Jaina

Jaina
"I'm here to help!"
Basic Info
Title	Archmage
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	500 / 4,000
Release Date	December 2, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1365
Health Regen	2.8437
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	1
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	60
Data Page

Jaina Proudmoore, the Archmage, is a Ranged Assassin Hero from the Warcraft universe. She is a master spellcaster, trained by the legendary Archmage Antonidas himself. Brilliant, courageous, and wise, it was Jaina who led the survivors of the Scourge of Lordaeron to safety. But don’t mistake her graciousness for weakness, or she will gladly demonstrate to you the folly of picking a fight with a sorceress.

Jaina is a frost mage who can slow the entire enemy team.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

The daughter of Daelin Proudmoore - the king of the coastal kingdom of Kul Tiras and grand admiral of the Alliance during the Second War and her mother Katherine Proudmoore - the queen of the coastal kingdom of Kul Tiras and sister of Derek and Tandred Proudmoore - the two princes of the coastal kingdom of Kul Tiras - Princess Jaina was a brilliant student of the ways of magic from childhood. She first studied under Antonidas, the archmage who led the Kirin Tor, a council of magi living and working in the mystic city of Dalaran. During her early adulthood, Jaina struggled to prevent the spreading of a mysterious plague of undeath that would initiate the Third War and send her longtime friend and romantic interest, Prince Arthas Menethil, down a path of unmitigated darkness. As the war escalated, Jaina gained the trust of Thrall, the warchief of the reformed Horde, and became a key player in uniting the races of Azeroth to work together and stop the Burning Legion.

At the war's end, Jaina governed Theramore Isle, focusing her efforts on improving Horde-Alliance relations. She was an assiduous peacemaker, particularly during the Northrend campaign, when she struggled to defuse tensions between Garrosh Hellscream and Varian Wrynn, and then tried to appeal to the humanity of Prince Arthas after he had truly become the Lich King. Jaina's stance on peace changed when Garrosh Hellscream, who'd become warchief of the Horde in Thrall's absence, obliterated Theramore with a mana bomb.

Gameplay

Jaina is combo-oriented Ranged Assassin with outstanding Area of Effect crowd control and burst damage potential. Befitting her Frost Mage theme, her trait Frostbite passively causes Jaina's Abilities to also affect their targets with Chill, Slowing them and causing any Ability that hits an enemy already afflicted by Chill to deal increased damage. Chill affects all entities in the game for the purpose of inflicting bonus damage. This allows for easy-to-pick-up burst mage gameplay, but plenty of depth to her kit in the way she can engage enemies.

Strengths

• Outstanding burst damage
• All Abilities apply a strong Slowing effect on hit
• Excellent waveclear

Weaknesses

• Very fragile, especially to Melee Assassins
• Long Cooldowns that must be managed with care
• Limited mobility

Abilities

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

Frostbite

Jaina's Abilities Chill targets, Slowing them by 25% and amplifying damage taken from her Abilities by 50%. Lasts 4 seconds.

❢ Quest: Deal 12,000 Spell Damage to Chilled Heroes.

❢ Reward: Unlock the Improved Ice Block ability, allowing Jaina to become temporarily Invulnerable.

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Type: Crowd control (passive) / Offensive damage modifier (passive)

Scaling: - (threshold)

Affects: Enemies / Abilities

Properties: Slow

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• Chill can be fully removed with Invulnerable and friendly Stasis effects. Unstoppable and CC removal effects only remove the Slow and not the damage bonus debuff.
• All Jainas in the same team fully interact with each others' Chill debuffs regardless of who applied them in the first place.
• Does not stack with itself or other Chill debuffs.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Jaina's Abilities' damage.

Q

Frostbolt

30 Mana Cooldown: 4 seconds

Deal 184 damage and Chill the target.

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Type: Spell Damage, Debuff

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.125+0 seconds

Range: 10.5

Hitbox: 1.0 x 1.6

Missile speed: 15

W

Blizzard

90 Mana Cooldown: 15 seconds

Bombard an area with 3 waves of ice, dealing 142 damage each. Damaged enemies are Chilled.

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Type: Spell Damage, Debuff

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0 + 0.1 seconds

Range: 7.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.5

Initial delay: 0.75 seconds

Wave interval: 1.25 seconds

E

Cone of Cold

40 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Deal 220 damage and Chill targets.

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Type: Spell Damage, Debuff

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius: 7.0

Arc: 45 degrees

R

Ring of Frost

70 Mana Cooldown: 70 seconds

After a 1.5 second delay, create a Ring of Frost in an area that deals 310 damage and Roots enemies for 3 seconds. The ring persists for 3 seconds afterward, Chilling any enemies who touch it.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control, Debuff

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Root

Cast time: 0 + 0.1 seconds

Range: 9.0

Area of Effect: Ring

Radius:
- Inner: 2.6
- Outer: 4.5

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• Enemies within the inner radius are not affected in any way.

R

Summon Water Elemental

60 Mana Cooldown: 60 seconds

Summons a Water Elemental at target location. The Water Elemental's Basic Attacks deal 62 damage, splash for 25% damage and Chill. The Ability can be reactivated to retarget the Water Elemental. Lasts 20 seconds.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: 0 + 0.25 seconds

Range: 8.0

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Water Elemental

Type: Mobile

Scaling: 4.00% (damage & Health)

Targeting: Retargetable

Health: 958

Basic Attack damage: 62

Attack speed: 1.00

Attack range: 5.5

Movement Speed: 5.2

Sight radius: 7.0

Leash radius: 15

Unit radius: 0.375

Splash radius: 2.0

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• Water Elemental's Basic Attacks and Abilities on Chilled targets benefit from the damage bonus and their damage generates quest progress for Frostbite.
• Splash damage reduction stacks multiplicatively with other offensive damage modifiers.

1

Improved Ice Block

Cooldown: 40 / 0.5 seconds

Activate to place Jaina in Stasis and gain Invulnerability for 2.5 seconds. When this effect expires, nearby enemies are Chilled.

Quest requirements must be completed before activating.

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Type: Status effect / Debuff

Affects: Self / Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect (debuff), Stasis (self)

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

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• Can be reactivated after 0.5 seconds to end the effect early.
• Manually exiting Improved Ice Block also causes AoE Chill to be applied.

Talents

1

Winter's Reach

Increases the range and travel speed of Frostbolt by 30%.

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Bonus range: 3.0

Bonus missile speed: 4.5

Bonus hitbox height: 0.4

Lingering Chill

Increases the duration of Chill from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.

Fingers of Frost

❢ Quest: Gather Regeneration Globes to increase Jaina's Mana Regeneration by 0.1 per second, up to 2 per second.

❢ Reward: After gathering 20 Globes, the damage bonus from Frostbite is increased by 10%.

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Type: Bonus Mana Regeneration / Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Self / Ability

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• Stacks additively with baseline Frostbite damage bonus.

4

Frost Shards

Frostbolt will now pierce the first two targets.

Arcane Intellect

Dealing damage to a Chilled target returns Mana to Jaina. Basic Attacks return 5 Mana and Abilities return 20.

Passive: While above 75% Mana, Jaina gains 10% Spell Power.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing Modifier, Mana

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Power

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• Spell Power stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Jaina's Spell Damage or healing output.

Frost Armor

Enemies that attack Jaina are Chilled. Additionally, every 10 seconds, Jaina gains 75 Physical Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing the damage taken by 75%.

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Type: Debuff, Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Block, Physical Armor

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

7

Ice Lance

Hitting a Chilled target with Frostbolt reduces its cooldown by 1.5 seconds and restores 10 Mana.

Ice Floes

Increase the width of Cone of Cold by 100%, and cause each Hero hit to reduce its cooldown by 2 seconds, doubled against Chilled Heroes, up to a maximum of 8 seconds per use.

