E.T.C.

E.T.C.
"I bring the mega-death!"
Basic Info
Title	Rock God
Role	Tank
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	300 / 2,000
Release Date	March 13, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2280
Health Regen	4.75
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	1.00
Attack Speed	1.25
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	99
Data Page

Elite Tauren Chieftain (E.T.C.), the Rock God, is a melee Tank Hero from the Warcraft universe. The Power of the Horde incarnated by brutal rhythms and blistering guitar riffs into the form of the most elite Tauren chieftain to ever headbang across the surface of Azeroth. Don't bother putting on socks. He's just going to rock them off anyways.

E.T.C. is a Tank who supplies his team with a good bit of utility.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Elite Tauren Chieftain (abbreviated as ETC) is an American band comprised of employees of Blizzard Entertainment. The band's virtual alter ego, The Tauren Chieftains, appear in World of Warcraft as a band comprised of members of the Horde, and retain the logo used by the Level 70 Elite incarnation of the real-life band. Their gimmick revolves around writing content that is based on mainly subjects related to the Warcraft universe, though they have more recently extended into StarCraft and Diablo lore as well. The band debuted in 2003 with their first song, "Power of the Horde", which was featured in the credits of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

ETC, as he appears in Heroes of the Storm, is the mascot of that band.

Abilities

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

Rockstar

Using a Basic Ability grants 25 Armor for 2 seconds. Heroic Abilities grant 50 Armor.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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• When using Mosh Pit, Armor is granted after the initial channel finishes. Otherwise, the Armor is granted after casting the Ability is fully finished.
• Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Q

Powerslide

60 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Slide to a location, dealing 105 damage and Stunning enemies hit for 1.25 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Dash

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Piercing Skillshot, Stun

Cast time: 0.0625 + 0 seconds

Range: 8.0

Hitbox: 2.0 x 2.75

Missile speed: 14.5

W

Face Melt

55 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Deals 68 damage to nearby enemies, knocking them back.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Knockback

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Knockback duration: 0.25 seconds

Knockback speed: 12

E

Guitar Solo

40 Mana Cooldown: 9 seconds

Regenerate 66 Health per second for 4 seconds.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Heal over Time

Cast time: Instant

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

R

Mosh Pit

100 Mana Cooldown: 120 seconds

After 0.75 seconds, channel to Stun nearby enemies for 4 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Stationary channel, Stun

Cast time: 0.75 (ch) + CH + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Tickrate: 8.0 per second (x32)

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• Interrupting Mosh Pit during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.

R

Stage Dive

70 Mana Cooldown: 75 seconds

Leap to target location, landing after 2.75 seconds, dealing 330 damage to enemies in the area, and Slowing them by 50% for 4 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Status effect, Movement: Teleport

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Slow, Pseudo-Stasis (self)

Cast time: 1.25 + 0.25 seconds

Range: Global

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

Impact delay: 1.5 seconds

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• Interrupting Stage Dive during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
• Stace Dive cannot be interrupted or prevented by Roots, unlike most other Movement Abilities.
• After successfully channeling, E.T.C is put in Stasis until landing. In addition to usual effects of Stasis, E.T.C is removed from ground plane (disjoints certain projectiles) and has no collision, but he does not receive the initial expanded debuff removal.
• A warning AoE appears for both teams when the Ability has been cast successfully.

Talents

1

Guitar Hero

While Guitar Solo is active, E.T.C. heals for 60% of his damage dealt by Basic Attacks. Basic Attacks increase the duration of Guitar Solo by 0.5 seconds.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

Prog Rock

❢ Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe permanently increases the healing per second of Guitar Solo by 5, to a maximum of 100.

❢ Reward: After gathering 20 Regeneration Globes, Guitar Solo also heals nearby allied Heroes for 50 Health every second while it is active.

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Type: Bonus Healing / Healing (reward)

Scaling: - / 4.00%

Affects: Ability / Allied Heroes

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

Block Party

Rockstar gives allies a stack of Block, granting 75 Physical Armor against the next Hero Basic Attack for 8 seconds, reducing the damage taken by 75%. Maximum 2 stacks of Block.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Area of Effect, Armor, Block

Radius: 4.4

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

4

Crowd Surfer

Allows Powerslide to travel over walls and terrain. If no enemies are hit, reduce the cooldown by 6 seconds and refund the Mana cost.

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Type: Movement: Launch

Loud Speakers

Increases Face Melt range and knockback by 50%.

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Bonus radius: 2.0

Bonus knockback speed: 6.0

Speed Metal

Using a Basic or Heroic Ability also gives nearby allied Heroes 20% Movement Speed for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Area of Effect, Movement Speed

Radius: 4.4

7

Pinball Wizard

Face Melt does 300% more damage to enemies recently affected by Powerslide.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Damage: 272

Duration: 2.0 seconds

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• Pinball Wizard uses a separate damage value from Face Melt, causing the tooltip percentage to stack multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers.

Hammer-on

E.T.C's Basic Attacks deal 12% more damage, increased to 36% While Guitar Solo is active.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers.

Echo Pedal

Using a Basic or Heroic Ability releases two pulses of 18 damage. This deals 200% bonus damage to Minions and Mercenaries. The first occurs instantly. The second occurs 2 seconds later.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

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• Pulses do not stack. The second pulse for one Ability will not occur if you use another Ability before it activates. Note that the second pulse will always occur right when the Armor from Rockstar expires, so the visual icon for this Trait in the bottom left may help time Abilities for waveclear.
• When using Powerslide or Stage Dive, the first pulse is fired upon reaching the end location. When using Mosh Pit the first pulse is fired right after the windup completes.
• Damage bonus to Minions and Mercenaries stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers.

10

Mosh Pit

Cooldown: 120 seconds
After 0.75 seconds, channel to Stun nearby enemies for 4 seconds.

Stage Dive

Cooldown: 75 seconds
Leap to target location, landing after 2.75 seconds, dealing 330 damage to enemies in the area, and Slowing them by 50% for 4 seconds.

13

Mic Check

Hitting at least 2 targets with Face Melt reduces its cooldown by 6 seconds.

Encore

Face Melt leaves an Amp behind, which will knock enemies away again 2 seconds later.

Passive: Enemy Heroes knocked back by Face Melt or the Amp reduce E.T.C.'s Heroic cooldown by 4%.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Knockback

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Knockback duration: 0.25 seconds

Knockback speed: 12

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• Secondary pulse does not interact with talents affecting Face Melt.

Face Smelt

Face Melt Slows enemies by 50% fading over 2 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

16

Show Stopper

After using Powerslide, gain 35 Armor for 4 seconds, reducing all damage taken by 35%.

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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.

Aggressive Shredding

E.T.C.'s Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Guitar Solo by 0.75 seconds.

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Properties: Attack Modifier

Imposing Presence

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Active: Activate to Slow the Attack Speed by 50% and Movement Speed by 20% of nearby Heroes and Summons for 2.5 seconds.

Passive: Heroes and Summons that attack your Hero have their Attack Speed slowed by 20% for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control, Status effect

Affects: Enemy Heroes & Summons

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Attack Slow, Slow

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

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• Passive is not applied if the enemy Basic Attack misses due to being Blinded.
• Passive Attack Slow does not stack with itself, nor the active component.
• Passive and active Attack Slow stack additively with other effects that can affect the target Hero's Attack Speed.

20

Tour Bus

Mosh Pit refreshes the cooldown of Powerslide. E.T.C. can Powerslide during Mosh Pit, which also increases its duration by 2 seconds.

Crowd Pleaser

Stage Dive's impact area is 50% bigger, and its Slow is increased by 30%.

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Bonus radius: 2.5

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• Slow increase is additive.

Death Metal

Upon dying, a ghost uses Mosh Pit at E.T.C's location.

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• The ghost's Mosh Pit activates immediately upon E.T.C.'s death with no windup. As the ghost is untargetable, it cannot be interrupted, moved or delayed through any means, and will channel with a normal range and full duration Mosh Pit.

Power of the Horde

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Active: Activate to give all nearby allied Heroes a Shield that absorbs damage equal to 30% of their maximum Health for 5 seconds, increased by 2% for each other allied Hero in the area.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: Instant

Radius: 8.0

Ride the Lightning

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Active: Activate to teleport to a nearby location and deal 48 damage to nearby enemy Heroes. The cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds for every enemy Hero hit, up to 50 seconds.

