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Basic Info | |
Title | Dominion Ghost |
Role | Ranged Assassin |
Difficulty | Medium |
Franchise | StarCraft |
Price | 625 / 7,000 |
Release Date | March 13, 2014 |
Base Stats | |
Attack Type | Ranged |
Health | 1300 |
Health Regen | 2.711 |
Resource | 500 Mana |
Unit Radius | 0.625 |
Attack Speed | 1 |
Attack Range | 6.5 |
Attack Damage | 105 |
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November "Nova" Terra, the Dominion Ghost, is a ranged assassin hero from the StarCraft universe.[1] She is a ghost of the Terran Dominion and one of the most powerful psionic soldiers ever known. Nova is highly focused, determined, and extremely deadly. Even Jim Raynor wouldn't want to be caught within her crosshairs.
Nova automatically cloaks while out of combat. Snipes enemies from afar, and creates Decoys of herself to fool enemies.[2]
Background
November "Nova" Terra spent the best parts of her youth as the golden child of one of Tarsonis' wealthy Old Families. Though she exhibited signs of burgeoning psionic potential, Nova's parents insisted that she was merely sensitive or "empathetic," hoping to keep her abilities a secret (as much from the Ghost Academy that would conscript their child as from Nova herself).
When her family was violently betrayed and her telekinetic powers became destructively apparent, Nova was forced into hiding in the crime-ridden slums of Tarsonis' Gutter. The story of Nova's emergence from the Gutter is apocryphal, but the burden of psionic abilities and the pain of her family's ruin led her to seek refuge among the very Ghosts her parents hoped to keep her from.
Supremely dedicated, Nova excelled as a trainee in the Ghost Academy on Ursa, eventually earning the questionable reward of a mind-wipe that erased all recollection of her tragic youth – and the majority of her long-term memory with it.
As a full-fledged Ghost operative, Nova's duties have included battling zerg, investigating the psionic killers known as Spectres, and even dealing with noted enemy of the people Jim Raynor. Her service record has seen her assigned tasks of increasing importance to the leadership of the Dominion, and she stands ready to be dispatched on missions that will make her past pale in comparison.
Abilities
Talents
Increases the cast range of Pinning Shot by 30%. Pinning Shot also increases the range of Nova's next Basic Attack by 2.
After being Stealthed for 2 seconds, Pinning Shot's Slow is increased to 60% and costs no Mana. Bonus is lost after losing Stealth for 1 second.
- Decoy's Pinning Shot does not benefit from the increased Slow.
After being Stealthed for 1 second, gain an additional 10% Movement Speed. While Stealthed, regenerate 3 Mana per second.
Reduces Holo Decoy's cooldown and Mana cost by 60%.
Increase the cast range of Holo Decoy by 100% and its duration by 120%.
Passive: Reduce the cooldown of Ghost Protocol by 15 seconds.
Active: Enemy Minions killed near Nova grant a stack of Bribe. Hero Takedowns grant 10 stacks of Bribe. Use 25 stacks to bribe a Mercenary, instantly defeating them. Does not work on Elite Mercenaries. Maximum of 100 stacks. If a camp is defeated entirely with Bribe, it respawns 50% faster.
- Minions generate a stack, if they die within 12 radius of Nova or are dealt a killing blow by her Abilities or Basic Attacks.
- Decoys can collect stacks, if they dealt the finishing blow to the enemy, but not through presence.
Hitting an enemy with Snipe reduces the cooldown by 2 seconds and refunds half its Mana cost, doubled against Heroes.
- Both Mana refund and cooldown reduction are doubled upon hitting a Heroic target.
After using an Ability, Nova's next Basic Attack within 3 seconds deals 65% additional damage.
- Does not stack with itself.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers.
Nova's Basic Attacks deal 250% damage and decrease the Physical Armor of Heroic targets by 15 for 4 seconds, but her Attack Speed is proportionally slower.
- Increases Nova's Base Attack damage, causing the damage bonus to stack multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers.
- Decoy's attacks also have modified base damage and base Attack Speed values, but do not apply the Armor reduction.
- Does not stack with itself or other negative Physical Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
- If and only if Nova's Basic Attack is off cooldown, causes the damage text for Decoy Basic Attacks to differ (exposing the real, lowered value).
Cooldown: 100 seconds
Locks in on the target Hero, then fires 3 shots that hit the first Hero or Structure they come in contact with for 372 damage each.
Cooldown: 50 seconds
After a 1.5 second delay, deals 456 damage to enemies within an area. Unlimited range.
Snipe's range is increased by 15% and hitting a Hero grants an additional stack of Precision Sniper.
Pinning Shot now has 2 charges, but its cooldown is increased by 2 seconds.
Gain 25 Armor for 3 seconds after losing Stealth.
- Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Snipe also deals 90% damage to enemies near the impact.
- Splash has its own base damage values for Nova and her decoys, causing the damage penalty to stack multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Snipe's damage.
Pinning Shot lowers a Hero's Armor by 20 for the duration of the Slow, causing them to take 20% increased damage.
- Armor reduction is applied after the damage is dealt.
- Decoys' Pinning Shots do not apply Armor reduction.
- Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Increases the damage Holo Decoy deals to 30% of Nova's damage.
- Increases Holo Decoy's damage output by 200%. This stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Holo Decoy's damage.
Triple Tap's cooldown is reset if it kills an enemy Hero.
- The cooldown is reset if the enemy dies within 0.625 seconds of getting hit by a shot from Triple Tap.
Precision Strike gains a 2nd charge and its cooldown is reduced by 25 seconds.
Reduce the cooldown of Permanent Cloak by 2 seconds.
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to reset the cooldowns of your Basic Abilities.
- Also resets the cooldown of Ghost Protocol.
Skins
- Dominion Ghost
- Backstory: November "Nova" Terra is a ghost of the Terran Dominion and one of the most powerful psionic soldiers ever known. Nova is highly focused, determined, and extremely deadly. Even Jim Raynor wouldn't want to be caught within her crosshairs.
- Price: 10,000 / 9.99
- Note: The third tint depicts Kerrigan before she was infested by the Zerg.
- Spectre
- Backstory: Nova couldn't let Tosh face his fate alone, and together they embraced the spectre program. It was her and him against the whole damn universe... just the way she liked it.
- Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
- Skin Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities. Basic Attack, Pinning Shot, Triple Tap, and Precision Strike have altered, orange animations, while Snipe has a green one.
- Roller Derby
- Backstory: Kate "Supernova" Dennings doesn't take any crap from her rivals on the track. Why should the Nexus be any different?
- Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
- Skin Features: Altered voice-over, themed animations. Roller Derby Nova skates around instead of running.
- Novazon
- Backstory: Hailing from the Skovos Isles, the Askari, or Amazons, are skilled combatants. The young warrior Nova is an expert sharpshooter; eager to make her mark on the world.
- Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
- ESkin Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities. Novazon Nova throws a spear when using Snipe, and fires a flaming arrow when using Pinning Shot. Her decoys look like magical illusions rather than technological holograms.
- Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other franchises merging into Diablo skins.
- Widowmaker
- Backstory: Once, she once led a normal life... But now, after intense neural reconditioning, she is one of the most effective assassins still alive. Oh, and this skin makes her look like Widowmaker.
- Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
- Skin Features: Themed abilities. Snipe has red and purple colors, Pinning Shot looks like Overwatch's Widowmaker Venom Mine, Triple Tap target has a purple cilinder around it and a targen on his head, the shoots are purple and Nova has a purple visor, and Precision Strike is also purple and has a different symbol when strikes.
- Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other franchises merging into Overwatch skins.
Trivia
- Nova first appeared in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010), after her own game (StarCraft: Ghost) was cancelled in 2006.
- Nova is voiced by Grey DeLisle.
- Nova was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
- She may be a replacement for the character of Leon from previous builds.
- She appeared as a DPS-type hero in previous builds.[3]
- A large statue of Nova can be seen at Blizzard's office in Irvine, California.[4]
- NECA revealed the Heroes of the Storm Nova action figure at Toy Fair NY 2015.[5]
- Nova is one of the youngest StarCraft heroes in the game.
- Nova's golden yellow hair is considerably longer than that of the other female heroes.
Balance Changelog
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Gallery
- KerriganNova.jpg
Nova as Ghost Kerrigan.
- SpectreNova.jpg
Spectre Nova.
- Nova roller.jpg
Roller Derby Nova.
Novazon Nova in the Eternal Conflict.
The Nova action figure.[5]
Nova concept art.[6]
Videos
References
- ↑ 2011-11-08, Heroes Of The Storm Reveal MOBA Monster, accessed on 2013-11-19
- ↑ http://www.heroesnexus.com/heroes/14-nova
- ↑ 2011-10-31, Blizzcon 2011: Blizzard DOTA FAQ, Photos, & Video. Blizzplanet, accessed on 2011-11-07
- ↑ Zero. 2009-04-04. My Day at Blizzard. StarCraft Legacy. Accessed 2009-05-18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 BlizzPlanet: Toy Fair NY 2015 NECA Heroes of the Storm Action Figures Photos
- ↑ Mr. Jack on DeviantArt: The many faces of Nova
External links
- Nova - Heroes of the Storm
- Nova - StarCraft II
- Nova Terra - StarCraft Wiki
- Nova Build Guide on Icy Veins
- Nova Quotations
- Nova Quotes on YouTube
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