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E.T.C.
EtcArt

"I bring the mega-death!"

Basic Info
Title Rock God
Role Tank Tank
Difficulty Medium
Franchise Warcraft Warcraft
Price Gem300 / Money2,000
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.[1] 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[ | ]

Warcraft 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 Icon
Rockstar

Using a Basic Ability grants 20 Armor for 2 seconds. Heroic Abilities grant 60 Armor.


Type: Defensive damage modifier
Affects: Self
Properties: Armor

  • 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.
Powerslide Icon
Q
Powerslide
60 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

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


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
Face Melt Icon
W
Face Melt
55 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Deals 68 damage to nearby enemies, knocking them back.


Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: No target
Cast time: Instant
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 4.0
Knockback duration: 0.25 seconds
Knockback speed: 12
Guitar Solo Icon
E
Guitar Solo
40 Mana Cooldown: 9 seconds

Regenerate 66 Health per second for 4 seconds.


Type: Healing
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self
Targeting: No target
Properties: Heal over Time
Cast time: Instant
Tickrate: 1.0 per second
Mosh Pit Icon
R
Mosh Pit
100 Mana Cooldown: 120 seconds

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


Type: Crowd control
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: No target
Cast time: 0.75 (ch) + CH + 0 seconds
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 4.0
Tickrate: 8.0 per second (x32)

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


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

  • 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 Icon
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.


Type: Healing
Scaling: -
Affects: Self
Prog Rock Icon
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.


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 Icon
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.


Type: Defensive damage modifier
Affects: Allied Heroes, Self
Properties: Area of Effect, Armor, Block
Radius: 4.4

  • Does not stack with other positive Physical Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
4
Crowd Surfer Icon
Crowd Surfer

Allows Powerslide to travel over walls and terrain. If no enemies are hit, reduce the cooldown by 7 seconds and refund the Mana cost.


Type: Movement: Launch
Loud Speakers Icon
Loud Speakers

Increases Face Melt range and knockback by 50%.


Bonus radius: 2.0
Bonus knockback speed: 6.0
Speed Metal Icon
Speed Metal

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


Type: Status effect
Affects: Allied Heroes, Self
Radius: 4.4
7
Pinball Wizard Icon
Pinball Wizard

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


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Damage: 272
Duration: 2.0 seconds

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

While Guitar Solo is active your Basic Attacks deal 35% more damage.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Self
Properties: Attack Modifier

Echo Pedal Icon
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.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Properties: Area of Effect
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 4.0

  • 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 Icon
Mosh Pit

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

Stage Dive Icon
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 Icon
Mic Check

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

Encore Icon
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 5%.


Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 4.0
Knockback duration: 0.25 seconds
Knockback speed: 12

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

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


Type: Crowd control
Affects: Enemies
Properties: Slow
16
Show Stopper Icon
Show Stopper

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


Type: Defensive damage modifier
Affects: Self
Properties: Armor

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

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


Properties: Attack Modifier
Imposing Presence Icon
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.


Type: Crowd control, Status effect
Affects: Enemy Heroes & Summons
Targeting: No target
Cast time: Instant
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 5.0

  • 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 Icon
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 Icon
Crowd Pleaser

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


Bonus radius: 2.5

  • Slow increase is additive.
Death Metal Icon
Death Metal

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



  • 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.
Storm Shield Icon
Storm Shield

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Active: Activate to give all nearby allied Heroes a Shield for 20% of their max Health for 3 seconds.


Type: Shield
Scaling: -
Affects: Allied Heroes, Self
Targeting: No target
Properties: Area of Effect
Cast time: Instant
Radius: 8.0
Bolt of the Storm Icon
Bolt of the Storm

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Active: Activate to teleport to a nearby location.


