Thanatos Patch 9-9-2013

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The Underworld Beckons: Thanatos and Nightmare Hades
by Hirez Maria | Sep 18, 2013

New God: Thanatos

(Passive)

Enemy gods within his ultimateexecute threshold are revealed to Thanatos. Dealing the killing blow to enemies also empowers Thanatos, granting him health based on the max hp of his target. HP Restore (Gods): 20% of target max HP. HP Restore (Minions): 10% of targetmax HP.

Thanatos flings his scythe at an enemy, dealing damage and an additional 10% of the targetcurrent health against enemy gods. Enemies hit are slowed for 3s and heal Thanatos based on damage dealt. Consumes 10% of Thanatosmax hp when used. Damage: 100/170/240/310/380 (+60% of your physical power). Bonus Damage (Gods): 10% of current HP. Healing: 50% of damage dealt. Slow: 20%. Cost: 25/35/45/55/65. Cooldown: 13s.

Thanatos senses death, removing and gaining immunity to slow effects and gaining move speed and physical penetration for 6s. His move speed bonus doubles when moving toward an enemy god within the instant kill threshold of his ultimate. By Consumes 5% of Thanato max hp when used. Penetration: 15/20/25/30/35. Move Speed: 10/15/20/25/30%. Bonus Speed (Low Health): 10/15/20/25/30%. Cost: 20/25/30/35/40. Cooldown: 13s.

Thanatos swings his scythe, dealing physical damage and silencing enemies he hits. Thanatos moves at a reduced rate while swinging. Consumes 5% of Thanatos max hp when used. Damage: 100/150/200/250/300 (+80% of your physical power). Silence Duration: 0.5/.75/1.00/1.25/1.5s. Cost: 25/30/35/40/45. Cooldown: 15s.

Thanatos flaps his wings and goes airborne for 5s, unable to be hit. During this time, he move unimpeded with additional speed and can click to pounce to his target location, dealing damage. Enemies below a health threshold are instantly killed. All others are stunned. Consumes 15% of Thanatos max hp when used. Damage: 90/125/160/195/230 (+80% of your physical power). Kill HP Threshold: 24/28/32/36/40%. Stun Duration: 1s. Bonus Move Speed: 100%. Cost: 40/50/60/70/80. Cooldown: 90s.

New Skins:

Nightmare Hades
Soul Harvester Thanatos
Golden Bastet
Golden Hercules
Golden Chang'e(for real this time).

Voicepacks:

Thanatos
Ra
Vamana (incuding Lil Mana)

Play Menu and Match Queues:

- All timed queues under the NORMAL tab of the PLAY menu are now configured so that players will ONLY get matches within their preferred region. That is, people whose preferred region is North America will only get matches on North American servers (and Europeans will only get matches on European servers). At some off hours, players may find that they will get better matches if they switch to the other region.

- The Mastery/Worshipper system has been revised. You continue to reach Mastery Rank 1 at 100 Worshippers, but there are now three ranks prior to Mastery Rank 1 (Acolyte, Neophyte and Adept), as follows:

Acolyte: 10 Worshippers
Neophyte: 25 Worshippers
Adept: 50 Worshippers

- The tab on the PLAY menu has been renamed to NORMAL The COMPETITIVE tab has been removed.

- A new queue named CONQUEST SOLO has been added under the NORMAL tab of the PLAY menu. This queue is designed to provide the highest quality matches for experienced Conquest players. The queue has these attributes:

- You must join the queue solo (you cannot join in a party).

- In order to join the queue, you must have at least 12 Gods at ADEPT level (that is, you have accrued at least 50 worshippers on 12 different gods). Not that at a future point this requirement may change to require 12 gods at Master Rank 1.

- Once in the match lobby, you may only select gods for which you are at ADEPT level. That is: Players are only allowed to play gods that they are experienced with.

- The queue uses draft mode, with one ban allowed per team.

- God Trading is allowed in the match lobby, but only if both players have both gods at the correct mastery level.

- Top 200 Player Rankings will be published for this queue.

- For this queue, Worshiper rewards are increased by 20%.

- The newest god will still be banned for play in this queue through a cooldownperiod (usually one to two weeks).

General:

- Active items can now be sold for a full refund up until the point one of the following conditions is met:

The user leaves the Item Store volume (the Fountain).
The active item is used.

- A variety of minor usability improvements have been made to the Party Management system.

- Fixed an issue in Arena in which players could get stuck behind the portals.

- Fixed an issue where effects would disappear from player meshes when the mesh is hidden from camera penetration.

- All gods are now categorized into one and only one role, chosen from the following classifications: Hunter, Assassin, Warrior, Tank, Mage, Support.

- Visual effects for Recall have been improved to give an indication of when the base teleport will occur

- The stat caps have been increased for these stats:

Cooldown Reduction - Increased from 35% to 40%.
Critical Strike Chance - Increased from 80% to 95%.
Lifesteal - Increased from 65% to 100%.

- The god rotation has been changed to , , , and

Spectator:

- Fixed an issue in which the wrong team would display on End of Match Screen.

Active Items:

- The cooldown has been reduced from 240/180/120s to 180/150/120s.
- An issue has been fixed that now allows you to use Aegis Amulet while firing a channeled ability, cancelling the channeled ability and making you immune.
- Now forces Guan Yu to dismount his horse when used while the ultimate is firing.

blink

- There is a new 3rd tier icon for this ability.
- No longer usable when crippled.
- The time required to be out of combat was not working as intended and was requiring players to be out of combat for 10/9/8s before being able to use Blink. This has now been fixed and now requires you to be out of combat for 5/4/3s.

- No longer usable when Crippled.
- The cooldown has been increased from 120s to 180s.

- The 3rd tier of this item has been renamed to Weakening Curse and has a new icon.
- The healing debuff has been increased from 50% to 100%

- Tier 1 - The cooldown for placing a ward has been reduced from 90s to 60s.
- Tier 2 - This now deploys a sentry ward instead of a normal ward.
- Tier 3 - This ward no longer requires line of sight to detect enemy players and wards.

- The 3rd tier of this item has been renamed to Girdle of Support.
- The buffs for each tier have changed:
- Tier 1

FROM: +10 Physical Power, +5% Physical Power, +20 Magical Power, +5% Magical Power
TO: +10% Physical and Magical Power

- Tier 2

FROM: +20 Physical Power, +10% Physical Power, +40 Magical Power, +10% Magical Power
TO: +15% Physical and Magical Power

- Tier 3

FROM: +30 Physical Power, +15% Physical Power, +60 Magical Power, +15% Magical Power
TO: +20% Physical and Magical Power

- Tier 3

The buff has changed:
FROM: +30 Physical Power, +15% Physical Power, +60 Magical Power, +15% Magical Power
TO: +20% Physical and Magical Power

meditation

- There is a new 3rd tier icon for this ability.

Consumables:

- The color of this ward has changed to purple.
- The price has been increased from 75g to 135g.
- The lifetime has been increased from 90 seconds to 3 minutes.
- The radius of the Sentry Wards has been reduced from 85 feet to 60 feet.

teleport

- The price has been increased from 150g to 200g.
- The teleport no longer places you inside the tower.

- The color of this ward has changed to blue.

Items:

- An issue has been fixed where this item wasnt mitigating true damage.

Gods:

General:
- An issue has been fixed where his basic attack was being considered a hard CC for checking against items like Magis Blessing.

PASSIVE -
- All of spear attacks now reduce the enemy physical protection by 15 instead of reducing the enemy physical power by 15%.

Spirit's Tempest
- The cooldown on this ability has been reduced from 90s to 80s.
- The delay between the time that the ability is fired and the spirit starts hitting has been reduced by 0.2s.

- The mana cost per second has been increased from 50 to 60 mana.

- The broodlings now start weaker with lower health pools and gain health later.

- Before - 200 hp at all ranks.
- Now - The hp scales per rank of the ability from 100/175/250/325/400.

- The base damage and healing of this ability has been reduced from 30/40/50/60/70 to 20/30/40/50/60.
- The physical power contribution of the damage on this ability has been increased from 15% to 25% per tick.
- The physical power contribution of the healing on this ability has been increased from 5% to 10% per tick.
- Fixed an issue where she could attach to Aphrodite at a great distance during her ultimate.
Tangled Web
- This ability no longer cripples her enemies.

- An issue has been fixed that had Shackles lifestealing at 100% instead of 33%.

- The physical power contribution has been increased from 30% to 50%.
- The mana cost has been reduced from 70/80/90/100/110 to 60/65/70/75/80.

General
- New ground targeters (Ult coming soon)
- Updated loading screen card

- Friendly players that are in the process of being grabbed (such Fenrir - grabbing a friendly or Arachne grabbing an enemy) are now valid targets.

- The amount of damage mitigated ha s been increased from 5% to 7% when Tipsy and 10% to 14% when Smashed.

- This ability has been changed to reduce the physical protection of the - targets by 20 instead of lowering their damage dealt.

- This ability now applies Cripple to all enemies caught within the radius.
- The amount of time that Bakasura is doing cone attacks during this ability has been properly set to 6s, as intended. The previous time was 4s.
- The minions that are regurgitated are now a standard regurgitated melee minion independent of the minions eaten. and can surround the enemy

Cat Call
- The protections on the summoned cats has been changed from a flat 20 for all ranks to 20/30/40/50/60.

- Improved FX on build up.

General
- New Ground Targeters

- The base damage has been reduced from 50/65/80/95/110 to 45/60/75/90/105.
- The magical power contribution has been reduced from 35% to 30% per tick.

General
- New Ground Targeters

PASSIVE -
- This ability has been changed to give a 50% critical strike chance buff on the next basic attack within 3s after an ability is used.

General
- New Ground Targeters

PASSIVE - Enrage
- This ability has been changed so that she always gains 20% lifesteal for 5s when dropping below 25% health that refreshes as her health stays low.

Kali Rage
- The cooldown of this ability has been changed from 15s at all ranks to 15/14/13/12/11s.

- The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 90/85/80/75/70s to 80/75/70/65/60s.

