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Kent: We definitely heard the community, and agreed wholeheartedly that the reward for getting Murky’s Egg was not worth the risk of hunting it. We hope this change will create some fun moments for the Murky player, who will now be very aware of when his Egg has been destroyed, and cause him to adapt his play when he is revealed. We also wanted to take this time to try and address the issue that killing his Egg is really a team moment. Your entire team will now be aware that Murky’s Egg has been destroyed, and that killing him is worth it! Hopefully these changes will get us that desired gameplay we’re looking for. If not, we will, as always, continue to iterate and re-evaluate until it is.

Kent: There were a couple issues at stake here. First was an oversight on my behalf. In the past, during development, Slime used to stack itself when re-applied. This brought about some interesting gameplay in trying to survive long enough as Murky to apply multiple Slimes to an enemy Hero, and deal significant damage to them. However, it also had some major issues: No other damage over time abilities in our game stack, and we try to be as consistent as we can. We also ran into a problem with stacking slimes on Structures, and… Well, I think you can see where that could go bad ;-). So we cut that at the eleventh hour, but didn’t adjust the talents that played well into that build and playstyle. These changes are the result of us trying to rectify it, and make Slime builds much more viable and rewarding to play. We hope to see more Murky players out there directly engaging the enemy team.

Kent: We moved the Out With A bang Talent down a tier to compete with Wrath of Cod, in order to force a variance in how players were using Pufferfish. Those two were often being picked hand-in-hand.

Kent: We really wanted to split the use cases for both abilities. We wanted to reduce the Team Fight power of March so it could shine more in its anti-Structure usage (in addition to reducing its power to destroying the Core almost on its own!). We also wanted to strengthen Octo-Grab to make it much more viable in team fights, and act as a more reliable stun for teammates to take advantage of.