Kerrigan gets a makeover in Heroes of the Storm’s latest update

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Also includes new questline and comic book.

Blizzard’s colourful MOBA Heroes of the Storm has just received a substantial new update, introducing a new quest line and several other changes and additions.

At the head of the pack is “The Fall of King’s Crest”, a new quest line in the game. “Aid the Lady of Thorns against the Raven Lord’s invasion of King’s Crest by his malevolent generals,” Blizzard state in their announcement. “This dark quest line comes packed with exciting new skins and quest rewards, like Cursed Witch Whitemane, Spectral Wyrm Alexstrasza, Spider Warden Maiev, Infernal Knight Zarya, Redeemed Tombstone Mount, and more.”

This new quest comes alongside reworks for two of the game’s Heroes—Kerrigan and Brightwing. These changes are pretty extensive, and so Blizzard has created two character Spotlight videos explaining the alterations for Kerrigan and Brightwing respectively.

Kerrigan's changes include a new AOE follow-up attack after her Primal Rage ability, and an additional Skillshot for her Ultimate Summon Ultralisk. Brightwing, meanwhile, has an “Activatable Cleanse” on her “Soothing Mist” ability that removes most negative status effects on nearby allies, alongside a faster projectile on Arcane Flare that also has a chance to activate Soothing Mist without a cooldown. (I hope this all makes sense to Heroes of the Storm players. I feel like I’m writing in another language.)

Other changes include a reworking of the Garden of Terror Battleground, which is explained in another Spotlight video, and the introduction of a new HOTS comic book also called “The Fall of King’s Crest", which delves into the lore behind the new quest line.

Rick Lane
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Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims.