Athena Patch Notes 06/04/2013

New God:

Athena!

Reach (Passive) After using any ability, Athena's next basic attack is a ranged attack, hitting all enemies it passes through, and dealing additional magic damage. Damage: Basic Attack (+50% of your magical power).

Preemptive Strike Athena powers up for a dash. While dashing, Athena will pass through minions and stop and hit the first enemy god she encounters, dealing damage and slowing all she hits. If she hits an enemy, Athena gains one stack of Block (max 3), absorbing the next basic attack from any god that hits her. Damage: 80/13/180/230/280 (+50% of your magical power). Slow Amount: 25%. Slow Duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0/2.25s. Cost: 60/70/80/90/100. Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11s.

Confound Athena releases a shockwave of power from her shield, taunting enemy gods, and forcing them to fight or chase her. Taunt Duration: 1.0/1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0s. Cost: 60/65/70/75/80. Cooldown: 18s.

Shield Wall Athena summons a group of Athenian warriors who do damage upon arrival, and after 2s strike for additional damage. Initial Damage: 40/75/110/145/180 (+50% of your magical power). Secondary Damage: 80/150/220/290/360 (+50% of your magical power). Cost: 60/65/70/75/80. Cooldown: 14s.

Defender of Olympus Athena picks a single allied god anywhere in the world, and launches herself up into the air, landing next to that god 4.2 seconds later. During that 4.2 seconds, the allied god mitigates 50% of the damage it's taken. Enemies nearby when Athena lands take damage. Damage: 350/500/650/800/950 (+100% of your magical power). Allied mitigation: 50%. Cost: 80/90/100/110/120. Cooldown: 90s.

New Skins:

• High Counselor Athena
• Golden Poseidon

New Voice Packs:

• Athena
• Cupid
• Ne Zha

General:

• The free god rotation has been changed to Anhur, Anubis, Ao Kuang, Sobek and Thor
• You may now view your Friends Stats and Clan Members from the the STATS | PLAYER PROFILE page.
• Further improvements to the Stats feature are planned for future releases.
• Fixed several issues with the AI for jungle creeps.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Play screen to populate oddly in some cases.
• Fixed an issue in which Artemis' death FX were black.
• Fixed several FX bugs.
• Fixed an issue with Thor's wall pushing out targets the wrong direction.
• Fixed an issue with Bacchus Chug when cc'd it would not cost him mana or cooldown.
• Fixed an issue with Bakasura eating minions and not getting effects.
• Fixed an issue with Bastet pounce and cc immunity.
• Fixed an issue with Isis Spirit Ball interrupted and auto firing next time.
• Fixed an issue with leaps and stuns on start up.
• Fixed an issue with Character Builder and using default items where they would be purchased out of order (backwards).
• Fixed an issue with Party invites not showing while the in game web browser is open.
• Fixed an issue with Vamana Colossal Fury where he was unable to cancel once he entered extended duration when hit by a god.

Spectator Changes

The camera now snaps, rather than blends, to a new view target when viewing in 3rd person mode.

Items:

Bumba's Mask - Fixed several bugs.

Gods

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Belly Flop The amount of time between Bacchus jumping into the air and landing on the ground has been increased approximately 30%.

Blight The FX that play on blighted enemies are more prominent.

Spirit Ball The time delay before the earliest detonation has been decreased from .2s to .1s, allowing Isis to detonate it earlier than she had before.

Flaming Spear Reduced bonus attack speed from 15/25/35/45/55% to 15/20/25/30/35%

Celestial Beam The time between casting and the beam appearing and dealing damage has been reduced by approximately 40%. Divine Light The time for the slow ramping up and detonation has been reduced from 3s to 2s. This allows for faster building up of the slow stacks and a quicker damage application than before.

If these patch notes are correct then athena's ultimate is going to be ridiculous.

I'm already predicting Athena to be a top-tier pick just for the utility provided by her ultimate alone.

Those power scalings on her abilities are also pretty damn impressive for a tank too, could be a strong bruiser.

I was hoping she would have potential for a magical bruiser :)

God reveal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGmnS14KHmI

I hate that Bacchus change already :(

Im not bacchus is a pain in the as to lane against and probs still will be even after the nerf :p

I agree, but this wasn't the nerf he needed

imo he should've gotten either the bonuses on his passive nerfed a bit or belch of the gods stun for less time.

If I think about it I don't even think he needs any nerf, Ymir and Sobek are much more powerfull than him, because Bacchus' manaproblems there is only so much he can do. Ymir is straight up S tier and he NEVER got a single change, and Sobek can help his carry get fed in the first 5 mins already. Bacchus might be the most irritating tank to play against, but I don't think he is the one who is the most powerfull and everyone's favorite *stares at Ymir* Bacchus isn't even played as much as the other 2