Paladins – Constellations Patch Notes | Caspian, the Master Thief!

Introduction

Introducing the newest addition to the Paladins roster: Caspian, the Thief of Hearts (and Treasure). This dashing rogue brings a captivating performance to the battlefield, showcasing deadly skills and a quicksilver tongue that will leave you mesmerized. Armed with arcane weapons and streetwise knowledge, Caspian takes what he wants and generously shares it – but only if he likes you, of course.

However, Caspian’s latest adventure takes a treacherous turn when he stumbles upon a dangerous abyssal artifact (just lying around, as luck would have it). Now, he must navigate the perils that lie ahead to survive. But who said the pursuit of hedonistic perfection was ever easy?

In terms of gameplay, Caspian assumes the role of a Flank, with a health pool of 2100. His primary weapon, Love, allows him to consume 3 ammo to fire his gun, dealing 350 damage per shot and slowing enemies hit by 10% for 2 seconds. Love also shares an ammo pool with his alternate fire, War. Additionally, hitting an enemy with Love grants Caspian a stack of Piercing Momentum, increasing the rate of fire of War by 8% for 5 seconds, with a maximum of 5 stacks. On the other hand, War allows Caspian to attack with his Rapier in a chain of attacks, dealing up to 350 damage per hit to enemies within 65 units. Hitting an enemy with War grants him a stack of Sharp Momentum, increasing the rate of fire of Love by 8% for 5 seconds, with a maximum of 5 stacks. Each stack expires independently, adding a strategic element to Caspian’s gameplay.

Get ready to be enchanted by Caspian’s charm and skill as he steals hearts (and treasure) in the latest update to Paladins.

NEW CHAMPION: CASPIAN, THE THIEF OF HEARTS (AND TREASURE)

There are few still alive with the skill… the alluring performance — nay! the enrapturing, dazzling SPECTACLE that is what sights behold you when witnessing this dashing rogue’s deadly skills and quicksilver tongue in action. Blessed with arcane weapons and years of streetwise knowledge and training, he takes what he wants and gives some of it away – if he likes you, of course.

Recently finding himself in possession of an abyssal artifact most would deem too dangerous to handle (Hey, it was just lying around!), Caspian, Thief of Hearts (and Treasure) will have his work cut out for him to survive what comes next.

The pursuit of hedonistic perfection is a dangerous occupation, but when has that ever stopped anyone?

OVERVIEW

Role

• Flank

Health

• 2100

TALENTS

CARDS – WAR

CARDS – LOVE

CARDS – ROGUE’S TEMPO

CARDS – DEADLY MOMENTUM

COSMETICS

Change of Heart Caspian (Limited)

• Unlocked through Season Pass 2022
• This skin will become unobtainable after Season Pass 2022 has finished.

Free Spirit Caspian

• Unlocked through Season Pass 2022
• Can be purchased directly for 300c/60,000g

Golden Caspian

• Reach level 50 with Caspian

EMOTES

Default

At Your Service – Available with 2022 Season Pass

MVP POSES

Default

Thoroughly Engaged – Available with 2022 Season Pass

Tap into power from beyond the stars in our latest Event Pass – Starforged! Instantly unlock the Cosmic Titan Terminus skin for purchasing, and unlock a total of 24 levels of rewards as you play!

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

REWARDS

Instant Unlock

• 50% Experience & Gold Boost
• Cosmic Titan Terminus

Level 12 Unlock

• Mei Zhin

Level 21 Unlock

• Nova Mei Zhin

Level 24 Unlock

• Super Nova Terminus

OTHER EVENT PASS EXCLUSIVE UNLOCKS

• Animated Avatar – Io Love You
• Static Avatar – Stellar Gaze
• Static Spray – Eyes of Eternity
• Static Avatar -Echoes of Ascension
• Animated Spray – Ponder
• Yagorath Emote – Carnage Dance
• Loading Frame – Cosmic Forces

TRIALS OF THE REALM

UNLOCKS

• 300 Crystals
• 120,000 Gold
• 6x Event Pass Levels
• Event Pass Team Boosters
• Skin Boosters

MVP – Peek A Boo

Static Avatar – Feeling Cute

Animated Avatar – A-Vora-Ble

Static Spray – Cosmic Cuteness

Loading Frame – Big Smile

Announcer Pack – Saati

3D Spray – Black Hole

LIMITED TIME MODES

The Constellations 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:

Rogues in Rouge

• Unleash chaos and thievery in this Caspian-only mode, featuring all abilities reduced by 20% on a variety of maps!

Floor is Lava

• Don’t slip! Try and reach the high ground in this special variation on Primal Court, with moving lava that deals damage over time!

Cards to the Max

• Your power knows no limits! All equipped champion cards are upgraded to level 7 in this chaotic mode on Team Deathmatch maps!

CUSTOMIZATIONS

 Yellow Jacket Willow

Cuddly Yagorath

• Diamond Trove Chest & Direct Purchase for 800c

Pale Eyes Frost Dragon

• Refer – A – Friend

Interstellar Stallion

• DLC

Golden Viktor

• Reach Mastery Level 50 on Viktor

Golden Tyra

• Reach Mastery Level 50 on Tyra

CHESTS

• Diamond Trove Expansion
  • Cuddly Yagorath

GENERAL UPDATES

DAILY QUEST IMPROVEMENTS

Secret internal data suggests that many players never do quests or get the rewards, so we’ve made some changes to the system to both better surface Quests, and also made some changes to how it works.

• 3 Quests that are randomly Easy or Hard will now instead be
  • 3 Easy Quests Per Day
  • 2 Hard Quests Day
  • A Bonus reward for completing Quests in streaks of 1, 2, or 3 weeks

This will increase the max daily rewards.

Current rewards:

• 300,000 XP
• 1,500 Gold
• 180 Bounty Coins

New Rewards:

• 375,030 XP
• 1,965 Gold
• 225 Bounty Coins

SCHISM 3 – SIEGE OF ASCENSION PEAK

We’ve long heard community requests to bring back some game modes out of Paladin’s history. Looks like Atlas managed to conjure this one out of the ether, so in lieu of a 3rd Siege: Beyond variant, we hope you’ll enjoy this blast from the past!

• Join the fight and turn the tide of battle in favor of the Paladins, or defeat Jenos on behalf of House Aico. Players will be assigned to represent either the Paladins or the Magistrate. Your mastery of each Champion will see you through to victory! Be Careful! Magistrate forces have Ascension Peak under constant fire. Dodge the explosives crashing down all around you. The ascendance of Jenos has affected the battlefield. All Champions have 15% Cooldown Reduction–can you handle your newfound power?

RANKED SPLIT UPDATES

SPLIT REWARDS

RANKED MAP ROTATION

•  For this ranked rotation, we will be removing Fish Market, Ice Mines, and Timber Mill, and bringing back the new Warder’s Gate rework.
• This patch’s casual siege rotation has also been modified to accommodate this change. In other words, while all casual maps will remain playable, some map percentages have been lowered and increased in-line with the current ranked rotation and community feedback.
  

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BALANCE CHANGES

Androxus

• Talent
  • Cursed Revolver
    • Duration reduced from 2s ➡️ 1.3s
    • Base Damage increased from 10  ➡️ 11
    • Damage increase per tick increased from +1/tick ➡️ 1.5/tick

Drogoz

• Abilities
  • Fire Spit
    • Projectile Size increased from 3 ➡️ 4.2
  • Thrust
    • Increased forward distance by 87.5% at base.
  • Propel
    • Current Increased the forward distance of Thrust by {25|25}%.
    • New ➡️: Restore {10|10}% of your maximum Booster fuel after using Thrust.

Evie

• Abilities
  • Blink
    • ➡️ Now heals for 100 after casting.
• Cards
  • Avalanche
    • Increase your Movement Speed by {8|8}% for 4s after getting an Elimination. ➡️ 6s
  • Cold Blooded
    • Reduce the Cooldown of Ice Block by {1|1}s ➡️ (1.25s|1.25}s
  • Flicker
    • Heal for {50|50} after using Blink. ➡️ {30|30}
  • Frigid Field
    • Heal for {50|50} every 1s while Ice Block is active. ➡️ {60|60}
  • Howling Gale
    • Increase your Movement Speed by {10|10}% for 4s after Ice Block ends ➡️ {15|10}%

Koga

• Cards
  • Criminal Record
    • Reduce energy gain on Killing Blows {15|15}% ➡️ {12.5%|12.5%}
  • Gale Storm
    • Gain {5|5}% Lifesteal while in Dragon Stance. ➡️ {3.5% | 3.5%)

Lillith

• Ability
  • Heart of Crimson
    • ➡️ No longer causes knockback.

Makoa

• Talent
  • Half Shell
    • Now also reduces cooldown from 14s ➡️ 12s

Mal’Damba

• Ability
  • Gourd
    • Area Damage increased from 45 / 0.2s ➡️ 55 / 0.2s.

Saati

• Ability
  • Dead Ringer
    •  Landing a killing blow on the Dead Ringer decoy will reveal that enemy to Saati for 3s ➡️ 0.5s
  • Cards
    • Designer Armor
      • Increase your maximum Health by {50|50}hp ➡️ {40|40}hp
    • Hide
      • Increase the duration of Saati’s invisibility by {0.15|0.15}s ➡️ {0.125|0.125}s after deployment of Dead Ringer.

Skye

• Talent
  • Debilitate
    • Increase the damage done by Poison Bolts by 25% and the rate at which they deal damage by 100%. ➡️ 75%

Strix

• Abilities
  • Flare
    • Cooldown sped up from 15s ➡️ 12s
  • Flashbang
    • Damage Increased from 150 ➡️ 250

Vatu

• Ability
  • Shadow Bombs
    • Cooldown sped up from 10s ➡️ 8s

VII

• Ability
  • Heavy SMG
    • Automatic
      • Reduced damage from 210 ➡️ 200

Ying

• Talent
  • Life Exchange
    • Healing Increased 700 ➡️ 800
    • ➡️ No longer increases the cooldown by 1s.
• Cards
  • Efficiency
    • Reduce the Cooldown of Dimensional Link by {1|1}s. ➡️ {1.25|1.25)

BUG FIXES

CHAMPIONS

• Androxus
  • Fixed an issue where the animations for Androxus’ Revolver weapon were not in sync with the Godslayer or Defiant Fist talent equipped.
• Betty La Bomba
  • Fixed an issue where Betty’s Ultimate, Long Live the Queen, could be canceled early by Khan’s Commander’s Grab ability.
• Bomb King
  • Fixed an issue where the Twitch Prime King skin would not display properly in 1P.
• Cassie
  • Fixed an issue where Cassie’s Crossbow could clip through her model badly during certain emotes.
• Corvus
  • Fixed an issue with some of Qrow Branwen’s animations.
  • Fixed an issue where using Corvus’ emotes in specific ways could cause his weapon to disappear in 3P.
• Saati
  • Fixed an issue where Saati’s Ricochet ability could target Ethereal targets.
• Talus
  • Fixed an issue where the cloud in Talus’ Nimbus Emote could disappear after a certain amount of time.
• Yagorath
  • Addressed an issue where Yagorath could miss her Ultimate, Devour, more often than expected.

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where audio effects from Champions would not play correctly
• Fixed an issue where the Friends List count counted friend requests.
• Fixed an issue where turning on Autobuy in a match could cause players to spend more Credits than they had available.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Trials of the Realm on Frog Isle, playing with Terminus will not update the 15k Damage with Reanimate is not updating correctly
• Trials of the Realm on Jaguar Falls, playing with Moji will not update the Use Snack Time 5 Times