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[Indignate]

He's pretty viable all over the damn place.

You can rock him in solo just fine.

 

[CountAntonius]

Ratatoskr assasin confirmed

Hey guys! Some of you may know it or not but looks like Hi-Rez didn’t hide some info.

They have revealed (by error or not) some new info about ratatoskr and the acorn (it’s shown on smite api). I’ve been able to take all that info by doing some POST request and avoiding their javascript script which would replace all that info with “Fenrir Next God”.

Acorn
The accorn items were visible with API access.

Tier 1 – Ratatoskr – Magic Acorn
This item can be upgraded to augment Ratatoskr’s abilities.
Physical Power: +5
Gold: 0

Tier 2 – Ratatoskr – Blue Acorn
PASSIVE – This item activates all Blue Acorn upgrades on Dart, Tail Spin, and Acorn Throw.
Physical Power: +40
Physical Penetration: +5
Movement Speed: +10%
Gold: 1400

Tier 2 – Ratatoskr – Yellow Acorn
PASSIVE – This item activates all Yellow Acorn upgrades on Dart, Tail Spin, and Acorn Throw.
Physical Power: +40
Physical Protection: +30
Attack Speed: +15%
Gold: 1400

Tier 3 – Ratatoskr – Emerald Acorn
PASSIVE – This item activates all Blue Acorn upgrades on Dart, Tail Spin, and Acorn Throw.
Physical Power: +70
Physical Penetration: +15
Movement Speed: +15%
Gold: 3000

Tier 3 – Ratatoskr – Sapphire Acorn
PASSIVE – This item activates all Blue Acorn upgrades on Dart, Tail Spin, and Acorn Throw.
Physical Power: +70
Physical Penetration: +15
Movement Speed: +15%
Gold: 3000

Tier 3 – Ratatoskr – Topaz Acorn
PASSIVE – This item activates all Yellow Acorn upgrades on Dart, Tail Spin, and Acorn Throw.
Physical Power: +70
Physical Protection: +55
Attack Speed: +25%
Gold: 3000

Ratatoskr
Ratatosk will probably be an assasin due to recommended items by Hi-Rez with Bumba’s mask.

Here you have listed every item tagged in recommended build:

Actives, items, consumables
Standard, Defensive, Starter, Damage, Tutorial, Core, Arena

 

[Spiritreaver]

lol

First time I play the game in weeks and I roll Ah Puch in Assault. So many tears.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

anubis remodel patch notes today at 1 pm pst 4pm est on twitch

 

[Head of Vengarl]

All right! Now that tax season is over and I'm back from the Caribbean, I finally had a day to sit down and have myself a little Smite marathon. I had a lot of catching up to do. I bought Ah Puch and Medusa because they looked like fun, and I pretty much solely played them yesterday. I like them both. Medusa in particular; I wasn't expecting to like her as much as I do. Her kit is cool. Ah Puch took a little more getting used to but holy crap his 1 + 3 + 2 combo does a ton of damage (and costs a ton of mana).

I bought Serqet right before taking my hiatus, so I never learned how to play her. How the hell do you play her? I am absolutely terrible at Serqet.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I bought Serqet right before taking my hiatus, so I never learned how to play her. How the hell do you play her? I am absolutely terrible at Serqet.

It's hard to outright kill someone with Serqet until you have deathbringer so you normally can't go too crazy early. You level up skills in order 1, 2, 3. To attack someone use the taunt cc ability then dash through to apply two stacks of poison then do a basic attack to apply the poison passive. You can then decide if you should keep attacking, use the jump to escape or ult. One of the most useful things about the ult is that it denies healing.

 

[ThirtyFour]

I like the look of that new AMC skin but since it's tied to league wins I won't be getting it...

After seeing that new arena map in-game I still feel like it looks bigger than the current map. I do like the look of it though.

Edit: That Achilles spear changes also interests me. I was once in an assault where a guy told us we should all get it as it was super useful. Haven't tried it but I have wondered if it was worth it.

 

[ThirtyFour]

New God cards here: http://imgur.com/a/WZ1EP

 

[Special C]

Is Ra competativly viable enough for me to keep playing him? I eventually want to branch out from newbie status but I just really enjoy playing him. I've practiced using him in both Solo and Mid lanes.

My next stop may be Hades/Support. He seems pretty newb freindly.

 

[Spiritreaver]

DIDNT WE JUST HAVE A PATCH?

This is what I'm talking about. After that long ass Medusa delay it's nice to see patches coming out steadily again.

 

[Indignate]

Is Ra competativly viable enough for me to keep playing him? I eventually want to branch out from newbie status but I just really enjoy playing him. I've practiced using him in both Solo and Mid lanes.

My next stop may be Hades/Support. He seems pretty newb freindly.

Totally.

Don't even worry about viability if you're still new to the game. Just play as many heroes as you can and get to learn all the roles.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

My next stop may be Hades/Support. He seems pretty newb freindly.

Hades is more of a solo god the starter for support is Ymir.

 

[CountAntonius]

GLADIATOR’S GLORY

New Arena Map
The Arena map has undergone a full visual upgrade and features new buff creatures.

Anubis Redo
Anubis has undergone a major visual update.

New God Skins
Solid Hornet Ah Muzen Cab
This Limited skin is awarded for completing the new Season 2 League Achievement: Winning 20 matches in a League queue.
Killer Bee Ah Muzen Cab
Boom Chaac-a-laka Chaac
Kumbhalayan Yeti Kumbhakarna

New God Cards
Anubis Standard
Anubis Nightwalker

New Voice Packs
Solid Hornet Ah Muzen Cab
Kumbhalayan Yeti Kumbhakarna

New Emotes
Anubis Clap and Wave

New Ward Skins and Player Icons
Dragon Boat Festival Icon

UI
-Chests tab layout in the store has been redone to better show the Exclusive content each chest contains.
-Fixed tooltip not showing for slotted Achievement.
-Re-addressed tooltips persisting when they shouldn’t.
-Fixed Clan member time offline status not updating.
-Fixed Arrow overlaying “Level” on Clan page.
-Fixed Clan Honor stating there were only 4 ways to earn points instead of 5.
-Fashion Forward Achievement now uses the correct tier icon.
-Updated Hard Carry Achievement description to be more clear.
Gameplay
-Increased range at which you receive Gold and Experience from minions and jungle camps from 60 to 80.
“This change mainly affects Conquest, and though the original reduction was intended to encourage aggressive zoning between enemies, it proved to be an added difficulty that did not improve the quality of matches. This change means all players can be further away when a minion or jungle camp dies and still receive Gold and Experience.”
-Increased Gold Bounty cap limit from 500g to 750g
“When calculating the amount of Gold a player earns for killing another player, currently there is a hard cap of 500g. We are raising this to 750g to provide a greater benefit to teams that manage to successfully take down an enemy player who is doing very well and is far ahead.”

Misc
Event Center
The Event Center has been added to the home page. In the Event Center, you can find all your bonuses and rewards for various things. Daily Login Bonuses, Special Event Items, bonuses for leveling up your account, and much more! Check out the Event Center to start claiming your rewards.

Season 2 League Icons have been added.

Players can once again earn First Win of the Day rewards from League queues.
Note: Future Gem Storm events will require only a limited number of First Win of the Day’s, such that League will be an option, but not required to play.

Addressed issue with clients crashing when using Alt-Tab while Fullscreen.

Items
Achilles’ Spear
“Achilles’ Spear has a major downside by increasing the damage you take while its active. This downside gets more terrifying the later the game gets as enemy players get stronger, so we wanted to incentivize using its great strength earlier. Drastically lowering its Cooldown and changing the damage increase to only be triggered by enemy gods makes early game and jungle Achilles’ favorite time to party.”
Reduced Cooldown from 90s to 30s.
Now only increases damage taken by 30% from gods only.

Bancroft's Talon
Now updates Basic Attack damage on the HUD as you gain or lose magic power.

Talaria Boots
“Talaria and Travelers are seeing a nerf to their snowball potential and also to their attractiveness to broader roles. However, these both can still serve as a great tool to come back when you’re behind or to help Supports be more active without losing much.”
No longer provides bonus Experience.

Travelers Shoes
No longer provides bonus Experience.
Reduced Magical Power from +30 to +20

Gods - Balance/Updates/Fixes
Ah Puch
General
Fixed emote VVGG ending abruptly.
Undead Surge
Updated accuracy on surging Corpses targeters.

Agni
General
Fixed an issue where his cooldowns were not showing up on tooltips.

Awilix
Passive
Fixed issue where the first hit causing her to enter combat does NOT receive the benefit from the increased power.
Fixed Healing and Mana Potions causing her to enter combat.
Moonlight Charge
Fixed from triggering Magi’s Blessing and Spirit Robe passives when ability does NOT knockup.

Bakasura
“Bakasura’s minions get an adjustment this patch. Their damage has seen a slight reduction to bring his level 5 power spike down some.”
Regurgitate
Updated tooltip to show how much damage minions deal.
Reduced damage dealt by minions from 20 to 15 per attack

Bellona
“Bellona’s ability to instantly build three block stacks on minions is going away, now encouraging players to strike more gods to gain the same stacks. This, along with the duration loss on Eagle’s Rally, will bring her survivability down in certain fighting situations.”
Shield Bash
Now only provides block stacks from hitting gods on initial hit.
Eagle’s Rally
Reduced duration from 6/8/10/12/14s to 6/7/8/9/10s.

Cabrakan
“There’s no way out! Seriously. Tectonic Rift now appears immediately after Cabrakan stomps his foot, meaning Cabrakan players can lock in their prey much easier. Beware the Destroyer of Mountains!”
Tectonic Shift
Walls now appear instantly.

Janus
Portal
Fixed exploit getting gods on top of collisions.

Sylvanus
“Sylvanus can be a potent Support, and excels in teamfights. Losing the ability to knockback and stack up multiple minions with his Basic Attacking bombs of doom means his near-unstoppable laning phase should be less potent.”
General
Sylvanus’ Basic Attacks no longer knockback minions.

Zhong Kui
General
Fixed Basic Attack trails showing green fx from Standard skin.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

Is Ra competativly viable enough for me to keep playing him? I eventually want to branch out from newbie status but I just really enjoy playing him. I've practiced using him in both Solo and Mid lanes.

My next stop may be Hades/Support. He seems pretty newb freindly.

play as many as you can in what ever mode you want its best to learn the gods that way when you come up against them you know what their weaknesses are and how to counter them

 

[XT Vengeance]

Is Ra competativly viable enough for me to keep playing him? I eventually want to branch out from newbie status but I just really enjoy playing him. I've practiced using him in both Solo and Mid lanes.

My next stop may be Hades/Support. He seems pretty newb freindly.

Hades is far more complicated than Ymir. Play Ymir, freeze things, whack them with your club. Win games.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

I like the look of that new AMC skin but since it's tied to league wins I won't be getting it...

Was thinking the same thing. Really cool looking but I never play League :/

I really hope Bart was trolling about not knowing what game has the word "Solid" in it lol.

 

[Indignate]

It's only 20 wins right?

I believe in all of you.

 

[CountAntonius]

You can always do league Joust.

 

[ThirtyFour]

It's only 20 wins right?

I believe in all of you.

You can always do league Joust.

I'm only level 25 so I'd have to level to max then go for it. I thought I saw someone mention it was only available for a handful of weeks.

If so I ain't gonna make it in time.

 

[Zombine]

Ugh...ran into my first uber dick online. Guy kept on bossing the team around and because I wasn't doing super hot as Neith he kept talking shit. It isn't even worth feeding dudes like that because they just deflect it.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

It's hard to outright kill someone with Serqet until you have deathbringer so you normally can't go too crazy early. You level up skills in order 1, 2, 3. To attack someone use the taunt cc ability then dash through to apply two stacks of poison then do a basic attack to apply the poison passive. You can then decide if you should keep attacking, use the jump to escape or ult. One of the most useful things about the ult is that it denies healing.

Thank you. I'm an idiot... I didn't know about her poison passive. After reading this post I played her and had an incredible game — in Arena no less, where I have a hard time playing assassins. You can do a ton of damage with 3 poison stack and a crit auto attack. I blew up an annoying Ymir and it was easily my most satisfying kill in a long time.

 

[ThirtyFour]

New PTS datamine is up: http://smitedatamining.com/smite-pt...r-ultimate-confirmed-and-more-esports-chests/

Ravana-Demon King of Lanka seems to be the next Go after Ratatoskr.

 

[Indignate]

These team skins are getting out of hand.

I know the COG skin has more put into it, but it doesn't feel special anymore and the way they assign gods to teams doesn't make any sense.

Pretty soon, the skin section of a god is just going to look cluttered as fuck with unpurchasable skins filling spaces.

 

[ThirtyFour]

Pretty soon, the skin section of a god is just going to look cluttered as fuck with unpurchasable skins filling spaces.

I also don't see the point in having skins in those sections that I can't have. Skins that are only in chest or holiday themed maybe, as it could make people get excited for the next time they become available. But ones I can never have seems pointless.

That Infernal Agni skin taunts me with its greatness.

 

[drotahorror]

Is there a gem promotion going on with the special motd?

 

[ThirtyFour]

Is there a gem promotion going on with the special motd?

Yeah, think it's something like 5 wins gives you 100 gems. There are levels for 150 wins I believe so it seems like a long time event or recurring at least so you might not have to get all the wins this weekend.

Edit: From reddit: you need 5 wins for silver and you get 100 gems then 25 wins for the gold tier for 200 gems etc

you can track it in Profile ...achievements then last tab special events progress there you have event master

 

[drotahorror]

Yeah, think it's something like 5 wins gives you 100 gems. There are levels for 150 wins I believe so it seems like a long time event or recurring at least so you might not have to get all the wins this weekend.

Edit: From reddit: you need 5 wins for silver and you get 100 gems then 25 wins for the gold tier for 200 gems etc

you can track it in Profile ...achievements then last tab special events progress there you have event master

Why does hi rez not relay this sort of info? You'd think I'd open up the launcher and immediately see "Win 5 games ot todays MOTD and get 100gems!" I honestly never know about promotions unless I see them during a patch note thing on twitch or I read it here on gaf.

 

[ThirtyFour]

Why does hi rez not relay this sort of info? You'd think I'd open up the launcher and immediately see "Win 5 games ot todays MOTD and get 100gems!" I honestly never know about promotions unless I see them during a patch note thing on twitch or I read it here on gaf.

I completely agree, when I saw your post I went to the Hirez site to see if they had info on it and, while they tell you that the event is occurring, they say nothing about the rewards or how to get them.

Honestly Hirez seem to use Reddit more than any other site to relay info. It's definitely my first place to look.

 

[drotahorror]

Pretty sick Kumbha play from Lassiz haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3vJWTkClg&hd=1

 

[CountAntonius]

Pretty sick Kumbha play from Lassiz haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3vJWTkClg&hd=1

Love playing Kumba. That yeti skin is on my wishlist.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

X-Post:

New Xbox patch tomorrow:

Should be the Medusa one, but also should be the one that allows for PC account merger and maybe other stuff.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Thank you. I'm an idiot... I didn't know about her poison passive. After reading this post I played her and had an incredible game — in Arena no less, where I have a hard time playing assassins. You can do a ton of damage with 3 poison stack and a crit auto attack. I blew up an annoying Ymir and it was easily my most satisfying kill in a long time.

Yeah, she is super powerful but has avoided nerfs because most players don't really understand what to do with her. The dash also has a chance to crit which is what make crit really good for her also.

 

[Conor_Fool]

Hey, does anyone play this on Xbox One? I just got one earlier today. I heard this was a f2p game but it seems you need a beta code?

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

right now its in closed beta for xbone

 

[GuitarAtomik]

Hey, does anyone play this on Xbox One? I just got one earlier today. I heard this was a f2p game but it seems you need a beta code?

I'm playing but yeah. You need a beta code.

 

[Lollipop Dave]

Hey, does anyone play this on Xbox One? I just got one earlier today. I heard this was a f2p game but it seems you need a beta code?

I've sent you a spare beta code I had, as long as they don't have an expiry date, the code should be good.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

Xbox patch notes are UP! Lots of stuff including:

• Medusa
• Account merge
• VGS and Ping system
• Custom God Builds
• Role Requesting
• Y Axis Sensitivity Option
• Adjusted Controller Settings
• Bellona nerf!

Along with way too much stuff to list or copy.

 

[ThirtyFour]

• Bellona nerf!

.

That Bellona nerf is the one that has already occured on PC right, not a new one (that I personally think she needs)?

 

[Indignate]

It's the old one.

And everybody thinks she needs a nerf.

 

[Lollipop Dave]

They've removed the controller layout I was using. Fun times.

 

[ThirtyFour]

Concept art for a new conquest map:

From: https://twitter.com/loki_diego/status/596023013092499457

 

[CountAntonius]

Concept art for a new conquest map:

From: https://twitter.com/loki_diego/status/596023013092499457

Another conquest map?

 

[Indignate]

It's concept art for the map we currently have now.

 

[Dylan Sexbang]

Two questions! Is there any way to snag a beta invite now or have they all gone out? Need something new on my xbone. And second, does the xbone cross play with PC?

 

[ThirtyFour]

I thought it was concept art for qn update but it seems I misread. Nice to see I guess but not that important.

 

[CountAntonius]

Two questions! Is there any way to snag a beta invite now or have they all gone out? Need something new on my xbone. And second, does the xbone cross play with PC?

There's a lot of them floating around the internet and twitter. No crossplay.

 

[RedSparrows]

So can't queue 5 man conquest on X1 now, but no pre-made list to play instead. :-(

 

[Spiritreaver]

Speaking of the conquest map, what's up with the subtle differences in pathing for each side? Most noticibly the pathing to mid from damage camp is different for each side. Chaos/Fire is more close to a straight line and is quicker. I'm always late to mid on Order/Light side.

I'm not really knowledgable on the intricacies of the game though. I couldn't even tell you how much gold a wave of minions gives you.

 

[drotahorror]

Anyone have an ETA on the next patch? I want to check out that new arena.

 

[Conor_Fool]

I've sent you a spare beta code I had, as long as they don't have an expiry date, the code should be good.

You are freaking awesome!