Heroes of the Storm will adjust the survivability of the heroes. There are quite drastic design approaches.
Regeneration Orbs will become more powerful, wells will have a longer cooldown
The developers of Heroes of the Storm are constantly working on fine-tuning the game to better manage balance and certain issues. In the official forum, developer Matt Cooper took the time to show the community some issues and design ideas that are currently challenging Blizzard.
The problem with health
The regeneration of health is quite a problem for Blizzard. Heroes that rely on “poke damage” lose usefulness quickly. Even if it’s possible to hit with some skill shots, it doesn’t feel like a success because the passive health regeneration nullifies that after a short time. For many heroes, it’s thus difficult to truly drive the opponent away, even if they play well.
Abolition of passive health regeneration?
Internally, they experimented with quite an extreme measure. They simply completely disabled passive health regeneration so that only supporters, regeneration orbs, healing wells, and the own base could heal. While Blizzard describes the experience as “interesting,” the outcry from fans in the forum was significant. However, they quickly calmed down – this was merely an internal test and Blizzard often tries extremes to quickly determine if the development is heading in the right direction.
Actual potential for change is seen mainly in the healing wells and regeneration orbs. The well is to be provided with a 20% longer cooldown – thus, heroes could only drink from them every 120 seconds and would have to return to base more often. The regeneration orbs are to become more significant. Currently, they restore 8% health and 32 mana – this is to be increased to 12% health and 8% mana, while also ensuring that the orbs disappear faster. It should be made easier to withhold the orbs from opponents.
However, none of these changes are set in stone yet. Much is being discussed, and they wanted to involve the community in this discussion.
All contributions from Cooper can be read in the original English in our sources.
More news and articles about Blizzard’s MOBA can be found on our Heroes of the Storm game page. Also, check out how the latest hero Medivh plays.
