SMITE 2 Alpha Weekend 4 Playtest Notes

Susano

Storm's Edge

• When you use an ability your next basic attack will debuff the enemy hit. Weave in basic attack hits between abilities to progressively stack the debuff.
• Enemies with 1-2 stacks have 10% reduced Strength.
• Enemies with 3-4 stacks are Slowed by 15% and maintain previous Debuff.
• Enemies with 5-6 stacks tale 10% increased damage and maintain previous Debuffs.
• Debuffs last 3s and refresh on a new application.
• Buff lasts 3s.

Storm Kata

• Strike and deal Physical Damage to enemies in front of you. This ability can be used a second time to Spin and Deal Physical Damage to enemies around you. This ability can be used a third time to Dash forward and deal Physical Damage to all enemies hit.
• Each attack of Storm Kata can trigger ability item effects.
• This ability Cooldown is increased by 1s for each additional attack used.
• Dash passes through all enemies.
• Strike Damage: 40/60/80/100/120
• Strike Damage Scaling: 50% Strength
• Spin Damage: 40/60/80/100/120
• Spin Damage Scaling: 50% Strength
• Dash Damage: 30/50/70/90/110
• Dash Damage Scaling: 30% Strength
• Strike Range: 4.8m
• Strike Cone Angle: 60 degrees
• Spin Radius: 4.8m
• Dash Range: 7m
• Dash Radius: 0.5m
• Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10s
• Cost: 50/55/60/65/70

Wind Siphon

• Deal Physical Damage to enemies in front of you. Enemies in the inner area are also Pulled towards you.
• Enemies are Pulled to the location in front of you at the start of the attack.
• Damage: 75/100/125/150/175
• Damage Scaling: 70% Strength
• Cooldown: 16s
• Cost: 40/50/60/70/80
• Range: 5.6m
• Cone Angle: 105 degrees
• Inner Cone Angle: 40 degrees

Jet Stream

• Fire a projectile that stops on walls or the first enemy hit creating a Whirlwind which repeatedly deals Physical Damage. This ability can be used again to Teleport to the Whirlwind.
• The Whirlwind will travel with the enemy hit.
• This ability Cooldown is reduced by 4s when Teleporting to an enemy.
• Ability hits 6 times
• over 3 seconds.
• Damage: 10/20/30/40/50
• Damage Scaling: 20% Strength
• Cooldown: 16s
• Cost: 45/50/55/60/65

Typhoon

• Create a Typhoon which repeatedly deals Physical Damage. This ability can be used again to fire the Typhoon, dealing Physical Damage and Displacing enemies hit.
• This ability automatically refires after 2s.
• This ability starts at 50% Size and Damage and increases over the duration.
• The Typhoon will travel in the duration Susano is facing on refire.
• Damage Per Tick: 10/15/20/25/30
• Damage Scaling Per Tick: 10% Strength
• Max Damage: 180/240/300/360/420
• Damage Scaling: 100% Strength
• Cooldown: 90s
• Cost: 80/85/90/95/100
• Start Radius: 3.2m
• Max Radius: 6.4m

Ares

Blessed Armaments

• Ares provides Strength and Intelligence in an Aura.
• Provides more Strength as Ares builds protections. Provides more Intelligence as Ares builds CDR. Both increase with Level.

Shackles

• Fire a Shackle projectile that deals Physical Damage, Slows, and stops on first enemy god hit. Shackled gods take repeating Magical Damage and are Crippled. Successfully hitting an enemy god allows you to fire another projectile and increases your Movement Speed. Up to 3 projectiles can be fired in this way.
• This projectile passes through and damages non-god enemies and passes through walls. It stops on gods.
• Movement Speed buff stacks for each uniquely shackled god.
• You have 2 seconds to fire another Shackle after successfully hitting an enemy god.
• Damage Per Tick: 30/55/80/105/130
• Damage Scaling Per Tick: 30% Strength
• Minion Damage: 70/90/110/130/150
• Minion Damage Scaling: 15% Strength
• Slow: 15%
• Slow Duration: 4s
• Cripple Duration: 4s
• Movement Speed: 15%
• Range: 8.8m
• Radius: 2.4m
• Cooldown: 15s
• Cost: 70/75/80/85/90

Call To Arms

• You and allied gods around you gain increased Magical and Physical Protections and Basic Attack Damage. While this effect is active, each buffed god will be able to extend the duration and increase the effects of their buff by damaging enemy gods.
• The buff is extended by 4 seconds after hitting an enemy god 3 times.
• Physical Protection: 10/15/20/25/30
• Magical Protection: 10/15/20/25/30
• Basic Attack Damage: 8/12/16/20/24
• Buff Duration: 6s
• Radius: 5.6m
• Cooldown: 15s
• Cost: 40/45/50/55/60

Searing Flesh

• Channel to deal Magical Damage repeatedly to enemies in front of you. Deals damage based on the enemies' maximum Health in addition to base and scaling damage.
• You can fire your Shackles ability while channeling this ability
• but no other attacks.
• You are Displacement Immune while Channeling.
• Damage Per Tick: 15/20/25/30/35
• Damage Scaling Per Tick: 7% Intelligence+1/1/2/2/3% Max Health
• Minion Damage Per Tick: 15/20/25/30/35
• Minion Damage Scaling Per Tick: 7% Intelligence+4% Max Health
• Range: 5.6m
• Cone Angle: 45 degrees
• Cooldown: 12s
• Cost: 55/60/65/70/75

No Escape

• Begin Channeling and immediately attach a Chain to gods around you, dealing Magical Damage. At the end the of channel, Displace Chained gods toward you, then deal Magical Damage and Stun enemies around you. You are CC Immune and gain Damage Mitigation while Channeling.
• Channel lasts 2.5 seconds. Enemy gods are Displaced toward you after 2.17 seconds of channeling.
• You are Displacement Immune while Channeling.
• Initial Damage: 65/90/115/140/165
• Initial Damage Scaling: 25% Strength
• Final Damage: 200/275/350/425/500
• Final Damage Scaling: 60% Strength
• Stun Duration: 0.75s
• Damage Mitigation: 20/22.5/25/27.5/30%
• Range: 5.6m
• Final Range: 2.8m
• Cooldown: 90s
• Cost: 80/85/90/95/100

"We were especially careful to not disrupt Susano’s powerful and clean kit flow. Susano has a totally new passive with a focus on debuffing targets to give him a new angle of utility to bring to team fights and to weaken targets he doesn’t kill. This passive is specifically designed to reward him for in-hand canceling. (weaving basic attacks between abilities) Additionally, Typhoon no longer pulls enemies in during its buildup, and instead deals damage over time to enemies in the area.”

• Susano Basic Attack
  • Deal Physical Damage to an enemy in front of you. If multiple enemies are in the area the enemy closest to the center of the area will be hit.
  • Has a 3 hit chain. Attacks in order of 1, 1, 1.25x damage and swing time.
  • Damage Scaling: 100% Strength+20% Intelligence
  • Range: 1.92m
  • Cone Angle: 120 degrees

“The top DPS support returns and will likely continue to hold that accolade in SMITE 2. Ares has an entirely new passive and ability 2. His Passive no longer restricts his builds to the narrow category of aura items, but instead provides him and his allies STR and INT through building into Protections and Cooldowns. This new passive allows Ares to tailor his build toward amplifying the correct damage stat for each unique team comp he is on. It also gives him additional sources of STR and INT, both of which he can utilize in SMITE 2.

His 2nd Ability is also totally reworked to “Call to Arms” This is still a buff effect for allies, but it provides a unique combination of protections and basic attack damage, and each ally can reap more powerful stats from it if they continue to fight against other gods while it's active. This effect helps Ares support his carry, or even be a bit of one himself.

In Addition to these reworks, Ares has a variety of other gameplay changes and QoL changes.

His ultimate chains will now be broken immediately if the target gains CC immunity.

Shackles can be fired initially while channeling Searing Flesh, in SMITE 1 this was only true of the re-fire, not the initial fire.

Shackles chains now have visual feedback for the refire duration, and chains duration."

• Ares Basic Attack
  • Deal Physical Damage to an enemy in front of you.
  • If multiple enemies are in the area the enemy closest to the center of the area will be hit.
  • Has a 4 hit chain. Attacks in order of 1. 0.75, 1, 1.25x damage and swing time.
  • Damage Scaling: 100% Strength+20% Intelligence
  • Range: 1.92m
  • Cone Angle: 120 degrees

Thanatos

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Death Scythe

• Increased base damage60/110/160/210/260→90/135/180/225/270

Scent of Death

• Fixed an issue where this movement speed wasn't being affected by movement speed diminishing returns

• Decreased Penetration buff10/13/16/19/22→8/11/14/17/20

Soul Reap

• Decreased damage from 60/105/150/195/230 + 70% STR to 60/100/140/180/220 + 65% STR

The Morrigan

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Doomsayer

• The damage from this ability will now detonate the 2nd damage on Dark Omen

Confusion

• Increased Cooldown15s→19/18/17/16/15s

Fenrir

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Ragnarok

• Decreased base damage200/275/350/425/500→180/240/300/360/420

Sol

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Radiance

• Decreased Healing per tick3%→2.5%

Supernova

• Decreased base damage from 150/200/250/300/350 + 50% INT to 120/160/200/240/280 + 40% INT

Athena

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Preemptive Strike

• Athena now gains 20/25/30/35/40 Physical and Magical Protections for 4s on hitting an enemy god

Confound

• The slow has been removed entirely from this ability

Chaac

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Torrent

• Increased damage scaling from 65% STR to 75% STR

Storm Call

• Increased damage scaling from 100% STR to 110% STR

Ymir

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Frost Breath

• Increased Stun Duration0.8/1/1.2/1.4/1.6s→1/1.15/1.3/1.45/1.6s

Shards of Ice

• Increased damage floor25%→35%
• Increased base damage500/675/850/1025/1200→550/750/950/1150/1350

• Decreased damage scaling from 175% Int to 160%

Odin

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Lunge

• Increased damage scaling from 85% STR to 95% STR

“Both the Gods and Item balance of this update focus on buffing many of the underperforming Tanky gods and items, and nerfing the top performing DPS Gods and Items.”

General

• Increased per level health on all gods to offset the 25% Reduced Base Health in the Alpha Weekend 3 Patch.
• This means at Level 1 gods will be basically unchanged (~8 Health Difference) while at Level 20 gods will be ~175 Health Tankier than in Alpha Weekend 3.
• Level 1 will play like Alpha Weekend 3, Level 20 will play like Alpha Weekend 2 in regards to Health.
• We like how the adjustment helped encourage aggression and fighting in the laning phase, but had some negative consequences on late game combat. One of these consequences is a functional nerf to tanky builds. With less total health available, protections became a bit worse. Adding back this health by Level 20 helps tanky builds feel appropriately tanky.

Thanatos Shift-Nerf

The Morrigan Shift-Nerf

Fenrir Nerf

Sol Nerf

Athena Buff

Chaac Buff

Ymir Buff

Odin Buff

Soul Reaver

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• Decreased Intelligence65→57.

Staff of Myrddin

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• Decreased Intelligence80→70.

Hastened Fatalis

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• Fixed an issue where this was overcapping negative basic attack movement penalty, resulting in large movement speed gains when fully stacked and basic attacking.

Bloodforge

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• Decreased Strength30→25.

Leviathan's Hide

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• Increased Physical Protections60→65
• Increased Cost2250→2450

• Buffed Passive from 5% Strength reduction stacking 3 times to 10% Strength reduction stacking 2 times

Shogun's Ofuda

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• Increased Magical Protections45→55

Hussar's Wings

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• Fixed tooltip. The Passive effect provides 20% Movement Speed instead of the previously listed 10%

Stampede

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• Increased Physical Protections35→40

Ruinous Ankh

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• Decreased Mana150→100
• Increased Health250→300

Breastplate of Valor

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• Reduced Health Taken Threshold from 400 + (30 * Level) to 350 + (20 * Level).

• Level 1 =430→370
• Level 10 =700→550
• Level 20 =1000→750

• Fixed an issue where damage taken had to exceed the Threshold rather than meet it.

Spectral Armor

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• Increased Physical Protections50→60

Pharaoh's Curse

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• Increased Physical Protections35→40.
• Decreased cost2075→2025.

Soul Devourer Nerf

• Decreased Intelligence from 65 changed to →57.

Staff of Myrddin Nerf

• Decreased Intelligence from 80 changed to →70.

Hastened Fatalis Nerf

• Fixed an issue where this was overcapping negative basic attack movement penalty, resulting in large movement speed gains when fully stacked and basic attacking.

Blood-Forged Blade Nerf

• Decreased Strength from 30 changed to →25.

Leviathan Hide Buff

• Increased Physical Protections from 60 changed to →65
• Increased Cost from 2250 changed to →2450
• Buffed Passive from 5% Strength reduction stacking 3 times changed to →10% Strength reduction stacking 2 times

Shogun’s Ofuda Buff

• Increased Magical Protections from 45 changed to →55

Hussar’s Wings Buff

• Fixed tooltip. The Passive effect provides 20% Movement Speed instead of the previously listed 10%

Stampede Buff

• Increased Physical Protections from 35 changed to →40

Ruinous Ankh Buff

• Decreased Mana from 150 changed to →100
• Increased Health from 250 changed to →300

Breastplate of Valor Buff

• Reduced Health Taken Threshold from 400 + (30 * Level) to 350 + (20 * Level).
  • Level 1 = 430 changed to →370
  • Level 10 = 700 changed to →550
  • Level 20 = 1000 changed to →750
• Fixed an issue where damage taken had to exceed the Threshold rather than meet it.

Silken Mailcoat Buff

• Increased Physical Protections from 50 changed to →60

Pharaoh’s Curse Buff

• Increased Physical Protections from 35 changed to →40.
• Decreased cost from 2075 changed to →2025.

Purification Beads

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• Unchanged

Blink Rune

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• Decreased Range7.2m→5.6m

Sundering Arc

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• Active: Instantly Damage Jungle Monsters and Jungle Bosses for 500 + 25 per level true damage. Deals 1000 damage at level 10+.

• Hits Gods, dealing 30 + 1 per level true damage 5 times over 4s. Cooldown: 110s.

• Relics and Aspects
  • At the start of each Conquest match players will get to select an Aspect and a Relic
  • The order of the selections are
    • Auto Build
    • Relic
    • Aspect
  • Aspects and Relics can be changed after selection by using the “undo” button in the item shop and then buying a new one. Aspects and Relics cannot be sold and changed after leaving base with one.
• Relics
  • Goals
    • Present players with equally weighted options instead of a default active effect, so there is no predetermined bias.
    • Provide a limited number of powerful active effects that feel like they can compete with Beads and Blink.
    • We do not aim to fill out this slot with more effects rapidly. Many Relics from SMITE 1 just can't compete with these SMITE 2 Relics and are better suited to Active Items where they can be supplemented with proper stats.
  • Effects
    • NEW Sundering Arc
      • Active: Instantly Damage Jungle Monsters and Jungle Bosses for 500 + 25 per level true damage. Deals 1000 damage at level 10+.
      • Hits Gods, dealing 30 + 1 per level true damage 5 times over 4s. Cooldown: 110s.
• Aspects
  • Goals
    • These are Combat-focused effects, not economic effects. If specific roles need gold or XP we will look to give them those bonuses in other ways that won’t require them to forfeit a combat choice.
    • These are designed with a balance of targeted use and flexible use. Some aspects have clear synergies for certain roles or play styles, but others could be used on various gods or roles.
    • These are intended to be strong effects that scale well into the late game.
    • There are 4 aggressive options and only 1 defensive option. We want to intentionally limit the defensive option to being only functional in the support or support-style roles to avoid passive and non-combative early-game strategies in other lanes.
  • System
    • Aspects do not take up an item slot. Players now have an additional HUD icon and icon on the Scoreboard to indicate what Aspect they have chosen.
  • Aspect Effects
    • Barbarian
      • Passive: Your next basic attack deals 50 + 4 per level bonus true damage. 10s Cooldown.
    • Spiritualist
      • Passive: Basic attacks deal 12.5% bonus physical damage to all enemies within 2.5m of the target.
    • Archmage
      • Passive: Your next ability deals 20% bonus damage. 20s Cooldown.
    • Ranger
      • Passive: Basic attacks and abilities deal 10% bonus damage to enemies 7.5m or further.
    • Warden
      • Passive: Each second you are nearby an ally god gain a stacking buff that provides 1 of each protection. Stacks up to 10 times. At 10 Stacks, you and allies withins 10m gain 5% increased Movement Speed. Stacks last 10s.
• Movement System Updates
  • Controller Only: Movement no longer has variable speed depending on how far you've moved the stick. Any positive value on the stick (past the dead zone) will trigger you to move at full acceleration. Beforehand, there was variable movement depending on your stick position which caused artificial slow feelings. Smite 1 does this as well. You can test it by pressing the stick ever so slightly and seeing you start moving towards top speed immediately, just like you would with WASD.
• Aiming System Updates
  • Mouse and Controller: Sensitivities are now 100% matched to Smite 1 values. So as long as you plug those Smite 1 values in, it should match your Smite 1 experience.
  • Controller Only: Rotational Inputs are now scaled by delta time, allowing you to have a consistent rotation rate per second, regardless of frame rate. Before hand we weren't scaling those inputs which meant if your frame rate went down, so did your sensitivity.
  • Controller Only: Aim Acceleration is now in on controller. This is the same setup as Smite 1. If you played with a controller on PC though, and want to match Smite 1, set it to 0 since it wasn't active on Smite 1 Controller + PC. The default value is 3.
  • All of these improvements are directly pulled 1:1 from Smite 1.