HEROES OF THE STORM STEALTH UPDATE

Nova is getting the Snipe Master talent as a baseline, to play up her hit-and-run sniper ideal. In the case of Valeera, sheвЂ™s an assassin so her boosts are centered around that. Most of these buffs tie strongly with the fantasy of playing a particular hero, other than the whole stealthing thing. For instance, Valeera is getting the ability to teleport around while stealthed, and her abilities will get better at disabling one target with stuns and silences. If you missed it, we have a live blog available. These were all discussed at length during the Heroes of the Storm deep dive panel. Most heroes will get a bit of a mechanics boost to compensate for their being easier to see in general. This may help heroes like Nova set up some sneaky traps around objectives. There is a slight boost for certain heroes like a sieged Hammer - after three seconds of standing still, a stealthed hero will be completely invisible. These changes are across the board, and apply even for talented stealth, like Sergeant HammerвЂ™s Ambush talent. Stealthed characters are still much more difficult to see than non-stealthed characters, but most people wonвЂ™t need to squint at their monitor quite so often. Same player, but my actual visual acuity is different - so itвЂ™s tougher to see the shimmer of stealthed heroes. I know that personally, when I play with my brand new contact lenses in I have a much easier time dealing with heroes like Valeera than when I play with my glasses from a couple prescriptions ago. It adds more accessibility for people who have trouble seeing the shimmer. Blizzard wants to level the playing field a bit. The gist is that currently, stealthed characters are very difficult to see for some people. One change which affects a lot of characters in Heroes of the StormВ makes stealthed characters easier to see - and as you can imagine, this affects a lot of heroes. There were a ton of changes discussed during BlizzCon 2017, so weвЂ™re still breaking them down. See our original rundown of these changes below.

HEROES OF THE STORM STEALTH UPDATE

Blizzard has also published an update with more details on stealth Hero changes, including Nova, Samuro, Zeratul, and Valeera. Update: Stealth changes are now live on the PTRВ so you can check them out yourself.

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