The latest hero of Heroes of the Storm is not one you would have expected. Death arrives in the Nexus – in the form of Archangel Malthael.
A few days ago, the Twitter channel of Heroes of the Storm started releasing small teasers announcing the next hero. Candles that extinguish one by one initially hinted at Deckard Caine or Leah, but Blizzard revealed in the last tweet who will be entering the Nexus. No one less than the adversary of the “Diablo 3” expansion Reaper of Souls – the Archangel of Death, Malthael!
On the official website of Heroes of the Storm, the abilities of Malthael can already be viewed. He is an Assassin who primarily deals damage through a powerful DoT. Here are his abilities:
- His passive ability is Mark of Death. Automatic attacks place the Mark of Death on all targets (except buildings). They are revealed for 4 seconds and take damage equal to 2.5% of their maximum health every second.
- Soul Rip steals the souls of all nearby enemies affected by the Mark of Death. They take damage and Malthael is healed per target hit. For heroes, the healing is additionally increased by 3% of the victim’s maximum health.
- Spirit Walk teleports Malthael to an enemy affected by the Mark of Death and deals minor damage.
- With Death’s Mist, Malthael fires a projectile after 0.25 seconds that applies the Mark of Death to hit enemies.
- Malthael’s first heroic ability is Tormented Souls. For 4 seconds, Malthael gains 20 armor and repeatedly applies the Mark of Death to all nearby enemies.
- Ashes to Ashes is the second heroic ability. An enemy is marked with a death sentence that deals damage equal to 50% of the victim’s missing health after 2 seconds. If the enemy dies during or due to this ability, the cooldown of Ashes to Ashes is permanently reduced by 5 seconds (to a minimum of 15 seconds).
Malthael will obviously be a terror for all enemies with a large HP pool. Particularly, Cho’Gall is likely to hide from the Archangel of Death as his gigantic HP pool will quickly dwindle against Malthael.
Malthael is likely to be released next week.
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