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Balance Update 1
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Balance Update 1
Patch Information
NA Release Date:
September 9th 2012
Highlights
- Balance Changes
- Hotkey Changes
Chronology
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - Balance Update #1[edit]
Balance Changes[edit]
- TERRAN
- Warhound
- Weapon attack delay has increased from 1.3 to 1.7.
- Widow Mine
- No longer damage each other with their splash damage.
- ZERG
- Swarm Host
- Attack damage decreased from 16 to 14.
- Viper
- Consume can no longer be used on creep tumors.
- Blinding Cloud now hits everything, but the radius of effect has been reduced from 2.5 to 1.5.
- Overlord
- A bug effecting Overlord fix has been remedied and they now travel at the expected speed of 1.88.
- PROTOSS
- Oracle
- Preordain duration has been decreased from 2 minutes to 1 minute.
Hotkey Changes[edit]
- Oracle
- Revelation has changed from E to R.
- Entomb has changed from R to E.
- Mothership Core
- Energize has changed from N to E.
- Purify has changed from E to F.
- Swarm Host
- Spawn locust has changed from W to C.
- Fleet Beacon
- Research Gravity Sling has changed from T to G.
- Research Bosonic Core has changed from G to A.
- Hydralisk Den
- Evolve Muscular Augments has changed from C to A.