Alexstrasza

Alexstrasza
"I shall do what I must.""
Basic Info
Title	The Life Binder
Role	Healer
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	November 14, 2017
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1698
Health Regen	3.539
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	1.00
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	73
Data Page

Alexstrasza (Dragon)
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	2287
Health Regen	3.7226
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	1.25
Attack Speed	0.8
Attack Range	9.0
Attack Damage	143
Data Page

Alexstrasza, The Life Binder, is a Healer Hero from the Warcraft franchise. Alexstrasza, the queen of dragons, was empowered by the titans to be the guardian of all life on Azeroth. She has aided mortals time and again, even at great personal cost. Now, she soars across the Nexus, protecting life wherever she finds it.

Alexstrasza is a durable Ranged Healer who shares her Health with allies and can transform into a mighty dragon.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Alexstrasza the Life-Binder, former Leader and Aspect of the red dragonflight One of the five Dragon Aspects and Aspect of Life, is the guardian of all life in the world of Azeroth. She was one of five great dragons chosen by the titans to be empowered with a portion of the Pantheon's power and rule over her flight while they watched over Azeroth and its inhabitants. The titans also appointed her queen of all dragons.

Though not content to just sit back and watch, she has most recently assisted the mortal races of the world against the threat of Deathwing and his dragonflight. Sacrificing much of her power to see Deathwing destroyed, Alexstrasza now resides atop the draconic holy site of Wyrmrest Temple, having passed her guardian duties onto the creatures she once protected.

Gameplay

The Life-Binder is a versatile ranged Healer who manipulates life energy to heal her allies. When her life - or those of her allies - is threatened, she can transform into a mighty dragon.

Strengths

• Burst Healing
• Sustained Healing
• Point Control

Weaknesses

• Dive
• Backline Harrasment

Abilities

See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

D

Dragonqueen

Cooldown: 150 seconds

After 1.25 seconds, transform into a dragon and gain 500 Health. While Dragonqueen is active, Alexstrasza's Basic Abilities are empowered, her Basic Attacks deal 143 damage and heal allied Heroes for 43 in an arc in front of her, and the duration of incoming Slows, Roots, and Stuns is reduced by 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.

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Type: Transformation, Status effect / Physical Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self / Enemies / Allied Heroes

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack Modifier, Channeled cast (stationary), CC-reduction, Splash, Stasis

Cast time: 1.25 (ch) + 0.5 seconds

Attack damage: 143

Attack speed: 0.8

Attack range: 9.0

Splash arc: 50 degrees

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• Interrupting Dragonqueen during its cast puts it on a 10-second cooldown.
• Dragonqueen grants Alexstrasza a different set of Basic Abilities, which have independent cooldowns and are unaffected by Alexstrasza's Talents that interact with her base form Basic Abilities.
• When the Ability is successfully cast, and upon ending and transformation back to base form, Alexstrasza enters Stasis for 0.5 seconds. In addition to usual effects of Stasis, Alexstrasza is removed from the ground plane (disjoints certain projectiles), has no collision, cannot regenerate Health, Mana, Energy or Shields and cannot be seen on the minimap or revealed.
• Both current and maximum Health are increased upon successful transformation. When the Ability expires, only maximum Health is reduced back to normal.
• Dragonqueen's cooldown starts when the Ability is successfully cast.

Q

Gift of Life

Cooldown: 7 seconds

Sacrifice 15% of Alexstrasza's current Health, healing an ally for 150% of that amount.

Passive: Alextraza's Health regeneration is increased by 150%

Dragonqueen: Breath of Life
Cooldown greatly reduced and does not cost Health.

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Type: Healing / Self-damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes / Self

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.0

Bonus Health regeneration: 5.3047 per second

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• Passive Health regeneration bonus also affects Alexstrasza in her dragon form.
• Passive bonus directly increases Alexstrasza's base Health regeneration, meaning that calculations using the given percentage should be made multiplicatively with any modifiers affecting her Health regeneration.

Q

Breath of Life

Cooldown: 3 seconds

Heal an Ally for 20% of Alexstrasza's current Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 10.5

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Abundance

75 Mana Cooldown: 14 seconds

Plant a seed of healing that blooms after 3 seconds, healing nearby allied Heroes for 20% of their maximum Health.

Dragonqueen: Preservation
Heal area and amount greatly increased.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 11.5

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

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• Target area is visible to enemies.

W

Preservation

Cooldown: 16 seconds

Plant a seed of healing that blooms after 3 seconds, healing nearby allied Heroes for 30% of their maximum Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 11.5

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

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• Target area is visible to enemies.

