Murky

Murky
Basic Info
Title	Baby Murloc
Role	Melee Assassin
Difficulty	Hard
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	625 / 7,000
Release Date	May 22, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	730
Health Regen	29.1992
Resource	None
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	1.25
Attack Range	1.2
Attack Damage	60
Data Page

Murky, the Baby Murloc, is a Melee Assassin Hero from the Warcraft universe.

Murky slimes enemies and spits out Pufferfish. Murky can place an Egg to respawn quickly back into battle.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

The origins and history of the murloc race are shrouded in mystery. A large part of this is because their lore is passed down via their own oral tradition, which is almost incomprehensible to most other sentient races, but also because murlocs generally have very little tolerance for other races. Murlocs often congregate in heavily populated coastal settlements, and are more than willing to assist each other when threatened. While many have debated on their intelligence, there is reason to believe that their use of weaponry and uncanny fighting abilities may actually imply that they possess a rather sinister racial intellect.

Like the enigmatic origins of the murloc race, Murky's past is also veiled in a variety unanswered questions. Who is he? Where does he come from? He dies again and again, and yet each time, returns to life from his egg. Stranger yet, when he emerges, he looks and sounds precisely the same. Does he possess unspeakable powers? Could he be immortal?

The world may never know.

Gameplay

Murky is a Melee Assassin who excels at frustrating his opponents.Uniquely designed, he is adept at attracting the attention of enemy players, causing them to behave inefficiently to respond to his abrasive presence. Even if his Health and damage values are limited, his Hero Trait, Spawn Egg, makes it so that he is never away from battle for long when killed. Another important aspect of Spawn Egg to consider is the fact that Murky's revival timer is of only 8 seconds at all stages of the game. Early on, this advantage is mediocre; later in the game, it is outstanding.

Strengths

• Good waveclear
• Strong revival mechanic
• Very threatening late-game presence

Weaknesses

• Extremely fragile
• Inept at carrying Map Objectives, which are dropped on death
• Several conditions may limit his damage potential
• Underwhelming early-game
• Distinct playstyle to which your team must adapt

Abilities

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

D

Spawn Egg

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Place an Egg at target location, revealing the nearby area. Upon dying, Murky respawns at the Egg after 8 seconds. Murky only grants 25% of a real Hero's experience upon dying.

If Murky's Egg is killed, he is revealed to enemies for 15 seconds, and Spawn Egg is placed on cooldown.

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Type: Summon / Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Revealed

Cast time: 1.5 (ch) + 0 seconds

Range: 1.0

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Respawn Egg

Type: Passive

Scaling: 4.00390625% (Health)

Health: 420

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: -

Unit radius: 0.5

Sight radius: 6.0

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• Minions, Mercenaries and Monsters do not attack the Egg.
• Enemy Structures can attack the Egg, dealing normal damage to it.
• Egg remains killed until Murky places a new one.
• Every time Murky respawns in the Hall of Storms (due to dying without an active Egg) a new Egg is automatically spawned in Hall of Storms as well.

Q

Slime

Cooldown: 4 seconds

Deal 86 damage and apply Slime on nearby enemies for 6 seconds, Slowing them by 20%.

Deal 210 damage to enemies who are already Slimed.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00390625%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

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• Subsequent applications refresh Slimed duration.

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Pufferfish

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Spit out a Pufferfish with 225 Health at the target point. After 3 seconds, the fish will blow up for 410 damage. Deals 50% less damage to Structures.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 7.0

Flight time: 0.75 seconds

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Pufferfish

Type: Passive

Scaling: 5.4925002655% (Health)

Health: 225

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: -

Unit radius: 0.125

Sight radius: 3.0

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Explode

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00390625%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.5

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• The three-second detonation timer starts after Pufferfish has landed.
• Self-casting Pufferfish causes the projectile phase to be omitted, leaving the Pufferfish at Murky's current location and instantly initiating the detonation timer.
• Enemies can kill the Pufferfish to prevent it from exploding.
• Pufferfish cannot be hit by skillshots.
• The Pufferfish can be targeted and attacked by enemy Structures.
• Minions, Mercenaries and Monsters do not attack Pufferfish.
• Damage reduction to Structures stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Pufferfish's damage.

E

Safety Bubble

Cooldown: 14 seconds

Becomes Invulnerable for 2 seconds. While active, Murky cannot attack or use Abilities.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Invulnerable

Cast time: Instant

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• Safety Bubble cannot be manually canceled.

R

March of the Murlocs

Cooldown: 110 seconds

After 0.75 seconds, Murky commands a legion of Murlocs to march in a target direction, each one leaping onto the first enemy Hero or Structure they find. Each Murloc deals 125 damage and Slows its target by 15% for 5 seconds. Murlocs deal 50% damage to Structures.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00390625%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Channeled cast (stationary), Damage over Time, Skillshot, Slow

Cast time: 0.75 + 0.75 seconds

Radius: 0.5 (hitbox)

Width: 16

Height: 20

Missile speed: 5

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

Damage per tick: 25

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• Interrupting the Ability during its cast puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
• Summons a total of 36 Invulnerable Murlocs over 6.75 seconds.
• Murlocs spawn in one of 10 possible locations every 0.1875 seconds.
• Each Murloc sticking to a target applies new instances of DoT and Slow that tick separately. New applications do not refresh the duration of pre-existing Slow and DoTs.
• Slow stacks additively up to 5 times with itself, but not with other sources of Slows.
• Damage reduction to Structures stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect March of the Murlocs's damage.

R

Octo-Grab

Cooldown: 50 seconds

Murky becomes Unstoppable and Stuns target enemy Hero for 3 seconds while he hits them for 1 damage a second.

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

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Stationary channel, Stun, Unstoppable

Cast time: 0.1 + CH + 0 seconds

Range: 6.0

Missile speed: 22

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• The cast is interrupted if the target moves more than 2 units past its maximum cast range.

Talents

1

Fish Eye

Egg's Health is increased by 100%, its sight radius is increased by 300% and it can see Stealthed enemies.

Passive: Spawning from his Egg increases Murky's Mount Speed to 45% for 5 seconds.

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Type: Status effect / Bonus Health

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies / Respawn Egg

Properties: Revealed

Bonus vision radius: 18

Egg Hunt

Cooldown: 3 seconds
Active: Activate to place a fake Egg. If the fake Egg dies, it casts an untalented Slime. Maximum 3 fake Eggs.

Passive: Spawning from his Egg grants Murky Stealth for 5 seconds.

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Type: Summon / Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Stealth

Cast time: 1.5 + 0

Range: 1.0

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Fake Egg

Type: Passive

Scaling: 4.00390625% (Health)

Health: 324

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: -

Sight radius: 5.0

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• Minions, Mercenaries and Monsters do not attack fake Eggs.
• Enemy Structures can attack fake Eggs, instantly killing them.

A Fishy Deal

Active: Killing a Minion with Pufferfish grants a stack of Bribe. Use 8 stacks to bribe a Mercenary, instantly defeating them. Does not work on Elite Mercenaries.

Maximum of 32 stacks.

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Type: Instant kill

Affects: Neutral non-Elite Mercenaries

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Bribe

Cast time: Instant

Range: 6.0

4

Slime Time

❢ Quest: Slime enemy Heroes who are already Slimed.

❢ Reward: After Sliming 10 Heroes, increase Slime's bonus damage by 125.

❢ Reward: After Sliming 20 Heroes, increase Slime's Slow amount to 30%.

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Type: Bonus damage, Crowd control

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Tufferfish

Pufferfish gains 50 Spell Armor and deals 50% more damage to Slimed targets.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

Properties: Spell Armor

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting Pufferfish's damage.
• Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Living The Dream

❢ Quest: Every 15 seconds Murky is alive, he gains 5% Spell Power, up to 25%. This bonus is reset upon his death.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Only grants increased Spell Damage, as opposed to Spell Power.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers.

7

Black Lagoon

Increase Slime's radius by 30%.

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Bonus radius: 0.9

Slippery When Wet

Gain 50% Movement Speed and move through units while in Safety Bubble. Reduce the cooldown of Safety Bubble by 2 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

Time to Krill

Basic Attacks against Heroes deal an additional 7 damage a second and Slow the target by 7% for 4 seconds. This effect can stack up to 5 times.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00390625%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier (Heroes), Damage over Time, Slow

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• Each stack of DoT ticks separately. Basic Attacks on already affected targets refresh the duration of existing DoTs and apply another instance of DoT.
• Slow stacks additively with itself and its duration is refreshed with each Basic Attack. Does not stack with other sources of Slows.

