This Monday, the latest patch for Lucio's PTR patch was released. However, Lucio's arrival isn't the only big news. 

On what will now be known as Murky's Birthday, February 6th has finally revealed the Murky rework that has been promised for months now. While the new hero Lucio is technically the biggest announcement, it seems as if most people are talking about the new and improved Murky.

Murky has been made to be a lot tougher alongside some amusing new talents. One of them (Which is sure to draw the ire of essentially anyone who already hated Murky to begin with) is the aptly named Egg Hunt:

New Talent: Egg Hunt (Active)
 

  • Activate to place a fake Egg.  If the fake Egg dies, it casts Slime.  Maximum 3 fake Eggs.  6 second cooldown
  • Upon spawning from an Egg, Murky is Stealthed for 5 seconds


Yeah, that is about as annoying as it sounds.

Other big changes include sizeable Valeera buffs, improvements to Falstad and Greymanes never picked heroics, Thrall and Abathur buffs and the rest minor changes that only dedicated character mains will really care about. Ragnaros also had a sizeable nerf to his level 13 Resilient Flame talent, which many people applaud. 

The Falstad change in particular (reduced cooldown on Hinterlands blast for every target hit) is particularly powerful and already have some yelling for a nerf.

The developers had this to comment on Murky's big changes:

"Mrrgrgrlgrl! Rise my brother murlocs! Mrrrgrgrlrlgrl! Vengeance will be ours! In examining Murky, his original health and egg timers are vestiges of a different time, created before even Jaina entered the Nexus. We wanted to give him more base health to make him a little harder to burst down, but traded it for a little longer time to respawn from his Egg. This has the added bonus of allowing a bit more counter-play to hunting our fishy friend. We also wanted to adjust Pufferfish, as an increasingly high amount of the roster could immediately explode it. Finally, his talent tree has been updated to come in line with our new philosophies. We’ve not only found this Murky much more fun to play as, with some exciting talents in each tier, but also more fair to fight against! Mrrgrgrlgrl!"

You can read about the full patch here. Take note that these changes are only applied to the PTR and won't see tournament play for at least several 3-4 weeks.

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