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Bonus arc: 45 degrees

Icefury Wand

Basic Attacks against Chilled enemies deal 50% more damage and lower the cooldown of Blizzard by 1.25 seconds. Doubled against enemy Heroes.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Does not affect Water Elemental's Basic Attacks.
• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Jaina's Basic Attack damage.

10

Ring of Frost

Cooldown: 70 seconds
After a 1.5 second delay, create a Ring of Frost in an area that deals 310 damage and Roots enemies for 3 seconds. The ring persists for 3 seconds afterward, Chilling any enemies who touch it.

Summon Water Elemental

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Summons a Water Elemental at target location. The Water Elemental's Basic Attacks deal 62 damage, splash for 25% damage and Chill. The Ability can be reactivated to retarget the Water Elemental. Lasts 20 seconds.

13

Storm Front

Increases the cast range of Blizzard by 75% and its radius by 30%.

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Bonus range: 5.25

Bonus radius: 0.75

Ice Barrier

Gain a Shield for 25% of Spell Damage dealt to Chilled targets. The Shield lasts 4 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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• All damage dealt by Water Elemental contributes to the Shield.
• Shields gained can stack indefinitely and every instance refreshes the duration.
• Shield amount is calculated from final damage dealt after all modifications.

Icy Veins

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to make Jaina's Basic Abilities' cooldowns recharge 200% faster and reduce their Mana cost by 50% for 5 seconds.

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Affects: Basic Abilities

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

16

Snowstorm

The damage of the second wave of Blizzard is increased by 50%. The damage of the third wave is increased by 100%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Damage bonus is immediately reset if Jaina recasts Blizzard (even for the first Blizzard). Re-casting Blizzard before the first finishes can happen if Jaina takes both Icefury Wand and Icy Veins, or with one of those Talents in conjunction with cooldown reduction effects from other allies, such as Nano Boost, Innervate, or Blessing of the Bronze.
• Does not stack with itself. Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Blizzard's damage.

Northern Exposure

Enemies damaged by Cone of Cold have their Armor lowered by 25 for 2 seconds, increasing the damage they take by 25%.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Armor reduction

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• Does not reduce the Armor of Structures.
• Does not stack with itself or other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Numbing Blast

Cone of Cold Roots Chilled targets for 1 second.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Root

20

Cold Snap

The center area of Ring of Frost deals 310 damage and Roots enemies after the outer ring expires. Each enemy Hero hit reduces its cooldown by 15 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd Control, Debuff

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Root

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.6

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• Center of the ring explodes 0.5 seconds after the outer ring expires.

Wintermute

Increases the cast range of Water Elemental by 50%, and the Water Elemental will now mimic Jaina's Basic Abilities for 50% damage.

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Bonus range: 4.0

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• Abilities used by Water Elemental benefit from all of Jaina's Talents except Arcane Intellect, Snowstorm, and Ice Floes.
• Frostbolt and Cone of Cold mimicked by Water Elemental are cast after Jaina finishes her cast animation.
• Blizzard mimicked by Water Elemental is cast after all 3 waves of Jaina's Blizzard have fallen. Elemental casts Blizzard to the exact same area as Jaina regardless of distance.
• Wintermute's damage reduction stacks multiplicatively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting Abilities cast by Water Elemental.

Ice Blink

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to teleport a short distance and Chill all nearby enemies.

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Type: Debuff / Movement: Teleport

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Range: 4.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

Deep Chill

Frostbite's Chill can now stack a second time, Slowing targets up to 40%.

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• Does not stack with other Slow effects.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Jaina Guide

Jaina Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Jaina Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Jaina Skins
Archmage
Backstory: Once the apprentice of the Archmage Antonidas, Jaina Proudmoore led the survivors of Lordaeron to Kalimdor and founded the city of Theramore. Now, she serves the Alliance as a powerful voice fighting for reason and diplomacy.
500 / 4,000 Archmage	Free Azure	Free Verdant	120 / 75 Saffron
Arcanist (tier 1 mage set)
Backstory: First worn by the great champions who ventured into the Molten Core to defeat Ragnaros, the Arcanist Regalia has become a symbol of mages who have mastered the Arcane.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft tier sets skins.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Midnight	120 / 75 Scarlet
Dreadlord
Backstory: Even Arthas could not defeat the heroes of the Nexus alone. Kel'Thuzad would need to break their ranks, make them question who can they trust... but how long can he trust a Dreadlord?
Features: Replaced voice-over, themed animations, themed abilities.
750 / 1,600	750 / 1,600 Blighted	750 / 1,600 Unholy	750 / 1,600 Abyssal	750 / 1,600 Saronite
Tempest Regalia
Backstory: The Tempest Regalia's origins have been lost to time, but rumor has it Tydormu of the Bronze Dragonflight may impart its secrets... for the right price.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft tier sets skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Maroon	160 / 100 Nightborne
Theramore
Backstory: The destruction of Theramore shook Jaina to her core. Garrosh and his horde had enough opportunities for peace. She would never be so naive again
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft Post-change skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Emerald	160 / 100 Ruby	160 / 100 Midnight	160 / 100 Citrine
160 / 100 Sorceress

Jaina Event Skins
Lunar
Backstory: In recent years, all of Azeroth has celebrated the yearly Lunar Festival in honor of their elders. Jaina is no exception. In times when the future is uncertain, it's important to honor the past.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Eclipse	350 / 400 Photon	350 / 400 Jade
Winter Veil
Backstory: The weather outside is frightful. Although, to be fair, Jaina has been casting Blizzard a LOT out there.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Aurora	350 / 400 Noir

Portraits

Jaina Portraits
Archmage Jaina75 / 40	Carbot Jaina120 / 75	Devious Dreadlord Jaina75 / 40	Dreadlord Jaina75 / 40	Good Witch Jaina75 / 40	Grand Admiral Jaina75 / 40	Hearthstone Jaina75 / 40
Illustrated Dreadlord Jaina75 / 40	Jaina Hero	Jaina Mastery	Lil' Lunar Jaina75 / 40	Nostalgic Winter Veil Jaina75 / 40	Pachimari Jaina75 / 40	Toon Dreadlord Jaina75 / 40
Toon Lunar Jaina75 / 40	Toon Winter Veil Jaina75 / 40

Sprays

Jaina Sprays
Carbot Jaina120 / 75	Cartoon Jaina75 / 40	Feast-ival Jaina120 / 75	Lunar Jaina Lantern120 / 75	Nostalgic Winter Veil Jaina75 / 40	Pachimari Jaina75 / 40	Puppet Jaina75 / 40
R.I.P. Jaina75 / 40

Emojis

Jaina Pack 1			Jaina Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Jaina Happy	:jainahappy: :jaihappy:		Jaina Angry	:jainaangry: :jaiangry:
	Jaina ROFL	:jainalol: :jainarofl: :jailol: :jairofl:		Jaina Cool	:jainacool: :jaicool:
	Jaina Sad	:jainasad: :jaisad:		Jaina Embarrassed	:jainaoops: :jainaembarrassed: :jaioops: :jaiembarrassed:
	Jaina Silly	:jainasilly: :jaisilly:		Jaina in Love	:jainalove: :jainainlove: :jailove: :jaiinlove:
	Jaina Speechless	:jainameh: :jainaspeechless: :jaimeh: :jaispeechless:		Jaina Surprised	:jainawow: :jainasurprised: :jaiwow: :jaisurprised:

Dreadlord Jaina Pack 1			Dreadlord Jaina Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Dreadlord Jaina Happy	:jainahappy: :jaidbhappy:		Dreadlord Jaina Angry	:jainaangry: :jaidbangry:
	Dreadlord Jaina ROFL	:jainalol: :jainarofl: :jaidblol: :jaidbrofl:		Dreadlord Jaina Cool	:jainacool: :jaidbcool:
	Dreadlord Jaina Sad	:jainasad: :jaidbsad:		Dreadlord Jaina Embarrassed	:jainaoops: :jainaembarrassed: :jaidboops: :jaidbembarrassed:
	Dreadlord Jaina Silly	:jainasilly: :jaidbsilly:		Dreadlord Jaina in Love	:jainalove: :jainainlove: :jaidblove: :jaidbinlove:
	Dreadlord Jaina Speechless	:jainameh: :jainaspeechless: :jaidbmeh: :jaidbspeechless:		Dreadlord Jaina Surprised	:jainawow: :jainasurprised: :jaidbwow: :jaidbsurprised:

Quotes

Main articles: Jaina/Quotes, Jaina/Quotes/Dreadlord, Jaina/Quotes/Theramore

Trivia

• Jaina was mentioned in Day of the Dragon (February 2001 novel), and made her first appearance in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (July 2002 game).
  • Her first book debut nearly three and a half years later, in Cycle of Hatred (February 2006),
• Jaina is voiced by Laura Bailey. In Warcraft III, she was voiced by Carrie Gordon Lowrey.
• Jaina was one of the heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2014.
• When it came to including Jaina, the art team looked at her Warcraft III version, then combined elements from her World of Warcraft form.
• One of Jaina's gag quotes is a reference to Raven from Teen Titans (July 2003), who uses the incantation "Azarath Metrion Zinthos".
• Jaina's gag quote "Do you believe in magic in young girl's heart? Because you're encased in ice, so you probably should start" is a reference to The Lovin' Spoonful song "Do You Believe in Magic".
• Jaina's gag quote "I put a spell on you because you're mine" is a reference to the song "I Put a Spell on You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
• Jaina's gag quote "Let's just be clear, these aren't magic tricks, they are illusions, tricks are something you do during Hollow's End for candy" is a reference to a Gob Bluth quote from the TV show Arrested Development (November 2003).
• Whenever Jaina kills a Jaina from the opposing team, she will say "The cold never bothered me anyway" which is taken from the song "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen (November 2013).
  • One of her gag quotes also refers to the movie. "By the way, if you're holding on for a Frozen reference, just let it go... Oh no, what have I done?!"
• Jaina's old level 16 talent, Snow Crash, was a reference to the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
• Jaina's level 20 talent, Wintermute, is a reference to the AI Wintermute in William Gibson's book Neuromancer (July 1984).
• A popular fan theory around the time of Mists of Pandaria claimed that Jaina had been replaced by a Dreadlord, due to her sudden personality shift. While this has been proven false, it's referenced several times in Heroes of the Storm:
  • Searching for "Dreadlord" in the shop will bring up Jaina.
  • The entire Dreadlord Jaina skin is an homage to the theory, and references it directly in a few quotes.
  • When you're playing Jaina with the Jaina announcer selected, she can accuse you of being a Dreadlord imposter.
  • While using the Theramore Jaina skin, you will automatically default to using Dreadlord Jaina's emojis if they're unlocked instead of Jaina's regular emojis. Theramore Jaina is based on Jaina after her personality change.

Gallery

General

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  Jaina's artwork

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  Jaina, shown at BlizzCon 2013

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  Jaina wearing the Tempest Regalia

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  Jaina helps Arthas and Uther destroy a tower.

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  Jaina, Tyrande, and Valla defend a town against Azmodan's army.

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  Jaina, shown at BlizzCon 2014

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  Jaina concept art

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  Master Jaina concept art

Abilities

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  Q: Frostbolt

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  W: Blizzard

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  E: Cone of Cold

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  R1: Summon Water Elemental

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  R2: Ring of Frost

External links

• Jaina Hero Week
• Jaina - Heroes of the Storm
• Jaina Proudmoore - Wowpedia
• Jaina Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Jaina Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm