Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Nova Rework (2024)

Combat Trait

C-20A Canister Rifle (New Trait)

Basic Attacks instantly kill targeted Minions.

Ghost Protocol (New D)

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate to instantly grant Stealth to Nova and spawn a Holo Decoy at her location.
Passive: Gain Stealth when out of combat for 3 seconds. Gain Unreveable for the first second in Stealth. Gain 20% Movement Speed while Stealthed. Remaining stationary for at least 1.5 seconds while Stealthed grants Invisible. Taking damage, attacking, using Abilities, or Channeling ends Stealth.

Primary Abilities

Snipe (Reworked Q)

Mana: 50
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Deal 368 damage to the first enemy hit. Takedowns reset the cooldown of Snipe.

Cooldown increased from 6 to 10 seconds; Damage increased from 230 to 368; Passive effect replaced.

Pinning Shot (W)

Mana reduced from 65 to 50
Cooldown increased from 12 to 14 seconds
Slow decreased from 40% for 2.25 seconds to 30% for 2 seconds
Now also reduces the Armor by 15 for the duration of Slow

Holo Decoy (E)

Cooldown reduced from 15 to 14 seconds
Duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds

Heroic Abilities

Triple Tap (R1)

Mana reduced from 100 to 60
Cooldown increased from 100 to 120 seconds

Precision Strike (R2)

Cooldown increased from 50 to 60 seconds
Damage increased from 435 to 480

LEVEL 4

Rapid Projection (Reworked)
Reduce Holo Decoy's cooldown by 6 seconds.
Passive: Basic Attacks restore 10 mana.

Holo Stability (Reworked)
Increase Holo Decoy's duration by 3 seconds.
While Stealthed, increase Holo Decoy's cast range by 100%.

Lethal Decoy (Moved from Level 16)
Damage bonus decreased from 30% to 25%.

LEVEL 16

Explosive Rounds (Reworked)
Snipe and Basic Attacks also deal 75% damage to enemies around the target.

Double Tap (Moved from Level 13)
No longer increases the cooldown of Pinning Shot.

Apollo Suit (Moved from Level 20)(Reworked)
Gain Stealth when out of combat for 2 seconds.
Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Ghost Protocol by 10 seconds.

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The problem with Nova isn't that she's too weak, it's that she's an incredibly one-dimensional design that is absolutely unfun to play against if she is too strong, while being useless for literally everything besides hero killing.

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besides hero killing

Because...that's what she was made for?

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There's a difference between being strong at hero-killing, and being useless at everything except hero-killing. There are plenty of ranged assassins that excel at hero killing while still being usable elsewhere; Siege, waveclear, camp clear, or at least pre-fight poke. Nova has none of that; She's absolutely useless against everything *except* hero killing, so the only way for her to be 'balanced' is by being overpowered at it. But as we saw, that leads to a completely unfun game, where Nova's team has to pick up the slack of lacking a dps who can even remotely clear waves, and the enemy team isn't allowed to play the game.

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Genuine question, what do you believe is Nova's issue and in what way do you think this concept is solving it for her to be up to par with the other heroes? Because to me, this rework does not fix her core issues.

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Nova Rework (2024) by SMILE

Nova Rework (2024)

Nova Rework (2024)

My Suggestions

Combat Trait

Basic Attacks instantly kill targeted Minions.

Primary Abilities

Mana: 50
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Deal 368 damage to the first enemy hit. Takedowns reset the cooldown of Snipe.

Mana reduced from 65 to 50
Cooldown increased from 12 to 14 seconds
Slow decreased from 40% for 2.25 seconds to 30% for 2 seconds
Now also reduces the Armor by 15 for the duration of Slow

Cooldown reduced from 15 to 14 seconds
Duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds

Heroic Abilities

Mana reduced from 100 to 60
Cooldown increased from 100 to 120 seconds

Cooldown increased from 50 to 60 seconds
Damage increased from 435 to 480

LEVEL 1

Duty Calls (New)
❢Quest: Takedowns permanently increase Snipe's damage by 10.

Covert Ops (Reworked)
❢Quest: Takedowns increase Pinning Shot's Slow by 2%, up to a total of 50% Slow.

Advanced Cloaking (Reworked)
While Stealthed, gain 5 Mana per second and an additional 5% Movement Speed.

LEVEL 4

LEVEL 7

Perfect Shot
Unchanged.

Anti-Armor Shells (Reworked)
Snipe and Basic Attacks ignore Armor.

One in the Chamber
Damage bonus decreased from 65% to 25%.

LEVEL 13

Psionic Efficiency (Reworked)
Increase Snipe's range by 15%.
Takedowns increase this bonus to 30% for 2 seconds.

Crippling Shot (Moved from Level 16)(Reworked)
Increase the duration of Pinning Shot's Slow by 2 seconds.

Ionic Force Field
Now also grants Armor while Stealthed.

LEVEL 16

LEVEL 20

Fast Reload
Unchanged.

Precision Barrage
Unchanged.

Ghost Visor (New)
Increase Nova's Basic Attack Range by 1.
While Stealthed, Nova reveals area in her vision.

Phase Reactor (New)
Ghost Protocol teleports Nova to a target location.
Range: 5.5

Removed Talents

Longshot

Covert Mission

Rewind

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