10

March of the Murlocs

Cooldown: 110 seconds
After 0.75 seconds, Murky commands a legion of Murlocs to march in a target direction, each one leaping onto the first enemy Hero or Structure they find. Each Murloc deals 125 damage and Slows its target by 15% for 5 seconds. Murlocs deal 50% damage to Structures.

Octo-Grab

Cooldown: 50 seconds
Murky becomes Unstoppable and Stuns target enemy Hero for 3 seconds while he hits them for 1 damage a second.

13

Rejuvenating Bubble

Safety Bubble restores 40% of Murky's maximum Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Heal over Time

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

Healing per tick: 10%

Egg Shell

Spawning from his Egg grants Murky a Shield equal to 100% of his maximum Health. The Shield lasts indefinitely.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Fish Tank

Murky is healed for 25% of the damage he deals with Basic Attacks and Basic Abilities.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Lifesteal

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• Does not benefit from Egg Hunt's Slime and bonus damage from Wrath of Cod.
• If an enemy Murky without this Talent but with Time to Krill attacks a Murky with this Talent, the enemy Murky will heal from the Time to Krill DoT.

16

Toxic Buildup

Every 3rd consecutive Basic Attack against an enemy Hero causes a free Slime to be cast upon them.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00390625%%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier (Heroes)

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• Toxic Buildup's Slime has the same properties as baseline Slime and interacts with all talents affecting Slime.
• Attacks while Murky is Blinded or the target is Evading will progress through the 3-step cycle as if they had hit, except that the free Slime will not trigger (progress toward this Talent wasted).

Fish Oil

The Pufferfish casts Slime at its location upon landing.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00390625%

Affects: Enemies

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• Fish Oil's Slime has the same properties as baseline Slime and interacts with all talents affecting Slime.

Wrath of Cod

Heroes hit by Pufferfish take additional damage equal to 15% of their maximum Health over 5 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Damage over Time, Percent Damage

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

Damage per tick: 3%

20

Never-Ending Murlocs

March of the Murlocs can be channeled, sending little Murlocs indefinitely.

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Properties: Stationary channel

... And A Shark Too!

Increase the damage of Octo-Grab by 13,700%.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: 4.00390625%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

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• Increases Octograb's base damage to 137.

Big Tuna Kahuna

Murky's maximum Health and Egg respawn time are doubled.

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Type: Bonus Health

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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• Also doubles the maximum Health bonus from Alexstrasza's Blessing of the Red.

Making Inky

Reduces the cooldown of Slime from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Murky Guide

Murky Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Murky Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Murky Skins
Baby Murloc
Backstory: Mrgglglbrlg rmrmgllg mrggggm. Mrrglglgy, mgllglgl mgggrrmgl? MRGGGLGLLM! Mrrggllgggllggll mrrglrlg mrrg mrrg mrrrg.
625 / 7,000 Baby Murloc	Free Bioluminescent	Free Tropical	120 / 75 Clownfish
Funny Bunny
Backstory: Noblegarden is an important time of the year for the inhabitants of Bunny Island. Even murlocs celebrate the festivities, hiding their eggs in the most inconvenient spots possible.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Spring	350 / 400 Albino
Grunty
Backstory: Alright, fess up... Who put the murloc in that power armor? Sammy? We talked about this... Guys, this is real cute and all, but how the heck are we supposed to get him out of there?
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into StarCraft skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Fire-batty	350 / 400 Heavenly	525 / 600 Earthy
Landwalker
Backstory: Do you live on land? Would you be more comfortable in water? Well now, with Murky's new conch-filtration device, you can stay wet, AND smell like crustaceans! Win win!
120 / 75	120 / 75 Bluefish	120 / 75 Inky
Sir Murkalot
Backstory: Johanna's apprentice might be small, but he doesn't take any carp.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into Diablo skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Scarlet	350 / 400 Steel	350 / 400 Obsidian	350 / 400 Amber

