Paragon patch v.43.3 brings Shadow’s Eve, buffs and nerfs

Paul Younger

Published: Oct 9, 2017 09:22 pm

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Epic has released the patch notes for Paragon v.43.3 and there’s quite a lot to digest when it comes to hero balancing. The patch also launches the annual Halloween event called Shadow’s Eve.

Paragon patch v.43.3 Notes

Shadows’ Eve Event
- Begins: 10/10/17 – Ends: 11/1/17
- Monolith’s visuals receive a spooky upgrade
- New event skins available:
  - Narbash
    - Bash-O’-Lantern
  - Wukong
    - Infernal Wukong
  - Yin
    - Crypt Goddess Yin
- Past skins returning to the store:
  - v.43.3
    - Lt. Belica
      - Spider Witch Belica
    - Murdock
      - Dock-O’-Lantern
  - v.43.4
    - Gideon
      - Mephisto Gideon
    - Grux
      - Franken-Grux
  - v.43.5
    - Khaimera
      - Sweet Dreams Khaimera
    - Sparrow
      - Feline Queen Sparrow
    - Twinblast
      - Skull-Bot TwinBlast
- Shadows’ Eve Chests
  - Chance to receive an exclusive event chest as a post match reward
  - May contain one of the following:
    - New Shadows’ Eve skin
    - Past Shadows’ Eve skin
    - One of three new banners:
      - Bash-O’-Lantern Banner
      - Infernal Wukong Banner
      - Crypt Goddess Yin Banner
    - Other rewards
      - Rep
      - Boosts
      - Crates
      - Keys
      - Mastery Tokens
- 25% discount on each of these spooky skins:
  - Silver Ghost Kwang
  - Death Mask Sevarog
  - Undertow Gideon
  - Biofreak Murdock
  - White Tiger Greystone
  - Grux Pelt Khaimera
- Additional store content added:
  - Fallen Standard Banner
  - Mesmerizing Dance Countess Emote

HEROES

Hero Adjustments and Bug Fixes
- General
  - Base Ability Defense for all heroes increased from 25 to 30
    - Except Steel, who remains at 10
- Aurora
  - Glacial Charge
    - Range reduced from 1200/1300/1400/1500 to 900/1000/1100/1200
  - Cryoseism
    - Cooldown increased from 130/110/90 to 140/125/110
    - Slow magnitude reduced from 250 to 150
  - General Balance
    - Basic Defense per level reduced from 2.2 to 1.9
    - Base Basic Defense reduced from 38.3 to 33.1
- Crunch
  - General Balance
    - Mana per level increased from 18 to 24
    - Mana regen per level increased from 0.06 to 0.08
- Dekker
  - Stasis Bomb
    - Base damage increased from 70/105/140/175 to 88/140/193/246
    - Power scaling increased from 1.25 to 1.88
  - Slow Bubble
    - Base damage increased from 88/140/193/246 to 105/164/222/281
    - Power scaling increased from 1.88 to 2.09
- Drongo
  - “Old Rusty”
    - Slow magnitude reduced from 175 to 125
- Feng Mao
  - Conversion Shield
    - Shield magnitude reduced from 100/175/250/325 to 75/150/225/300
  - Earth Shatter
    - Cooldown increased from 90/70/50 to 90/80/70
  - General Balance
    - Base Movespeed reduced from 740 to 700
    - Base health regen reduced from 1.14 to 1.09
    - Health regen per level reduced from 0.13 to 0.12
    - Attack damage per level reduced from 4.1 to 3.3
- Greystone
  - Polish and Bug Fixing
    - Unbroken Spirit’s regen will now allow Greystone to heal during his ultimate
- Grim.EXE
  - General Balance
    - Base attack damage increased from 54 to 56
    - Attack damage per level increased from 3.8 to 4.1
    - Health per level increased from 63.3 to 65.8
- Howitzer
  - Land Mine
    - Cooldown reduced from 16s to 13s
  - General Balance
    - Base health increased from 578 to 606
    - Health per level increased from 62.4 to 63.6
    - Base Health regen increased from 0.96 to 1.01
    - Health regen per level increased from 0.1 to 0.11
    - Base Basic Defense increased from 19.2 to 20.2
- Iggy & Scorch
  - General Balance
    - Basic defense per level reduced from 2.3 to 1.4
- Kallari
  - Shadow Dance
    - Health regen from increased 6/8/10/12 to 8/12/16/20
  - General Balance
    - Base health increased from 549 to 583
    - Base health regen increased from 0.91 to 0.97
- Kwang
  - Light of the Heavens
    - Cooldown increased from 8s to 10s
  - Judgement of the Heavens
    - Range reduced from 1650 to 1300
  - Fury of the Heavens
    - Cooldown increased from 85/75/65 to 110/95/80
  - General Balance
    - Attack speed per level reduced from 2.25 to 0.9
    - Health per level reduced from 78 to 74.1
    - Health regen per level reduced from 0.13 to 0.12
- Lt. Belica
  - Seismic Assault
    - Stun duration reduced from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2s to 0.5/1/1.5/2s
  - General Balance
    - Base health reduced from 601 to 583
  - Polish and Bug Fixing
    - Void Drones will be automatically destroyed if they are in range of an active enemy turret/core or ally turret/core
- Murdock
  - General Balance
    - Base health increased from 592 to 633
    - Health per level increased from 60.9 to 68.1
    - Base health regen increased from 0.99 to 1.06
    - Health regen per level increased from 0.1 to 0.11
    - Attack damage per level increased from 4.5 to 4.8
  - Polish and Bug Fixing
    - Corrected an issue that caused Murdock to lose his Hot Pursuit Passive
- Muriel
  - Consecrated Ground
    - Shield duration increased from 2.5 s to 3 s
    - Cooldown reduced from 10 s to 9 s
  - General Balance
    - Health per level reduced from 57.4 to 61.2
- Phase
  - Telekinetic Link
    - Cooldown reduced from 14 s to 12 s
  - Hyperflux
    - Attack speed bonus adjusted from 80 at all levels to 70/85/100
    - Mana regen bonus adjusted from 15 mana / s at all levels to 1500/3000/4500% mana regen
- Rampage
  - General Balance
    - Mana per level increased from 15 to 18
    - Mana regen per level increased from 0.05 to 0.06
    - Base health increased from 663 to 686
    - Base health regen increased from 1.1 to 1.14
- Revenant
  - General Balance
    - Base health increased from 610 to 633
    - Base health regen increased from 1.02 to 1.06
- Riktor
  - Riplash
    - Cooldown reduced from 14 s at all levels to 14/13/12/11
  - Skewer
    - Cooldown reduced from 105/90/75 to 60/45/30
- Serath
  - General Balance
    - Basic Defense per level reduced from 3.2 to 2.7
- Sevarog
  - Siphon
    - Damage increased from 82/105/129/152 to 94/117/140/164
  - General Balance
    - Base health increased from 671 to 702
    - Health per level increased from 68.6 to 73.8
    - Base health regen increased from 1.12 to 1.17
    - Health regen per level increased from 0.11 to 0.12
    - Base Basic Defense increased from 27.8 to 29.6
- Shinbi
  - Rushing Beat
    - Reduced delay between recast from 0.5 s to 0.1 s
  - Line Tempo
    - Mana cost reduced from 60/65/70/75 to 50/54/58/62
  - General Balance
    - Movespeed increased from 695 to 710
- Sparrow
  - Hail of Arrows
    - Cooldown reduced from 12 s to 10 s
  - Inner Fire
    - Duration increased from 3/5/7 s to 4/6/8 s
    - Side arrow damage adjusted from 50% at all levels to 50/58/66%
  - General Balance
    - Attack damage per level increased from 3 to 3.4
    - Base Basic Defense increased from 17.3 to 20.7
- Wraith
  - General Balance
    - Base health increased from 566 to 595
    - Base health regen increased from 0.94 to 0.99
- Wukong
  - General Balance
    - Health per level increased from 58.5 to 64
    - Attack damage per level increased from 2.8 to 3.4
    - Health regen per level increased from 0.1 to 0.11
- Yin
  - General Balance
    - Basic defense per level increased from 2 to 2.4
    - Base attack damage increased from 54 to 59
- Zinx
  - General Balance
    - Base health increased from 566 to 595
    - Health per level increased from 43.1 to 46.8
    - Base health regen increased from 0.94 to 0.99
    - Health regen per level increased from 0.07 to 0.08
    - Base Basic Defense increased from 19.2 to 21.1
    - Basic Defense per level increased from 1.2 to 1.3

CARDS

NOTE: All updates are based on Level 1 card values, but will affect cards of all levels

DEATH
- Awaken the Emeric
  - Now grants +140 Max Mana
- Numbing Rogue
  - No longer grants Power
  - Now grants +300 Max Health
  - Reduced attack speed aura from -25% to -20%
- Plague Lord Mallenk
  - Reduced Power from 17 to 10
  - Reduced radius from 1500 to 1200
  - Reduced movement speed slow from -120 to -100
- Vampiric Blade
  - Reduced Power from 15 to 12
KNOWLEDGE
- Atomic Soldier
  - Reduced Power from 17 to 15
- Black Ice Routine
  - Increased Max Mana from 15 to 140
- Cryo Agent
  - Reduced cooldown from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds
- O.P.D. Militia
  - Increased Power from 10 to 15
  - Reduced mana cost per shot from 25 to 20
- Shipyard Scavenger
  - Increased bonus gold for killing isolated targets from 350 to 450
- Static Trap
  - Can no longer can be placed on top of each other
  - Now deals 100 Ability Damage
  - Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 15 seconds
  - Reduced lifespan from 120 seconds to 90 seconds
  - Reduced mana cost from 50 to 25
  - Reduced activation delay from 1.25 seconds to 1.0 seconds
  - Reduced root duration from 2 seconds to 1.75 seconds
- Supply Sergeant
  - Now grants +25% Mana Regen
  - Reduced cooldown from 85 seconds to 75 seconds
- Wetware Virus
  - Increased Mana Regen from 56% to 100%
  - Increased duration from 5 seconds to 8 seconds
ORDER
- Domain of Stillness
  - Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds to 75 seconds
  - Now grants +60% Mana Regen
- Godmother Vigilant
  - Increased Max Health from 240 to 300
GROWTH
- Coursing Zephyr
  - Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds to 65 seconds
  - Increased attack speed from 17 to 21
- Growth Totem
  - Reduced Power per minute from 1.0 to 0.75
- Spry-kin
  - Increased Mana Regen from 72% to 100%
- Possessed Spry-Kin
  - Reduced Power from 10 to 8
- Unbroken Spirit
  - Reduced Power from 18 to 10
  - Reduced Ability Resistance from 36 to 30
  - Reduced Health Regen when stunned from 12% Max Health to 10% Max Health
- Vital Waters
  - Reduced increased healing from 15% to 10%
CHAOS
- Blitzrush
  - Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds
  - Reduced Attack Speed from 16 to 10
  - Now grants 5 Power
- Deathcrawler
  - Reduced cooldown from 8 seconds to 5 seconds
- Heavy Hitter
  - Reduced Power from 16 to 13
- Nitroboost
  - Reduced Power from 8 to 6
- Outlander Scout
  - Now grants 180 Max Health
- Shatter Golem
  - Reduced Power from 26 to 21
- Tireless Reaper
  - Increased % Mana Refunded from 20% to 25%

GEMS

Balance changes
- Quick Exit
  - Reduced movement speed increase from 300 to 225
- Reduced duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds

UI

Polish and Bug Fixing
- Fixed issue where players were unable to chat on PS4 with controller

LOOT CRATE UPDATE

Added
- Rare
  - Indigo Rising Flame Kwang
  - Candy Rising Flame Kwang
- Common
  - Sky Default Muriel
  - Topaz Default Muriel
Removed
- Topaz Factory Paint Gadget
- Lunar Factory Paint Gadget
- Onyx Warpaint Doomsday Steel
- Molten Warpaint Doomsday Steel

Paragon

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Paul Younger

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