toggled on or off to allow for better control of which Abilities you want to mitigate

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Devastating Charge (Q)
    • New functionality:
      • Shadow Charge grants Resistant, reducing all damage taken by 25% for 4 seconds.

Developer Comments: We’re removing the majority of our old Relentless- like Talents from the game, because we found that it wasn’t clear to the enemy team what was happening. Reducing the duration on very short disabling effects to begin with was hard to notice, and typically felt like a bug when it did happen. In some cases, we’re replacing these Talents with Hero specific ones that more clearly convey what’s happening, while fitting the gameplay of the Hero.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo: Apocalypse will now correctly target enemies trapped by Anub'arak’s Cocoon.

• Diablo: Overpower’s target will no longer be stunned for the Ability’s full duration if Diablo is interrupted by a knockback at the same time Overpower is cast.

Bug Fixes

• Greymane: Will no longer become stuck if Darkflight is interrupted by Diablo’s Shadow Charge or Stitches’ Hook.

Talents

Relentless

• Relentless and similar Hero-specific Talents will now only reduce the duration of Slows, Stuns and Roots. Silence effects will no longer be reduced by this talent.

Developer Comments: With an increasing number of CC effects entering the Nexus we found ourselves constantly asking ourselves “Should Relentless work against this?” which quickly turned into a rabbit hole of ‘what-ifs’ and ‘how comes’. We agreed that the talent was going to continue to become stronger as we moved forward and decided to limit the number of effects that it can reduce.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which Diablo’s Shadow Charge could Stun Unstoppable targets in certain circumstances.

Talents

Battle Momentum

• Battle Momentum has been made Hero-specific, and now only applies to Basic Ability cooldowns.
• Diablo
  • Diabolical Momentum
    • Basic Attacks now reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.75 seconds instead of 0.5.
    • No longer reduces Heroic Ability cooldowns.
• Johanna
  • Blessed Momentum
    • No longer reduces Heroic Ability cooldowns.
• Kerrigan
  • Bladed Momentum
    • Basic Attacks now reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.75 seconds instead of 0.5.
    • No longer reduces Heroic Ability cooldowns.
• Tyrael
  • Angelic Momentum
    • Basic Attacks now reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.75 seconds instead of 0.5.
    • No longer reduces Heroic Ability cooldowns.
• Tyrande
  • Lunar Momentum
    • Basic Attacks now reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.6 seconds instead of 0.5.
    • No longer reduces Heroic Ability cooldowns.
• Zagara
  • Swarm Momentum
    • Basic Attacks now reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.75 seconds instead of 0.5.
    • No longer reduces Heroic Ability or Trait cooldowns.

Developer Comments: Our intention for Battle Momentum was to create more active gameplay by using your Basic Abilities more often, but we found that a lot of this Talent’s power lied in its ability to reduce your Heroic cooldowns. We wanted to increase the cooldown reduction granted by the Talent, but didn’t want Heroic Ability cooldowns to drop to absurdly low levels. By making it only reduce the cooldowns of Basic Abilities (Q, W, E), it allowed us to increase this cooldown reduction without making it overpowered. We’ve also made Battle Momentum Hero-specific, so that we can tune each one without affecting all the rest, since Attack Speed, melee versus range, and the nature of your Basic Abilities can all drastically change what is balanced.

Hero Updates

• Shadow Charge (Q)
  • The implementation for this Ability has been reworked.
    • No longer automatically Stuns the target at the end of the knockback phase, and instead applies a Daze for the duration of the knockback.
      • Targets that collide with terrain will still be stunned for 1 second.
    • Diablo will now continue travelling toward the enemy target for the duration of the knockback phase.
• Apocalypse (R)
  • Stun duration reduced from 2 to 1.75 seconds.

Developer Comments: Shadow Charge seems like a really simple Ability, but on the backend there were a lot of technical manipulations to make everything work the way they were intended. These were starting to create odd gameplay and bugs, so we’ve simplified the design of the Ability so that Diablo travels right alongside his victim as they are knocked back, instead of walking really fast toward them.

Additionally, we’ve received a lot of feedback from players regarding the popular strategy of chaining movement impairing effects, like Stuns and Roots, on an enemy Hero. While we want this to be a viable way to play, we feel it’s currently too prominent and powerful at higher levels of play. As a result, we are reducing the duration of many of these effects in the game. In scenarios where this change nerfs a character we don’t otherwise want to nerf, we’re coupling it with a buff to help offset the difference. While this change hasn’t reduced all effects that might make you lose control of your Hero, we feel these are some of the more egregious ones. As always, we will make further changes if necessary.

Talents

Block

• Damage reduction increased from 50% to 75%

Developer Comments: We want to improve counter-pick talents like Block that are meant to be strong against certain hero types. We’re hoping that these kinds of Talents will have a more meaningful impact in games in which they are picked, and that there are more situations where the enemy team’s composition drives intelligent Talent choices.

Other effects similar to Block have been evaluated on a case-by-case basis for all Heroes, with some gaining increased Block damage reduction, while others stayed at 50%.

Hero Updates

• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Fire Devil (Talent)
    • Damage reduced from 23 (+4% per level) to 17 (+4% per level)

Developer Comments: Diablo has hovered near the top of our win rate charts for a while. We wanted to see how the Tyrande nerfs would impact him first, as we know those characters have very strong synergy together. We haven’t seen much of a dip in Diablo’s win rate, so we’re targeting a ‘must pick’ Talent with this nerf.

Design & Gameplay

Battleground Monsters

• Battleground-specific creatures are now universally defined as Monsters (ex: Neutral Garden Terrors, Sky Temple Guardians, etc.)
• Several Talents and Abilities have been changed to reflect this new categorization, and the following no longer affect Monsters:
  • Mercenary Lord
  • Johanna's Knight Takes Pawn
  • Lunara's Cruel Bloom
  • Rexxar's Easy Prey and Bird of Prey
  • The Butcher's Chop Meat
• The following now affect Monsters:
  • Anub'arak's Beetle, Juiced
  • Azmodan's Demonic Smite
• Several Talents that could previously trigger against both captured Mercenaries and Minions will now only affect Minions (ex: Seasoned Marksman, Black Soulstone, etc.)

General

• Damage dealt by splash and cleave attacks will no longer trigger effects that would otherwise require a direct attack to trigger (ex: Block, Spell Shield, Imposing Presence, etc.)

Talents

Block

• Block charges are now tracked in the buff bar next to the Hero portrait, and a timer has been added to show the time remaining until a new charge is generated.

Bug Fixes

• Heroes that are simultaneously struck by Diablo’s Overpower and Stitches’ Hook will no longer be thrown outside the playable area.

Design & Gameplay

Summoned Unit Attacks

• Summoned unit Basic Attacks will now miss if that Summon is Blinded or the target is Evading.
• Summoned unit Basic Attacks will no longer consume Block Talent stacks.

Hero Updates

• Black Soulstone (Trait)
  • Maximum Health gained per Soul increased from 0.15% to 0.2%
  • Essence of the Slain (Talent)
    • Now also grants 10 Health for each enemy slain nearby
• Shadow Charge (Q)
  • Range increased by approximately 15%
  • Stun duration after knocking an enemy into a wall increased from 0.75 to 1 second
  • Devastating Charge (Talent)
    • Now reduces movement impairing effects for 6 seconds, up from 3 seconds
• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Damage increased from 30 (+9 per level) to 33 (+10 per level)
  • Mana cost decreased from 50 to 40
• Overpower (E)
  • Domination (Talent)
    • Cooldown reduction for Shadow Charge increased from 8 to 10 seconds

Developer Comments: The buffs to Shadow Charge should help to reinforce Diablo as the premier gank Warrior. The rest of his kit gets a little bit of love to help his overall play.

Talents

Bolt of the Storm

Developer Comments: We love this talent and think it can create a lot of really interesting moments, but the cooldown was just too short. At 70 seconds we think this talent is still a great level 20 pick, but now players will have to be more strategic with how they use it. Forcing someone to use their Bolt to avoid a gank can now be a meaningful moment with this increased cooldown. We hope this also entices players towards choosing their Heroic upgrades instead of Bolt when the situation calls for it.