Murky Event Skins
Garden Shambler
Backstory: For his first Hallow's End costume, Murky wanted to dress up as the scariest thing he could think of. So, he chose to be a garden shambler. Wouldn't you?
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Orchid	120 / 75 Tulip	120 / 75 Lilac	120 / 75 Hibiscus

Portraits

Murky Portraits
Carbot Murky120 / 75	Garden Shambler Murky75 / 40	Gingerbread Murky75 / 40	Grunty75 / 40	Keep it Simple 2017	Murky Hero	Murky Mastery
Plush Murky75 / 40	Recruit A Friend	Pachimari Murky75 / 40	Spooky Ghost Murky75 / 40

Sprays

Murky Sprays
Calavera de Murky120 / 75	Carbot Murky120 / 75	Delicious Fish Taco75 / 40	Garden Shambler Murky75 / 40	Gingerbread Murky120 / 75	Lil' Sea Devil75 / 40	Mosh Party!250 / 300
Murkshimi120 / 75	Murk-Island Punch75 / 40	Murky Pixel75 / 40	Old Timey Murky75 / 40	No Tadpoles Allowed120 / 75	Pachimari Murky75 / 40

Emojis

Murky Pack 1			Murky Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Murky Happy	:murkyhappy: :murhappy:		Murky Angry	:murkyangry: :murangry:
	Murky ROFL	:murkylol: :murkyrofl: :murlol: :murrofl:		Murky Cool	:murkycool: :murcool:
	Murky Sad	:murkysad: :mursad:		Murky Embarrassed	:murkyoops: :murkyembarrassed: :muroops: :murembarrassed:
	Murky Silly	:murkysilly: :mursilly:		Murky in Love	:murkylove: :murkyinlove: :murlove: :murinlove:
	Murky Speechless	:murkymeh: :murkyspeechless: :murmeh: :murspeechless:		Murky Surprised	:murkywow: :murkysurprised: :murwow: :mursurprised:

Development

According to Game Designer Kent-Erik Hagman the development of Murky revolved around the idea of Murlocs being a persistent, annoying force that just die a lot. Credit for the core idea does belong to Dustin Browder. The developers had been spinning their wheels for a while trying to come up with a cool hook for Murky when Dustin Browder suggested to try the "cartoon character" Murloc, for whom death doesn't mean anything. They decided the most straightforward approach would be for the Murky player to pick the respawn spot. They wanted to offer the most freedom for their players, and after talking with the art team, they gave them the idea of a Murloc Egg or Nest that Murky could respawn from. From there, it was just a lot of playtesting and reworking the numbers to get the egg to feel exciting and fun.

Trivia

• Murlocs first appeared in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (July 2002). A Murky pet was added to World of Warcraft in 2005, and Murky appears in World of Warcraft: Legion (August 2016).
• Murky is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
• Murky was one of the four heroes revealed at PAX East 2014.
• Murky originally lived in the coast of Feralas in Traveler (October 2016).
  • However, he was kidnapped by a band of thugs and held captive, but was later rescued by a pair of children and a wyvern the size of a giraffe.
• Many of the opening lines involving Murky are expressions of confusion at the murloc language. Even Malfurion mentions he has to brush up on it. Certain heroes, notably the telepathic protoss and the supernatural angels and demons, are able to understand what Murky is saying. The more noble of these (Tassadar, Zeratul, Fenix, Tyrael, and Auriel) react as either offended or scared of the little Murloc's bloodthirsty demeanor and desire for vengeance. Even Diablo is a little scared of him. On the other hand, Alarak actually likes the "little fish creature", and Malthael is flat out impressed to find someone who understands his "great work".

Gallery

General

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  Murky's artwork.

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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Murky, Samuro, Stitches, Sylvanas and Warfield.

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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Murky and various other heroes.

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  Grunty in the Eternal Conflict.

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  Murky attacks Diablo.

Abilities

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  Q: Slime.

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  W: Pufferfish.

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  E: Safety Bubble.

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  R1: March of the Murlocs.

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  R2: Octo-Grab.

External links

• Developer Insights: Clearing The Murky Waters
• Murky Hero Week
• Murky - Heroes of the Storm
• Murky - Wowpedia
• Murky Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Murky Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm