Epic Games is celebrating the one year anniversary of Paragon with a massive new game update that brings a new hero, major balance changes to existing heroes and card and much more.

Players who play at least one game this week will receive a “Year One Gift,” which consists of one of six skins that have been stored in the vault. Epic Games is doing this as a "thank you" gesture to fans of the game for their continued support. Players can also enjoy double xp this week alongside some limited time sales on bundles, loot crates and keys.

With the release of this new update we also get a new hero, Yin. You can check out more about Yin here.

Epic Games have also released a complete breakdown of the one year anniversary event as well as the complete update notes:

Year One Celebration

  • Year One Gift - Play one game this week and receive a Year One Gift. This gift will grant you one of six skins from the Vault, you can see the full assortment below. *Founders will receive an additional gift as a special thanks!
  • Vault Skins:
    • Wasteland Twinblast
    • Monarch Dekker
    • Monarch Sparrow
    • Monarch Murdock
    • Midnight Muriel
    • Cobalt Steel
    • Substitution: 500 Coins
  • Double XP all week long.
  • Sales
    • Everything Bundle at 50% off
    • All Hero Bundles at 33% off
    • 10 Loot Crate Keys at 20% off

Major Features

  • A new hero, Yin, has been released.
  • Paragon Year One event has started.
  • Chests are now available!
    • There are four tiers of chests: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond.
    • Chests can be opened on the Profile Overview page.
    • All Tributes have been converted to chests of an equivalent quality to the previous reward.
    • Victory Chests have been converted to Silver Chests.
  • Daily Login Rewards have been added.

Monolith

  • Core Attacks will now be correctly rendered with Team Colored Visuals.
  • Fixed an issue where players that re-joined a match were seeing every other player as invisible due to an issue with visibility.

AI

  • Bots will consider some non-primary abilities while fighting jungle camps
  • Improvement to bots' positioning while using abilities, including some reaction if the target is not visible.
  • Bots should favor targeting enemies rather than jungle or lane minions.
  • Improvement to Bot position when retreating.

Cards

  • Weekly Card Pack
    • Seek and Destroy
    • Merciless
    • Bloodsoaked Armor
  • Blight [Status Effect]
    • Reduced healing reduction from 75% to 40%.
    • Reduced duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.
  • Ash of the Witch
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 6 CP
      • +12 Power
      • SLOW ON ABILITY HIT - Passive: Enemies hit by abilities are slowed by 150 move speed for 1 second.
  • Divine Shield
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 8 CP
      • +60 Max Mana
      • +4 Ability Armor
      • SPELL BLOCK - Passive: Block an enemy ability. (45 second CD)
  • Quenching Scales
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 4 CP
      • +50 Max Health
      • +30 Max Mana
      • MANA AURA - Passive: Grants 0.6 increased Mana Regen in a radius.
      • MAXED: TEAM HEAL - Active: Heal yourself and nearby allies for 225 health, granting 21 Basic Armor for 20 seconds. Cannot affect players more than once every 20 seconds. (80 second cooldown) [Mana Cost: 75]
  • Toxi-Gel
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 6 CP
      • +100 Max Health
      • BURST CLEANSE - Passive: Taking 400 damage activates a self cleanse. Being out of combat for 5 seconds resets the counter. (2 second cooldown)
  • Thermo-Bond
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 8 CP
      • +100 Max Health
      • +4 Ability Armor
      • DETERMINATION - Passive: Being hit by stuns, roots, and knockups grants a stack of health regen equal to 12% of your max health over 4 seconds.
  • Stinger Boost
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 6 CP
      • +60 Max Mana
      • +11 Attack Speed
      • EMPOWER BASIC - Passive: After hitting an enemy hero with an ability, your next basic attack deals 50 + (20% of Power) bonus damage. Can only occur once every 1.5 seconds.
  • Power Chord
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 6 CP
      • +6 Power
      • +5.5 Attack Speed
      • BLIGHT BASIC - Passive: Hitting an enemy with a basic attack applies Blight for 4 seconds.
  • Thickblood
    • Rework. Now Universal affinity.
      • Cost: 4 CP
      • +12 Power
      • +30 Max Mana
      • BLIGHT ABILITY - Passive: Hitting an enemy with an ability applies Blight for 4 seconds.
  • Nature's Muse
    • Reduced cost from 7 CP to 6 CP.
    • Reduce mana cost from 150 to 100 mana.
  • Tele-Blink
    • Reduced cost from 6 CP to 5 CP
    • Increased distance from 1000 to 1500.
  • Stab Link
    • Increased distance from 1000 to 1500.
  • Shockwave
    • Reduced cost from 6 CP to 5 CP.
  • Plasma Channel
    • Reduced cost from 6 CP to 5 CP.
    • Increased shred per stack from 4 to 8.
  • Bubble Tap
    • Reduced mana cost from 100 mana to 60 mana.
    • Removed Lifesteal stat.
    • Now grants +60 Max Mana and +4 Ability Armor.
  • Bounty Stalker
    • Increased critical chance per stack from 4% to 6%.
    • Reduced max stack count from 10 to 7.
    • Increased stack duration from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
  • Satori Cloak
    • Increased shred from 15% to 50%.
  • Megavolt Pylon
    • Increased mana restored per nearby unit from 5 to 15.
  • Dreadfeast Relic
    • Reduced cooldown from 120 seconds  to 30 seconds.
  • Blinkshot
    • Removed Mana Regen stat.
    • Now grants +6 Power.

Heroes

  • Heroes are now unlocked through daily logins.
    • If you are an existing player you will not be affected.

Aurora

  • Base health reduced to 506 from 550
  • Health per level gain reduced to 68 from 74
  • Frozen Sword
    • Card Scaling reduced to 0.5 from 0.6
    • Base damage reduced to 58 from 59
    • Base damage per level reduced to 1 from 1.5
  • Glacial Charge
    • Cooldown increased to 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 from 20 / 18 / 16 / 14
  • Hoarfrost
    • Duration of effect reduced to 4 seconds from 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6
    • Root duration reduced to 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 seconds from 2 seconds at all levels.
    • Mana cost increased to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 from 50 / 55 / 60 / 65
  • Cryoseism
    • Base damage reduced to 160 / 200 / 240 from 180 / 230 / 280
  • Now deals varying shatter damage based on whether the shattering unit is a hero or not.
    • Hero shatter base damage increased to 56 / 86 / 116 from 40 / 62 / 84
    • Non-hero shatter base damage reduced to 28 / 43 / 58 from 40 / 62 / 84
    • Non-hero Card Scaling reduced to 0.1 from 0.2

Crunch

  • Punch
    • Attack speed gain per level increased to 2.0 from 1.4
    • Base damage gain per level reduced to 0.8 from 1

Feng Mao

  • Sweep
    • Attack speed gain per level increased to 1.5 from 1.26
  • Earth Shatter
    • Base damage reduced to 260 / 350 / 440 from 300 / 400 / 500
  • Card Scaling increased to 1.0 from 0.8
  • Polish & Bug Fixing
    • Feng Mao's feet now appear correctly in on the platform when viewing the hero under Profile.

The Fey

  • Harvest Nettles
    • Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds from 6 seconds.

Gadget

  • Speed Gate
    • Movespeed increased to 125 at all levels from 35 / 50 / 65 / 80
    • Duration reduced to 1 second from 3.5 seconds
    • Cooldown adjusted to 22 / 18 / 14 / 10 from 22 / 19 / 16 / 13
  • Tesla Dome
    • Cooldown increased to 110 / 95 / 80 from 110 / 90 / 70
    • Base damage (dealt over total duration) increased to 375 / 575 / 775 from 350 / 540 / 730
    • Damage application has been reworked:
      • Damage now scales over time, starting off smaller and ramping higher.
      • Damage increases by 75% for each tick.
      • The final tick hits very hard!
      • Damage from Tesla Dome now applies a micro slow.
    • Tooltips updated
  • Polish & Bug Fixing
    • Fixed a bug where Gadget's ult sometimes applied one less tick of damage than intended.

GRIM.exe

  • Mana gain per level increased to 33.6 from 28.8
  • Pulse Cannon
    • Card Scaling increased to 0.92 from 0.85
  • Suppression Mode
    • Suppression Mode slow now has an .8 second duration.

Grux

  • Double Pain
    • Card Scaling reduced to 0.6 from 0.7
  • Smash & Grab
    • Card Scaling reduced to 0.3 from 0.4

Howitzer

  • Land Mine
    • Base damage reduced to 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 from 75 / 125 / 175 / 225
    • Card Scaling reduced to 0.5 from 0.625
    • Duration reduced to 3 seconds from 5 seconds
  • Make it Rain
    • Cooldown increased to 105 / 90 / 75 from 90 / 70 / 50

Iggy & Scorch

  • Oil Slick
    • Move speed increased to 100 at all levels from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50
  • Flame Turret
    • Base damage increased to 300 / 450 / 600 / 750 from 150 / 280 / 410 / 540

Kallari

  • Death Sentence
    • Cooldown reduced to 110 / 100 / 90 from 110 at all levels

Khaimera

  • Ambush
    • Now grants 3 stacks of Spirit Regeneration on activation
  • Cull
    • Now grants 6 stacks of Spirit Regeneration on activation

Kwang

  • Light of the Heavens
    • Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12
  • Fury of the Heavens
    • Cooldown adjusted to 85 / 75 / 65 from 85 / 70 / 55

Muriel

  • Serenity
    • Slow magnitude normalized to 200 / 250 / 300 / 350 from 175 / 245 / 315 / 385
  • Reversal of Fortune
    • Reworked:
      • No longer stuns enemies or knocks them up in an area around Muriel.
      • Now applies a 400 slow over 2 seconds.
      • Can no longer be cast while airborne.
      • Player camera will now correctly return to its normal rotation after Reversal of Fortune ends.

Rampage

  • Boulder Throw
    • Reworked cast:
      • Now times out if the rock is held more than 5 seconds.
      • If Rampage manually cancels or times out the rock, he pays the mana cost, but the cooldown is not consumed.
      • Throwing the rock consumes mana and cooldown as normal.
      • Stun duration reduced to 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2  from 2 at all levels.
      • Now stuns minions for the same duration as heroes.

Riktor

  • Mana gain per level increased to 45 from 36
  • Riplash
    • Range increased to 1525 at all levels from 850/1188/1525/1525

Serath

  • Angelic Smite
    • Base damage increased to 58 from 55
    • Base damage gain per level increased to 1.8 from 1.6
  • Attack speed gain per level to 2.2 from 0
  • Base health increased to 522.5 from 475
  • Health gain per level increased to 76.8 from 64
  • Basic armor gain per level increased to 2.5 from 2

Shinbi

  • All-Kill!
    • Base damage per wolf increased to 55 / 80 / 105 from 47 / 61 / 74
  • Polish & Bug Fixing
    • Shinbi's heart FX should now appear correctly in the frontend
    • Updated footstep sounds and increased volume

Sparrow

  • Piercing Shot
    • Card Scaling reduced to 0.75 from 1.0
    • Base damage reduced to 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 from 80 / 140 / 200 / 260
    • Cooldown increased to 9 seconds from 8 seconds
  • Inner Fire
    • Cooldown to 100 / 85 / 70 from 90 / 70 / 50

Steel

  • Bulwark
    • No longer occasionally blocks the pull of Grux’s Smash & Grab
  • Force Shield
    • Force Shield builds and becomes active .5 seconds faster

Twinblast

  • Grenade!
    • Base damage increased to 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 from 50 / 75 / 100 / 125
    • Card Scaling increased to 0.6 from 0.5
    • Projectile speed increased to 6000 from 3000
  • Polish and Bug Fixing
    • Grenade! targeting camera adjustments

Yin

  • Added Wind Gauntlet Yin to in-game store.
  • Added “Call the Shot” emote to in-game store.

UI

  • Rewards for leveling up are now chests.
  • Hero Levels
    • Tribute Rewards are now Silver Chests.
    • Master Tribute Rewards are now Diamond Chests.
  • Account Levels
    • One chest is now rewarded at every level.
    • Existing unlocks remain (PvP, deck builder, etc.)
  • Rarities Changed
    • Legendary
    • Epic
    • Rare
    • Uncommon
    • Common
  • Some items changed rarities to fit system. This doesn't affect your chance to get them.
  • Fix for card ability text wrapping on deckbuilder tooltip screen.
  • Fix for hard to read text on chest reward rarity screen.
  • Loot Crate
    • Added
      • Banners added:
        • Dark Abomination (Legendary)
        • Gold Abomination (Legendary)
        • Iron Abomination (Legendary)
        • Glampoint (Epic)
        • Flamepoint (Epic)
        • Star Beacon (Epic)
        • Harbinger of Death (Epic)
        • Techpoint (Rare)
        • Terra Beacon (Rare)
        • Angel Crest (Rare)
        • Honor Crest (Rare)
        • Harbinger of Souls (Rare)
        • Shockpoint (Uncommon)
        • Checkpoint (Uncommon)

Paragon is currently in open beta as a cross play title on both PC and PS4.