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Flame Buffet

50 Mana Cooldown: 2 seconds

Launch a fireball, Burning enemies hit for 75 damage over 5.5 seconds. Hitting enemies that are already Burning deals 125 bonus damage upon impact, Slows them by 40% decaying over 2 seconds, and refunds the Mana cost.

Dragonqueen: Wing Buffet
Damage and Knockback enemies in an arc.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Damage over Time, Piercing Skillshot, Slow

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 12

Hitbox: 1.35 x 2.6

Missile speed: 24

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x5)

Damage per tick: 12

E

Wing Buffet

Cooldown: 4 seconds

Deal 162 damage to enemies in an area, knocking them back and Slowing them by 50% for 3 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Knockback

Cast time: 0.25 + 0 seconds

Range: 3.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 7.8 (maximum)

Arc: 50 degrees

Knockback duration: 0.3125 seconds

Knockback speed: 16.5

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• The area starts at 3 radius and grows to its maximum radius over 0.3125 seconds.

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Life-Binder

50 Mana Cooldown: 50 seconds

Bind Alexstrasa's life force with an allied Hero. Both she and her target are healed for 480 over 2 seconds. Afterward, the Hero with a lower percentage of health is set to the same Health percentage as the other Hero.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00% (over time)/ - (end)

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Delayed Heal

Cast time: 0 + 0.1875 seconds

Range: 6.0

Tickrate: 4.0 per second (x8)

Heal per tick: 60

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• Life-Binder immediately ends, going on full cooldown, if either of the two linked Heroes dies, becomes Time Stopped, enters a Vehicle or hostile Stasis or otherwise becomes untargetable by friendly Abilities.
• The heal resolves normally if the target ally enters a friendly Stasis effect, like Ice-Block or Bunker. However, the Ability still ends if Alexstrasza herself enters Stasis through means other than her Dragonqueen transformation.

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Cleansing Flame

100 Mana Cooldown: 100 seconds

After 1.25 seconds, take to the sky and drop fireballs at the position of your mouse cursor every 1.2 seconds for 6 seconds. Each fireball restores 300 Health to nearby allied Heroes, and deals 135 damage to nearby enemies. 2 seconds after dropping all fireballs, Alexstrasza lands at the position of your mouse cursor.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing / Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Allied Heroes / Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Stasis

Cast time:
- Base form: 1.25 (ch) + 0 seconds
- Dragonqueen: Instant

Range: 20 (retarget)

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

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• Interrupting Cleansing Flame during its cast period puts it on a 10-second cooldown.
• Cleansing Flame's cooldown starts when the Ability is successfully cast.
• For the duration of the Ability, Alexstrasza is put in Stasis. In addition to the usual effects of Stasis, Alexstrasza is removed from the ground plane (disjoints certain projectiles), has no collision, cannot regenerate Health, Mana, Energy or Shields and cannot be seen on the minimap or revealed.
• Dragonqueen's duration is paused during Cleansing Flame but its cooldowns are not.

Talents

1

Live and Let Live

While Alexstrasza is above 75% Health, Gift of Life's cooldown recharges 125% faster.

Circle of Life

❢ Quest: Collect Regeneration Globes.

❢ Reward: After collecting 10 Regeneration Globes, Abundance heals for an additional 5% of maximum Health.

❢ Reward: After collecting 15 Regeneration Globes, Abundance's healing burst creates a Regeneration Globe.

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Type: Bonus Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

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• Healing bonus affects the base value, causing it to stack multiplicatively with healing modifiers.

Flames of Fury

Reduce the Mana cost of Flame Buffet from 50 to 40.

❢ Quest: Hit 20 Burning Heroes with Flame Buffet.

❢ Reward: Hitting a Burning Hero with Flame Buffet reduces Dragonqueen's cooldown by 5 seconds.

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Surge of Vitality

Abundance's healing burst grants allied Heroes 30% Movement Speed for 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Movement Speed

Heat Exhaustion

Increase Flame Buffet's initial Slow from 40% to 50% and cause it to no longer decay.

Exuberance

While above 75% Health, gain 15% Movement Speed.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

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Lifeblossom

While Alexstrasza is above 75% Health, Gift of Life creates a Lifeblossom at the target's location. Alexstrasza can collect the Lifeblossom to make her next Gift of Life cost no Health.

Passive: Reduces the cost of Gift of Life to 10% of Alexstrasza's current Health.

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Pick up range: 2.25

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• Lifeblossom remains on the ground for 7 seconds.

Verdant Flourish

Alexstrasza receives 40% more healing from Abundance and 100% more healing from Regeneration Globes.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Stacks additively with other modifiers affecting healing dealt and multiplicatively with modifiers affecting healing received.

Fire Within

Hitting a Burning Hero with Flame Buffet heals Alexstrasza for 10% of her maximum Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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Life-Binder

Cooldown: 50 seconds
Bind Alexstrasa's life force with an allied Hero. Both she and her target are healed for 480 over 2 seconds. Afterward, the Hero with a lower percentage of health is set to the same Health percentage as the other Hero.

Cleansing Flame

Cooldown: 100 seconds
After 1.25 seconds, take to the sky and drop 5 fireballs over 6 seconds at the position of the mouse cursor. Fireballs deal 135 damage to enemies and heal allied Heroes for 300 Health.

2 seconds after dropping all fireballs, Alexstrasza lands at the position of the mouse cursor.

13

Dragon Scales

Gain 50 Armor while Stunned, Silenced, or Rooted, and for 2 seconds afterward. Can only trigger once every 10 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Pacify

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to Slow and reduce an enemy Hero's damage by 50% for 3 seconds.

Healing a Stunned, Silenced, or Rooted ally reduces Pacify's cooldown by 30 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control, Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Slow

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.0

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• Damage reduction stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting the target Hero's damage output.

Life Unbound

Cooldown: 90 seconds
Active: Activate to heal an allied Hero for 15% of their maximum Health and deal 200 damage to nearby enemies.

Healing a Stunned, Rooted, or Silenced ally reduces Life Unbound's cooldown by 30 seconds.

Cannot be used on Alexstrasza.

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Type: Healing / Spell Damage

Scaling: - / 4.00%

Affects: Allied Heroes / Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Splash

Cast time: Instant

Range: 9.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

16

Tough Love

Gift of Life grants its target 10 Armor for 2.5 seconds, increased to 30 while Alexstrasza is above 75% Health.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Overprotective

Heroes healed by Abundance gain a Shield for 6 seconds equal to 70% of the amount healed.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

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• Shield amount is calculated from final amount healed after all modifications. Healing over a target's maximum Health does not count toward this amount.

Draconic Discipline

Increase Dragonqueen's duration by 6 seconds, and Basic Attack healing by 50%

20

Ritual of Life

Life-Binder activates 3 times over 6 seconds.

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• Additional activations occur with 2 second intervals.
• Targets continue to receive the healing-over-time effect for the whole duration and at the same rate.

On Ruby Wings

Healing or damaging Heroes 8 or more times with Cleansing Flame activates Dragonqueen for 15 seconds upon landing.

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• Alextrasza lands in the Dragon form upon triggering this talent.
• If Alextrasza triggers this talent having used Cleansing Flame in Dragon form, the duration of Dragonqueen is prolonged by 15 seconds.

Ancient Flame

While Dragonqueen is active, Alexstrasza's Basic Attacks apply Flame Buffet.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• The Flame Buffet applied by this talent interacts with all talents affecting Flame Buffet.

Blessing of the Red

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Active: Activate to grant an allied Hero 500 bonus maximum Health until they die.

Cannot be used on Alexstrasza, or on a Hero who already has Blessing of the Red.

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Type: Bonus Health

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 10

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Alexstrasza Guide

Alexstrasza Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Alexstrasza Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Portraits

Alexstrasza Portraits
Alexstrasza Emblem75 / 40	Alexstrasza Hero	Alexstrasza Mastery	Carbot Alexstrasza120 / 75	Dark Queen Alexstrazsa75 / 40	Dragonqueen Alexstrasza75 / 40	Hearthstone Alexstrasza75 / 40
Illustrated Alexstrasza75 / 40	Spectral Wyrm Alexstrasza	Stained Glass Alexstrasza and Hanzo	Toon Spectral Wyrm Alexstrasza75 / 40

Sprays

Alexstrasza Sprays
Alexstrasza Pixel75 / 40	Carbot Alexstrasza120 / 75	Cute Spectral Wyrm Alexstrasza75 / 40	Mosh Party!250 / 300	Old Timey Dark Queen Alexstrasza75 / 40	Spectral Wyrm Alexstrasza	Tattoo Alexstrasza75 / 40

Emojis

Alexstrasza Pack 1			Alexstrasza Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Alexstrasza Happy	:alexstraszahappy: :alexhappy:		Alexstrasza Angry	:alexstraszaangry: :alexangry:
	Alexstrasza ROFL	:alexstraszalol: :alexstraszarofl: :alexlol: :alexrofl:		Alexstrasza Cool	:alexstraszacool: :alexcool:
	Alexstrasza Sad	:alexstraszasad: :alexsad:		Alexstrasza Embarrassed	:alexstraszaoops: :alexstraszaembarrassed: :alexoops: :alexembarrassed:
	Alexstrasza Silly	:alexstraszasilly: :alexsilly:		Alexstrasza in Love	:alexstraszalove: :alexstraszainlove: :alexlove: :alexinlove:
	Alexstrasza Speechless	:alexstraszameh: :alexstraszaspeechless: :alexmeh: :alexspeechless:		Alexstrasza Surprised	:alexstraszawow: :alexstraszasurprised: :alexwow: :alexsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Alexstrasza/Quotes

Development

With the reveal of Ragnaros on BlizzCon 2016, the developers knew early on that Alexstrasza would the next new big BlizzCon 2017 Hero. With the experience of the intense development cycle of Ragnaros, they decided to start in January 2017 with working on her.

