Uther Talents

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Silver Touch is a good Talent that provides additional range for your healing via Holy Light while also reducing their Mana cost. Pick this Talent when you feel like you will not get enough value from Hammer of the Lightbringer because the enemy team has too much crowd control to safely hit them with your Basic Attacks.

Wave of Light is a decent Quest-based Talent that improves Holy Radiance by reducing its cooldown and Mana cost. The duration increase to Devotion's Armor-increasing effect furthermore contributes to Uther's ability to help with survivability, especially if your team has another Healer.

Hammer of the Lightbringer is a strong Quest-based Talent that can punish melee Heroes. Under ideal circumstances, Hammer of the Lightbringer will provide more Mana than its two alternative Talents, on top of a hefty cooldown reduction to Hammer of Justice, particularly valuable when combined with some of the other Talents that improve Hammer of Justice.

When you have Divine Storm as Heroic Ability, you can chain your Stuns almost perfectly:

1. start with Hammer of Justice;
2. use Divine Storm when the previous Stun is almost over;
3. Basic Attack during the whole time to have a second Hammer of Justice available right after the Stun from Divine Storm ends.

Holy Shock opens up the possibility for Uther to deal a passable amount of burst damage at the cost of putting Holy Light on a short cooldown. This can be useful when your team's strategy involves bursting down one specific target.

An added benefit of this Talent is that it can trigger Devotion's effect on Uther himself at a relatively low Mana cost. The downside of the Talent, however, is that it is less than useful when you must use Holy Light to keep yourself or allies alive. In short, Holy Shock is a good choice when your team is the aggressor.

Pursuit of Justice provides Uther with a reliable Movement Speed increase, which helps make up for his otherwise inexistent mobility.

Holy Fire somewhat improves Uther's abysmal waveclear on top of providing him with a decent incentive to use Basic Attacks against Heroes.

One interesting aspect of the Talent is its ability to reveal Stealthed Heroes, turning them into valid targets for Hammer of Justice without the need of casting Holy Radiance.

Armor of Faith is a good Talent that punishes opponents for Stunning Uther himself by drastically reducing the cooldown of Holy Light. Unlike the alternative options available on this Tier, Armor of Faith cannot be used to help allied Heroes affected by enemy crowd control, reducing Uther's general utility but increasing his survivability.

Guardian of Ancient Kings is a good Talent that grants allied Heroes a very significant amount of Armor if you manage to heal them with Holy Light or Holy Radiance when they are affected by enemy crowd control. Remember that it only works with Stun, Root, and Silence.

Hand of Protection is a strong Talent that can be used to make any allied Hero other than Uther himself Unstoppable for 1 second, freeing them from any crowd control effect and allowing them to channel any Ability without risking to be interrupted.

While it has 30 seconds more cooldown than most cleanse effects (such as Intercession by Whitemane), you can reduce it by 30 seconds by using Basic Attacks for 6 seconds.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work in detail and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check them out on the Abilities and Strategy page.

Divine Shield is a strong but relatively-hard-to-use Heroic Ability that provides Movement Speed to an allied Hero and also make them Invulnerable for a few seconds, a buff that will basically make them Protected and Unstoppable at the same time.

Pick it when you want to help an allied Hero to make an aggressive play without the risk of being stopped and/or when you need a tool to save allied Heroes from certain death.

Divine Storm is a good and relatively-easy-to-use Heroic Ability that allows you to Stun for almost 2 seconds all enemies in a small area around you. Do not hesitate to use it on isolated enemy Heroes!

Choose it when you need to counter-engage and/or peel for your team, regardless of the Role you are covering in your team composition.

Blessed Champion has the potential of providing some incredible area of effect healing. This potential, however, hinges upon being able to reliably deliver Basic Attacks, which may be not always possible.

Pick this Talent when your team needs sustain healing, when the enemy team lacks burst damage to quickly get a kill.

Well Met provides a modest but reliable debuff that stacks with the Armor provided by Devotion in terms of damage reduction. The Slow is also useful as well when used with Hammer of the Lightbringer and Pursuit of Justice as they allow you to consistently maintain the debuff on your chosen target.

Spell Shield is a good Talent that provides Spell Armor for a few seconds when you take damage. You can toggle it on or off.

If you do not want to waste its cooldown when being hit by cheap damage, keep it off and only toggle it on when you expect to take burst damage. Since you cannot do this while under crowd control effects, you should also toggle it on right before becoming unable to act because of them because you will likely be hit by burst damage in that time window.

Even though it is a good Talent on its own, it is not advised to pick it because, by surviving longer thanks to the Spell Armor provided, Uther takes more time to die and thus to get value from Devotion.

Beacon of Light provides half value when Uther has high Health and full value when he is low on Health by respectively more than doubling and tripling the self healing coming from Holy Light, drastically increasing his survivability in prolonged team fights.

Tyr's Deliverance increases the damage and healing coming from Holy Radiance by 10% as flat value and by additional 10% for each Basic Attack done on enemy Heroes before casting it, stacking up to additional 70% healing when allowed to freely use Basic Attack.

We do not recommended this Talent as we find it too hard to get value from during most if not all games, especially if you consider that Benediction and Beacon of Light will give you similar value in short and long team fights respectively.

Benediction acts as a minor version of Rewind, allowing you to cast the same Ability twice in a row, on top of reducing this Ability's Mana Cost by 50.

Benediction is notable for allowing you to cast Hammer of Justice twice and therefore keep an enemy Hero Stunned for 2 seconds, value that can be made as high as 3.75 seconds by using Divine Storm together.

When used with Holy Light, Benediction allows you to bypass a large portion of the Ability's cooldown for a significant amount of single-target healing.

Benediction is particularly powerful when used with Holy Radiance and when the Divine Protection Talent has been learned to grant a massive amount of Armor to several Heroes, including yourself.

Bulwark of Light is a situational Talent that can be used for protecting several Heroes at once, something that is extremely strong as a defensive tool when playing against team compositions featuring a wombo combo.

Divine Hurricane simply increases the reliability of Divine Storm by allowing it to hit more targets. This increases Uther's effective threat range, and can be particularly surprising to unexpecting opponents. This Talent works well with combo-heavy teams that rely on quickly wrestling kills to gain an advantage.

Redemption is one of the best Talents in the game. The utility of being able to die, expending your opponent's time and resources, to then be able to use Eternal Vanguard's outstanding healing potential, to then revive near your team with a full Mana bar and a reasonable amount of Health simply cannot be overstated.

Remember to move your spirit to a safe location before Eternal Vanguard ends because clever opponents will quickly switch their attention to you if you happen to respawn near them. This effect has a cooldown of 3 minutes, so avoid wasting it and be careful not to die when it is not available.

Divine Protection is a subtle yet extremely impactful Talent that helps Uther with that which he is best at: mitigating burst damage. Being able gain and give 50 Amor on demand and for a longer duration simply cannot be overstated, especially when playing with another Healer in team.