Paladins Open Beta 45 Patch Notes | March 3rd, 2017

NEW CHAMPION: Inara, the Stone Warden

• [LMB] Stone Spear - Fire a burst of 3 projectiles dealing 225 damage each over 0.4 seconds, every 1 second.
• [RMB] Earthen Guard - Enter a defensive state that lasts 5s where you and your deployables take 30% reduced damage.
• [Q] Impasse - Deploy a wall that grows out of the ground and lasts 5s.
• [E] Seismic Crash - Throw your spear, passing through shields and stunning any enemies within 40 units of its impact for 2s.
• [F] Warder’s Field - Place a stone obelisk that pulses which slow enemies for 60% and deals 150 damage per second.

• Legendary - Mother’s Grace [Default] - Earthen Guard gains 20% increased damage reduction.
• Legendary - Treacherous Ground - Warder’s Field now cripples.
• Legendary - Tremors - Reduce the Cooldown of Impasse by 7s.
• Geomancer - Reduce the cooldown of Earthen Guard by .5/1/1.5/2s.
• Sacred Ground - Standing in Warder’s Field grants you 5/10/15/20% Damage Reduction.
• Summit - Activating Impasse underneath you knocks you up by 600/700/800/900 units.
• Living Stone - Reload 10/20/30/40% faster during Earthen Guard.
• Plateau - Increase the duration of Impasse by .5/1/1.5/2s.
• Standing Stones - Reduce the Cooldown of Warder’s Field by 1/2/3/4s.
• Stone Bulwark - Heal for 20/40/60/80 Health per second during Earthen Guard.
• Whetstone - Eliminations grant you 10/20/30/40% Reload Speed for 5s.
• Caretaker - Standing in Warder’s Field heals you for 20/40/60/80 Health per second.
• Cloudbreaker - Impasse gains 500/1000/1500/2000 Health.
• Crag - Impasse gains 10/20/30/40% more Damage Reduction from Earthen Guard.
• Insurmountable - Gain 8/16/24/32% Crowd Control reduction.
• Lodestone - Activating Warder’s Field generates 1/2/3/4 ammo.
• Rolling Stone - You cannot be slowed by more than 60/50/40/30%.
• Shear - Activating Earthen Guard generates 1/2/3/4 ammo.
• Steadfast - Gain 150/300/450/600 maximum Health.

GENERAL

MISC

• All Achievements now reward 1000 Essence. Players that already earned achievements will be retroactively refunded Essence.
• Added an alert to items that have been recently earned.
• The home screen now supports additional images.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue with duplicate customizations received from Radiant Chests not granting Essence. We’re working on a solution for players affected by this during OB44 release.
• Fixed the First Win of the Day Gold received at end of match lobby displaying the incorrect value.

CUSTOMIZATIONS

• Head: Garnet Blossom
• Body: Garnet
• Weapon: Garnet Spear

• Head: Amethyst Blossom
• Body: Amethyst
• Weapon: Amethyst Spear

• Head: Celestine Blossom
• Body: Celestine
• Weapon: Celestine Spear

• Voice Pack: Inara
• Emote: Paramount
• MVP: Zenith

• Head: Baroness Tress
• Body: Baroness
• Weapon: Baroness Stinger

• Head: Exalted Arch
• Body: Exalted
• Weapon: Exalted Pistol (existing weapon that goes with collection)

MAPS

• Mid Life Crisis - Tyra, Buck, Makoa, Maeve, and Sha Lin in a 5v5 Survival encounter. When any of them reach 50% health they activate their ultimate permanently until they are killed.

• Added Grotto V2, Dark Crossing, and Arid

CHAMPIONS - BALANCE/UPDATES/FIXES

• Architectonics - Fixed a bug where this card was not properly reducing the Cooldown of Turret by 3s. Updated card description.
• Tinkerin - Updated card description.

• Poppy Bomb - Fixed a bug where Poppy Bomb would knock back for more if it was detonated before hitting a surface.

• Bounce House - Now increases the Cooldown of Heroic Leap by 2s.

• Combustible - Fixed a bug where Combustible’s Damage over Time effect was dealing True damage.
• Fire Spit - Fixed a bug where sometimes fire spit would appear to hit a target on the client, but not hit them on the server.

• Ice Block - Now grants immunity to all debuffs

• Shock Pulse - Will now only slow each target once per cast.
• Totemic Ward - Updated card description to indicate that this card increases the healing of Healing Totem by 20%.

• Deep Roots - Fixed a bug where the minimum duration of the root was 1s instead of 0.5s.

• Fixed a condition where Reconfigure card was incorrectly granting ammo.

• Nine Lives - No longer heals Maeve by default.
• Pounce - Reduced damage from 600 to 500. Range reduced from 70 to 50. Fixed an issue with Maeve able to cast twice.
• Prowl - Reduced Movement Speed from 80 to 65%. Increased Cooldown from 9 to 12s.
• Artful Dodger - Nine lives now also heals Maeve for 500 in addition to cleansing debuffs.

• Patch Up - Description updated to indicate that Nine Lives no longer heals by default.

• Healing Potion - Reduced projectile size by 50% to allow it to travel through spaces easier.

• Reduced Shield Health from 6000 to 5000
• Fixed an issue with Torvald's Arcanist skin not playing animations

• Fire Bomb - Fixed a bug where Fire Bomb’s damage over time effect would not last its full duration.
• First Blood - Lifesteal increased from 20% to 30%.

• Lifelike - Now reduces healing of Illusions by 30%.