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Bamelin said:
I'm seriously tempted to buy some gems today so I can get new skins

#partoftheproblem

:(

I spend so much time playing though I feel like its just supporting the devs.

now I understand the hat people in tf3.
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heh its fine i usually buy a skin every patch going to be buying the vulcan one once the patch goes live
 
I would just buy the god pack, cause you get refunded all favor spent on purchasing gods, so you can use that for recolor skins. That way you don't have to drop a full 50 for gems and you'll get all the gods unlocked as well.
 
BurningNad said:
I would just buy the god pack, cause you get refunded all favor spent on purchasing gods, so you can use that for recolor skins. That way you don't have to drop a full 50 for gems and you'll get all the gods unlocked as well.
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I have the god pack. It was a crazy good value considering the hundreds of hours of play I've gotten out of the game.
 
I can't believe Ne Zha is getting a buff. Hahaha! I usually stay away from OP characters in games but I can't help it with him. The feeling of popping his 2 and melting enemy gods in seconds is so empowering. Once I get my 4 core items (Tabi, Soul Eater, Jotunn's, Deathbringer) I can take almost any other god 1 v 1, granted they're not fed.

To make up for it, I've been playing a lot of Anubis in Arena/Domination, where I consider him to be underpowered. Ao Kuang clears minion waves faster, He Bo has better burst damage, and Poseidon has more reliable CC and ult. But Anubis is so satisfying to do well with. His stun is very difficult to land in the chaos of Arena, but when it does it's almost a guaranteed kill for your team, granted you have decent teammates who can react quickly.
 
Patch is up!

Isis God Reveal

Global Agenda Vulcan skin:

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As already known with the Fenrir patch, the next god after Isis is
Athena
. From what we can tell, she will be a magical tank, we already got her skillset sans Passive figured out.

We also found traces of
Chronos
, but that's a VERY early stage, so don't get too excited yet.
 
So Isis is pretty cool. I haven't played her but I've had one in every game I've played since the patch went live. Her ult hit my friend for over 1,700 lol. Her long range stun and silence are great for initiating teamfights. Kinda reminds me of the recently added Elder Titan in Dota 2.

Red Arremer said:
As already known with the Fenrir patch, the next god after Isis is
Athena
. From what we can tell, she will be a magical tank, we already got her skillset sans Passive figured out.

We also found traces of
Chronos
, but that's a VERY early stage, so don't get too excited yet.
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You can't mention the name Chronos and tell me not to be excited!
 
Bamelin said:
Isis is almost as good as Aries with aura items on her. And dat ultimate.
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I really like her. She has a lot of options to deal with a lot of different situations. I'm still trying to get a hang of her ult though since I never really know when the best time to pop it is beyond attempting to save my own ass or comboing it with other ults..
 
GuitarAtomik said:
I really like her. She has a lot of options to deal with a lot of different situations. I'm still trying to get a hang of her ult though since I never really know when the best time to pop it is beyond attempting to save my own ass or comboing it with other ults..
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You use her ult when hades or Aries uses theirs, It's particularly effective in arena when everyone rushes in to tank hades (or ares) ult pulls. I also use it to protect retreating team members (blow it for the heal), to force enemies to come fight me (planting it by enemy portal in arena.)

I made lvl 30 tonight, yay.
 
I probably won't make it. Between practicing speedruns, other games and generally non-gaming stuff, I have not so much time for Smite (and I'm not feeling up to play it that often either). I'm at 15. :/
 
Red Arremer said:
I probably won't make it. Between practicing speedruns, other games and generally non-gaming stuff, I have not so much time for Smite (and I'm not feeling up to play it that often either). I'm at 15. :/
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You still have a month and a half left. It took me about a month to get from 15 - 30, although that was with playing every day 3 hours or more and getting first win of the day in all categories.

This has been a long ass beta.
 
played this for the first time last night, and yeah its pretty fun.

Question, what are levels for in this game? In LOL every level you get a rune spot and a mastery point, but I do not see anything similar in this game, Why am I leveling then?
 
methane47 said:
played this for the first time last night, and yeah its pretty fun.

Question, what are levels for in this game? In LOL every level you get a rune spot and a mastery point, but I do not see anything similar in this game, Why am I leveling then?
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500 Favor per level and matchmaking reasons are all the point is at the moment.
 
blarg zeus nerf
New Skins

Jungle King Anhur

Golden Zeus: This special skin is only available if you are at least God Rank 1 with Zeus. The skin includes a gold frame displaying your God Rank and Stats.

General

The damage that minions do to structures has been reduced by ~20%.
If you lose a match, you now earn ¼ the amount of worshippers as you would have earned if you had won the match.
Damage against towers from basic attacks that deal magical damage has been adjusted to be more effective. This currently only affects Isis and Zeus.
An issue has been fixed in which some abilities were charging double mana costs.
Magical inhand attacks can no longer crit.

