Maiev

Maiev
"None shall flee my grasp!"
Basic Info
Title	The Warden
Role	Melee Assassin
Difficulty	Hard
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	February 6, 2018
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2021
Health Regen	4.211
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	1.11
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	145
Data Page

Maiev Shadowsong, The Warden, is a Melee Assassin Hero from the Warcraft universe.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Maiev Shadowsong is a night elf Warden and former Priestess of Elune. Along with her younger brother Jarod Shadowsong, Maiev played a key role in the battle against the Burning Legion during the War of the Ancients. In the aftermath, Maiev asked to be, and was appointed the jailor of Illidan Stormrage and took on the mantle of leader of the Watchers. Maiev Shadowsong stood watch over the imprisoned Betrayer for ten thousand years, and hunted him relentlessly after he was released. After Illidan rose to power in Outland, Maiev was imprisoned at the Warden's Cage in Shadowmoon Valley, where Akama and his Ashtongue Deathsworn served as her jailors.

Maiev allied with Akama and snuck into to the Black Temple during a attack, where she joined Akama and the adventurers he had rallied in the final battle against Illidan. Fueled by the desire for vengeance, Maiev struck the final blow that ended the Betrayer's life, but instead of relishing in her victory, she became a shell of her former self, admitting that with Illidan now dead, she was nothing. Driven utterly mad, Maiev is now a vigilante who wishes death to any whom she believes have wronged her, including Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage and High-Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind.

Gameplay

Maiev is a Melee Assassin, who excels at dodging her enemies attacks and preventing their escape.

Strength

• Engagement
• Escape
• Multi-Hero Damage

Weaknesses

• Self-Sustain
• Single Target Damage

Abilities

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

Vault of the Wardens

Cooldown: 13 / 0.75 seconds

Leap into the air, becoming immune to all hostile effects for 0.75 seconds.

After reaching level 20, Vault of the Wardens gain an additional charge.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Protected, Unstoppable, Untargetable by AoE, Untargetable by Skillshots

Cast time: Instant

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• Maiev is able to move normally, but cannot attack or use her Abilities during Vault of the Wardens.
• Unit targeted Abilities can target and hit Maiev during Vault of the Wardens.
• Basic Attacks can target Maiev, but will miss on impact due to the Evasion provided by Protected status.

Q

Fan of Knives

30 Mana Cooldown: 4 seconds

Deal 152 damage to enemies in a crescent area.

Hitting at least 2 enemy Heroes with Fan of Knives reduces its cooldown to 0.5 seconds, and refunds its Mana cost.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point Target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: 0.1 + 0 seconds

Range: 7.25

Area of Effect: Crescent ⁽¹

Radius: 3.5

Offset: 1.8

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• ¹⁾ Crescent is created by overlapping two circles of the same radius. The one drawing the outer edge is centered on the target point and the inner one is offset toward Maiev.

W

Umbral Bind

55 Mana Cooldown: 14 seconds

Maiev's next Basic Attack cleaves and applies a tether to enemy Heroes hit for 2.5 seconds. If a tethered Hero moves too far from Maiev, they are pulled toward her, dealing 110 damage and breaking the tether.

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Type: Physical Damage (splash) / Spell Damage (pull), Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Enemy Heroes

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack Modifier, Primed, Pull, Splash, Stun

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius:
- Cleave: 4.25
- Tether: 5.125

Arc: 220 degrees (cleave)

Pull duration: 0.25 seconds

Pull speed: 35

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• Cleave damages all enemies, but only Heroes are tethered.
• Affected Heroes are always pulled a set distance upon the tether breaking, regardless of Maiev's position.
• Pulled Heroes are Stunned for 0.25 seconds after the pull ends.
• Cooldown starts once the Ability is triggered by attacking an enemy.
• Activating Umbral Bind immediately resets Maiev's Basic Attack cooldown.

E

Spirit of Vengeance

50 Mana Cooldown: 13 / 0.1 seconds

Send a shadow of Maiev outward that will return to its cast location, dealing 150 damage to enemies along both paths. If an enemy Hero is hit, reduce the cooldown by 4 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Movement: Teleport

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: 0.1 + 0 seconds

Range: 11

Hitbox: 3.0 x 1.5

Missile speed: 10.5

Reactivate: Blink - Teleport to the Spirit of Vengeance, consuming it.

