General

• A buff shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. Well Vulcan is missing those limbs and there isn’t much we can do about that, but we can buff his Ultimate. This ability has insane long range snipe potential, but feels far too weak when used at closer ranges. We are increasing the floor on the damage curve to make this ability more useful in a wider range of situations.

Earthshaker

• Increased Damage at close range from 60% to 75% of the max dmg

General

• Inferno Cannon
• Fixed camp minions not animating on death if killed by turret.

General

• Fixed Chef Vulcan intro audio continuing to play while muted.

General

• The smith of the gods is getting some much needed upgrades to his forging tools. Backfire will now go through walls, helping this god get more successful hits in the jungle. Also Inferno Cannon will gain a new feature that deals more damage to tanky gods. This ability has always paired well with lockdown but its lack of penetration really holds it back in these scenarios. Vulcan should now become a top pick for his ability to provide consistent follow up damage.

Backfire

• Now goes through walls.

Inferno Cannon

• Now Cannon deals damage as if the target had 25% less magical protections.

General

• Vulcan has continued to struggle in Season 5 with the introduction of new items that don't impact hit pet Inferno Cannon. We are increasing the amount of damage Inferno Cannon can dish out, allowing it to perform more in line with Season 4 builds. Additionally, Backfire Cannon is getting a slight base damage increase. This low cooldown skill will now be better in early fights until Vulcan can get Magical Power online.

Backfire

• Increased Base damage from 80/120/160/200/240 to 90/130/170/210/250.
• Increased amount of damage that Inferno Cannon deals to marked targets from 10% to 15%.

Inferno Cannon

• Increased Magical Power Scaling from 35% to 40%.

General

• Vulcan is one of the mages who was hit the hardest by the Rod of Tahuti re-design. He is most successful as a late-game extreme burst mage but he is now having a harder time bursting enemies down. His cannon pet cannot utilize a lot of the unique passives that mages are building into with the item slots opened up in Season 5. To bring his late game burst back up we are increasing the Magical Power Scaling on Magma Bomb.

Magma Bomb

• Increased Magical Power Scaling from 70% to 80%.

General

• After experimenting with a few different passives for Vulcan we found that the best feeling came from a passive that rewards what he does best, poke enemy gods. His new passive increases his mobility and provides positive feedback to players that prioritize damaging enemy gods.

New Passive – Master Craftsman

• Whenever Vulcan successfully hits an enemy god with an ability he gains +20 MP5 and 15% Movement Speed for 5s.

General

• Earthshaker is seeing some love this patch in terms of better usability. More damage when used close, and less travel time (thus more accuracy) when used far.

Earthshaker

• Increased point blank damage from 50% to 60%.
• Reduced the travel time at max range.

Backfire

• Fixed issue with ability preemptively hitting collision.

Inferno Cannon

• Fixed being able to place Cannons inside collision.

Magma Bomb

• Warm up is now team colored.

Earthshaker

• Warm up is now team colored

General

• Fixed the Sentry skin turrets always showing crowd control immune glow on.

Magma Bomb

• This ability no longer stuns as it knocks up.
• Range reduced from 65 to 60.
• Added a ground target warning indicator where the Magma Bomb is going to land.

General

• Voice has been updated.

Backfire

• Fixed an issue where if this ability is used while walking forward, Vulcan became stuck bent over until the player stopped moving.

Magma Bomb

• Fixed missing impact sound fx and hit particles.

General

• Added targeters for Sentry skin.

Magma Bomb

• Recovery time reduced from 0.2 to 0.1.

General

• Basic attack animations now include trails on his hammer as he swings it.
• The shockwave basic attack projectile is now blue for his Sentry skin.

Backfire

• Pre-Hit reduced from 0.5 to 0.25.
• Increased magical damage scaling from 70% to 80%.

Inferno Cannon

• Pre-Hit Delay reduced from 0.49 to 0.4.
• Post-Hit Delay reduced from 0.24 to 0.1.

Magma Bomb

• Post-Hit Delay reduced from 0.4 to 0.2.
• This ability can now be placed inside of walls.
• Increased magical damage scaling from 60% to 70%.

Earthshaker

• Post-Hit Delay reduced from 0.7 to 0.2.
• Added a vertical beam to the targeting fx to make it easier for Vulcan to see at distance.
• Fixed an issue where the red outline in the warmup FX wasn’t visible for enemies.
• This ability can now be placed inside of walls.

Heavy Shot

• Slow increased from 15% to 20%.

Backfire

• Damage Increased from 65/95/125/155/185 (+70% of your magical power) to 80/120/160/200/240 (+70% of your magical power). Cooldown changed from 9/8/7/6/5 to 7/6.5/6/5.5/5s.

Inferno Cannon

• Health per rank changed from 100/150/200/250/300 to 220/300/380/460/540. Protections per rank changed from 5/10/15/20/25 to 5/15/25/35/45.

Magma Bomb

• Damage scaling increased from 40% to 60% of Vulcan's Magical Power.

Earthshaker

• Increased projectile speed for long range shots from 45 to 50. (Shot has the same minimum time of 1.5s, but the maximum time at full distance is reduced slightly). Increased magical scaling from 120% to 130%.

Backfire

• Fixed an issue in which Vulcan could be stuck moving backwards.
• Fixed an issue in which Vulcan could sometimes get stuck in “hunchback” pose under some circumstances.

Inferno Cannon

• Fixed an issue where it would target towers.

Magma Bomb

• Updated the targeter to be more clear where the center of the blast will be.

Thumper XVI

• An issue has been fixed where this turret was only dealing damage to enemies within a cone. This will now deal damage in a 360 radius again, as intended.

General

• Fixed an AI issue with turrets.

Backfire

• The mana cost for this ability has been reduced from 50/55/60/65/70 to 40/45/50/55/60.

Backfire

• This ability no longer pushes him backwards.
• The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 13s to 9/8/7/6/5s.
• The base damage of this ability has been decreased from 85/145/205/265/325 to 65/95/125/155/185.

Backfire

• This ability now marks the first god that is hit for 4 seconds, causing the Inferno Cannon to prioritize that target and giving the turrets 10% increased damage to that target.

Volcanic Overdrive

• The cooldown on rank 4 and 5 is now properly set to 90s.
• Mana costs on rank 4 and 5 is now properly set to 100.

Inferno Cannon

• The delay between the Inferno Cannon being deployed and it firing its first shot has been reduced from 1s to .25s.

Thumper XVI

• Slow by 5/10/15/20/25%.

Forge (Passive)

• Vulcan’s structures were scaling off of 20% health and protections since the last patch. The description has now been updated accordingly.

General

• Structures
• The amount of base protections the structures have has been reduced from 10/15/20/25/30 per rank to 5/10/15/20/25.

Forge (Passive)

• The amount of health transferred to the structures has been increased from 15% to 20%.

Inferno Cannon

• Base damage has been reduced from 65/100/135/170/205 to 45/70/95/120/145.
• Magical power contribution has been increased from 20% to 35%.

Thumper XVI

• Base damage has been reduced from 15/20/25/30/35 to 10/15/20/25/30.
• Magical power contribution has been increased from 10% to 15%.