For those who play Heroes of the Storm. You probably noticed the 3 candles that is on the blizzard launcher for HotS.

Everybody figured it was a tease for a new hero to enter the nexus. A lot of rumors and speculation were every where. Everybody from Bael to Deckard Cain was being thrown around. I myself was thinking it was going to be Leah. Or it was Blizzard trolling us and it was going to be another Overwatch character. Three claws for D.Va my ass blizzard.

With each passing day the candles went out. Today the final candle was extinguished.

How close were the speculations? Not even close at all. The next hero for HotS is going to be Malthael from the Diablo universe.

If you are not familar with Diablo lore. Malthael is the main villain in the Reaper of Souls expansion to Diablo 3 and he's something of a badass. The former Aspect of Wisdom abandoned heaven after the worldstone's destruction and decided that he, himself was going to do something about the corruption plaguing the land. So he became the "reaper of souls" and eliminated everything affected by the demonic corruption.

Judging by his kit in HotS. He's going to retain that "badassary" moniker. He has a lot of percentage based damage, which is going to be really good against tanks and high health heroes and he has a self heal which is going to make trading into him a very bad idea. 

You can read more about his kit right here. 

And as always, this is James with Game Fix. Game on everybody!   

EDIT: The Heroes of the Storm youtube page just updated. You can view the video below.