Bug Fixes

• Extended Care now displays in the Death Recap.

• Healing Beam now displays in the Death Recap.

• Hospice Care now displays in the Death Recap.

Bug Fixes

• Bedside Manner's proc bonus now displays as a crit.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Healing Beam to remain active on a Minion after Sylvanas has cast Possession on the Minion.

• Fixed an issue that caused Medidrone to be capable of healing Leoric while Undying is active.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 1515 to 1560.
• Health regeneration increased from 3.16 to 3.25.

Abilities

• Healing Beam [Q]
  • Energy regeneration per interval increased from 2.5 to 3.
• Safeguard [W]
  • Armor increased from 30 to 35.

Talents

• Level 4
  • Trauma Trigger [Passive]
    • Cooldown reduced from 40 to 30 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Vanadium Plating [W]
    • Armor reduced from 25 to 20.

Developer Comment: When we shuffle a Hero's talents, we often reduce their base power so we can make their talents more exciting. In Lt. Morales' case, we've found we don't have to pay as high a price as we expected.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Health reduced from 1545 to 1515.

Abilities

• Healing Beam [Q]
  • Energy Regeneration interval reduced from 1 to .5 seconds.
  • Energy Regenerated per interval reduced from 6 to 2.5.
  • Additional functionality: Healing Beam UI now displays the portrait and name of Heroic targets while active.
• Safeguard [W]
  • Armor reduced from 35 to 30.
• Stim Drone [R1]
  • Cooldown reduced from 90 to 70 seconds.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Life Support [Q]
    • New functionality: For the first 2 seconds of Energy Regeneration, regenerate 100% more Energy.
    • Passive: Increase your Maximum Energy by 10.
  • Clear! [E]
    • Additional functionality: Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade restore 3 Energy.
• Level 4
  • Cellular Reactor [Active]
    • Healing duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
    • Healing amount reduced from 40 to 30% maximum Health.
    • Cooldown reduced from 45 to 20 seconds.
    • Additional functionality:
      • Passive: Regenerate 2 Energy each time Safeguard reduces damage, up to 10 per cast.
  • Trauma Trigger [Passive]
    • Cooldown increased from 20 to 40 seconds.
    • Additional functionality:
      • Passive: Increase Caduceus Reactor's healing from 2 to 4% maximum Health.
  • Blast Shield [E]
    • New functionality: Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade are slowed by 50% for 1 second after being knocked back and grant Lt. Morales a Shield equal to 6% of her maximum Health, stacking up to 5 times.
• Level 10
  • Medivac Dropship [R2]
    • Additional functionality: Grants the Reinforcements ability, allowing Lt. Morales to call down a Medivac Dropship at the Hall of Storms that allies can enter for 10 seconds to travel to your original cast location.
    • Cooldowns reduced from 60 to 45 seconds.
• Level 13
  • System Shock [E]
    • Duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
  • Second Opinion [E]
    • Moved to level 20.
  • (New) Bedside Manner [E]
    • Basic Attacks against Heroes deal 1% of maximum Health as damage. Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade take 6% of maximum Health as damage from Lt. Morales' next Basic Attack.
• Level 16
  • Extended Care [Q]
    • Additional functionality: Channeling Healing Beam on a Hero for at least 3 seconds will heal them for 50% of Healing Beam's base value for 3 seconds once channeling ends.
  • First Responder [Q]
    • Additional functionality: Also grants Lt. Morales and her Healing Beam target 15% increased movement Speed while active.
  • Shield Sequencer [W]
    • Additional functionality: Increases the range of Safeguard by 60%
• Level 20
  • Hyperactivity [R1]
    • Cooldown reduction reduced from 45 to 35 seconds.
  • Safe Zone [R2]
    • Protected duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
    • Additional functionality: Reduces the cooldown of Medivac Dropship abilities by 15 seconds.
  • Reinforcements [Active]
    • Removed.
  • (New) Hospice Care [W]
    • Safeguard grants its target Unkillable for 1 second. If the target is under 50% maximum Health when this effect ends, they are healed for 8% of their maximum Health.

Developer Comment: While Lt. Morales has been performing well at all levels of play, we felt her talents options could use a little spice. We also thought it was appropriate to bake in the old "Reinforcements" talent from level 20 into the Medivac Dropship Heroic. This should give Morales a little more flexibility in shuttling her allies around earlier in the game.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Trauma Trigger did not have a button.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Safeguard [W]
  • Armor amount increased from 30 to 35.

Developer Comment: Safeguard's benefit has largely diminished over time due to a combination of various Heroes being able to gain Armor in the 20-25 range and our change to make Armor not stack anymore. To make it stand out more and to give Lt. Morales a needed buff, we're increasing its Armor amount so that it can be used more often to benefit members of her team.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Trauma Trigger [Passive]
    • Cooldown reduced from 30 to 20 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Physical Therapy [W]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
  • Medi-Drone [W]
    • Healing increased from 50% to 75%.
• Level 16
  • First Responder [Q]
    • Energy requirement for bonus healing reduced from 70 to 60.

Developer Comment: We're making some small buffs to underperforming talents throughout Lt. Morales's tree. She is performing appropriately overall, so we don't expect these buffs to be a massive change for her outside of improving her pick rates.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Vanadium Plating [W]
    • New Functionality: Increases the duration of Safeguard by 1 second. While the target is Stunned or Rooted, Safeguard's armor value is increased to 50.
  • Prolonged Safeguard [W]
    • Removed.
  • New Talent - Medi-Drone [W]
    • Allies with Safeguard receive 50% of the healing done by Healing Beam on other targets.

Developer Comment: Prolonged Safeguard was not a very exciting talent pick and its increased duration bonus was redundant against Vanadium Plating's duration increasing mechanic. We decided to consolidate these mechanics onto one talent and explore offering an entirely new mechanic for the other. This new replacement, Medi-Drone, gives a limited amount of multi-target healing, something Lt. Morales was previously lacking and often requested in your feedback.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Safeguard (W)
  • Cooldown increased from 10 to 11 seconds

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Physical Therapy (W)
    • No longer grants cooldown reduction when removing Slows with Safeguard
      • Additional functionality:
        • Reduce the cooldown of Safeguard by 2 seconds

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:
  • Lt. Morales
    • Safeguard (W)
      • Armor increased from 25 to 30
    • Trauma Trigger (Passive)
      • Armor increased from 30 to 40

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Safeguard (W) Partially Documented
  • Armor increased from 25 to 30

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Fixed an issue causing Safeguard to grant an incorrect amount of Armor.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Safeguard (W) Undocumented
  • Armor decreased from 30 to 25

Hero Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 1472 to 1545
• Health Regeneration increased from 3.07 to 3.2187

Abilities

• Safeguard (W)
  • Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds
  • Armor increased from 25 to 30
• ​Displacement Grenade (E)
  • Damage increased from 198 to 208

Talents

• Level 7
  • Physical Therapy (W)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 4 to 5 seconds
  • ​Vanadium Plating (W)
    • ​Armor bonus now also applies to Root effects
• Level 13
  • EMP Grenade (E)
    • Total damage over 2 seconds increased from 80 to 100

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Healing Beam (Q)
  • No longer cancels existing move orders.
• Safeguard (W)
  • No longer cancels existing move orders.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Healing Beam will no longer heal units affected by Time Stop.

Bug Fixes

• Shields: Talents that deal damage versus Shields, such as Varian's Shattering Throw, no longer also deal damage to the target's Health.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • Trauma Trigger (Passive)
    • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 30 seconds.
• Level 16
  • Extended Care (Q)
    • Range bonus reduced from 40 to 30%.

Bug Fixes

• Brightwing: Soothing Mist will no longer Heal allies who are standing nearby while Brightwing is inside Anub'arak’s Cocoon, Lt. Morales’ Medivac, Stitches’ Gorge, or Zagara’s Devouring Maw.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: The tooltip for the Healing Beam icon next to Lt. Morales’ in-game portrait will now correctly display the Ability’s cooldown duration.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Safeguard (W)
  • Can no longer be cast on non-Heroic targets

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: The Second Opinion Talent will now correctly grant cooldown reduction when one of the Heroes struck by Displacement Grenade is piloting a Vehicle, like the Garden Terror.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health reduced from 1550 to 1472
• Health Regen reduced from 3.23 to 3.07
• Basic Attack Damage reduced from 88 to 83

Abilities

• Healing Beam (Q)
  • Heal amount reduced from 90 to 86
• Displacement Grenade (E)
  • Damage reduced from 210 to 198

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Casting Reinforcements in the allied Hall of Storms will no longer permanently remove Heroes inside the Medivac within from the Battleground’s playable area.

• Lt. Morales: Fixed an issue in which Lt. Morales could become immune to certain Stasis effects like Void Prison and Devouring Maw until death.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health reduced from 1605 to 1550
• Health regen reduced from 3.34 to 3.23

Talents

• Level 1
  • Clear (E)
    • Cooldown Reduction from first quest unlock reduced from 4 to 3 seconds
• Level 4
  • Blast Shield (E)
    • Shield amount reduced from 8 to 6% of maximum Health
• Level 13
  • Second Opinion (E)
    • Cooldown reduction for hitting 2 Heroes increased from 1 to 2 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Fixed an issue which allowed the Medivac to move toward and pick up allied Heroes on the way to its intended destination.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health increased from 1528 to 1605
• Base Life Regen increased from 3.18 to 3.34

Abilities

• Healing Beam (Q)
  • Energy Regeneration cooldown reduced from 3 to 2 seconds
  • You can no longer redirect Healing Beam to a target that is already being healed by your Healing Beam

Talents

• Level 1
  • Caduceus Feedback (Passive)
    • Now increases Basic Attack Range by 1.1 and only generates Energy from Basic Attacks against Heroic targets.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Fixed an issue that caused Lt. Morale’s Displacement Grenade to reduce healing dealt after learning the System Shock talent.

• Lt. Morales: The Cellular Reactor talent will now display an incoming heal indicator on the nameplate healthbar.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Fixed an issue that could allow the Lt. Morales player to issue Move Commands to an active Medivac under certain circumstances.

Hero Updates

Miscellaneous

• Morales now uses Energy to fuel her Healing Beam. All other abilities are free to cast.
  • Morales can hold up to 100 Energy.

Abilities

• Caduceus Reactor (Trait)
  • New Functionality:
    • While channeling Healing Beam, Morales heals herself for 2% of her maximum life per second.
• Healing Beam (Q)
  • Channeling Healing Beam costs 6 Energy per second
  • Morales generates 6 Energy per second after not channeling Healing Beam for 3 seconds.
  • Healing amount reduced from 96 to 90
• Safeguard (W)
  • Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds
• Displacement Grenade (E)
  • A visual indicator for the detonation area is now visible to Lt. Morales.
• Stim Drone (R)
  • Cast time reduced from 1 second to .5 seconds
• Medivac Dropship (R) Undocumented
  • Takeoff minimum delay reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds
  • Health reduced from 1593 to 956
  • Cooldown increased from 50 to 60 seconds

Talents

• Level 1
  • Feedback Loop (W)
    • Removed
  • Scouting Drove (Active)
    • Removed
  • Clear! (E)
    • Moved from Level 7
    • New Functionality:
      • !Quest: Hit Heroes with Displacement Grenade.
      • !Reward: After hitting 15 Heroes, Displacement Grenade’s cooldown is reduced from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
      • !Reward: After hitting 30 Heroes, Displacement Grenade’s area is increased by 25%.
  • (New) Caduceus Feedback (Passive)
    • Basic Attacks generate 1 Energy, increased to 4 against Heroes.
  • (New) Life Support (W)
    • Gain 2 Energy each time Safeguard prevents damage, to a maximum of 20 Energy per cast.
• Level 4
  • Bioshield (Q)
    • Removed
  • Automated Block (Passive)
    • Removed
  • Infused Grenade (E)
    • Removed
  • Trauma Trigger (Passive)
    • Moved from Level 1
    • Cooldown Increased to 60 Seconds
    • New Functionality:
      • Gain 30 Armor for 3 seconds after taking damage while under 40% life.
  • (New) Cellular Reactor (Active)
    • Consume 30 Energy to heal 40% of maximum life over 4 seconds.
  • (New) Blast Shield (E)
    • Hitting a Hero with Displacement Grenade grants Lt Morales 2 Energy and a shield equal to 8% of her maximum health, stacking up to 5 times.
• Level 7
  • Calldown: MULE (Active)
    • Removed
  • Cleanse (Active)
    • Removed
  • (New) Physical Therapy (W)
    • Casting Safeguard removes all Slows from the target. When a slow is removed this way, the cooldown of Safeguard is reduced by 4 seconds.
  • (New) Vanadium Plating (W)
    • Safeguard grants an additional 25 Armor while the bearer is Stunned and its duration does not decay.
  • Prolonged Safeguard (W)
    • Moved from Level 1
    • New Functionality:
      • Increase Safeguard duration by 50%.
• Level 13
  • Intensive Care (Q)
    • Removed
  • Couples Therapy (Q)
    • Removed
  • Preventative Care (Q)
    • Removed
  • Spell Shield (Active)
    • Removed
  • (New) EMP Grenade (Q)
    • Displacement Grenade deals increased damage to shields and additional damage over 2 seconds.
  • System Shock (E)
    • Moved from Level 16
    • New Functionality:
      • Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade have their damage reduced by 30% for 4 seconds.
  • Second Opinion (E)
    • Moved from Level 16
    • New Functionality:
      • If Displacement Grenade hits 2 or more Heroes, its cooldown is reduced to 1 second.
• Level 16
  • (New) Extended Care (Q)
    • Increases the range of Healing Beam by 40%.
  • (New) First Responder (Q)
    • If you have more than 70 energy, your Healing Beam heals for 25% more.
  • Shield Sequencer (W)
    • New Functionality:
      • Safeguard gains an additional charge.
• Level 20
  • Transfusion (R)
    • Removed
  • Medbay (R)
    • Removed
  • Caduceus Reactor 2.0 (Trait)
    • New Functionality:
      • Increases the healing of Caduceus Reactor from 2% to 6%.
  • Storm Shield
    • Removed
  • (New) Hyperactivity (R)
    • Reduces the cooldown of Stim Drone from 90 seconds to 45 seconds and increases the movement speed bonus from 25 to 50%.
  • (New) Safe Zone (R)
    • Heroes are Protected from damage for 2 seconds after unloading from Medivac Dropship.
  • (New) Reinforcements (Active)
    • Reduces the cooldown of Medivac Dropship from 60 to 30 seconds.
    • Activate to call down a Medivac at your Hall of Storms that only allies can enter. Activate again to order the Dropship to travel to the original cast location and unload its cargo. 30 second cooldown. Shares a cooldown with Medivac Dropship.

Developer Comment: Our big two goals for the Lt. Morales changes were to offer a bit more variety in the viability of her talent choices, and to increase the amount of utility she brings to the field. In the past, Lt. Morales tended towards a passive play-style, where talents that increased her survivability were usually the best options because her base kit was already very strong. This can be very frustrating for team compositions that lacked specific tools to deal with her. With how much raw healing output she offers, we found it hard to inject more power into her other abilities or talents without it affecting her overall balance or play style. We found a solution to both these problems in her new energy system. Morales players should still be able to keep their team alive for long periods of time, but, with pressure, clever enemies can exhaust her energy and eventually run her down. Although this does add an additional layer of complexity to Lt. Morales, it is offset by a new set of tools that skilled players can leverage to keep her team happy and healthy.

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

Bug Fixes

• D.Va: Fixed an issue that could cause D.Va to become unresponsive when entering the Dragon Knight or Garden Terror after using Lt. Morales’ Medivac.

• Lt. Morales: Medivac UI will no longer persist on-screen when entering the Medivac as it is destroyed.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Entering a Medivac as it is destroyed will no longer cause the Medivac UI to persist on-screen.

Bug Fixes

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

Bug Fixes

• Infernal Shrines - Fixed an issue causing the Punisher minion to instantly kill Lt. Morales’ Medivac.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Displacement Grenade (E)
  • Will now reveal a small area around the grenade as it travels

Bug Fixes

• Tomb of the Spider Queen: Webweavers will no longer stop advancing down lane after encountering an opposing Scouting Drone when no other enemies are nearby.

Bug Fixes

• Rehgar: Fixed an issue causing Rehgar to become stuck in an attack animation when attempting to attack a moving Medivac Dropship while in wolf form.

• Scouting Drone: Will now properly reveal Creep Tumors and Toxic Nests.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 16
  • Inoculation (W)
    • ​Removed

Developer Comments: With the newly implemented Armor system, Inoculation and Shield Sequencer were both doing very similar things for Morales. We like the interaction and decision making that Shield Sequencer grants, so we have decided to keep it and remove Inoculation for now.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: Fixed a rare issue that could cause Lt. Morales players to lose control of the Hero.

Design & Gameplay

Stealth

• Abilities that reveal Stealthed/Cloaked Heroes will no longer remove the Stealth/Cloak effect, but will instead temporarily reveal the cloaked Hero.
• The following talents now function while under the effects of Stealth granted by another player (ex: Tyrande’s Shadowstalk):
  • Nova
    • Tactical Espionage
    • Advanced Cloaking
    • Covert Ops
  • Samuro
    • Way of the Wind
    • Harsh Winds

Developer Comments: Some revealers, like Oracle from Tassadar and now Scouting Drone, are very binary in their ability to reveal Heroes, by design. But their purpose is to provide scouting and position of the enemy, and not to negate the effects of Talents or Abilities that rely on Stealth to provide their benefit. While examining these conditional Talents, we decided that it would be more interesting to allow synergies between external sources of Stealth these Talents. We like that choices like Tyrande’s Shadowstalk or Medivh’s Invisibility become more interesting if you have allies that gain additional benefits from Stealth on your team.

Talents

Scouting Drone

• Now also reveals Stealthed/Cloaked Heroes

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

• Samuro – Fixed an issue causing Samuro to deselect himself after entering Lt. Morales' Medivac Dropship.

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.

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

Abilities

• Displacement Grenade (E)
  • Displacement Grenade no longer explodes on contact and passes through everything. After a 0.0625 second delay, players can now re-activate the Grenade causing it to explode on command, damaging and displacing enemies. Displacement Grenade automatically explodes if it reaches max range.

Talents

• Level 4
  • Upgraded Ballistics (Passive)
    • Removed

Developer Comments: We have been looking for ways to add gameplay to our Supports, and believe that Lt. Morales’s Displacement Grenade is a place where we could give her more control. We’re hoping that this gives players an opportunity to make bigger plays by having more control of where they want the enemy hero to move with the Grenade’s knockback

Bug Fixes

• Calldown: MULE: Will now properly acquire a new repair target if the Structure it is actively repairing is destroyed.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales: The Inoculation Talent now properly increases Safeguard’s Damage Reduction to 50% for the first 1.5 seconds of the Ability’s duration.

Hero Updates

• Advanced Block (Talent) renamed to Automated Block.

Bug Fixes

• Lt. Morales' Safeguard will now use the new floating combat text style, rather than the old one.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue that could permanently prevent the player from issuing further commands to Lt. Morales if she was killed after casting Medivac Dropship before loading into the Medivac.

Bug Fixes

• The player will no longer lose control of Lt. Morales if she is killed immediately after casting Medivac Dropship.

Bug Fixes

• Towers will now properly fire Ammo provided by an allied Calldown: MULE immediately after 2 Ammo has been restored.

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.)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could prevent Gall from receiving the Will of Gall activated Talent if Cho selected the Talent while channeling to enter Lt. Morales’ Medivac.

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.

Bug Fixes

• Damage prevented by Lt. Morales' Safeguard will now always be displayed in whole numbers.

• Fixed an issue that could cause a Medivac to persist on the battlefield if Lt. Morales was killed while casting Medivac Dropship.

Hero Updates

• Health increased from 700 (+110 per level) to 840 (+130 per level)
• Base Health Regeneration increased from 1.46 per second to 1.75

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the player’s camera to remain locked on Lt. Morales’ Medivac Dropship after exiting it with Camera Lock enabled.

Bug Fixes

• When playing The Lost Vikings, exiting Lt. Morales’ Medivac will no longer cause camera centering to become stuck.

New Hero

Lt. Morales 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

• Caduceus Reactor
  • Regenerate 3% of your maximum Health per second after not taking any damage for 4 seconds.

Basic Abilities

• Healing Beam (Q)
  • Heal an ally for 20 Health per second as long as they are in range. Reactivate to switch targets, or activate your Trait to cancel channeling.
• Safeguard (W)
  • Grant target ally Resistant, reducing damage taken by 25% for 3 seconds.
• Displacement Grenade (E)
  • Fire a grenade that explodes on the first enemy hit, dealing damage, and knocking enemies away.

Heroic Abilities

• Stim Drone (R)
  • Grant an allied Hero 75% Attack Speed and 25% Movement Speed for 10 seconds.
• Medivac Dropship (R)
  • Target a location for a Medivac transport. For up to 10 seconds before takeoff, allies can right-click to enter the Medivac.