Universe
Role
Attack
Melee
Release Date:
March 13, 2014
Gazlowe, the Boss of Ratchet, is a Melee Specialist class hero in Heroes of the Storm. He appeared briefly for the first time during the events of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as a goblin engineer. During the events of World or Warcraft he has been promoted to the leader and chief engineer of Ratchet, one of the most important goblin towns.
Abilites[edit]
Starting Abilities[edit]
Rock-It! Turret
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Ability: Summon
Affects: Summons
Creates a turret that deals damage. Lasts for 30 seconds.
Stores up to 2 charges.
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Q 70 15
- Rock-It! Turret attack damage (per level):
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Deth Lazor
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Ability: Skillshot
Affects: Enemies
Charged attack that deals damage to enemies in a line. Damage and range increase the longer the Ability is charged, up to 100% after 3 seconds.
Deth Lazor can be channeled indefinitely.
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W 60 12
- Deth Lazor damage (per level):
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Xplodium Charge
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Ability: Area of Effect
Affects: Enemies
Places a bomb that deals damage to enemies within target area after 2.5 seconds, stunning them for 1.75 seconds.
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E 60 14
- Xplodium Charge damage (per level):
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Rock-It! Turret Secondary Abilities[edit]
Focus Turrets!
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Ability: Target
Affects: Turrets
Orders any nearby Rock-It! Turrets to focus the target.
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Heroic Abilities[edit]
Robo-Goblin
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Ability: Buff
Affects: Self
Activate to gain 30 Armor and 30% Movement Speed for 4 seconds.
Passive: Basic Attacks deal 100% bonus damage.
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R 60
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Grav-O-Bomb 3000
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Ability: Area of Effect
Affects: Enemies
After a 2 second delay, pull enemies toward the center of an area and deal damage.
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R 100 110
- Grav-O-Bomb damage (per level):
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Combat Trait[edit]
Salvager
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Ability: Scrap
Affects: Turrets
Destroyed enemy Structures and Rock-it! Turrets drop Scrap. Collecting Scrap restores 30 Mana and causes Abilities to recharge three times as fast over 3 seconds.
Activate Salvager to dismantle a target Rock-it! Turret and turn it into Scrap.
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Talents[edit]
Talents
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7
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10
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13
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16
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20
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Extra TNT
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Increases Xplodium Charge damage by 10% per target hit, up to 100%.
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Scrap-o-Matic Smelter
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Increases the Mana restored from Scrap by 100%.
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Break it Down!
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Scrap causes Abilities to cooldown four times as fast for 3 seconds.
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Goblin Repairs
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Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe increases Health Regeneration by 1 per second, up to 25.
Reward: After gathering 25 Globes, gain an additional 15 Health Regeneration per second.
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Clockwerk Steam Fists
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Quest: Basic Attacks increase the duration of active Rock-It! Turrets by 1.5 seconds.
Reward: After increasing turret duration by 600 total seconds, reduce the charge cooldown of Rock-It! Turret by 3 seconds.
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ARK Reaktor
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Reduces Xplodium Charge's cooldown by 2 seconds. If Xplodium Charge hits an enemy Hero, gain 2 charges of Rock-It! Turret.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Enemy Minions that die nearby have a 15% chance to drop Scrap.
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Hired Goons
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Friendly non-Boss Mercenaries near Gazlowe deal 50% more damage. Rock-it! Turrets gain 50 Armor against Minions and Mercenaries, reducing their damage taken by 50%.
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Rock-It! Turret XL
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Rock-It! Turrets attack up to 2 additional enemies for 60% damage.
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Engine Gunk
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Rock-It! Turret attacks slow enemies by 20% for 2 seconds.
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Hyperfocus Coils
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The mana cost of Deth Lazor is reduced by 30 and it charges twice as fast.
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Robo-Goblin
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Activate to gain 30 Armor and 30% Movement Speed for 4 seconds.
Passive: Basic Attacks deal 100% bonus damage.
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Grav-o-bomb 3000
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Cooldown: 110 seconds
After a 2 second delay, pull enemies toward the center of an area and deal 261 (+4% per level) damage.