Items

Girdle of Might

This item no longer stacks with itself.

Gods

Isis

Isis’ basic attack has had its base damage increased from 30 to 35.
Wing Gust

Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10s.

Ne Zha

Armillary Sash

The physical power contribution of this ability has been reduced from 150% to 100%.

Zeus

General

His basic attacks now deal 35 (+25% of your magical power) magical damage.
Zeus no longer starts with physical power or gains physical power per level.

Overcharge

Basic attacks against targets with charges deal 30% increased damage per charge.

Chain Lightning

The cooldown on this ability has been reduced from 10s to 8s.
The number of arcs on this ability has been changed from 1/2/3/4/5 to 4 at all ranks.
The base damage has been changed from 70/100/130/160/190 to 45/85/125/165/205.
The magical power contribution has been reduced from 50% to 40%.

Detonate Charge

The damage scaling based on the number of charges has been reduced from 1/2.5/4 to 1/2/3.
When this ability is used on an enemy that has 3 charges, they are also stunned for 1s.

Lightning Storm

The magical power contribution has been reduced from 70% to 50%.
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Well... they nerfed his damage but reduced his cooldown + gave him a stun + better auto attack + buffed his early Chain Lightning. I don't know how I feel about this.
 
eh i dont like the focus on basic attacks i liked just harassing with my 1 then getting away if i missed with it id only use my basic attacks if i had them in my ult and for some dumb reason they wanted to fight me in it
 
The game really needs more interesting gods. I'm noticing a trend in conquest ... Losses because everyone wants to be a high damage god and no tanks.

The worst thing about tanking I find is that if your teammates don't pull their weight, not only do you end up with minimal kills like usual, but you assists go down the toilet. AND the tank gets blamed for the loss by the high scoring jungler that did jack shit to hold their own lane.

*rant*

Jungling while important doesn't exscuse letting a lane collapse and not calling mia's
 
Bamelin said:
The game really needs more interesting gods. I'm noticing a trend in conquest ... Losses because everyone wants to be a high damage god and no tanks.

The worst thing about tanking I find is that if your teammates don't pull their weight, not only do you end up with minimal kills like usual, but you assists go down the toilet. AND the tank gets blamed for the loss by the high scoring jungler that did jack shit to hold their own lane.

*rant*

Jungling while important doesn't exscuse letting a lane collapse and not calling mia's
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Yeah, I played Arena last night and 3 matches in a row no one picked a tank (guess how we did!). Kind of annoying. I'd pick one but I haven't found one that I really enjoy playing or are effective with yet. I do like Vulcan but I'm still getting used to playing his role effectively. I'm hoping Athena turns out to be really fun.
 
Yeah it can be really irritating. Yesterday I solo-queued Arena and nobody picked a tank so I played as Ymir, who's my favorite tank because he has a super reliable stun + slow combo and he's beefy as hell. Well guess what? Nobody was following up after I froze people. I'd wait until my teammates were behind me, run forward and stun + slow an enemy hero or two, and then.... nothing. So of course I'd end up dying because I initiated a fight where nobody backed me up. It was the worst.

And that's when I remembered why I never play tanks unless I'm playing with my friends.
 
Luap said:
Yeah it can be really irritating. Yesterday I solo-queued Arena and nobody picked a tank so I played as Ymir, who's my favorite tank because he has a super reliable stun + slow combo and he's beefy as hell. Well guess what? Nobody was following up after I froze people. I'd wait until my teammates were behind me, run forward and stun + slow an enemy hero or two, and then.... nothing. So of course I'd end up dying because I initiated a fight where nobody backed me up. It was the worst.

And that's when I remembered why I never play tanks unless I'm playing with my friends.
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oh yeah ... I play Hades and have lost count the times I call my ult ready, teleport forward unleash my ult, only to find "WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE, FUCK U LOKI, FENRIR, THAT BUFF MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY LIFE?". And then I die because nobody capitalized on the 4 enemies I just took down to half health.
 
Smite is unplayable for me right now. Two days in a row I've crashed on the loading screen, causing me to abandon my game and it froze my computer so bad that I had to cut the power. TF2 and Dota are running fine so it has to be Smite. I guess I'll just wait for the next patch and hope it fixes it.
 
Nibiru said:
Just started playing this game and it's pretty fun. On the fence about the god pack.
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The god pack is one of the best deals going in gaming. 30 bucks for every god released forever. Its an amazing value compared to other DOTA's.

I ended up sinking another 50 into the game for skins and to support the devs. Smite is a great game and worth supporting.

Edit: being f2p with free god rotation is great too guaranteeing a large pool of players
 
I've been doing pretty well with Isis lately in Arena. People seem to underestimate her burst damage potential and it doesn't hurt that her 2 hits pretty hard on top of stunning.

Alternatively I keep doing pretty horribly in Conquest. People keep trying to make me solo mid lane despite the fact that she's support, gets stronger from watching gods die, and has an Ult that is largely useless for killing gods outside of combos until the late game.
 
