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New Hero: Celeste

Julia's Light
Slot: Heroic Perk

Celeste's basic attacks are flares of solar light that deals crystal damage and reveal their target.

Damage: 75-125 (level 1-12) (+75% crystal power) (+100% weapon power)
Reveals enemies for 1.5s - even after the target leaves vision range.

Heliogenesis
Slot: A

Celeste forms a small star at a target location, dealing crystal damage to nearby enemies. The star will briefly linger on the field.

If Celeste uses this ability on an existing star, the star will go supernova, dealing more crystal damage in a larger area.
Deals 50% less damage to minions.

Core Collapse
Slot: B

After a brief delay, the target location collapses and nearby enemies are stunned and take crystal damage.

Solar Storm
Slot: C

Celeste launches a storm of stars that travel across the world. Stars collide with the first enemy they hit, dealing crystal damage in an area.

The number of stars increases each time Solar Storm is upgraded.
Deals reduced damage to objectives.

Features

New Communication Pings!
- There are now 5 tactical pings above the mini-map, including new pings for "group up," "caution" and "enemy hero missing."
- Tap and hold the new social pings button in the upper-left corner of the screen to reveal new ways to communicate with teammates.

Follower Notifications
- Receive a notification when people you've "starred" come online.
- Notify your followers that you're looking for a Party Queue match.
- You may turn off these notifications in the Settings app on your device.

Matchmaker & Karma Improvements
- Multiple Matchmaker and Karma system updates to improve your play experience. Read the detailed Update Notes in the News section for more.

Performance Improvements
- Stutter stepping: Rapid stutter stepping no longer unfairly increases attack speed, although you may still use stutter stepping to animation-cancel and kite.
- Bug fix: Skaarf's Fan the Flames heroic perk was incorrectly escalating its burn duration; it is now always 3 seconds.
- Fixed an offset issue that could make it awkward to target a Minion Miner.
- If youâ€™re having a stability or performance issue, email: [email protected].

Hero Balance Changes

KOSHKA

Pouncy Fun energy cost reduced by 50%
Twirly Death energy cost reduced by 45%
Yummy Catnip Frenzy delay reduced by 20%

SAW

Roadie Run does not enter cooldown until the full duration of the run is finished
Mad Cannon crystal ratio lowered from 1.2 to 0.6

Item Balance Changes

Clockwork

Changed recipe to Void Battery + Chronograph and reflects in stats
Hourglass & Chronograph no longer grants energy regen

Frostburn

Changed recipe to Heavy Prism + Eclipse Prism and reflects in stats
Max slow capped at 35%
Grace period where the same target cannot be slowed again increased from 1.5s to 2.0s

Shatterglass

Crystal Power raised from 115 to 150, price raised from to 2550 to 3000

Alternating Current

Damage changed from 20 + 75% of crystal to 0 + 115% of crystal

Broken Myth

New passive: Gain 5% shield pierce per second as long as you are in combat with enemy heroes, turrets, or Kraken. After 5 seconds, lose a stack each second. Max 5 stacks.
Base Shield Pierce of Piercing Spear and Broken Myth down from 15% to 10% piercing.