The latest update for the Heroes of the Storm brings our newest Support Hero, Alexstrasza, and the Dragons of the Nexus event quest to the Nexus, as well as a rework for Li Li, new cosmetic items, and more!
Dragons of the Nexus Event Quest
A host of new portrait rewards are ready to swoop into your collection as our Dragons of the Nexus event takes flight! The event kicks off Tuesday, November 14, and lasts until December 12, so be sure to login and complete the quests below to start claiming your rewards.
Login Reward
Quest: Log in to Heroes of the Storm during the Dragons of the Nexus event.
Reward: Stained Glass Alexstrasza and Hanzo Portrait
3 Part Quest Chain
Play Heroes of the Storm in Versus AI, Quick Match, Ranked, or Unranked to advance quest progress. Only one part will be active at any time, and each quest must be completed in order.
Alexstrasza, the queen of dragons, was empowered by the titans to be the guardian of all life on Azeroth. She has aided mortals time and again, even at great personal cost. Now, she soars across the Nexus, protecting life wherever she finds it.
Trait
Dragonqueen
After 1.25 seconds, transform into a dragon and gain 500 Health. While Dragonqueen is active, Alexstrasza's Basic Abilities are empowered, her Basic Attacks deal 143 damage and heal allied Heroes for 43 in an arc in front of her, and the duration of incoming Slows, Roots, Blinds, and Stuns is reduced by 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
Basic Abilities
Gift of Life (Q)
Sacrifice 15% of Alexstrasza's current Health, healing an ally for 150% of that amount.
Dragonqueen: Breath of Life cooldown greatly reduced and does not cost Health.
Abundance (W)
Plant a seed of healing that blooms after 3 seconds, healing nearby allied Heroes for 20% of their maximum Health.
Dragonqueen: Preservation heal area and amount greatly increased.
Flame Buffet (E)
Launch a fireball, Burning enemies hit for 75 damage over 5.5 seconds.Hitting enemies that are already Burning deals 125 bonus damage upon impact, Slows them by 40% decaying over 2 seconds, and refunds the Mana cost.
Dragonqueen: Wing Buffet damage and Knockback enemies in an arc.
Heroic Abilities
Life-Binder (R)
Bind Alexstrasa's life force with an allied Hero. After 2 seconds, the Hero with a lower percentage of Health is set to the same Health percentage as the other Hero..
Cleansing Flame (R)
After 1.25 seconds, take to the sky and drop fireballs at the position of your mouse cursor every 1.2 seconds for 6 seconds. Each fireball restores 300 Health to nearby allied Heroes, and deals 150 damage to nearby enemies.2 seconds after dropping all fireballs, Alexstrasza lands at the position of your mouse cursor.
All Minions, Mercs, and the Dragon Knight now have permanent Bloodlust.
Developer Comment: When looking at this Brawl, we really love the Bloodlust buff. By powering up the Players and the Dragon Knight so much, the poor Minions really struggled to provide much value during the Brawl. In order to bring them up to speed with their Mercenary buddies, we've decided that all Minions could use permanent Bloodlust as well.
Ranked Battleground Rotation Update
Added to Rotation
Battlefield of Eternity
Infernal Shrines
Removed from Rotation
Haunted Mines
Garden of Terror
The full Ranked Battleground Rotation is now as follows:
Volskaya Foundry objective UI will now display "Contested" text when members of both teams are actively fighting over a capture point.
Core
Notifications that indicate when the allied Core is under attack have been made more apparent.
Talent Tier Advantage Callouts
In-game chat messages will now automatically appear for all players when a team reaches levels 10 and 20 in order to more clearly indicate when one team has a Heroic Ability or Storm Talent tier advantage over the other.
A follow-up message will appear when the second team reaches levels 10 and 20 to indicate that Heroic Abilities or Storm Talents are now available to both teams.
- Added Functionality: Basic Ability Cooldowns recharge 50% faster while Fast Feet is active.
Healing Brew(Q)
- Cooldown increased from 3 to 4 seconds
- Range reduced from 7 to 6
- Mana Cost reduced from 30 to 25
Cloud Serpent(W)
- Mana Cost increased from 30 to 40
- Cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
- Attack Speed increased from .75 to 1 attacks per second
- Damage increased from 25 to 27
- Added Functionality: Each time a Cloud Serpent attacks, the hero it is attached to is healed for a small amount.
Blinding Wind(E)
- Cooldown increased from 9 to 12 seconds
- Duration reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds
- Mana Cost decreased from 35 to 30
Jug of 1,000 Cups(R)
- Cooldown reduced from 70 seconds to 20 seconds
- Jug of 1,000 Cups can now be cancelled early
- Added Functionality: Each time an ally is healed by Jug of 1,000 Cups, its cooldown is increased by 2 seconds, to a maximum of 50 additional seconds.
Talents
Conjurer's Pursuit
- Removed
Pro Toss
- Removed
Timeless Creature
- Removed
Gale Force
- Moved to Level 13
- New Functionality
- Increases the duration of Blinding Wind from 2 to 3 seconds. Lili's Basic Attacks against Blinded Heroes deal 50% more damage.
Free Drinks
Wind Serpent
Eager Adventurer
Healing Ward(Talent)
- Removed
Mending Serpent
- Removed
Mass Vortex
- Moved to Level 13
- New functionality: Blinding Wind hits an additional target. If all targets hit are Heroes, they take 75% increased damage from Blinding Wind.
Lingering Blind
- Removed
Pitch Perfect
- Removed
The Good Stuff
- New functionality: Healing Brew heals for an additional amount over 3 seconds. While Fast Feet is active, this amount is increased by 100%.
Lightning Serpent
- New functionality: Cloud Serpent attacks bounce to 2 nearby Heroes for 50% damage.
Cleanse
- Removed
(New Talent) Let's Go!
Activate to heal allied Hero for a small amount and make them unstoppable for 1 second. 40 second cooldown. The cooldown of this ability is affected by Fast Feet.
Elusive Feet
- Removed
Hindering Winds
- Moved to Level 4
- Slow amount increased to 30%.
Surging Winds
- New functionality: If at least two targets of Blinding Wind are Heroes, gain 10 Spellpower for 10 seconds and reduce the cooldown of Blinding Wind by 3 seconds.
Shrink Ray(Talent)
- Removed
Shake It Off
- Moved to Level 20
- New functionality: While Fast Feet is active, gain 8 Armor per second, to a maximum of 30 armor.
Safety Sprint(Talent)
- Moved to Level 4
- New functionality: Activate to gain Fast Feet and increase its movement speed bonus to 30% for 2 seconds. 30 second cooldown.
Serpent Sidekick
- Moved to Level 4
- New functionality: Each time a Cloud Serpent attacks a Hero, its duration is increased by .5 seconds.
Pick Me Up
Blessings Of Yu'lon
Kung Fu Hustle
- Removed
Storm Shield(Talent)
- Removed
Mistweaver
LEVEL (TIER)
Li Li Talents
1 (1)
Free Drinks (Q)
Wind Serpent (W)
Eager Adventurer (Trait)
4 (2)
Serpent Sidekick (W)
Hindering Winds (E)
Safety Sprint (Trait)
7 (3)
The Good Stuff (Q)
Lightning Serpent (W)
Let's Go! (Active)
10 (4)
Jug of 1,000 Cups
Water Dragon
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13 (5)
Gale Force (E)
Surging Winds (E)
Mass Vortex (E)
16 (6)
Two for One (Q)
Pick Me Up (Q)
Blessings of Yu'lon (W)
20 (7)
Jug of 1,000,000 Cups (R)
Double Dragon (R)
Mistweaver (Active)
Shake It Off (Trait)
(!) indicates a Questing Talent. Italic text indicates a NEW Talent. Underlined text indicates a MOVED Talent.
Fixed a number of typo and tooltip errors across several aspects of the game.
AI
Ana: AI Ana will no longer attempt to Heal allied Garden Terrors, Dragon Knights, or Triglav Protectors.
Haunted Mines: Fixed an issue in which AI Heroes would "B-Step" after the neutral Grave Golem was killed, rather than completing their Hearthstone casts.
Melee Lane Units: Melee Minions, Mercenaries, and Braxis Holdout's melee Zerg units will no longer ignore an enemy Ragnaros in Molten Core form.
Art
Malthael: Movement Speed bonus visual effects will now correctly appear if Malthael learns On a Pale Horse while mounted.
Mounts: Visual effects that appear around the Golden Nexus Charger will now correctly animate while using Low graphic settings.
Varian: Will once again leap toward his Colossus Smash target.
Battlegrounds
Cursed Hollow: Sgt. Hammer's Spider Mines will now correctly attack enemy Structures affected by the Raven Lord's Curse.
Dragon Shire: Removed two targeting indicators for Dehaka's Brushstalker that appeared in locations where no Brush was present.
Try Mode: Kel'Thuzad's Master of the Cold Dark Trait Quest will now correctly apply its cooldown reduction bonus after using the Complete Quests button.
Heroes, Abilities, and Talents
Abathur: Casting Ultimate Evolution on Jaina will no longer cause Abathur's Calldown: MULE Talent icon to permanently switch to the icon for Improved Ice Block.
Abathur: Attempting to cast Toxic Next in an area that is already densely populated by existing Nests will no longer consume a charge without placing a new Toxic Nest.
Alarak: Learning Counter-Strike or Deadly Charge at level 20 will now correctly append that Ability's description to the Sadism Trait tooltip.
Azmodan: All Shall Burn's tooltip has been updated to clarify that its bonus Structure damage is a flat amount, rather than percentage-based.
Ana: A targeting indicator will now correctly appear when using Healing Dart charges granted by Active Reload.
Chromie: Fixed an issue in which certain Abilities, like Artanis' Blade Dash, could prevent Temporal Loop from returning the target to its original location.
Brightwing: Arcane Flare's targeting indicator will no longer visually persist on the terrain if cast outside the Gate during the pre-game countdown.
Garrosh: Stukov's Weighted Pustule will no longer be removed from targets hit by Wrecking Ball or Into the Fray.
Gazlowe: Fixed an issue preventing Deth Lazor from being cast with less than 60 Mana after learning Hyperfocus Coils
Johanna: Blessed Hammer can no longer be activated during Falling Sword.
Junkrat: Fixed an issue in which certain Abilities, like Genji's Dragonblade and Stitches' Hook, could hit Junkrat during Rocket Ride just before he makes impact.
Kel'Thuzad: Glacial Spike will now correctly deal bonus damage granted by Ability Power gains.
Kel'Thuzad: The Hungering Cold Talent will now correctly deal its bonus damage to non-Heroic enemies rooted by Frost Nova.
Lt. Morales: Fixed an issue in which Lt. Morales could become immune to certain Stasis effects like Void Prison and Devouring Maw until death.
Lt.Morales: Casting Reinforcements in the allied Hall of Storms will no longer permanently remove Heroes inside the Medivac within from the Battleground's playable area.
Lúcio: Learning Can't Stop, Won't Stop and then walking over Junkrat's Steel Trap will no longer cause that trap to visually persist on Lúcio's model.
Stukov: Nazeebo will now correctly be pushed if he is hit by Massive Shove while channeling Ravenous Spirit.
Tassadar: The Prismatic Link Talent will no longer cause Tassadar's Basic Attack to chain to Kharazim during Seven-Sided Strike.
Tassadar: The Templar's Will Talent's second reward will no longer increase Basic Attack range in Archon form.
Uther: After learning Divine Protection, Devotion Armor will now stack correctly when Healing an allied Hero using Flash of Light during Eternal Vanguard.
Uther: Will no longer be teleported back to the allied Hall of Storms if Redemption's cooldown completes while in Eternal Vanguard form.
Valla: Manticore will no longer deal its bonus damage to Valla's Basic Attack target while Valla is Blind or the target is Evading.
Zagara: Nydus Network can no longer prevent Heroes from walking out of their Hall of Storms.
User Interface
Death Recap: The Ability icon and description for Gazlowe's Rock-It! Turret will now correctly appear on the Death Recap screen.
Hotkeys: The Move command's Quick Cast hotkey is no longer customizable.
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