GuitarAtomik said:
I've been doing pretty well with Isis lately in Arena. People seem to underestimate her burst damage potential and it doesn't hurt that her 2 hits pretty hard on top of stunning.

Alternatively I keep doing pretty horribly in Conquest. People keep trying to make me solo mid lane despite the fact that she's support, gets stronger from watching gods die, and has an Ult that is largely useless for killing gods outside of combos until the late game.
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She IS great at mid though if you build her right.
 
Goddamn... I don't know what's up with Smite or my computer, but I can't even update it right now. It gets stuck at the validation phase and freezes my computer. I tried 3 times and the last time I got the blue screen of death. :S The Smite updates always heavily bogged my computer down but this is new.
 
GuitarAtomik said:
Is she? Perhaps I keep going up against bad early game match-ups (ie Au Kwong). I should look for some more sustainable builds.
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Isis has great burst damage especially if you build her focusing on magic power with a focus on speed and sustain. Early game this translates into dead mid lane enemy gods as (usually) mid lane gods are fragile magic users like Ra or AO.

With that said, I got owned the other night by Neith so YMMV depending on who you are up against.
 
May 30th Patch Notes

New Skins:
Anhur Golden Skin
New Voice Packs
Artemis
Ymir


General:
The STATS | PROFILE menu has undergone a major overhaul.

The Settings screen has undergone a major overhaul.

You may now bind two separate keys to each command under SETTINGS | BASIC KEY BINDINGS.

The Audio Settings now have a “Mute” option next to each Audio category, in addition to the volume slider.

Wards now show the name of the player that placed them.

VGS emote sounds now play in stereo for locally-controlled players, fixing some volume-related issues.

You may now invite a friend to party directly from the FRIENDS tab on the SOCIAL menu.
Fixed a bug in which a friend using the Twitch.TV broadcast functionality would not show as streaming on your Friends List if you logged in after he started streaming.
Small layout changes have been made to the Gods screen.
Custom Matches have a new option to disable spawning of lane minions during the match (mainly useful for machinima makers). At present, this option works only on Conquest matches.


Three gods have had their favor cost reduced:
Cupid reduced from 5500 to 1500.
Ao Kuang reduced from 5500 to 2500.
Hades reduced from 5500 to 3500.

Spectator Changes
When replaying a match, god selection in the Match Lobby is now part of the replay.


Jungle Encounters:


Fire Giant:
The buff provided from the Fire Giant has been reduced:

Magical power reduced from 100 to 70.

Physical power reduced from 70 to 50.

Mana Regeneration reduced from 3% every 5 seconds to 1%.
Flaming Boulder

Debuff applies to target hit by the boulder has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.

Debuff already reduced all healing received by 40% on the target and it now reduces the damage done by his target by 20%.
Items:
Blink
New Sound FX treatment.

Bumba’s Mask (New Jungle Starting Item)
+30 Health
PASSIVE - Gold/XP reward is increased by 25% when landing the killing blow on jungle camps. Also, you gain 10% of the max health as healing of each jungle camp monster that you kill. Upon killing the boss of each camp, you also gain 25% movement speed for 4 seconds.


God Balance Changes

Aphrodite
Stealth no longer breaks Aphrodite's soulmate link. It will turn invisible if either party goes stealth.

Ne Zha
Flaming Spear
Duration reduced from 6s for all ranks to 4/4.5/5/5.5/6s


Other God Changes

Agni
Agni’s passive now has an improved UI treatment.
The Incinerator skin has updated FX.

Ares
Shackles
Improvements to FX

Bakasura
Feaster Bunny card fixed

Bastet
General
Improvements to FX

Isis
Spirit Ball
Improved FX

Sobek
General
Sobek’s model has undergone visual improvements.
XBalanque

General
XBalanque’s model has undergone visual improvements.
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GuitarAtomik said:
Lol at that Cupid favor reduction. I almost never see anyone playing as him so that totally makes sense.
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Haha, my friend just bought him on his smurf account for the full 5,500. He's gonna be pissed!

But I really don't get why Cupid doesn't see much play. He is so good; probably my favorite ranged AD, even though I rarely play him anymore because my friend always uses him (and he's way better than me).
 
Luap said:
Haha, my friend just bought him on his smurf account for the full 5,500. He's gonna be pissed!

But I really don't get why Cupid doesn't see much play. He is so good; probably my favorite ranged AD, even though I rarely play him anymore because my friend always uses him (and he's way better than me).
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I would assume it's a a two-fold thing of being the most out of place God aesthetically (he is neither badass looking nor a chick with huge knockers), and being a support character (sort of). I would guess the looks are the biggest factor though since Aphrodite gets a lot of play and I think if they gave his model another pass to make him less...cute, you would see an uptick in people picking him. Right now he looks too much like he should be some paid for non-functional pet character for one of the other gods.
 
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