NEW HERO
Jaina Proudmoore has been added to Heroes of the Storm and is now
available for play! Read on for a brief overview of her Abilities.
Abilities:
- Frost Bolt (Q) -Fires a bolt that deals damage and Chills the target.
- Blizzard (W) - Creates a storm of ice at target location, damaging and Chilling enemies.
- Cone of Cold (E) - Deals damage in a cone and Chills targets.
- Trait: Frost Bite - Your Abilities Chill targets, slowing them and causing them to take increased damage.
Heroic Abilities
- Summon Water Elemental (R) - Summons a powerful Water Elemental.
- Ring of Frost (R) - Creates a freezing ring that roots and damages enemies.
DESIGN AND GAMEPLAY
General
- Line skillshots can no longer be self-cast using the Alt key.
Hearthstone
- A flat amount of Health and Mana are now restored after using Hearthstone to return to the Hall of Storms.
BATTLEGROUNDS
General
- Town Halls no longer contain all of a town’s experience points.
While Town Halls retain a majority of the experience, the surrounding
towers protecting the town now yield experience as well.
Cursed Hollow
- Tribute channeling time reduced from 7 to 6 seconds
- Dragon Shire
The Dragon Knight is no longer targetable by allied Abilities or Talents
Garden of Terror
Garden Terror (Summoned)
- Spore Queen’s Curse (Q) - Radius decreased by 10%
Haunted Mines
Underground Minions
- Starting Health and Health scaling increased by 20%
Underground Grave Golem
- Starting Health and Health scaling increased by 20%
Grave Golem (Summoned)
- Damage scaling decreased by 20%
- Health scaling decreased by 20%
TALENTS
Conjurer's Pursuit
- Now also increases Mana regeneration by 0.5 per second in addition to its other effects
Imposing Presence
- Attack speed slow amount increased from 30% to 50%
Promote
- Now heals the target to full Health
- Now has a 15 second duration
- Charge cooldowns have been reduced from 60 to 30 seconds
Resurgence of the Storm
- Cooldown increased from 120 to 180 seconds
Rewind
- Now refreshes all Basic Ability cooldowns rather than reducing them by 10 seconds
- Cooldown increased from 60 to 90 seconds
Searing Attacks
- While active, Basic Attacks will now display “Crit!” floating text on impact
Source: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/16467431/heroes-technical-alpha-patch-notes-december-2-2014-12-2-2014
