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Evolve Monstrosity(R)

Ultimate Evolution(R)

Toxic Nest(W)- Cooldown increased from 0 to 0.0625 seconds

Dampen Magic

Reactive Parry

Solarite Reaper

Phase Bulwark

Psionic Wound

Nexus Blades

Frozen Tempest(E)

Icebound Fortitude(Talent)

Anti-Magic Shell(Talent)

Icebound Fortitude

Frigid Winds

Anti-Magic Shell

Heavy Burden

Diamond Resolve

Abilities/General of Hell.display_name(Abilities/General of Hell.keybind)

Sieging Wrath

Bound Minion

Hellforged Armor

Pixie Dust(E)

Pixie Boost

Shield Dust

Critterize

Grounding Brew

Withering Flames

Another Round

Hammer of Twilight(R)

Blazing Bulwark

Runed Gauntlet

Fire Eater

Surge of Stamina

Twilight Veil

Favor of the Old Gods

Quantum Overdrive(Talent)

Timewalker's Pursuit

Shifting Sands

Quantum Overdrive

Devastating Charge

Rampage

Block Party

Hammer-on

Show Stopper

Tailwind(Combat Trait)

Hammer Gains

Secret Weapon

Eye of Kilrogg(1)

Eye of Kilrogg

Psychotic Break

Superior Schematics

Marked for the Kill(R)

Scented Tincture

Thick Skin

Wizened Duelist

Hunger for Power

Fel Armor

Darkness Within

Haunt

We’re aiming to make a few of the earlier talent choices for Illidan more competitive options, and open up a greater variety of playstyles for Illidan players. By increasing the bonus of Unending Hatred, we think farming Minion waves and Hunting into fights will be enticing on certain Battlegrounds. By allowing Unbound to grant 2 charges of Sweeping Strike, we think that Talents like Battered Assault and Blades of Azzinoth will showcase an Illidan that can dance across an enemy team and do a lot of damage while doing so.

Sweeping Strike(W)

Betrayer's Thirst(Combat Trait)

Blades of Azzinoth(Talent)

Battered Assault

Unending Hatred- Basic Attack damage bonus upon quest completion changed from 10 to 20

Unbound

Reflexive Block

Thirsting Blade

Hunter's Onslaught

Sixth Sense

Marked for Death- Damage changed from 234 (+4%) to 187.2 (+4%)

Blades of Azzinoth

Demonic Form

Nexus Blades

Frost Armor

Northern Exposure

Punish(Q)

Talents/Reinforce.display_name(Talents/Reinforce.keybind)

Fel Infusion

Arcane Dynamo

Nexus Blades

Kharazim’s Talents have been updated to create more compelling choices at every tier. To do this, we’ve made sure that Iron Fists / Bruiser style Kharazim is viable by increasing its damage uptime, removed a lot of the generic Talents and replaced them with Kharazim specific options like Mystic Allies, and re-arranged a lot of the tree so that you don’t have to sacrifice as much healing to pick mobility, utility or damage.

Spirit Ally(Talent)

Earth Ally(Talent)

Air Ally(Talent)

Breath of Heaven(W)

Deadly Reach(E)

Iron Fists(Combat Trait)

Insight(Combat Trait)

Epiphany(Talent)

Spirit Ally

Earth Ally

Air Ally

Heavenly Zeal

Cleansing Touch

Dash of Light

Foresight

Overtake

Healing Ward

Protective Shield

Clairvoyance

Cleanse

Soothing Breeze

Circle of Life

Iron Fists

Insight

Blinding Speed- Tier decreased from 6 to 3

Blazing Fists

Quicksilver

Fists of Fury

Sixth Sense

Way of the Hundred Fists

Echo of Heaven

Epiphany

We realize that we have a lot of Leoric players that are looking for talent changes and calling for buffs (especially to Skeletal Swing). We want you to know that we actively hear you and although this art-driven change came a bit earlier than our other changes, you spooky skeleton players should be able to rejoice in a future patch.

Drain Essence(W)

Drain Hope(W)

Elusive Feet

Power Hungry

Force Armor

Glass Cannon

Tal Rasha's Elements

Safeguard(W)

Automated Block

Inoculation

Thornwood Vine(R)

Leaping Strike(R)

Nature's Toxin(Combat Trait)

Dryad's Swiftness(Mount)

Abolish Magic(Talent)

Dividing Wisp

Siphoning Toxin

Wild Vigor

Splintered Spear

Greater Spell Shield

Star Wood Spear

Invigorating Spores

Forest's Wrath

Boundless Stride

Abolish Magic

Regrowth(Q)- Additional heal over time changed from 522.6 (+4%) to 483.6 (+4%)

Arcane Brilliance(Talent)

Mage Armor

Arcane Brilliance

Thunder Clap(W)

Dwarf Toss(E)

Avatar(R)- Max Health changed from 1168.96 (+4%) to 1095.12 (+4%)

Give 'em the Axe!

Unstoppable Force

Talents/Fishtank.display_name(Talents/Fishtank.keybind)

Living the Dream

Dead Rush

Superstition

Precision Strike(R)

Pinning Shot(W)

Tactical Espionage

Advanced Cloaking

Covert Ops

One in the Chamber

Crippling Shot

Vigorous Assault

Fight or Flight

Ghost Wolf(Combat Trait)

Feral Heart

Bestial Wrath(R)

Primal Intimidation(Talent)

Hardened Skin(Talent)

Grizzled Bear

Easy Prey

Bird of Prey

Barkskin

Primal Intimidation

Frenzy of Kalimdor

Hardened Skin

Mirror Image(Q)

Mirage

One With The Wind

Deflection

Three Blade Style

General.display_name(General.keybind)- Basic Attack damage decreased from 138.32 to 133.12

Artillery(Combat Trait)

Advanced Artillery

Ambush

Vigorous Assault

Wrath of the Berserker(R)

Ancient Spear(Q)

Ignore Pain(Talent)

War Paint

Nexus Blades

Ignore Pain

Dampen Magic

Cold Embrace

Remorseless

Leeching Plasma

Scryer

Fresh Meat(Combat Trait)

Butcher's Brand(W)

Meat Shield

Brutal Strike

Enraged

Nexus Blades

Olaf the Stout

We have mentioned before that sometimes we will stubbornly hold on making balance changes to some Heroic abilities because we believe they are actually very powerful in their current form, even if they are not currently seeing much play. This has been the case with Earthquake, but Sunder has consistently been the go-to pick since Thrall’s inception. We hope this change will help shake up the pick rates of Thrall’s Heroic abilities.

Sundering(R)- Stun duration changed from 1.25 seconds to 1 seconds

Earthquake(R)

Nexus Blades

Locked and Loaded

Commandeer Odin(R)

Neosteel Coating(Talent)

Neosteel Coating

Vigorous Strike

Angelic Might

Holy Arena

Nexus Blades

Hunter's Mark(Combat Trait)

Searing Arrows(Talent)

Empower

Searing Arrows

Trueshot Aura

Righteous Defense

Hatred(Combat Trait)

Gloom(Talent)

Tempered by Discipline

Gloom

Few would have expected that the gladiator known only as Lo’Gosh was in truth the missing ruler of Stormwind, Varian Wrynn. Now the High King of the Alliance, his every action shapes the destiny of Azeroth itself.

Heroic Strike(Combat Trait)

Lion's Fang(Q)

Parry(W)

Charge(E)

Colossus Smash(R)

Twin Blades of Fury(R)

Taunt(R)

1 (?) 4 (?) 7 (?) 10 (?) 13 (?) 16 (?) 20 (?)

Amplify Damage

General.display_name(General.keybind)- Basic Attack damage decreased from 89.44 to 85.28

Nydus Network(R)

Baneling Barrage(Q)

Hunter Killer(W)- Damage changed from 70.72 (+4%) to 64.48 (+4%)

Infested Drop(E)- Damage changed from 170.98 (+3%) to 151.41 (+3%)

Infest(Talent)

Corpse Feeders

Infest

Serrated Spines

Baneling Massacre

Protective Coating

Mutalisk

Tyrant Maw

Endless Creep- Additional movement speed while on Creep changed from 20 to 15

Defensive Shielding

Spell Barrier

Endurance Training

There were two main goals behind this rework: Upgrade Zeratul’s talent tree and introduce some interesting new choices, and better sell the fantasy of being a Dark Templar. As always is the goal with our Hero reworks, we didn’t want to change the way he is played, but rather amplify and improve upon it. Overall, he has felt the same to play against in our internal testing, but with a couple new tricks up his sleeve. We hope that our current Zeratul fans will find some new toys to play around with, and that new users will feel more like the mobile shadow-assassin you’d expect from a Dark Templar Hero.

General.display_name(General.keybind)- Health increased from 1606.8 to 1686.88 - Health Regeneration increased from 3.347448 to 3.51416

Seeker in the Dark

Shadow Assault(R)

Void Prison(R)

Singularity Spike(W)- Energy increased from 60 to 80

Blink(E)- Energy decreased from 75 to 50 - Count increased from 0 to 1 - Cooldown increased from 0 to 0.5 seconds

Permanent Cloak(Combat Trait)

Vorpal Blade(1)

Shadow Hunter

Grim Task

Combo Slash

Slip into Shadow

Seeker in the Dark

Shroud of Adun

Mending Strikes

Sentenced to Death

Talents/Gift of the Xel'Naga.display_name(Talents/Gift of the Xel'Naga.keybind)

Block

Rapid Displacement

Regeneration Master

Talents/Seasoned Marksman.display_name(Talents/Seasoned Marksman.keybind)

Vigorous Strike

Gathering Power

Sustained Anomaly

Follow Through

Shadow Spike

First Aid

Searing Attacks

Giant Killer

Burning Rage

Assassin's Blade

Double Bombs

Stoneskin

Protective Prison

Vorpal Blade

Rending Cleave

Wormhole

Master Warp-Blade

Void Slash

Nexus Blades

These patch notes are awful without a comparison between the old talent/ability/etc and change. Follow heroesnexus.com's example.

I agree with Chillforce - it is nice to see exactly what changed from the previous version to the new one. A Table of Contents at the top of the post to quickly jump to Heroes to interest individual users would be a great addition.