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News
- This week Li-Ming was made available for purchase in the PTR. Alongside her, Blizzard released a Spotlight video where they go through her different abilities and general strategy.
- Alongside the Wizard, a new patch was deployed into the PTR for testing. The most notable changes are the reworks of Nova and Rehgar, but there are lots of changes to other Heroes such as Sonya, Cho’Gall and Abathur.
- In the live game there was also a new small patch. This one was focused on small changes such as making some Heroic abilities more impactful by increasing their cooldowns (read, nerfing them) or by changing some of their functionality, like removing the small stun from Muradin’s Avatar. Greymane also received quite a lot of buffs.
- Heroes of the Dorm is back! One of the most exciting esports tournaments last year was without a doubt Heroes of the Storm, in which college students all across the United States and Canada formed teams and played against each other to claim full scholarship. Just as the last year, Heroes of the Dorm will be broadcasted through ESPN 3, and the finals will be aired on Television through ESPN 2.
- Johanna, one of the best Warriors in the game is getting her price reduced from 10,000 gold to just 4,000 this week!
- In case you haven’t noticed yet, there is a new Legendary Skin in town, Space Lord Leoric! Pretty nice, isn’t it?
- Blizzard made a couple of improvements for the replay file system and people will now be able to get more data from them such as Battleground mechanics, Mercenary Camps captured, and talent picks. It will be interesting to see the things sites like Hotslogs and Hero.gg can make with these!
Tournaments
- Qualifiers for the IEM Katowise continued this weekend. Team Dignitas and Fnatic join Team Liquid and GoogleIshetZont as the teams qualified for the main event so far.
- Blizzard released this handy schedule of all the tournaments taking place that lead to the Spring Championship across all regions.
Team Liquid Spotlight
- We had the chance to interview eStar Gaming’s captain Xia0t after their win in the Gold Series Heroes League. It gives a lot of insight into the chinese scene and the background of their current champions.
Community:
- Liquid´Cris updated his Tier List and builds for each one of the Heroes.
The Funnies:
- HeroStorm EP #9: UnBEARable
- WP and Funny Moments #51
- Top Fails of the Week in Heroes of the Storm Ep. 31 with MFPallytime
- Top 5 plays of the Week 44 with Hengest
That's everything for the week, see you next time!