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Type: Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.2

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• If this Talent is chosen while E.T.C. is affected by certain Stasis effects including Stitches's Gorge, it becomes usable while channeling Mosh Pit.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins E.T.C. Guide

E.T.C. Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

E.T.C. Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

E.T.C. Skins
Rock God
Backstory: The Power of the Horde incarnated by brutal rhythms and blistering guitar riffs into the most elite tauren chieftain to ever headbang across the surface of Azeroth. Don't bother putting on socks. He's just going to rock them off anyways.
300 / 2,000 Rock God	Free Dark	Free Light	120 / 75 Fel
Black Metal
Backstory: Some bands paint their faces and play death metal. E.T.C. however, IS death metal.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Gold	120 / 75 Furious
Glam Metal
Backstory: The Elite Tauren Chieftan has been rocking the world for a long time, man. He's seen fashions come and fashions go, but neon pants and feathered hair? Those are forever.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Platinum	160 / 100 Azure	160 / 100 Leopard	160 / 100 New
L800
Backstory: Even in the far flung future of 2504, Level 800 Elite Tauren Chieftain is still "terran up the night."
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into StarCraft skins. The Doombringer tint coloring resembles Marine, the main protagonist of Doom. E1M 01 letters on his shoulder are a refenrence to the codename of the first level of Doom, E1M1.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Spectre	350 / 400 Doombringer	350 / 400 Shock	350 / 400 Horde
350 / 400 Angelic
Pure Country
Backstory: After E.T.C's pickup truck broke down and his dog died there was really only one thing left for him to do-- go country! Time to bring a whole new meaning to cowboy.
Features: Themed abilities.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Checked	350 / 400 Striped

E.T.C. Event Skins
El Mariachi
Backstory: This mysterious wandering mariachi holds no allegiance other than to his music. Rudos and técnicos alike have learned to fear the beautiful sound of guitar wafting in the air... if only because of the pain that follows in its wake.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Nexomania skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Underworld	350 / 400 Festival	525 / 600 El Cielo	525 / 600 Championship

Portraits

E.T.C. Portraits
Carbot E.T.C.120 / 75	E.T.C. Hero	E.T.C. Mastery	E.T.C.-O'-Lantern75 / 40	Ink ETC75 / 40	L800 E.T.C.75 / 40	Nexomania E.T.C.75 / 40
Recruit A Friend	Rockstar E.T.C.75 / 40	Toon El Mariachi E.T.C.75 / 40

Sprays

E.T.C. Sprays
Calavera de E.T.C.120 / 75	Carbot E.T.C.120 / 75	Cute E.T.C.75 / 40	Elite Tauren Marine75 / 40	E.T.C.-O'-Lantern75 / 40	E.T.C.'s Nexomania Especial75 / 40	Mosh Party!250 / 300
Rock'nTunes Play Axe120 / 75

Emojis

E.T.C. Pack 1			E.T.C. Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	E.T.C. Happy	:etchappy:		E.T.C. Angry	:etcangry:
	E.T.C. ROFL	:etclol: :etcrofl:		E.T.C. Cool	:etccool: :cool:
	E.T.C. Sad	:etcsad: :sad:		E.T.C. Embarrassed	:etcoops: :etcembarrassed:
	E.T.C. Silly	:etcsilly: :silly:		E.T.C. in Love	:etclove: :etcinlove:
	E.T.C. Speechless	:etcmeh: :etcspeechless:		E.T.C. Surprised	:etcwow: :etcsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: E.T.C./Quotes

Trivia

• The tauren made their debut in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (July 2002).
• E.T.C. represents the Blizzard band Elite Tauren Chieftain. In earlier versions of Heroes of the Storm, L80ETC was present instead.
• E.T.C. is voiced by Jess Harnell.
• E.T.C. was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
• Many of E.T.C.'s quotes reference various rock and metal bands and their songs.
• The guitars E.T.C. carries on his back reference the deceased guitar legends Dimebag Darrell, guitarist of Pantera, and Randy Rhoads, guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne.
  • E.T.C.'s pink goatee is also a reference to Dimebag Darrell.
• Black Metal E.T.C.'s face paint may be a reference to the rock band KISS, the black metal music genre, and/or the Grimtotem tauren.
• Glam Metal E.T.C. carries a guitar styled after one used by Prince.
• Guitar Solo's icon depicts a mashup of Prince's Love Symbol and the Horde's logo.
• One of E.T.C.'s old talents, Rolling Like a Stone, references the popular English rock band The Rolling Stones.
• Another one of his talents, Pinball Wizard, references a song by the popular English rock band The Who.

Gallery

• 
  E.T.C.'s artwork.
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  E.T.C. (old model).
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  Glamrock (old model).
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  Pure Country (old model).
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  The Blizzard DOTA models of E.T.C. and various other heroes.
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  E.T.C. using Stage Dive.
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  E.T.C. and Valla taking a mercenary camp.
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  E.T.C. battles minions.
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  Q: Powerslide.
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  W: Face Melt.
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  E: Guitar Solo.
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  R1: Mosh Pit.
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  R2: Stage Dive.

External links

• E.T.C. - Heroes of the Storm
• Elite Tauren Chieftain - Wowpedia
• E.T.C. Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• E.T.C. Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm