Just read the patch notes. Was Herc really doing that poorly? I actually thought he was in a decent spot. I know he's not in the meta right now but not every god can be in the meta. Regardless, those are some pretty big buffs for him. Would love if they gave Art the same treatment. Its painfully trying to clear the wave because she uses so much mana.
The art skin looks badass. Will probably have to pick that one up.
Skadi's kit is kind of interesting but she doesn't seem to have an escape. That usually spells trouble for most hunters. I'm not sure how her 3 will work. Is that going to be like a disarm of sorts? Anyway, I think her model looks cool and I'll check her out and see if I like her or not.
Making the ice rink on a melee character means gently nudging them away from her, or she can put it down and then juke in a different direction to buy her some time since enemies keep moving forward.
It isn't that good as a leap or anything, but I'm excited to see it be made used of in practice.
Herc is my main warrior, so I'm happy with that change!
Kukulkan also got buffed, so I'll have to check him out. I'm currently saving up for his Sacred Dragon skin because R.I.P. retro Ao Kuang (he was my first god purchase in 2013).
Skadi looks very interesting but I'm not gonna buy her straight away. Those Norse gods are complicated to play...
Making the ice rink on a melee character means gently nudging them away from her, or she can put it down and then juke in a different direction to buy her some time since enemies keep moving forward.
It isn't that good as a leap or anything, but I'm excited to see it be made used of in practice.
Hmm, that doesn't sound that great. If they have curse, your basically screwed if you don't have a leap, dash, etc. I think it would work better if in cleansed cc like roots, slows, etc. but I guess we'll have to wait and see before making any judgements.
1000 - Sunstar Ra Skin
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2000 - Enigma Chest
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3500 - Undying Chest
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5500 - Enigma Chest
6000 - Peeper Ward Skin
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The Rama skin and recolours are in the Undying Chests. Apparently we will be able to get all of the skins from the Undying chests when they add more chests to the later rewards.
So Guan Yu is op right now on xbox at least. I'm 7-2 with him in ranked matches. My first loss was because my jungler went 0-3, rage quit, then all four of my teammates surrendered right at 10 minutes even though i was currently 0/0/0. My next loss I went 2/2/11 while my ymir and thor fed like crazy with a combined death count of 25.
Guan is sooooo good, definitely the current best warrior along with Odin.
The fact that Odin isn't trapped in the cage anymore and there's no more combat blink and that he can get that ult every 30 sec or so makes him very powerful especially when you consider his passive. His Raven's Shield-->leap-->Gungnir's Might combo does a ton of damage as well.
Yea Odin and Guan are my go-to warriors right now. Used to be Bellona and Osiris. Don't even bother with them now. I should try Amaterasu more, but I just feel like she's a bit clunky. With having to release her mirror and all.
I'm not sure I agree with some of those. Ninja is useless on hunters, your better off going sith warrior tabi still. Also while crit is fine it's considered more expensive and takes longer to get online than an AS/pen build, so an Ichavial/Odysseus into titan's bane is probably better.
For guardians, heartward and sov are kind of bad now. You would probably still get them in assault due to the mp5 and hp5 but in other modes you're better off going straight into BoV or bulwark after cd boots. Hide of the Urchin is also a must even if you have to grab it late.
Hyrd's lament is currently worthless but it is getting buffed in the next patch. When it hits Loki is going to be insufferable in all non-conquest game modes. It could also be a big help to assassins like Fenrir and good Thor players.
I'm not sure I agree with some of those. Ninja is useless on hunters, your better off going sith warrior tabi still. Also while crit is fine it's considered more expensive and takes longer to get online than an AS/pen build, so an Ichavial/Odysseus into titan's bane is probably better.
For guardians, heartward and sov are kind of bad now. You would probably still get them in assault due to the mp5 and hp5 but in other modes you're better off going straight into BoV or bulwark after cd boots. Hide of the Urchin is also a must even if you have to grab it late.
Hyrd's lament is currently worthless but it is getting buffed in the next patch. When it hits Loki is going to be insufferable in all non-conquest game modes. It could also be a big help to assassins like Fenrir and good Thor players.
Why is Ninja useless? I figured the attack speed offsets the 20 less power at some point.
I'll drop Heartward and Sov. Too bad because they are good team items... but yeah I'm dying way too much when I play Ymir/Geb in Arena. With guardians and warriors I try to build max CDR because in Arena you're in constant teamfights... but with the nerf to defense items it really comes at a great cost to survivability now.
Well that's good about Hydra's because Loki is my main Arena assassin.
Why is Ninja useless? I figured the attack speed offsets the 20 less power at some point.
I'll drop Heartward and Sov. Too bad because they are good team items... but yeah I'm dying way too much when I play Ymir/Geb in Arena. With guardians and warriors I try to build max CDR because in Arena you're in constant teamfights... but with the nerf to defense items it really comes at a great cost to survivability now.
Well that's good about Hydra's because Loki is my main Arena assassin.
You're just getting enough attack speed from your asi/qins/ichaival that getting more can easily over cap you especially if you're a hunter with a attack speed steroid (AMC, Apollo, Artemis etc). You can also pick up fatalis which will sky rocket you AS.
Max CDR for warriors is quite easy to get I find. Go BoV early and get a Jotunns either next or after bulwark depending on how the game is going. For guardians though it can be difficult, cd boots and BoV only get you to 30%. It's not bad and I feel like I can get away with it on some Guardians, like Bacchus, but for others like Geb I want that max CD. More shields, especially with the beads nerf is never a bad thing. Spirit Robe is where I go in that case.
Yeah I brought Odin into the Arena and won like every single match with him. So easy and fun to play now. Not being trapped within his own cage was an amazing buff
Got like 15 gods mastered now and my account is L19. Kinda sad cause both Guan and Odin are mastery 1 already. Gotta play some lesser warriors now...
* Amaretsu and Bellonia were already at mastery 1. Might go with Osiris next. And oh yeah still got Ravana left to get mastery on
You say lesser warriors but overall warriors are in a good place. Bellona, Vamana, Ama and Ravana are easily on par with Guan/Odin if not better.
A good Tyr is hard to play against, Wukong's early game is difficult but he's still a pain mid to late. Herc and Chaac are getting buffs soon and Osiris is great as he always is.
Why is Ninja useless? I figured the attack speed offsets the 20 less power at some point.
I'll drop Heartward and Sov. Too bad because they are good team items... but yeah I'm dying way too much when I play Ymir/Geb in Arena. With guardians and warriors I try to build max CDR because in Arena you're in constant teamfights... but with the nerf to defense items it really comes at a great cost to survivability now.
Well that's good about Hydra's because Loki is my main Arena assassin.
You don't really need the as that ninja tabi gives you. AS items are really cheap and Qins got buffed and is relatively cheaper so you'll have more than enough as without ninja tabi.
Here's the build I usually run for hunters:
Ichival--> Transcendence-->Warrior's Tab-->Asi-->Qins -->Sell Ichival for Titans Bane.
For Art I do still get crits so its more something like Ichival--> Warrior Tab-->Asi--> Qins Sins--> Malice--> Deathbringer. I only play Art in Arena, Clash, and Joust though. Wouldn't play her in Conquest right now.
Defensive items got nerfed a ton so your not going to be nearly as tanky as you were in Season 2. Sovernity and Heartward just aren't good right now. Hopefully they get buffed but until then I usually go cd boots-->BoV-->Bulwark--Hide of the Urchin--> situational Utility--> situational Defense item.
You're just getting enough attack speed from your asi/qins/ichaival that getting more can easily over cap you especially if you're a hunter with a attack speed steroid (AMC, Apollo, Artemis etc). You can also pick up fatalis which will sky rocket you AS.
Max CDR for warriors is quite easy to get I find. Go BoV early and get a Jotunns either next or after bulwark depending on how the game is going. For guardians though it can be difficult, cd boots and BoV only get you to 30%. It's not bad and I feel like I can get away with it on some Guardians, like Bacchus, but for others like Geb I want that max CD. More shields, especially with the beads nerf is never a bad thing. Spirit Robe is where I go in that case.
You don't really need the as that ninja tabi gives you. AS items are really cheap and Qins got buffed and is relatively cheaper so you'll have more than enough as without ninja tabi.
Here's the build I usually run for hunters:
Ichival--> Transcendence-->Warrior's Tab-->Asi-->Qins -->Sell Ichival for Titans Bane.
For Art I do still get crits so its more something like Ichival--> Warrior Tab-->Asi--> Qins Sins--> Malice--> Deathbringer. I only play Art in Arena, Clash, and Joust though. Wouldn't play her in Conquest right now.
Defensive items got nerfed a ton so your not going to be nearly as tanky as you were in Season 2. Sovernity and Heartward just aren't good right now. Hopefully they get buffed but until then I usually go cd boots-->BoV-->Bulwark--Hide of the Urchin--> situational Utility--> situational Defense item.
Ty for the advice. I made the appropriate changes to my item builds.
Unfortunately, I still find I'm having noticeably less fun this season. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but the game just isn't as fun to play right now. I think I'm gonna lay low for 2-3 patches and see if I like the changes.
You say lesser warriors but overall warriors are in a good place. Bellona, Vamana, Ama and Ravana are easily on par with Guan/Odin if not better.
A good Tyr is hard to play against, Wukong's early game is difficult but he's still a pain mid to late. Herc and Chaac are getting buffs soon and Osiris is great as he always is.
Hou Yi hurts so much. Was playing against a Hou Yi in joust and he killed me in two autos. He marked me and then two autos later dead. 1900 damage in two autos. SMH
Ty for the advice. I made the appropriate changes to my item builds.
Unfortunately, I still find I'm having noticeably less fun this season. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but the game just isn't as fun to play right now. I think I'm gonna lay low for 2-3 patches and see if I like the changes.
I think they need to make health items better. Only a few of them are worth picking up and you would have to drop one of the protection items to do it which kind of makes it not worth doing. That I think they either need to add more relics or make them more useable. 120 sec cd is a long time without beads or sprint especially if your play games modes where the games are short like Arena or assault. Either that of have less cc in the game but I don't see that happening.
I've been playing mostly Arena and Clash on PS4 and I've been doing Frostbound start nearly every time I pick a Warrior or Assassin. Is that a good pickup or should I be looking at Heartseeker on Assassins more? The main reason I use it is when I'm low mana or my abilities are on CD, I hate when people just run away, especially since a lot of people do Boots start since that's what the auto-build always does, so I like the slow so I can keep hitting them.
I wasn't using Runeforged much at the end of Season 2, but I saw they changed the passive? Am I crazy?
I guess Favor is good for the Golden skins and such. I have all the gods so all my favor has been accumulating.
Man cant login to the server. Wanted to get my daily bonus.
* Ah the patch is going live with Skadi
edit- Is Tyr unpopular? I picked him for Arena and a teammate instantly says something like:
"Oh we got Tyr. We've already lost, gg"
And yeah we lost but it was my first time using him so couldnt tank to save my life. I was missing Odin/Ravanna/Quan/Hercules the whole time I was playing him but I already mastered those gods
I've been playing mostly Arena and Clash on PS4 and I've been doing Frostbound start nearly every time I pick a Warrior or Assassin. Is that a good pickup or should I be looking at Heartseeker on Assassins more? The main reason I use it is when I'm low mana or my abilities are on CD, I hate when people just run away, especially since a lot of people do Boots start since that's what the auto-build always does, so I like the slow so I can keep hitting them.
I wasn't using Runeforged much at the end of Season 2, but I saw they changed the passive? Am I crazy?
Need to install Smite on my PS4. But I'm assuming the same account cant be used on PC/PS4. So will only be taking a quick look at PS4 then I'm back to PC
edit- Is Tyr unpopular? I picked him for Arena and a teammate instantly says something like:
"Oh we got Tyr. We've already lost, gg"
And yeah we lost but it was my first time using him so couldnt tank to save my life. I was missing Odin/Ravanna/Quan/Hercules the whole time I was playing him but I already mastered those gods
A good Tyr can be a scary thing. Super tanky, good damage, great CC. He does have a steep learning curve though. I'm a mastery 2 Tyr and I love but dread playing him. I want to get good with him but I still feel like I'm a liability to the team and that I'd be better off going SWK or Bellona.
Also his CC is telegraphed really easily, either by his positioning or his use of his ult, that a person with their eye on him will avoid it easily.
Need to install Smite on my PS4. But I'm assuming the same account cant be used on PC/PS4. So will only be taking a quick look at PS4 then I'm back to PC
There will probably be a one time account transfer so you can move everything you have to the PS4 if you want, they did this on the Xbox. No idea when it will occur though.
Yeah will have to play Tyr more. Maybe I'll improve
Played Skadi two Arena matches. Seems really coo. I love her design/concept. But was confused by her ult. I thought it would heal me to full. But instead, it heals the pet. Hilarity ensued
Matchmaking must be working as intended because I always do really well when I play with my friends and then when I solo queue I get teamed up with people who are trying to eat their controller.
Matchmaking must be working as intended because I always do really well when I play with my friends and then when I solo queue I get teamed up with people who are trying to eat their controller.
I played 2 arena games so far where one of my teammates were playing pve. It was kind of funny seeing the Ymir use his three on the attack speed buff and then not pick up said buff and just leave it there for the other team to get, but less funny when he just stood there while the Kali on the other team decided to go yolo and just dive on me.
It was kind of funny seeing the Ymir use his three on the attack speed buff and then not pick up said buff and just leave it there for the other team to get,
If he killed the buff then the enemy team cannot pick it up. If anything it him leaving it was the right choice. He can make no use for it and it will be better served if someone else on your team picks it up.
If he killed the buff then the enemy team cannot pick it up. If anything it him leaving it was the right choice. He can make no use for it and it will be better served if someone else on your team picks it up.
I'm reading on Reddit about some good Skadi combos:
- Skadi + Cabrakan:
Meand my friend literally won 17 games in row with cabrakan skadi duo lane. The combos of cabs ult/tremors plus skadis ice/ult makes duo lane a kill lane. Any time you catch someone out of position in cabrakans ult it is almost a guaranteed kill. Consistently beat kephri + houyi/chiron lanes
I should try out the PS4 version but I already got all gods unlocked etc on PC version. Wish they'd unify the accounts so I can play on PC/PS4 when I want. I actually use a controller with the PC ver majority of the time (I'm just casually playing in Arenas, bout to hit L21 soon).
I'd be all over ps4 ver if it got a graphics update or something
