A small patch has been pushed to the PBE! Check out today's post for a look at Rift Herald's spawn and death animations, updates to Spellblade vfx, and more tentative balance changes!Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly. )

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Rift Herald Spawn & Death

Rift Herald's shiny new spawn effects in an Rift Herald also has a new death effect where it disintegrates into the same portal. While we mentionedshiny new spawn effects in an earlier patch this cycle also has a new death effect where it disintegrates into the same portal.

Spellblade VFX Change





Balance Changes * Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.



*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These areofficial notes.

Champions



Base armor increased to 27 from 24

to 27 from 24 Taste Their Fear (Q) mana cost lowered to 20 at all ranks from 25.

Base attack damage lowered to 57.46 from 59.46

to 57.46 from 59.46 The Culling (R):

Damage changed to 25/45/65 per shot from 40/50/60



AD Ratio changed to .15 TOTAL AD from .25 BONUS AD



[ IMPORTANT NOTE : Beluga Whale has noted on reddit the intention is this to be a change from .25 bonus AD to .15 TOTAL AD and that the tooltip is incorrect in today's PBE Build.]

Base HP lowered to 530 from 577.8

to 530 from 577.8 Strut (W)

Cooldown reverted to 8 seconds from 12 seconds

to 8 seconds from 12 seconds

Active's attack speed bonus lowered to 60/70/80/90/100% from 60/75/90/105/120%

[ NOTE : These changes are in addition to the others from the earlier PBE patches this cycle. There also may be more changes coming up as FeralPony mentioned last week Mordekaiser's Q AP ratio was also going to go up.)

: These changes are in addition to the others from the earlier PBE patches this cycle. There also may be more changes coming up as mentioned last week Mordekaiser's Q AP ratio was also going to go up.) Harvesters of Sorrow (W) reactivation health steal damage changed to 50/85/120/155/190 from 40/95/120/145/200

reactivation health steal damage changed to 50/85/120/155/190 from 40/95/120/145/200 [ NOTE : Live value is currently 70/95/120/145/170]

Items

Health steal increased to 25 over 5 seconds from 20.

The Spellbalde VFX for, andhave been updated on the PBE! As some of you may recall we saw similar vfx changes hit the PBE a few months ago but they never made it to live!