• Cooldown increased from 40 to 70 seconds

Imposing Presence

Developer Comments: Statistically, it was almost never wrong to choose Imposing Presence. With this nerf, it’s still a great counter in the right situation, and as a result, we’re hoping we’ll see more play from our Basic Attack assassins.

• Attack Speed slow reduced from 50% to 40%
• The Attack Speed slow will now be removed when attacking a target that has not learned the Imposing Presence Talent

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which the following Abilities and Talents were not damaging or destroying Zagara's Creep Tumors:
  • Brightwing's Peekaboo, Diablo's Firestorm (returning fireballs), Johanna's Blessed Hammer, Leoric's Buried Alive, Nova's Railgun, Sgt. Hammer's Napalm Strike (impact damage) and Tychus' Big Red Button (the nuke portion)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a visual issue that could occur if Diablo became stunned while using Overpower.

• Resolved an additional issue that could cause Heroes affected by Diablo’s Overpower to fly outside the Battleground’s playable area.

Talents

Spell Shield

• Duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Diablo’s Fire Stomp can now properly damage and reveal Zagara’s Creep Tumors.

• Fixed several issues affecting Diablo’s Overpower Ability that could cause Heroes to fly out of the Battleground's playable area.

• Using Diablo’s Shadow Charge on Raynor’s Banshees near the edge of a Battleground will no longer cause Diablo to leave the playable area.

Hero Updates

• Diablo has received significant updates.
• Health decreased from 1060 (+260 per level) to 1050 (+250 per level)
• Amplified Healing (Talent) removed
• Relentless (Talent) removed
• Storm Shield (Talent) removed
• New Talent (Level 13): Life Leech
  • Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes deal bonus damage equal to 1% of that Hero’s maximum Health, and heals Diablo for the same amount.
• New Talent (Level 20): Lord of Terror
  • Activate to steal 10% of the maximum Health of all nearby enemy Heroes
• Black Soulstone (Trait)
  • Maximum Health gain changed from +5 per Soul to +0.15% per Soul
  • Endless Death (Talent) removed
  • Soul Feast (Talent)
    • Health Regeneration bonus increased from 2% to 3% per Soul
  • Siphon the Dead (Talent) moved from Level 7 to 13
    • Will no longer interrupt movement when activated
    • No longer consumes Souls upon activation, and Black Soulstone now heals 15% of Diablo’s maximum Health over 3 seconds
  • Soul Steal (Talent)
    • This Talent has been repurposed and now affects Diablo’s Black Soulstone Trait.
    • Now increases the maximum Health gained per Soul from 0.15% to 0.25%
  • New Talent (Level 4): Soul Catcher
    • Passively generates a Soul every 4 seconds
  • New Talent (Level 4): Essence of the Slain
    • Gain 10 Mana whenever a nearby enemy Minion dies
• Shadow Charge (Q)
  • Mana cost increased from 50 to 60
  • Cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds
  • Diablo is no longer Unstoppable during Shadow Charge.
  • Stun duration when the target of Shadow Charge is knocked into a wall has been decreased from 1 to 0.75 seconds.
  • Crippling Shadows (Talent) removed
  • From the Shadows (Talent) has been redesigned
    • Moved from Level 13 to Level 7
    • Now increases Shadow Charge’s stun duration, inflicted when the target is knocked into a wall, by 0.5 seconds
  • New Talent (Level 1): Overwhelming Force
    • Increases the range and knockback of Shadow Charge by 25%
  • New Talent (Level 7): Devastating Charge
    • Shadow Charge reduces the duration silences, stuns, slows, roots, and Polymorphs against Diablo by 50% for 3 seconds.
• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Swallowing Flames (Talent) removed
  • Molten Impact (Talent) removed
  • Fire Devil (Talent) moved from level 16 to level 4
    • Damage reduced from 12 (+3 per level) to 10 (+2 per level)
  • Firestorm (Talent) moved from level 16 to level 13
    • Damage bonus decreased from 150% to 125%
  • New Talent (Level 16): Rampage
    • Fire Stomp increases Diablo’s Movement Speed by 20% and Basic Attack damage by 50% for 2 seconds.
• Overpower (E)
  • Mana cost increased from 50 to 60
  • Demonic Strength (Talent) has been redesigned
    • Now slows the target by 25% for 2 seconds once Overpower’s stun expires
  • New Talent (Level 16): Domination
    • Overpower reduces Shadow Charge’s cooldown by 8 seconds.
• Apocalypse (R)
  • Dying Breath (Talent)
    • Now also reduces Apocalypse’s cooldown by 20 seconds, in addition to its other effects

Bug Fixes

• Casting Diablo's Shadow Charge on a Structure at melee range will no longer move him to that Structure’s opposite side.

Hero Updates

• Apocalypse (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 120 to 100 seconds
• Lightning Breath (R)
  • Diablo will now cast Lightning Breath in the direction of the cursor, rather than the direction he is facing at the time of the cast.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo will now cast Lightning Breath in the direction of the cursor, rather than the direction he is facing at the time of the cast.

Hero Updates

• Basic Attack
  • Scaling damage increased from 7 to 11
• Shadow Charge (Q)
  • The pushback distance on the target is now consistent, which should allow for more fluid combos with Overpower.
  • Can now be used on Structures without potentially landing inside of them
• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Now orients according to cardinal directions with respect to the direction that Diablo is currently facing
  • The number of fire waves created by Fire Stomp has been reduced from 10 to 8.
• Overpower (E)
  • Issuing additional commands after casting Overpower should now be much more responsive.

Bug Fixes

• Bolt of the Storm and Zeratul’s Blink can no longer be cast while rooted.

Talents

Imposing Presence

• Attack speed slow amount increased from 30% to 50%

Hero Updates

• Black Soulstone (Trait)
  • Devil’s Due (Talent)
    • Now reduces resurrection cost to 60 Souls, down from 75
  • Endless Death (Talent)
    • Maximum soul amount decreased from 200 to 150
• Overpower (E)
  • Demonic Strength (Talent)
    • Damage bonus increased from +25% to +50%
  • Soul Steal (Talent)
    • Using Overpower now grants 5 Souls, up from 3.
  • Scaling per level increased from 8 to 9
• Lightning Breath (R)
  • Duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds
  • Total number of damage ticks decreased from 11 to 9
  • Scaling damage per tick increased from +8 per level to +9 per level

Talents

Storm Shield

• Target search radius increased from 5 to 8

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which returning fireballs from Diablo's Firestorm Talent could simultaneously impact the same target and cause excessive damage.

Talents

Block

• Has been moved from Level 7 to Level 1

Spell Shield

• The functionality of this talent has changed.
• Upon taking Ability Damage, now gain a shield that reduces all Ability Damage taken by 50% for 2 seconds. This can only occur once every 30 seconds.

Hero Updates

• Regeneration Master (Talent) has been removed.
• Fire Stomp (W)
  • Swallowing Flames (Talent)
    • Moved from Level 16 to Level 4
  • Firestorm (Talent)
    • Moved from Level 4 to Level 16
    • Increases Fire Stomp’s returning fireball Damage from 50% to 150%.
  • New Talent (Level 4): Molten Impact
    • Fire Stomp now deals 50% more damage to non-Heroic targets.
• Overpower (E)
  • New Talent (Level 4): Demonic Strength
    • Overpower deals an additional 25% damage.

Bug Fixes

• Diablo's Shadow Charge and Fire Stomp abilities now appropriately cause Shielded Heroes to dismount.

Talents

Regeneration Master

• Health regeneration increased from 3 to 4 per stack

Hero Updates

• Fire Stomp
  • Now pierces enemies by default
  • The Pierce Talent has been removed
  • Base range increased by 30%

Hero Updates

• Apocalypse
  • Cooldown increased from 100 to 120 seconds.
  • Damage decreased from 160 (+12 per level) to 100 (+10 per level).
• Black Soulstone has been reworked.
  • Soulstone stacks now cap at 100 and require 100 to resurrect from the dead.
  • Diablo no longer loses all Soulstone stacks on death, but instead loses 100 on resurrection.
• Endless Death now increases Soulstone stack maximum to 200 (previously 250).