Paragon’s v.43 patch notes – Updated Monolith releases Thursday

HEROES

HERO BALANCE & BUG FIXES

MAP

GAME MODE & ECONOMY

• Towers receive a  full visual rework
• Removed Amber Link
  • Replaced by the green buff camp.
  • Previous green buff camp location has been replaced with an additional white camp.
• Gold Drip
  • Increased passive gold drip per minute from 288 to 390.
  • Increased the speed at which drip is granted from 5 second intervals to 1 second intervals.
• Hero Kill Bounties
  • Increased base hero kill bounty from 455 gold to 550 gold.
  • Reduced hero kill bounty networth bonus from .01 to .006.
    • Networth bonus is how much the bounty increases for every 1 gold the enemy Hero has earned.
  • These changes will result in increased economic value of early game kills, while reducing late game totals.
• Updated Jungle Camp Economy
  • White Camps
    • Now will always spawn a large white minion prior to reinforcing with up to two small white minions.
    • Increased reinforcement time from 60 seconds to 90 seconds.
  • White Minion (Large)
    • Grants 150 Gold.
    • Grants 42 XP.
  • White Minion (Small)
    • Grants 50 Gold.
    • Grants 15 XP.
  • Green Buff
    • Increased gold bounty from 150 to 200.
    • Increased XP bounty from 40 to 45.
  • Gold Buff
    • Increased gold bounty from 204 to 225.
  • Black Buff
    • Replaced by an Orange Buff for better visibility within the environment and minimap.
    • Gameplay functionality remains the same.
  • Orb Prime
    • Removed Root ability.
    • Added new scattered projectiles ability:
      • Prime Helix launches 10 slow homing projectiles into the air which distribute themselves evenly amongst all enemies nearby Prime Helix.
    • Updated the order in which Orb Prime casts abilities:
      • Old order – Knockback -> Slow Cone -> Root
      • New order – Scattered Projectiles -> Slow Cone -> Knockback
• Lane Minions
  • Spawn Schedule
    • Increased the amount of time before minions are added to the waves.
      • Minions will now be added on the 22nd, 38th, and 58th waves, previously was on the 19th, 31st, and 48th waves.

CARDS & GEMS

CARDS

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

• DEATH
  • Awaken the Emeric
    • Fixed an issue where enemy heroes would deal increased damage to converted minions.
    • Fixed an issue where towers would target the hero after using Awaken the Emeric directly under a tower with minions already attacking it.
  • Devastation
    • Reduced Power from 7 to 4.
    • Increased Power per structure destroyed from 3 to 4.
  • Finder of Playthings
    • Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds to 80 seconds.
  • Grinning Spectre
    • Increased true damage from 300 to 350.
  • Lord Volstok
    • Increased experience gained every 10 seconds from 12 to 14.
    • Increased gold lost every 10 seconds from 60 to 100.
  • Nameless Curse
    • Reduced cost from 3 VIT / 9 INT to 3 VIT / 8 INT.
    • Increase damage dealt per second from 60 to 65.
  • Possessed Spry-Kin
    • Increased Power from 6 to 10.
  • Sorvukk Initiate
    • Increased cooldown from 35 seconds to 45 seconds.
  • Veil Stepper
    • Now grants 5 Power.
  • Warlocks Burden
    • Increase max mana restored per second from 2% to 3%.
  • Withering Shadow
    • Reduced damage from 75 to 55.
    • Players cannot be damaged by Withering Shadow more than once a second
    • Auras no longer stack
      • Each effect can only be applied once per target
• Wound Seeker
  • Increased Power from 16 to 19.
  • Increased Attack Speed from 18 to 21.
• KNOWLEDGE
  • Echelon Soldier
    • Fixed an issue where players were able to damage enemy heroes without exiting the shadowplane.
  • O.P.D. Militia
    • Fixed an issue where damage wasn’t being properly displayed in Recent Damage report.
  • Sleeper Agent
    • Reduced cast range from 1750 to 1100.
  • Soldier of Fortune
    • Increased cost from 4 INT to 500 Gold / 4 INT.
    • Increased bonus gold from 150 to 175.
    • Increased bonus experience from 30 to 35.
  • Static Trap
    • Adjusted cost from 3 AGI / 4 INT to 2 AGI / 5 INT
  • Supply Sergeant
    • Increased mana restored from 125 to 150.
  • Thaumaturge
    • Fixed an issue where Thaumaturge was gaining incorrect mana bonus and could gain unlimited stacks.
  • Wetware Virus
    • Now launches a homing projectile on activation, instead of being instant cast.
• ORDER
  • Crippling Glare
    • Now launches a homing projectile on activation, instead of being instant cast.
    • Reduced cast range from 1750 to 1100.
  • Gates of Salvation
    • Card has been re-enabled.
    • Fixed issue where all functionality was lost after death.
  • Godmother Vigilant
    • Fixed an issue where the Elevated effect was calculating incorrectly, granting too much health.
  • Lightstep Vanguard
    • Reduced cooldown from 100 seconds to 60 seconds.
    • Reduced channel time from 4 seconds to 3 seconds.
• GROWTH
  • Apex Predator
    • Increased Power per stack from .6 to .75.
    • Increased Ability Armor bonus at max stacks from 18 to 24.
    • Reduced Max Stacks from 50 to 40.
    • Reduced Cooldown between stack application from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.
    • Fixed an issue where Apex Predator stacks were being lost on death.
  • Flame of Zechin
    • Fixed an issue where Flame of Zechin stacks were not being lost when discarding the card.
  • Highwayman
    • Fixed an issue where Highwayman would grant gold when damaging yourself.  Now will only grant gold if damage is dealt to an enemy hero.
  • Mother Tree
    • Reduced base Health Regen per second from 4.4 to 2.2.
    • Now grants +50% Mana Regen.
  • Spry-Kin
    • Fixed an issue where Spry-Kin was giving less than the intended amount of healing.
  • Tyrant
    • Reduced Power from 15 to 10.
    • Increased Power per stack from .4 to .75.
    • Increased Max Health bonus at max stacks from 150 to 200.
    • Reduced Max Stacks from 50 to 35.
  • Unbroken Spirit
    • Increased Power from 13 to 18.
    • Reduced Max Health from 480 to 360.
  • Vital Waters
    • Reduced max health from 325 to 265.
    • Fixed an issue where Vital Waters allowed Zinx to gain twice the intended benefits of increased healing.
• CHAOS
  • Blitzrush
    • Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 25 seconds.
  • Compensator Rig
    • Increased amount of damage dealt from 1 per 60 health missing to 1 per 55 health missing.
  • Deathcrawler
    • Mighty Strike attack will now be removed on basic attack regardless of if you hit a target.
  • Dune Winds
    • Increased Max Health cost from 100 to 150.
    • Reduced Power per stack from 8 to 7.
    • Reduced Attack Speed per stack from 7 to 6.
  • Pressure Hunter
    • Increased bonus damage per vitality point difference from 2.0 to 2.5.
  • Riot Sapper
    • Increased current mana removal from 20% to 25%.
  • Nitroboost
    • No longer grants attack speed.
    • Now grants 8 Power.
  • Nukeblood Mutant
    • Increased buff duration from 6 seconds to 7 seconds.
  • Profiteer
    • Increased gold gained per enemy minion kill from 55 to 60.
  • Reactor Beast
    • Fixed an issue where passive would activate when killing Aurora’s Ice Clone.
  • Thorned Yomi
    • Card has been re-enabled.
    • Fixed an issue where damage was not being reflected.
  • Unstable Cyborg
    • Reduced range from 1500 to 700.
    • Increased cooldown between activations from .4 to .5 seconds.
• Card System Bug Fixes and Polish
  • Multiple Cards
    • The following cards will no longer break you out of ability targeting when activated
      • Unstable Cyborg
      • Riot Sapper
      • Wicked Riposte
      • Amplification Engineer
      • Corrosive Walker
      • Thunder Cleaver
      • Black Ice Routine
      • Supply Sergeant
      • Vengeful Mire
      • Yomi Guardian
      • Mallenk’s Prayer.
• Adjusted visual effects for improved gameplay clarity.

GEMS

NOTE: All updates are based on PVP normalized gem values, but will affect gems of all rolls.

• Consume the Dead
  • Reduced healing based on target Max Health from 15% to 10%.
• Healing Towers
  • Fixed an issue where tooltip was displayed as ‘+1.2 Mana Regen’ instead of ‘+25% Mana Regen’.
• Improved Killing Blows
  • Increased bonus gold per kill from 5 to 6.
• Jungle Lifesteal
  • Increased flat health restore from 4 to 5.
• Quick Exit
  • Reduced movement speed bonus from 350 to 300.
• Relentless Pursuit
  • Reworked: Now reduces combat slow penalty when attacking by 50% instead of removing the penalty entirely.

UI AND GAME SYSTEMS

CHESTS

• Chests now have Normal Rewards (Cards/Gems) and one “Special Reward”.
  • Chests/Keys are now considered a special reward.
  • Skins and Emotes found in the chest match those found in the store.
  • The chance to get a gem has been doubled for all normal rewards.
  • Special rewards differ per chest type:
    • Bronze Chest
      • 5,000 Reputation
      • XP Boost: 1 Win
      • Rep Boost: 1 Win
      • Rare or Epic Card
      • Silver Chest
    • Silver Chest
      • 10,000 Reputation
      • XP Boost: 1 Win
      • Rep Boost: 1 Win
      • Rare or Epic Card
      • Gold Chest
    • Gold Chest
      • 25,000 Reputation
      • Hero Skin
      • Hero Emote
      • XP Boost: 1 Win
      • Rep Boost: 1 Win
      • Rare or Epic Card
      • Diamond Chest
    • Diamond Chest
      • Loot Crate Key
      • 50,000 Reputation
      • Hero Skin
      • Hero Emote
      • XP Boost: 1 Win
      • Rep Boost: 1 Win
      • Rare or Epic Card

GENERAL

• Card unlocking is now operational.
  • You can unlock cards you don’t have with Reputation via the Inspect screen.
• Hero Leveling XP has been reduced for Ranks 1 – 4
• Adjusted Starter Decks
  • Added two new starter decks per attribute and renamed the old ones:
    • Agility – Bruiser
    • Agility – Burst
    • Agility – Control
    • Vitality – Tank
    • Vitality – Initiator
    • Vitality – Fighter
    • Intellect – Burst
    • Intellect – Control
    • Intellect – Support
  • Heroes have all been assigned three of the above starter decks (some Heroes have mixed attributes).
  • All cards and gems newly added to starter decks are now marked as starter cards and will be granted to all accounts. (New Total: 47 Cards, 26 Gems)
• Gem inspection screen added
• Added a Card Collection tutorial to introduce cards after your first match.
• Added 10 second pre-spawn in-game chat notifications for River/Gold Buffs, Raptors, and Orb Prime
• Auto run added to the game
  • Once the user gives movement input, ability usage input, or cancel input, it will stop
  • Default key on keyboard is Num Lock
  • Controllers can find it under Team Comms as L1
• End match cinematic added
  • This victory cinematic only displays a core explosion

POLISH & BUG FIXING

• Card Shop now only considers Attribute Point effects and Card effects when calculating the bonuses for stats on the stats panel.
  • No more giant HP/MP regen numbers when standing in base!
• Gems will now always appear in ranked order In the Attribute Display tooltips
  • Previously, Gems could appear in a different order depending on how they were added to the pack
• Fixed skin variation tooltips for Scavenger Drongo and Fossil Scavenger Drongo
• Previously, if a targetable card was set to the cancel button, the card could not be cast.
  • Targetable cards can now be set to the cancel button

LOOT CRATES

• Keys
  • Golden Keys now guarantee an Epic or Legendary reward (up from Rare or higher)
• Loot Crate Update
  • Added
    • Rare
      • Crimson Alien Invader Drongo
      • Orchid Alien Invader Drongo
    • Common
      • Royal Default Feng Mao
      • Onyx Default Feng Mao
      • Ichor Default Riktor
      • Solar Default Riktor
  • Removed
    • Fossil Ancient Doomsday Steel
    • Desert Ancient Doomsday Steel
    • Coral Ceremonial Feng Mao
    • Onyx Ceremonial Feng Mao
• Bug Fix
  • Fixed an issue where hero previews may not load when scrolling through the loot crate rewards list

GENERAL

VFX AND PROJECTILE IMPROVEMENTS

• Water visual effects updated to work with the new river and water areas
• Grass rendering is now supported on multiple view distances qualities and is supported on PS4 as well as PS4 Pro
• All ranged Heroes use new & improved smoke trail visual effects
• Many Heroes have had visual noise reduced in their basic attacks
• VFX intensity of basic attacks have been adjusted for new Monolith Post-Process settings
• Projectile sizes changed to reflect more precise targeting
  • Should be much easier to target specific Minions with basic attacks when playing Heroes such as Howitzer
• Gideon, Muriel, The Fey, Phase, Dekker
  • Projectile world collision from 30 to 10
  • Projectile overlap collision from 60 to 40
• Howitzer, Morigesh, Iggy
  • Projectile world collision from 30 to 20
    • To account for physical projectile size
  • Projectile overlap collision from 60/70 to 40
• Sparrow
  • Projectile overlap collision from 40 to 35
    • Changed in order to match other carries and projectile visuals
• Gadget, Belica, Zinx
  • Projectile world collision to 10
  • Projectile overlap collision from 60/40/40 to 35
    • To account for small visual size and consistency with other bullet projectiles

AI

• AI Hero improvements:
  • AI Heroes are now less likely to use abilities against minions
  • AI Heroes will now choose from a wider variety of Heros during the draft phase
  • AI Heroes will use team comms more often
  • AI Heroes will group up and push a lane more often during mid & late-game
  • AI Heroes will try to take down OP buff during the late game when two or more enemies are dead and no towers are threatened
    • Please help them, this is their first time fighting Prime
  • Fixed an issue preventing AI Heroes from attacking T1 towers in the later phase of the game
  • AI Heroes playing midlane will attack river camps more often during the earlier phases of the game
  • AI Heroes who Jungle are more likely to attack Green Buff and less likely to attack white camps during the later phases of the game
  • Changed Wukong’s Primary role to Offlane (AI)
  • Bots will back away from danger sooner
    • This will hopefully keep them alive a little longer
  • Bots will now spend less time at base pretending they are looking at the card shop
    • We hope this gets them back into the fight quicker
• AI difficulty
  • AI heroes now detect threats in the area surrounding them, allowing them to make better decisions
    • Attacking vs Fleeing
• Co-Op & Solo vs. AI difficulty curve is now “steeper”.
  • Intro is the same
  • Easy is half way between Intro & Intermediate
  • Intermediate is roughly equivalent to what Veteran used to be
  • Experienced & Veteran now gives the enemy team health, damage & regen buffs in order to make them more difficult to defeat