Developer Blizzard Entertainment shared the latest updates coming to the live version of MOBA Heroes of the Storm via the newest patch notes on the official site. The game receives a new mount, Scrapper Mad Axe Mono Wheel, and a set of general and map updates.
General Changes:
- Unranked Mode has been removed.
- Respawn timers have been reduced in the mid-to-late game. By level 22, respawn timers are back at 65 seconds.
- Updated Homescreen and Startup Music.
Map Updates:
- Garden of Terror Classic
- The original Garden of Terror has returned to Custom Games!
- The name has been changed to Garden of Terror Classic to differentiate from the current Garden of Terror.
- Haunted Mines
- Haunted mines has returned to Quick Match!
- The Mine Golem now drops an additional 10 Skulls over the course of its lifetime.
- Map objective is now complete when one team collects 55 Skulls, rather than when all 100 Skulls have been collected.
- Hero vision is reduced while in the mines.
- Warhead Junction
- Cast time for Nuke increased from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds.
- Cast time for Nuke now breaks upon taking damage.
- DoT damage from Nuke increased by 100%.
- Damage to Forts and Keeps from Nuke increased from 100% to 125%.
Of course, it won’t be a HotS patch if there weren’t bug fixes and balance updates. In fact, Arthas had been completely reworked, and some others have received extensive changes. Check out the patch notes for all the details!
