Heroes of the Storm Balance Patch Notes (11th May 2026)

We’ve just released a patch to the live servers in order to apply some balance and bug fixes.

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• Map Updates
• Balance Update
• Bug Fixes

Map Updates

• Haunted Mines
  • Skull scaling increased from 5% to 7%.
  • Golem scaling before 5 minutes decreased.
  • Golem scaling later in the game significantly increased.

Balance Update

Heroes

Arthas

Base

• Base Stats
  • Health increased from 2625 to 2750.
• Death Coil [Q]
  • Healing increased from 262 to 275.
• Frostmourne Hungers [D]
  • Attack damage per quest stack reduced from 1 to 0.75.
  • Damage bonus on charged attacks increased from 1 to 3.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Frost Presence
    • Upon unlocking the line Damage, targets can now be hit by both the line AND the final area.
    • Death Coil Slow benefit duration increased from .75 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Icebound Fortitude
    • Now removes Slows and Roots upon activation.
• Level 20
  • Path of Frost
    • Now increases minimum Movement Speed to 140%, rather than providing +40% Movement Speed.

Chen

Base

• Flying Kick [Q]
  • Damage increased from 120 to 130.
• Fortifying Brew [D]
  • Delay before being able to interrupt decreased slightly.
  • Shields provided per tick increased from 90 to 95.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Accumulating Flame
    • Initial hit now provides a quest stack.
    • Stack requirements increased from 20/75 to 25/80.

Deathwing

Base

• Molten Flame
  • Damage per tick increased from 19 to 20.

Talents

• Level 20
  • Destroyers Rampage
    • Duration reduced from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.

Gazlowe

Base

• Rock-it Turret
  • Damage increased from 37 to 43.

Talents

• Level 1
  • One Man Wrecking Crew
    • Damage bonus increased from 60% to 75%.

Mal'Ganis

Talents

• Level 1
  • Will of Tichondrius
    • Damage bonus per stack reduced from 0.5 to 0.25.
    • Required damage to unlock quest reward decreased from 40 to 20.
  • Winged Guard
    • Stack generation reduced from once every 6 seconds to once every 5 seconds.
• Level 13
  • Deep Sleep
    • Movespeed bonus increased from 10% to 15%.
• Level 20
  • Wrath of Nathreza
    • Transferred damage increased from 75% to 85%.

Murky

Talents

• Level 20
  • March of Murlocs
    • Cooldown reduced from 100 seconds to 90 seconds.

Bug Fixes

Map

• Volskaya Foundry
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Triglav Protector's Particle Cannon charge to cause other players' cursors to highlight in an area.

Heroes

• Arthas
  • Level 1
    • Rime
      • Fixed an issue that caused Rime's Healing to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.
  • Level 16
    • Remorseless Winter
      • Fixed an issue that caused Remorseless Winter's Healing to not be displayed correctly in the Death Recap.
• Chen
  • Base
    • Breath of Fire [W]
      • Fixed an issue that caused Breath of Fire to not deal impact damage.
• Muradin
  • Base
    • Storm Bolt [Q]
      • Fixed an issue that caused Storm Bolt's quest progression indicator to show around the target that killed the Hero.
  • Level 7
    • Perfect Storm
      • Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm's Mana refund to not be granted.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm's Mana refund to increase Muradin's Self Healing score.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Perfect Storm to be able to go on cooldown when already on cooldown.
• Rexxar
  • General
    • Fixed an issue that caused Misha to not respawn when her Respawn Timer expires.
• Tychus
  • Level 10
    • Infest
      • Infest now displays as a Quest Bonus.
• Tyrande
  • Base
    • Lunar Flare [E]
      • Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze to not grant quest progress when the targeted Hero dies and they have a non-standard death state.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze to not grant quest progress when the targeted Hero is killed by a non-Hero.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Lunar Blaze's quest progression indicator to show around the target that killed the Hero.
• Zagara
  • Level 1
    • Infest
      • Infest now displays as a Quest Bonus.

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