Defender of the Earth Update

Suntouched

• After being Critically Hit or taking more than 20% of your Health in a single blow, become Suntouched. When you become Suntouched your active cooldowns are reduced and Mark the enemy who triggered this

Ricochet

• Fire an arrow that ricochets off walls, dealing Physical Damage to enemies it passes through. Deals increasing Damage with each ricochet.
• Marked enemies who are hit are Stunned
• Ricochet bounces an additional time if you have 400 or more Intelligence

Mark of the Golden Crow

• Mark an enemy causing your other abilities to apply additional effects.
• While your Strength is higher than your Intelligence, Marked enemies take bonus Physical Damage based on their missing Health. While your Intelligence is higher than your Strength, Marked additional effects are amplified
• Ricochet Stuns Marked enemies
• Divebomb Knocks Away Marked enemies
• Sunbreaker Slows Marked enemies more

Divebomb

• Leap into the air before selecting a location to dive onto, dealing Physical Damage to enemies where you land
• Marked enemies who are hit are Knocked Away

Sunbreaker

• Shoot down 9 suns onto target area, dealing Physical Damage and Slowing enemies hit. The first sun stays, acting as a wall that Ricochet can bounce off of.
• Marked enemies are more heavily Slowed

Aspect of the Mark

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• Basic Attacks now ricochet, dealing bonus damage to gods per bounce. Bounced Basic Attacks cannot damage structures. Ricochet no longer bounces or stuns; it applies Mark of the Golden Crow on its first hit. If already marked, the mark spreads. Basic Attacks hitting marked targets bounce to a nearby enemy.

• Basic Attacks now ricochet, dealing bonus damage to gods per bounce. Bounced Basic Attacks cannot damage structures. Ricochet no longer bounces or stuns; it applies Mark of the Golden Crow on its first hit. If already marked, the mark spreads. Basic Attacks hitting marked targets bounce to a nearby enemy.

• Hou Yi
  • General
    • Ranged Basic Attacks
    • Damage Type: Physical
    • Scaling Type: Hybrid Scaling
  • Aspect releasing August 1

Agility Relic

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• “Quickplay has been a fun testing ground for different ideas, and one idea that players coming to the game seem to be enjoying is the ability to frequently dash in and out of combat along with higher projectile speeds for ranged gods. As we continue to work on the new player experience, we also have work to do on helping them transition out of the quickplay to see the full breadth of Smite. A part of this is ensuring tools they have come to enjoy exist in some way outside of their introduction.

• Agility Relic will now be a choice for all players that will compete with other relics, allowing it to exist but be a distinct tradeoff as it leaves quickplay. It also has a longer cooldown than it did and a unique melee god only benefit to contrast the ranged bonus it granted in quickplay. We do know this is a pretty large potential meta shakeup, so we are currently disabling this relic for Ranked Conquest. We will keep a close eye on how this performs, as well as how the bonus passive effects affect the overall game before we commit to enabling this in Ranked Conquest.

• It is also unique in being triggered by Shift, which was the default bind for quickplay for it. It will also utilize this bind which is modifiable.”

• Active: Dash in the direction you are currently moving. Cooldown: 10s.

• Passive (Ranged Only) : Your projectiles travel 40% faster.

• Passive (Melee gods only): Your Basic Attacks will lunge forward if an enemy is slightly outside of your Basic Attack range. This does not trigger if you are strafing or backpedaling. (There is cooldown logic to prevent chain dashing to targets trying to flee)

• “Aside from the Healing adjustments we wanted to look at underperforming Tank and Bruiser itemization now that our previous balance pass has had a lot more time to settle. All items on this list were underperforming, especially to other items similar to them seeing success.”

Golden Blade

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• Now builds from Battle Axe and Manchu’s Bow. Cost remains the same.

• Increased Strength20→30

Shield Splitter

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• Decreased Cost2450→2400
• Increased Strength35→40

Erosion

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• Increased Physical Protection25→30
• Increased Magical Protection15→20

Leviathan's Hide

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• “Leviathan’s permanent health stacking is interesting, but we wanted to put more of the onus on the person holding the item to better optimize gaining stacks.”

• Removed: Gain 1 Max Health with enemy gods who hit you with Basic Attacks.

• New Passive: Gain 6 Max Health permanently when you damage an enemy god with a Basic Attack. Cooldown: 10s. Cooldown reduced by 0.5s when taking damage from an enemy god, once per ability or Basic Attack.

Berserker's Shield

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• Increased Cost2300→2400
• Increased Physical Protection20→30
• Increased Magical Protection10→15

Musashi's Dual Swords

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• “Musashi’s was a good way behind the rest of the Critical Strike items and should be a compelling option for our more Melee focused Critical Strike users. This should move it in the right direction.”

• Decreased Cost2750→2700
• Increased Strength30→35
• Increased Bonus Movement Speed10%→15%
• Increased Bonus Speed Buff Duration4s→5s

Magi's Cloak

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• Decreased Cost2500→2400
• Increased Physical Protection30→35
• Increased Magical Protection30→35

Genji's Guard

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• Increased Magical protection45→50
• Increased Cooldown Rate10→15

Dwarven Plate

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• “Of the trio of Late Game protection items, this was performing significantly behind the other two. We found an issue that could be a cause of this, as well as felt the item itself needed more bulk on its own.”

• Increased Physical Protection30→35
• Increased Magical Protection30→35

• Fixed an issue where this was only providing 10% and 20% of your Protections, rather than the intended 12.5% and 25%.

Draconic Scale

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• Fixed an issue where the flat bonus protections from this item were not considered Item Protections for other items scaling.

• NOTE: Flat increases from items like this should contribute to Item Protections. Percentile increases like Dwarven Plate or the % portion of the stack of Draconic Scale do not.

• NOTE: We had reports of Spirit Robe also having this problem, but upon investigating concluded it is working correctly (As seen with Gladiator’s Shield). If you had reported this issue more details would be appreciated on the specific combination of effects you were trying to utilize.

Jade Scepter

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• Decreased Intelligence105→90
• Increased Cooldown40s→60s

• Agility Relic (New Relic)
  • “Quickplay has been a fun testing ground for different ideas, and one idea that players coming to the game seem to be enjoying is the ability to frequently dash in and out of combat along with higher projectile speeds for ranged gods. As we continue to work on the new player experience, we also have work to do on helping them transition out of the quickplay to see the full breadth of Smite. A part of this is ensuring tools they have come to enjoy exist in some way outside of their introduction.
  • Agility Relic will now be a choice for all players that will compete with other relics, allowing it to exist but be a distinct tradeoff as it leaves quickplay. It also has a longer cooldown than it did and a unique melee god only benefit to contrast the ranged bonus it granted in quickplay. We do know this is a pretty large potential meta shakeup, so we are currently disabling this relic for Ranked Conquest. We will keep a close eye on how this performs, as well as how the bonus passive effects affect the overall game before we commit to enabling this in Ranked Conquest.
  • It is also unique in being triggered by Shift, which was the default bind for quickplay for it. It will also utilize this bind which is modifiable.”
  • Active: Dash in the direction you are currently moving. Cooldown: 10s.
  • Passive (Ranged Only) : Your projectiles travel 40% faster.
  • Passive (Melee gods only): Your Basic Attacks will lunge forward if an enemy is slightly outside of your Basic Attack range. This does not trigger if you are strafing or backpedaling. (There is cooldown logic to prevent chain dashing to targets trying to flee)
• “Aside from the Healing adjustments we wanted to look at underperforming Tank and Bruiser itemization now that our previous balance pass has had a lot more time to settle. All items on this list were underperforming, especially to other items similar to them seeing success.”
• Draconic Scales
  • Fixed an issue where the flat bonus protections from this item were not considered Item Protections for other items scaling.
    • NOTE: Flat increases from items like this should contribute to Item Protections. Percentile increases like Dwarven Plate or the % portion of the stack of Draconic Scale do not.
    • NOTE: We had reports of Spirit Robe also having this problem, but upon investigating concluded it is working correctly (As seen with Gladiator’s Shield). If you had reported this issue more details would be appreciated on the specific combination of effects you were trying to utilize.

Bellona

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Aspect of Vindication

• Fixed an issue where block stacks could be provided to nearby allied minions

Medusa

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Viper Shot

• Fixed an issue where this would not hit damageable deployables.

Mercury

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Sonic Boom

• Fixed an issue where this ability would sometimes cause gods to infinitely spin

Scepter of Dominion

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• Fixed an issue where being CC Immune while within the Stasis field maintained the Damage Immunity

Stalwart Sigil

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• Fixed an issue where this item could not be searched for in the Item Store

Bluestone Pendant

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• Added a potential fix for this Item failing to work until a player leaves, re-enters, and leaves the fountain again.

Nu Wa

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• Nu Wa's base and skin targeters upgraded

Aspect of Vindication

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Shield Bash

• Fixed an issue where block stacks could be provided to nearby allied minions

• Quality of Life
  • Fixed an issue where jumping immediately after using an ability would remove the Fountain speed buff
  • Nu Wa's base and skin targeters upgraded
• Gods
• Items

Divine Ruin

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• Now builds from Evil Eye and Killing Stone.

• Increased Cost2300g→2500g
• Increased Intelligence85→95
• Increased Intelligence Scaling7.5%→10%

Lernaean Bow

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• Now builds from Hunter’s Bow and Skeggox

• Increased Cost2400→2500
• Increased Strength30→40

Brawler's Ruin

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• REMOVED: Healing Reduction Passive

• Now builds from Survivor’s Sash and Legionnaires Armor

• Increased Cost2450→2550

• +20 Physical Protection

• NEW Passive: You gain 45 Strength or 60 Intelligence, whichever you have more of from items.

• NEW Passive: If you have not taken or dealt god damage in the last 5s, gain a bonus 75% of the above passive when dealing damage for 4s. If you took damage, instead gain 30 Physical Protection. If an enemy within 11.2m uses a healing Ability, immediately gain both effects.

Brawler's Beat Stick

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• REMOVED: Healing Reduction Passive

• Now builds from Survivor’s Sash and Legionnaires Armor

• Increased Cost2450→2550

• +20 Physical Protection

• NEW Passive: You gain 45 Strength or 60 Intelligence, whichever you have more of from items.

• NEW Passive: If you have not taken or dealt god damage in the last 5s, gain a bonus 75% of the above passive when dealing damage for 4s. If you took damage, instead gain 30 Physical Protection. If an enemy within 11.2m uses a healing Ability, immediately gain both effects.

Contagion

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• REMOVED: Healing Reduction Passive

• Now builds from Olmec Blue and Veve Charm

• Increased Cost2150→2250

• NEW Passive: When you are damaged by an enemy Basic Attack or Ability, apply 1 stack of Contagion to them for 20s (once per attack). If you Basic Attack or apply Hard Crowd Control to an enemy with Contagion, consume them to deal 1% of your Max Health as Magical Damage per stack, in a 4m area. If someone lifesteals 100 Health from you, immediately apply 5 stacks to them.

Scythe

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• Decreased Lifesteal5%→4%
• Increased Cost450→550g

Adamantine Sickle

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• Decreased Lifesteal7%→5%
• Increased Cost1100→1200g

Cursed Sickle

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• Decreased Lifesteal15%→7.5%
• Decreased Cost1100→850g

Bancroft's Talon

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• Decreased Lifesteal15%→7.5%
• Decreased Lifesteal Bonus from Passive20%→10%
• Increased Intelligence30→40
• Increased intelligence Bonus from Passive60→70

Blood-Bound Book

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• Decreased Lifesteal15%→7.5%
• Increased Intelligence55→60
• Decreased Lifesteal while Shield is active20%→10%

Bloodforge

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• Decreased Lifesteal15%→7.5%
• Increased Strength40→45
• Decreased Lifesteal while Shield is active20%→10%
• Increased Cost2450→2550

• “While working on this healing pass, it came up that The Reaper, Serrated Edge, and Devourer’s Gauntlets largely filled a very similar role, being largely mathematically similar and with similar ease to gain their effects. We are reworking all three to be more unique in their identities.

The Reaper

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• is now a high risk item, with the potential to actually get weaker if you die too frequently.

• REMOVED: Current Passive

• NEW: Passive: When you kill anything, gain a stack that provides 6 Strength for 5s, stacking up to 3 times. Stacks are removed 1 at a time. Killing a god increases the max stack by 1 and restores you for 15% of the slain gods max health. Assists restore 7.5% Health but does not grant a stack. When you die, lose a max stack (Minimum 1).

• Decreased Lifesteal20%→10%
• Decreased Cost2650g→2600g

Serrated Edge

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• has been renamed to Barbed Carver to highlight its different function. It now focuses on apply wounds to the enemy, which grant follow up attacks against them bonus scaling.

• Barbed Carver is taking its place with a more applicable effect to a variety of gods.

Barbed Carver

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• Cost: 2500g

• +40 Strength

• +7.5% Lifesteal

• Passive: Enemies damaged by your Abilities gain a stack of jagged wounds for 5s, up to 3 stacks (once per ability per target). Your Basic Attacks and Abilities deal a bonus 8% (+1% per 10% Lifesteal) Physical Damage for each stack of jagged wounds.

• Serrated Edge has been renamed to Barbed Carver to highlight its different function. It now focuses on apply wounds to the enemy, which grant follow up attacks against them bonus scaling.

Devourer's Gauntlet

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• REMOVED: No longer gain stacks by dealing damage

• NEW: Gain 1 stack when killing a minion or Jungle Monster.

• NEW: Evolved Passive: Ravenous - This item continues to stack, but requires 8 minion kills for an additional stack. Jungle bosses kills or assists count as 40 minions.

• Increased Stack Count: 50 to 75.

• Increased Strength30→35
• Increased Cost2350→2400
• Decreased Lifesteal10%→5%
• Decreased Lifesteal Per Stack0.1%→0.075%
• Decreased Lifesteal Bonus on Full Stacks7%→5%
• Increased Strength60→72.5
• Decreased Lifesteal22%→15%

Nimble Ring

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• Decreased Lifesteal10%→7.5%
• Decreased Intelligence45→35

Soul Gem

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• Decreased Lifesteal10%→7.5%
• Increased Cost2400→2500g

Typhon's Fang

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• It has been reworked into Typhon’s Heart with a new effect.

Typhon's Heart

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• Cost: 2600g

• Builds from Cursed Sickle + Killing Stone + 850g

• +40 Intelligence

• +12.5% Lifesteal

• NEW: Passive: Every minion or jungle monster Kill provides 1 stack. God Kills provide 30 and Assists, 15. At 30 stacks, summon a monster of Typhon. It has 200 + 50 per level Health and deals damage equal to 300% of your Lifesteal and 20% of your Intelligence. Your lifesteal Heals it. If you would summon another, instead fully Heal your current one and grant it 25% Health, Attack Speed, and Movement Speed, stacking up to 5 times.

• It has been reworked into Typhon’s Heart with a new effect.

Gluttonous Grimoire

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• Cost: 2600g

• Builds from Flaming Pearl + Cursed Sickle + 800g

• +40 Intelligence

• +150 Health

• +10% Lifesteal

• Passive: 25% of Lifesteal healing is stored into your next Basic Attack that successfully damages an enemy god as Bonus Magical Damage. If you are at maximum health, store 40% of the healing. The stored amount is capped to 33% of your Maximum Health.

Sanguine Lash

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• Cost: 2800g

• Builds from Reinforced Axe + Adamantine Sickle + 650g

• +25 Strength

• +25 Physical Protection

• +10% Lifesteal

• Passive: Enemies within 4m take 2% (+1% for every 10% Lifesteal) of their health as physical damage every second (up to 200). When this damages a god, reduce the Active cooldown by 5s (+1s for every 10% Lifesteal). Minions reduce it by 0.5s. This item's damage can trigger lifesteal.

• Active: Lash out at enemies within 4m for 10% of their maximum health as Physical damage (max 500). Can store up to 3 charges. Cooldown: 90s

Umbral Link

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• Cost: 2700g

• Builds from Legionnaire Armor + Cursed Sickle + 1100g

• +40 Physical Protection

• +10% Lifesteal

• Passive: Split your lifesteal healing with allied gods within 11.2m evenly. Each unique ally healed like this grants you 10 Protections for 8s. This link only works while you are above 50% Health.

Daybreak Gavel

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• Cost: 2750g

• Builds from Survivor’s Sash + Veve Charm + 950g

• +275 Health

• Passive: You gain 55 Strength or 75 Intelligence depending on which stat from items is higher.

• Passive: For each unique god healed by a healing ability, gain a stack, up to 4. Your next ability consumes all the stacks to contribute 10% additional Strength and Intelligence scaling per stack consumed (up to 40%).

Heartwood Charm

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• Cost: 2650g

• Builds from Adroit Ring + Odigba + 1200g

• +400 Health

• +250 Mana

• +10 Cooldown Rate

• Passive: Your healing abilities have 20% reduced Cooldowns and each cast reduces this items active cooldown by 10s.

• Active : Your next non-ultimate healing ability will have no cooldown but deals 50% reduced damage.

Rod of Asclepius

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• REMOVED: Increased Healing.

• REMOVED: Active removing all anti-heal.

• NEW: Active: Send out healing snakes to allied gods within 8.8m restoring 10% of their health over 10s. This healing counts as healing from an Ability. The snake is sacrificed if the target has 6 debuffs active, immediately healing for 10% health and applying all non-damage immunities for 1s. Costs: 35% Mana. CD: 90s

Breastplate of Valor

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• NEW: Health restored due to your own healing (abilities only) now also contributes to reducing your cooldowns.

Regrowth Striders

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• Cost: 2550g

• Builds from Captain’s Ring + Legionnaire Armor + 1000g

• +40 Physical Protection

• +3 Mana Regen

• +15% Cooldown Rate

• Passive: When you heal yourself from an ability, gain a burst of 35% Movement Speed that decays to 10% over 5s for 5s. Cooldown: 10s

• Passive: When you gain a Movement Speed buff restore 5% of your health over 5s.

Vital Amplifier

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• Cost: 2500g

• Builds from Survivor’s Sash + Olmec Blue + 800g

• +20% Attack Speed

• +200 Health

• +3 Health Regen

• Passive: Passive: Gain 30 Strength or 45 Intelligence, whichever you have more of from Items.

• Passive: After healing yourself or an allied god with an ability you gain 10% Attack Speed and 5% Basic Attack Damage for 6s, stacking 3 times.

Amanita Charm

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• Increased Heal: 2% HP -> 3% HP

• Decreased Tick Rate0.5s→1.5s
• Decreased Lifetime5s→4.5s

• NEW: Now ticks once immediately upon deploy

• Overall this decreases the healing from 20% over5s→12%

• NEW: Gain a stack of Sporeguard. Each buff stack reduces enemy Basic Attack and Ability damage by 10% before being removed. Ultimate Ability damage is reduced by 5% and all stacks are removed.

Eros' Bow

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• Decreased Heal3%→1.5%
• Increased Max Health250→300

Shield of the Phoenix

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• Decreased Heal3%→1.5%
• Decreased Mana Heal3%→2%

Phoenix Feather

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• Decreased Base Heal100→75
• Decreased Missing Health Heal10%→7.5%

Leather Cowl

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• Decreased Lifesteal5%→4%

Hunter's Cowl

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• Decreased Lifesteal Aura10%→5%

Agni

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Noxious Fumes

• NEW: Now applies 25% Healing Reduction for 5s

Ares

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Searing Flesh

• NEW: Now applies 25% Healing Reduction for 5s

Fenrir

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Brutalize

• NEW: Now applies 25% Healing Reduction for 5s

Seething Howl (2)

• Decreased Lifesteal: 20% to 12%

Izanami

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Spectral Projection

• NEW: Now applies 25% Healing Reduction for 5s

Chaac

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Aspect of Fulmination

• NEW: Now applies 25% Healing Reduction for 5s

Achilles

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Radiant Glory (2)

• Decreased Heal: 18/21/24/27/30 to 16/18/20/22/24

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Amaterasu

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Divine Presence (1)

• Decreased Heal: 15/25/35/45/55 to 15/21/27/33/39

• Decreased Heal Int Scaling: 6.5% to 3.5%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Anubis

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The Scales (P)

• Decreased Base Lifesteal4%→2%
• Decreased Lifesteal Per Stack1.5%→0.75%

Aphrodite

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Kiss (1)

• Increased Protection Share8%→11%

Love Birds (3)

• Decreased Heal: 10/15/20/25/30 to 8/10/12/14/16

• Decreased Self Heal Scaling: 7.5% to 3.5% Intelligence

• Decreased Ally Heal Scaling: 5% to 2.0% Intelligence

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Undying Love (4)

• Decreased Cooldown100s→100/97.5/95/92.5/90s

Artemis

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Aspect of the Wild

• Decreased Heal15/23/30/37/45→12/17/22/27/32
• Decreased Heal Scaling5%→3%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Bacchus

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Chug (1)

• Decreased Heal: 0/40/60/80/100/120 to 0/30/45/60/75/80

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Belch of the Gods (3)

• Decreased Anti-Heal40%→25%

Baron Samedi

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Consign Spirits (2)

• Decreased Heal: 30/55/80/105/130 to 25/35/45/55/65

• Decreased Missing Health Heal5%→3.0%
• Decreased Missing Health Scaling10%→5%
• Increased Movement Speed Buff25%→25/27.5/30/32.5/35%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Bellona

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Scourge (3)

• Decreased Heal Scaling10%→6%

Cabrakan

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Enhanced Refraction Shield (2)

• Decreased Heal Per Target10/14/18/22/26→8/11/14/17/20
• Decreased Heal Scaling1%→0.75%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Cerberus

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Spirit Of Death (P)

• Decreased Healing Reduction40%→25%

Soul Expulsion (3)

• Decreased Heal from Gods: 20/40/60/80/100 to 15/30/45/60/75

• Decreased Heal from Minions: 12/19/26/33/40 to 10/15/20/25/30

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Cernunnos

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Shifter of Seasons (1)

• Decreased Spring Lifesteal: 4/5/6/7/8% to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5%

• Decreased Spring Heal Scaling15%→8%

Chaac

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Overflow (P)

• Decreased Heal Scaling: 20% to 12.5% Intelligence

Rain Dance (3)

• Decreased Heal: 10/15/20/25/30 to 8/11/14/17/20

• Decreased Heal Scaling5%→2.5%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Cupid

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Share the Love (2)

• Decreased Heal: 20/35/50/65/80 to 15/25/35/45/55

• Decreased Heal Scaling7.5%→3.5%

• NEW: Now provides 10% Attack Speed when picked up. If an Ally picks up the Heart, Cupid also receives the Attack Speed buff.

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Fields of Love (4)

• Decreased Heal60/95/130/165/200→60/75/90/105/120
• Decreased Heal Scaling20%→12.5%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of Love

• Decreased Heal40/60/80/100/120→25/40/55/70/85
• Decreased Heal Scaling15%→8%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Danzaburou

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Alluring Spirits (2)

• Decreased Heal Scaling5%→3.0%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Guan Yu

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Conviction (1)

• Decreased Heal55/95/135/175/215→45/65/85/105/125

• Decreased Heal Scaling: 12.5% to 6% Intelligence

• Increased Ally Cooldown Reduction1s→1.5s

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of the General

• Decreased Heal over Time: 8/16/24/32/40 6/11/16/21/26

• Decreased Heal over Time Scaling3%→1.5%

Hades

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Devour Souls (3)

• Decreased Heal: 10/25/40/55/70 to 10/19/28/37/46

• Decreased Heal Scaling7.5%→3.5%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Hercules

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Mitigate Wounds

• Decreased Heal45/75/105/135/165→40/60/80/100/120

• Decreased Heal from Recent Damage Taken: 30/35/40/45/50% to 25/27.5/30/32.5/35%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Hua Mulan

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Spear Thrust (2)

• Decreased Heal20/30/40/50/60→17/24/31/38/45

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Kali

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Marked for Death (P)

• Decreased Mark Kill Health Heal30%→20%
• Decreased Mark Assist Health Heal15%→7.5%

Nimble Strike (1)

• Decreased Missing Health Heal: 10% to 6%.

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Rupture (3)

• Decreased Heal20/35/50/65/80→18/26/34/42/50
• Decreased Heal per Stack10/13/16/19/22→8/10/12/14/16
• Decreased Heal per Stack Scaling7%→4%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of Unbound Destruction

• Decreased Heal10→7

• Decreased Heal Bonus per Level: 4 - 3

• Decreased Lifesteal15/17.5/20/22.5/25%→10%

Mordred

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Cruel Strike (1)

• Decreased Heal Scaling: 45% Protections -> 25% Protections

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Heart Slash (4)

• Decreased Heal Scaling20%→12.5%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Neith

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Unravel (2)

• Decreased God Heal30/40/50/60/70→25/32/39/46/54
• Decreased Minion Heal15/20/25/30/35→11/15/19/23/27
• Decreased Heal Scaling10%→5%
• Decreased Increased Heal Scaling10%→5%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Nemesis

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Retribution (3)

• Decreased Heal of % Damage Blocked50%→40%
• Decreased Heal Scaling10%→5%

Odin

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Ring of Spears (4)

• Odin’s Ring of Spears will still fully block all healing.

Pele

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Everlasting Flame (P)

• Decreased Lifesteal25%→15%

Aspect of Obsidian (3)

• Decreased Fuel Heal Per Tick5/10/15/20/25→4/7/10/13/16
• Decreased Fuel Heal Scaling2.5%→1.25%
• Decreased Amped Fuel Heal Per Tick10/20/30/40/50→8/14/20/26/32
• Decreased Amped Fuel Heal Per Tick5%→2.5%

Non-Healing Pass Adjustments

• “Pele has continued to perform very well, both in her Aspect and Non-Aspect versions. While we know a lot will change with this healing pass, we felt she needed additional adjustments still.”

• Decreased Per Level Health97.5→92.6
  • Pele will have 98 less Max Health at level 20.
• Decreased Initial Damage Scaling60%→55%
• Decreased Return Damage30→25
• Decreased Bonus Movement Speed Peak350%→275%
  • Essentially this means Pele won’t cover as much ground upon activating her Eruption.

Ra

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Solar Blessing (3)

• Decreased Heal12/24/36/48/60→10/17/24/31/38

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of Thermotherapy (4)

• Decreased Heal200/350/500/650/800→150/250/350/450/550

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Rama

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General

• Increased Base Attack Speed0.953→1
• Increased Attack Speed Per Level1.51%→1.7%

• These were his intended numbers, but due to an issue he was not getting them. This is more a fix that will also help how his Attack Speed interacts with Attack Speed stims.

Sobek

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Sickening Strike (3)

• Decreased Heal22/29/36/43/50→18/23/28/33/38
• Decreased Healing Reduction40%→25%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Sol

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Radiance (1)

• Decreased Heal Scaling2%→1.25%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Thanatos

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Harvester of Souls (P)

• Decreased God Kill Heal25%→15%

Death Scythe (1)

• Decreased Heal50%→35%
• Decreased Health Cost6%→4%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of Reaping

• Decreased Heal Scaling0.5%→0.3%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Thor

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Aspect of Thunderstruck

• Decreased Heal Scaling3%→2%
• Decreased Per Level Heal Scaling0.075%→0.04%

Ullr

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Wield Axes/Wield Bow (4)

• Decreased Lifesteal8/13/18/23/28%→5/8/11/14/17%

Yemoja

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Omi (P)

• Decreased Heal Duration6s→4s
• Decreased Heal Per Level0.2→0.1

Mending Waters (2)

• Decreased Heal20/40/60/80/100→15/25/35/45/55

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Ruinous Ankh

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• Healing Reduction items are largely being moved towards being items not defined by anti heal or being softer counters. We may utilize Ruinous Ankh in the future but it would receive a new passive or be largely reworked. Ruinous Poison and Ruinous Venom are no longer needed for these recipes.

Ruinous Poison

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• Healing Reduction items are largely being moved towards being items not defined by anti heal or being softer counters. We may utilize Ruinous Ankh in the future but it would receive a new passive or be largely reworked. Ruinous Poison and Ruinous Venom are no longer needed for these recipes.

Ruinous Venom

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• Healing Reduction items are largely being moved towards being items not defined by anti heal or being softer counters. We may utilize Ruinous Ankh in the future but it would receive a new passive or be largely reworked. Ruinous Poison and Ruinous Venom are no longer needed for these recipes.

Aspect of Fulmination

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Rain Dance

• NEW: Now applies 25% Healing Reduction for 5s

Aspect of the Wild

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Transgressor’s Fate (1)

• Decreased Heal15/23/30/37/45→12/17/22/27/32
• Decreased Heal Scaling5%→3%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of Love

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Heart Bomb (1)

• Decreased Heal40/60/80/100/120→25/40/55/70/85
• Decreased Heal Scaling15%→8%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of the General

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• Decreased Heal over Time: 8/16/24/32/40 6/11/16/21/26

• Decreased Heal over Time Scaling3%→1.5%

Aspect of Unbound Destruction

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Rupture (3)

• Decreased Heal10→7

• Decreased Heal Bonus per Level: 4 - 3

Destruction (4)

• Decreased Lifesteal15/17.5/20/22.5/25%→10%

Aspect of Obsidian

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• Decreased Fuel Heal Per Tick5/10/15/20/25→4/7/10/13/16

• Decreased Fuel Heal Scaling2.5%→1.25%

• Decreased Amped Fuel Heal Per Tick10/20/30/40/50→8/14/20/26/32

• Decreased Amped Fuel Heal Per Tick5%→2.5%

Aspect of Thermotherapy

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Searing Pain (4)

• Decreased Heal200/350/500/650/800→150/250/350/450/550

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of Reaping

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Soul Reap (3)

• Decreased Heal Scaling0.5%→0.3%

• Is now marked as a Healing Ability

Aspect of Thunderstruck

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Warrior’s Madness (P)

• Decreased Heal Scaling3%→2%
• Decreased Per Level Heal Scaling0.075%→0.04%

High-Level Goals

• Address Mandatory Anti-Heal:
  • New Player Trap: The current necessity of anti-heal is a common pitfall for new players who may not understand its importance. Heals sometimes being completely fight swinging or largely ineffectual also makes it difficult to identify the strengths specific gods bring to Smite.
  • Limited Build Variety at Higher Levels: Anti-heal items are often mandatory pickups for multiple gods in a match, taking up a slot that could be used for more interesting build opportunities.
• Give “Healer” roles a more consistent presence
  • Healers will bring a more known quantity to team fights, which is useful for the healer, the person they are healing, and the enemy figuring out how to approach a fight. Jumping from 100% changed to →25% effectiveness based on being clipped by potentially any effect, can be difficult to track.
  • To help augment this, healing specific itemization should bring even further utility that healers exclusively will bring to team fights.
• Give “Lifesteal” roles a more consistent presence
  • Similar to above, Anubis can sometimes swing to full health or feel like his gameplay doesn’t exist pretty quickly. We want gods that play with their health pool to be able to more reliably control the risks they want to take without making them unapproachable by enemies.
  • To help augment this, lifesteal specific itemization should bring even further utility that lifesteal exclusively will bring to team fights.