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EZ-PZ Dimensional Ripper
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Deth Lazor slows Heroes by 50% and freezes non-Heroes for 3 seconds.
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Goblin Fusion
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Deth Lazor can be charged for 1 additional second to increase its damage bonus by an additional 100%.
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X-Tra Large Bombs
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Increases Xplodium Charge radius by 30%. Being stunned or rooted causes an Xplodium Charge to drop at Gazlowe's feet.
This effect has a 10 second cooldown.
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Turret Storage
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Increases Rock-It! Turret maximum charges from 2 to 3.
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Superior Schematics
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Gazlowe's Rock-It! Turrets have 25% increased range while he is within their attack range.
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Kwik Release Charge
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Xplodium Charge gains a second charge.
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Mecha-Lord
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Basic Attacks deal an additional 100% damage.
Passive: Gain 25 Armor.
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Miniature Black Hole
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Increases Grav-O-Bomb radius by 25% and damage by 50%.
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Firin' Mah Lazorz
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Firing Deth Lazor causes all of Gazlowe's Rock-It! Turrets to fire a Deth Lazor of their own that deals 142 (+4% per level) damage.
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It's Raining Scrap
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Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate to create 5 Scrap around Gazlowe over 5 seconds.
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Strategy and Role[edit]
Gazlowe is great at space control. Using his Rock-It! Turret and Xplodium Charge he is able to zone enemy heroes while dealing damage with the turrets. To take full advantage of this in a team fight it does take a bit of foresight, however. He can also be used in a team to set up a great combo if Grav-O-Bomb 3000 is selected as his Heroic Ability. Another great usage of Gazlowe is soloing mercs, or the boss; he is also particularly skillful at pushing a lane solo. The trick with playing Gazlowe can be learning when it is appropriate to go after mercs, while still being able to get set up for a successful team fight. While Gazlowe can very successfully push a lane solo and do a great amount of siege damage, it is important as a Gazlowe player to not overlook your role in a team fight, and to have the map awareness to sense when you should be leaving the lanes or mercs and heading to the team fight.
Upon first glance, few would think of the diminutive Gazlowe as a fighter, but what he lacks in height, he more than makes up for in mechanical cunning. The newest mechanical exoskeleton he's been working on for example is an especially effective war machine—when it's working.
Lore connections to other heroes[edit]
Balance Updates[edit]
Patch Changes
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Patch
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Changes[1]
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May 12 2015 |
- Promote - Buff duration increased from 15 to 30 seconds.
- Rock-it! Turret (Q) - Mana cost decreased from 70 to 60.
- Rock-It! Turret XL (Talent) - Now acquires targets in a cone rather than a circle.
- Turret Storage (Talent) moved from Level 16 to Level 13. Maximum Turret charges reduced from 4 to 3.
- Long-Ranged Turrets (Talent) - Turret attack range bonus increased from 25% to 40%.
- Deth Lazor (W):
Damage gained per level reduced from 14 to 12.
Mana cost decreased from 75 to 60.
Cooldown decreased from 15 to 12 seconds, and now begins once Deth Lazor is fired.
Damage now increases at 1.5 second, rather than 2 second, intervals while channeling, and reaches maximum damage at 3 seconds.
Maximum channel time decreased from 8 to 6 seconds.
- Goblin Fusion (Talent) moved from Level 16 to Level 4. Damage bonus reduced from 50% to 25%.
- EZ-PZ Dimensional Ripper (Talent) - Slow amount increased from 35% to 40%.
- Xplodium Charge (E) - Mana cost increased from 60 to 70.
- Kwik Release Charge (Talent) moved from Level 13 to Level 16.
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June 30 2015 |
- Promote - Minions no longer gain 300% increased Health and 100% increased damage. Instead, the targeted Minion now takes 75% reduced damage from non-Heroic targets, and deals 100% bonus damage to non-Heroic targets.
- Regeneration Master - Initial +4.0 Health Regeneration removed. Each Health Globe now grants +1.5 Health Regeneration
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