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Just got done with one of the most one-sided victories of my SMITE career...

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The majority of those builds - on both teams - make me cringe, with the exception of Cupid, Ares and Loki.

That said, apparently HiRez is gonna preview Bacchus today.
 
FINALBOSS said:
That chat window is the exact reason why I will never get involved in MOBA games.
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If it makes you feel better, the person typing in all caps was on the other team, so he was kind of making fun of himself. My teammates didn't talk any trash; we mostly praised them for not surrendering. But I'm not going to defend the MOBA playerbase, because it's full of assholes. Just play with friends if you can.

Red Arremer said:
The majority of those builds - on both teams - make me cringe, with the exception of Cupid, Ares and Loki.

That said, apparently HiRez is gonna preview Bacchus today.
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Haha, man I didn't even notice until you mentioned it. My friend was playing that Cupid, so he mainly uses the build I used when I mained him. He never uses Qin's Blades though, which is a huge mistake. Qin's is the best item for melting tanks. I just used my typical AD carry build for Loki: rushing Executioner and Qin's and then going for crit — it works on almost any character.
 
Bacchus looks like pretty fun, that stun looks really powerful. Any word on what the Thor teleport is, chat was going nuts about it but I didn't see what happened.
 
I'm honestly more excited for Thor's buff than Bacchus. I really didn't want them to add another tank into the game. I've been seeing an average of 2, sometimes 3, tanks on each team in Arena. I don't enjoy playing tanks, but I'm forced to if our team doesn't have any. I'd much rather play Loki or Agni.

Is the update hitting today?
 
It's likely not going to hit this week, according to HiRez.
That said, I'm okay with another tank, but another MAGIC tank...? :[
At this point, magical tanks outweigh physical tanks 8:2.
 
I didn't know it was 8:2. That's just ridiculous.

I was playing Thor in practice mode for the first time... and he's actually really fun to play. How do you guys build him? I went for more of a bruiser build with Reinforced Boots, Witch Stone, Void Blade, Qin's Blades, Ankh of the Golem, and Silverfox Girdle. I was really beefy by the end off the game.
 
Build him like your average melee carry, really. Executioner, Tabis, maybe Heartseeker, Deathbringer, etc.
Damage output skyrockets.

And must've remembered wrong, it's 2 physical tanks (Odin and Vamana) as opposed to "just" 6 magical ones (Sobek, Ymir, Ares, Bacchus, Guan Yu, Hades). :|
Still, 3 magical tanks for 1 physical.
 
bought his heavy metal skin an been wrecking people building level 2 pen hammer as first item then void blade, witch stone, warrior tabi boots, frost bound hammer usually win before 6th item but you can fill it with any other damage item berserker berage will kill people in like 2 seconds with this build
 
Yup.

Below are preliminary patch notes for the next major update. We currently expect this to be released some time next week.


New God: BACCHUS

(PASSIVE) Drunk-O-Meter
Bacchus loves the drink and as Bacchus drinks from his jug, he becomes more intoxicated. When he is Tipsy, he takes 5% less damage and gains +20 Physical Power. When he is Smashed, he takes 10% less damage and gains +40 Physical Power.

Chug
Bacchus takes a drink from his jug, filling his Drunk-O-Meter 22/28/34/40/46% and giving him a 10/15/20/25/30 physical power buff for 6s. Bacchus celebrates when he kills an enemy god, giving him 10% on his meter. Cost - 50/80/110/140/170 mana. Cooldown - 15s.

Belly Flop
Bacchus jumps into the air and, not so gracefully, comes slamming to the ground belly first, knocking all enemies into the air and dealing 90/130/170/210/250 (+70% of your magical power) magical damage. If he was Tipsy, all enemies are also slowed by 30% for 3s after they land. Cost - 70/75/80/85/90 mana. Cooldown - 16s.

Belch of the Gods
Bacchus lets out an obnoxiously loud belch, doing 20/35/50/65/80 (+15% of your magical power) magical damage every .5s for 2s. If you are Tipsy, enemies are stunned for 1s and their healing is debuffed by 50% for 3s at the end of the channel. Cost - 70/75/80/85/90 mana. Cooldown - 14s.

Intoxicate
Bacchus smashes his jug of wine on the ground, intoxicating all nearby enemies, doing 250/325/400/475/550 (+70% of your magical power) magical damage and slowing them by 20% for 8s. If he is Smashed, Bacchus also gains 35/50/65/80/95 physical power because of his anger over his lost wine! Cost - 95 mana. Cooldown - 90s.


New Skins:

Mountain Man Odin
Regal Reveler Bacchus


General Features

The overall lobby UI has undergone significant changes, with further significant changes to come in future releases. In this release, we introduce a new top-bar navigation, new screens for the Play Now and Social features, and several other improvements. NOTE: Some elements of the old user interface still exist and will be phased out in future releases. Some elements of the new UI are still incomplete and will be refined in future releases. Thank you for your patience during this transition period.

All Conquest and Arena modes now start with a “God Ban” process in the match lobby. The top player on each team is given the opportunity to ban one god (so two total gods can be banned from play). The five “free” gods are ineligible to be banned. The banned gods will not be eligible to be picked.

The process for forming and sustaining parties has been changed. Parties are now formed separately from the queue joining process (via the SOCIAL menu). After a match ends, your party remains formed and you can rejoin a queue immediately.
Friend relationships in the game now require both players to consent to the friendship before they are initiated. A player that wishes to friend another sends an invite, which can be accepted or denied. This system is managed from the SOCIAL menu. You may need to reform some friend relationships, based on this change.

The In-Match Item Store now has a separate tab for Recommended Items.

You now earn separate first win of the day bonuses for Arena, Conquest, and Joust Gamemodes. The reward is 100 favor for each mode.

The methodology for seeding your initial rating in Ranked Matches has changed. Player rankings are being updated to reflect the new algorithm. Ranked Matches will be down for up to 12 hours following the patch while ratings are updated.

The normal Arena and Conquest queues now operate on a 5-minute match-making timer. Every five minutes, matches will be made from the group of people in queue at that time. This helps optimize match-making. The system will be closely analyzed and tweaked over time as appropriate.

There is now a Challenge Queue for Arena (currently under the Custom tab on the PLAY menu). This allows pre-made five-person teams to challenge each other to a match. Note that the UI for forming challenge matches is expected to change in future releases.

Spectators no longer have UP/DOWN control in all situations.

Fixed bug that prevented spectators from joining full arena matches.

The default key binding for the Death Recap screen has been moved from “R” to “Y” (for “Y did I die?!”).

A large number of changes have been made to the Voice Command (i.e., VGS) system. There are
47 new voice commands (including a new SELF menu). In addition, some commands now have different shortcuts.

Players now start with 1500 gold in all gamemodes (previously Arena started higher).

A new SETTINGS option has been added to “Enable Quickcast”. When enabled, your abilities will fire immediately upon releasing the abilities button. While the ability button is pressed, you can still see and adjust the ground target. The separate keybindings for Quick Abilities have been removed.


Abilities

All abilities have been priced at 600 gold.

The passive portion of all of the store purchased abilities is now always on.

All abilities instantly fire when pressed now. None of them will show a ground target first.

Heavenly Agility
This item no longer stacks with other Heavenly Agility’s.

Abilities removed
Turn Minions
Reveal


Items

Items removed
Midas Boots
Staff of Mana
Silverfox Girdle

All Recommended Items lists have had these changes:
Meditation and Sprint abilities are the first 2 items purchased (after a consumable).
Hide of Leviathan is purchased after boots.

Boots
Rank 1 of the Boots of the Magi, Reinforced Boots and Warrior Tabi are now 700g.

Ankh of the Golem
Physical Lifesteal has been removed.
Physical Protection was added to this item, +10, 20, 30.


Gauntlet of Thebes
Passive has been reduced from .3 HP5 per stack to .2 HP5.
HP5 per rank has been reduced from 10/15/20 to 3/6/9 HP5.

Wall of Absolution
Mana removed from this item.
Magical Power was added to this item, +15, 30, 45.


Jungle

Fire Giant and Gold Fury escalation:
Health adjustments do not occur if they are in combat.

Fire Giant
Starting Health changed from 10,000 to 7,000.
Health increases by 130 every minute.
Physical Protection increased from 25 to 100.
Magical Protection increased from 25 to 50.

Gold Fury
Starting Health changed from 7,000 to 3,500.
Health increases by 230 every minute.


Gods

Anhur
Shifting Sands: Movement speed decrease has been reduced from 20/25/30/35/40% to 5/9/13/17/21%.

Disperse: Cooldown has been increased from 13s to 15s.


Ares

Passive - Blessed Presence: Magical power bonus for completed aura items has been reduced from 40 to 30.
Bolster Defenses:
Base protections reduced from 15/20/25/30/35 to 4/8/12/16/20.
Bonus protections from a shackled enemy reduced from 10 to 7.
Cooldown increased from 13s to 15s.
No Escape: While using his ultimate, Ares will move 50% slower.


Artemis
Kalydonian Boar
Boar health per rank has been increased from 300/350/400/450/500 to 350/450/550/650/750.
Boar protections have been increased from 20 to 30.
Artemis is immune to crowd control for the duration of the ability.

Loki
Decoy
Decoy is now properly scaling off of physical power.

Sun Wukong
Furious Monkey
Physical power scaling has been reduced from 110% to 70% per hit.

Thor
Mjolnir’s Attunement
With the resurgence of Loki, Mjolnir is further attuned with Asgardian power to provide Thor an expedient means of apprehending the deceiver.
At any time during the hammer’s path, pressing 1 again will teleport Thor to his hammer.
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Wukong is a step in the right direction, but he'll still be way too good due to his ult.
Anhur's nerf is not going to influence him that much, honestly.
Ares wasn't really that much of a problem.
 
I like the quick cast changes. I actually said last night to my friend that I wish ability items were used instantly. And He-Bo's ult should be a bit less enraging when trying to "spam" it out of a stun to escape. Among lots of other things. Ares will be even more useless in arena now, though.
 
BurningNad said:
I like the quick cast changes. I actually said last night to my friend that I wish ability items were used instantly. And He-Bo's ult should be a bit less enraging when trying to "spam" it out of a stun to escape. Among lots of other things. Ares will be even more useless in arena now, though.
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He's only useless against people who know what they're doing. Not that gods should be balanced because people are too inexperienced to know how to counter them, but still. In the majority of random Arena matches I play, there will be 2 or 3 teammates who don't buy Aegis and get killed every time Ares ults.
 
Oh you guys. You guys won't believe what I found, hah.
Massive stash of shit coming right at us, including 3 (!) new maps, each of which are themed after a pantheon. And one of these pantheons doesn't even have a god yet...!
Also, the next god seems to be Hercules.
 
Red Arremer said:
Oh you guys. You guys won't believe what I found, hah.
Massive stash of shit coming right at us, including 3 (!) new maps, each of which are themed after a pantheon. And one of these pantheons doesn't even have a god yet...!
Also, the next god seems to be Hercules.
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NEW MAP

NEW MODE

HNNNNNNNG OH YES
 
Man I had such an awful SMITE day yesterday. Got stuck with shitty teams, and I was trying to get better with Anhur and failing miserably. He is much tougher to play in Arena, since there aren't as many things to impale people on.

So Hi-Rez has hinted at adding some gods on free rotation. Who do you think it will be? I'm going to guess it's the gods that are already cheaper: Bastet, Vamana, He Bo, Odin, Ao Kuang. (They probably won't make all of them free.) And if they make some of these gods free, do you think they will discount some of the current 5,500 Favor gods? I don't know if I should save up my Favor or not. I'd be pretty bummed if I bought Hades for 5,500 and the next week they discounted him.

And I totally forgot about how they were going to add god bans in this last patch. Guess that didn't work out.
 
Well here's the latest news:

HirezShadowControl said:
In the next patch (end of this week if all goes well) we expect the following for bans:

1. Conquest will probably be the only mode initially that will get bans
2. Any God will be available for bans
3. Each team gets one ban at this point, the top play on the list gets to ban

We will also start a 5 free God rotation (probably weekly swaps) in addition to the 5 permenent free Gods. Players will have more choice and it allows for any God to be banned.
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HirezShadowControl said:
Here are some additional misc items we are working on for the next patch:

- Jungle minions (not including GF or FG) will only give 50% of the existing XP for killing them. This is to help keep players in lanes or ganking and using the buffs to make them more powerful while not out-leveling the lane.
- Yellow buff is getting reduced to 30 from 50 resist

- A new fastcast option is being added. This is similar to quickcast but happens as soon as you hit the ability key, there is no aim assist. In the future this will be programmable per God/Ability instead of being universal.

- A region selection will be added, if there are enough players to create a good match in a specific region it will be set to that location. Most likely it will mean that when you play at US or EU prime time you will get the match at that location.

- Domination game play mode will be released, it may have a limited schedule to start with

- Matches should launch faster after the timer is done (shorter 'matching' time)

- Base speed up 10%

- In hand projectile speed increase for mages
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HiRezErez said:
There are several things coming of the next few patches for L/D/T

- In the upcoming patch at the end of this week, all player movement base speed is being raise by 10%, L/D/T speeds are not changing. This change is being made to make the Conquest map feel a bit smaller and also to diminish the value of L/D/T to some extent.

- Most gods with L/D/T will have some rework done (not in this patch) to give each a more unique (and sometimes more limited) way to use their leap or dash. For example some will only be able to be use for initiation, some may require a target, etc

- Some map changes will also be made to make certain areas no longer accessible to leaps and teleports.
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HiRezErez said:
The following changes are being tested for next patch (which should be out at the end of this week if all goes well)

- Purification beads: Active also clears pulls now. Cooldown to 120s.

- Creeping curse: Active now reduces movement speed to 30% (from 35%). Cooldown to 150s.

- Heavenly Agility: Active now increases movement speed buff to 40% (from 35%), duration is reduced from from 5 seconds to 3 seconds, and will now ignore slows. Cooldown to 150s.

- HoG: Active damage to minions is reduced by 20%, passive changed to player taking 30% less damage from Large jungle buff minions instead of getting heals from minions. Cooldown stays 90s.

- Intensify defenses: Active also increase the physical and magical resist of the tower by 100. Passive also removes penalty to player gold from towers hitting enemy minions. Cooldown stays 90s.

- Sprint: Active duration changed to 6 seconds (from 10). Cooldown to 150s.

- Meditation: Passive change to when below 40% of your mana, your mana regenerates 2x faster Cooldown to 120s.

- Girdle of Might: No changes

- Aegis Amulet: No changes
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I am very excited about most of these changes. I've been really hoping for a nerf to leaps in particular — I think it's total BS that you can leap through walls. It's a stupid design and it makes having a leap a huge advantage.

Definitely saw the HotG, Meditation, and Spring nerfs coming. The passive effects are just way too good for them right now.
 
dont really like the meditation nerf yeah it was broken but made the game way more fun like being able to engage like a mofo and not have to go back for mana
 
PRELIMINARY SMITE PATCH NOTES - NOV 30, 2012 RELEASE

New Gamemode: Domination

Several Obelisks of Power have appeared in Egypt. Control them to gain victory.
Average game time is around 20 minutes.

Match Objectives:

There are three control points.
Each team starts with 400 tickets.
Enemy tickets are reduced when your side controls two of the three points, as well as for each enemy kill.
Reduce the enemy team to zero tickets to win the match.

Other Info:

You start at level three with 1500 gold.
Neutral camps provide buffs but do not deduct tickets.
Your team respawns together in waves.
You will earn normal match rewards. Note that Domination has its own first win of the day bonus.


General Features:

[STILL TESTING. PRELIMINARY] In addition to the five permanently free gods (Ra, Kali, Ymir, Sun WuKong, and Artemis), there will now be an additional five free gods at any point in time.

The free additional gods will rotate over time. (You will still need to purchase a god in order to ensure permanent access).

When you first enter the match lobby in either Conquest Normal or Conquest Ranked gamemodes, the top-ranked player on each side now has the opportunity to ban a god from play. When a god is banned, it is banned for both sides. All gods are bannable (Note that we had previously communicated that free gods would not be bannable, but reversed that decision after adding the additional free rotating gods).


Region Settings:

If enough people are in queue we respect your preferred region when match making. You choose your preferred region on the PLAY screen.


In the Settings menu, you can now choose between 3 different ability casting options:

Normal Casting Mode: A targeting decal is placed on the ground when you hit the ability button, and then the ability is fired when you left mouse click.

Quick Casting Mode: A targeting decal is placed on the ground when you push down the ability button, and the ability is fired when you release the ability button.

Instant Casting Mode: The ability is fired as soon as you press the ability button, with no targeting decal.


Match Making:

The time spent in a “matching state” on timed queues is now drastically reduced, so that you should be sent into the match lobby much faster.

Auto-purchase settings will now be stored server-side at a player level. This should prevent users have these settings reset after each patch (Note: Settings will be reset upon this patch, but should not be reset during the next patch).

If you receive a party invite while alt-tabbed out of the game, you will now receive an out-of-match notification, similar to the notification you receive when you are alt-tabbed out of the game and receive a match invite.


Towers have had their health increased (Roughly 10% excluding Phoenixes).



UI Changes:

The Settings menu has undergone a UI overhaul. There are now tabs for different settings areas.


The Play button on the top-bar menu is now better highlighted.

A variety of UI cleanups have been made to the PLAY screen. This includes:
Users may also now select their preferred server region.
Your last selected tab is persisted across logins (so you will return to the PvP tab if that was your last selected tab the last time you played).
The buttons now read “Join” and “Leave” instead of “Join Queue” and “Leave Queue”.
Once you join a queue, you are restricted from clicking on other queues until you leave the queue.
Several other cleanups.

The sizing and positioning of the in-game web browser has been modified.

The sell button in the in-game item store has been modified.

Several cleanups and improvements have been made to the Social menus.

Several other minor bug fixes and visual cleanups.



Abilities:

Creeping Curse

The active slow has been reduced from 35% to 30%.
The cooldown has been increased to 150s.

Hand of the Gods

Damage done to minions has been reduced by 20%.
Passive has been changed so that you take 30% less damage from Jungle minions.


Heavenly Agility

The active speed buff has been increased from 35% to 40%.
Duration of the buff has been reduced from 5s to 3s.
This ability now makes you immune to slows for the active duration.
The cooldown has been increased to 150s.


Intensify Defenses has been temporarily removed.

Meditation

The passive has been changed so that when you have less than 40% of your mana, your mana regeneration is doubled.
mp5 removed from this passive
The cooldown has been increased to 120s.


Purification Beads

This ability removes pulls again.
The cooldown has been increased to 120s.


Sprint

The lifetime of the active speed buff has been changed to 6s.
The cooldown has been increased to 150s.


Items:

Recommended items that had mana potions have now been changed to healing potions.


Jungle:

The XP reward for clearing a buff camp has been reduced by 50%.
Protection Buff Camp
The protection camp has had its buff reduced from +50 to +35.


Gods:

General

Base movement speed of gods has been increased by 10%.
Projectile speeds on basic ranged attacks has been increased from 70 ft/sec to 100 ft/sec. Anhur, Artemis and Cupid are still at 110 ft/sec.


Artemis

Calydonian Boar
Crowd control immunity duration decreased from 6s to 3s.


Cupid

PASSIVE - Lovestruck
When an ability is used that consumes 10 stacks, Cupid also gains a 20% buff to his physical power for 6s.
Heart Bomb
Damage type has been changed from physical to magical.
Base damage has been increased from 50/80/110/140/170 to 60/100/140/180/220.
Damage contribution has been changed from 60% physical to 100% magical.
Share the Love
Base healing has been increased from 30/50/70/90/110 to 45/70/95/120/145.
Damage contribution has been changed from 40% physical to 30% magical.
Flutter
Attack speed buff duration has been increased from 4s to 6s.
All ranks now gain 2% attack speed per stack of Lovestruck.
Lovestruck stacks now consumed by Flutter.
Fields of Love
Damage type has been changed from physical to magical
Base damage has been increased from 175/225/275/325/375 to 225/290/355/420/485.
Damage contribution has been changed from 100% physical to 120% magical.


Freya

Irradiate
Decreased the cooldown from 13s to 11s.
Pulse
Decreased the cooldown from 13s to 11s.
Banish
Increased the duration of the banish from 1/1.5/2/2.5/3s to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6/3s.


Sobek

PASSIVE - Armor of the Nile
Name has been changed to Blessing of the Nile
Each hit now also gives Sobek +15 physical power, stacking up to 3
times.


Thor

Tectonic Rift
The fissure now appears almost instantly, doing 75/115/155/195/235 (+60% of your physical power) physical damage and stunning enemies for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2s.
Anvil of Dawn
Reduced the amount of time the warning is visible when Thor is about to come crashing down.


Ymir

Frost Breath
This ability now does 50/90/130/170/210 (+50% of your magical power) magical damage.


Erez

Sunglasses have been buffed 30%


****New God Confirmed****
HERCULES
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OMG at the Cupid change. I feel like they finally balanced him... and then they go and change him completely? Wtf. Now we only have 2 pure ranged physical carries.

Thor is going to be such a beast now. 2 stuns, improved ult, improved wall... Geez.

Ymir buff is... interesting. Didn't think he needed one, but a little extra damage won't make him OP or anything.

But the best thing of all is: REGIONS! Good lord, finally. I was getting really tired of having 200+ ping.
 
Hopefully it comes tomorrow. My friend was glad though, because he's a Cupid player who is not too happy about the switch to magic.

In other news, I got enough Favor to buy Arachne and Bastet. Arachne is very fun to play — high risk, high reward. Her ult is one of the hardest skill shots to land (imo), but it is so rewarding when you do. Her lack of escape can really suck though. If you land most of your ults she can be very good in Arena, but still, she is much better suited for Conquest. Bastet is also very fun, albeit less rewarding because her kit does not require as much skill. That isn't a bad thing, though, because after a few games of Arachne in a row I get a little burnt out on trying to land difficult skillshots. I'm a bit torn on Bastet's ult — it is ridiculous early game but late game they die before doing any meaningful damage. :\
 
shes fun in arena just make sure to drop a web down on you before you grab someone and hit them a few times before you leap on em youll do a shit ton of damage
 
The patches always come when I'm at work. ;_; But I'm hearing that there are some serious bugs happening right now. Hotfix probably coming soon.

And yeah I use a similar combo with Arachne: Put down an egg, drop my web, pull them with my ult, auto attack 2-3x, and then use my 2 to silence them. Her 2 is incredible because it shuts down enemies who would otherwise just leap or dash away.
 
yeah in domination if someone chooses a god then selects a different god it drops everyone from the match and you have to requeue

edit: told them on the bug report forums they said they are looking into it so hope for a hotfix either later today or tomorrow
 
Hahaha wtf. He looks like Conan the Barbarian!

Edit: I'm also hearing that Thor is really powerful now. People are complaining that he's OP with his long range wall stun and his teleport.
 
yeah his model is kinda funny i was hoping hed be a unarmed god running around punching people in the face but eh it looks ok
 
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