Heroes of the Storm Balance Updates and Hero Rotation

This week, in celebration of the launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, two new skins have been added -- demonic Tyrael and Angelic Valla. What's more, the free-to-play hero rotation has some of the most exciting heroes available for free to players, including the recently added Tychus. The rest of the heroes are as follows:

Week of Tuesday, Mar. 25 – April 1, 2014:

• Tyrande

• Stitches

• Diablo

• Tychus

• Kerrigan

• Nova

Along with the latest free-to-play hero rotation, we're getting some balance changes to certain heroes. There aren't a huge number of changes but many are significant, including a lot of nerfs to Uther! Hit the break for all the changes.

• Knights

  • Knight Health reduced by 20%

  • Time between Knight and Sorcerer attacks increased from 1.0 to 1.25

• Focused Attack talent bonus to Basic Attack damage increased from +30% to +50%

• Symbiote no longer persists during a killed Hero's post-death state (Uther/Tyrael)

• Fixed a bug which granted Hero clones created by Ultimate Evolution more Health and damage than intended.

• Fixed a bug which unintentionally granted increased damage for all abilities while in Robo-Goblin form.

• Hyperion duration reduced from 15 to 12 seconds

• Hyperion volley damage gain per level decreased from 24 to 20

• Base vision radius increased by 2

• Divine Storm cooldown increased from 45 to 70 seconds

• Hurricane talent

• Bonus stun duration removed

• Now decreases Divine Storm cooldown from 70 to 50 seconds

• Eternal Devotion

• Base duration increased from 7 to 10 seconds

• Holy Devotion talent no longer increases Eternal Devotion duration

• Hammer of Justice damage gain per level decreased from 14 to 10

• The Regeneration Master talent has been replaced with Path of the Wizard

• Voodoo Ritual changed from 20 +1 Health per level and 5 Mana restored to 1% Health and Mana restored.

• Gargantuan Health increased from 1000 + 100 per level to 1400 +140 per level