Paragon v.38.3 brings masses of hero changes and updates

MAJOR FEATURES

• A new hero, Yin, has been released.
• Paragon Year One event has started.
• Chests are now available!
  • There are four tiers of chests: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond.
  • Chests can be opened on the Profile Overview page.
  • All Tributes have been converted to chests of an equivalent quality to the previous reward.
  • Victory Chests have been converted to Silver Chests.
• Daily Login Rewards have been added.
  • Check out our full blog on this feature, here.

MONOLITH

• Core Attacks will now be correctly rendered with Team Colored Visuals.
• Fixed an issue where players that re-joined a match were seeing every other player as invisible due to an issue with visibility.

AI

• Bots will consider some non-primary abilities while fighting jungle camps
• Improvement to bots’ positioning while using abilities, including some reaction if the target is not visible.
• Bots should favor targeting enemies rather than jungle or lane minions.
• Improvement to Bot position when retreating.

CARDS

• Weekly Card Pack
  • Seek and Destroy
  • Merciless
  • Bloodsoaked Armor
• Blight [Status Effect]
  • Reduced healing reduction from 75% to 40%.
  • Reduced duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.
• Ash of the Witch
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 6 CP
    • +12 Power
    • SLOW ON ABILITY HIT – Passive: Enemies hit by abilities are slowed by 150 move speed for 1 second.
• Divine Shield
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 8 CP
    • +60 Max Mana
    • +4 Ability Armor
    • SPELL BLOCK – Passive: Block an enemy ability. (45 second CD)
• Quenching Scales
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 4 CP
    • +50 Max Health
    • +30 Max Mana
    • MANA AURA – Passive: Grants 0.6 increased Mana Regen in a radius.
    • MAXED: TEAM HEAL – Active: Heal yourself and nearby allies for 225 health, granting 21 Basic Armor for 20 seconds. Cannot affect players more than once every 20 seconds. (80 second cooldown) [Mana Cost: 75]
• Toxi-Gel
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 6 CP
    • +100 Max Health
    • BURST CLEANSE – Passive: Taking 400 damage activates a self cleanse. Being out of combat for 5 seconds resets the counter. (2 second cooldown)
• Thermo-Bond
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 8 CP
    • +100 Max Health
    • +4 Ability Armor
    • DETERMINATION – Passive: Being hit by stuns, roots, and knockups grants a stack of health regen equal to 12% of your max health over 4 seconds.
• Stinger Boost
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 6 CP
    • +60 Max Mana
    • +11 Attack Speed
    • EMPOWER BASIC – Passive: After hitting an enemy hero with an ability, your next basic attack deals 50 + (20% of Power) bonus damage. Can only occur once every 1.5 seconds.
• Power Chord
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 6 CP
    • +6 Power
    • +5.5 Attack Speed
    • BLIGHT BASIC – Passive: Hitting an enemy with a basic attack applies Blight for 4 seconds.
• Thickblood
  • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
    • Cost: 4 CP
    • +12 Power
    • +30 Max Mana
    • BLIGHT ABILITY – Passive: Hitting an enemy with an ability applies Blight for 4 seconds.
• Nature’s Muse
  • Reduced cost from 7 CP to 6 CP.
  • Reduce mana cost from 150 to 100 mana.
• Tele-Blink
  • Reduced cost from 6 CP to 5 CP
  • Increased distance from 1000 to 1500.
• Stab Link
  • Increased distance from 1000 to 1500.
• Shockwave
  • Reduced cost from 6 CP to 5 CP.
• Plasma Channel
  • Reduced cost from 6 CP to 5 CP.
  • Increased shred per stack from 4 to 8.
• Bubble Tap
  • Reduced mana cost from 100 mana to 60 mana.
  • Removed Lifesteal stat.
  • Now grants +60 Max Mana and +4 Ability Armor.
• Bounty Stalker
  • Increased critical chance per stack from 4% to 6%.
  • Reduced max stack count from 10 to 7.
  • Increased stack duration from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
• Satori Cloak
  • Increased shred from 15% to 50%.
• Megavolt Pylon
  • Increased mana restored per nearby unit from 5 to 15.
• Dreadfeast Relic
  • Reduced cooldown from 120 seconds  to 30 seconds.
• Blinkshot
  • Removed Mana Regen stat.
  • Now grants +6 Power.

HEROES

• Heroes are now unlocked through daily logins.
  • If you are an existing player you will not be affected.

AURORA

• Base health reduced to 506 from 550
• Health per level gain reduced to 68 from 74
• Frozen Sword
  • Card Scaling reduced to 0.5 from 0.6
  • Base damage reduced to 58 from 59
  • Base damage per level reduced to 1 from 1.5
• Glacial Charge
  • Cooldown increased to 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 from 20 / 18 / 16 / 14
• Hoarfrost
  • Duration of effect reduced to 4 seconds from 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6
  • Root duration reduced to 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 seconds from 2 seconds at all levels.
  • Mana cost increased to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 from 50 / 55 / 60 / 65
• Cryoseism
  • Base damage reduced to 160 / 200 / 240 from 180 / 230 / 280
• Now deals varying shatter damage based on whether the shattering unit is a hero or not.
  • Hero shatter base damage increased to 56 / 86 / 116 from 40 / 62 / 84
  • Non-hero shatter base damage reduced to 28 / 43 / 58 from 40 / 62 / 84
  • Non-hero Card Scaling reduced to 0.1 from 0.2

CRUNCH

• Punch
  • Attack speed gain per level increased to 2.0 from 1.4
  • Base damage gain per level reduced to 0.8 from 1

FENG MAO

• Sweep
  • Attack speed gain per level increased to 1.5 from 1.26
• Earth Shatter
  • Base damage reduced to 260 / 350 / 440 from 300 / 400 / 500
• Card Scaling increased to 1.0 from 0.8
• Polish & Bug Fixing
  • Feng Mao’s feet now appear correctly in on the platform when viewing the hero under Profile.

THE FEY

• Harvest Nettles
  • Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds from 6 seconds.

GADGET

• Speed Gate
  • Movespeed increased to 125 at all levels from 35 / 50 / 65 / 80
  • Duration reduced to 1 second from 3.5 seconds
  • Cooldown adjusted to 22 / 18 / 14 / 10 from 22 / 19 / 16 / 13
• Tesla Dome
  • Cooldown increased to 110 / 95 / 80 from 110 / 90 / 70
  • Base damage (dealt over total duration) increased to 375 / 575 / 775 from 350 / 540 / 730
  • Damage application has been reworked:
    • Damage now scales over time, starting off smaller and ramping higher.
    • Damage increases by 75% for each tick.
    • The final tick hits very hard!
    • Damage from Tesla Dome now applies a micro slow.
  • Tooltips updated
• Polish & Bug Fixing
  • Fixed a bug where Gadget’s ult sometimes applied one less tick of damage than intended.

GRIM.EXE

• Mana gain per level increased to 33.6 from 28.8
• Pulse Cannon
  • Card Scaling increased to 0.92 from 0.85
• Suppression Mode
  • Suppression Mode slow now has an .8 second duration.

GRUX

• Double Pain
  • Card Scaling reduced to 0.6 from 0.7
• Smash & Grab
  • Card Scaling reduced to 0.3 from 0.4

HOWITZER

• Land Mine
  • Base damage reduced to 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 from 75 / 125 / 175 / 225
  • Card Scaling reduced to 0.5 from 0.625
  • Duration reduced to 3 seconds from 5 seconds
• Make it Rain
  • Cooldown increased to 105 / 90 / 75 from 90 / 70 / 50

IGGY & SCORCH

• Oil Slick
  • Move speed increased to 100 at all levels from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50
• Flame Turret
  • Base damage increased to 300 / 450 / 600 / 750 from 150 / 280 / 410 / 540

KALLARI

• Death Sentence
  • Cooldown reduced to 110 / 100 / 90 from 110 at all levels

KHAIMERA

• Ambush
  • Now grants 3 stacks of Spirit Regeneration on activation
• Cull
  • Now grants 6 stacks of Spirit Regeneration on activation

KWANG

• Light of the Heavens
  • Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12
• Fury of the Heavens
  • Cooldown adjusted to 85 / 75 / 65 from 85 / 70 / 55

MURIEL

• Serenity
  • Slow magnitude normalized to 200 / 250 / 300 / 350 from 175 / 245 / 315 / 385
• Reversal of Fortune
  • Reworked:
    • No longer stuns enemies or knocks them up in an area around Muriel.
    • Now applies a 400 slow over 2 seconds.
    • Can no longer be cast while airborne.
    • Player camera will now correctly return to its normal rotation after Reversal of Fortune ends.

RAMPAGE

• Boulder Throw
  • Reworked cast:
    • Now times out if the rock is held more than 5 seconds.
    • If Rampage manually cancels or times out the rock, he pays the mana cost, but the cooldown is not consumed.
    • Throwing the rock consumes mana and cooldown as normal.
    • Stun duration reduced to 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2  from 2 at all levels.
    • Now stuns minions for the same duration as heroes.

RIKTOR

• Mana gain per level increased to 45 from 36
• Riplash
  • Range increased to 1525 at all levels from 850/1188/1525/1525

SERATH

• Angelic Smite
  • Base damage increased to 58 from 55
  • Base damage gain per level increased to 1.8 from 1.6
• Attack speed gain per level to 2.2 from 0
• Base health increased to 522.5 from 475
• Health gain per level increased to 76.8 from 64
• Basic armor gain per level increased to 2.5 from 2

SHINBI

• All-Kill!
  • Base damage per wolf increased to 55 / 80 / 105 from 47 / 61 / 74
• Polish & Bug Fixing
  • Shinbi’s heart FX should now appear correctly in the frontend
  • Updated footstep sounds and increased volume

SPARROW

• Piercing Shot
  • Card Scaling reduced to 0.75 from 1.0
  • Base damage reduced to 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 from 80 / 140 / 200 / 260
  • Cooldown increased to 9 seconds from 8 seconds
• Inner Fire
  • Cooldown to 100 / 85 / 70 from 90 / 70 / 50

STEEL

• Bulwark
  • No longer occasionally blocks the pull of Grux’s Smash & Grab
• Force Shield
  • Force Shield builds and becomes active .5 seconds faster

TWINBLAST

• Grenade!
  • Base damage increased to 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 from 50 / 75 / 100 / 125
  • Card Scaling increased to 0.6 from 0.5
  • Projectile speed increased to 6000 from 3000
• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Grenade! targeting camera adjustments

YIN

• Added Wind Gauntlet Yin to in-game store.
• Added “Call the Shot” emote to in-game store.

UI

• Rewards for leveling up are now chests.
• Hero Levels
  • Tribute Rewards are now Silver Chests.
  • Master Tribute Rewards are now Diamond Chests.
• Account Levels
  • One chest is now rewarded at every level.
  • Existing unlocks remain (PvP, deck builder, etc.)
• Rarities Changed
  • Legendary
  • Epic
  • Rare
  • Uncommon
  • Common
• Some items changed rarities to fit system. This doesn’t affect your chance to get them.
• Fix for card ability text wrapping on deckbuilder tooltip screen.
• Fix for hard to read text on chest reward rarity screen.
• Loot Crate
  • Added
    • Banners added:
      • Dark Abomination (Legendary)
      • Gold Abomination (Legendary)
      • Iron Abomination (Legendary)
      • Glampoint (Epic)
      • Flamepoint (Epic)
      • Star Beacon (Epic)
      • Harbinger of Death (Epic)
      • Techpoint (Rare)
      • Terra Beacon (Rare)
      • Angel Crest (Rare)
      • Honor Crest (Rare)
      • Harbinger of Souls (Rare)
      • Shockpoint (Uncommon)
      • Checkpoint (Uncommon)