Heroes of the Storm PTR Notes — November 6, 2017

[Belize]

Does Sgt. Hammer need a rework?
She could use one...

plzno

10char

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I really wish I could actually buy announcers. Or craft stuff I want more often. I really want Alarak announcer

[apepi]

http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/...017-11-14-2017

Live notes, no changes from PTR.

Actually you are wrong. They removed the golem changes and they added comments about Li Li changes.

Developer Comment:Li Li is one of our oldest Heroes and has remained relatively unchanged since her debut in 2014. With this rework, we wanted to preserve her relative mechanical simplicity, but give her other ways to show mastery of game knowledge. Additionally, we wanted to expand upon her fantasy of being the enthusiastic sidekick who’s not afraid to put herself in danger to save her allies. With the new cooldown reduction mechanic on her trait, Li Li players are encouraged to dart in and out of skirmishes, taking just enough damage to keep her trait up. The longer she can keep her trait up, the more ability casts she gets, pushing her into a powerful sustain support role. With this mechanic she can also bully enemies that lack sustained damage; slowly forcing them out of lanes or off objectives. However, she’s fairly vulnerable to crowd control since she relies so heavily on frequent spell casts to survive. One well timed stun or silence can shut down an overly reckless Li Li. We’re aware that her Blinding Wind damage build was popular and that many players preferred her in that role, but we felt it was inappropriate for Li Li to put out the numbers she did while still providing decent support for her team. In general, we’re nudging our supports away from being as effective as Assassins or Specialists in terms of damage and wave clear potential. Li Li can still put out impressive numbers for a support, but it should be much more predicated on her ability to position properly and keep her trait up, rather than simply being constant oppressive force.

I do disagree with their "give her other ways to show mastery of game knowledge" is wrong, she is much easier to play. And the purposlessly removed a talent to help her against stuns...thanks bliz?

[ophion1990]

Does Sgt. Hammer need a rework?
She could use one...

Yeah, her, Jimmy, Sonya and maybe Rehgar and Falstad are probably gonna get one sooner rather than later. All of them still have some of the older generic talents. Though Malf retained like 5 generic talents after his rework, so who knows.