Heroes of the Storm Updated Balance Insights

A patch has been applied to the live servers, introducing some adjustments for balance and fixing bugs.

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Map Updates

• Haunted Mines
  • Skull scaling increased from 5% to 7%.
  • Reduced Golem scaling before 5 minutes.
  • Significantly increased Golem scaling later in the game.

Balance Update

Heroes

Arthas

Base

• Base Stats
  • Health increased from 2625 to 2750.
• Death Coil [Q]
  • Healing increased from 262 to 275.
• Frostmourne Hungers [D]
  • Attack damage per quest stack decreased from 1 to 0.75.
  • Damage bonus on charged attacks increased from 1 to 3.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Frost Presence
    • Targets can now be hit by both the line and the final area upon unlocking the line damage.
    • Death Coil slow benefit duration increased from 0.75 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Icebound Fortitude
    • Now removes slows and roots upon activation.
• Level 20
  • Path of Frost
    • Now increases minimum movement speed to 140%, instead of giving +40% movement speed.

Bug Fixes

Map

• Volskaya Foundry
  • Fixed an issue where the Triglav Protector’s Particle Cannon charge caused other players’ cursors to highlight incorrectly.

Heroes

• Arthas
  • Level 1
    • Rime
      • Fixed an issue where Rime’s healing was not displayed correctly in the Death Recap.
  • Level 16
    • Remorseless Winter
      • Fixed an issue where Remorseless Winter’s healing was not shown properly in the Death Recap.

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