patch ID:70156

July 4th, 2025

By Yoshi at 1:03 PM

14 heroes 38 items

Original

General Changes

Bullet Cycle Time for all heroes increased by 5% (effectively reduces gun DPS globally by 5%)
Spirit bonus based on souls spent in the tree is increased by 25%
Ability base damage and AP bonus damage reduced by ~8% (spirit power growth unaffected)
Spirit gained from leveling reduced from 1.25 to 1.1
Ultimate cooldowns increased by 10% (affects base and upgrades, so the total CD with AP is 10% longer)
300 Souls Boon now gives an AP instead of an Ability Unlock
600 Souls Boon now gives an Ability Unlock instead of a AP
Small neutral camp bounty increased by 15%
Zip Line after taking Base Guardians in a lane increased from +120% to +140%
Zip Line after taking Base Guardians in a lane ramp up time reduced from 4s to 3s
Rejuv bonus duration changed from 4 minutes to 3/4/5
Rejuv trooper health bonus reduced from 200/230/260% to 170/200/230%
Mid Boss total bounty increased from 500 + 50/min to 2000 + 50/min (evenly split among the team that kills the boss, unrelated to rejuv secure)
Mid Boss shield regeneration changed from 100 + 8/min to 50 + 7/min
Mid Boss HP increased by 15%
Mid Boss warning sound now plays at 70% HP rather than 60%
Rejuv drop duration reduced from 8s to 7s
Mid Boss Spirit Resistance from abilities reduced from 30% to 20%
Mid Boss Spirit Resistance from items reduced from 50% to 20%
Walker Spirit resistance reduced from 30% to 25%
Guardian base resistance increased from 40% to 60% (decays 10 minutes still, same values as creeps)
Guardian total bounty reduced from 1650 to 1000
Walker total bounty reduced from 4500 to 3500
Base hero kill value reduced from 300 to 250 (still ramps to end value over 40 minutes, so primarily affects the very early phase)
End hero kill value increased from 2000 to 2200
Bullet Lifesteal vs creeps increased from 50% to 60%
Spirit Lifesteal vs creeps increased from 33% to 40%
Comeback values are now roughly 25% stronger (this was released before this patch in a recent update)
Fixed a bug causing soul orb shots towards the end of the contested window to not register as hits on the server
Fixed some AoE abilities not hitting midboss (Kelvin Frost Grenade, Lady Geist Blood Bomb, Holliday Barrel)
Fixed various camera issues with Calico's Ava Form and Viscous's Goo Ball
Fixed an issue where Souls were shared with anyone that punched a Sinner's Sacrifice, regardless of the duration or team
Fixed a bug where players could exit the map if they tried to teleport into specific corners
Express Shot cooldown reduced from 4s to 3s
Cultists Sacrifice: Cooldown reduced from 260s to 250s
Veilwalker: Heal now scales with boons (+3)
Cooldown Reduction stat is now renamed to Ability Cooldown Reduction and no longer affects items (all existing CDR is now Ability Cooldown Reduction)
Added a new T4 Spirit Item, Transcendent Cooldown. Builds from Superior Cooldown. Provides +30% Ability Cooldown Reduction and +30% Item Cooldown Reduction

Abrams patch history

Abrams

Shoulder Charge change history

Shoulder Charge

Shoulder Charge T3 increased from -18s to -22s

Infernal Resilience change history

Infernal Resilience

Infernal Resilience T3 increased from +6% to +7%

Infernus patch history

Infernus

Bullet damage growth per boon reduced from 0.16 to 0.12

Afterburn DPS

Afterburn DPS reduced by 13% (still affected by the global base reductions as well, so the total amount is larger than this. This applies to all other patch note lines that reduces damage as well)

Afterburn change history

Afterburn

Afterburn spirit scaling increased from 0.56 to 0.66

Flame Dash change history

Flame Dash

Flame Dash T2 DPS reduced by 10%
Flame Dash spirit power scaling increased from 0.7 to 0.8

Ivy patch history

Ivy

Bullet growth reduced from 0.16 to 0.15
No longer ignores shooting speed penalty

Kudzu Connection change history

Kudzu Connection

Watcher’s Covenant now grants the shooting speed benefit to you and your tethered ally

Kelvin patch history

Kelvin

Frozen Shelter change history

Frozen Shelter

Frozen Shelter now freezes Urn (like it does other objectives)

Lady Geist patch history

Lady Geist

Base bullet damage reduced from 23 to 21

Essence Bomb change history

Essence Bomb

Essence Bomb arming time increased from 0.5s to 0.65s

Malice change history

Malice

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

Soul Exchange change history