Heroes Nexus

Necromancer

Xul the Necromancer
Melee Specialist (Yes you read that right)

Trait: Raise skeleton from fallen minions. Can have max of 4. Last 15 seconds. Good at wearing down towers/minions/blocking skill shots.

Q: Spectral Scythe - Burst skillshot. Creates a scythe at a distance that comes back toward you. Xul can move to boomerang it.

W: Cursed Strike - Turns basic attack into a AoE attack for few sec and curses the target. Reduces their attack speed by 50%.

E: Bone Prison - Targeted ability (Not skillshot) that, after 2 seconds, roots them in place for 2 seconds.

Heroic 1: Poison Nova - AoE attack that does damage + spreads dot on all targets in range. Can cripple entire team w/ right positioning

Heroic 2: Skeletal Mages - Create wall of mages at a distance. Can divide enemy team in half. Slows all targets hit by their attacks.

Default Bonus Ability: Bone Armor - Gives Xul a shield for 25% of his health for 3 seconds.

Notes: Xul is an incredibly diverse hero with a varying number of talent builds to play as you choose. You can spec into his Skeletal Minion trait to turn him into a hardcore powerful pushing character. Spectral Scythe is good for poking at enemies and lane clear. Cursed Strike is a fantastic counter to heroes who rely on attack speed like Illidan, Thrall, and Butcher. Bone prison forces an enemy to make a split-second decision as to where to move for when they are stunned. Very powerful against Jaina/Kael who have no ways to escape.

Wizard

Li-Ming the Wizard
Ranged Assassin

Trait: Resets all of her cooldowns, including heroics, when she's part of a kill or an Assist.

Q: Magic Missiles - Skillshot fired at a targeted point. Not like Muradin's hammer. Comes out of her side to a point. High Skill Cap ability

W: Arcane Orb - Skillshot at a very long range. Relatively slow moving AoE projectile. Fired from further away increases it's damage.

E: Teleport - Short Cooldown teleport. Not like a Bolt of the Storm. Not even as long range of Valla's vault.

Heroic 1: Disintegration Beam - Same as from D3. Beam that can be swept across enemies. Good on BGs with chokepoints.

Heroic 2: Wave of Force - Remotely detonate magic bomb that damages and pushes around heroes. Good vs backline heroes like Nazeebo

Notes: Li-Ming is easy to understand, but really getting the most out of her is extremely challenging. She apparently will be mana constrained and that's how they will balance her. Originally came out from an idea on the team to have a hero with multiple skillshots.

Feeling the hype?
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/heroes-of-the-storm-gets-diablos-necromancer-and-w/1100-6433968/

They're not going to release simultaneously, so whichever releases first will be the first one I go for. You should change your poll to "which are you most excited for".

Added the skills of each hero.

@Crisius
Good point, not sure how to edit that pool as in edit I can't find it.
The hype feel seems to strong :O!

Li-Ming's Arcane Orb sounds quite similar to a Mooninite laser.

Resets all of her cooldowns, including heroics, when she's part of a kill or an Assist ? Thats OP af dude !!!

did you notice she doesn't have Hydra, Lightning, Frost Nova, Meteor and all those iconic Diablo 2 abilities?

Diablo 2 sorceress confirmed!

as for Necro - he will probably be the first hero that I'll insta-buy (once he is at 10k). I really like his style. the only thing I am missing is some kind of golem which is really iconic. I'd also love to see bone spear or bone spirit, but that Scythe thingy seems to be awesome as well. I like how they added his three talents into one hero: Bone Spells, Curses and Summons

Li Ming will be a meta-alternative to Jaina and KT for sure.

Was expecting Time Bubble for Wizard. Disappointed.

Well that's certainly different from the original post made about the Wizard... Didn't someone say the wizard the ability to choose Arcane, Fire, Or Ice kinda like the Monk? 

I was waiting for a new spec for a long time so im really hyped about Necromancer, he sounds fun too

What's that "default bonus ability" of the necromancer? Seems really good :)

I hate to play the cynic card, but can you please source where your information on the abilities came from? Unless I'm missing it, I don't see any of that in the article on Gamespot.

Here's a video interview with Dustin Browder about their abilities and more.

The sound quality is crappy but understandable.

Necromancer has a scythe so he instantly gets my vote. 

My gut feeling is that those two heroes are going to shake the meta a lot.

Cool. Let's predict their launch skins

Master Xul


Master Li


Firebird Li 

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My gut feeling is that those two heroes are going to shake the meta a lot.

 Ye that and the change to cleanse is going to add to that aswell. 

I am extremely looking forward to Xul now. He seems to be a real good counter pick to some of the meta choices now, namely: Thrall, Sonya cause of his Scythe build or a murky kind of blow up mechanic with his E root to bring down a KT/Jaina.

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Well that's certainly different from the original post made about the Wizard... Didn't someone say the wizard the ability to choose Arcane, Fire, Or Ice kinda like the Monk? 

 Yeah. That information was part of a supposed leak from a korean website that also stated that the wizard would be the next hero released. At least part of the information was correct! Pretty hyped about both of them.

Could still be true though, just not as a trait. We'll see.

The wizard has some amazing sets in D3 to choose from for skins. Obviously the Firebird is quite iconic and popular among the D3 wizards, but I think that they are going to add a skin with a WoW tier set, just like Sonya's.