Heroes of the Storm Patch Notes - January 24, 2018

Official Patch Notes v 2.29.9

We’ve just released a patch to the live servers in order to apply some balance updates and bug fixes.

Heroes

Assassin Specialist Support Warrior
Hanzo Sgt. Hammer Brightwing Blaze
Valeera Sylvanas Tyrande Sonya
Xul

Assassin

Hanzo

Stats

  • Basic Attack Damage reduced from 176 to 173

Abilities

  • Storm Bow (Q)
    • Damage reduced from 297 to 291
  • Scatter Arrow (W)
    • Ricochet damage reduced from 90 to 88

Talents

  • Level 7
    • Sharpened Arrowheads (W)
      • Decreased Armor reduction from 5 (to a maximum of 25) to 4 (to a maximum of 20)

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Valeera

Abilities

  • Ambush (Q)
    • Armor reduction duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds

Talents

  • Level 1
    • Vigor (Passive)
      • Passive energy regeneration increased from 2 to 2.5 per second.
    • Combat Readiness (Passive)
      • Physical Armor increased from 60 to 75
  • Level 4
    • Relentless Strikes (Q)
      • Sinister Strike energy reduction increased from 10 to 15
  • Level 7
    • Mutilate (Q)
      • Damage bonus increased from 100% to 125%
    • Fatal Finesse (W)
      • Damage gained per enemy Hero hit increased from 3 (to a maximum of 60) to 4 (to a maximum of 80)
  • Level 13
    • Blind (W)
      • Bonus Blind duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds
  • Level 20
    • Adrenaline Rush (R)
      • Energy regeneration increased from 30 to 40 per second

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Specialist

Sgt. Hammer

Talents

  • Level 4
    • Regenerative Bio-Steel (D)
      • Healing reduced from 15% to 10% of Sgt. Hammer’s Basic Attack damage dealt in Siege Mode.
  • Level 7
    • Graduating Range (D)
      • Range reduced from 1.1 to 1 per stack, up to a maximum of 3

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Sylvanas

Stats

  • Base Maximum Health reduced from 1456 to 1425
  • Health Regen reduced from 3.04 to 2.97

Abilities

  • Shadow Dagger (W)
    • Cooldown increased from 10 to 11 seconds

Talents

  • Level 4
    • Lost Soul (W)
      • Cooldown reduction per Hero hit reduced from 1.25 to 1 second

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Xul

Talents

  • Level 4
    • Grim Scythe (Q)
      • Cooldown reduction per enemy hit increased from .75 to 1 second
    • Jailors (E)
      • Bonus Attack and Movement Speed reduced from 50 to 40%
  • Level 7
    • Harvest Vitality (W)
      • Heal increased from 60 to 70%

Return

Support

Brightwing

Stats

  • Base Maximum Health increased from 1395 to 1450
  • Health Regen increased from 2.91 to 3.02

Return

Tyrande

Stats

  • Basic Attack Damage increased from 80 to 82

Return

Warrior

Blaze

Abilities

  • Fortified Bunker (R)
    • Health increased from 1305 to 1435
  • Combustion (R)
    • There is now a .5 second window after casting where Combustion cannot be canceled (this is to prevent accidental canceling from rapid key presses)

Talents

  • Level 4
    • Feeding the Flame (Q)
      • Cooldown reduction increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds
  • Level 7
    • Incinerator Gauntlets (Passive)
      • Bonus damage increased from 50% to 70%
    • Crossfire (Q)
      • Damage increased from 132 to 139
    • Grill and Kill (W)
      • Damage bonus decreased from 25% to 20%
  • Level 13
    • Suppressive Fire (Q) Undocumented
      • Spell Power reduction increased from 15% (max 30%) to 20% (max 40%)
    • Nanomachine Coating (W)
      • Attack Speed slow now also applies to Oil Spills that are on fire
  • Level 16
    • Juggernaut Plating (Active)
      • Shield bonus increased from 100% to 125% of damage reduced

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Sonya

Stats

  • Basic Attack damage reduced from 88 to 84

Talents

  • Level 7
    • Poisoned Spear (Q)
      • Damage reduced from 125% to 100% of Ancient Spear’s damage.
  • Level 16
    • Nerves of Steel (Active)
      • Duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds
      • Shield amount reduced from 30% to 25% of Maximum Health
      • Cooldown reduced from 70 to 60 seconds

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Bug Fixes

General

  • Fixed a number of inaccuracies and grammatical issues in tooltips across the game.
  • Korean Client: Updated the loading screen to the Korean localized version.

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents

  • Blaze: Fixed an issue that allowed Heroes to bypass the movement speed reduction from ignited Oil Spills if Blaze chose the Adhesive Petroleum talent.
  • Blaze: Fixed an issue causing Stimpack and Pyromania voiceover lines to be heard globally.
  • Tyrael: Fixed an issue preventing Tyrael from gaining stacks of Ardent Restoration from the damage dealt by the Burning Halo talent.

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