E.T.C.

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**Elite Tauren Chieftain** (E.T.C.), the Rock God, is a melee Tank Hero from the *Warcraft* universe. The Power of the Horde incarnated by brutal rhythms and blistering guitar riffs into the form of the most elite Tauren chieftain to ever headbang across the surface of Azeroth. Don't bother putting on socks. He's just going to rock them off anyways.

E.T.C. is a Tank who supplies his team with a good bit of utility.

## Background

 This section concerns content exclusive to the *Warcraft* universe.

Elite Tauren Chieftain (abbreviated as ETC) is an American band comprised of employees of Blizzard Entertainment. The band's virtual alter ego, **The Tauren Chieftains**, appear in *World of Warcraft* as a band comprised of members of the Horde, and retain the logo used by the Level 70 Elite incarnation of the real-life band. Their gimmick revolves around writing content that is based on mainly subjects related to the Warcraft universe, though they have more recently extended into StarCraft and Diablo lore as well. The band debuted in 2003 with their first song, "Power of the Horde", which was featured in the credits of *Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne*.

ETC, as he appears in Heroes of the Storm, is the mascot of that band.

## Abilities

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

Rockstar

Using a Basic Ability grants 20 Armor for 2 seconds. Heroic Abilities grant 60 Armor.

**Type:** Defensive damage modifier**Affects:** Self**Properties:** Armor

* When using *Mosh Pit*, Armor is granted after the initial channel finishes. Otherwise, the Armor is granted after casting the Ability is fully finished.
* Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Q
Powerslide
60 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds
Slide to a location, dealing 105 damage and Stunning enemies hit for 1.25 seconds.

**Type:** Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Dash**Scaling:** 4.00%**Affects:** Enemies / Self**Targeting:** Point target**Properties:** Clamping, Piercing Skillshot, Stun**Cast time:** 0.0625 + 0 seconds**Range:** 8.0**Hitbox:** 2.0 x 2.75**Missile speed:** 14.5

W
Face Melt
55 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds
Deals 68 damage to nearby enemies, knocking them back.

**Type:** Spell Damage, Crowd control**Scaling:** 4.00%**Affects:** Enemies**Targeting:** No target**Properties:** Area of Effect, Knockback**Cast time:** Instant**Area of Effect:** Circle**Radius:** 4.0**Knockback duration:** 0.25 seconds**Knockback speed:** 12

E
Guitar Solo
40 Mana Cooldown: 9 seconds
Regenerate 66 Health per second for 4 seconds.

**Type:** Healing**Scaling:** 4.00%**Affects:** Self**Targeting:** No target**Properties:** Heal over Time**Cast time:** Instant**Tickrate:** 1.0 per second

R
Mosh Pit
100 Mana Cooldown: 120 seconds
After 0.75 seconds, channel to Stun nearby enemies for 4 seconds.

**Type:** Crowd control**Affects:** Enemies**Targeting:** No target**Properties:** Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Stationary channel, Stun**Cast time:** 0.75 (ch) + CH + 0 seconds**Area of Effect:** Circle**Radius:** 4.0**Tickrate:** 8.0 per second (x32)

* Interrupting *Mosh Pit* during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.

R
Stage Dive
70 Mana Cooldown: 75 seconds
Leap to target location, landing after 2.75 seconds, dealing 330 damage to enemies in the area, and Slowing them by 50% for 4 seconds.

**Type:** Spell Damage, Crowd control / Status effect, Movement: Teleport**Scaling:** 4.00%**Affects:** Enemies / Self**Targeting:** Point target**Properties:** Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Slow, Pseudo-Stasis (self)**Cast time:** 1.25 + 0.25 seconds**Range:** Global**Area of Effect:** Circle**Radius:** 5.0**Impact delay:** 1.5 seconds

* Interrupting *Stage Dive* during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
* *Stace Dive* cannot be interrupted or prevented by Roots, unlike most other Movement Abilities.
* After successfully channeling, E.T.C is put in Stasis until landing. In addition to usual effects of Stasis, E.T.C is removed from ground plane (disjoints certain projectiles) and has no collision, but he does not receive the initial expanded debuff removal.
* A warning AoE appears for both teams when the Ability has been cast successfully.

## Talents

1

Guitar Hero
While Guitar Solo is active, E.T.C. heals for 60% of his damage dealt by Basic Attacks. Basic Attacks increase the duration of Guitar Solo by 0.5 seconds.

**Type:** Healing**Scaling:** -**Affects:** Self**Properties:** Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

Prog Rock
❢ Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe permanently increases the healing per second of Guitar Solo by 5, to a maximum of 100.

❢ Reward: After gathering 20 Regeneration Globes, Guitar Solo also heals nearby allied Heroes for 50 Health every second while it is active.

**Type:** Bonus Healing / Healing (reward)**Scaling:** - / 4.00%**Affects:** Ability / Allied Heroes**Properties:** Area of Effect**Area of Effect:** Circle**Radius:** 4.0**Tickrate:** 1.0 per second

Block Party
Rockstar gives allies a stack of Block, granting 75 Physical Armor against the next Hero Basic Attack for 8 seconds, reducing the damage taken by 75%. Maximum 2 stacks of Block.

**Type:** Defensive damage modifier**Affects:** Allied Heroes, Self**Properties:** Area of Effect, Armor, Block**Radius:** 4.4

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

4

Crowd Surfer
Allows Powerslide to travel over walls and terrain. If no enemies are hit, reduce the cooldown by 7 seconds and refund the Mana cost.

**Type:** Movement: Launch

Loud Speakers
Increases Face Melt range and knockback by 50%.

**Bonus radius:** 2.0**Bonus knockback speed:** 6.0

Speed Metal
Using a Basic or Heroic Ability also gives nearby allied Heroes 20% Movement Speed for 2.5 seconds.

**Type:** Status effect**Affects:** Allied Heroes, Self**Properties:** Area of Effect, Movement Speed**Radius:** 4.4

7

Pinball Wizard
Face Melt does 300% more damage to enemies recently affected by Powerslide.

**Type:** Spell Damage**Scaling:** 4.00%**Affects:** Enemies**Damage:** 272**Duration:** 2.0 seconds

* *Pinball Wizard* uses a separate damage value from *Face Melt*, causing the tooltip percentage to stack multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers.

Hammer-on
While Guitar Solo is active your Basic Attacks deal 35% more damage.

**Type:** Offensive damage modifier**Affects:** Self**Properties:** Attack Modifier

* Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers.

Echo Pedal
Using a Basic or Heroic Ability releases two pulses of 18 damage. This deals 200% bonus damage to Minions and Mercenaries. The first occurs instantly. The second occurs 2 seconds later.

**Type:** Spell Damage**Scaling:** 4.00%**Affects:** Enemies**Properties:** Area of Effect**Area of Effect:** Circle**Radius:** 4.0

* Pulses do not stack. The second pulse for one Ability will not occur if you use another Ability before it activates. Note that the second pulse will always occur right when the Armor from *Rockstar* expires, so the visual icon for this Trait in the bottom left may help time Abilities for waveclear.
* When using *Powerslide* or *Stage Dive*, the first pulse is fired upon reaching the end location. When using *Mosh Pit* the first pulse is fired right after the windup completes.
* Damage bonus to Minions and Mercenaries stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers.

10

Mosh Pit
Cooldown: 120 seconds
After 0.75 seconds, channel to Stun nearby enemies for 4 seconds.

Stage Dive
Cooldown: 75 seconds
Leap to target location, landing after 2.75 seconds, dealing 330 damage to enemies in the area, and Slowing them by 50% for 4 seconds.

13

Mic Check
Hitting at least 2 targets with Face Melt reduces its cooldown by 6 seconds.

Encore
Face Melt leaves an Amp behind, which will knock enemies away again 2 seconds later.

Passive: Enemy Heroes knocked back by Face Melt or the Amp reduce E.T.C.'s Heroic cooldown by 5%.

**Type:** Spell Damage, Crowd control**Scaling:** 4.00%**Affects:** Enemies**Properties:** Area of Effect, Knockback**Area of Effect:** Circle**Radius:** 4.0**Knockback duration:** 0.25 seconds**Knockback speed:** 12

* Secondary pulse does not interact with talents affecting *Face Melt*.

Face Smelt
Face Melt Slows enemies by 50% fading over 2 seconds.

**Type:** Crowd control**Affects:** Enemies**Properties:** Slow

16

Show Stopper
After using Powerslide, gain 35 Armor for 4 seconds, reducing all damage taken by 35%.

**Type:** Defensive damage modifier**Affects:** Self**Properties:** Armor

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

Aggressive Shredding
E.T.C.'s Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Guitar Solo by 0.75 seconds.

**Properties:** Attack Modifier

Imposing Presence
Cooldown: 20 seconds
**Active:**  Activate to Slow the Attack Speed by 50% and Movement Speed by 20% of nearby Heroes and Summons for 2.5 seconds.

Passive: Heroes and Summons that attack your Hero have their Attack Speed slowed by 20% for 2.5 seconds.

**Type:** Crowd control, Status effect**Affects:** Enemy Heroes & Summons**Targeting:** No target**Properties:** Area of Effect, Attack Slow, Slow**Cast time:** Instant**Area of Effect:** Circle**Radius:** 5.0

* Passive is not applied if the enemy Basic Attack misses due to being Blinded.
* Passive Attack Slow does not stack with itself, nor the active component.
* Passive and active Attack Slow stack additively with other effects that can affect the target Hero's Attack Speed.

20

Tour Bus
Mosh Pit refreshes the cooldown of Powerslide. E.T.C. can Powerslide during Mosh Pit, which also increases its duration by 2 seconds.

Crowd Pleaser
Stage Dive's impact area is 50% bigger, and its Slow is increased by 30%.

**Bonus radius:** 2.5

* Slow increase is additive.

Death Metal
Upon dying, a ghost uses Mosh Pit at E.T.C's location.

* The ghost's *Mosh Pit* activates immediately upon E.T.C.'s death with no windup. As the ghost is untargetable, it cannot be interrupted, moved or delayed through any means, and will channel with a normal range and full duration *Mosh Pit*.

Storm Shield
Cooldown: 45 seconds
**Active:**  Activate to give all nearby allied Heroes a Shield for 20% of their max Health for 3 seconds.

**Type:** Shield**Scaling:** -**Affects:** Allied Heroes, Self**Targeting:** No target**Properties:** Area of Effect**Cast time:** Instant**Radius:** 8.0

Bolt of the Storm
Cooldown: 70 seconds
**Active:**  Activate to teleport to a nearby location.

**Type:** Movement: Teleport**Affects:** Self**Targeting:** Point target**Properties:** Area of Effect, Clamping**Cast time:** Instant**Range:** 7.2

* If this Talent is chosen while E.T.C. is affected by certain Stasis effects including Stitches's *Gorge*, it becomes usable while channeling *Mosh Pit*.

## Builds and guides

**Icy Veins E.T.C. Guide**

**E.T.C. Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire**

**E.T.C. Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth**

## Trivia

* The tauren made their debut in *Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos* (July 2002).
* E.T.C. represents the Blizzard band Elite Tauren Chieftain. In earlier versions of *Heroes of the Storm*, L80ETC was present instead.
* E.T.C. is voiced by Jess Harnell.
* E.T.C. was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
* Many of E.T.C.'s quotes reference various rock and metal bands and their songs.
* The guitars E.T.C. carries on his back reference the deceased guitar legends Dimebag Darrell, guitarist of Pantera, and Randy Rhoads, guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne.
	+ E.T.C.'s pink goatee is also a reference to Dimebag Darrell.
* Black Metal E.T.C.'s face paint may be a reference to the rock band KISS, the black metal music genre, and/or the Grimtotem tauren.
* Glam Metal E.T.C. carries a guitar styled after one used by Prince.
* Guitar Solo's icon depicts a mashup of Prince's Love Symbol and the Horde's logo.
* One of E.T.C.'s old talents, Rolling Like a Stone, references the popular English rock band The Rolling Stones.
* Another one of his talents, Pinball Wizard, references a song by the popular English rock band The Who.

## Gallery

* E.T.C.'s artwork.
* E.T.C. (old model).
* Glamrock (old model).
* Pure Country (old model).
* The Blizzard DOTA models of E.T.C. and various other heroes.
* E.T.C. using Stage Dive.
* E.T.C. and Valla taking a mercenary camp.
* E.T.C. battles minions.
* Q: Powerslide.
* W: Face Melt.
* E: Guitar Solo.
* R1: Mosh Pit.
* R2: Stage Dive.

## References

1. ↑ 2013-11-09, BlizzCon 2013 – Heroes of the Storm – Concept Art and Screenshots. *Blizzplanet*, accessed on 2013-11-23
2. ↑ StarCraft Legacy staff. 2010-10-22. BlizzCon 2010 StarCraft II Custom Maps and Editor Panel. *StarCraft Legacy.* Accessed 2010-10-23.

## External links

* E.T.C. - Heroes of the Storm
* Elite Tauren Chieftain - Wowpedia
* E.T.C. Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
* E.T.C. Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm

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