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First recorded: .
Ability descriptions
- Essence Bomb
- Sacrifice some of your health to launch a bomb that deals damage after a brief arm time. Self damage type is Spirit and can be mitigated.
- Life Drain
- Create a tether that drains enemy health over time and heals you. Target must be in line of sight and within max range to drain. You can shoot and use other abilities during the drain, but your move speed is reduced. to give health to friendly Heroes.
- Malice
- Sacrifice some of your health to launch blood shards that apply a stack of Malice. Each stack slows the victim and increases the damage they take from you. The slow effect decreases over time.
- Soul Exchange
- Swaps health levels with an enemy target. There is a minimum health percentage that enemies can be brought down to and a minimum amount of health received based on victims current health.
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Change History
2026
- Full patch
Life Drain
- Life Drain T3 spirit scaling increased from +0.3 to +0.45
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb T3 damage increased from 26% to 30%
- Full patch
Life Drain
- Life Drain changed from 75% Damage to Heal to 100%
Life Drain DPS
- Life Drain DPS reduced to provide the same effective heal as before but with less DPS
Malice
- Malice Damage amplification reduced from 8% to 7%
- Malice T3 increased from +7% Damage Amp to +8%
- Full patch
Life Drain
- Life Drain heal reduced from 80% to 75%
- Full patch
- Bullet damage rescaled from 21.94 + 0.946/boon to 20.7+1.0/boon
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange cooldown increased from 185s to 190s
- Full patch
- Gun Falloff reduced from 20->52 to 17->48
Life Drain
- Life Drain spirit scaling reduced from 0.536 to 0.43
- Life Drain T3 spirit scaling increased from +0.3 to +0.4
- Full patch
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb self damage changed from 30 + 1.8 scaling to 30% of the damage (base is 90 + 1.2 scaling)
- Essence Bomb radius reduced from 9m to 7m
- Essence Bomb cooldown reduced from 14.5s to 14s
- Essence Bomb T1 increased from -4s to -5s
- Essence Bomb T2 also increases radius by +2m
Life Drain
- Life Drain cooldown increased from 30s to 34s
- Life Drain break range reduced from 30m to 28m
- Life Drain T1 DPS increased from +16.2 to +18
- Life Drain T2 duration increased from +2s to +2.5s
- Life Drain T3 charges increased from +1 to +2
- Life Drain T3 now also increases spirit scaling by +0.3
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange cast time reduced from 0.2s to 0.1s
- Soul Exchange post cast hold time reduced from 0.7s to 0.2s
- Soul Exchange T1 cooldown increased from -35s to -60s
- Soul Exchange T2 changed from "On Cast: +35% Fire Rate for 8s" to "Silences enemies within 25m for 3s"
- Soul Exchange T3 changed from "Silences enemies within 25m for 3s" to "On Cast: +60 Spirit Power, +40% Fire Rate and +50% Spirit Resistance for 8s"
2025
- Full patch
- Ammo reduced from 10 to 9
- Bullet Falloff from 58m to 52m
- Full patch
- Stamina dash distance moved to bucket 3 (slower)
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb self damage spirit scaling reduced from 1.6 to 1.8
Malice
- Malice self damage increased from 7% to 9%
- Full patch
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange T3 radius increased from 15m to 25m
- Full patch
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb spirit scaling increased from 1.07 to 1.22
- Full patch
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb no longer sticks to units
- Essence Bomb cooldown increased from 10.5 to 14.5
- Essence Bomb radius increased from 7m to 9m
- Essence Bomb T1 changed from "+2m Radius" to "-4s Cooldown"
- Essence Bomb projectile speed increased by 25%
- Full patch
- Base bullet damage reduced from 23 to 21
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb arming time increased from 0.5s to 0.65s
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
- Soul Exchange cast range reduced from 6m to 5.5m
- Full patch
- Base bullet damage reduced from 26 to 23
Life Drain
- Life Drain self slow increased from 25% to 40%
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange cast range reduced from 7m to 6m
- Full patch
- Health per boon reduced from 86 to 82
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb self damage spirit scaling increased from 1.3 to 1.6
Life Drain
- Life Drain cast range reduced from 20m to 18m
- Full patch
Malice
- Malice now costs 6% of your Current HP
- Malice damage reduced from 32 to 25
- Malice damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.72 to 0.6
- T2 Malice reduced from 40 to 30
- Full patch
- Fixed some cases where Life Swap did not work
2024
- Full patch
Malice
- Malice can now secure orbs
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange T2 changed from "-10% Min Health" to "On cast +40% Fire Rate for 8s"
- Soul Exchange T3 changed from "On cast, +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resist for 8s" to "Silences enemies in 15m radius for 3s"
Life Drain
- Life Drain duration increased from 2s to 2.5s
- Life Drain T3 changed from "Enemy is Silenced while being Life Drained" to "Ability becomes charged and grants +1 Charge". You can cast multiple Life Drains at the same time on different targets, no Charge Time.
- Full patch
Essence Bomb Self Damage
- Essence Bomb Self Damage spirit scaling reduced from 2 to 1.8
- Full patch
Malice
- Malice slow reduced from 20% to 15%
- Malice debuff duration reduced from 13s to 9s
Malice Damage Amp
- Malice Damage Amp reduced from 15% to 8%
Malice
- Malice T2 now also increases damage amp by 7%
- Malice no longer causes you to un-zoom on cast
- Full patch
Essence Bomb
- Fixed a bug that could cause some units to take more damage than intended with Essence Bomb when multiple targets are hit
Life Drain
- Life Drain can now be alternate-casted on allied heroes
- Added double tap accidental protection for Life Drain to help against instant cancellations
Malice
- Malice slow duration reduced from 6s to 4s
- Malice amp duration reduced from 16s to 13s
- You can now see how many Malice stacks you have on you as the opponent
- Full patch
Life Drain
- Life Drain cooldown reduced from 42s to 30s
Malice
- Malice cooldown reduced from 6.25s to 6s
- Malice T1 improved from -2.75s Cooldown to -3s
Life Drain
- Fixed Life Drain not healing extra based on amplifications (like Soul Shredder and Malice stacks)
- Sprint increased from 1 to 1.5
- Full patch
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb T3 damage increased from 22% to 26%
- Essence Bomb spirit scaling increased from 1.05 to 1.15
Malice
- Fixed a recent bug with Malice that caused multiple blood shards to be absorbed by 1 hero rather than pass through and hit others (it didn't stack that way in any case)
Self Damage
- Self Damage no longer consumes shields (general change)
- Full patch
- Base sprint reduced from 2 to 1
- Full patch
- Base bullet damage reduced from 28 to 25
- Bullet damage growth increased from 1.84 to 2.1
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb T2 reduced from +70 to +60
- Essence Bomb T3 increased from 20% to 22%
Life Drain
- Life Drain self slow reduced from -40% to -25%
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange can be cast on enemies that are lower health. It will always steal a minimum of 30% of their current health.
- Full patch
Essence Bomb
- Essence Bomb no longer starts decaying the arm time while in the air
- Essence Bomb arm time reduced from 1s to 0.5s (this is a nerf for long distance bombs)
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange T3 changed to "After swap gain +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resistance for 8s"
- Full patch
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange cast time reduced from 0.5 to 0.2
- Full patch
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange cast time reduced from 0.65s to 0.5s
Malice
- Fixed Malice clipping aggressively against map geometry edges
- Full patch
Soul Exchange
- Soul Exchange now uses a new instant cast mechanism. When you are in range there is a valid target indicator.
- Full patch
Malice
- Malice now comes out quicker and no longer slows you
- Full patch
Blood Bomb
- Blood Bomb damage increased from 80 to 100
- Blood Bomb T2 damage increased from +65 to +70
Essence Bomb
- Blood Bomb tooltip fixed to reference the correct self damage type and that it can be reduced with armor
Malice
- Malice damage amp per shard increased from 10% to 15%