Heroes of the Storm Live Patch Notes - February 10, 2026

Our next Heroes of the Storm patch is live! Read on for more information.

NOTE: Orange text indicates a change between PTR and Live notes.

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• General
• Map Updates
• Balance Update
• Bug Fixes

General

• New Skin: Toon'Dan Gul'Dan

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• All Quests that can lose stacks will never cause the player to fall below milestone thresholds.
• Pinnacle Rewards are now named Mythic Rewards to give a more Blizzard feel. So Mythic-y!
• The following Summoned Units now lose health each second: Creep Tumors, Demon Lieutenants, Demon Warriors, Gargantuan, Ghouls, Hydralisks, Roaches, Rock-It Turrets, Rush Zombies, Scarabs, Treants, Ultralisk, and Water Elementals. Total Health and Duration of these Summoned Units have been adjusted to compensate for this.
• Structures now prioritize Summoned Units when there are no remaining minions.
• Summoned Units no longer take half damage from Structures.
• XP Globe pickup sound is now also played when killing a minion that instantly yields XP.
• Updated Homescreen and Startup Music.

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Map Updates

• General
  • Watch Towers will now reset to neutral after 45 seconds of not being occupied.
• Volskaya Foundry
  • Triglav Protector bonus Damage and cooldown speed increased from 25% to 40% when 2 players are inside.
  • Triglav Protector Basic Attacks increased from +50% damage to structures to +100%.
  • Triglav Protector Basic Attack damage decreased from 155 to 130.
  • Triglav Protector Basic Attacks scale increased from +25% to +50% with 2 players.
• Warhead Junction
  • The burn duration is now displayed on structures affected by a Warhead.

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Balance Update

Heroes

Azmodan

Base

• Globe of Annihilation [Q]
  • Now deals 50% damage to non-Heroes.
  • Upon reaching 225 Annihilation, Globe of Annihilation no longer deals reduced damage to non-Heroes Minions and Mercs.
  • Window to kill minions for Annihilation increased from 1.5 seconds to 3 seconds.
• Summon Demon Warrior [W]
  • Demon Warriors damage increased from 32 to 85 53 . Now deals half damage to Heroes Now deals double damage to Minions and Mercenaries.
  • Demon Warriors no longer have a duration, but lose 26 Health every second.
  • Demon Warriors no longer have Immolation.
  • Now has 2 charges.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Wrath
    • REWORK: Now provides 1 stack for every 2 Basic Attacks hit against a Structure or Hero.
• Level 7
  • Art of Chaos
    • Extra Annihilation amount reduced from 4 to 2.
  • Bombardment
    • Amount of time Bombardment lasts reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds.
  • Master of Destruction
    • Amount of Annihilation granted reduced from 2 to 1.
• Level 13
  • Brutish Vanguard
    • Now slows the attacked target by 30%.
• Level 16
  • Hell Rift
    • Damage bonus reduced from 75% to 35%.
• Level 20
  • Inescapable Annihilation
    • NEW: Globe of Annihilation has unlimited range.
  • Pride
    • Moved to baseline. Now requires 450 stacks.
    • Damage bonus increased from 125 to 150.

Deathwing

Base

• Attack Damage decreased from 155 to 110 117 .
• Form Switch [1]
  • Active ability removed. Deathwing now switches forms solely from landing.
• Molten Flame [Q]
  • Base Damage per Second reduced from 21 to 19.
• Incinerate [W]
  • Cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
  • Energy cost increased from 20 to 30.
  • Damage increased fomr 65 to 100.
• Lava Burst [W]
  • Cast time reduced from 1 second to .75 seconds.
  • Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 9 seconds.
  • Energy cost increased from 15 to 25.
  • Explosion Damage increased from 30 to 35.
  • Explosion Damage over Time increased from 6 to 7.
  • Slow increased from 35% to 45%.
• Onslaught [E]
  • Bonus damage increased from 72 to 120.
  • Damage increased from 38 to 60.
• Earth Shatter [E]
  • Projectile speed increased by 30%
• Cataclysm [R]
  • NEW QUEST: Damage Heroes with Molten Flame to gain 1 stack. Gain 50 stacks for killing a Hero. Mythic Reward: Upon reaching 2,000 stacks, Cataclysm now deals 2,500% damage to Structures and Minions. "I AM THE CATACLYSM".
• Dragonflight [Z]
  • Cooldown delay after dealing or taking damage increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
  • Cooldown reduced from 45 seconds to 15 seconds.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Dragon Soul
    • Healing increased from 75%, 150% to 100%, 200%.
• Level 4
  • Heat Wave
    • Damage over Time increased from 6 to 9.
    • Damage over Time stacks reduced from 4 to 3.
    • Initial damage bonus increased from 125% to 150%.
• Level 7
  • Firestorm
    • Damage increased from 70 to 77.
    • Landing delay reduction increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
    • No longer reduces cooldown of Dragonflight.
• Level 13
  • Fire and Fury
    • Damage bonus increased from 30% to 40%.

Falstad

Base

• Lightning Rod [W]
  • Range reduced by .5.
  • Time between strikes increased from .8 seconds to .9 seconds.

Jaina

Base

• Frostbite [Trait]
  • NEW QUEST: Deal Ability Damage to Chilled Heroes. Upon reaching 12,000 Damage, unlock Improved Ice Block, which allows Jaina to become temporarily Invulnerable. Mythic Reward: Upon dealing 30,000 Damage, Ice Block upgrades to Ice Cold, granting Jaina Protected instead of Stasis Ice Block allows Jaina to move and cast while active.

Talents

• Level 7
  • Ice Lance
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds.
• Level 16
  • Numbing Blast
    • Root duration reduced from 1 second to .75 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Wintermute
    • Water Elemental cast range and damage bonus decreased from 50% to 40%.

Kael'thas

Talents

• Level 1
  • Convection
    • Increased reward damage and health from 150/50 to 200/100.

Kerrigan

Base

• Ravage [Q]
  • UPDATED QUEST: Enemies killed in a narrow proximity of Kerrigan provide stacks. Minion kills grant 1 stack. Hero kills grant 7 stacks. At 100 stacks, gain 125 Ravage damage, and Heroes now provide 14 stacks on kill. At 250 stacks, gain 200 Ravage damage.
  • Kill window for receiving a free Ravage charge has been reduced from 1.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds.

Muradin

Base

• Storm Bolt [Q]
  • Perfect Storm Quest removed.
  • NEW QUEST: Basic Attack Heroes affected by Slows or Stuns. Slows provide 1 stack and Stuns provide 2 stacks. At 35 50stacks, Storm Bolt pierces to hit an additional target, and Muradin's Basic Attack reduces the cooldown of Storm Bolt by 0.5 seconds. Mythic Reward: At 150 200stacks, Storm Bolt's range is increased by 50% and width is increased by 100%, and now pierces all targets.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Dwarf Block
    • Block charges reduced from 4 to 3.
  • Give 'em the Axe!
    • Moved Talent from Level 7 to Level 1.
• Level 4
  • Sledgehammer
    • No longer increases Storm Bolt's cooldown reduction.
    • Now increases Storm Bolt damage to non-Heroes by 500%.
• Level 7
  • Perfect Storm
    • NEW: If an enemy hit with Storm Bolt dies within 3 seconds, reset its cooldown. This can only occur once per 10 seconds.
• Level 16
  • Dwarf Launch
    • Range bonus reduced from 40% to 30%.
• Level 20
  • Mountain King
    • NEW: Thunderclap and Dwarf Toss have an extra charge.
  • Rewind
    • Removed.

Murky

Base

• Murky now gains a 35% Shield for 10 seconds upon reviving.
• Spawn Egg [D]
  • Egg now regenerates quickly instead of having a Shield.
• Slime [Q]
  • Now applies its debuff to enemy Structures.
  • Now deals 50% damage to Structures.
• Pufferfish [W]
  • Damage reduced by 20%.
  • Detonation time reduced from 3 seconds to 2.75 seconds.
  • NEW QUEST: Hit enemies affected by Slime with Pufferifsh Kill Slimed enemies, or hit them with Pufferfish. Provides 1 stack per minion, 5 stacks per Hero or Structure hit. At 100 200stacks, Basic Abilities now deal full damage to Structures. Mythic Reward: At 200 400stacks, Murky gains 50% Health and increases in size.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Egg Hunt
    • Talent removed.
  • Shell Game
    • NEW: Murky can now place 2 eggs, but randomly revives from one of them. Increases the cooldown of placing an egg to 30 seconds and goes on cooldown if either egg dies.
• Level 10
  • March of the Murlocs
    • Damage increased by 4%.
• Level 13
  • Egg Shell
    • REWORK: Murky gains a Shield equal to 35% of his Health upon placing an egg or when one of his eggs dies.
  • Fish Tank
    • Healing reduced from 25% to 20%.
• Level 16
  • Wrath of Cod
    • Reduced the amount of time needed to deal the full Damage over Time from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
• Level 20
  • Big Tuna Kahuna
    • Talent removed.
  • Faster Fish
    • NEW: Pufferfish detonates 80% faster.
  • Making Inky
    • Cooldown reduction reduced from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
  • Never-Ending Murlocs
    • No longer deals reduced damage to Structures.

Sylvanas

Talents

• Level 4
  • Mercenary Queen
    • Now also causes Sylvanas' Basic Attacks to instantly apply 3 stacks of Black Arrows to Mercs.

Thrall

Base

• Basic Attack damage decreased from 173 to 167.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Crash Lightning
    • Mythic Reward Damage bonus increased from 270 to 325.
  • Echo of the Elements
    • Mythic Reward now also allows Chain Lightning to bounce back to the same target.

Tyrande

Base

• Mana reduced from 500 to 450.
• Sentinel Shot [W]
  • Mana cost increased to 55 from 50.
• Lunar Flare [E]
  • NEW QUEST: Hitting a Hero with Lunar Flare increased its damage by 5%, up to 250%. After hitting 10 Heroes, increase Lunar Flare's range by 30%. After hitting 20 Heroes, Sentinel now pierces the first Hero hit. Mythic Reward: After hitting 50 45Heroes, Tyrande's Basic Attacks occasionally trigger a Lunar Flare.
  • Now restores 25 mana per enemy hit.
  • Mana cost increased to 65 from 60.
• Starfall [R]
  • Mana cost increased to 85 from 75.
• Shadowstalk [R]
  • Mana cost increased to 85 from 75.

Talents

• Level 1
  • Ranger
    • No longer provides pierce.
  • Moonlit Arrows
    • Cooldown reduction reduced from .75 seconds to .5 seconds.
    • Moved Talent from Level 7 to Level 1.
  • Trueshot Aura
    • No longer passively increases Tyrande's Attack Damage.
    • Now also applies to Tyrande upon activation.
• Level 7
  • Elune's Gift
    • NEW: Grants 20% Spell Power for 10 seconds after hitting an enemy with Lunar Flare.
• Level 20
  • Commander of Sentinels
    • NEW: Sentinel now has an additional charge.

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Bug Fixes

Heroes

• Alarak
  • Level 10
    • Deadly Charge
      • Fixed an issue that caused Alarak's Deadly Charge to not be activated by clicking the left mouse button if it occupies the Trait slot.
• Ana
  • Base
    • Aim Down Sights [D]
      • Can now be toggled while affected by a Silencing effect.
• Jaina
  • Base
    • Frostbolt [Q]
      • Fixed an issue causing Jaina's Frostbolt to not have its model updated by Dreadlord Jaina or Lunar Jaina.
• Orphea
  • Level 4
    • Allegrissimo
      • Fixed an issue that could cause Allegrissimo's cooldown reduction to not be granted when hitting a Hero at Shadow Waltz' end.
• Sylvanas
  • Base
    • Possession [1]
      • Fixed Possession not showing in the Quick Cast menu settings.
      • Fixed Possession not being correctly affected by cooldown reduction affects granted by allies.
• Tychus
  • Level 10
    • Commandeer Odin
      • Fixed an issue that caused Tychus' Odin to not display a cooldown for its Thrusters Ability.

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