Bug Fixes

• Echo of Heaven now displays in the Death Recap.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Deadly Reach's Attack Speed bonuses to stack multiplicatively with other Attack Speed bonuses.
• Fixed an issue that caused Insight to grant quest progress while Blinded or if the triggering enemy is Evading.
• Fixed an issue that caused non-Heroes to not be revealed by Spirit Ally.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Air Ally to not grant Spellpower to Gall. Undocumented

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 20
  • (New) Fists of Legend [Trait]
    • Gain 50% of the benefit from both level 1 talents that were not chosen.

Developer Comment: Kharazim has Transcended past the desire for Insight… because he has Iron Fists. Or something like that.

Bug Fixes

• Insight grants its full cooldown reduction to Radiant Dash.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Breath of Heaven [W]
  • Healing increased from 276 to 285.

Developer Comment: Kharazim's healing output is a little lower than other Healers, and we believe it could use a small increase. We don't expect this to change too much about how he plays, but it should better reward Kharazim players and teams who are good about grouping around him to receive Breath of Heaven.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 20
  • Peaceful Repose [R1]
    • Additional functionality: Increase the healing of Divine Palm by 75%.

Developer Comment: We felt that Peaceful Repose could add something to Kharazim players who are good at proccing Divine Palm, so we're greatly increasing its Healing when he does get a successful proc.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage increased from 60 to 64.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Transcendence [Trait]
    • Movement Speed bonus duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds.
  • Iron Fists [Trait]
    • Movement Speed bonus duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds.
  • Insight [Trait]
    • Movement Speed bonus duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds.
• Level 4
  • Air Ally [Active]
    • Cooldown increased from 20 to 30 seconds.
    • Health increased from 75 to 200.
    • Duration reduced from 40 to 10 seconds.
    • Charges reduced from 2 to 1.
    • Additional functionality: Now also grants nearby allied Heroes 15% Spell Power for its duration.

Developer Comment: Play Kharazim! Also, Air Ally does cool things now. Play that too.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Heavenly Zeal [W]
    • Breath of Heaven bonus Healing duration increased from 3 to 3.5 seconds.

Developer Comment: To help smooth out the interaction between Heavenly Zeal and Echo of Heaven, we're slightly increasing the bonus Healing duration so that they can more reliably benefit from one another.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Radiant Dash [Q]
  • Mana cost reduced from 30 to 25
• Deadly Reach [E]
  • Mana cost reduced from 50 to 45

Talents

• Level 7
  • Heavenly Zeal [W]
    • Additional functionality: Radiant Dashing to an ally increases the healing they receive from Breath of Heaven by 50% for 3 seconds
    • Now shows Crit kickers for when allies gain increased healing
  • Blazing Fists [E]
    • Additional functionality: Now also increases the duration of Deadly Reach by 100%
• Level 10
  • Divine Palm [R1]
    • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 50 seconds
• Level 13
  • Fists of Fury [E]
    • Removed
• Level 16
  • ​​Dash of Light [W]
    • Removed

Developer Comment: To better round out Kharazim's Level 7 talents, we are baking in some of the functionality of talents that normally come online for him later on. This should make this tier more competitive while also opening up other options for players to take as a replacement for the talents that have been removed. For example, players who want to get in and punch a lot with Blazing Fists will now have a defensive option to take at Level 13 since they no longer have to take Fists of Fury to complete the build.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Divine Palm (R)
  • Healing increased from 1084 to 1200

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Can now Radiant Dash to all allied units, including Mercenaries, Creep Tumors, and Toxic Nests.

Bug Fixes

• Yrel: Bubble Hearth is now placed on a reduced cooldown if casting is interrupted by Divine Palm.

• Yrel: Can no longer cast Bubble Hearth while she is being revived by Divine Palm.

• Yrel: No longer becomes permanently Invulnerable if she is revived by Divine Palm while casting Bubble Hearth.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 1949 to 2027.
• Health Regeneration increased from 4.0585 to 4.2226.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Transcendence (Trait)
    • Healing increased from 98 to 104.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Seven-Sided Strike will now correctly target Stealth enemy Heroes who have been revealed.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack Damage reduced from 63 to 60

Abilities

• Breath of Heaven (W)
  • Heal amount reduced from 290 to 276
• Divine Palm (R)
  • Heal amount reduced from 1141 to 1084

Talents

• Level 1
  • Transcendence (Trait)
    • Heal amount reduced from 103 to 98
• Level 16
  • Way of the Hundred Fists (E)
    • Damage reduced from 50 to 45%

Bug Fixes

• Tassadar: The Prismatic Link Talent will no longer cause Tassadar’s Basic Attack to chain to Kharazim during Seven-Sided Strike.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Iron Fists (Trait)
    • Movement Speed bonus reduced from 30 to 25%
  • Transcendence (Trait)
    • Added Functionality:
      • Now also grants Kharazim 25% Movement Speed on the third punch
  • Insight (Trait)
    • Added Functionality:
      • Now also grants Kharazim 25% Movement Speed on the third punch

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Transcendence (Trait)
    • Healing increased from 96 to 103 per 3 Basic Attacks
  • Insight (Trait)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 1.5 to 1.75 seconds per 3 Basic Attacks

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Breath of Heaven (W)
  • Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 65

Talents

• Level 1
  • Transcendence (Passive)
    • Healing increased from 73 to 96 per 3 Basic Attacks
  • Insight (Passive)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 1 to 1.5 seconds per 3 Basic Attacks
• Level 16
  • Dash of Light (Q + W)
    • Increased bonus healing from 50% to 75% for dashing to an ally

Developer Comment: These changes are designed to increase the power of Insight and Transcendence by shifting more of Kharazim's healing power pie into them. We want to encourage the same active gameplay that Iron Fist Kharazim's have, but increasing healing and utility instead of damage when the other Talents are chosen.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Fixed an issue that could cause Kharazim to dash to unexpected locations after casting Radiant Dash.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Seven-Sided Strike will no longer target D.Va's Mech during Self-Destruct.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim – Fixed an issue that Stitches’ Vile Gas to deal damage to Kharazim while casting Seven-Sided Strike.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Duration bars for Echo of Heaven and Deadly Reach will now appear simultaneously if both are active at once.

Bug Fixes

• Nazeebo: Corpse Spiders will no longer prioritize Kharazim’s Air Ally or Lúcio’s Boombox over enemy Heroes.

• Spell Shield: Toggling Spell Shield will no longer cancel an active Hearthstone channel.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Fixed an issue that could cause a slight delay between Ability casts after shift-queuing Radiant Dash.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

• Kharazim: Fixed an issue that prevented shift-queuing Radiant Dash casts to allied Heroes.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

• Quest Talents: Kharazim’s Insight will now properly play its quest completion sound effect.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Breath of Heaven (W)
  • Increased the Movement Speed bonus from 10 to 15%

Talents

• Level 1
  • Iron Fists (Trait)
    • Damage bonus reduced from 125 to 110%
• Level 4
  • Earth Ally (Active)
    • Cooldown increased from 30 to 45 seconds
• Level 7
  • Heavenly Zeal (W)
    • Movement Speed bonus increased from 25 to 30%

Developer Comments: We're glad to see that Iron Fists Kharazim is a very viable melee Assassin/Support hybrid! We think that we can reduce the damage slightly on it, since Kharazim was able to throughput strong damage and healing with the Talent. While the damage potential of that build is stronger than we want, overall Kharazim is close to balanced, so we've provided a small Movement Speed increase to Breath of Heaven to offset the loss.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Fixed an issue that caused Kharazim's final hit during Way of the Hundred Fists to deal more damage than intended.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Breath of Heaven (W)
  • Healing increased from 280 to 290

Talents

• Level 1
  • Iron Fists (Trait)
    • Added Functionality:
      • Every third Basic Attack now also increases your Movement Speed by 30% for 2 seconds.
• Level 4
  • New Talent: Spirit Ally (Active)
    • Place a Spirit Ally that heals allies in a large area around it for 2% of their maximum Health every second for 10 seconds. Has 150 Health. You can Radiant Dash to Spirit Allies. 45 second cooldown.
  • New Talent: Earth Ally (Active)
    • Place an Earth Ally that reduces Heroic Basic Attack damage nearby allied Heroes receive by 50%. Has 400 Health and lasts 10 seconds. You can Radiant Dash to Earth Allies. 30 second cooldown.
  • New Talent: Air Ally (Active)
    • Place an Air Ally that grants vision of a large area around it for 40 seconds. Has 70 Health. You can Radiant Dash to Air Allies. 20 second cooldown. 2 charges.
  • Healing Ward (Active)
    • Removed
  • Foresight (Q)
    • Removed
  • Overtake (E)
    • Removed
  • Protective Shield (Active)
    • Removed
• Level 7
  • New Talent: Heavenly Zeal (W)
    • Increases the Movement Speed bonus of Breath of Heaven on other allies from 10 to 25%
  • Blinding Speed (Q)
    • Moved from level 16
  • Blazing Fists (E)
    • Moved from level 16
    • Cooldown reduction per Basic Attack reduced from 1 to .75 seconds.
  • Clairvoyance (Active)
    • Removed
  • Cleanse (Active)
    • Removed
• Level 13
  • Fists of Fury
    • Deadly Reach duration bonus increased from 50 to 100%
• Level 16
  • New Talent: Cleansing Touch (Q)
    • Radiant Dashing to an allied Hero grants them Unstoppable for 1 second
  • New Talent: Dash of Light (W)
    • Radiant Dashing to an ally increases the healing they received from Breath of Heaven by 50% for 3 seconds
  • Echo of Heaven (W)
    • Moved from level 7
    • Delay between heals increased from 2 to 3 seconds
    • Second heal amount increased from 35 to 75%
    • Now also reduces the initial heal amount of Breath of Heaven to 75%
  • Way of the Hundred Fists (Q)
    • Moved from level 7
    • Now deals a volley of 6 Basic Attacks that each deal 50% of your Basic Attack damage.
  • Circle of Life (W)
    • Removed
  • Soothing Breeze (W)
    • Removed

Developer Comments: Kharazim’s Talents have been updated to create more compelling choices at every tier. To do this, we’ve made sure that Iron Fists / Bruiser style Kharazim is viable by increasing its damage uptime, removed a lot of the generic Talents and replaced them with Kharazim specific options like Mystic Allies, and re-arranged a lot of the tree so that you don’t have to sacrifice as much healing to pick mobility, utility or damage.

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

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.

• Kharazim: Will no longer automatically resume attacking enemies after using Radiant Dash to dive to an ally. This fix also applies to Illidan’s Friend or Foe and Kerrigan’s Adaptation Talents.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 13
  • Sixth Sense (Passive)
    • Block amount increased from 50 to 75% after being stunned or rooted.

Talents

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 13
  • Relentless (Passive)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Sixth Sense (Passive)
    • Stuns and Roots against Kharazim grant 50% damage reduction from Basic Attacks 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.

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.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Insight (Trait)
    • New Functionality:
      • Quest: Every 3rd Basic Attack restores 14 Mana. After this effect triggers 100 times, every 3rd attack will also reduce the cooldown of all Basic Abilities by 1 second

Developer Comments: Insight was seeing very little play, mainly because it wasn’t distinct enough. In order to both buff it and make it different, we’re making it a Quest Talent/Trait. We felt the cooldown reduction fits well with the increased Mana, as Insight is about using all your Abilities (both offensive and defensive) more frequently.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim: Fixed a rare issue in which movement commands could persist after casting Radiant Dash.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which Kharazim’s Way of the Hundred Fists could deal additional damage while channeling Seven-Sided Strike under certain circumstances.

Design & Gameplay

Hero Movement Interaction Unification

• Several Abilities have been changed in an effort to unify their usage.
  • The following Abilities can now be used to move to invulnerable units:
    • Kerrigan — Ravage (Q)
    • Illidan — Dive (Q)
  • The following Abilities can now be used to travel to objects created by an enemy, such as Sgt. Hammer’s Spider Mines:
    • Kerrigan — Ravage (Q)
    • Lunara — Leaping Strike (R)
    • Illidan — Dive (Q)
    • Kharazim — Radiant Dash (Q)
    • Chen — Flying Kick (Q)

Hero Updates

• Breath of Heaven (W)
  • Heal amount increased from 250 (+4% per level) to 280 (+4% per level)
  • Echo of Heaven (Talent)
    • Second wave Heal amount decreased from 50% to 35%

Developer Comments: Kharazim’s Echo of Heaven Talent is contributing too much to his overall Healing. We’ve decided to nerf the amount of Healing it offers. To compensate, we’re buffing his base kit. His Healing output with the Talent should be roughly the same, but now players should have more flexibility to pick other Talents on its tier.

Design & Gameplay

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

Cleanse

• Tooltip updated to reflect that Cleanse cannot be self-cast

Talents

Cleanse

• This Talent’s functionality has changed significantly
• Target ally now becomes Unstoppable for 1 second. Cannot be self-cast. 60 second cooldown

Developer Comments: We want to give players more options to deal with the chain-stuns that have resurged after the scaling changes went into effect. We believe this increase in power to Cleanse should allow teams some counter- play against stun-heavy compositions.

Hero Updates

• 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%

Developer Comments: Most Kharazim players pick Transcendence at level 1, and this is often the most powerful option regardless of the situation. We tuned up the other two options here to help provide Kharazim players with different options.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• Kharazim’s Overtake Talent will now properly last for its full duration.

New Hero

Kharazim has been added to Heroes of the Storm and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of this new Support Hero’s Abilities.

Trait

• Pick Your Trait
  • Learn Transcendence, Iron Fists, or Insight using the Talents panel to select your Trait.
    • Transcendence
      • Every third Basic Attack heals the lowest nearby allied Hero.
    • Iron Fists
      • Every third Basic Attack deals 100% bonus damage.
    • Insight
      • Every third Basic Attack restores Mana.

Basic Abilities

• Radiant Dash (Q)
  • Jump to an ally or enemy. Enemies are immediately hit with a Basic Attack. Stores up to two charges. 12 second cooldown per charge.
• Breath of Heaven (W)
  • Heal nearby allied Heroes, granting them a 10% Movement Speed bonus for 3 seconds.
• Deadly Reach (E)
  • Your next Basic Attack increases your Attack Speed and Attack Range by 100% for 2 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

• Seven-Sided Strike (R)
  • Become Invulnerable, striking 7 times over 2 seconds in a large area. Each strike deals 7% of the target’s maximum Health as damage, and prioritizes the Hero with the highest remaining Health.
• Divine Palm (R)
  • Protect an allied Hero from death. The next source of fatal damage within 3 seconds is prevented, and the target is instead healed for a large amount.

Talents

Cleanse

Developer Comments: We didn’t like the gameplay of casting Cleanse preemptively on a target that is about to be CC’ed. For example, you see Butcher charging your Valla, and right before impact you use Cleanse on Valla, allowing her to immediately Vault away. The change also prevents healers from cleansing themselves preemptively, providing a guaranteed target if the opposing team has only secured one Cleanse. As a side note, the original reason the Unstoppable functionality was available in the first place, was to help alleviate some persistent CC effects like Putrid Bile. We didn’t want you to cleanse a Putrid Bile only to have the slow immediately reapply.

• No longer makes the target Unstoppable for 1 second
• Now adds Relentless to the target for 2 seconds (50% shorter CC duration)