5.4 - RWBY

Summary

Official name:

RWBY

Release date:

June 29th, 2022

Hotfixes:

Hotfix 1

Client version:

5.4.4675.4 (5.4)

Update Overview:

Update Show:

Event Pass Content

Ruby Rose and her team of huntresses join the world of Paladins in its newest Crossover Pass – RWBY! Instantly unlock the Ruby Rose Vora skin for purchasing, and unlock a total of 30 levels of rewards as you play!

Players can also purchase a Buy All option to get all content in the RWBY Crossover Pass instantly!

Instant Unlock

50% Experience & Gold Boost
Ruby Rose Vora

Level 9 Unlock

Yang Xiao Long Imani

Level 19 Unlock

Blake Belladonna Saati

Level 29 Unlock

Weiss Schnee Furia

Other Event Pass Exclusive Unlocks

Sprays

Ruby’s Mark – Static Spray
Team RWBY – 3D Spray
Zwei Love You! – Animated Spray

Avatars

Weiss Schnee – Static Avatar
Yang Xiao Long – Static Avatar
Blake Belladonna – Static Avatar
Ruby Rose – Animated Avatar

Death Stamp

White Fang’s Bite – Death Stamp

Death Card

Life and Death – Death Card

Loading Frame

Over the Threshold – Loading Frame

Trials of the Realm

New Trials and rewards await you with the release of the RWBY! Complete these challenges each week to unlock a variety of cosmetics, currency, and XP rewards.

Unlocks

300 Crystals (Mostly not true)
120,000 Gold (Mostly not true)
6x Event Pass Levels (Mostly not true)
Event Pass Team Boosters
Skin Boosters
Poised to Strike – Vora MVP
Boooring! – Rei Emote

Sprays

Salem’s Mark – Static Spray
Grimm Tidings – Animated Spray

Avatars

Qrow Branwen – Static Avatar
Salem, the Witch – Animated Avatar

Limited Time Modes

The RWBY patch will feature 3 unique and 4 previously popular modes that rotate throughout the patch cycle. Each week there will be a different limited time mode available, from midnight Friday until 8am on Monday, EST. Here’s are some quick previews of what to expect next:

Trade District Only

Starting with the RWBY Patch, for every patch onward that has a new map rework, we will be adding an LTM for the first week that only includes that map. This way, you can jump right into the action on our new map content without waiting for it in a normal queue!
Trade District Only does exactly this, hop into a KOTH or TDM match of the Trade District rework!

Test Maps

Unfinished, but not unplayable. Check out a variety of siege test maps during Paladins’ development, including Salt, Eastwatch, Bog District, and more!

Support Skirmish

Let the heals overtake you! Play as support champions only in this TDM mode, with 35% reduced cooldowns on all abilities!

Customizations

Salem Seris

Available in the Mythological Treasures Chest
Can be purchased directly

Qrow Branwen Corvus

Available in the Mythological Treasures Chest
Can be purchased directly

Stellar Witch Lillith

Available in the Beyond Science Chest
Can be purchased directly

Defragged Inara

Prime Gaming Reward

Chests

Battle Pass 2020

Price
- 400 Crystals
Contents:
- Skins
  - Ska'drin Ash
  - Honey King Bomb King
  - Solfire Furia
  - Soul Briar Grover
  - Stellar Sorceress Imani
  - Stellar Sentinel Inara
  - Stellar Protector Io
  - Draconic Enforcer Khan
  - Dark Monarch Lian
  - Emerald Bandit Maeve
  - Crypt Guardian Raum
  - Stellar Mender Seris
  - Scalebane Strix
  - Wukong Talus
  - Tomb Keeper Tiberius
  - Firebrand Tyra
  - Draconic Fighter Viktor
  - Student of Magic Vivian
  - Divine Daughter Ying
  - Underkeeper Zhin

Map Update - Trade District

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DeveloperCommentary: Trade District is the last of the Magistrate city maps to receive the visual upgrade we began with the Magistrate’s Archives map. The buildings have all been updated to the signature Magistrate aesthetic, dark metal, and stonework with red accents, and the overall map has been made into a much more urban environment. Tightly packed row houses and soaring spires line the streets. Care has been taken to add additional shops to the map and improve existing ones. Flowerbeds have been added throughout the map as accents to the imposing buildings to create a more inviting space. All throughout the map, areas have been opened up to offer a glimpse of the city beyond this district, making the world feel as though it extends far beyond the bounds of the play space. In the distance silhouetted by the sunset, keen-eyed players will spot the imposing towers of Stone Keep keeping watch over the city below. We hope players enjoy exploring this reimagining of Trade District.

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General Updates

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DeveloperCommentary: We’ve done several things in this patch to improve the experience for all players, but with an emphasis on New Players in particular. Between updating our free Champion roster, unifying the Ability order across several screens, and allowing players to toggle Auto-Buy on and off in the Item store, it should be easier than ever to get your friends into Paladins. We’ve got love for our existing players as well, though. Namely, we’ve brought several new options to Custom Games, so you can truly customize them more than ever before!

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Expanded Custom Game Options

We’ve added the following as Advance Settings in Custom Games:

Disable Health Regen
Global Cooldown Reduction
Global Movement Speed
In-hand Attack: Damage Amplifier
Starting Credits
Ultimate Cooldown

Item Store Auto-Buy

Players will now be able to re-enable or disable Auto-Buy as they wish during a match, from within the Item Store menu.

Unified Ability Order

The new HUD ability order default for both centered and uncentered is:
- In-hand | Offhand | Ability 1 | Ability 2 | Ultimate
Existing accounts will have the order they’re used to preserved as either Legacy Centered or Legacy Uncentered.
The out-of-match Champion screen and in-match Ability Info screen will match the new default order.

Update Free Champion Roster

Blog Post

We’ve replaced a few Champions with ones that are more new-player friendly. Players who owned them previously will be awarded them (so no one will lose a Champion they have masteries/skins for), but new players will instead have access to the new set.
Cassie is no longer free, but Tiberius is instead. Ruckus is no longer free, but Khan is instead, and we’ve added Ash as a free Champion as well. Jenos is no longer free, but Furia is instead.
Ash and Furia have been removed from the Gold Edition, and Jenos has been added.
Khan and Tiberius have been removed from the Deluxe Edition, and Ruckus and Cassie have been added.

Balance

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Developer Commentary: This midseason update has an emphasis on quality of life changes. These are many topics that have been on the list for a while or that have been requested by the community. With a healthy balance of buffs and nerfs, this list should have something for every player!

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General

Almost all On-Killing-Blow cards have been converted to On-Elimination effects instead. Notable exceptions are cards interacting with specific mark mechanics (Lex and Tyra). You’ll see these changes detailed below for each Champion who had such a card.

Items

Haven
- Increased cost 300 ➞ 350
- Increased scaling value {5.5|11|16.5}% ➞ {6|12|18}%
Veteran
- Increased cost 200 ➞ 300
- Increased scaling value {5|10|15}% ➞ {5.5|11|16.5}%
Guardian
- Increased scaling value {7|14|21}% ➞ {8|16|24}%
Illuminate
- Increased cost 150 ➞ 175
Provision
- Replaced with Lethality
Lethality
- New: Increase your Movement Speed by {20|40|60}% for 2.5s after getting an Elimination.

Androxus

Talents
- Cursed Revolver
  - Reworked
  - New: Your Revolver applies an effect that lasts for 2s, dealing damage every 0.15s, that increases damage the longer it remains on the enemy. Maximum damage per hit is 50.
Abilities
- Revolver
  - The Cursed Revolver talent has now been added to his base kit.
  - New: Fire an automatic revolver, dealing 550 damage every 0.5s. Has a maximum Ammo count of 6 and is fully effective up to 50 units.
Cards
- Spiteful
  - New: Generate {1|1}% Ultimate charge after hitting at least one enemy with Defiance.
- Vengeance
  - New: Heal for {30|30} after hitting at least one enemy with Defiance.

Betty La Bomba

Abilities
- Grenade Launcher
  - Increased direct hit damage 600 ➞ 650
  - Increased indirect hit damage 510 ➞ 560
  - Increased reload speed by 10%
- Hail of Bombs
  - Decreased damage per explosion 390 ➞ 370
  - Reduced knockback per explosion by 25%

Bomb King

Abilities
- Sticky Bombs
  - Removed midair inaccuracy
Cards
- Shock and Awe
  - New: Increase your Movement Speed by {3|3}% for 4s after hitting at least one enemy with Detonate.
- Uncontrolled
  - New: Reduce your active Cooldowns by {8|8}% after getting an Elimination.

Buck

Cards
- Stomping Ground
  - New: Reduce all active Cooldowns by {12|12}% after getting an Elimination.

Cassie

Cards
- Megaton
  - Reworked
  - New: Increase the explosive radius of Blast Shot by {5|5}%.

Corvus

Cards
- Abyssal Effluxion
  - Decreased scaling {5|5}% ➞ {4|4}%
- Abyssal Shift
  - Increased scaling {5|5}% ➞ {6|6}%
- By My Will
  - Increased scaling {3|3} ➞ {4|4}
- Condemnation
  - Increased scaling {2|2}% ➞ {5|5}%
  - Increased the threshold requirement 60% ➞ 70%
- Crushing Expectations
  - Decreased scaling {3|3}% ➞ {2.5|2.5}%
- Grand Design
  - Decreased scaling {3|3}% ➞ {2.5|2.5}%
- New Resolve
  - Decreased scaling {50|50} ➞ {40|40}
- Ominous Relic
  - Increased scaling {2|2} ➞ {3|3}
- Shadow Tribunal
  - Increased scaling {2|2}% ➞ {2.5|2.5}%
- The Price of Salvation
  - Increased scaling {75|75} ➞ {80|80}
- Unexpected
  - Increased Ammo generated 8 ➞ 10

Dredge

Abilities
- Cursed Howitzer
  - Removed midair inaccuracy
- Harpoon
  - Removed midair inaccuracy
- Kraken
  - Reduced time to activate 1.7s ➞ 1.45s

Drogoz

Cards
- Thrill of the Hunt
  - New: Reduce the Cooldown of Thrust by {13|13}% after getting an Elimination.

Evie

Cards
- Avalanche
  - New: Increase your Movement Speed by {8|8}% for 4s after getting an Elimination.
- Impact
  - New: Reduce your active Cooldowns by {8|8}% after getting an Elimination.
- Killing Frost
  - New: Reduce the Cooldown of Soar by {13|13}% after getting an Elimination.

Fernando

Cards
- Last Stand
  - Reduced Healing scaling value {100|100} ➞ {90|90}
  - Reduced the active threshold 40% ➞ 35%
- Incinerate
  - Increased scaling value {0.4|0.4}s ➞ {0.45|0.45}s
- Hot Pursuit
  - No longer has an internal Cooldown before this effect can activate again.

Furia

Talents
- Solar Blessing
  - Increased Health every second 2000 ➞ 3000
  - Added a small 0.3s delay before which you cannot reactivate Pyre Strike
  - Added a minimum duration that Pyre Strike will exist in place after reactivation, regardless of the initial duration remaining.
Abilities
- Kindle Soul
  - Reduced the size of the targeting cone.

Grohk

Talents
- Spirit’s Domain
  - Increased Healing every second 750 ➞ 800

Grover

Talents
- Deep Roots
  - Reworked
  - New: Crippling Throw chains to nearby enemies up to 2 times, causing a Healing aura to manifest around them, Healing nearby allies for 150 every 0.5s for 2.5s.
- Rampant Blooming
  - Reworked
  - New: Heal for a burst of 500 and an additional 300 over 2s at your location when you finish Vining
Abilities
- Throwing Axe
  - Removed midair inaccuracy
- Blossom
  - Decreased burst Healing 800 ➞ 650
  - Now also applies a Healing over time effect for 300 over 2.5s on hit
  - Grover can now see his own Healing circle radius
- Crippling Throw
  - Increased damage 400 ➞ 425

Inara

Abilities
- Stone Spear
  - Removed midair inaccuracy

Jenos

Abilities
- Star Splitter
  - Increased damage 108 ➞ 115
- Through Time and Space
  - Increased damage 2400 ➞ 2650

Kinessa

Talents
- Oppression
  - Now also increases the Cooldown of Oppressor Mines by 2s.
Abilities
- Sniper Rifle (Carbine)
  - Decreased damage 180 ➞ 170
- Sniper Rifle (Sniper Mode)
  - Increased time to fully charge shot 1s ➞ 1.2s
  - Decreased accuracy in the air and after jumping
- Transporter
  - Reduced the time before you teleport 1.1s ➞ 0.95s
- Oppressor Mines
  - Mines will no longer target mounted enemies
  - Reduced projectile speed by 20%
- Headhunter
  - Added a 0.25s prefire
Cards
- Generator
  - Reduced scaling value {1.5|1.5}s ➞ {1.2|1.2}s
- Power Supply
  - Reduced scaling value {12|12}% ➞ {8|8}%

Koga

~~Cards~~
- ~~Gale Storm~~
  - ~~New: Generate {3|3}% Energy after hitting at least one enemy with Skewer.~~
Not implemented this update.

Lex

Abilities
- Retribution
  - Your marked target now has a UI element to indicate they’ve been chosen for Retribution.

Lian

Cards
- Inheritance
  - New: Reduce your active Cooldowns by {8|8}% after getting an Elimination.

Lillith

Abilities
- Heart of Crimson
  - Decreased knockback applied by your shots by 55%
- Blood Hex
  - Increased range 85 ➞ 95

Mal'Damba

Abilities
- Mending Spirits
  - Increased the Cooldown Reduction applied when you miss 1.75s ➞ 2s

Octavia

Abilities
- Marksman Rifle
  - Decreased damage 450 ➞ 435
  - Increased effective range 125 ➞ 150
  - Increased minimum damage done at maximum range 50 ➞ 55%
- Distortion Field
  - Decreased radius 25 ➞ 20
  - Reduced duration 4s ➞ 3.5s
- Commanding Leap
  - Players can now use the “Jump” keybind to stop in the air.

Pip

Talents
- Mega Potion
  - Increased bonus healing 115% ➞ 130%
- Combat Medic
  - Re-added self-knockback inflicted by Potion Launcher shots with this talent equipped.

Raum

Talents
- Subservience
  - Reworked
  - New: All your living allies are Healed for 2% of their maximum Health for each Soul Harvested.
    - This applies to all allies, regardless of range.

Rei

Talents
- Restraint
  - Spirit Link now no longer prioritizes allies over enemies.
Cards
- Refreshing Break
  - Reduced scaling value {0.2|0.2}% ➞ {0.17|0.17}%

Sha Lin

Talents
- Sand Trap
  - Now also increases the Cooldown of Impaler Arrow by 1s.

Skye

Talents
- Preparation
  - Reworked
  - New: While Hidden is active, reduce the damage you take by 75% and increase your Movement Speed by 20%, but reduce the maximum duration of Hidden to 2s. The duration of Hidden cannot be increased.
Abilities
- Wrist Crossbow
  - Increased the effective range 45 ➞ 55
    - NOTE: The description incorrectly stated that it had an effective range of 30. This was not the case.

Strix

General
- Base Health increased 2000 ➞ 2150

Tiberius

Abilities
- Bladed Chakrams
  - Increased damage on direct hit 650 ➞ 675
  - Increased damage on bounce 500 ➞ 525
- Heavy Blade
  - Increased projectile speed by 6%
- Crouching Tigron
  - Reduced Cooldown 14s ➞ 12s

Torvald

Abilities
- Recharge
  - Now affected by Guardian

Tyra

Abilities
- Auto Rifle
  - Increased damage 105 ➞ 115
Cards
- Trail Blazer
  - New: Generate {3|3} Ammo after getting an Elimination.

Vatu

Abilities
- Dash
  - Reduced effectiveness of the Damage Reduction during dash 60% ➞ 50%

VII

Talents
- Overcharged
  - Reduced the time before the damage occurs to 0.8s
Abilities
- Heavy SMG
  - Automatic
    - Increased damage 200 ➞ 210
    - Increased maximum range 175 ➞ 200
    - Increased effective range 100 ➞ 115
  - Burst
    - Increased damage 150 ➞ 165
  - Smoothed out the damage falloff curves for all fire modes
- Explosive Dodge
  - Can now dash in the air
    - Bombs will only spawn if close to the ground
  - Bombs spawned by Dash can now be shot and destroyed
    - They have 300 Health
- Decree 77
  - This Ultimate was incorrectly taking too long to charge its fear. It is now properly 0.35s

~~Cards~~
- ~~The Fear~~
  - ~~New: Reduce your active Cooldowns by {0.8|0.8}s after getting an Elimination while in Burst Mode.~~
Not implemented this update.

Viktor

Talents
- Burst Mode
  - Increased damage 200 ➞ 210
Abilities
- Assault Rifle
  - Increased damage 135 ➞ 140

Vivian

Abilities
- Light Machine Gun
  - Increased damage 160 ➞ 165
  - Increased effective range 90 ➞ 95

Vora

Abilities
- Deadly Scythe
  - Reduced projectile size by 10%

Yagorath

Talents
- Corrosive Acid
  - Increased Caustic Spray damage 40 ➞ 42
Abilities
- Caustic Spray
  - Increased damage 36 ➞ 38
- Form Swap
  - Reduced Cooldown 5s ➞ 4s
- Devour
  - Increased base Ultimate Health 3500 ➞ 3750
  - Reduced time after Ultimate breaks 2.5s ➞ 2s
  - Reduced time before the pull begins 1.1s ➞ 0.9s
  - Reduced minimum distance 50 ➞ 45 units

Ying

Talents
- Life Exchange
  - Now reduces the Cooldown of Shatter by 3s if you miss your Shatter Heal.

Zhin

Cards
- Fan the Flames
  - New: Reduce the Cooldown of Billow by {14|14}% after getting an Elimination.
- Heartless
  - New: Increase your Movement Speed by {6|6}% for 4s after getting an Elimination.

Bug Fixes

Champions

Betty La Bomba

Fixed an issue where Betty’s Queen of Diamonds and Royal Explosive skins did not display her grenades when using her Deadly Game Emote.

Cassie

Fixed an issue where the Tinder Cassie skin displayed and was used whenever the player attempted to use or equip the Timber skin.

Drogoz

Fixed an issue where Drogoz’s Decimate card applied its explosion radius increase effect to Rocket Launcher Weapon Shots instead of Salvo shots.

Imani

Fixed an issue where Imani’s Pyre Ball weapon VFX would get stuck on her hands if she interrupted the charge of her Weapon Shot with Inferno Cannon or Elemental Shift.

Lillith

Fixed an issue where Lillith’s Blood Hex ability was not scaling to 600 Healing on its last tick.

Moji

Fixed an issue where Moji’s Familiar Spit and Familiar Spray ability UI in the HUD would unnecessarily duplicate.

Saati

Addressed an issue where getting interrupted and killed during Saati’s Ultimate, Wallbang, could cause Saati to respawn without Pips and be unable to regenerate Pips for the remainder of the match.
Fixed an issue where Saati’s Dead Ringer ability would not spawn her cardboard cutout at the intended location.

Talus

Fixed an issue where Talus’ Monkey King and Wukong skins were using each other’s Loading Screen splash arts.

Yagorath

Fixed an issue where Yagorath’s Sight Begets Strength talent was not increasing the cooldown of Primal Vision when equipped.

Ying

Fixed an issue where Ying’s Jurassic skin had missing facial animations.

General

Fixed an issue where the Special Quest to “Watch for Free Rewards!” was missing messages and could not be completed.
Fixed an issue where the Friends List displayed that a player was in Match Lobby when they were actually in a Match.
Fixed an issue where the Win-Loss column for the Ranked Leaderboard UI had improper text scaling.
Fixed an issue where the Refer-A-Friend system sent players to a broken web page.
Fixed various collision issues in the Warder’s Gate map.
Fixed an issue where a purchased skin’s voice line was not playing upon purchasing that skin.
Fixed an issue where attempting to queue when you have a Deserter in your party would play an incorrect system message.
Fixed an issue where Gamepad players could not roll excess Diamond Troves, Golden Caches, or Flair and Style chests for Crystals if they owned all the items in those chests.
Fixed an issue where Audio lines in menus would play on top of each other instead of cutting themselves off when a new Audio line would begin to play.
Fixed an issue where PlayStation Crossplay Settings displayed broken text as one of their options in their Crossplay options.
Fixed an issue where the PlayStation controller UI display in Settings denoted the incorrect button as the Touchpad.
Fixed an issue where Champion hover states in some menus were not being put on the frontmost UI layer.
Fixed an issue where reminder messages could overlap in the Death Cam screen in matches.
Fixed an issue where Players could select Play while waiting to load into the Match Lobby of a Custom Game, causing them to not load the Match Lobby UI properly.
Fixed an issue where Players could select to Return to Lobby from Custom Games or Training Games multiple times in the same match.
Updated some UI in the Trials of the Realm screen to remove some irrelevant Gamepad callouts.
Updated some UI in the Quests screen to remove some irrelevant Keyboard and Mouse callouts when using Gamepad.
Updated some UI in the Play screen to prevent multiple hover states in the Regions sub-menu.

PTS Balance Changes

Androxus

Talents
- Cursed Revolver
  - Reduced maximum damage per hit 50 ➞ 30

Buck

Cards
- Stomping Ground
  - Increased scaling value {12|12}% ➞ {14|14}%

Corvus

Cards
- Crushing Expectations
  - Increased scaling {2.5|2.5}%➞ {3|3}%

Evie

Cards
- Killing Frost
  - Increased the scaling value {13|13}% ➞ {20|20}%

Furia

Abilities
- Pyre Strike
  - Reverted initial delay period during which you could not stop the beam

Grohk

Talents
- Totemic Ward
  - Reduced bonus to Area of Effect 25% ➞ 20%
- Maelstrom
  - Now also increases the damage of Lightning Staff to 75
Abilities
- Lightning Staff
  - Reduced damage per hit at base 75 ➞ 70
- Healing Totem
  - Reduced Healing 300 ➞ 270

Kinessa

Abilities
- Sniper Rifle
  - Reverted jump inaccuracy penalty
- Headhunter
  - Reverted the prefire on Headhunter
Cards
- Power Supply
  - Increased the time before this card can activate again after activation 15s ➞ 30s

Makoa

Abilities
- Cannon
  - Reduced Effective Range 80 ➞ 75 units

Saati

General
- Reduced base Health 2200 ➞ 2100

Skye

Talents
- Preparation
  - Increased maximum duration of Hidden 2s ➞ 3s

Ying

Talents
- Life Exchange
  - Reduced the benefit to Cooldown return on missing Shatter 3s ➞ 2s

Source

Paladins Version 5.4.4675.4

Event Pass Content

Instant Unlock

Level 9 Unlock

Level 19 Unlock

Level 29 Unlock

Other Event Pass Exclusive Unlocks

Sprays

Avatars

Death Stamp

Death Card

Loading Frame

Trials of the Realm

Unlocks

Sprays

Avatars

Limited Time Modes

Trade District Only

Test Maps

Support Skirmish

Customizations

Salem Seris

Qrow Branwen Corvus

Stellar Witch Lillith

Defragged Inara

Chests

Battle Pass 2020

Map Update - Trade District

General Updates

Expanded Custom Game Options

Item Store Auto-Buy

Unified Ability Order

Update Free Champion Roster

Balance

General

Items

Bug Fixes

Champions

Betty La Bomba

Cassie

Drogoz

Imani

Lillith

Moji

Saati

Talus

Yagorath

Ying

General

PTS Balance Changes