Specialist

Abathur
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Abilities

    Carapace (E)
        Cooldown reduced from 12 to 6 seconds
        Duration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds
        Additional functionality:
            Shield now persists after Symbiote ends
        Additional functionality:
            Shield now Heals allied Heroes for 22 Health per second while Carapace is active
    Locust Strain (Trait)
        Duration reduced from 25 to 16 seconds
        Damage increased from 34 to 40
    Evolve Monstrosity (R)
        No longer takes 50% reduced damage from non-Heroic enemies
        Now shows a warning indicator showing where it is going to burrow to
        Additional Functionality:
            Now has the ability to Deep Tunnel to a visible location every 80 seconds

Talents

    Level 1
        Regenerative Microbes (E)
            Removed
        New Talent: Reinforced Carapace (E)
            Increase the Shield amount of Carapace by 40%
        Survival Instincts (Trait)
            No longer increases Locust duration
            Additional functionality:
                Increase Locust attack damage by 40%
    Level 4
        Ballistospores (Trait)
            Removed
        Sustained Carapace (E)
            Removed
        Needlespine (Q)
            Moved from Level 7
    Level 7
        Calldown: MULE (Active)
            Healing per second reduced from 100 to 90
    Level 13
        Assault Strain (Trait)
            Removed
        Bombard Strain (Trait)
            No longer increases Locust attack damage
            Additional functionality:
                Increase the duration of Locusts by 50%
    Level 16
        Volatile Mutation (R)
            Additional functionality:
                Damage dealt by Volatile Mutation against enemy Heroes heals the host for 50% of the damage dealt
    Level 20
        Evolutionary Link (R)
            Additional functionality:
                Increase the duration of Ultimate Evolution by 50%
        Evolution Complete (R)
            No longer gives the Monstrosity the ability to Deep Tunnel
            New functionality:
                Now increases the Monstrosity’s Basic Attack damage by 100%

    Developer Comment: For a long time Abathur has had a unique place in Heroes, being a powerful force at high level play while having a relatively low win-rate across the board. These changes are meant to spruce up his talents while streamlining his gameplay and introducing more counter-play to the hero. Carapace, particularly with the Sustained Carapace talent, created some awkward gameplay where it was much more efficient to use Symbiote on cooldown, even when the desire was to stay on one target, due to the cooldown refresh that it gave Carapace. In order to clean this up, Sustained Carapace is baseline and the cooldown of Carapace has been reduced, so Abathur no longer has to continuously remove Carapace to be efficient. In addition, Abathur’s Locusts are now more potent, but they last for a shorter duration, meaning Abathur players will be more rewarded for positioning themselves aggressively and punished when they overextend too much.

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Support

Ana
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Abilities

    Healing Dart (Q)
        Heal reduced from 205 to 195
    Shrike (Trait/D)
        New Active - Aim Down Sights
        No longer grants Sight or Attack Range
        Cooldown from 3 to 4 seconds
        Self-slow increased from 20 to 25%
        New functionality:
            While active, Sleep and Healing Dart ranges are increased by 25% and pierce one target
    Eye of Horus (R)
        Heal reduced from 285 to 225
        Damage reduced from 166 to 135
        Added functionality:
            Shots now pierce all targets (but still impact and cease on structures)

Talents

    Level 1
        Piercing Darts (E)
            Removed
        Grenade Calibration (W)
            Removed
        Contact Healing (W)
            Moved from Level 16
        New Talent – Slumber Shells (E)
            If an enemy is affected by Sleep Dart, Ana gains 25% movement speed
        New Talent – Vampiric Rounds (Trait)
            Quest: Each time you stack max Doses on a target Hero, increase Shrikes self-heal by 1.5%
    Level 4
        Air Strike (Active)
            Removed
        Aim Down Sights (D/Trait)
            Removed (New Trait Addition)
        Debilitating Darts (Active)
            Moved from Level 7
        New Talent – Biotic Enhancements (W)
            Increase the bonus healing duration of Biotic Grenade by 50% and reduce its cooldown by 4 seconds
    Level 7
        Temporary Blindness (E)
            Removed
        New Talent – Anti-Healer (W)
            Biotic Grenades area is increased by 100% and the duration of the Healing debuff is increased by 25%
        New Talent – Night Terrors (E)
            When a Slept target wakes up, they are dealt 8% of their maximum Health in damage. If they are woken up early, reduce the cooldown of Sleep Dart by 7 seconds
    Level 16
        New Talent - Active Reload (Active)
            Activate to gain 3 charges of Healing Dart (60 second CD)
    Level 20
        Ballistic Advantage (R)
            Removed
        Dynamic Shooting (Passive)
            Removed
        Somnolent Doses (Trait)
            Removed
        Custom Optics (Trait)
            Removed
        New Talent – Dead-Eye (R)
            The healing and damage of Eye of Horus is increased by 4% for every Hero hit. This resets after all shots have been fired.
        New Talent - Armored Stance (D/Trait)
            Increase Shrike’s damage by 50%. Gain 25 Armor while Aim Down Sights is active.
        New Talent – Dynamic Optics (D/Trait)
            While Aim Down Sights is active, increase the range of your Basic Attacks by 4. Each attack increases your Attack Speed by 10% for 3 seconds (up to 50%)

    Developer Comment: Ana came to the Nexus during the ‘Quest Revolution’ where we were adding them in as many places as we could. We have learned a lot since that time, so we spent some time re-designing and re-organizing Ana’s talent tree. Bringing Aim Down Sights into her base Shrike functionality gives us a design solve for the powerful yet flawed Piercing Darts quest. The rest of the talent changes and shuffles were directed at opening up some new builds while keeping all of her current beloved capabilities!

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Rehgar
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Abilities

    Ancestral Healing (R)
        Rehgar can now self-cast Ancestral Healing

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Whitemane
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Talents

    Level 4
        High Inquisitor (W)
            Mana return per stack reduced from 75 to 50

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Collection

New Bundles

    The following new bundles are only available for a limited time!
        Join the Resistance Bundle
        Viper Returns Bundle
        Firestorm Blaze Skin Pack
        Deckard Pain Skin Pack
        Delta Hanzo Skin Pack

New Skins

    Firestorm Blaze
    Red Hot Firestorm Blaze
    Atomic Firestorm Blaze
    Deckard Pain
    Infiltrator Deckard Pain
    Desert Ops Deckard Pain
    Delta Hanzo
    Blackout Delta Hanzo
    Veteran Delta Hanzo
    Badlands Imperator Stukov
    Badlands Sidewinder Ana
    Badlands Deathfang Genji
    Cryo Imperator Stukov
    Cryo Sidewinder Ana
    Cryo Deathfang Genji
    Paramour Pajamathur Abathur

New Mounts

    D.E.R.P.A.
    Commando D.E.R.P.A.
    Desert D.E.R.P.A.
    Badlands Viper Dominator
    Flirty Cloud

New Portraits, Sprays, and Emojis

    Several new emoji packs and portraits have also been added to the game.

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Bug Fixes

General

    Fixed an issue causing Shields applied to non-Heroes to be applies towards Healing Score.
    Super Cleanse effects (Abolish Magic) will no longer remove delayed damaging effects (Consume Souls, Last Rites)
    Fixed an issue causing Time Stop and Stasis effects to remove Armor Vulnerability effects.
    Fixed an issue that could cause a player’s ready state to become locked if Ready and Cancel were pressed in rapid succession.
    Fixed an issue that could occasionally prevent players from pressing the ready button when using the Call of the Nexus Quick Match system.

Heroes, Abilities, and Talents

    Ana: Fixed an issue allowing cooldowns to tick down during Time Stop if the Hero is affected by Nano Boost.
    Cassia: Fixed an issue causing Lightning Fury to be invisible if it pierced a Hero at melee range.
    Cassia: Fixed an issue causing Fend to immediately cancel if cast immediately after Lightning Fury.
    Chromie: Slowing Sands will no longer slow Battleground vehicles (Dragon Knight, Triglav Protector).
    Deckard: Fortitude of the Faithful’s range indicator now matches the actual range of the ability.
    Deckard: Fixed an issue with how Portion of Revival benefits from spell power. (should now heal for more)
    Kerrigan: Fixed an issue preventing Sharpened Blades from granting kill credit against Heroes with post-death effects.
    Li Li: Fixed an issue that caused healing from Cloud Serpent to temporarily fail if the Blessing of Yu’lon talent was chosen while a Cloud Serpent was active.
    Maiev: Fan of Knives will now refund the correct amount of Mana.
    Maiev: Fixed an issue with Blade Dance’s visual effects blocking command inputs.
    Muradin: Fixed an issue preventing Thunder Burn from creating the secondary thunder clap if it lands the killing blow on the affected Hero.
    Nova: Fixed an issue causing Holo Decoy’s Snipe projectile to be destroyed mid-flight if the Decoy died.
    Nova: Triple Tap will now immediately cancel if the target becomes invalid immediately after starting the Triple Tap cast.
    Ragnaros: Fixed an issue allowing Ragnaros to immediately complete the Catching Fire quest if it was chosen during Molten Core.
    Rexxar: Fixed an issue preventing Rexxar from controlling Misha while silenced.
    Stitches: Fixed a number of issues caused by using Helping Hand on an allied Hero using a Channeled ability that grants Unstoppable.
    Stitches: Fixed an issue that could prevent Stitches’ Hook from landing at point blank range.
    Tyrande: The Shooting Star talent will no longer attempt to target Sand Tornadoes created by the Boss.

User Interface

    Fixed an issue preventing critical healing effects from showing the Crit UI indicator.
    Adding and Removing favorite emojis will no longer cause the chat panel and emoji picker to close.