Uther

Uther
"The Light abandons no man."
Basic Info
Title	The Lightbringer
Role	Healer
Difficulty	Easy
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	500 / 4,000
Release Date	March 13, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	1975
Health Regen	4.1093
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	1
Attack Range	1
Attack Damage	75
Data Page

Uther the Lightbringer is a melee Healer Hero from the Warcraft universe. The first paladin and founder of the Order of the Silver Hand, Uther is a faithful servant of the Light. Dispensing justice with the swing of his hammer, Uther is a bastion of truth and an unflinching symbol of the Alliance.

Uther is a Healer who can negate high bursts of damage.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

The sobriquet "Lightbringer" is not softly won, nor softly maintained beyond death. The legend of noble Uther guides the Alliance years after his passing.

Many devout followers of the Light were killed during the First War, unprepared for the sheer brutality of warfare against the Horde. The leader of the Clerics of Northshire, Alonsus Faol, believed that the Light could protect the faithful and devoted, and thus began training the most virtuous knights of Lordaeron to wield the Light in battle.

The first knight to be named a paladin was Uther, who helped found the Knights of the Silver Hand alongside Archbishop Faol and became a legend among his order. When the Second War began, Uther fought alongside his brother-in-arms, Turalyon, to fend off the forces of Horde commander Orgrim Doomhammer and lead the Alliance in a final, successful attack on the Dark Portal. In the wake of the Horde's defeat, Uther helped rebuild Stormwind City and cared for the sick and injured.

Uther remained in a leadership role with the Silver Hand for years, eventually taking Lordaeron's prince, Arthas Menethil, as his apprentice. The two forged a close relationship as teacher and student, and together they enforced justice throughout the land... until the Scourge struck Lordaeron. Arthas's growing anger at the spreading plague of undeath led him to horrific acts—such as the culling of Stratholme—and his thirst for vengeance drove him to madness. After the prince became a champion of the Lich King and killed his own father, Uther decided to personally guard the urn of the slain king. Arthas and Uther fought in Andorhal, and when the battle ended, the legendary paladin lay dead.

Today, followers of the Light pay their respects to Uther at Stormwind's cathedral, where a statue of the revered paladin was built. A dedicated few trek to his tomb in the Western Plaguelands, where the Lightbringer's memory is an unyielding gleam in a land of death.

Abilities

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

Devotion

Uther's Basic Abilities grant 25 Armor to allied Heroes, and 15 to Uther, for 2 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Armor

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

Eternal Vanguard

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Upon dying, Uther becomes an Invulnerable spirit for up to 8 seconds. While in spirit form, Uther can heal allies with Flash of Light.

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Type: Special death state

Affects: Self

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• Eternal Vanguard can pass through enemy gates.

Q

Holy Light

80 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Heal target ally for 362 Health. When used on a target other than Uther, also heal Uther for 181 Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.0

Q

Flash of Light

Cooldown: 1.5 seconds

Heal an ally for 242 Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allies

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.0

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• Flash of Light applies Devotion.
• Flash of Light is a separate ability from Holy Light and thus does not interact with any talents affecting it.

W

Holy Radiance

55 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Heal allied Heroes and Minions in a line for 194 Health, dealing 177 damage to enemies.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00% (both)

Affects: Enemies / Allied Heroes & Minions, Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Piercing Skillshot

Cast time: 0.15 + 0 seconds

Range: 10

Hitbox: 2.5 x 2.5

Missile speed: 20

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• Also hits Uther.

E

Hammer of Justice

40 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Deal 109 damage and Stun the target for 1 second.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Non-Structure enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Stun

Cast time: 0.15 + 0 seconds

Range: 3.0

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• Cast is interrupted without putting the ability on cooldown if the target moves more than 1.5 units past its maximum range.
• Unstoppable enemies can be targeted, but they will only be damaged upon being hit by Hammer of Justice.

R

Divine Shield

80 Mana Cooldown: 90 seconds

Make an allied Hero Invulnerable and increase their Movement Speed by 20% for 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Invulnerable, Movement speed

Cast time: 0 + 0.3 seconds

Range: 10

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Divine Storm

80 Mana Cooldown: 80 seconds

Deal 170 damage and Stun nearby enemies for 1.75 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Stun

Cast time: 0.1 + 0.1 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

Talents

1

Silver Touch

❢ Quest: Reduce damage from Heroic sources with Devotion.

❢ Reward: After reducing damage 40 times, Holy Light's Mana cost is reduced from 80 to 60.

❢ Reward: After reducing damage 80 times, Holy Light's Mana cost is reduced to 40, and its range is increased by 50%.

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Bonus range: 3.5

Wave of Light

❢ Quest: Damage or heal Heroes 60 times with Holy Radiance.

❢ Reward: Increase the duration of Devotion by 0.5 seconds.

Passive: Damaging or healing Heroes with Holy Radiance refunds 5 Mana and reduces its cooldown by 0.75 seconds.

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Type: Mana restoration

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Hammer of the Lightbringer

❢ Quest: Basic Attack enemies 75 times.

❢ Reward: Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Hammer of Justice by 1.5 seconds.

Passive: Basic Attacks restore 1.5% of Uther's maximum Mana.

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Type: Mana restoration, Cooldown reduction

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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Holy Shock

Holy Light can be used on an enemy to do 40% of its healing amount as damage. When used this way, Uther receives its self-healing benefits, its cooldown is reduced by 6 seconds, and it refunds 45 Mana.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Range: 10

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• Benefits from all talents affecting Holy Light.

Pursuit of Justice

Hammer of Justice increases Uther's Movement Speed by 25% for 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement speed

Holy Fire

Deal 13 damage per second to nearby enemies. Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes increase this damage by 20% for 3 seconds. This can stack up to 3 times.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Attack Modifier

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• Holy Fire is inactive while Mounted.
• Holy Fire does not affect unaggroed neutral Mercenaries.
• Damaging enemy Heroes with Holy Fire does not trigger tower aggro.
• Damage from Holy Fire is unaffected by external offensive damage modifiers and lifesteal effects. Damage bonus from itself stacks additively.

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Armor of Faith

Being Stunned, Rooted, or Silenced grants Uther 90 Mana and causes Holy Light's cooldown to recharge 200% faster for 6 seconds. This effect has a 20 second cooldown.

Guardian of Ancient Kings

Healing a Hero with a Basic Ability that is Stunned, Rooted, or Silenced grants them 50 Armor for 3 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Armor

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

Hand of Protection

Cooldown: 90 seconds
Activate to make target ally Unstoppable for 1 second. Cannot be cast on Uther. Basic Attacks reduce Hand of Protection's cooldown by 5 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Attack Modifier, Unstoppable

Cast time: Instant

Range: 10

10

Divine Shield

Cooldown: 90 seconds
Make an allied Hero Invulnerable and increase their Movement Speed by 20% for 3 seconds.

Divine Storm

Cooldown: 80 seconds
Deal 170 damage and stun nearby enemies for 1.75 seconds.

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Blessed Champion

For the next 5 seconds after using Holy Light, Uther's Basic Attacks heal him and nearby allies for 15% of the total amount healed by Holy Light.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Allies, Self

Properties: Area of Effect, Attack Modifier

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 6.5

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• Healing from Blessed Champion does not apply Devotion.
• The healing amount is calculated from the sum of Holy Light's allied and self-heal after modifications (bonuses and reductions). Healing past target's maximum Health does not count toward this amount.

Well Met

When used against Heroes, Hammer of Justice reduces the target's Movement Speed and damage dealt by 25% for 3 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Slow

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• Stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting the target's damage output.

Spell Shield

Every 30 seconds, gain 50 Spell Armor against the next enemy Ability and subsequent Abilities for 3 seconds, reducing the damage taken by 50%.

Can be toggled to allow or prevent this talent from triggering automatically.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target (toggle)

Properties: Spell Armor, Spell Shield

Toggle cooldown: 0.5 seconds

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Beacon of Light

Uther receives 125% more self-healing when targeting others with Holy Light. This bonus is increased to 250% while he is below 50% Health.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Beacon of Light will trigger whenever Uther himself is not the primary target of the cast, meaning that damaging enemies with Holy Shock also grants increased self-healing.
• Stacks additively with healing modifiers that affect self-healing dealt by Holy Light and multiplicatively with modifiers that affect healing received by Uther.

Tyr's Deliverance

Increase the damage and healing of Holy Radiance by 10%. Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes cause Uther’s next cast of Holy Radiance to have its damage and healing increased by an additional 10%, stacking up to 7 times.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier, Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

Properties: Area of Effect, Attack Modifier

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• Bonus from Basic Attack stacks up to 7 times, making the maximum bonus from the talent 80% with the base percentage.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Holy Radiance's damage.
• Healing bonus stacks additively with other healing dealt modifiers that can affect healing from Holy Radiance.

Benediction

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate to reduce the Mana cost of your next Basic Ability by 50 and its cooldown by 10 seconds.

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Type: Active

Targeting: No target

Properties: Primed

Cast time: Instant

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• Cooldown starts after the ability is triggered by casting a Basic Ability.

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Bulwark of Light

Divine Shield is also applied to all nearby allied Heroes and lasts 1 second longer.

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Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

Divine Hurricane

Divine Storm's radius is increased by 50% and its cooldown is reduced by 40 seconds.

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Bonus radius: 1.75

Redemption

After Eternal Devotion ends, Uther revives at the spirit's location with 50% of his maximum Health.

This effect has a 180 second cooldown.

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Type: Resurrection

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• If Redemption goes off cooldown when Uther is in Eternal Vanguard, it will trigger.

Divine Protection

Increase Devotion's Armor to 50 and its duration by 0.5 seconds.

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• Affects Armor bonuses for both allied Heroes and Uther.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Uther Guide

Uther Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Uther Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Uther Skins
The Lightbringer
Backstory: The first paladin and founder of the Order of the Silver Hand, Uther the Lightbringer is a faithful servant of the Light. Dispensing justice with the swing of his hammer, Uther is a bastion of truth and an unflinching symbol of the Alliance.
500 / 4,000 The Lightbringer	Free Silver Hand	Free Black Hand
Grand Marshal (PvP paladin set)
Backstory: It's common for the longest serving paladins in the Alliance to still wear their Grand Marshall's Aegis with pride. After all, it takes a lot of honorable kills to purchase that thing.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft tier sets skins.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Silver	120 / 75 Black
Judgment (tier 2 paladin set)
Backstory: Despite surviving Arthas's brutal assault, Uther was unable to prevent Lordaeron's fall. Now under Varian's banner he leads the Silver Hand into Northrend to mete out justice.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft tier sets skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Blessed	600 / 1,200 Penance
Lumberjack
Backstory: Arthur Light of British Columbia had barely sipped his coffee when he was dragged into a Nexus portal. Now, he fights alongside the greatest of heroes, hoping to find his way home.
160 / 100	160 / 100 River	160 / 100 Forest
Medic
Backstory: It is said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Medical Corps officer Uther Lightbringer tends to agree.
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 Dominion	350 / 400 Delta Squadron	525 / 600 Angelic
Sulfuron (tier 2 paladin set)
Backstory: With the Firelord extinguished, the mighty Sulfuras has found a new champion to wield its molten power. When the new Firelord arises, Uther intends to smite it with its own hammer.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft tier sets skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Felfuron

Portraits

Uther Portraits
Carbot Fountain120 / 112	Carbot Uther120 / 75	Hearthstone Uther75 / 40	Medic Uther75 / 40	Sepia Uther75 / 40	Uther Hero	Uther Mastery
Uther the Frightbringer75 / 40	Uther-O'-Lantern75 / 40

Sprays

Uther Sprays
Beachcomber75 / 40	Carbot Fountain120 / 112	Carbot Uther120 / 75	Uther-O'-Lantern75 / 40	Uther Pixel75 / 40	You're in Rough Space250 / 300

Emojis

Uther Pack 1			Uther Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Uther Happy	:utherhappy: :uthhappy:		Uther Angry	:utherangry: :uthangry:
	Uther ROFL	:utherlol: :utherrofl: :uthlol: :uthrofl:		Uther Cool	:uthercool: :uthcool:
	Uther Sad	:uthersad: :uthsad:		Uther Embarrassed	:utheroops: :utherembarrassed: :uthoops: :uthembarrassed:
	Uther Silly	:uthersilly: :uthsilly:		Uther in Love	:utherlove: :utherinlove: :uthlove: :uthinlove:
	Uther Speechless	:uthermeh: :utherspeechless: :uthmeh: :uthspeechless:		Uther Surprised	:utherwow: :uthersurprised: :uthwow: :uthsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Uther/Quotes

Trivia

• Uther first appeared in Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (December 1995).
  • His book debut was five years later, in Warcraft: Of Blood and Honor (January 2001).
• Uther is voiced by Michael McConnohie.
• Uther was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
• Uther was added to the game because the designers wanted a healing-orientated character ^{[citation needed]}.
• Uther is the first paladin hero in the game, the second being Yrel.
• All of Uther's basic abilities and ultimates share a name and at least some of their function with actual paladin abilities in World of Warcraft. Many, though not all, of his talents do as well.
  • Placeholder icons for his abilities and talents during the game's beta similarly came from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos or World of Warcraft before dedicated icons were later made for Uther's abilities and talents.

Gallery

General

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  Uther's artwork
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  Machines of War
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  Judgement Uther with the Judgement Charger
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  Uther skin concepts

Abilities

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  Q: Holy Light
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  W: Holy Radiance
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  E: Hammer of Justice
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  R1: Divine Shield
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  R2: Divine Storm

Prerelease

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  Uther (old model)
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  Lumberjack Uther (old model)
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  Medic Uther (old model)
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  Judgement Uther (old model)
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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Uther and various other heroes

External links

• Uther - Heroes of the Storm
• Uther the Lightbringer - Wowpedia
• Uther Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Uther Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm