Paragon patch .41 nerfs Phase, Revenant and Morigesh – Wraith released

Today is new hero day in Paragon and Wraith should now be live for everyone. We’ll be taking a look at Wraith and posting our thoughts as soon as he’s live.

The patch that is supposed to hit the servers today actually has a few changes of note for Dekker, Gideon, and Kallari. Morigesh, Revenant, and Phase have all been nerfed. These are the three heroes I have seen the most complaints about and I’ll admit Morigesh was a real handful. Phase may feel a little less effective now but I’ve yet to see if the changes have any real impact.

The patch notes are as follows.

Paragon patch .41 Notes

HEROES

General

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Corrected an issue which caused heroes to sometimes not receive the appropriate Card Points
  • Red damage indicators now appropriately display all instances of damage taken from enemy Heroes and minions

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Improved collision upon finishing her Glacial Charge animation

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Corrected an audio issue causing the footstep sounds to not play

• Containment Fence
  • Containment Fence is now a solid wall that only Dekker and her allies can pass through
  • Containment fence will no longer apply knockback, damage, or a stun
• Polish and Bug
  • Stasis Bomb targeting corrected
    • Targeting was rarely inaccurate if Rocket Boots was activated before confirming the ability

• Greystone Guitar Riff Emote added to the store

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Corrected an issue which caused Grim.EXE’s GTFO ability to go on cooldown if the animation was cancelled, and Deflector Shield was immediately activated afterward.
  • GRIM.EXE’s Deflector Shield now appropriately blocks Shockwave’s slow and damage

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Corrected an issue causing Grux’s Charge audio to play even if the ability was interrupted

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Ambush
    • Now damages only the selected target rather than dealing AOE damage upon landing
    • The slow effect is now conditional upon the damage being dealt
    • Tooltip no longer states that it will inflict AOE damage

Kwang

• Mark mana cost from 75/85/95/105 to 90/95/100/105
• Hive damage per DoT tick from 20/32/44/56 to 18/28/38/48
• Hive mana cost from 80/90/100/110 to 100/115/130/145
• Swarm mana cost from 100/120/140/160 to 80 at all levels

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Long Arm of the Law can be now canceled if basic attack (LMB/R2) is double-pressed/double-clicked immediately after activating

• Telekinetic Link cast range decreased from 1900 to 1800
• Telekinetic Link tether range decreased from 2500 to 2200
• Telekinetic Link total health regen decreased from 60/90/120/150 to 48/72/96/120
• Telekinetic Link health regen duration increased from 2s to 4s
• Psychic Flare blind duration decreased from 1.5/2/2.5/3s to 1.25/1.5/1.75/2s
• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Phase’s Telekinetic Link tooltip has been updated to reflect the new link mana cost and pull mana cost
  • Corrected the display issue caused by Phase’s Psychic Flare on ultrawide monitors
  • Energy Lance audio limited to one instance
  • Corrected an issue which caused Phase’s blind to function incorrectly when going in/out of the Shadow Plane
    • All heroes would become invisible to Countess if she used Shadow Slip while affected by Phase’s Psychic Flare ability

• Obliterate ability now requires line of sight to lock-on to a target
• Obliterate base damage reduced from 120/200/280/360 to 115/190/265/340
• Obliterate Card scaling reduced from 1.4 to 1.25
• Obliterate mana cost increased from 70/75/80/85 to 90/105/120/135
• Scar mana cost increased from 40/45/50/55 to 50/60/70/80

Sevarog

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Phantom Rush now sends Sevarog in the direction the camera is facing when emoting
  • Removed green colors from Severog’s smoke skirt and removed green light from basic attacks, to help with visual noise.

Shinbi

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Shinbi can now re-activate her second dash after she is stunned, rooted or silenced
  • Shinbi can no longer activate her dash while she is stunned, rooted or silenced

Sparrow

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Sparrow’s bow no longer floats in air above her when she is knocked up
  • Better aligned Sparrow’s Rain of Arrows visual effects with each instance of damage

Steel

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Bull Rush
    • Collision smoothed out
    • Will now appropriately knockback enemies who are standing directly in front of Steel when ability activates

Wraith

• Available 6/27
  • New Store Content
    • Lunar Ops Wraith Skin
    • “Just Don’t” Emote

Wukong

• Staff of Legend mana cost increased from 55/60/65/70 to 90 at all levels
• Staff of Legend cooldown changed from 12 to 14/12/10/8
• Staff of Legend no longer damages or pushes back targets behind Wukong

Cards

• Weekly Card Pack
  • Hunter’s Drink
  • Armavore
  • Radiant Mantle
• Stasis Gem
  • Price from 5CP to 6CP
  • Cooldown from 45s to 60s
• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Divine Shield now appropriately blocks Shockwave’s slow and damage
  • Tainted Magik will now correctly apply a damage over time effect on enemies
  • Bounty Stalker now correctly stacks critical chance on Basic Attack
  • Portal Stone no longer goes on cooldown if it is canceled by an emote

MONOLITH

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Minions will now aggro to stealthed targets when revealed

AI

• Updated Bot behavior
  • Bots will now act more according to their role
    • Jungler, Support, Carry etc.

UI

• Added two new difficulty settings for Solo and Co-op playlists
  • Renamed difficulty options
  • Stars will now change from three to five based on the difficulty selected
• Added PC shortcut key bindings for emotes
  • Alt+1, Alt + 2, Alt + 3, Alt + 4
• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Physical and Energy damage numbers will no longer overlap
  • Reduced the size of the floating eye icon that indicates a player is in the Shadow Plane
  • Rewards for hero level 6+ should now be shown as locked if mastery has not been purchased
• Reshaped in-game HUD elements
  • Moved the recall icon from the center of the screen to the bottom left of the screen
  • The respawn timer no longer overlaps with the buff bar
  • Reshaped the respawn timer from a diamond to a circle
• Tutorial:
  • The Core will now highlight appropriately
  • Steel should now correctly leave his spawn point in the Tutorial
  • Corrected an issue causing players to get stuck if you were in the mute menu when a tutorial message pops up
  • The “Win the Match” quest will now show up as checked off once you destroy the core
  • The tutorial quest text box no longer clips off the bottom of some characters

REPLAY

• Polish and Bug Fixes
  • Phase’s Energy Lance should no longer cause hitches or erratic movements during replays
  • Corrected a crash that occurred when fast forwarding a replay from the draft lobby to the match