I was eager to play Paladins today when I saw an update was scheduled. Guess what, Paladins did manage to release a new update with a new champion inside. Let’s take a look at the patch notes.
Paladins Patch Notes:
New Champion: Mal’Damba, Wekono’s Chosen
Weapon [LMB] – Spitting Cobra:
Fires as glob of venom every .55s dealing 450 damage to a single target. Bonus Damage: Reloading throws the cobra dealing up to 550 based on how much ammo is missing and stunning enemies for 1s.
Secondary Fire [RMB] – Mending Spirits
Summon a spirit to enchant an ally healing 280 Health every second for 5 seconds.
Ability [Q] – Gourd
Toss a gourd full of venom that heals allies for 200 Health every second and damages enemies for 100 Damage every second.
Ability [F] – Slither
Quickly slither forward, becoming untargetable for the duration.
Ultimate [E] – Dread Serpent
Fire a dark vessel that explodes when it lands, fearing all enemy Champions for 2s and causing them to take 20% additional damage from all sources for the duration.
Cards Update
Incorporeal
Gain 50/100/150/200 Health.
Feed the Spirits
Reduce all active cooldowns by 10/20/30/40% when getting an elimination.
Snake Pit
Gain 5/10/15/20% Reload Speed.
Sustenance
Receive 5/10/15/20% more healing when below 50% Health.
Eerie Presence
Reduce the cooldown of Mending Spirits by .5/1/1.5/2s if you miss.
Ritual Magic
Heal for 15/30/45/60 Health every second Mending Spirits is active on an ally.
Swift Spirits
Mending Spirits grants 7/14/21/28% Movement Speed to allies.
Possession
Gain 4/8/12/16% Damage Reduction every second Mending Spirits is active on an ally.
Many Gourds
Reduce the Cooldown of Gourd by .5/1/1.5/2s.
Venomous Gourd
Gourd generates 1/2/3/4 ammo.
Lighter Gourd
Gourd gains 10/20/30/40% projectile speed.
Pungent Gourd
Gain vision on enemies for .5/1/1.5/2s after hitting them with Gourd.
Liminal Passage
Increase the distance Slither travels by 10/20/30/40%.
Fleeting
Reduce the Cooldown of Slither by .5/1/1.5/2s.
Spirit’s Touch
Activating Slither heals you for 50/100/150/200
Otherworldly
Gain 10/20/30/40% Movement Speed for 2s after Slither ends.
General
We are going to bold the best and most important things repaired:
Added a Tutorial for new players to learn the game.
Improved Custom match support.
Players can now purchase cards for gold during the Loadout import process.
Improved jitters near payload.
Net code improvements (smoother movement corrections).
Fixed an issue where champions’ voices would react to getting healed when they were already at full health.
Players can now copy decks from the leaderboard.
Fixed a bug where longer chat messages would get cut off.
Addressed an issue where the overtime bar would get stuck on.
Extend Payload round begin phase for attackers from 30s to 50s (Defenders can still leave their base at 10s).
Fixed a bug with round 2 of Payload where both teams lose 5 seconds from their preparation time due to the slow motion effect at the end of round 1.
Party members have a slightly different tint in-game.
Sources of healing, such as Ying illusions, now have a + icon above them.
Added crystal icons to the loading screen to signify that players are still loading.
Added an audio notification during overtime.
Added Cyrillic font to the game.
Fixed a number of crash conditions.
Additional VFX performance updates for low end machines.
New emotes are now available.
Players may now only play mastered champions in the Competitive queue.
UI
Locked champions now are desaturated and have a lock frame.
Champions that are not able to be selected now have a strikethrough presentation.
Updated champion mastery frame art.
