Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Shifting Meteor to not travel the full remaining distance of the Living Meteor.

Hero Updates

Base

• Quickcast Settings
  • Molten Core's Sulfuras Smash now shares Quickcast settings with Ragnaros' Sulfuras Smash.

Talents

• Level 20
  • Submerge [Active]
    • Added a healing preview.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Sulfuras Hungers to stack off of Possessed minions.
• Updated visuals of Spell Armor.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Lava Wave [R2]
  • Lava Wave will no longer collect Experience Globes (NOTE: Last hits will still function).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Tempered Flame to increase Ragnaros's Self Healing when Shields granted.
• Fixed an issue that caused Cauterize Wounds to not display correctly in the Death Recap.
• Fixed an issue that caused non-Heroes to not reduce the cooldown of Blistering Attacks with Empower Sulfuras.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Lava Wave to collect reduced value Experience Globes as though they were full value Experience Globes. Undocumented

Bug Fixes

• Meteor Bomb's bonus damage is no longer lost by dying.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Sulfuras Hungers [Q]
    • Quest requirement reduced from 30 to 25.
    • Quest reward damage bonus increased from 90 to 100.
• Level 7
  • Hand of Ragnaros [Q]
    • Adjusted functionality: If Empower Sulfuras hits 2 Heroes, refund 10 mana and its cooldown recharges 100% faster for 4 seconds.
• Level 13
  • Cauterize Wounds [Q]
    • Healing increased from 40% to 45%.
• Level 16
  • Meteor Bomb [W]
    • Additional functionality: Meteor Bomb deals an additional 30% damage near its center.

Developer Comment: These changes are simply looking to help out some weaker talents. Hand of Ragnaros is still providing the same benefit in the same situations as before, and now also helps Ragnaros recover from a swing that failed to meet its requirement.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Molten Power would not increase in stack count for enemy Heroes hit with the initial impact Undocumented

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Shifting Meteor [W]
    • Damage bonus per hit increased from 5% to 6%.
• Level 7
  • Molten Power [Passive]
    • New functionality: If Living Meteor hits enemy Heroes at least 5 times, then reduce its cooldown by 7 seconds, and refund 30 Mana.

Developer Comment: We didn't love how Molten Power's strength was offered in an upcoming cast after meeting its conditions. This version should give a more immediate reward, while also being more attractive for solo laners.

Bug Fixes

• Sulfuras Smash now has the same cooldown and effect when Ragnaros casts it during Molten Core.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 10
  • Sulfuras Smash [R1]
    • Cooldown reduced from 80 to 60 seconds.
    • Mana cost reduced from 75 to 70.
    • Damage to enemies hit by its outer area increased from 198 to 250.

Developer Comment: It's been a long time since Sulfuras Smash was the premier Heroic on Ragnaros, back when he and his best buddy Taunt Varian dominated the competitive scene. Things have changed, and over the years Lava Wave has risen to dominance, so we're giving Sulfuras Smash some love so that it can see a return to its glory days.

Hero Updates

Base Stats

• Health increased from 2000 to 2075
• Health Regeneration increased from 4.168 to 4.323
• Basic Attack damage increased from 171 to 180

Talents

• Level 20
  • Flames of Sulfuron [R1]
    • Bonus Stun duration increased from .5 seconds to 1 second
    • Slow duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds
  • Submerge [Active]
    • Cooldown reduced from 90 to 60 seconds

Developer Comment: It's been awhile since we've reevaluated the Firelord's place in the Nexus. Overall he's doing fairly well, but we felt he could use a small buff to compete with the current meta heroes in the game. We also saw this as an opportunity to help his Level 20 pick rates out, so we're buffing Flames of Sulfuron to be a fairly meaningful Stun increase and increasing the uptime of Submerge.

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Fixed an issue allowing Ragnaros to immediately complete the Catching Fire quest if it was chosen during Molten Core.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Shifting Meteor (W)
    • Damage bonus increased from 3 to 5%

Bug Fixes

• Stasis/Time Stop: Fixed an issue where player created terrain could move Heroes affected by Stasis or Time Stop.

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Fixed an issue that could allow allied displacement Abilities to move Ragnaros while he was in Molten Core form.

Design & Gameplay

• Ragnaros: Empower Sulfuras will now miss when Ragnaros is Blinded, and the Ability's cooldown will be consumed.

Bug Fixes

• Abathur: Ultimate Evolution clones of Lil' Ragnaros will now use the correct death model when the Ability expires or the clone is destroyed.

• Ragnaros: Lava Wave now correctly dissipates after reaching the end of the targeted lane on Towers of Doom.

• Ragnaros: When cast on Ragnaros in his normal form, Alarak's Rite of Rak'shir and Alexstrasza's Blessing of the Red will not persist after casting Molten Core. However, Ragnaros will regain those marks once Molten Core expires.

Bug Fixes

• Illidan: Can now correctly cast Dive on Ragnaros in Molten Core form.

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Blind and Evasion effects will no longer cause Empower Sulfuras’s Ability Damage to miss.

Bug Fixes

• Heroes can no longer cast Area-of-Effect abilities globally before the gates open.

Bug Fixes

• Melee Lane Units: Melee Minions, Mercenaries, and Braxis Holdout’s melee Zerg units will no longer ignore an enemy Ragnaros in Molten Core form.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Living Meteor (W)
  • Damage reduced from 72 to 68
• Blast Wave (E)
  • Cooldown reduced from 10 to 9 seconds

Talents

• Level 1
  • Shifting Meteor (W)
    • Additional Functionality:
      • Each time an enemy is hit by Living Meteor, they take an additional 3% damage from subsequent hits by the same Meteor
  • Engulfing Flame (E)
    • Adjusted functionality:
      • No longer grants cooldown reduction on Blast Wave
      • Now also increases the damage of Blast Wave by 75%
• Level 7
  • Superheated (E)
    • Removed
  • New Talent: Blistering Attacks (Passive)
    • Every 10 seconds, your next Basic Attack deals 60% bonus damage. Enemies hit by your Basic Abilities reduces this cooldown by 1 second
  • Molten Power (W)
    • Damage bonus increased from 15 to 20% per enemy Hero hit
• Level 20
  • Lava Surge (R)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 10 to 30 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Lava Wave now correctly contributes to Ragnaros’ Siege Damage.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Molten Core (D)
  • When Molten Core expires, the camera will now snap back to Ragnaros if he is not on screen.

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Empower Sulfuras’s animation will no longer play without dealing damage if the attack was cancelled by issuing Movement Commands.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Sulfuras Hungers (Q)
    • Bonus damage upon quest completion reduced from 100 to 90
• Level 4
  • Catching Fire (Passive)
    • Health regen reduced from 1.5 to 1.25
• Level 13
  • Cauterize Wounds (Q)
    • Healing bonus reduced from 50 to 40%

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing some friendly buff effects (Rehgar’s Lightning Shield and Ragnaros’ Blast Wave) to reveal their cloaked targets when they damaged enemy units.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage decreased from 180 to 171

Abilities

• Empower Sulfuras (Q)​
  • Damage decreased from 201 to 191
• Sulfuras Smash (R)​
  • ​Cooldown increased from 60 to 80 seconds

Talents

• Level 13
  • Resilient Flame (Passive)
    • Cooldown increased from 10 to 15 seconds
    • Armor bonus decreased from 50 to 40

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Casting a displacement Ability that pushes Ragnaros out of channeling range for Molten Core will no longer cause Ragnaros to become unresponsive.

• Ragnaros: Fixed an issue in which Empower Sulfuras would not benefit from Hand of Ragnaros when killing a secondary Heroic target.

• Ragnaros: Vehicles piloted by Ragnaros will no longer benefit from Resilient Flame.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 13
  • Resilient Flame (Passive)
    • Now has a 10 second cooldown between activations
    • A button has been added to the hotbar so the cooldown can be tracked

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Lava Wave's cooldown will now be paused during Zeratul’s Void Prison.

• Ragnaros: Will now properly benefit from Hand of Sulfuras when Empower Sulfuras scores a killing blow after striking multiple enemy Heroes.

• Rehgar: Will no longer be pulled out of Ghost Wolf form upon dealing damage via an allied Ragnaros’s Blast Wave.

• Corrected the scaling damage caps for several Talents that deal damage based on a percentage of the target’s maximum Health, including:
  • Gall: Giant Scorcher
  • Rehgar: Hunger of the Wolf
  • Ragnaros: Giant Scorcher
  • Tracer: Quantum Spike
  • Xul: Backlash, Giant’s Curse

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Activating Empower Sulfuras will no longer cause Ragnaros to lose his current target if that target was automatically acquired during attack-move command.

• Ragnaros: Catching Fire’s Talent and Quest Progress tooltips now each state that Ragnaros gains 1.5 Health Regeneration per Regeneration Globe he gathers.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Base Maximum Health reduced from 2100 to 2000
• Base Health Regen reduced from 4.4 to 4.2 per second

Talents

• Level 1
  • Sulfuras Hungers (Q)
    • Quest completion damage bonus reduced from 120 to 100
• Level 4
  • Catching Fire (Active)
    • Health Regeneration bonus reduced from 2 to 1.5 per regen globe gathered
• Level 13
  • Cauterize Wounds (Q)
    • Healing reduced from 60 to 50% of damage dealt

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Fixed an issue that made it possible for Empower Sulfuras to occasionally deal double damage.

Bug Fixes

• Rehgar: Fixed an issue causing Rehgar to exit wolf form if he deals damage with a Ragnaros Blast Wave.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Empower Sulfuras (Q)
  • Damage reduced from 211 to 201

Talents

• Level 20
  • Heroic Difficulty (D)
    • Health and Damage bonus reduced from 50 to 25%

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Empower Sulfuras (Q)
  • Damage reduced from 222 to 211
• Living Meteor (W)
  • Damage reduced from 75 to 72
• Molten Core (Trait)
  • Cooldown increased from 100 to 120 seconds
  • Molten Swing damage reduced from 169 to 161
  • Meteor Shower damage reduced from 159 to 151
  • Explosive Rune damage reduced from 300 to 285
• Lava Wave (R)
  • Cooldown increased from 100 to 120 seconds
  • Damage reduced from 86 to 60

Talents

• Level 1
  • Shifting Meteor (W)
    • Quest requirement increased from 50 to 75 Heroic target hits

Developer Comments: The addition of Ragnaros to the Nexus has once again unmistakably proven how painful it is to stand in fire. Lava Wave and Molten Core seem to be the leading power-houses of the newly released Raid Boss, so we are targeting the majority of the changes at them. We are also carefully monitoring his interaction with the Battlegrounds and are prepared to make adjustments as needed.

Bug Fixes

• Ragnaros: Pressing ALT + R will now properly self-cast Sulfuras Smash.

New Hero

As the lord of Azeroth’s fire elementals, Ragnaros desires nothing more than to burn the world to ash. Banished to the Firelands eons ago, the Firelord now turns his rage toward the Nexus, intent on incinerating everything and everyone within it.

Trait

• Molten Core (D)
  • Channel on an Allied or destroyed Fort or Keep to replace it with Ragnaros’ Ultimate Form, temporarily gaining new Abilities, and a significant amount of Health that burns away over 18 seconds.
  • Ragnaros returns to his normal form upon losing all Health during Molten Core.

Basic Abilities

• Empower Sulfuras (Q)
  • Ragnaros’ next Basic Attack is instant, dealing Ability Damage in an area around the target, and Healing Ragnaros for 20% of the damage dealt. Healing is doubled for damage dealt to Heroes.
• Living Meteor (W)
  • Summon a meteor at the target point that deals damage on impact, and then rolls in the target direction and deals additional damage every second for 1.75 seconds.
• Blast Wave (E)
  • Ignite Ragnaros or target Ally, granting 25% bonus Movement Speed for 1.5 seconds before exploding, dealing damage to nearby enemies.

Molten Core Form Abilities

• Molten Swing (Q)
  • Swing Sulfuras in a wide arc, dealing damage and stunning enemies for 1 second. Damage increased by 25% versus Minions and Mercenaries.
• Meteor Shower (W)
  • Summon 3 meteors at the target point that fall in the target direction. Each meteor deals damage and slows enemies by 25% for 2 seconds. Damage increased by 25% versus Minions and Mercenaries.
• Explosive Rune (E)
  • Create a rune that explodes after 1.5 seconds, dealing damage to non-Structure enemies in a circular area. Damage increased by 25% versus Minions and Mercenaries.

Heroic Abilities

• Sulfuras Smash (R)
  • Hurl Sulfuras at the target area, landing after 0.75 seconds and dealing damage to enemies hit. Enemies caught in the center of the impact area take triple damage and are Stunned for 0.5 seconds.
• Lava Wave (R)
  • Release a wave of lava from the allied Core that travels down the target lane, dealing massive damage every second to non-Structure enemies and instantly killing enemy Minions in its path. Damage doubled versus enemy Heroes.