Heroes of the Storm news » Heroes of the Storm Balance Update – July 26, 2017

Heroes

Assassin

Genji

Stats

• Health reduced from 1600 to 1550
• Health Regen reduced from 3.3 to 3.2

Abilities

• Shuriken (Q)
  • Mana cost increased from 15 to 20
• Dragonblade (R)
  • Cooldown increased from 80 to 100 seconds
  • Mana cost increased from 50 to 75

Talents

• Level 7
  • Dodge (Passive)
    • Charges reduced from 3 to 1
    • Cooldown reduced from 12 to 8 seconds

Greymane

Abilities

• Cursed Bullet (R)
  • Damage reduced from 40 to 35% of enemy Heroes’ current Health

Tychus

Talents

• Level 4
  • Fully Loaded (D)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 33% (4 seconds) to ~41% (5 seconds)

Specialist

Xul

Abilities

• Raise Skeleton (Trait)
  • Health reduced from 300 to 270
• Cursed Strikes (W)
  • Cooldown increased from 15 to 16 seconds

Talents

• Level 1
  • Backlash (Trait)
    • Damage reduced from 15 to 12% of enemy Heroes’ maximum Health
• Level 4
  • Grim Scythe (W)
    • Cooldown reduction per attack increased from .5 to .75 seconds
    • Maximum cooldown reduction increased from 10 to 12 seconds

Support

Stukov

Abilities

• Healing Pathogen (Q)
  • Mana cost increased from 30 to 40
• Flailing Swipe (R)
  • Pushback distance increased by 50%

Talents

• Level 1
  • Spine Launcher (Passive)
    • Slow duration increased from 1 to 1.5 seconds (now matches his attack speed)
  • Fetid Touch (W)
    • Quest requirements reduced from 20 and 40 Heroes hit to 15 and 30
  • Growing Infestation (E)
    • Added functionality:
      • Now increases the Cooldown of Lurking Arm by 4 seconds
• Level 4
  • One Good Spread… (Q)
    • Spreading requirement reduced from 4 to 3 Heroes
    • Mana refund increased from 30 to 40
  • Vigorous Reuptake (D)
    • Healing bonus reduced from 50 to 40%
• Level 16
  • Pox Populi (D)
    • Adjusted functionality:
      • Detonating Bio-Kill Switch no longer refreshes heal duration, but instead extends it by 3 seconds
• Level 20
  • Controlled Chaos (R)
    • Cooldown between casts reduced from 3 to 1 second
    • Cooldown for each charge reduced from 40 to 30 seconds
  • Push Comes to Shove (R)
    • Duration requirement reduced from 1.5 to 1.25 seconds

Uther

Abilities

• Holy Light (Q)
  • Healing reduced from 380 to 360
  • Self-healing reduced from 190 to 180
• Holy Radiance (W)
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 70

Warriors

Abilities

• Fortifying Brew (Trait)
  • Brew per second reduced from 40 to 30
  • Chen will now instantly gain 25 Brew upon activation

Talents

• Level 1
  • Elusive Brawler (Active)
    • Cooldown increased from 20 to 25 seconds
    • Cooldown reduction from Basic Attacks reduced from 3 to 2 seconds

Muradin

Stats

• Health increased from 2633 to 2765
• Health regen increased from 5.5 to 5.8

Rexxar

Talents

• Level 1
  • Flare (Active)
    • Cooldown reduced from 25 to 20 seconds

Stitches

Abilities

• Vile Gas (Trait)
  • Damage reduced from 18 to 17

Talents

• Level 1
  • Heavy Slam (W)
    • Bonus damage reduced from 50 to 40%

Bug Fixes

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents

• Diablo: Casting Shadow Charge on Sgt. Hammer while she is in Siege Mode will no longer cause Diablo to pass through her.
• Malfurion: The Moonburn Talent will no longer cause Moonfire to deal bonus damage to Mercenaries and Monsters prior to reaching 25% bonus damage against Minions.
• Malfurion: Casting Astral Communion now properly consumes 100 Mana.
• Nazeebo: Fixed an issue that could prevent Voodoo Ritual from gaining stacks after scoring the killing blow on a Minion.
• Stukov: Fixed a typo in the tooltip for Fetid Touch.
• Stukov: Stop, Hold Fire, Taunt, and Dance commands can no longer be issued while casting or channeling Lurking Arm.
• Stukov: Fixed an issue that could cause FPS to drop to 30 when targeting Lurking Arm.
• Stukov: Massive Shove will no longer be cancelled when used on Sgt. Hammer while she is in Siege Mode.
• Tyrande: After learning Huntress’ Fury, Basic Attacks against targets with Hunter’s Mark will now correctly splash to nearby enemy Mercenaries.
• Tyrande: Fixed an issue causing Sentinel to benefit from increased width prior to learning the Ranger Talent.