Type: Movement: Teleport
Affects: Self
Targeting: Point target
Cast time: Instant
Range: 7.2

  • 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
 
Rare 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.
E.T.C. Rock God
Gem300 / Money2,000
Rock God
E.T.C. Dark
Free
Dark
E.T.C. Light
Free
Light
E.T.C. Fel
Gem120 / Shard75
Fel
Rare Black Metal
Backstory: Some bands paint their faces and play death metal. E.T.C. however, IS death metal.
E.T.C. Black Metal
Gem120 / Shard75
E.T.C. Black Metal Gold
Gem120 / Shard75
Gold
E.T.C. Black Metal Furious
Gem120 / Shard75
Furious
Rare 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.
E.T.C. Glam Metal
Gem160 / Shard100
E.T.C. Glam Metal Platinum
Gem160 / Shard100
Platinum
E.T.C. Glam Metal Azure
Gem160 / Shard100
Azure
E.T.C. Glam Metal Leopard
Gem160 / Shard100
Leopard
E.T.C. Glam Metal New
Gem160 / Shard100
New
Epic 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.
E.T.C. L800
Gem350 / Shard400
E.T.C. L800 Spectre
Gem350 / Shard400
Spectre
E.T.C. L800 Doombringer
Gem350 / Shard400
Doombringer
E.T.C. L800 Shock
Gem350 / Shard400
Shock
E.T.C. L800 Horde
Gem350 / Shard400
Horde
E.T.C. L800 Angelic
Gem350 / Shard400
Angelic
Epic 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.
E.T.C. Pure Country
Gem350 / Shard400
E.T.C. Pure Country Checked
Gem350 / Shard400
Checked
E.T.C. Pure Country Striped
Gem350 / Shard400
Striped
E.T.C. Event Skins
 
Epic El Mariachi Nexomania
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.
E.T.C. El Mariachi
Gem350 / Shard400
E.T.C. El Mariachi Underworld
Gem350 / Shard400
Underworld
E.T.C. El Mariachi Festival
Gem350 / Shard400
Festival
E.T.C. El Mariachi El Cielo
Gem525 / Shard600
El Cielo
E.T.C. El Mariachi Championship
Gem525 / Shard600
Championship

Portraits[ | ]

E.T.C. Portraits
 
Carbot E.T.C. Portrait
Carbot E.T.C.
Gem120 / Shard75
E.T.C. Hero Portrait
E.T.C. Hero
E.T.C. Mastery Portrait
E.T.C. Mastery
E.T.C.-O'-Lantern Portrait
Hallow's End E.T.C.-O'-Lantern
Gem75 / Shard40
Ink ETC Portrait
Ink ETC
Gem75 / Shard40
L800 E.T.C. Portrait
L800 E.T.C.
Gem75 / Shard40
Nexomania E.T.C. Portrait
Nexomania Nexomania E.T.C.
Gem75 / Shard40

Recruit A Friend Portrait
Recruit A Friend
Rockstar E.T.C. Portrait
Rockstar E.T.C.
Gem75 / Shard40
Toon El Mariachi E.T.C. Portrait
Nexomania Toon El Mariachi E.T.C.
Gem75 / Shard40

Sprays[ | ]

E.T.C. Sprays
 
Calavera de E.T.C. Spray
Nexomania Calavera de E.T.C.
Gem120 / Shard75
Carbot E.T.C. Spray
Carbot E.T.C.
Gem120 / Shard75
Cute E.T.C. Spray
Cute E.T.C.
Gem75 / Shard40
Elite Tauren Marine Spray
Elite Tauren Marine
Gem75 / Shard40
E.T.C.-O'-Lantern Spray
Hallow's End E.T.C.-O'-Lantern
Gem75 / Shard40
E.T.C.'s Nexomania Especial Spray
Nexomania II E.T.C.'s Nexomania Especial
Gem75 / Shard40
Mosh Party! Spray
Mosh Party!
Gem250 / Shard300

Rock'nTunes Play Axe Spray
Toys Rock'nTunes Play Axe
Gem120 / Shard75

Emojis[ | ]

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

References[ | ]

  1. 2013-11-09, BlizzCon 2013 – Heroes of the Storm – Concept Art and Screenshots. Blizzplanet, accessed on 2013-11-23
  2. StarCraft Legacy staff. 2010-10-22. BlizzCon 2010 StarCraft II Custom Maps and Editor Panel. StarCraft Legacy. Accessed 2010-10-23.

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