Heroes of the Storm Balance Update Reduces Li-Ming's "A Little Too Strong" Ability Damage

A balance update has been posted for Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm adjusting Li-Ming's powers which appears to be too strong. Rehgar's Rising Storm damage bonus is reduced to ten percent per stack.

The developer comments via Battle.net page states more about the balance on Li-Ming's powers. The post reads, "Li-Ming is a little too strong right now. Her ability to deal incredible damage is awesome, it was just happening too often, too easily.

We've nerfed Astral Presence and Diamond Skin to preserve a couple of her core weaknesses: Mana tension and fragility. We've also removed Ess of Johan, because we found that it made landing Magic Missiles too easy. While we know that a lot of players really enjoy Ess of Johan, we think that it will be better for Li-Ming in the long run to preserve her high skill cap."

Li-Ming is a wizard from Diablo 3 that was added in Heroes of the Storm's 2016 Lunar Festival in celebration of the Chinese lunar new year. Her basic powers include Arcane Orb, Teleport, and Magic Missiles. Disintegrating and Wave of Force are her heroic abilities,  IGN noted.

Below are the full notes on balance update released by Blizzard Entertainment for Heroes of the Storm:

Li-Ming

• Astral Presence (Talent): Mana Regeneration bonus now only triggers while below 25% Mana, rather than 50%
• Diamond Skin (Talent): Shield amount decreased from 25% to 20% of maximum Health
• Tal Rasha's Elements (Talent): Ability Power bonus decreased from 20% to 10%
• Magic Missiles (Q): Damage reduced from 147 (+3.5% per level) to 147 (+3% per level)
• Arcane Orb (W): Ess of Johan (Talent) removed. Triumvirate (Talent) distance traveled requirement reduced from 80% to 65% of maximum distance

Rehgar

• Lightning Shield (W): Rising Storm (Talent) damage bonus reduced from 20% to 10% per stack; Maximum stacks increased from 10 to 20

Anub'arak

• Hardened Carapace (W): Shield amount increased from 242 (+4% per level) to 260 (+4% per level)

Stitches

• Devour (E): Last Bite (Talent) cooldown reduction on kill decreased from 15 to 12 seconds

Heroes of the Storm, originally titled Blizzard DOTA,) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for PC and Mac released on June 2, 2015.

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