Mephisto

Mephisto
Basic Info
Title	Lord of Hatred
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	September 4, 2018
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1968
Health Regen	4.1015
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	1
Attack Range	4.5
Attack Damage	66
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Mephistos, the Lord of Hatred, is a Ranged Assassin hero from the Diablo franchise. He is said to the be most cunning among his brethren. Even while imprisoned in a soulstone, his vile influence corrupted the Zakarum and manipulated them into breaking the seal, giving him free reign to reunite the Prime Evils and enslave humanity. Now he enters the Nexus where all shall kneel before the Lord of Hatred!

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

Born from the seven heads of the great dragon Tathamet at the beginning of time, Mephisto is Lord Archdemon and Aspect of Hatred and one of Three Prime Evils and Seven Great Evils, alongside his younger brothers Baal and Diablo. He was known as the greatest tactician and most cunning of the seven Great Evils, unifying the Burning Hells as its true leader and manipulating both demon and mortal alike. Mephisto and his siblings waged a war against the Heavenly Host of the High Heavens that would last for all eternity until the Worldstone, the goal of their conflict, mysteriously disappeared and put the war on halt. In truth, the Worldstone was stolen by his renegade daughter, Lilith, and her lover angel, Inarius, to create the world of Sanctuary. Together with a group of like-minded renegade demons and angels who grew tired of the conflict, they fled the war and made Sanctuary their new home. The renegades mated and their offspring, unions of both demon and angel, would later become known as the nephalem. Terrified of their powers, Inarius used the Worldstone to weaken the nephalem with each generation. Their descendants eventually would turn into the mortal race of humans.

Thousands of years later, Mephisto learned of Sanctuary after humans summoned demons from the Burning Hells to Sanctuary, to learn their powers and use the demons to conquer the world. Sensing their partial demonic heritage, Mephisto planned to enslave the human race and use them as an army to tip the scales against the High Heavens in the Eternal Conflict. To achieve this, Mephisto created the cult of the Triune, masquerading himself as the benevolent Spirit of Love, Mephis, with Diablo being the Spirit of Determination, Dialon, and Baal being the Spirit of Creation, Bala. During the Sin War, the nephalem, Uldyssian and his fellow Edyrem, brought down the cult and its leaders, Mephisto's children, Lilith and Lucion. At the end of the Sin War, Sanctuary was discovered by the High Heavens, and Uldyssian sacrificed himself to prevent Sanctuary's destruction and removed the powers of the nephalem. Mephisto then met with the Angiris Council to sign an agreement, swearing that Sanctuary would stay neutral ground and to let humanity decide their own fate without any interference from either side. Shortly after, a truce between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells was reached.

Of course Mephisto never intended to uphold the agreement and kept working on his plan to invade Sanctuary and sway humanity to the Burning Hells' side. The Lesser Evils - Andariel, Duriel, Belial and Azmodan - who wanted to uphold the truce, however, grew sick and tired of Mephisto's schemes and led a rebellion that ended with the banishment of the Prime Evils to Sanctuary. As the Three Prime Evils appeared on Sanctuary, they were weak and roamed the world for forty years, spreading terror, destruction and hatred wherever they went. Eventually however, the Horadrim, a united order of mages created by Tyrael, hunted them down and imprisoned the Prime Evils within soulstones. Mephisto was the first to be captured and then taken to the city of Kurast, where the Zakarum church was entrusted with guarding him. However, this was part of Mephisto's plan. Within his prison, he worked to spread hatred and prejudice into the Zakarum faith, transforming the priesthood into his unwitting servants. Mephisto eventually sent Archbishop Lazarus to Khanduras to corrupt King Leoric and awaken Diablo, placing the pieces for all three brothers to return.

Freed from their prisons, the Dark Wanderer (possessed by Diablo) and Baal arrived at the temple of Zakarum and freed Mephisto from the soulstone. Diablo then returned to Hell to rally those still loyal to the Prime Evils, while Baal journeyed north to corrupt the Worldstone, to combine their forces into an army that would enslave all life on Sanctuary and burn the Heavens. Mephisto stayed at the temple, but was shortly after defeated by a group of mortals, amongst them Cassia and Xul, who were pursuing Diablo. Mephisto was returned to his prison, and his soulstone was then taken to the Hellforge, where it was destroyed, sending Mephisto's soul to the Black Abyss.

Gameplay

Mephisto is a highly aggressive Ranged Assassin who deals incredible sustained damage by reducing the cooldowns of his abilities when damaging enemies.

Strength

• AoE damage
• Strong against Crowd Control
• Sustain Damage

Weaknesses

• Low CC
• Burst Damage
• Melee

Abilities

Lord Of Hatred

Hitting enemy Heroes with Basic Abilities reduces Mephisto's Basic Ability cooldowns. Skull Missile and Shade of Mephisto grant 1.5 seconds of cooldown reduction per Hero hit, and Lightning Nova grants 0.3 seconds per Hero hit.

Q

Skull Missile

20 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

Conjure a skull that travels in the target direction after 0.625 seconds, dealing 127 damage to enemies hit and Slowing Heroes hit by 25% for 2 seconds.

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Type: Spell damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Skillshot, Slow

Cast time: 0 + 0.125 seconds

Range: 12.5

Hitbox: 2 x 1.8

Missile speed: 19

W

Lightning Nova

50 Mana Cooldown: 14 seconds

A ring of lightning appears around Mephisto for 2.5 seconds. Enemies within the ring take 43 damage every 0.25 seconds. Each time a cast of Lightning Nova hits a Hero, its damage is increased by 3%, up to 30%.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Ring

Radius:
- Inner: 4.5
- Outer: 5.25

Tickrate: 4.0 per second (x11)

Damage per tick: 45

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• Mephisto's 4.5 Basic Attack Range is the same as the Lightning Nova's inner radius, meaning that AA move puts him at the correct distance.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Lightning Nova's damage.

E

Shade of Mephisto

35 Mana Cooldown: 18 seconds

Teleport to a location, dealing 78 damage to nearby enemies and leaving behind a Shade of Mephisto at Mephisto's original location. After 2.5 seconds, Mephisto is teleported back to the Shade's location.

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Type: Spell damage / Movement: Teleport (primary cast)

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Self-castable

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 7.5

Radius: 2.5

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• Does not damage on return.
• The return always triggers regardless of any positive or negative status effects on Mephisto, with the exception of Stasis, which fully prevents relocation back to Shade's position.
• Teleporting back dismounts, interrupts mounting, hearthing and channeling objectives, but does not interrupt channeling Mephisto's heroic abilities or Warhead Junction's Nukes.

R

Consume Souls

80 Mana Cooldown: 120 seconds

Channel for 2.5 seconds, revealing all enemy Heroes. After the Channel completes, all enemy Heroes take 357 damage and are Slowed by 25% for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: No target

Properties: Revealed, Slow, Stationary channel

Cast time: 2.5 (ch)+ 0 seconds

Range: Global

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• Interrupting the cast puts the ability on full cooldown.

R

Durance of Hate

50 Mana Cooldown: 50 seconds

After 0.75 second, unleash a wave of evil spirits that Root the first enemy Hero hit for 2.5 seconds and deal 250 damage to them over the same duration.
Durance of Hate spreads outwards from its initial target, Rooting and damaging additional nearby enemy Heroes.

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Type: Spell damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Damage over Time, Root, Skillshot

Cast time: 1.0 + 0 seconds

Range: 15

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius:
- Initial: 0.25
- Final: 5.5 ⁽¹

Hitbox: 2.0 x 1.25

Missile speed: 22

Tickrate: 4.0 per second (x8)

Damage per tick: 25

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• ¹⁾ The area grows in increments of 0.5625 radius every 0.1875 seconds, reaching its maximum radius after 2.0625 seconds.
• Interrupting the ability during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
• If Mephisto teleports back with Shade of Mephisto during the cast time, the wave is unleashed in the direction of target point.
• Enemies that are immune to skillshots cannot be hit by the initial missile, but can be affected by the spreading area, as long as they are not also immune to AoE.

Talents

1

Unyielding Power

❢ Quest: Hit Heroes with Skull Missile.
❢ Reward: After hitting 20 Heroes, increase Skull Missile's damage by 100.
❢ Reward: After hitting 40 Heroes, Skull Missile gains an additional charge.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Charge cooldown: 1.0 seconds

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• Bonus damage is added to base damage and dealt in a single instance.

Furious Spark

Every 3rd hit from Lightning Nova against the same target deals 65 bonus damage and grants Mephisto 2 Mana.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

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• Bonus damage is dealth in an additional instance.
• Damage from Furious Spark does not benefit from Lightning Nova's innate damage multiplier nor create stacks for it.

Malicious Intent

Shade of Mephisto grants 25% Spell Power while active and for 2.5 seconds after ending.
If Mephisto hits enemy Heroes at least 18 times with his Basic Abilities while Shade of Mephisto is active, then increase the duration of the Spell Power bonus to 10 seconds after it ends.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Power

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• Does not stack with itself. Subsequent applications refresh the duration, if it is currently lower than 2.5 seconds.
• Spell Power stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Mephisto's Spell damage or healing output.

4

Hateful Mending

Skull Missile grants 10 Mana and heals Mephisto for 70% of the damage it deals to Heroes.

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Type: Healing, Mana

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Lifesteal

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• Mana restoration triggers for each enemy Hero Hit.

Static Barrier

At the end of its duration, Lightning Nova grants Mephisto a Shield equal to 40% of the damage it dealt to Heroes. Lasts 5 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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• Shield amount is calculated similarly to Lifesteal from final damage dealt.
• Bonus damage from Furious Spark, Static Field, Aminosity and secondary nova from Mimic all contribute to shield amount gained.
• Gaining a shield from Static Barrier while already having one causes them to stack and refreshes the duration.

Spite

Increase Regeneration Globe healing duration by 150%. Every tick of Regeneration Globe healing activates Lord of Hatred, reducing Basic Ability cooldowns by 1 second.

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• Makes Regeneration Globes tick additional 7 times, healing Mephisto for additional 12.6% of his maximum health and additional 9.5% of his maximum Mana over its duration.

7

Ghastly Armor

Shade of Mephisto grants 25 Armor while active and for 2.5 seconds after it ends.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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

Frost Storm

While Shade of Mephisto is active enemies who are hit by Lightning Nova are Slowed by 15% for 1 second and the Slow from Skull Missile is increased to 50%.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

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• Shade of Mephisto must be active the moment Lightning Nova or Skull Missile hit the target (not when ability is cast) to benefit from this talent.

Trickery

Shade of Mephisto grants 20% Movement Speed while active and for 2.5 seconds after it ends.
If Mephisto hits enemy Heroes at least 18 times with his Basic Abilities while Shade of Mephisto is active, then reset the cooldown of Shade of Mephisto.

10

Consume Souls

Cooldown: 120 seconds
Channel for 2.5 seconds, revealing all enemy Heroes. After the Channel completes, all enemy Heroes take 357 damage and are Slowed by 25% for 2.5 seconds.

Durance of Hate

Cooldown: 60 seconds
After 1 second, unleash a wave of evil spirits that Root the first enemy Hero hit for 2.5 seconds and deal 250 damage to them over the same duration.
Durance of Hate spreads outwards from its initial target, Rooting and damaging additional nearby enemy Heroes.

13

Abhorred Skull

Hitting a Hero with Skull Missile grants 25% Spell Power for 6 seconds. Skull Missile deals 40% more damage to Heroes under 50% Health.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing dealt modifier / Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self / Ability

Properties: Spell Power

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• Spell Power from Abhorred Skull does not stack with itself. Subsequent applications refresh the duration.
• Spell Power from Abhorred Skull stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Mephisto's Spell damage or healing output.
• Damage bonus against low-health Heroes stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Skull Missile's damage.

Hysteria

Lord of Hatred also reduces the cooldown of Mephisto's Heroic Ability. Mephisto is healed for 15% of his maximum Health and Mana when he casts his Heroic Ability.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Shard of Hate

Basic Attacks hit enemies near the primary target and activate Lord of Hatred, reducing Basic Ability cooldowns by 1 second per Hero hit.

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Type: Physical damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier, Splash

Splash radius: 3.5

16

Lightning Reaction

Skull Missile explodes on contact with Lightning Nova, dealing 138 damage to nearby enemies.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Radius: 3.0

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• Lightning Reaction can trigger multiple times on the same cast.

Static Field

When Lightning Nova's damage bonus reaches 30%, enemy Heroes within its radius take damage equal to 10% of their maximum Health.

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Type: Spell damage

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Percent damage

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• Bonus damage is dealt in an additional damage instance.

Animosity

Increase the duration of Lightning Nova by 1 second, Increases the maximum bonus damage of Nightning Nova from 30% to 42%.

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Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Splash attacks from Shard of Hate do not trigger Animosity.

20

Consumed by Hatred

Consume Souls deals bonus damage equal to 10% of the target's missing Health. If Consume Souls kills a Hero it will cast again 1 additional time.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Percent damage

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• The bonus damage amount is calculated before the main damage is dealt.
• Free cast does not require channeling.

Unspeakable Horror

Durance of Hate Silences enemies while they are Rooted and for 3 seconds after its Root expires.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Silence

Mimic

While both Shade of Mephisto and Lightning Nova are active, Lightning Nova also casts from the Shade's location.

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• Shade's Lightning Nova benefits from all talents affecting it.

Shade Lord

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Activate to swap locations with Shade of Mephisto and refresh its duration.
Passive: Shade of Mephisto benefits from all of Mephisto's level 7 Talents.

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Type: Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Skins

Mephisto Skins
Lord of Hatred
Backstory: Dul'Mephistos, the Lord of Hatred, is said to the be most cunning among his brethren. Even while imprisoned in a soulstone, his vile influence corrupted the Zakarum and manipulated them into breaking the seal, giving him free reign to reunite the Prime Evils and enslave humanity.
750 / 10,000 Lord of Hatred	Free Noxious	Free Hollow	120 / 75 Soulburn	120 / 75 Golden
Star Wraith
Backstory: The Eternal Empire is built upon conquest and servitude, but not all planets submit easily. Upon the Star Lord's command, the legion of Star Wraiths descend upon rebellious worlds leaving only scarred husks in their wake.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Superheroes vs. Eternal Empire skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Eternal	350 / 400 Cybernetic

Mephisto Event Skins
Tickle
Backstory: Hey everybody, it's your favorite buddy Tickle Mephisto! This funtime friend comes with a voice box that plays 5 pre-recorded messages from the hit cartoon! Awesome! WARNING: May develop an insatiable thirst for revenge if exposed to electricity.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of "Toys!".
900 / 1,800	900 / 1,800 Grumpy	900 / 1,800 Crazed	900 / 1,800 Shocking	900 / 1,800 Cuddly
900 / 1,800 Unlucky

Mounts

Mephisto Mounts
Rancorous Miasma
Free

Portraits

Mephisto Portraits
Carbot Mephisto120 / 75	Creepy Cuddler Mephisto75 / 40	Cute Tickle Mephisto	Mephisto Emblem75 / 40	Mephisto Hero	Mephisto Mastery	Scary Tickle Mephisto75 / 40
Sticker Tickle Mephisto75 / 40	Xenotech Mephisto75 / 40

Sprays

Mephisto Sprays
Carbot Mephisto120 / 75	Confident Tickle Mephisto Sticker75 / 40	Cool Tickle Mephisto Sticker75 / 40	Cute Tickle Mephisto	Cute Tickle Mephisto Sticker75 / 40	Eldest of the Plush Evils180 / 112	Sticker Mephisto Shower75 / 40
Vengeful Tickle Mephisto Sticker75 / 40

Emojis

Mephisto Pack 1			Mephisto Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Mephisto Happy	:mephistohappy: :mephhappy:		Mephisto Angry	:mephistoangry: :mephangry:
	Mephisto ROFL	:mephistolol: :mephistorofl: :mephlol: :mephrofl:		Mephisto Cool	:mephistocool: :mephcool:
	Mephisto Sad	:mephistosad: :mephsad:		Mephisto Embarrassed	:mephistooops: :mephistoembarrassed: :mephoops: :mephembarrassed:
	Mephisto Silly	:mephistosilly: :mephsilly:		Mephisto in Love	:mephistolove: :mephistoinlove: :mephlove: :mephinlove:
	Mephisto Speechless	:mephistomeh: :mephistospeechless: :mephmeh: :mephspeechless:		Mephisto Surprised	:mephistowow: :mephistosurprised: :mephwow: :mephsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Mephisto/Quotes

Trivia

• Mephisto made his debut in Diablo II (June 2000).
  • His book debut was eleven months later, in Legacy of Blood (May 2001).
• Mephisto is voiced by Paul Eiding in Diablo II and Heroes of the Storm.
• Mephisto is the seventeenth Diablo hero in the game.
  • He is also the second Prime Evil hero in the game, the first being Diablo.
• One of Mephisto's Quotes says he is still in the host body of Sankekur. The design used for him, however, seems to reflect the design of his true from The Book of Cain (December 2011).
• There were points in development where Mephisto could make enemy heroes hostile to each other.

Gallery

General

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  Mephisto's artwork

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  Mephisto Base Skin

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  Mephisto Basic Attack

Concept Art

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  Mephisto Concept Art by Luke Mancini

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  Toys II Mephisto concept

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  Toys II Mephisto concept

Teaser

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  1st Teaser

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  2nd Teaser

Abilities

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  Q: Skull Missile

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  W: Lightning Nova

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  E: Shade of Mephisto

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  R1: Consume Souls

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  R2: Durance of Hate

External links

• Mephisto - Heroes of the Storm
• Mephisto - Diablo Wiki
• In-Development: Mephisto and More! - Heroes of the Storm
• Mephisto Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Mephisto Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes