Balance Patch V1.1.2

Everything you need to know about V1.1.2!

Patch Notes 15 окт. 2024 г.

Introduction

An early balance patch? What gives!?
As you’ll likely remember, we had a little trouble with the console certification process for the previous update. So to help our team stay on track to deliver what’s shaping up to be a hefty update in v1.2 next month, we’re launching the v1.1.2 balance patch early!
Balance patch v1.1.2 has a slew of tweaks and changes to Heroes and Items, as well as some buffs for Towers, and more! Alongside balance changes, you can expect snazzy new skins too, including the incredible Angelic Sevarog!

Grab yourself some snacks, kick your feet up and let’s jump into the patch notes.

Store News

Angelic Sevarog [Rare]

Sevarog is arguably one of the most menacing Heroes in Predecessor - but if you don’t think he’s creepy enough yet, his Angelic Skin might change that opinion.

Executioner Murdock [Common]

A darker twist on the classic Murdock we all know and love! Kinda makes you wonder which side of the law he’s really on.

Hotrod Howitzer [Common]

Jump on to the battlefield with all guns blazing in the Hotrod Howitzer skin!

New Bundles

Angelic Sevarog Bundle

Everything you need to complete the chthonic vibe.

Bundle Contents:

• Sevarog [ Hero]
• Angelic Sevarog [ Skin]
• Angelic Sevarog [ Profile Icon] (Exclusive)
• Angelic Sevarog [ Banner] (Exclusive)
• Pray [ Spray] (Exclusive)

Angel Sevarog Variant Bundle

Deliver divine judgement in the skin that matches the sin.

Bundle Contents:

• Sevarog [ Hero]
• Angelic Sevarog [ Skin]
• Cryo Angelic Sevarog [ Skin Variant] (Timed Exclusive)
• Necro Angelic Sevarog [ Skin Variant] (Timed Exclusive)

Gameplay Balance Changes

Systems Balance Changes:

Towers:

All Towers are receiving an increase to their base damages to create more risk when attempting an early game dive. Likewise, their Physical Armor Penetration is seeing an increase, further limiting the efficacy of tankier targets holding a Tower’s aggro for extended durations.

Outer Tower:

• Damage increased from 130 (+12 per Level) to 145 (+10 per Level).
• Physical Armor Penetration increased from 45% to 50%.

Inner Tower:

• Damage increased from 160 (+12 per Level) to 170 (+12 per Level).
• Physical Armor Penetration increased from 45% to 50%.

Inhibitor:

• Damage increased from 160 (+15 per Level) to 170 (+15 per Level).
• Physical Armor Penetration increased from 45% to 50%.

Utility:

Refillable Potion is seeing a small decrease to its overall healing as a match progresses, better allowing poke damage to stick, and thereby creating more opportunities for aggressive play to translate into kills.

Refillable Potion:

• Healing decreased from 105 (+15 per Level) to 105 (+12 per Level).

Hero Balance Changes

Aurora’s access to high impact disruption tools paired with her innate elusiveness and durability allows her to possess significant threat when roaming the map or engaging in teamfights. Alongside hits to her early Durability and Movement Speed, she is receiving lower uptime on her Hard Crowd Control tools, creating further windows of downtime between her ganks and rotations.

General:

• Health decreased from 780 to 760.
• Mana Growth increased from 30 to 42.
• Movement Speed decreased from 680 to 675.

Hoarfrost [Secondary]:

• Magical Power Scaling decreased from 65% to 60%.
• Cooldown increased from 14/13.25/12.5/11.75/11 to 15/14/13/12/11.

Cryoseism [Ultimate]:

• Cooldown increased from 145/130/115 to 155/135/115.

Gadget’s general safety and high Mana pool provides for an incredibly stable laning phase, allowing her to smoothly transition into the late-game where she becomes a significant threat. We’re taking steps to provide Gadget with lower early resources, thereby reducing her general laning efficacy and stability, while also decreasing the Magical Armor Shred offered by her Tesla Dome as it currently provides too much negation to Heroes that attempt to counter-build against her with Magical Armor purchases.

General:

• Health decreased from 735 to 720.
• Mana decreased from 450 to 420.

Tesla Dome [Ultimate]:

• Cooldown increased from 130/115/100 to 135/120/105.
• Magical Armor Shred decreased to 4% to 3.5%.

Item Balance Changes

Crests:

Some additional uptime is being Granted for the Warboots, allowing for more engagement windows for those Tanks looking to get into the action.

• Cooldown decreased from 90 to 75.

T2:

Both Alchemical Rod and Soul Chalice allow their users to forgo Mana restraints at a very early stage of the match, often contributing to passive play that is difficult to punish. To delay this and add some additional risk, we are increasing their cost, thereby increasing the completion time by an extra wave’s worth of gold and creating a larger window for Enemies to disrupt their completion.

• Cost increased from 1050 to 1200

• Magical Power increased from 15 to 20.

• Cost increased from 1050 to 1200.

• Physical Power increased from 10 to 12.

Fighter:

Bonesaw was an awkward buy as a first item in the jungle for Heroes that wanted to build it. We have added a Shortsword into the Recipe so that Junglers are not required to choose between early clear speed and first item competition time. We also wanted to make sure that Bonesaw is an effective tool for sticking to Heroes and leans more into that identity so some additional potency is being offered to its Passive effect.

• Recipe: Shortsword added.

• Colossal Sunder Slow increased from 20% to 25%.
• Colossal Sunder Attack Speed increased from 12% to 15%.

Mage:

A quick bump in Ability Haste for Astral, better allowing it to serve as a Haste when paired with items such as Overseer for those Ultimate-focused builds.

• Ability Haste increased from 15 to 20.

Tank:

With Tanks seeing a resurgence in strength as of late thanks to the corrections that have occurred since v18 bringing them back into the spotlight, we’re now able to address some of the damage creep that has occurred by decreasing the damage potential of their core items. While damage is indeed necessary within a Tank’s toolkit to engage properly in PvE loops and offer enough threat that they agency of outcome throughout a match, we’re currently a bit too heavy on the damage end of the scale and have room to pull it back, starting with Fire Blossom’s effect.

• Heatwave Bonus Health Scaling decreased from 1.25% to 1%.

That’s all for now, Champions! What do you think of all the changes? Let us know on Discord or Reddit!

Keep an eye out for more news on update v1.2 soon.

Until next time,

Steggs, Senior Community Manager

Omeda_Zuzu, Player Experience Manager

Rei, Game Design