Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Probius Rework

Combat Trait

1

Warp In Pylon

Health reduced by 20%. Scaling reduced from 5% to 4%.

2

Gather Minerals

Quest : Enemy minions drop 1 mineral and heroes 5.
Reward : Probius unlocks 1 talent for every 20 minerals collected.
Reward : After collecting 50 minerals, Pylons gain a permanent shield equal to 50% of their maximum health which regenerate in 5 seconds after not taking damage for 5 seconds.

(Compared to the old Gather Minerals talent, the range for collecting minerals is increased to 5)

Primary Abilities

1

Disruption Pulse

Unchanged.

2

Warp Rift

Scaling reduced frome 5% to 4,5%. Warp Rift spawn time reduced from 1.25 to 1 second.

3

Photon Cannon

Priority changed :
- Tower > Fort/Keep > Hero > Monster > Mercenary > Summon > Minion > Door > Wall.
- Hit the heroes as soon as they enter in the shooting range Strike unless the cannon already attacks a fort/keep/tower
- In priority, hit the enemy with the least number of life point.

Heroic Abilities

1

Pylon Overcharge

Additional functionality: Activating Pylon Overcharge reset the Warp in Pylon cooldown. If no Pylon is active, place a pylon at the location of Probius. You can activate Pylon Overcharge again to order any Pylon to focus the target. Cooldown increased from 80 to 100 seconds.

2

Null Gate

Additional functionality : Null Gate reduces the spell armor of enemy heroes by 15.

Special Mount

1

Worker Rush

New functionality : Activate to gain an additional 30% Movement Speed for 5 seconds. Cooldown : 65 seconds.

Passive : Enter in a Pylon power field increase your Movement Speed by 20%. This bonus persist after exiting the power field but expire if you take damage.

Comment : Probius has a lot of weaknesses. The main ones being his long setup time, his inconsistent damage and his fragility (low heath / no real escape). And hitting enemies with warp rift explosions has become more difficult since the global change in movement speed. The changes made to the W and Z were made to compensate for his weakness.
I don't know the exact priorities of the Photon Cannon, but these changes allow the damage to be more optimized and less random.
In return for these improvements, I decided to reduce his W slightly and you have to take more risk to get new talent.

Probius has probably the worst ultimate in the game : Pylon Overcharge. The damage is distributed too randomly and can be useless if enemies destroy pylons. In many cases, you can lose 80 seconds. Having pylons available when using the heroic ability makes it much stronger and 20 seconds more may not be enough as balancing.

Statistically, according to Heroes Profile, Null Gate has always been weaker (-5% difference compared to the other ult). And this should also help to compensate for the nerf of warp rift scaling and keep a good burst.

Talents

- 20 minerals collected

Comment : One of the peculiarities of this rework is that you don't unlock the first talent at the start of the game. You need 20 minerals to get the first one.

- 40 minerals collected

- 60 minerals collected

- 80 minerals collected

- 100 minerals collected

- 120 minerals collected

- 140 minerals collected

Hope you like my concept:)

Probius Rework by Geny

Probius Rework