- Reaction score
- 1,694
Source: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20762006793
Hail Warchiefs,
Here are details on changes to the pools and balance. Please try to keep feedback in this thread.
This is a start. We have larger ideas in the works long term, but we're taking the approach of small changes so we can measure and iterate without causing massive changes in the meta. Cheers.
Mountain King
Stormbolt:
Thunder Clap
Paladin
Divine Shield
Blade Master
Critical Strike
Far Seer
Feral Spirit
Chain Lightning
Far Sight
Tauren Chieftain
War Stomp
Dread Lord
Carrion Swarm
Sleep
Vampiric Aura: Increased bonus for DL
Crypt Lord
Carrion Beetles
Impale
Lich
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Priestess of the Moon
Attack Speed (cool down): (Buff) change default from 2.46 to 2.33
Keeper of the Grove
Entangling Roots
Force of Nature
Warden
Blink
Naga Sea Witch
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Pandaren Brewmaster
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Goblin Tinker
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Cluster Rockets
Goblin Alchemist
Acid Bomb
Firelord
Incinerate
Soul Burn
Dark Ranger
Life Drain
Map Pools
1v1
2v2
3v3
4v4
FFA
Hail Warchiefs,
Here are details on changes to the pools and balance. Please try to keep feedback in this thread.
This is a start. We have larger ideas in the works long term, but we're taking the approach of small changes so we can measure and iterate without causing massive changes in the meta. Cheers.
Mountain King
- Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Stormbolt:
- Level 2: (Nerf) Reduce damage from 225 to 210
- Level 3: (Nerf) Reduce damage from 350 to 325
Thunder Clap
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase damage from 60 to 65; Radius 25 to 30
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase damage from 100 to 125; Radius 30 to 35
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase damage from 140 to 175; Radius 35 to 40
Paladin
- Attack Speed (cool down): (buff) Change default from 2.2 to 2.0
- Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Divine Shield
- Level 2: (Nerf) Decrease duration from 30 to 25
- Level 3: (Nerf) Decrease duration from 45 to 35
Blade Master
- Mirror Image: (Buff) Mana Cost (all levels) 125 to 115
Critical Strike
- Current; 40avg + 10 from items (40+10)*3=150
- Change; 40avg +10 from items (40*3)+10=130
Far Seer
Feral Spirit
- Lowered XP rewarded to enemy hero
- Increase Unit Level 1 & Level 2
- Increase HP Level 1, 200 to 250
- Level 2, 300 to 350
- Stats Level: Lvl 2; Stats: Level 4 to Stats Level 3
- Stats Level: Lvl 3; Stats: Level 5 to Stats Level 4
Chain Lightning
- Level 1: (Buff) Decrease Damage Reduction per Target from .15 to .10
- Level 2: (Buff) Decrease Damage Reduction per Target from .15 to .10
- Level 3: (Buff) Decrease Damage Reduction per Target from .15 to .10
Far Sight
- Level 1: (Buff) No mana cost; Cooldown 60 seconds
- Level 2: (Buff) No mana cost; Cooldown 45 seconds
- Level 3: (Buff) No mana cost; Cooldown 30 seconds
Tauren Chieftain
- Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
- Reduce duration for reincarnation to occur - 7 seconds to 5 seconds
War Stomp
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase damage from 25 to 30
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase damage from 50 to 60
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase damage from 75 to 90
Dread Lord
- Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Carrion Swarm
- (Buff) Mana Cost (all levels) 110 to 100
- (Buff) Can now target mechanical units
Sleep
- (Buff) Cool down (all levels) 6 sec to 4 sec
- (Buff) Mana Reduction 100, 75, 50 to 80, 65, 50
- (Nerf) Duration 20(5), 40(10), 60(15) to 15(4), 35(8), 55(12)
Vampiric Aura: Increased bonus for DL
- Level 1: (Buff) DL 15% to 20%
- Level 2: (Buff) DL 30% to 35%
- Level 3: (Buff) DL 45% to 50%
Crypt Lord
- Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 → 290
Carrion Beetles
- (Buff) Increased HP and movement speed
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase HP from 140 to 170; Increase movement speed from 270 to 290
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase HP from 275 to 330; Increase movement speed from 270 to 290
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase HP from 410 to 490; Increase movement speed from 270 to 290
Impale
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase damage from 50 to 75
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase damage from 80 to 120
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase damage from 110 to 165
Lich
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Priestess of the Moon
Attack Speed (cool down): (Buff) change default from 2.46 to 2.33
Keeper of the Grove
- Hero Starting Attributes: (Buff) Intelligence 18 to 19
- (Buff) Add a 3-sec invulnerability to the start of the cast
- DurationNerf) 30-sec to 15-sec
- Heal: (Buff) 20 to 40 heal/per sec
Entangling Roots
- Unit Root: (Nerf) Lvl 2; 24-sec to 18-sec
- Unit Root: (Nerf) Lvl 3; 36-sec to 30-sec
- Hero Root: (Buff) Lvl 2; 3-sec to 5-sec
- Hero Root: (Buff) Lvl 3, 5-sec to 7-sec
- Da Per-sec: (Buff) Lvl 2; 15 Da to 20 Da
- Da Per-sec: (Buff) Lvl 3, 25 Damage to 30 Damage
Force of Nature
- (Buff) Treants; 14 Damage to 16 Damage (12.5% increase)
Warden
Blink
- Level 2: (Buff) Reduce cooldown from 10 sec to 7 sec
- Level 3: (Nerf) Increase cooldown from 1 sec to 4 sec
Naga Sea Witch
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Pandaren Brewmaster
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Goblin Tinker
Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
Cluster Rockets
- Allow targeting air units
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase base damage from 8.75 to 11.25 → 10 damage increase
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase base damage from 16.25 to 18.75 → 10 damage increase
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase base damage from 25 to 27.5 → 10 damage increase
Goblin Alchemist
- Base Speed: (Buff) Base speed increase 270 to 290
- Healing Spray: No longer heals enemy units
Acid Bomb
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase Damage from 5 to 8 (Total Damage 75 to 120; Secondary Damage 3 to 5)
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase Damage from 10 to 13 (Total Damage 150 to 195; Secondary Damage 6.5 to 8.5)
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase Damage from 15 to 18 (Total Damage 225 to 270; Secondary Damage 10 to 12)
Firelord
Incinerate
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase Bonus damage multiplier from 1 to 2, Death Damage Full Area from 90 to 120, Death Damage Half, Area from 180 to 240, duration from 2 to 4
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase Bonus damage multiplier from 2 to 3, Death Damage Full Area from 90 to 120, Death Damage Half, Area from 180 to 240, duration from 2 to 4
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase Bonus damage multiplier from 3 to 4, Death Damage Full Area from 100 to 120, Death Damage Half, Area from 180 to 240, duration from 2 to 4
Soul Burn
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase duration increased from 14(6) to 16(7); Increase Damage from 100 to 125
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase duration increased from 16(7) to 18(8). Increase Damage from 225 to 270
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase duration increased from 18(8) to 20(9). Increase Damage from 375 to 450
Dark Ranger
Life Drain
- Level 1: (Buff) Increase damage per sec from 25 to 30; Reduce Mana cost from 75 to 50
- Level 2: (Buff) Increase damage per sec from 40 to 45, Reduce Mana cost from 75 to 50
- Level 3: (Buff) Increase damage per sec from 55 to 60, Reduce Mana cost from 75 to 50
Map Pools
1v1
- (2)TerenasStand_LV
- (2)Plunderisle_LV
- (2)TheTwoRivers_LV
- (2)RoadToStratholme_LV
- (2)EchoIsle
- (2)TirisfalGlades_LV
- (2)Amazonia(COMMUNITY)
- (2)LastRefuge-1.3(COMMUNITY)
- (4)Floodplains1v1_LV
- (4)TwistedMeadows
- (4)TurtleRock
2v2
- (4)PhantomGrove_LV
- (4)Avalanche_LV
- (4)TurtleRock
- (4)Duskwood_LV
- (4)BridgeTooNear_LV
- (4)FrozenClover_LV
- (4)TidewaterGlades_LV
- (4)LostTemple
- (4)TwistedMeadows
- (6)Duststorm_LV
- (6)GnollWood
3v3
- (6)ThunderLake_LV
- (6)GnollWood
- (6)Monsoon_LV
- (6)DarkForest
- (6)UpperKingdom
- (6)RuinsOfStratholme
- (8)Mur’gulOasis_LV
- (6)RollingHills
- (6)TimbermawHold
- (6)StranglethornVale
- (8)Battleground_LV
4v4
- (8)Feralas_LV
- (8)Northshire_LV
- (8)Sanctuary_LV
- (8)TwilightRuins_LV
- (8)Battleground_LV
- (8)Deadlock_LV
- (8)GolemsInTheMist_LV
- (8)Mur’gulOasis_LV
- (8)MarketSquare
- (8)GoldRush
- (8)Friends
- (8)BlastedLands
FFA
- (4)Deathrose
- (6)Duststorm_LV
- (6)EmeraldShores
- (6)StranglethornVale
- (6)Monsoon_LV
- (6)ThunderLake_LV
- (8)Deadlock_LV
- (8)Mur’gulOasis_LV
- (8)TwilightRuins_LV
- (8)Battleground_LV