Nova

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[e][h]Nova

Dominion Ghost

Hero Information

Universe

Role

Attack
Ranged

Cost:

7,000 

Release Date:

March 13, 2014

Stats

Attack Range:

6.5

Attacks Per Second:

1

Level Changed Stats

Initial

Change/Level

Attack Damage:

109

4%

Life:

1404

4%

Life Regen:

2.93

4%

Mana:

500

10

Mana Regen:

3

0.098

November Annabella Nova Terra, the Dominion Ghost, is a Ranged Assassin class hero in Heroes of the Storm. She was one of the 18 first heroes to be officially announced at Blizzcon 2013. She was meant to be the main character of the console game StarCraft: Ghost, but the game was put on indefinite hold. She later showed up in StarCraft II and its expansion as well as two novels and three mangas.

Abilites

Starting Abilities

Snipe
	Ability: Skillshot Affects: Enemy Deals damage to the first enemy hit.
Q  50 6 Snipe damage (per level):  322 (+4%)

Pinning Shot
	Ability: Target Affects: Enemy Deal damage to an enemy and slow it by 40% for 2.25 seconds.
W  65 12 Pinning Shot damage (per level):  114 (+4%)

Holo Decoy
	Ability: Clone Affects: Self Create a Decoy for 5 seconds that appears to attack enemies. Using this Ability does not break Cloak.
E  50 15

Heroic Abilities

Triple Tap
	Ability: Target Affects: Enemy Locks in on the target Hero, then fires 3 shots that hit the first Hero or Structure they come in contact with for damage each.
R  100 100 Triple Tap damage per shot (per level):  352 (+4%)

Precision Strike
	Ability: Area of Effect Affects: Enemies After a 1.5 second delay, deals damage to enemies within an area. Unlimited range.
R  100 60 Precision Strike damage (per level):  474 (+4%)

Combat Trait

Permanent Cloak, Sniper
	Ability: Passive Affects: Self Nova gains Stealth when out of combat for 3 seconds. Taking damage, attacking, using Abilities, or channeling reveals her. Passive: Nova's Basic Attack range is 6.5 further than most other ranged Heroes.

Talents

Talents
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4
7
10
13
16
20

Advanced Cloaking
While Stealthed, Nova gains 2 Mana per second and 25% increased movement speed

Longshot
Increases the cast range of Pinning Shot by 30%. Pinning Shot also increases the range of Nova's next Basic Attack by 2.

Covert Ops
After being Stealthed for 5 seconds, Pinning Shot's slow is increased to 55% and costs no Mana. Bonus is lost after losing Stealth for 1 second.

Remote Delivery
Increases Holo Decoy cast range by 100% and its sight range by 50%

Rapid Projection
Reduces Holo Decoy's cooldown and Mana cost by 40%.

Holo Stability
Increases the duration of Holo Decoy by 120%.

Covert Mission
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 Bosses. Maximum of 100 stacks. If a camp is defeated entirely with Bribe, the camp respawns 50% faster.

One in the Chamber
After using an Ability, Nova's next Basic Attack within 3 seconds deals 80% additional damage.

Anti-Armor Shells
Nova's Basic Attacks deal 250% damage, but her Attack Speed is proportionally slower.

Snipe Master
Hitting an enemy Hero with Snipe permanently increases the damage of Snipe by 15%. Stacks up to 5 times. All stacks are lost if Snipe fails to hit an enemy.

Triple Tap
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 352 (+4% per level) damage each.

Precision Strike
Cooldown: 60 seconds After a 1.5 second delay, deals 474 (+4% per level) damage to enemies within an area. Unlimited range.

Double Tap
Pinning Shot now has 2 charges.

Psionic Efficiency
Removes Snipe's Mana cost and increases its range by 10%.

Explosive Round
Snipe also deals 50% damage to enemies near the impact.

Perfect Shot
Hitting an enemy Hero with Snipe reduces the cooldown by 3 seconds.

