Leaked patch notes usher in new age of Heroes of the Storm



A reliable source has given GosuGamers the exclusive leak on a long list of data-mined patch notes.

As the Spring Championships wage on, GosuGamers has received an exclusive leak of from a reliable source within Blizzard on the latest big patch to hit the Nexus. While we can't confirm the legitimacy of these notes, our source is extremely reliable sleeper agent that has been deep undercover for years.

The patch notes were given to us in fragments and we only have a few screenshots plus some salvaged lines from a corrupted txt. file:

Hero Changes



Muradin’s Storm Bolt no longer stuns and now slows by 20% for 1.5 seconds to the first target hit.



All of E.T.Cs basic abilities now trigger an individual Mosh Pit effect



Tassadar’s Archon heroic now also absorbs all nearby Protoss heroes and permanently removes them from play.



Jaina has once again been nerfed, we’d tell you the specifics, but at this point, it doesn't really matter.



Nova’s talents have been completely reworked. Every tier is now 4 choices between various Halo Decoy talents, including the following new talents: Dank Decoy Numbing Decoy Heroes of the Decoy Epic Decoy Chain Decoy Dubious Decoy Flesh Decoy Resurgence of the Decoy Storm Decoy Literal Decoy



Lunara’s attack animation has been slowed down due to overwhelming community response. Players should enjoy a lengthy delay towards the beginning of every auto attack.



Valla’s trait has been reworked. Next to her Hatred stacks, she now also has a Happiness bar that is increased every time she is healed or doesn’t take damage for 10 seconds. When happiness is at max, Valla is visually and audibly less upset.



Rexxar’s abilities and auto attacks can no longer target anything but enemy heroes. When issued a command to attack a minion or structure, Rexxar will instead find the nearest enemy hero and move towards them.



Murky’s Living the Dream talent has been reworked:

Gain 1 stack of fish for every murky death, each stack increases murky’s movement speed by 2% up to 50% and ability power by 2% up to 30% . At 20 stacks murky gains an additional murky egg which is cloaked.



Orbital BFG’s level 20 Storm talent now causes the path of BFG to extend over to a current game of a random player on your friends list. If you have no friends, then orbital BFG will travel to a random strangers game instead.



Stitches abilities have been redesigned to fit his current role in the competitive Meta:

Q - Global Lag : Causes the client to stutter incoherently for all players within a 5-yard radius

W - I can’t move : Stitches unleashes a spray of server side lag, causing all enemy heroes hit to lose control of their hero. This effect lasts for 4 seconds.

E - Tears make me stronger: Stitches heals for 40% of his HP every time a player whines about lag through chat or voice clients outside of the game.

R1- Hook. Stitches pulls a targeted enemy hero to his position. Can be cast globally.

R2 -Banned from the tournament : Stitches bans the enemy hero from tournament play, causing them to immediately teleport back to the Nexus until the next patch is released.





Visual and User Interface

Arthas's new master skin

Arthas’s master skin has been toned down visually to better reflect the companies feelings towards this forgotten, unloved hero.



The Specialist hero category has been renamed "Potentially useless" to better reflect the games design philosophy



In order to save time and improve overall quality of life an option has been added to that automatically bans Li-Ming, Rehgar, Illidan, or Zagara for players if they are selected to issue bans.



In order to better reflect the hybrid role of heroes like Tassadar, Sonya, and Tyrande, a new category of heroes has been created called “I don't know what to pick”



Any player with less than 400 games played on Gazlowe will suffer a 10% increase in price on all gold purchases.



Any player with More than 400 Games played on Gazlowe will enjoy a 10% reduction in price on all gold purchases. This mechanic is called Goblin bargaining



In an effort to keep people playing for longer periods of time, queue times have been increased.



Leoric has been taking calcium supplements, so we’ve increased his spookiness by 40% to better reflect his stronger bones. Expect more chills, more frights, and a whole lot more bumps in the night.



All bugs have been removed from the game. Abathur, Anub’Arak, Zagara, and Dehaka will be added back in at a later date.



To ensure an excellent gameplay experience for all players, all instances of the word ‘damage’ have been replaced with ‘ouchies’.



To improve the quality of games for new players, the ‘Basic Horse’ mount now also confers a 30% ouchies increases.



This post will be updated as we confirm more patch notes from our source.

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