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Abilities<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Carapace (E)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Cooldown reduced from 12 to 6 seconds<\/span><\/li>\n
- Duration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds<\/span><\/li>\n
- Additional functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Shield now persists after Symbiote ends<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Additional functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Shield now Heals allied Heroes for 22 Health per second while Carapace is active<\/span><\/li>\n
- This heal now also has an initial application of 22 Health when Carapace is cast<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Locust Strain (Trait)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Duration reduced from 25 to 16 seconds<\/span><\/li>\n
- Damage increased from 34 to 40<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Evolve Monstrosity (R)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- No longer takes 50% reduced damage from non-Heroic enemies<\/span><\/li>\n
- Now shows a warning indicator showing where it is going to burrow to<\/span><\/li>\n
- Additional Functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Now has the ability to Deep Tunnel to a visible location every 80 seconds<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Monstrosity can now be healed by Carapace<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Talents<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Level 1<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Regenerative Microbes (E)<\/span>\n
\n- Removed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- New Talent: Reinforced Carapace (E)<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n
\n- Increase the Shield amount of Carapace by 40%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Survival Instincts (Trait)<\/span>\n
\n- No longer increases Locust duration<\/span><\/li>\n
- Additional functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Increase Locust attack damage by 40%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Level 4<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Ballistospores (Trait)<\/span>\n
\n- Removed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Sustained Carapace (E)<\/span>\n
\n- Removed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Needlespine (Q)<\/span>\n
\n- Moved from Level 7<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Level 7<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Calldown: MULE (Active)<\/span>\n
\n- Healing per second reduced from 100 to 90<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Level 13<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Assault Strain (Trait)<\/span>\n
\n- Removed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Bombard Strain (Trait)<\/span>\n
\n- No longer increases Locust attack damage<\/span><\/li>\n
- Additional functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Increase the duration of Locusts by 50%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Level 16<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Volatile Mutation (R)<\/span>\n
\n- Additional functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Damage dealt by Volatile Mutation against enemy Heroes heals the host for 50% of the damage dealt<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Level 20<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n
\n- Evolutionary Link (R)<\/span>\n
\n- Additional functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Increase the duration of Ultimate Evolution by 50%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Evolution Complete (R)<\/span>\n
\n- No longer gives the Monstrosity the ability to Deep Tunnel<\/span><\/li>\n
- New functionality:<\/span>\n
\n- Now increases the Monstrosity\u2019s Basic Attack damage by 100%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nDeveloper Comment: <\/strong>For a long time Abathur has had a unique place in Heroes, being a powerful force at high level play while having a relatively low win-rate across the board. These changes are meant to spruce up his talents while streamlining his gameplay and introducing more counter-play to the hero. Carapace, particularly with the Sustained Carapace talent, created some awkward gameplay where it was much more efficient to use Symbiote on cooldown, even when the desire was to stay on one target, due to the cooldown refresh that it gave Carapace. In order to clean this up, Sustained Carapace is baseline and the cooldown of Carapace has been reduced, so Abathur no longer has to continuously remove Carapace to be efficient. In addition, Abathur\u2019s Locusts are now more potent, but they last for a shorter duration, meaning Abathur players will be more rewarded for positioning themselves aggressively and punished when they overextend too much.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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