Heroes of the Storm Technical Alpha Patch Notes -- December 2, 2014

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.

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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.

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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%

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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