Decoy
- The base damage of this ability has been reduced from 90/155/220/285/350 to 75/125/175/225/275.

- An issue has been fixed that was removing Loki from invisibility when he used consumables and active items.

- This ability no longer bounces to the same target twice.

- The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 18/17/16/15/14s to 13s at all ranks.

- The slow has been Increased from 30% to 50% at all ranks.
- The passive protection now includes magical as well as physical.
- An issue has been fixed where the tooltip was reporting incorrect values.

- The protections gained inside the ring are also gained by any allies inside the ring as well. This does not pertain to the CC immunity.

- The physical and magical power buff and debuff has been removed from this ability.
- The base healing has been increased from 15/25/35/45/55 per tick to 20/30/40/50/60.
- The magical contribution of the healing has been increased from 10% to 15%.

- Thor can no longer teleport to his hammer when affected by Cripple.

(Guard Stance)
- The base healing has been increased from 30/45/60/75/90 to 45/65/85/105/125 per target, up to 3.
- The physical power scaling has been increased from 15% to 50% per target.

- This ability can now be fired while Crippled.

- This ability no longer pushes him backwards.
- The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 13s to 9/8/7/6/5s.
- The base damage of this ability has been decreased from 85/145/205/265/325 to 65/95/125/155/185.

- The ground target was incorrectly smaller than the actual ability and has been fixed.

General
- His base mana has been increased from 185 to 200.
- His mana per level has been increased from 30 to 32.
- His base physical protection has been increased from 21 to 23.

- The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 11s to 8s.
- The magical power contribution has been increased from 60% to 70%.

- An issue has been fixed where the tooltip was showing incorrect mana costs for the ability.

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I'm already gunna make a guide for him :D

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UnknownPandr... I'll be watching you.

This patch is amazing. I love the changes that they're making and Thanatos seems to be done very well.

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Okay, time for my pre-patch synopsis!

That Thanatos kit... why am I suddenly being reminded of release-week Darius from LoL? *shudders*

Next, the changes... What the hell Hi-Rez? She was already one of the worse assassins out there, whose only niche was her strong early game, and now you're taking away the one thing she had going for her? Not just that, but you're also taking away her cripple without re-expanding the web radius to the pre-cripple size? This has to be the worst thing that has ever happened to the spider since .

Speaking of nerfing early games, seems to be the next step of that pattern, no longer giving base increases, just %age boosts. Not just that, it greatly hurts lanes that used to use this with magical and tank gods, who will no longer benefit from this in the beginning.

Blink nerf was needed after the overbuffing. buff is just as questionable as the one: both items were already must-haves, and already rendered a lot of ultimates like useless.

now complete nulls healing. A much-needed change, especially for the Assault gametype to make things more fair against teams with healers.

Yet another change to the stat caps! This time, we can now stack more CDR (again), and our crit rates can go up to 95%. This is most likely in response to a certain buff which I'm going into soon enough...

buff was long overdue. Now his ultimate might actually be more reliable without needing to rely on to fetch him kills (I'm lookin' at you, Jararo!)

nerf is not gonna change anything. At most he's gonna lose what, one second of airtime with that increased mana drain? Hardly noticeable.

Wait what? finally lost that stupid attack debuff on his passive?! About damn time! Granted, he's got earlygame penetration now, but that's not quite as strong as what used to amount to a free Witch Stone passive.

The buffs just keep rolling in... but she'll always be overlooked for her lack of safety compared to the other ranged carries.

It seems odd that they are giving protection debuffs on his when he can already inflict considerable amounts of true damage with his . And with the Cripple effect on his , he'll actually be able to sink all of that true damage into people now without them running away... well, there's still , but you can only use that once in a while.

It's about time got something good with all the anti-CC going around these days that's been making his job harder.

needs more than buffs, she flat-out needs a complete rework. This buff to Cat Call isn't gonna change that.

A nerf. Really? Everyone already escapes from with ease, now we're making it weaker? Magic bruiser is about all Hades can do these days, and he's slowly losing his ability to pull that off even.

Expect to see getting rushed on with that change to his passive. 50% crit chance, plus another 20%, on top of whatever the base crit rate is... that's almost a guaranteed boosted critical after any skill! He's gonna be a very scary monkey now...

I know a lot of people were complaining about 's Decoy and how it allowed him to lane. This nerf isn't going to change much since it still has a lot of physical power contribution to back it up. Stack up a and it's still gonna clear waves easy.

FINALLY! No more multi-hitting ring shenanigans from ! Number one reason I hated that kid in 3v3 Joust.

Sure, why not keep buffing ? Though I do like the change to his .

change is a bit odd, but I'm guessing it's to make him more support-focused as opposed to offensive by removing the debuff on his light.

Hi-Rez is still trying to find a balanced place for it seems. This time, they're making his Guard Stance stronger...

The change to 's looks like they're trying to make him more viable as a mage by making it more spammable. Let's face it, he's ****py as anything other than a health-stacking magic bruiser, so why not give him some damage?

didn't really need buffs, he's already one of the better tanks in good hands and probably should've remained untouched.

Waiting on a good new MOBA, please.