Self Damage spirit scaling reduced from 2 to 1.8

Malice no longer causes you to un-zoom on cast

Malice slow reduced from 20% to 15%

Malice debuff duration reduced from 13s to 9s

Malice Damage Amp reduced from 15% to 8%

Malice T2 now also increases damage amp by 7%

Fixed a bug that could cause some units to take more damage than intended when multiple targets are hit

Can now be alternate-casted on allied heroes

Added double tap accidental protection to help against instant cancellations

You can now see how many Malice stacks you have on you as the opponent

Slow duration reduced from 6s to 4s

Amp duration reduced from 16s to 13s

Cooldown reduced from 42s to 30s.

Fixed not healing extra based on amplifications (like Soul Shredder and Malice stacks).

Cooldown reduced from 6.25s to 6s.

T1 improved from -2.75s Cooldown to -3s.

Sprint increased from 1 to 1.5.

Essence Bomb T3 damage increased from 22% to 26%

Essence Bomb spirit scaling increased from 1.05 to 1.15

Fixed a recent bug with Malice that caused multiple blood shards to be absorbed by 1 hero rather than pass through and hit others

Self Damage no longer consumes shields (general change)

Base sprint reduced from 2 to 1

Bullet damage growth increased from 1.84 to 2.1

Base bullet damage reduced from 28 to 25

Essence Bomb T2 reduced from +70 to +60

Essence Bomb T3 increased from 20% to 22%

Life Drain self slow reduced from -40% to -25%

Soul Exchange can be cast on enemies that are lower health. It will always steal a minimum of 30% of their current health.

Essence Bomb arm time reduced from 1s to 0.5s (this is a nerf for long distance bombs)

Essence Bomb no longer starts decaying the arm time while in the air

Soul Exchange T3 changed to 'After swap gain +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resistance for 8s'

Soul Exchange cast time reduced from 0.5 to 0.2

Soul Exchange cast time reduced from 0.65s to 0.5s

Fixed Malice clipping aggressively against map geometry edges

Soul Exchange now uses a new instant cast mechanism. When you are in range there is a valid target indicator.

Malice now comes out quicker and no longer slows you

Blood Bomb damage increased from 80 to 100

Blood Bomb tooltip fixed to reference the correct self damage type and that it can be reduced with armor

Blood Bomb T2 damage increased from +65 to +70

Malice damage amp per shard increased from 10% to 15%