Closed Alpha Test 2.15

Highlights

• New 5v5 map layout is testable (select TEST 5v5 in map dropdown)

• New Vessel: Fralnir, Soul of the Hoarfrost Guardian [Battle Mage]

• New rewards from hydra and dragon: basic gem system, black shards have been retired

New Items

• New Parts and Waystones have been added to round out recipes

• Shield Basher (Shield Damage)

• Skinning Knife (Jungling speed)

• Kalgaran Chain Axe (Mobility)

• Diver Helmet (Diving)

• Lamprey (Sustain)

• Wardruid's Mantle (Sustained Fighting)

• Hellhands (Waveclear and max Health Damage)

• Goliath Gauntlets (Sustain and Health Damage scaling)

• Nightcutter (Burst Damage)

• Seismic Core (Waveclear + CC)

• Rallying Crest (CC Support)

• Dawn and Dusk (Damage Support)

• Mitre of Saints (Damage Support)

• Apostles' Tome (Heal Support)

• Windhopper's Cane (Artillery)

• Belladonna Gloves (Damage over Time)

• Nerumian Mending Beads (Sustain)

• Telsamar Coghammer (Basic Attack affinity)

• Templar's Flail (Damage from Resource)

• Chains of the Taskmaster (Spellslinger)

• Dread Orb (Resource Damage Scaling)

• 5H-RED-3R (Physical Caster Damage)

• Glitter Bomb (areal stealth reveal)

Item Changes

• Many Items have gotten their recipes and stat lines adjusted

• Severed Isles Impaler now stack Magic Resistance instead of Physical Power

• Stonewall Crown and Antimagic Headguard now grant their shield before dropping below 25% and before suffering the respective damage

• Embrace of the Forest now heals when being healed or shielded

• Branch of the World Tree now grants a shield based on spent resource

• Paindrinker now grants on kill via any damage and deals damage on Shimmer procc

• Master Magicians Mantle passive has been reverted to reduce cooldowns of spells on spell cast

• Hammer of Conviction is now manually activated

• Doom Lance now applies a mark separately from the slow, which gets used up to do the bonus damage

• Thuulian Ripdagger now reduces flat armor instead of percentage

• Hortax Circlet now deals damage around the user instead of the spell location and is increased against minions

• Juncture Band has a new passive granting delayed damage based on damage dealt to a target in a short amount of time

• Glacial Pauldrons attack speed reduction now scales with bonus resource

• Ring of the King's threshold is now based on Ethereal Power

• Pocket Singularity now shares cooldown with Telsamar Timedialator and puts the user in stasis

• Skull of Impending Doom can not be cancelled by the user anymore but grants them immunity to Crowd Control during the cast time

• Spikethorn Shoulderpads' damage reflection ramps up now

• Tolundir Helmet is now a starter item

• Wardancer's Boots' passive now grants attackspeed instead of movement speed

• Southern Gladius now deals bonus damage with basic attacks with a cooldown

• Prayer Beads now grant resource regeneration based on missing resource

• Barbarian Ornament now grants resource on auto attacks

• Soulfire Staff now grants resource on level up based on max resource

• Chaos Blade now burns resource on hit

Visuals, Sound and UI

• Xelv voice lines have been added

• tooltips now show "bonus" instead of ' for bonus value scalings

• some scroll vfx have been improved

• some spells now play a sounds when they start casting, not only when they finish (this will be improved for all spells over time)

• item stats now always show in a defined order

Gameplay

• block rating no longer reduces onhit damage

• krieg passive now constantly lowers r cooldown over time at max stacks instead of instant reset

• parrying dagger stacks dont reset anymore

• uzai hook changes your direction towards the unit now

• hydra spells have been reworked to be more fair

• dragon is now harder to kite

Bug fixes

• fixed thundergod unique tag duplicate in tooltip

• fixed xelv passive not mentioning q being able to proc it

• fixed shizu passive proccing off stuff other than shizu basic attacks

• fixed games permanently hanging if they get paused after a nexus has died

• fixed morning star vfx

• fixed neri f projectile icon missing

• fixed startetr items counting as basic attacks instead of on hit

• fixed lodwig w recast not consuming when close to target

• fixed faceless carving not ticking on start

• fixed syn passive not mentioning missing health damage

• fixed chainbreaker not showing as active item

• fixed buildpath not showing correct amount of items in teaminventory (like obsidian shards in chaos stone)

• fixed synestra w reset not scaling with cdr

• fixed being able to unlock zoom in builds

• fixed xelv q not critting

• fixed shizu passive proccing on other onhit triggers than shizu basic attack

• fixed bloodstone buff tooltip and icon

• fixed some invalid damage classes on various effects

• fixed expected ticks on short buffs sometimes not applying the last tick

Lobby fixes

• profanity will no longer be allowed in player names and lobby titles

• fixed an issue that could cause lobbies to become unstartable

• fixed pending lobby invites not being removed after a lobby is closed

• fixed lobby invites not properly showing a reason when they can't be accepted

• fixed position selection showing players from last game

• fixed position selection updates changing the role of all players on the team

• fixed time stamp problems with messages in lobbies

• fixed messages being replayed multiple times when joining a lobby

• fixed a situation where you could be disconnected from the lobby but not be moved back to login screen

• fixed an issue where someone declining an invite would cancel an active queue pop