Concept art for Alexstrasza began with her elf form: As being the Queen of Dragons, the Developers wanted to make her humanoid form regal and decorated her with ornamentations and jewelry. The aesthetic of her big horns was also included into her armor. Her in-game ears were left out hid under her hair. File size played a part in the decision to hide her ears. Silhouette from game view played another reason: Simple readable shapes are very important and the silhouette of her horns are much more distinct aspect of Alexstaza's model and patently specific to Alexstraza herself.

For Alexstrasza's massive dragon form they wanted her to make as big as possible in-game. They didn't want a small drake, they wanted a full grown dragon. But Heroes of the Storm game director Alan Dabiri couldn't make her that big and powerful in the game. "We want her to be this bad-ass dragon that transforms on the battlefield," Dabiri told Compete in an interview at Blizzcon. "She should be huge and completely cover half the battlefield. Well, that kind of just broke the game. So, how can we make her as big as we can make her, while still being manageable and still being readable?" In the context of World of Warcraft's story, Alexstrasza's super-powered dragon form is a non-playable entity who serves as a godlike savior with one of the biggest health bars in the game.

This encapsulates a common problem for the Heroes of the Storm design team. The game features characters of varying power levels and sizes. "We have heroes that are everything from Murky the Murloc, to Kerrigan or even Alexstrasza, who's literally this godlike creature," Dabiri said. "According to Dabiri, no fans have complained about the suspension of disbelief required to play Heroes of the Storm—yet, anyway. "I think people get that it'’s in the nature of the game itself, our universe," he said. "It's in our own space. We can actually describe things differently, where these heroes have different power levels."

They used Azmodan to establish her scale a bit, because he's supposed to be of the size of a three-store building in the Diablo universe - in the Nexus however, he is at a functional size. Uther's model size is used for baseline comparisons for all heroes, so they used his model to make her the proper size for the game. With large heroes, it's weird to make them spin and turn instantly, so the animators developed a new turning technique to add extra frames for Alexstrasza. Additionally, she will follow your mouse cursor with her body and turn her head and tail in the direction you are going.

With her size, there were lot of things that she could interfere with. So body blocking and hiding smaller Heroes like Chromie and Murky behind her big body or wings became another issue. The art and design team spent a long time trying to make sure that she was this imposing force and felt really big and mighty, but didn't break the game.

For the Gameplay, the Developers needed to emphasize and to convey that she's a dragon and the aspect of life. They wanted to convey that properly by letting Alexstrasza interact with life and health in interesting ways. Her ability Abundance was inspired by the storm dragons primarly found in Cataclysm (the dragon mobs in Vortex Pinnacle, for example). Flame Buffet was inspired by Blackwing Lair dragon abilities. Her ultimate Life Binder was inspired by her Hearthstone card. The core concept behind her second Heroic Ability, Cleansing Flame, was originally meant to be for Probius. Probius was originally meant to have a Mothership heroic ability raining damage down on the battlefield. They didn't like it, given his builder-oriented gameplay. So they moved it to Alexstrasza instead.

Alexstrasza finally made her debut with Hanzo, during the Dragons of the Nexus event which was announced during BlizzCon 2017.

Trivia

• Alexstrasza made her debut in Day of the Dragon (February 2001).
  • Her game debut was seven years later, in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (November 2008).
• Alexstrasza is by voiced Barbara Goodson in Wrath of the Lich King to early Cataclysm, and by Wendee Lee as of late Cataclysm.
• Alexstrasza is the second dragon hero, with Chromie being the first, and the third being Deathwing.

Gallery

General

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  Alexstrasza's artwork

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  Alexstrasza home screen

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  Alexstrasza menu

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  Dragons of the Nexus Background

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  Dragons of the Nexus

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  Concept Art

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  Concept Art

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  Dark Queen Alexstrasza

Abilities

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  D: Dragonqueen

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  Q: Gift of Life

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  W: Abundance

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  E: Flame Buffet

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  R1: Life-Binder

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  R2: Cleansing Flame

Gameplay

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External links

• Alexstrasza - Heroes of the Storm
• Alexstrasza - Wowpedia
• Alexstrasza Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Alexstrasza Sound Files - Sounds of the storm