Being the middle of March, it means we've reached the first year of Epic Games' entry into the MOBA race. Typically known for their hyper violent 'Bro Shooters' like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament, Paragon is the team's take on using the newest iteration of their mega-popular Unreal Engine to create a MOBA title that isn't all cartoony visuals and top-down gameplay.
Available on both PC and PlayStation 4 for a year now, it's time we start keeping track of just about everything happening within the game itself. Being a MOBA title, players expect a new character around once a month leading to a squad-based strategy title buckling under the weight of its own numbers. To aid in that, we'll be focusing on detailing each patch going forward, and we're starting with the Year Anniversary update.
Paragon Patch Notes - V.38.3
The One Year Anniversary update brings changes to around 20 heroes while introducing yet another - Yin; yet another melee character, but one with slightly more range than her current 2017 counterparts. Banners can be purchased and placed upon enemy kills and tower debris and we see the first leg of changes to the Card system ahead of a full overhaul planned for the future.
Changelog:
- Year One Celebration
- Play one game this week and receive a Year One Gift granting one of the following Skins - Founders receive an extra gift in-game
- Wasteland Twinblast
- Monarch Dekker
- Monarch Sparrow
- Monarch Murdock
- Midnight Muriel
- Cobalt Steel
- Double XP all week long.
- Various sales throughout launch week
- A new hero, Yin, has been released.
- Chests are now available!
- Daily Login Rewards have been added.
- 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.
- 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.
- Weekly Card Pack
- Blight [Status Effect]
- Ash of the Witch
- Divine Shield
- Quenching Scales
- Toxi-Gel
- Thermo-Bond
- Stinger Boost
- Power Chord
- Thickblood .
- Heroes are now unlocked through daily logins.
- Aurora
- Base health reduced to 506 from 550
- Health per level gain reduced to 68 from 74
- Frozen Sword
- Card scaling, base damage and base damage per level reduced
- Glacial Charge
- Cooldown increased to 22 / 20 / 18 /
- Hoarfrost
- Duration of effect and root duration decreased
- Mana cost increased to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
- Cryoseism
- Base damage reduced
- Now deals varying shatter damage based on whether the shattering unit is a hero or not.
- 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
- Feng Mao's feet now appear correctly in on the platform when viewing the hero under Profile.
- 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:
- 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 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
- Oil Slick move speed increased to 100 at all levels from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50
- Flame Turret base damage increased
- Kallari
- Death Sentence cooldown reduced
- 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
- Fury of the Heavens cooldown adjusted
- Muriel
- Serenity slow magnitude normalized
- 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.
- Rampage
- Boulder Throw reworked
- 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
- Serath
- Angelic Smite base and level damage increased
- 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 increased per Wolf
- 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 increased
- Steel
- Bulwark no longer occasionally blocks the pull of Grux’s Smash & Grab
- 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
- Yin
- Added Wind Gauntlet Yin to in-game store.
- Added “Call the Shot” emote to in-game store.
- Rewards for leveling up are now chests.
- Tribute Rewards are now Silver Chests.
- Master Tribute Rewards are now Diamond Chests.
- One chest is now rewarded at every level.
- Rarities Changed
- Fix for card ability text wrapping on deckbuilder tooltip screen.
- Fix for hard to read text on chest reward rarity screen.
- Loot Crate Banners added
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