Dominate foes as the new Specialist on a fresh level

Mar 8, 2015 03:47 GMT  ·  By

At PAX East earlier this weekend Blizzard brought forth a variety of news concerning its increasingly popular Heroes of the Storm title, including a new hero, in the form of Sylvanas Windrunner, and a new battleground called Tomb of the Spider Queen.

Heroes of the Storm is Blizzard's entry into the multiplayer online battle arena genre and the title has been available as a closed beta experience for some time now. Meanwhile, Blizzard has kept it up to do date with all sorts of new things concerning its balancing and mechanics, while working on new content.

Some of that new content was presented to the world during PAX East this weekend, and Blizzard has also shared it on the official website.

Sylvanas Windrunner is coming soon

Among the announcements was the fact that Sylvanas Windrunner is the next hero coming to the game. The Elf character hails from the Warcraft universe and fulfills a Specialist role as she can dish out plenty of damage both to characters and buildings, and even corrupt them.

As you can see in the videos below, Sylvanas can use a variety of abilities and talents. First up, there's Withering Fire that can rapidly shoot arrows at the closest enemy target, while favoring enemy heroes. You can store up to five charges and rapidly dish out damage.

Shadow Dagger is the second ability and arrives as a projectile that deals light damage at first but starts to deal more damage over time in an area around the target. This can be used in conjunction to Haunting Wave, which sends forth a wave of banshees to deal damage and players can also teleport to their location, offering nimble escapes or chasing opportunities.

Her two heroic abilities include Wailing Arrow, which shoots an arrow that explodes for area of effect damage and comes with a 2.5 second silence effect. There's also Possession, which forces an enemy minion or mercenary to fight for Sylvanas, and offers it more health and damage output.

Besides the new character, there's also a new battleground for players to enjoy, called Tomb of the Spider Queen. Here, besides killing each other, players have to destroy minions to claim gems and then summon Webweavers to attack enemies. Gems drop when killed but they can't be picked up by enemies.

Check out the new hero and the new map in the videos below.