Crippling Shot
Pinning Shot lowers a Hero's Armor by 25 for the duration of the slow, causing them to take 25% increased damage.

Lethal Decoy
Holo Decoy deals 40% of Nova's damage.

Fast Reload
Triple Tap's cooldown is reset if it kills an enemy Hero.

Precision Barrage
Precision Strike holds 2 charges with a short cooldown.

Rewind
Cooldown: 60 seconds Activate to reset the cooldowns of your Basic Abilities.

Ghost Protocol
Cooldown: 60 seconds Activate to gain Stealth and become Unrevealable for 2 seconds. Nova's attacks and Abilities will also not break Stealth during this time.

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Lore

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.

Nova was meant to be the main character of the console game StarCraft: Ghost, which was announced as being in development for GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation 2 in 2002. However, although the game development progressed forwards, the next-gen consoles eventually made their debut and the game was announced as being on "indefinite hold" in 2006. A prequel novel about Nova, with the title StarCraft: Ghost: Nova, was released later that year. Nova was one of the main characters in the manga series StarCraft: Ghost: Ghost Academy and in the novel StarCraft: Ghost: Spectre from 2011. She also had a minor appearance in the game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and its expansion StarCraft II: Hearth of the Swarm.

November Annabella Terra belonged to one of the Old Families on Tarsonis, one of the rich families with much power. Her father noticed early that she had psychic abilities and he used his power to keep her from being put into the Ghost Program, as all psychic children were supposed to. However, soon after her fifteenth birthday, her family was attacked by anti-Confederate rebels and she let out an uncontrolled psychic attack, killing everyone in a large vicinity. After that, she escaped to The Gutter, the slum of Tarsonis where she gradually became a drug addict and an unwilling subordinate to a the local drug boss Fagin. However, after a time, the Terran wrangler Kelerchian came to take Nova into the Ghost Program. Seizing the opportunity, Nova got Fagin killed and submitted to the Ghost Program willingly because she wanted the memory wipe that every ghost had to go through.

Nova was one of the most powerful ghosts in existence, with a psi rating of 10 and at the Ghost Academy she was one of the best students. She was placed on Team Blue with several others, including Gabriel Tosh, whom she became romantically involved with. After some time, the Ghost students were sent to Planet Shi which was under Zerg attack and where Nova once again used her terrifying psychic attack and killed off every Zerg in a large blast radius. When she graduated from the Ghost Academy, she got the memory wipe and became Agent X41822N. On a mission as a Ghost, however, Nova was exposed to Terrazine gas, which reversed the effect of the memory wipe. In the meantime, Tosh had started his own organization which aimed to to set Ghosts free by exposing them to Terrazine gas. He tried to recruit Nova, but she refused and eventually became one of the biggest threats to the organization, imprisoning several members.

Tosh sought the help of Raynor to break out his spectres from New Folsom Prison. Nova decided to contact Raynor to tell him that Tosh could not be trusted and Raynor had to make a choice as to whom to believe, either helping Tosh get his spectres out of prison, or helping Nova destroy the spectres' training facility. Later, after Raynor had rescued Kerrigan and brought her to Valerian's research facility on Umoja, Nova led the Dominion assault on the base and captured Raynor. Raynor was later freed by Kerrigan and Nova's whereabouts were unknown.

Nova was brought to the battlefield in Heroes of the Storm by The Nexus from an unknown point in time, either from the past, the present (with the end of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm marking the present) or possibly sometime in the future.

Lore connections to other heroes

• Once under Jim Raynor but now enemies
• Enemies with Kerrigan and Alarak

Balance Updates

Patch Changes
Patch	Changes
May 12 2015	One in the Chamber (Talent) - Bonus to Basic Attack damage increased from 50% to 80%
June 30 2015	Conjurer's Pursuit - initial +0.5 Mana Regeneration removed. Each Health Globe now grants +0.1 Mana Regeneration Envenom duration increased from 5 to 10 seconds, but damage has not been changed Spell Shield - Duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds