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HEROES OF THE STORM PTR PATCH NOTES - JANUARY 17

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Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just arrived to the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting until January 23. During this time, we kindly request your assistance in trying out some of the new content it contains before we officially release the patch to the live version of Heroes. Just like last time, if you encounter any bugs or other issues during your PTR play sessions, please stop by the PTR Bug Report forum to let us know about your experiences.


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General

Celebrate Lunar Festival 2017!
We’re ringing in the new year with a new Lunar Festival event, which includes new and returning skins and bundles, as well as new Special Event quests and rewards! Be sure to complete your quests and pick up a few skins before our 2017 Lunar Festival event concludes on Tuesday, February 14.
Lunar Festival Quests and Rewards:
Quest: Complete the Rooster Race once.
Reward: 200 Gold.
Quest: Complete the Rooster Race 25 times during the 2017 Lunar Festival event.
Rewards: Lunar Rooster Portrait and the Lunar Rooster Mount.
Lunar Festival Quest Details
Each day during Lunar Festival, players will receive a new event quest to complete the Rooster Race.
If any players on a team have not yet finished that day’s quest, there’s a chance that the Lunar Rooster, and many festive items, will appear in the team’s starting area.
Collect the required items and return them to the Rooster to advance his position. Return 4 items before time runs out to complete the Rooster Race!
​​PTR Note: While elements of the Lunar Festival event may appear on the Test Realm, players will not be able to make progress toward quests or rewards until the patch is released to the live version of Heroes of the Storm next week.
Sandbox Custom Games Now Available
A new version of Cursed Hollow has been added to Custom Games that will allow up to 10 players at once to use a wide variety of “cheats” to test the absolute limits of their Heroes in multiplayer, sandbox-style gameplay.
A cheat menu will appear along the left side of the screen in-game.
By default, only Player 1 will have access to the cheat menu.
However, Player 1 can check the “Share Cheats” box at the top of the menu to give access to all other players.
Players may close the cheat menu by clicking the “X” in the top-right corner of the panel. The menu can be restored by clicking the “Show Controls” button.
All players will receive an in-game chat notification whenever a cheat is used.
The cheat menu features a wide variety of different options:
Set Game Speed: Change game speed among Slower, Slow, Normal, Fast, and Faster.
Toggle Minions: Enable or disable Minion spawns for each team.
Reset Structures: Restore all Structures to full Health. If a Structure was destroyed, it is rebuilt.
Toggle Tribute Spawning: Enable or disable Raven Lord Tribute spawns. This button is only enabled before the first Tribute event begins.
Move Here: Instantly moves the player's Hero to the camera location.
Reset Talents: Reset all players’ Talent selections.
If “Share Cheats” is enabled, this button will only reset Talents for the player that pressed it.
Reset Cooldowns: Reset all players’ Ability cooldowns. Can be used once every 5 seconds.
If “Share Cheats” is enabled, this button will only reset cooldowns for the player that pressed it.
Set Team Level: Adjust each team's level from 1 up to 30. This will also affect the strength of Minions and neutral Mercenary Camps.
Toggle Infinite Mana: Enable or disable Ability costs for each team.
Set Damage Dealt: Adjust each team’s damage output from 0 up to 300% of normal damage.
Set Damage Taken: Adjust the amount of damage received by each team from 0 up to 300% of normal damage.
​ Performance Improvements
Improved the performance of a rendering system that is used across most Hero Abilities and environment effects. This should improve framerates during team fights on many systems.
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New Hero: Valeera

For a time, the gladiator Valeera Sanguinar served dutifully as one of Varian Wrynn’s personal bodyguards. Now, her shadowy skills find her a natural fit within the secretive rogue order, the Uncrowned, in their fight against the Legion.
Trait
Vanish (D)
Valeera vanishes from sight, becoming Stealthed and increasing her Movement Speed by 10%. For the first second, she is Unrevealable and can pass through other units.
Using Vanish grants Valeera an alternate set of Abilities that she can use while Stealthed.
Basic Abilities
Sinister Strike (Q)
Dash forward, dealing damage to all enemies in a line. If Sinister Strike hits an enemy Hero, she stops dashing immediately and the cooldown is reduced to 1 second.
Awards 1 Combo Point.
Blade Flurry (W)
Deal damage in an area around Valeera.
Awards 1 Combo Point per enemy Hero hit.
Eviscerate (E)
Consume all stored Combo Points to Eviscerate an enemy, dealing increased damage per Combo Point spent. Valeera can store a maximum of 3 Combo Points.
Vanish Abilities
Ambush (Q)
Ambush a target, instantly dealing damage to them.
Awards 1 Combo Point.
Cheap Shot (W)
Deal a small amount of damage to an enemy and stun them for 1.5 seconds.
Awards 1 Combo Point.
Garrote (E)
Garrote an enemy, instantly dealing a small amount of damage to the target, as well as a larger amount of bonus damage over 7 seconds, and Silencing them for 2 seconds.
Awards 1 Combo Point.
Heroic Abilities
Smoke Bomb (R)
Create a cloud of smoke. While in the smoke, Valeera is Unrevealable, can pass through other units, and gains 25 Armor, reducing damage taken by 25%. Valeera can continue to attack and use Abilities without being revealed. Lasts 5 seconds.
Using this Ability does not break Vanish.
Cloak of Shadows (R)
Valeera is enveloped in a Cloak of Shadows, which immediately removes all damage over time effects from her. For 1 second, she becomes Unstoppable and gains 75 Spell Armor, reducing Ability damage taken by 75%.
Using this Ability does not break Vanish.
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Art

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents
The following Heroes have received updated icon art to coincide with their reworks:
Tassadar
Rexxar
The following Heroes, Abilities, and Talents have received updated visual effects:
Blood Elf Tyrande: Sentinel (W)
Malfurion: Innervate (D)
Rexxar: Misha, Focus! (D) Will now display visual effects above Misha and her target or target location when cast. Only the Rexxar player will see these effects.
Tassadar: Basic Attacks in Archon (R) form will now display splash effects more prominently.
Zagara: Envenomed Spines (Active Talent)
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Shop

PTR Note: Many of the following changes will not take place in the Shop until the Public Test Realm is brought offline and the patch is officially released to the live version of Heroes of the Storm next week.
Bundles
New Bundles
Demon Hunter Valeera Bundle – Available until January 31, 2017
2017 Lunar Festival Bundle – Available until February 14, 2017
Returning Bundles
2016 Lunar Festival Bundle – Available until February 14, 2017
Removed Bundles
Luxorian Nights Bundle
Ultimate Luxorian Nights Bundle
New Hero
Valeera has been added to the in-game Shop
Mounts
New Mounts
Felsaber – Available by purchasing the Demon Hunter Valeera Bundle
Nimbus Cloud – Available by purchasing the 2017 Lunar Festival Bundle
Lunar Rooster – Awarded for completing the Rooster Race 25 times during the 2017 Lunar Festival event
Golden Rooster – Available for gold purchase only
Removed Mounts
Nexus Charger
Judgement Charger
New Skins
Demon Hunter Valeera
Master Valeera
Monkey King Samuro – Available by purchasing the 2017 Lunar Festival Bundle. Available individually starting January 31, 2017
Lunar Li-Ming – Available by purchasing the 2017 Lunar Festival Bundle. Available individually starting February 7, 2017
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User Interface

MVP and Commendations System
Hover the cursor over MVP and Commendation icons that appear next to players’ names on the end game score screen to view a brief description of each award.
Observer Mode
The first level of camera zoom (Z) for Observers has been lowered slightly in Replays and Custom Games.
Tutorial and Training
Gameplay tips that appear during Tutorial and Training games can now be accessed at any time while playing in those modes by clicking the new “Show Help” button added near the top-left corner of the screen.
Clicking “Show Help” will display a Tutorial Tips panel that lists all of the tips the player has received so far, organized by category.
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Heroes

ASSASSIN	MULTI-CLASS	SUPPORT	WARRIOR
Lunara	Varian	Li Li	Rexxar
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Assassin


Lunara

Divider_Hero_Lunara_crop.png Talents
Level 16
Starwood Spear (W)
​Will now generate an Indicator displaying Lunara’s new attack range while active
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Multi-class


Varian

Divider_Hero_Varian_crop.png Talents
Level 1
Overpower (W)
Added functionality:
Can now trigger multiple times per Parry
Now also increases the damage of the next Heroic Strike by 25%
Developer Comments:  These simple changes should allow Varian players to "live the dream" and get multiple Overpower triggers more often, particularly when combined with Live by the Sword or Twin Blades of Fury. We want Overpower to allow Varian to gain a lot of value when used at just the right time, and found even the best cases of the old Talent design didn't compare to the other options on the tier. By also allowing it to increase the damage of Heroic Strike baseline, we think it will an additional vector that will make it an enticing option for all 3 builds..
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Support

Li Li

Divider_Hero_LiLi_Crop.png Talents
  Level 13
Elusive Feet (Trait)
Now displays a button on the hotbar showing the cooldown
Level 16
Shake It Off (Passive)
Now displays a button on the hotbar showing the cooldown
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Tassadar

Divider_Hero_Tassadar_Crop.png Stats
Basic Attack
Damage reduced from 69 to 10
Attack speed increased by 400%
Added Functionality:
Your basic attacks are channeled and slow the target’s Movement Speed by 20%
Abilities
Oracle (Trait)
No longer costs Mana
Cooldown reduced from 40 to 30 seconds
Radius decreased by roughly 16%
Plasma Shield (Q)
Cooldown increased from 5 to 8 seconds
Duration increased from 5 to 8 seconds
Mana cost increased from 40 to 50
Shield amount increased from 342 to 510
Removed Functionality:
No longer gains 50% strength on allied Heroes
Added Functionality:
Now grants the target 20% Life Steal on Basic Attacks (while Shielded)
Psionic Storm (W)
Damage decreased from 55 to 42
Added Functionality:
Damage increases by 10% for each consecutive instance of damage
Dimensional Shift (E)
Cooldown increased from 20 to 30 seconds
Duration increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds
Added Functionality:
Now grants 25% Movement Speed for the duration
You can now cancel out of Dimensional Shift early by re-activating the hotkey (Default: E)
Archon (R)
Attack Damage increased from 111 to 175
Duration decreased from 12 to 10 seconds
Added Functionality:
Your Basic Attacks slow enemies by 40% for 1 second
Added Functionality:
Passively refreshes the cooldown of Dimensional Shift on activation
Removed Functionality:
No longer grants a generic Shield on activation
Added Functionality:
Now grants Tassadar a Plasma Shield on activation
Force Wall (R)
Range increased from 8 to 10
Added Functionality:
Passively increases the slow amount of Tassadar’s Basic Attacks from 20 to 30%
Talents
Level 1
Conjurer’s Pursuit (Passive)
Removed
Reinforce Structure (Q)
Removed
Overload (W)
Removed
Psi-Infusion (W)
New functionality:
Quest: Restores 1 Mana for every non-Structure enemy damaged by Psionic Storm
Quest Reward: After restoring 500 Mana, increase the area of Psionic Storm by 20%
Quest Reward: After restoring 1000 Mana, increase the damage of your Psionic Storm by 20%
New Talent: Templar’s Will (Passive)
Quest: Attacking enemy Heroes restores 4 Mana per second
Quest Reward: After slowing Heroes for 30 seconds, increase your Basic Attack range by 20%
Quest Reward: After slowing Heroes for 60 seconds, increase your Basic Attack range by an additional 20%
New Talent: Khaydarin Resonance (Passive)
Quest: Regeneration Globes grant an additional 50% Mana
Quest Reward: After collecting 20 Regeneration Globes, 50% of your Plasma Shield’s value remains after expiration
Quest Reward: After collecting 40 Regeneration Globes, your Plasma Shield’s no longer have a duration
Level 4
Leeching Plasma (Q)
Removed
Healing Ward (Active)
Removed
Promote (Active)
Removed
Mental Acuity (Trait)
Moved to Level 7
New functionality:
Quest: Each takedown lowers the cooldown of Oracle by 3 seconds, to a max of 15 seconds
Quest Reward: Upon reaching 15 seconds of cooldown reduction, increase the sight range of Oracle by 50%
New Talent: Khala's Embrace (Q)
Increases the Life Steal of your Plasma Shield by an additional 20%
New Talent: Khala’s Light(Q)
Upon the expiration or breaking of Plasma Shield, grant the target 25 Armor for 3 seconds
New Talent: Khala’s Celerity (Q)
Plasma Shield grants 25% Movement Speed for 5 seconds
Level 7
Khala’s Embrace (Q)
Removed
Static Charge (W)
Removed
Calldown: MULE (Active)
Removed
Deep Shift (E)
Moved to Tier 5
New functionality:
Dimensional Shift’s Movement Speed and duration are increased by 50%
New Talent: Psionic Projection (Q, W)
Increases the range of your Plasma Shield and Psionic Storm abilities by 40%
Level 13
Distortion Beam (Passive)
Removed
Prescience (E)
Removed
Scryer (Trait)
Removed
Shrink Ray (Active)
Removed
New Talent: Nullification (Active)
Activate to reduce target Hero's damage by 75% for 3 seconds
New Talent: Adun's Wisdom (Trait)
While Oracle is active, your Basic Abilities cooldown 50% faster
Level 16
Evasive Shielding (Q)
Removed
Dimensional Warp (E)
Removed
Resonation (W)
Moved to Level 7
New functionality:
Distortion Beam’s slow amount is increased to 40% while attacking an enemy affected by Psionic Storm
Second Strike (W)
Renamed to Psionic Echo
The window to cast the second Psionic Storm has been reduced from 3 to 1.5 seconds
New Talent: Phase Disruption (W)
Enemies affected by Psionic Storm have their Physical Armor reduced by 25
New Talent: Focused Beam (Trait)
While Oracle is active, your Basic Attacks deal an additional 1% of an enemy Heroes maximum Health
Level 20
Storm Shield (Active)
Removed
Rewind (Active)
Removed
Twilight Archon (R)
New functionality:
Basic Attacks while in Archon refresh the duration of Archon
Force Barrier (R)
New functionality:
Decreases the cooldown by 50% and increases the range by 100%
New Talent: Shield Battery (Active)
Activate to grant all nearby allies a base version Plasma Shield
New Talent: Prismatic Link (Passive)
Basic Attacks can now bounce to two nearby enemy targets for 50% damage
Developer Comments:  We absolutely love releasing reworks and this one was a long-time-coming, as Tassadar has had a bit of an identity crisis from the moment he stepped foot into the Nexus. We knew that the design direction and changes were going to need to be a bit more expansive in scope compared to most of our other reworks, but we did our best to keep him as true to his High Templar heritage as possible. Our goals were to embrace him as a true utility-based support mage. The new "Distortion Beam" Basic Attack should allow you to help peel for your allies as well as secure kills that would be otherwise unobtainable. Plasma Shield has gained baseline utility that will continue to empower Basic Attackers, while also offering more diverse talents in order to better react to enemy and ally compositions. Archon has been surgically buffed and given a passive reset for Dimensional Shift which should be great news for our old-school fans as we fully expect to see a resurgence of back-line infiltration play. Overall, we hope the changes reinvigorate our steadfast Tassadar players while integrating many new ones into the Khala. En Taro Tassadar.
LEVEL (TIER)		TASSADAR TALENTS
1 (1)	(!)Psi-Infusion (W)	(!)The Templar's Will (Passive)	(!)Khaydarin Resonance (Q)
4 (2)	Khala's Momentum (Q)	Khala's Cradle (Q)	Khala's Touch (Q)
7 (3)	Psionic Projection (Q, W)	Resonation (Passive)	(!)Mental Acuity (Trait)
10 (4)	Archon	Force Wall	—	—
13 (5)	Adun's Wisdom (Trait)	Deep Shift (E)	Nullification (Active)
16 (6)	Phase Disruption (W)	Psionic Echo (W)	Focused Beam (Trait)
20 (7)	Twilight Archon (R)	Force Barrier (R)	Shield Battery (Active)	Prismatic Link (Passive) divider_sml.png
(!) indicates a Questing Talent.
Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
Bold text indicates a MOVED Talent.
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Warrior


Rexxar

Divider_Hero_Rexxar_Cropped.png General
Misha
Movement Speed has been increased from 100% to 115% when Misha has been issued an order to attack targets or when she is by Rexxar’s side.
Abilities
Misha, Attack! (D) / Misha, Follow! (D)
Removed
Misha, Focus! (1)
Moved to the Trait button (Default Hotkey: D)
Self-casting Misha, Focus! now calls Misha to Rexxar.  Once she reaches Rexxar, she will go to her neutral state.
Talents
Level 1
Survivalist Training (Passive)
Removed
Grizzled Bear (Passive)
Moved to Level 4
Renamed to Grizzled Fortitude
Added functionality:
Block charge gain rate increased from 5 to 7 seconds
Added functionality:
Rexxar now gains the Block charges in addition to Misha
Hunter-Gatherer (Passive)
Moved to Level 4
Regeneration Globes required to complete the quest decreased from 30 to 20
Rexxar's Health Regeneration amount increased from 1 to 1.25 per second
New Functionality:
Upon Quest completion, Rexxar and Misha now gain 10 Armor
Flare (Active)
Cooldown increased from 20 to 30 seconds
Reveal duration increased from 5 seconds to 20 seconds
Bird of Prey (Q)
Bonus damage reduced from 200% to 150%
Now only does bonus damage to enemy Minions
Level 4
Easy Prey (Passive)
Moved to Level 1
Crippling Talons (Q)
Slow amount increased from 40 to 50%
Taking Flight (Q)
Added functionality:
If Spirit Swoop hits an enemy Hero, the cooldown is also reduced by 2 seconds
New Talent: Animal Husbandry (Passive)
Rexxar and Misha gain 2 Maximum Health every second Rexxar remains alive. These bonuses are lost on Rexxar's death.
Level 7
Blood of the Rhino (E)
Removed
Bird of Prey (Q)
Moved to Level 1
Level 13
Bear Necessities (W)
Removed
Barkskin (W)
Removed
Aspect of the Hawk (Q)
Added functionality:
Misha Basic Attacks now increase the duration of the Attack Speed buff by 0.5 seconds
New Talent: Dire Beast (W)
Rexxar and Misha's Basic Attacks increase the damage of the next Misha, Charge! by 40%, stacking up to 400% bonus.
Level 16
Critical Care (E)
Removed
Developer Comments:  Our goals for Misha Rexxar were twofold: to streamline his control scheme as much as we could and to give his talents some love. All of Misha’s controls should now be centralized on the D button, which should make it easier overall to play the hero. While this does result in a tiny loss of control (Rexxar no longer has the ability to recall Misha to his side and to keep her in a passive state), we felt that overall this functionality was not that huge of a loss for Rexxar and was worth the gain of making his controls centered around one button instead of two. We also made Misha’s Movement Speeds during her various states more consistent so that she feels better when being commanded by Rexxar, and we’ve added some talents that should help better sell the fantasy of Rexxar and Misha working together to take down their prey. We’ve had a blast playing with the new and improved Rexxar, and hope that you enjoy it as much as we have!
LEVEL (TIER)		REXXAR TALENTS
1 (1)	Easy Prey (Passive)	Bird of Prey (Q)	Flare (Active)
4 (2)	Hungry Bear (Passive)	(!) Hunter-Gatherer (Passive)	Grizzled Fortitude (Passive)	Animal Husbandry (Passive)
7 (3)	Aspect of the Beast (W)	Crippling Talons (Q)	Taking Flight (Q)
10 (4)	Bestial Wrath	Unleash the Boars	—	—
13 (5)	Wildfire Bear (Passive)	Aspect of the Hawk (Q)	Dire Beast (W)
16 (6)	Thrill of the Hunt (Passive)	Primal Intimidation (Active)	Feign Death (Active)
20 (7)	Spirit Bond (R)	Kill Command (R)	Frenzy of Kalimdor (Passive)	Hardened Skin (Active) divider_sml.png
(!) indicates a Questing Talent.
Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
Bold text indicates a MOVED Talent.
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Bug Fixes

General
Display: Fixed an issue that prevented some laptops with Nvidia graphics cards from using Fullscreen mode.
Display: Fixed an issue that could cause the game client to switch to Windowed Fullscreen on startup.
Fixed a number of typos and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
Art
Diablo: Fixed a visual issue affecting Diablo's tail during certain animations.
Li-Ming: Fixed a minor animation issue affecting Li-Ming’s ball that could occur after exiting Archon form.
Muradin: Fixed an issue causing Magni Muradin’s leg plates to appear to clip into his thighs.
Try Mode: Grassy terrain will no longer appear inside of the allied Storm Portal.
Battlegrounds
Braxis Holdout: The Archangel will no longer leave its leash range to attack a nearby Murky Egg.
Haunted Mines: The Neutral Grave Golem will no longer chase an invulnerable Hero beyond its normal leash range.
Structures: Fixed an issue in which the Core could continue to reveal enemy Stealth Heroes in a small radius outside its intended reveal range.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents
Fixed an issue in which certain debuffs could still be applied to Invulnerable Heroes, including:
Greymane: Marked for the Kill
Li-Ming: Charged Blast
Thrall: Rolling Thunder
Zul’jin: Grievous Throw
Scouting Drone: Will now properly reveal Creep Tumors and Toxic Nests.
Alarak: Telekinesis will now correctly interrupt a Hero who is channeling to launch a Nuke on Warhead Junction.
Alarak: The targeting reticle for Deadly Charge will no longer persist on the terrain if Alarak is killed while channeling.
Anub'arak: Burrow Charge will now correctly allow Anub'arak to escape Zarya's Graviton Surge.
Arthas: Army of the Dead will no longer fail to summon Ghouls if it is cast in the same moment that Arthas is targeted by Auriel’s Crystal Aegis.
Auriel: A.I. Auriel can no longer cast Resurrect on Murky after he has already revived at his Egg.
Brightwing: Polymorph will now properly interrupt an enemy Hero who is channeling on the Dragon Knight.
Brightwing: The Critterize Talent’s negative effects will now be correctly removed if the target is Cleansed.
Brightwing: The negative effects of Critterize will no longer persist beyond Polymorph’s duration.
Diablo: Shadow Charge will now be properly interrupted if it would cause him to enter E.T.C.’s Mosh Pit.
Gazlowe: Gazlowe’s Nuke Ability icon on Warhead Junction will no longer be visually replaced with a lock icon after casting Rock-It! Turret while carrying a warhead.
Greymane: The tooltip for the Block buff granted by the Thick Skin Talent now correctly states that it reduces the next incoming Basic Attack by 50%, rather than 75%.
Kael'Thas: The Burned Flesh Talent will now correctly deal damage equal to 8% of targets’ maximum Health, rather than 5%.
Kael'thas: Fixed an issue in which Sun King's Fury could deal bonus damage to targets who were already affected by Living Bomb.
Kharazim: Air Ally will now properly reveal Creep Tumors and Toxic Nests.
Kharazim: Fixed an issue that could prevent Kharazim from automatically acquiring a new target after activating Deadly Reach outside of his attack range.
Li-Ming: Casting Disintegrate a moment before Li-Ming would be hit by Abilities like Falstad’s Gust of Wind will no longer cause a short delay before she is pushed.
Medivh: The second Portal granted by the Portal Mastery Talent can no longer be self-cast.
Nova: The Holo Decoy’s Pinning Shot will no longer reset Nova’s Covert Ops Talent stacks.
Raynor: Killing Samuro’s Mirror Images after learning A Card To Play will no longer reduce Raynor’s Heroic Ability cooldowns.
Rehgar: Fixed several issues affecting Rehgar’s pathing while attempting to attack in Ghost Wolf form.
Rehgar: Becoming Rooted while attacking an enemy from maximum lunge range in Ghost Wolf form will no longer cause Rehgar to continue the lunge when the Root effect expires.
Rehgar: Fixed an issue causing Rehgar to become stuck in an attack animation when attempting to attack a moving Medivac Dropship while in wolf form.
Rehgar: Fixed an issue causing Rehgar to exit wolf form if he deals damage with a Ragnaros Blast Wave.
Rexxar: Fixed an issue with using the Hold Position (Hotkey: H) command causing Misha to move in an unintended way.
Tracer: Fixed an issue prevent Tracer from attacking a revealed stealth Hero.
Tracer: Fixed an issue preventing Tracer from changing directions immediately when using Quick Cast Blink (Q) while holding Right-Click to move.
Uther: Benediction can no longer reduce the cooldown of two abilities if used in rapid succession.
Valla: Fixed some inconsistencies with abilities that would reveal Valla at the edges of Fog of War or from Brush.
Varian: Can no longer be selected through Autoselect – Support.
Zagara: Fixed an issue causing the Creep Tumor tooltip to display an incorrect value.
Zarya: Fixed an issue preventing the “Drop and give me Twenty” quest indicator from disappearing after the quest was completed.
Zeratul: Fixed an issue preventing Zeratul from using Wormhole after casting a Blink gained from the Rewind talent.
Sound
Mounts: When ridden by a Hero in Stealth, mechanical Mounts will no longer play sound effects that are audible to nearby enemy Heroes.
Quest Talents: Kharazim’s Insight will now properly play its quest completion sound effect.
Tassadar: Distortion Beam will now correctly play sound effects when attacking enemy Walls, Gates, and Towers.
User Interface
Profile: Fixed a visual issue that could cause Hero Kills to double after switching from an individual Hero’s stat page in the Hero Collection to the Profile’s Statistics tab, and back again.
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ElCamo 47 minutes ago
Free Chicken mount. I love it.
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Gresh 39 minutes ago
The Tassadar Rework is finally here.

En taro Tassadar!
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Kaethgar 49 minutes ago
Made Tassadar great again !
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Karacis 45 minutes ago
Oh wow Valeera’s kit looks insane and sounds super fun. She pretty much has the combo points from WoW rogues AND she gets 2 different skills/kits to use. One out of stealth and one while in stealth. Seems like a high skill cap hero that’s for sure.

Also rework for Tassadar AND Rexxar! :O really looking forward to seeing how these 2 are used now
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smi1ey 25 minutes ago
The Tass rework sounds AWESOME!
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Ozymandias 51 minutes ago
♥♥♥ Tassadar! ♥♥♥
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Daniel 58 minutes ago
Yesssss ! The New Tassadar guys ! Absolutely teriffic !
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Kaiiboraka 26 minutes ago
Amazing work with Tassadar! Surprise Rexxar changes! All of my YAS! And Jeebus, that's a friggin' TON of bug-fixes... man! And sandbox mode?!
You guys are awesome! Thanks so much, HotS team! D-Bro-sama isn't leading anymore, so thank bless for cap'n A-Dab, and all you guys do for our beloved game!
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Edgyveggie 31 minutes ago
Really great Changes Blizzard. 100%
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ThtAwokenGuy 36 minutes ago
Blizzard thank you! Tassadar is my favorite SC2 character and my first master skin. Love the rework so much. <3
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Hydra 48 minutes ago
Good patch! The tassadar rework looks promising. Although, I'm not a fan of this Rexxar changes, but let's see.
Keep it up!
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Adûnâi 55 minutes ago
Have been refreshing the page for the last 10 hours, and the wait is definitely worth it! En taro Tassadar!

By the way, you made a typo, in your commentary to the Varian changes, you put two periods in a row. It should be one.
"for all 3 builds.."
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Adûnâi 47 minutes ago
More typos.

An apostrophe should not be there.
"your Plasma Shield’s no longer have a duration"

Takedown should be capitalized.
"Each takedown lowers the cooldown of Oracle"
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Adûnâi 46 minutes ago
Deep Shift (E)
Moved to Tier 5

You mean, "to level 13"? Right?
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Adûnâi 15 minutes ago
5. Should be Mighty Gust.
"by Abilities like Falstad’s Gust of Wind"

6. "Rehgar" is not bold.
"Rehgar: Becoming Rooted while..."

I've written a forum post (https://us.battle.net/forums/en/heroes/topic/20752591181#1).
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Vindicare 7 minutes ago
Wow that Tassadar Rework. Also why the removal of Critical Care on Rexxar? That was by far my most used 16 talent and a big nerf to Misha's survivability in the late game? Seems really unneccessary.
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mewnfare 18 minutes ago
Thanks triksl- Thanks ravinix :D
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Sheld0r 31 minutes ago
was a lil bit pissed by the news about a new WC-Assassin, but damn - this patch looks awesome! Love the new Hero too! And the chicken ofc is pretty hilarious! I am excited!
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MOOT 36 minutes ago
Tass was playable before. Let's hope he's still playable. And maybe more than one build would be sweet. If these changes accomplish that I'll be happy.
Finally won't have to see people choose not the one playable build on Tass.
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Cure 48 minutes ago
Love the changes to Tass! With the changes to his W, does this mean the damage will now stack if you over lap his Ws with the Psionic echo talent?
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DV2FOX 51 minutes ago
Bring back the 2 clicks only hero joke triggering, NOT 9. Or atleast put an option in the Options menu with a SLIDER allowing you to choose how many clicks it needs to trigger them.. Then we all can be happy.
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Haku 52 minutes ago
And soon the Archon damage is gonna be nerfed again like it always happened when they buffed him in any way. :D However, this rework looks pretty nice. I mean this slows and increasing damage ticks seem to be a really nice setup to do a CC mega combo.
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DeadPixel 28 minutes ago
@Haku: you know the definition of increased?
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ESeries1B 59 minutes ago
Wow at the tass changes.
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DrBoom 1 minute ago
damn, almost 200 archon splash, not bad for having strong storms too now.

("Twilight Archon (R)

New functionality:
Basic Attacks while in Archon refresh the duration of Archon")

Wait what
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Mongoose 3 minutes ago
Patch notes mistake: Khala's Embrace isn't a new talent, it's moved from 7 with new functionality.
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Pixor 4 minutes ago
blizz: next mount needs to be serious this time

also blizz: let's make a golden rooster
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CH13F 28 minutes ago
how can you compete the lunar quest in time if you can only do once per day?
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Svalbard 29 minutes ago
Why does Valeera get a 1.5 second stun from stealth, when most other stuns don't last more than 1 second?
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Fraggzsr 15 minutes ago
@Svalbard: in exchange for greatly reduced damage
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KuroShinryu 32 minutes ago
Nice... I'll definitely try rexxar and tass later. I already have a feeling some talents will be underperforming, hope that's not the end of your tweaks.
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Rika 33 minutes ago
when its going online
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BonqPL 34 minutes ago
Battle.net is down for maintenance - does anyone get the msg like this trying to log into PTR?
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NavyNinjaMan 17 minutes ago
@BonqPL: yep
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Trob 37 minutes ago
Wish the servers would come back up really want to test valeera before I need to goto work
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Daniel 40 minutes ago
Wow wait!! Valeera can silence people up to 2 seconds ??? that's a lot ! @@
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Fraggzsr 46 minutes ago
When is it coming online?
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Percival 52 minutes ago
What of mother of g-d did you do to tass?
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