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• Cooldown reduction can trigger only once per cast.

R

Containment Disc

50 Mana Cooldown: 40 seconds

Throw a glaive in the target direction. If an enemy Hero is hit, Containment Disc can be reactivated to remove their vision and Time Stop them for 4 seconds. Leaving containment Silences the enemy Hero for 1.5 seconds.

Containment Disc automatically activates 6 seconds after hitting a Hero.

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Type: Crowd control, Status effect

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Time Stop, Silence, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.1 + 0 seconds

Range: 11

Hitbox: 2.0 x 1.5

Missile speed: 13.5

Reactivate: Contain - Activate to remove the target's vision and Time Stop them for 4 seconds.

R

Warden's Cage

80 Mana Cooldown: 100 seconds

Summon 8 Warden Avatars as a cage around Maiev. After 1.5 seconds, enemy Heroes that come in contact with an Avatar consume it and are knocked to the center of the cage.

Warden Avatars last 5 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: No target

Properties: Knockback

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.5

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• Warden avatars have no collision.
• Affected Heroes are pushed until they are within 0.1 range of the cage's center.

Talents

1

Bonds of Justice

❢ Quest: Each tether applied to a secondary target of Umbral Bind permanently increases Umbral Bind's pull damage by 15.

❢ Reward: After applying 5 tethers to secondary targets, increase Umbral Bind's pull damage by 75.

❢ Reward: After applying 10 tethers to secondary targets, increase Umbral Bind's cleave damage by 30%.

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Type: Bonus damage (pull) / Offensive damage modifier (cleave)

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Enemies

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• Cleave damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting Maiev's Basic Attack damage.

Pursuit of Vengeance

Each Hero tethered by Umbral Bind reduces the cooldown of Spirit of Vengeance by 2.5 seconds and each Hero hit by Spirit of Vengeance reduces the cooldown of Umbral Bind by 1 second.

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• Spirit of Vengeance triggers cooldown reduction on both paths for each Hero.

Naisha's Memento

Active: Activate to make primary Basic Attacks bounce between nearby enemies up to 2 times. Lasts 8 seconds.

Recharge Naisha's Memento by hitting at least 2 Heroes with a single Fan of Knives.

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Type: Physical Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack Modifier, Bounce

Cast time: Instant

Radius: 4.25 (bounce)

Missile speed: 18.75

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• Basic attacks empowered by Naisha's Memento will not bounce if Maiev is Blinded or if the primary target is Evading.
• Naisha's Memento can only bounce to visible enemies.
• Bounces prioritize Heroes, then the closest enemies.
• Attacks can bounce back to the initial target, but only if no other valid targets are within their range.

4

Pin Down

❢ Quest: Hit 3 enemy Heroes with a single Fan of Knives.

❢ Reward: Increase Fan of Knives's damage by 35%.

❢ Reward: Each additional time 3 enemy Heroes are hit by a single Fan of Knives, gain an additional 5% damage, up to 50%.

❢ Reward: Hit 4 enemy Heroes with a single Fan of Knives to instantly gain all Rewards.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Fan of Knives's damage.

Blade Dance

Using Fan of Knives deals 50 Physical Damage to enemies around Maiev.

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Type: Physical Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

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• Blade Dance's damage is dealt after all other immediate effects of Fan of Knives.

Sudden Vengeance

After Blinking with Spirit of Vengeance the shadow explodes, damaging all nearby enemy Heroes for 6% of their maximum Health.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Area of Effect, Percent Damage

Radius: 3.5

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• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance.

7

Elune's Wrath

Hitting at least 2 Heroes with a single Fan of Knives causes the next Fan of Knives to drop a star on targets that deals 77 damage when it impacts.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Delay: 0.4375 seconds ⁽¹

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• ¹⁾ Delay is increased by a random value from 0 to 0.1875 seconds.
• Elune's Wrath does not interact with talents specifically affecting Fan of Knives.

Bonds of Corruption

Enemy Heroes pulled by Umbral Bind have their Armor reduced by 15 and are Slowed by 25% for 3 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control, Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Armor reduction, Slow

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

Ruthless Spirit

Each enemy Hero hit by Spirit of Vengeance increases all of Maiev's damage by 15% for 4 seconds, stacking up to 30%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect damage from Maiev's Abilities, Talents and Basic Attacks.

10

Containment Disc

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Throw a glaive in the target direction. If an enemy Hero is hit, Containment Disc can be reactivated to remove their vision and Time Stop them for 4 seconds. Leaving containment Silences the enemy Hero for 1.5 seconds.

Containment Disc automatically activates 6 seconds after hitting a Hero.

Warden's Cage

Cooldown: 100 seconds
Summon 8 Warden Avatars as a cage around Maiev. After 1.5 seconds, enemy Heroes that come in contact with an Avatar consume it and are knocked to the center of the cage.

Warden Avatars last 5 seconds.

13

Bladed Armor

Each enemy Hero hit by Fan of Knives grants 5 Armor for 5 seconds, up to 20 Armor.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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• Stacks additively with itself, but not with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Chain Gang

Tethering at least 2 enemy Heroes with Umbral Bind grants 35 Armor for 4 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.

Shadow Armor

Blink grants 20 Armor for 3.5 seconds. Maiev's Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes refresh this duration.

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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.

16

Vengeful Knives

Dealing damage to enemy Heroes causes the next cast of Fan of Knives that hits enemy Heroes to deal 1% maximum Health as bonus damage, up to 5%.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Percent Damage

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• Effect triggers and consumes gathered stacks only when Fan of Knives hits an enemy Hero.
• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance. Regardless, Vengeful Knives does not grant double benefit for enemies hit by both the base and bonus damage. After Fan of Knives has been cast, Maiev gains stacks equal to the amount of enemy Heroes affected.
• Only damage from Maiev's Basic Attacks, Abilities or Talents grants stacks of Vengeful Knives.
• Basic Attacks grant progress even if they deal no damage due to Maiev being Blinded or the target Evading.
• Blade Dance does not give any progress for this Talent, if any enemy Heroes were hit with Fan of Knives in the same cast.

Cruel Chain

Umbral Bind grants 25% Movement Speed for 2.5 seconds. In addition, each time Maiev deals damage to tethered targets, Umbral Bind’s pull damage to all targets is increased by 30%, up to 150%.

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Type: Status effect / Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self / Ability

Properties: Movement Speed

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• Stacks are reset each cast.
• Only damage from Maiev's attacks, Abilities or Talents grants stacks of Cruel Chain.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Umbral Bind's pull damage.

Armored Assault

While Maiev has Armor of any kind, all Physical Damage dealt is increased by 25%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Maiev's total Physical or Spell Armor has to be above 0 to trigger the effect.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Physical Damage from Maiev's Abilities, Talents and Basic Attacks.

20

Shadow Orb: Vengeance

Active: Activate to reset the cooldown of Spirit of Vengeance.

Recharge Shadow Orb by damaging enemy Heroes with Spirit of Vengeance 5 times.

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Type: Active

Affects: Ability

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Shadow Orb: Huntress

Active: Activate to increase Movement Speed and Attack Speed by 40% for 5 seconds.

Recharge Shadow Orb by dealing Physical Damage to enemy Heroes 10 times.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack Speed, Movement Speed

Cast time: Instant

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• Attack Speed bonus stacks additively with other effects that can affect Maiev's Attack Speed.

Shadow Orb: Shadow Strike

Active: Activate to deal 75 damage to an enemy Hero, Slowing them by 30% and reducing their Armor by 20 for 4 seconds.

Recharge Shadow Orb by dealing Spell Damage to enemy Heroes 10 times.

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Type: Spell Damage, Defensive damage modifier, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Armor reduction, Slow

Cast time: 0.1 + 0 seconds

Range: 6.0

Missile speed: 21

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• Damage from Shadow Orb: Shadow Strike itself grants one stack toward its recharge counter.
• Bonus damage instances from Vengeful Knives do grant recharge progress.
• Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Maiev Guide

Maiev Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Maiev Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Maiev Skins
The Warden
Backstory: Maiev Shadowsong stood watch over the imprisoned Betrayer for ten thousand years, and hunted him relentlessly after he was released. Some say she's determined; others say she's obsessed. Either way, she will stop at nothing to ensure the security of her world.
750 / 10,000 The Warden	Free Watcher	Free Ivory	120 / 75 Darnassian	120 / 75 Dusk
Hellwarden
Backstory: Demonic "justice" is cruel and sadistic. The Hellwardens who serve Andariel understand that inflicting physical pain upon their prisoners is not enough. True anguish comes from torturing the mind and soul.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into Diablo skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Dreadwarden	350 / 400 Plaguewarden	350 / 400 Hordewarden	350 / 400 Bonewarden
High Priestess
Backstory: When she learned of Malfurion's betrayal, High Priestess Maiev Shadowsong amassed an unprecedented army to oppose her former beloved's fel magic.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
350 / 600	350 / 600 Woodland	350 / 600 Twilight

Maiev Event Skins
Spider Warden
Backstory: Deep in the underbelly of the Raven Tower lies a prison filled with traitors and miscreants brought to justice by the Spider Warden. Now, at the Raven Lord's behest, she hunts down the Heroes summoned to protect King's Crest.
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Fall of King's Crest.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Forgotten	350 / 400 Night

Portraits

Maiev Portraits
Carbot Maiev120 / 75	Maiev Emblem75 / 40	Maiev Hero	Maiev Mastery	Spider Warden Maiev	Toon Spider Warden Maiev75 / 40

Sprays

Maiev Sprays
Carbot Maiev120 / 75	Cute Maiev75 / 40	Cute Spider Warden Maiev75 / 40	Darnassian Idol75 / 40	Shadowsong's Owl75 / 40	Spider Warden Maiev	Umbra Crescent75 / 40

Emojis

Maiev Pack 1			Maiev Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Maiev Happy	:maievhappy:		Maiev Angry	:maievangry:
	Maiev ROFL	:maievlol: :maievrofl:		Maiev Cool	:maievcool: :cool:
	Maiev Sad	:maievsad: :sad:		Maiev Embarrassed	:maievoops: :maievembarrassed:
	Maiev Silly	:maievsilly: :silly:		Maiev in Love	:maievlove: :maievinlove:
	Maiev Speechless	:maievmeh: :maievspeechless:		Maiev Surprised	:maievwow: :maievsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Maiev/Quotes

Trivia

• Maiev made her debut in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (July 2003).
  • Her book debut was two years later, in The Sundering (July 2005).
• Maiev has been listed as a possible hero for Heroes of the Storm since 2011. In January 2018, she was teased on the Heroes of the Storm official Twitter page twice before the final third tweet on the 25th that revealed her.
• Her ability Vault of the Wardens is a reference to the Warden's Prison where they keep major threats locked up and sealed with magical wards.
• Maiev's level 1 Talent Naisha's Memento references Naisha, the Warden's lieutenant who was murdered by Illidan Stormrage in the Tomb of Sargeras during the Warcraft III campaign.
• Maiev's level 20 Talents are a reference to Gul'dan's Shadow Orb. It was a shattered artifact that a player could reassemble after finding its shards in the Tomb of Sargeras during the Warcraft III campaign.
• Maiev is voiced by Debi Mae West.
• One of Maiev's gag quotes references owls delivering notes and letters in the Harry Potter series of books and movies (June 1997).
• One of Maiev's animations featured prominently in her introduction video appears to be partially inspired by the dance art 'buugeng'.

Gallery

General

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  Maiev's artwork

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  Maiev home screen

Teaser gifs

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  1st teaser

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  2nd teaser

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  Final Reveal

Concept Art

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  Maiev concept art

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  Hellwarden Maiev concept art

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  Spider Warden Maiev concept art

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  Spider Warden iterations

Abilities

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  Q: Fan of Knives

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  W: Umbral Bind

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  E: Spirit of Vengeance

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  R1: Containment Disc

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  R2: Warden's Cage

External links

• Maiev - Heroes of the Storm
• Maiev Shadowsong - Wowpedia
• Maiev Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Maiev Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm