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Patch Highlights

• Experience earned by killing Minions in-lane has been increased by 20%.
• Bonus trickle experience granted to a team that is behind by 3 or more levels during a game has been removed.
• Early implementation for the “Underdog Bonus” has been added.

• Welcome the broodmother, Zagara! (see Zagara trailer here)

• Right clicking a player’s Hero image on the end-of-game Score Screen displays options for communicating with, or reporting that player.
• The in-game Tab Screen has been reworked.
  • The Tab screen will now remain on screen after pressing the Tab key.
  • Clicking the speech bubble next to a player’s name on the Tab screen now blocks communication with them.
  • In addition to takedowns, deaths, and Battleground objectives, the Tab Screen now also includes tracking for siege damage, Hero damage, and healing done, as well as team levels, and hero kill totals for each team.
  • Click the “Show Talents” button at the bottom center of the Tab Screen to view all Talents and Heroic Abilities selected by each player during a match.
• A kill streak meter has been added next to the in-game Hero portrait.

• Several Hero models and skins have received visual improvements, including:
  • Arthas and all of his Skins
  • Raynor and all of his Skins
  • All Stitches skins have been updated with the visual improvements previously added to his base hero model.

• All Heroes now have flat Attack Speeds that no longer scale with level. (WIP on HeroesFire)
• All Heroes and Talents have received substantial tooltip updates for increased clarity.

• Blink Heal now functions based off charges (up to 2), and Ysera's Blessing now increases the cap to 3

• New Talent: Strangling Vines: Doubles the damage of Entangling Roots
• New Talent: Tenacious Vines: Increases the AOE and duration of Entangling Roots

• Muradin's Grand Slam talent has been removed, and he gained a new talent, One-Two Punch: Haymaker can now store up to 2 charges and damage is increased by 25%

• Murky is now revealed and his current location is pinged on the minimap for 10 seconds following the death of his Egg.
• Killing Murky now awards 25% of the normal experience amount earned by killing another Hero.
• Killing Murky’s Egg now awards 50% of the normal experience amount earned by killing a Hero.
• New Talent Slime Advantage: Increases Basic Attack damage against targets affected by Slime by 50%
• New Talent Master of Slime: Slime’s duration is increased by 2 seconds and deals increased damage upon reapplication
• New Talent Compressed Air: Increases Pufferfish area of effect by 50%

• New Talent War Paint: Basic Attacks now heal Sonya for 25% of the damage dealt
• the Strength of Earth talent has been removed
• New Talent Aftershock: After casting Seismic Slam, the next Seismic Slam cast within 2 seconds costs 50% less Fury.
• New Talent Dust Devils: Creates Tornadoes that deal an additional 25% of Whirlind’s Ability Damage.
• New Talent Enduring Whirlwind: Doubles Whirlwind’s duration.

• New Talent Mental Acuity: Reduces Oracle’s cooldown by 10 seconds
• New Talent Minion Bulwark: Increases the Plasma Shield amount by 50% and no longer expires when cast on Minions and Mercenaries
• New Talent Leeching Plasma: While Plasma Shield is active, the target’s Basic Attacks return 20% of damage dealt as Health
• New Talent Evasive Shielding: Plasma Shield’s target gains 25% increased Movement Speed for 4 seconds.
• Time Warp (W) and its supporting Talents have been removed.
• New Ability (W): Psionic Storm
  • Long range Ability which deals damage to enemies in the targeted area
  • New Talent Overload: Increases Psionic Storm damage by 20%
  • New Talent Psi-Infusion: Returns 5 Mana for each target initially hit by Psionic Storm.
  • New Talent Static Charge: Enemies hit by Psionic Storm are marked with a Static Charge. Basic Attacks against a marked target consume the Static Charge and deal additional damage.
  • New Talent Second Strike: After casting Psionic Storm, the next Psionic Storm within 3 seconds is free. Damage does not stack when multiple Psionic Storms are cast on top of one another
  • New Talent Resonation: Enemies are now slowed when hit by Psionic Storm
• Void Shift has been renamed to Dimensional Shift | New Talent Deep Shift: Increases Dimensional Shift duration by 50%
• Force Gate (Talent) has been removed
• New Talent Force Barrier: Increases Force Wall range by 50%. Increases Force Wall duration by 1 second

• Rancorhas been reworked: Now increases Attack Speed by 2% per Hatred stack
• New Talent Hot Pursuit: Increases the Movement Speed bonus granted at 10 Hatred stacks from 10% to 20%
• New Talent Tempered by Discipline: Increases maximum Hatred stacks from 10 to 20
• New Talent Cost-Effective Materials: Reduces Hungering Arrow’s cost from 60 to 30 Mana
• New Talent Composite Arrows: Increases Multishot range by 20%