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v.11

Was busy for a few weeks, now I'm back in full swing. I'll be addressing more balance related issues in the next patch.

Gameplay Changes:

• All heroes now acquire targets automatically. Most heroes have their range slightly toned down as a result.
• Unleash Zeal duration condensed to 3 seconds from 7 seconds. The Attack speed bonus gained while in Zeal mode has also been increased in response. The hero will also retain normal movement speed instead of being partially slowed down.
• Beacons that grant health max bonuses and health regen bonuses have their effects replaced with a Zeal multiplier bonus. -Beacons with Zeal Multiplier effects gain 1.5% bonus only per growth, down from 2.0% -Initial Team Health per active player increased to 6000 from 5000. -You no longer gain Zeal from attacking Sentries.

Fuuma:

• Bloom's invisibility will now break when Fuuma casts or attacks.

Maximus:

• When an ability is recastable it will no longer show Quick Shift's icon, but rather the ability itself, to avoid confusion.

Wrathion:

• Kaiser Cleave: damage bonus from full energy reduced to 175 from 200.

Bugs/Glitch/Typo Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that made the game think there are 4 capturable Beacons in the Christmas arena.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Zeal Multiplier to update along with Beacons as their effect increases through the round.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Advanced warning message in hero selection to appear for non-advanced heroes, vice versa, when all players are ready.
• Fixed a typo in the Guide section that marks difficulty incorrectly.

Nova:

• Fixed a bug that allowed Nova to stay in stealth even though she is supposed to break stealth after attacking.

Pyroshi:

• The game should now properly play Explosion's sound effects when the ability's total damage is below 300.

Aesthetics:

• Top HUD revamped to include a numerical Team Health counter, as well as better textures and various eyecandies.
• A larger Revive timer is added below the Top UI for dead players.
• Disabled the damage combo counter as they added screen clutter.
• Slain heroes, Beacon captures, Beacon dominance and other events are announced as text in game.
• Death Hints UI disabled.
• Lower half of the command card shrunk down.
• A health bar and mana bar is added in the bottom UI, labelled with health/mana percentages.
• Announcer sounds changed! This might be temporary, im working on better announcer voices.