Stuns are among the most powerful abilities in Heroes of the Storm. They will be nerfed soon.
Stuns nerfed, other abilities strengthened
One of the most successful strategies in Heroes of the Storm is to keep particularly powerful heroes stunned continuously until they can be eliminated without any chance of retaliation. For this, a whole team often combines their stuns and movement-impairing effects – this is certainly an effective and reasonable strategy. However, Blizzard believes that especially at higher skill levels, fights are often decided solely by “stun chaining,” meaning the linking of multiple stuns.
Therefore, there is currently a patch on the test realm that reduces the stun duration of numerous abilities. However, in order not to mercilessly weaken all characters with stuns, most abilities receive a shorter cooldown or reduced mana cost.
The changes in detail
We have listed the most important adjustments for the heroes here for you. A complete list can be found as usual in our sources.
- Gazlowe’s Xplodium Charge now stuns for only 1.75 seconds (previously 2.00 seconds), but the damage was increased by 10%.
- Xul’s Bone Prison now roots for only 1.75 seconds (previously 2.00 seconds). This also affects the weakening from the talent “Empowered Damage”.
- Funkelchen reduces the duration of Transformation from 1.5 seconds to 1.25 seconds. However, the slow increases to 25% (previously 20%), the cooldown decreases to 12 seconds (previously 15 seconds), and the mana cost decreases from 75 to 60. The talent “Skilled Transformation” now only increases the duration of the transformation by 0.75 seconds (previously 1.00 second).
- Uther’s Hammer of Justice stuns for 0.75 seconds (previously 1.00 second), while the cooldown decreases from 10 to 8 seconds and the mana cost from 50 to 40.
- The stun from Arthas’ Howling Blast is reduced to 1.25 seconds (from 1.5), while the mana costs decrease from 70 to 60 and the cooldown from 12 to 10 seconds.
- The ultimate ability of Diablo, Apocalypse, now stuns for only 1.75 seconds (previously 2).
- Storm Strike from Muradin now stuns for only 1.25 seconds (previously 1.5).
- Also, the heroic ability Leap Offensive from Sonya now stuns for only 1.25 seconds (previously 1.5), but the damage increases by 10%.
In addition, Arthas, Chen, and Leoric receive a buff, their maximum health points are slightly increased, as well as the associated regeneration.
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