Emotes
Barik
- Celebration
- Kalinka Dance
Bomb King
- Goal
Buck
- Intimidate
Cassie
- Cheer
- Showboat
Drogoz
- Rocketeer
Evie
- Butterfly Dance
- Carefree
Fernando
- Salsa Dance
Grohk
- Hype
- Insult
Grover
- Interpretive Dance
Tree Pose
Kinessa
- Present Arms
Makoa
- Fireworks
Mal’Damba
- Magic Trick
Pip
- Air Guitar
- Moonwalk
Ruckus
- Antagonize
Skye
- Flirting
Viktor
- Cossack Dance
Ying
- Joyride
New Skins and Cosmetics
- Common Quality Weapon Skins price reduced to 50 crystals and 4750 gold
- Rare quality weapons skins price reduced to 125 Crystals
- Epic quality weapon skins price reduced to 200 crystals
- Epic quality voice packs reduced to 50 crystals
- Skin sets have had their gold price added to their set price
Skye
- Aqua Set
- Aqua Body
- Aqua Guise (Head)
- Aqua Wrist Crossbow (Weapon)
- Canary Set
- Canary Body
- Canary Guise (Head)
- Canary Wrist Crossbow (Weapon)
- Blush Set
- Blush Body
- Blush Guise (Head)
- Blush Wrist Crossbow (Weapon)
Ying
- Haunt renamed to Snapdragon’s Mirror
- Lazuli Renamed to Mystic’s Mirror
- Mystic Set
- Mystic Body
- Mystic’s Veil (Head)
- Mystic Mirror (Weapon)
- Seer Set
- Seer Body
- Seer’s Veil (Head)
- Seer’s Mirror (Weapon)
- Soothsayer Set
- Soothsayer Body
- Soothsayer’s Veil (Head)
- Soothsayer’s Mirror (Weapon)
Mal’Damba
- Hexer Set
- Hexer Body
- Hexer’s Mask (Head)
- Hexer’s Spitting Cobra (Weapon)
- Juju Set
- Juju Body
- Juju Mask (Head)
- Juju Spitting Cobra (Weapon)
- Cursed Set
- Cursed Body
- Cursed Mask (Head)
- Cursed Spitting Cobra (Weapon)
MAPS
- Fixed end of mission cinematics on the payload maps
- Various minor collision improvements
CHAMPIONS – BALANCE/UPDATES/FIXES
General
Addressed an issue where small knockbacks applied by some champions could interrupt other abilities.
Barik
Turret
- Fixed bug where turret projectiles were spawning on top of the turret’s head.
Bomb King
- Addressed an issue where Sticky Bombs were sometimes not dealing damage when stuck to enemies.
- Fixed a case where bomb king would continuously try to detonate a poppy bomb that doesn’t exist, instead of throwing a new one
Drogoz
Booster
- Improved performance on high ping.
Evie
Ice Block
- Fixed a typo in the tooltip description that listed a duration of 2s instead of the correct 3s.
Fernando
General
- Reduced Health from 6000 to 5700.
Fireball
- Reduced bonus damage for each additional target hit from 100% to 50%.
Kinessa
Fixed issue where Kinessa’s mine (and other projectiles) could be placed at the end of round 1 and persist to round 2
Makoa
Reduced characters sliding when getting hooked by Makoa.
Ruckus
Fixed an issue where Ruckus’s Emitter and Repulsor Field cards were in the wrong places in the loadouts screen.
Repulsor Field
No longer interrupts fire when activating.
Skye
Time Bomb
Better HUD indicator warning for skye ult.
Damage now falls off the further you are away from the Time Bomb’s center.
“Time Bomb is an ability intended to create area control and spread out groups, but it was too effectively punishing players who were correctly reacting to the bomb and spreading out. The goal of these changes is to make sure Time Bomb is still a powerful tool for splitting up groups, but it’s not as good at picking up kills on players who are moving away from it.”
Viktor
Assault Rifle
- Reduced the bonus damage of the first four shots from 50 to 40.
Frag Grenade
- Knockback value reduced substantially
- No longer indicated on the UI as a knockback.
Cards
Grenadier
Fixed an issue where the 5 second internal cooldown was not working.
