Bug Fixes

• Checkpoint Reached now displays in the Death Recap.

• Fixed an issue that caused Olaf's Attack not showing up as a Basic Attack.

Hero Updates

Abilities

• Slowing Charge [Olaf]
  • Cooldown now displays a circular indicator around his shield in The Lost Viking's Hero status.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Nordic Attack Squad to be able to damage invulnerable targets.
• Fixed an issue where there health was not set to full on death.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Baleog
  • Baleog's Basic Attacks when fired from a distance effect reveal duration increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds.
  • Baleog's Basic Attacks when fired at close range will now reveal the effect area for 0.75 seconds.

Abilities

• Viking Hoard [Trait]
  • Viking Hoard will now display the stacks as a baseline quest in the talents tab of the scoreboard.

Talents

• Level 13
  • Hunka' Burning Olaf [Passive]
    • Hunka Burning Olaf will now reveal the target for 2 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused It's a Sabotate to apply while Erik is Blinded.
• Fixed an issue that caused Hunka Burning Olaf's damage aura to display as a critical when damage was not increased.
• Fixed an issue that caused Nordic Attack Squad to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Longboat Raid from using the Force Move command.

Hero Updates

Stats

• Baleog
  • Health reduced from 1180 to 1130.
  • Health Regeneration reduced from 2.46 to 2.35.
  • Basic Attack damage reduced from 78 to 75.
• Erik
  • Health reduced from 840 to 804.
  • Health Regeneration reduced from 1.75 to 1.67.
  • Basic Attack damage reduced from 65 to 62.
• Olaf
  • Health reduced from 1540 to 1482.
  • Health Regeneration reduced from 3.21 to 3.08.
  • Basic Attack damage reduced from 57 to 54.

Talents

• Level 4
  • It's a Sabotage! [Passive]
    • Damage over time duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds.
    • Damage per second increased from 50 to 75.
• Level 7
  • Norse Force! [Q]
    • Base Shield increased from 130 to 140.
    • Additional Shield for each Viking alive increased from 65 to 84.
• Level 10
  • Longboat Raid! [R2]
    • Damage per second increased from 112 to 128.
• Level 16
  • Impatience Is a Virtue [Passive]
    • Cooldown reduction increased from .25 seconds to .31 seconds.
  • 64 KB Marathon [Z]
    • Changed Functionality: Bonus Movement Speed no longer decays over its duration.
• Level 20
  • Ragnarok 'n' Roll! [R1]
    • Additional Functionality: Reduce the cooldown of Longboat Raid by 30 seconds.

Developer Comment: Previously, The Lost Vikings had received a significant buff to their base stats to assist in their adjustment to experience globes. The Lost Viking players have since adapted wonderfully, so we're halving the impact of that buff, while assisting a few weaker talents.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Olaf the Stout [Passive]
    • Additional functionality: Increase Olaf's Health by 20%.
  • Spy Games [Passive]
    • Additional functionality: After leaving Stealth, Erik gains 75% Basic Attack damage for 6 seconds.
  • Viking Bribery [E]
    • No longer causes camps to respawn 50% faster.
• Level 7
  • Baleog the Fierce [Passive]
    • New functionality: Increase Baleog's attack range by 2.5. While near Olaf and Erik, he becomes inspired by the power of teamwork and his Attack Speed is increased by 50%.
  • Spin to Win! [Q]
    • Damage reduced from 101 to 85.
    • Additional functionality: Deals double damage against enemy Heroes.
  • Norse Force! [Q]
    • Cooldown reduced from 30 to 15 seconds.
• Level 10
  • Longboat Raid [R1]
    • Health increased from 685 to 750.
    • Health bonus per Viking increased from 171 to 185.
  • Play Again! [R2]
    • Cooldown increased from 80 to 100 seconds.
• Level 13
  • Nordic Attack Squad [W]
    • Changed from a [W] to a passive talent.
    • New functionality: While Olaf, Baleog, and Erik are near each of the other Vikings, their Basic Attacks deal bonus damage equal to 1.25% maximum Health to enemy Heroes.

Developer Comment: It's been awhile since we last changed the Lost Vikings. This round of changes is targeted at making the Lost Vikings significantly more potent in PvP situations while keeping their map pressure in check. There are a few talents in particular that will give the Vikings powerful benefits when they fight together, which should reward players who are able to properly micro them during combat. We hope these changes open up new playstyles that never existed before, which should be exciting for those who take the time to master these Heroes.

Bug Fixes

• Go, Go, Go, Norse Force, Press A and Spin to Win are now temporarily disabled after Longboat Raid is destroyed Undocumented

Hero Updates

Stats

• Baleog
  • Health increased from 1095 to 1180.
  • Health Regeneration increased from 2.22 to 2.46.
  • Basic Attack damage increased from 73 to 78.
• Erik
  • Health increased from 767 to 840.
  • Health Regeneration increased from 1.6 to 1.75.
  • Basic Attack damage increased from 60 to 65.
• Olaf
  • Health increased from 1424 to 1540.
  • Health Regeneration increased from 2.97 to 3.21.
  • Basic Attack damage increased from 52 to 57.

Talents

• Level 10
  • Longboat Raid [R1]
    • Mortar damage increased from 205 to 228.
    • Viking Stun duration when the Longboat is destroyed reduced from 1.5 to 1 second.

Developer Comment: Due to the changes to how experience is gathered, we expect the Lost Vikings to have a harder time filling their role on a team. To help them out a bit, we're giving them a bit of a baseline buff, as well as buffing Longboat Raid.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various Movement Speed bugs that had occurred with the increased Movement Speed patch.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • It's A Sabotage! (Passive)
    • Damage increased from 35 to 50
    • Damage is now dealt over 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds
• Level 7
  • Norse Force (Q)
    • Shield amount for 1 Viking increased from 110 to 130
    • Shield amount for 2 Vikings increased from 165 to 195
    • Shield amount for 3 Vikings increased from 220 to 260
• Level 13
  • Nordic Attack Squad (W)
    • Cooldown reduced from 30 to 20 seconds
    • Damage increased from 1% to 1.25%

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings: Casting Spin to Win! no longer causes offscreen Vikings to play false “under attack” voice lines.

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings: Stealth granted by the Spy Games Talent is now correctly applied for 3 seconds after Erik moves.

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings: Spin to Win! visual effects are no longer visible through the Fog of War near the edge of the enemy team’s vision.

Hero Updates

Talents

• Level 4
  • It’s a Sabotage! (Passive)
    • No longer removes Structure ammo
    • Damage increased from 27 to 35

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings: Can no longer clip into Gates on Braxis Holdout during the pre-game countdown.

• The Lost Vikings: Casting Longboat Raid immediately after one of the Vikings is killed will no longer prevent the player from using Mortar during the Heroic Ability’s duration.

Bug Fixes

• Alarak: Marking The Lost Vikings with Rite of Rak'Shir during their Longboat Raid Ability and then killing the Longboat will now correctly grant bonus Sadism and Rite of Rak’shir cooldown reduction.

Bug Fixes

• Basic Attacks: Splash and Cleave damage will now correctly reveal targets who are hit while inside Bushes and Vents.

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings: Fixed an issue causing Olaf to begin attacking the nearest enemy after using Charge, rather than the intended target.

Design & Gameplay

Hero Radii

• The radius of many heroes in the game have been adjusted to better match their actual model size.
  • Increased Radius - Abathur, ETC, Gul'dan, Baleog, Muradin, Misha, Sgt. Hammer, Thrall, Uther, Varian, Zagara
  • Decreased Radius - Li Li, Tracer, Valeera

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings - Fixed an issue that caused focus to be taken away from the currently selected Viking if a Viking enters the Garden Terror.

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings: Olaf will no longer Charge destroyed Structures.

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings: Fixed an issue causing the Viking Hoard talent to fail to grant bonuses to Health Regeneration.

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

• Zeratul: Void Prison will no longer cancel Rehgar’s Feral Lunge or Olaf's Charge as long as the target of either Ability is still in range when Void Prison ends.

Talents

Bribe

• New Functionality:
  • Nearby Minion kills grant 1 stack of Bribe. Spend 20 charges to instantly defeat a non-Boss Mercenary. 100 Charges maximum.
    • Raynor’s Raiders' Recruitment Talent also increased to 100 maximum charges.
    • Viking Bribery Talent increased to 200 charges maximum, but each use costs 40 charges.
  • If a Mercenary Camp is completely captured using Bribe, the camp respawns 50% faster.

Executioner

• The Executioner Talent effect will now only trigger after attacking disabled Heroes. The bonus damage gained through this talent will still apply to anything attacked after the effect is triggered.

Hero Updates

• Each of The Lost Vikings will now display individual messages in chat when using Hearthstone.

Talents

Executioner

• This Talent has been reworked.
  • Increases Basic Attack damage by 30% for 3 seconds after hitting a Stunned, Slowed, or Rooted target with a Basic Attack. Using Basic Attacks against a Slowed, Rooted, or Stunned target during this time will refresh the buff duration.

Developer Comments: We like the punishing nature of Executioner, but have found over time that its benefit to the player is too narrowly scoped. We’re changing the Talent to be more consistently useful by giving the player a temporary Attack Damage buff that procs when they first hit a crowd controlled target.

Bug Fixes

• Casting Dehaka’s Isolation on a summoned unit or Heroic pet, such as Misha, Gargantuan, or a Holo Decoy, will no longer also cause the Hero who owns that unit to lose allied vision.
  • Additionally, if one of The Lost Vikings or Chen’s Storm, Earth, Fire Spirits are hit by Isolation, only the affected unit will have reduced personal vision, but the player should retain allied vision.
  • Alternatively, if the only living Viking or Spirit is hit by Isolation, the player will have reduced personal vision and lose allied vision for Isolation’s full duration.

Hero Updates

• Olaf the Stout (Talent)
  • Time between Block stacks reduced from 8 to 5 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Li-Ming’s Critical Mass Trait will no longer trigger when one of The Lost Vikings is killed if she did not participate in the takedown.

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.)

Bug Fixes

• Olaf’s Large and In Charge ability no longer allows him to charge unintended targets.

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

Bug Fixes

• The Lost Vikings are no longer teleported back to their Hall of Storms if they would have been killed by Zagara’s Devouring Maw while in Longboat Raid! form.

Talents

Mercenary Lord

Developer Comments: We’ve combined the talent Superiority into Mercenary Lord, and removed the damage reduction from structures to prevent degenerative backdoor strategies. The combination of the damage reduction vs. Mercenaries and the ability to empower these Mercenaries felt like a logical pairing. We hope incorporating the two talents into one will make this level 4 choice an enticing one, as the two talents separated had a low pick rate.

• The functionality of the Superiority Talent has been rolled into Mercenary Lord, which is now available to the following Heroes at Level 4:
  • Anub'arak, Arthas, Azmodan, Gazlowe, Nazeebo, Sonya, Stitches, and The Lost Vikings
• New combined functionality reads: Non-Boss Mercenaries near your Hero deal 50% more damage. Reduces damage taken from Minions and Mercenaries by 50%.

Seasoned Marksman

Developer Comments: Overall, we like the way Seasoned Marksman is playing but wanted to tune up its effectiveness to reward those able to secure a healthy number of takedowns, while simultaneously tuning the talent up due to prior changes. Ideally, this will become a great talent pick when facing The Lost Vikings or Murky players.

• Stacks earned by killing enemy Heroes increased from 2 to 3
• Only Minions, captured enemy Mercenaries, and Heroes will grant stacks upon death

Superiority

• This Talent has been removed, and its functionality has been rolled into the revamped Mercenary Lord Talent

Hero Updates

• The Lost Vikings have received significant Talent changes.
• Olaf’s out of combat healing reduced from 10% to 5% of his Health per tick.
• Erik’s Movement Speed reduced by approximately 5%
• Fast Restart (Trait) removed
• New Trait: Viking Hoard
  • Gather Regeneration Globes to permanently increase The Lost Vikings' Health Regeneration by 0.5 per second
• Go Go Go! (Z)
  • Movement Speed reduced from 40% to 30%
• Longboat Raid! (R)
  • Duration increased from 12 to 15 seconds
  • Damage per second reduced from 30 (+14 per level) to 25 (+11 per level)
  • Mortar (Q)
    • Will no longer instantly explode when self-cast, or when cast very close to the Longboat
• Talents
  • Level 1
    • Viking Hoard has been removed and repurposed as The Lost Vikings’ new Trait.
    • Spy Games
      • Time needed to enter Stealth reduced from 5 to 3 seconds
    • New Talent (Level 1): Explosive Attacks
      • Baleog’s Basic Attacks deal 100% splash damage to non-Heroic targets
    • New Talent (Level 1): Viking Bribery (E)
      • The Lost Vikings earn Viking Bribery charges from nearby Minion deaths, up to a maximum of 100
      • Use 40 charges to order the nearest Viking to bribe a Mercenary
      • All Vikings can earn charges, but each Minion death only grants 1 charge
  • Level 4
    • Hardheaded Redhead removed
    • Pain Don’t Hurt
      • Healing received is now doubled for damage dealt against Heroes
    • It’s a Sabotage!
      • Erik’s Basic Attacks also deal 100 (+10 per level) damage over 10 seconds against Structures; this effect does not stack
    • Spin to Win! (Q) moved from Level 4 to Level 7
      • Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds
      • Damage reduced from 50 (+10 per level) to 42 (+9 per level)
  • Level 7
    • Erik the Swift moved from Level 7 to Level 4
      • Now also increases Erik’s base Movement Speed by 10%.
    • Jump! (W) moved from Level 7 to Level 13
  • Level 13
    • Speedrun! removed
    • Impatience Is a Virtue moved from Level 13 to Level 16
    • New Talent (Level 13): Nordic Attack Squad (W)
      • Activate to cause each Basic Attack to deal 1% of an enemy Hero’s Health as damage for 5 seconds. 30 second cooldown
  • Level 16
    • Executioner added at level 16
    • 64 KB Marathon
      • No longer causes The Lost Vikings to become Unstoppable during Go Go Go!, and instead removes Slows and Roots
      • Movement Speed bonus decay rate reduced from 10% to 5% per second for 4 seconds.
    • Norse Force! (Q) moved from Level 16 to Level 7
      • The Hotkey for this Ability has been changed from E to Q
      • Duration reduced from 7 to 4 seconds
      • Cooldown reduced from 60 to 30 seconds
      • Shield amount reduced from 100 (+20 per level) to 40 (+10 per level)
  • Level 20
    • The Sequel!
      • Now reduces The Lost Vikings' death timers by 50%

Bug Fixes

• Erik will no longer enter Stealth immediately upon respawning after learning the Spy Games talent.

• Lost Vikings that die while casting Longboat Raid will no longer respawn at their death locations.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which The Lost Vikings could occasionally become unselectable after being killed while casting the Longboat Raid! Heroic Ability.

Hero Updates

• Jump! (Talent) cooldown increased from 20 to 30 seconds
• Longboat Raid! (R)
  • The Lost Vikings will now become stunned for 1.5 seconds if the Longboat is destroyed before its duration ends.
• Play Again! (R)
  • All of the Lost Vikings are now restored to full Health upon casting Play Again!

Bug Fixes

• Baleog and Erik can no longer walk through Nazeebo’s Zombie Wall.

Hero Updates

• A Lost Vikings-specific version of the Fury of the Storm Talent has been added at Level 20.
  • Every 5 seconds, the next Basic Attack will deal an additional 10 (+4 per level) damage to the target, and 10 (+11 per level) damage to all nearby Minions and Mercenaries. Each Viking has a separate cooldown.
• Longboat Raid! (R)
  • Damage reduced from 15 (+8 per level) to 15 (+7 per level)

Bug Fixes

• Brightwing will no longer be incorrectly teleported back to base when casting her Phase Shift Ability on a Lost Viking just as the Vikings enter their Longboat.

• Tassadar's Distortion Beam will now more appropriately track Chen and The Lost Vikings when they are in their Wandering Keg and Longboat Raid! forms.

• The cooldown for Nova's Triple Tap after learning the Fast Reload Talent will now be appropriately reset upon killing any of The Lost Vikings.

Bug Fixes

• Respawn waypoints set from The Lost Vikings’ tombstones onto an enemy Hero will no longer track that Hero through the Fog of War.

New Hero

The Lost Vikings, (Olaf, Baleog, and Erik) just fell through a Nexus portal and are now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of their Abilities, as well as how to control the Vikings in-game.

• General
  • The Lost Vikings are three Heroes in one!
    • Olaf – Has lots of Health, regenerates Health quickly, and charges to slow enemies
    • Baleog – Deals splash damage to enemies behind his attack target
    • Erik – Moves faster than the other Vikings and has a longer attack range
  • Each Viking can move, attack, and be killed separately. They will also receive individual respawn timers on death.
    • Use the activated Talent hotkeys “1”, “2”, and “3” to select and control the Vikings individually, or press the “4” key to guide them as a group.
• Basic Abilities
  • The Lost Vikings’ Basic Abilities must be unlocked through Talent Selection.
  • Spin to Win! (Q)
    • Deals damage around each Viking.
    • Can be unlocked at Level 4 by learning the Spin to Win! Talent
  • Jump! (W)
    • All Vikings become temporarily Invulnerable.
    • Can be unlocked at Level 7 by learning the Jump! Talent
  • Norse Force! (E)
    • All Vikings temporarily gain a Shield.
    • Can be unlocked at Level 16 by learning the Norse Force! Talent
• Mount
  • Go go go! (Z)
    • The Vikings gain increased Movement Speed for a few seconds.
• Trait
  • Fast Restart
    • Death time is reduced for The Lost Vikings.
• Heroic Abilities
  • Play Again! (R)
    • All Vikings are revived and teleported to the summoning Viking.
  • Longboat Raid! (R)
    • Summon a Longboat and go on a Viking Raid!

Design & Gameplay

General

• Abathur's Ultimate Evolution clones, Murky, and The Lost Vikings’ deaths are now represented in 0.25 increments on score screens, as killing them awards 25% of the normal XP amount earned by killing another hero.

Talents

General

• All Heroes (including Murky and The Lost Vikings) now count as full credit toward Talents which require Hero kills (such as Gathering Power).

New Level 20 Talents

Fury of the Storm

• Every 5 seconds, the next Basic Attack will deal an additional 200 damage to the primary target, and 500 damage to each nearby Minion or Mercenary.
• Found on the following Heroes:
  • E.T.C., Gazlowe, Nazeebo, Sgt. Hammer, The Lost Vikings, Zagara