Essence Bomb

• self damage changed from 30 + 1.8 scaling to 30% of the damage (base is 90 + 1.2 scaling)
• radius reduced from 9m to 7m
• cooldown reduced from 14.5s to 14s
• T1 increased from -4s to -5s
• T2 also increases radius by +2m

Life Drain

• cooldown increased from 30s to 34s
• break range reduced from 30m to 28m
• T1 DPS increased from +16.2 to +18
• T2 duration increased from +2s to +2.5s
• T3 charges increased from +1 to +2
• T3 now also increases spirit scaling by +0.3

Soul Exchange

• cast time reduced from 0.2s to 0.1s
• post cast hold time reduced from 0.7s to 0.2s
• T1 cooldown increased from -35s to -60s
• T2 changed from "On Cast: +35% Fire Rate for 8s" to "Silences enemies within 25m for 3s"
• T3 changed from "Silences enemies within 25m for 3s" to "On Cast: +60 Spirit Power, +40% Fire Rate and +50% Spirit Resistance for 8s"

General

• Ammo reduced from 10 to 9
• Bullet Falloff from 58m to 52m

General

• Stamina dash distance moved to bucket 3 (slower)

Essence Bomb

• self damage spirit scaling reduced from 1.6 to 1.8

Malice

• self damage increased from 7% to 9%

Soul Exchange

• T3 radius increased from 15m to 25m

Essence Bomb

• spirit scaling increased from 1.07 to 1.22

Essence Bomb

• no longer sticks to units
• cooldown increased from 10.5 to 14.5
• radius increased from 7m to 9m
• T1 changed from "+2m Radius" to "-4s Cooldown"
• projectile speed increased by 25%

General

• Base bullet damage reduced from 23 to 21

Essence Bomb

• arming time increased from 0.5s to 0.65s

Malice

• health cost increased from 6% to 7%
• T2 changed from "+30 Damage and 7% Damage Amp” to “+30 Damage and +4 Blood Shards”
• T3 changed from "+6 Blood Shards" to "+7% Damage Amp"

Soul Exchange

• cast range reduced from 6m to 5.5m

General

• Base bullet damage reduced from 26 to 23

Life Drain

• self slow increased from 25% to 40%

Soul Exchange

• cast range reduced from 7m to 6m

General

• Health per boon reduced from 86 to 82

Essence Bomb

• self damage spirit scaling increased from 1.3 to 1.6

Life Drain

• cast range reduced from 20m to 18m

General

• T2 Malice reduced from 40 to 30

Malice

• now costs 6% of your Current HP
• damage reduced from 32 to 25
• damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.72 to 0.6

General

• Fixed some cases where Life Swap did not work

Malice

• can now secure orbs

Soul Exchange

• T2 changed from "-10% Min Health" to "On cast +40% Fire Rate for 8s"
• T3 changed from "On cast, +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resist for 8s" to "Silences enemies in 15m radius for 3s"

Life Drain

• duration increased from 2s to 2.5s
• T3 changed from "Enemy is Silenced while being Life Drained" to "Ability becomes charged and grants +1 Charge". You can cast multiple Life Drains at the same time on different targets, no Charge Time.

Essence Bomb

• Self Damage spirit scaling reduced from 2 to 1.8

Malice

• slow reduced from 20% to 15%
• debuff duration reduced from 13s to 9s
• Damage Amp reduced from 15% to 8%
• T2 now also increases damage amp by 7%
• no longer causes you to un-zoom on cast

General

• Fixed a bug that could cause some units to take more damage than intended with Essence Bomb when multiple targets are hit
• Added double tap accidental protection for Life Drain to help against instant cancellations
• You can now see how many Malice stacks you have on you as the opponent

Life Drain

• can now be alternate-casted on allied heroes

Malice

• slow duration reduced from 6s to 4s
• amp duration reduced from 16s to 13s

General

• Fixed Life Drain not healing extra based on amplifications (like Soul Shredder and Malice stacks)
• Sprint increased from 1 to 1.5

Life Drain

• cooldown reduced from 42s to 30s

Malice

• cooldown reduced from 6.25s to 6s
• T1 improved from -2.75s Cooldown to -3s

General

• Fixed a recent bug with Malice that caused multiple blood shards to be absorbed by 1 hero rather than pass through and hit others (it didn't stack that way in any case)
• Self Damage no longer consumes shields (general change)

Essence Bomb

• T3 damage increased from 22% to 26%
• spirit scaling increased from 1.05 to 1.15

General

• Base sprint reduced from 2 to 1

General

• Base bullet damage reduced from 28 to 25
• Bullet damage growth increased from 1.84 to 2.1

Essence Bomb

• T2 reduced from +70 to +60
• T3 increased from 20% to 22%

Life Drain

• self slow reduced from -40% to -25%

Soul Exchange

• can be cast on enemies that are lower health. It will always steal a minimum of 30% of their current health.

Essence Bomb

• no longer starts decaying the arm time while in the air
• arm time reduced from 1s to 0.5s (this is a nerf for long distance bombs)

Soul Exchange

• T3 changed to "After swap gain +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resistance for 8s"

Soul Exchange

• cast time reduced from 0.5 to 0.2

General

• Fixed Malice clipping aggressively against map geometry edges

Soul Exchange

• cast time reduced from 0.65s to 0.5s

Soul Exchange

• now uses a new instant cast mechanism. When you are in range there is a valid target indicator.

Malice

• now comes out quicker and no longer slows you

General

• Blood Bomb damage increased from 80 to 100
• Blood Bomb T2 damage increased from +65 to +70
• Blood Bomb tooltip fixed to reference the correct self damage type and that it can be reduced with armor

Malice

• damage amp per shard increased from 10% to 15%