New Champion
Omen, Disciple of the Abyss
Lore
Omen was in search of greater power — the help his family deserved — when he climbed a flaming mountain looking for wisdom like that of Jenos. Instead of finding answers like that of Ascension Peak, he was met with a void of silence from the night sky. Lost in rage, he threw himself into the lava boiling below him. Before he perished, Nyx answered the prayers cosmic gods ignored. She granted him the power to do what he felt the gods should.
Now, as the Realm descends into chaos once more, Omen ascends from the Abyss to serve his Queen, joining the battle to see to the fall of Jenos and his home. Soon, they will all feel the wrath of a god.
Overview
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Damage - Health – 2200
Abilities
Talents
Cards
Weapon/Armor
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Everlasting Power Increase your Ultimate charge rate by {6|6}%. |
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More, More, More! Decrease your maximum Ammo by {scale=6|1}, but increase Aphotic Reaver’s Damage by {8|8}%. |
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Ominous Protection Increase your maximum Health by {50|50}. |
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Pure Aggression Increase your Movement Speed by {5|5}% for 4s after getting an Elimination. |
Deadly Domain
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Coming End Regenerate {1|1} Ammo every 0.5s for 1s after casting Deadly Domain. |
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Engulfing Mire Increase the deploy range of Deadly Domain by {10|10}%. |
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Ominous Protection Reduce the Cooldown of Deadly Domain by {0.5|0.5}s. |
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Noxious Guard Gain a {70|70} Shield for 3s after casting Deadly Domain. |
Gravity Vice
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Dark Leech Heal for {55|55} every 1s for 3s after activating Gravity Vice. |
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Everlasting Vision Increase the range at which you can use Gravity Vice by {10|10}%. |
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Void Choke Increase the base damage of Gravity Vice by {5|5}%. |
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Wrathful Descent Increase the Knockback strength of Gravity Vice by {10|10}%. |
Dark Stride
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Dusk Trail Heal for {15|15} each time Dark Stride’s trail deals damage to an enemy. |
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I Am Everywhere Increase your Movement Speed by {7|7}% for 3s after using Dark Stride. |
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Lightless Increase the duration of Dark Stride’s trail by {1|1}s. |
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Shaded Speed Increase the travel distance of Dark Stride by {10|10}%. |
Sands of Myth 2 Event Pass
Return through the sands of time to one of Paladins’ greatest Battle Pass themes in this new Event Pass! Fight as the visage of Sobek in Crocfather Makoa, or devote yourself to Sekhmet as Weaver Reborn Lillith, and progress this 30-tier event pass complete with a suite of 2D cosmetics, Chests, Crystals, and even a Mount!
General Updates
Champion Lore Descriptions
We’ve updated our Champion Lore descriptions for the first time in over 4 years! From Tiberius’ arrival to Omen’s attack on Ascension Peak – explore new story beats and hints of future tales for the 50 Champions given added context. We’d list them all out, but instead encourage players to read them for themselves and learn more about the Realm of Paladins!
Champion Loadout Orientation
In order to better unify our UI across aspects of the game, we’ve now changed how loadouts are displayed in the Champion screen to match the new orientation on the Playstyle screen. Reject verticality, embrace the horizontal.
Mode Rotation
Core Modes
For the Desert Omens patch, we’ve decided to try something different with Mode Rotation. Instead of rotating right at the start of the patch, we’ll be rotating during the middle of the Event Pass to provide a change in pace to players. So, in mid-September we will be rotating:
In Rotation: Siege, Onslaught, Team Deathmatch
Out of Rotation: King of the Hill, Payload
We know players have been passionate about Payload, so we wanted to assure you that it will return in the future rotation!
Limited Time Modes
Active from Friday – Monday 12 AM ET throughout the Desert Omens update:
New
Omens of Death
Unleash the fate that was foretold in this all-Omen LTM!
Floor is Lava: Redux
Return to Floor is Lava, now with more traversal options & improved platforms!
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Greatest Hits
- Cards to the Max
- Subway
- Sunday We Gonna
- Rapid Choose Any
- Test Maps
- It’s Treeson Then
- Hole in One
Ranked Rotation
With Desert Omens, we’re finally adding in Dawnforge to the Ranked rotation, while also giving some classics a bit of rest. Moving forward, we’ll be watching Ranked carefully & ensuring the playlist stays fresh.
Rotated out: Stone Keep, Jaguar Falls Rotated in: Dawnforge, Frozen Guard
Balance
General
Payload
Increased Anti-Healing scaling from 5% every 60s ➞ 40s
Champions
Androxus
- Talents
- Dark Stalker
- Increased cooldown from 5s ➞ 6.5s for each Nether Step
Ash
- Abilities
- Shoulder Bash
- Decreased cooldown from 14s ➞ 13s
Betty La Bomba
- Talents
- Fiery Disposition
- Reduced damage per tick from .3% ➞ .175%
- Abilities
- Hail of Bombs
- No longer applies knockback
Caspian
- Abilities
- Deadly Momentum
- Decreased cooldown from 14s ➞ 12s
Corvus
- Abilities
- Abyssal Reconstruction
- Increased healing over time from 350 over 0.5s ➞ 450 over 0.5s
- Mark of Fate
- Increased bonus healing by 5%
- Bonus for Marked allies when others healed is now 60% of healing
- Directly healing Marked ally now heals them for 15% bonus
- Increased bonus healing by 5%
Dredge
- Weapon
- Cursed Howitzer
- No longer deals self-damage to Dredge
Inara
- Abilities
- Earthen Guard
- Increased cooldown from 10s ➞ 11s
Io
- Abilities
- Lunar Leap
- Decreased cooldown from 12s ➞ 10s
- Moonlight
- Increased base passive regeneration by 30%
Lex
- Talents
- Discovery
- Reduced damage bonus from 25% ➞ 15%
Mal'Damba
- Health
- Increased from 2200 ➞ 2300
Nyx
- Abilities
- Rift Slash
- Fixed an issue where charged Rift Slashes were still applying 2s of Cripple with Show of Force
- Royal Presence
- Increased cooldown from 11s ➞ 13s
Octavia
- Abilities
- Distortion Field
- Increased cooldown from 16s ➞ 18s
- Cooldown now begins when Distortion Field is thrown
- This is to address a bug involving deployment of the Field
Terminus
- Movement Speed
- Increased from 345 ➞ 350
- This means Terminus now moves as fast as Champions like Inara
- Increased from 345 ➞ 350
Vora
- Talents
- Deafening Silence
- Increased Silence duration from 1.65s ➞ 2.5s
- Abilities
- Obliteration
- Decreased cooldown from 12s ➞ 11s
- Increased damage from 500 ➞ 600
Yagorath
- Abilities
- Form Swap
- Decreased cooldown from 2s ➞ 1s (In practice, this makes Form Swap instant)
Bug Fixes
General
- Fixed an issue where Deal of the Day would not allow players to redeem their ticket.
- Fixed a bug where the purchase button for skins showed 100 Crystals regardless of the actual price.
- Fixed an issue where the Eight Oceans Ruckus endscreen didn’t display a preview icon in the Store.
- Fixed an issue where Eight Oceans and Pirate’s Treasure Io weapons were swapped in selection icons.
- Fixed a bug where players could crash lobbies using invalid cosmetic configurations.
- Fixed an issue where longer Titles would be displayed off center on the versus screen.
- Fixed a bug where occasionally players would select a Champion but be unable to customize them.
- Fixed an issue where Auto Purchase wouldn’t occur on respawn.
- Auto Purchase will now check for potential purchases every time a player respawns
- Fixed an issue where players were able to block themselves & lose the ability to read their own messages.
- Fixed an issue on consoles where an irrelevant “Purchase” button prompt appeared in the Mastery screen for Champions.
- Addressed a bug where default Betty La Bomba’s weapon would occasionally not visibly load in.
Champions
Jenos
- Fixed an issue where Jenos would not play the proper firing animation while using his Binary Star talent.
Octavia
- Fixed an issue where Distortion Field wouldn’t recognize its ability has ended, causing players to be unable to use it again.
Ying
- Fixed a bug where her jump animation would no longer play after she casts Illusory Rift for the first time in a game.
Hotfix Notes
General
Crashes
- Fixed an issue where Cosmic or Obsidian Inara’s weapon could crash instances
- These items have been reenabled
- Fixed an issue where players would crash on the main menu if they had Deserter
- Still don’t leave your games, it’s a real Abyss move.
Systems
- Fixed an issue where rewards from Anniversary Pass were still earnable
- Champion & Skin tokens are still spendable as intended.
- Fixed an issue where the Sands of Myth II Event Pass timer was set to 0
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to spectate others
- Thank you for the extended patience as we implemented multiple fixes to this system. It’s a legacy feature that requires a lot of upkeep to function, so we apologize for extended downtime.
Champions
Kinessa
- Fixed an issue where Kinessa’s passive wasn’t showing players they were revealed.
Omen
- Fixed an issue where Gravity Vice would leave players in a bugged state when attempted on CC Immune, countering, or shielding targets.
- Fixed an issue where Heavens’ Asunder was still dealing damage after the visual effect was gone.
- Fixed an issue where Dark Stride’s trail would ignore Damage Immunity
- Fixed an issue where Aphotic Reaver’s range dropoff was much quicker than intended
- He now shares the damage dropoff of Lian
- Fixed an issue where Omen lacked any footstep audio
- He now has an ominous hum to him.
Cosmetics
- Fixed an issue where Omen’s cosmetics lacked an obtainability description.
- Fixed an issue where Crocfather & Cold Blooded Makoa had their cannonballs under their models.