What We Are Removing

• Anti-Heal from Items: We are eliminating anti-heal from items. This ensures it is not a required build component.
• Reduced Lifesteal on Items: Lifesteal on all items will be reduced by approximately 25-50%, depending on the item.
• All Healing Increases on Items: Items will no longer provide direct increases to healing output.
• Reduced Item Healing: Healing derived from items will be reduced by approximately 30-60%, depending on the item's specific impact.
• Reduced God Healing: God-specific healing will be reduced by approximately 30-60%, with the reduction amount dependent on the context of the god's heal:
  • Larger reductions apply to heals that are easy to trigger and are more defining for the god in question.
    • Ex. Aphrodite heal has no restriction on using it, is accessible due to its low cooldown, and is a major component of what she brings.
    • Ex. Baron Samedi’s Consign Spirits does require hitting an enemy god, but can apply to a full team. Its ‘base’ amount of healing was more reduced, while its conditional component of healing hurt targets was hit a bit less.
  • Lesser reductions apply to heals that are conditional and are more minor for the god in question.
    • Ex. Aspect Ra Ultimate is on a significant cooldown, so it didn’t receive as large of a reduction.
    • Ex. Most “Solo” Lane gods combat oriented sustain. Achilles’ Radiant Glory or Hua Mulan's Spear Thrust. These require more effort to trigger and put them more at risk, and tend not to have the same top end potential as true healers.
  • Most healing is more heavily reduced towards higher levels and scaling. We don’t want to interfere too heavily with the laning phase which largely feels like it is in a good spot.
• Reduced God Anti-Healing:
  • All gods who apply Anti-heal will now apply it at 25% instead of 40%, and they will not stack.

What We Are Adding

• New Lifesteal Items: Introducing new lifesteal items that offer beneficial effects for building lifesteal, without directly increasing healing output.
• New Healing-Focused Items: Introducing new items that provide benefits for healing or healing abilities, without directly increasing healing output.
• Adjusted Existing Items:
  • Brawler's and Contagion: These items have been adjusted to serve as "soft" counters to healing and lifesteal, respectively. We may increase the intensity of the soft counter and introduce a few more in the future.
  • Lernaean Bow and Divine Ruin: The stats for these items have been adjusted to be stronger, compensating for the removal of anti-heal.
• Item Compensation for Nerfs: For items that experienced closer to a 50% nerf, we will endeavor to add an interesting new component rather than simply leaving them at half strength.
• God Compensation for Nerfs: For gods that experienced closer to a 50% nerf to their healing, we will provide different utility in their kits to help compensate.
• Gods Gaining Anti-Heal: Five gods will have anti-heal integrated as a core part of their kits to expand options when drafting against healer heavy compositions:
  • Agni (Noxious Fumes (1))
  • Ares (Searing Flesh (3))
  • Fenrir (Brutalize (3))
  • Izanami (Spectral Projection (2))
  • Aspect Chaac (Rain Dance (3))

• Healing Item Balance
  • Brawler’s Ruin -> Renamed to Brawler’s Beat Stick
    • REMOVED: Healing Reduction Passive
    • Now builds from Survivor’s Sash and Legionnaires Armor
    • Increased Cost: 2450 changed to →2550
    • +20 Physical Protection
    • NEW Passive: You gain 45 Strength or 60 Intelligence, whichever you have more of from items.
    • NEW Passive: If you have not taken or dealt god damage in the last 5s, gain a bonus 75% of the above passive when dealing damage for 4s. If you took damage, instead gain 30 Physical Protection. If an enemy within 11.2m uses a healing Ability, immediately gain both effects.
  • REMOVED: Ruinous Ankh, Ruinous Poison, and Ruinous Venom(anti heal section in store needs to go)
    • Healing Reduction items are largely being moved towards being items not defined by anti heal or being softer counters. We may utilize Ruinous Ankh in the future but it would receive a new passive or be largely reworked. Ruinous Poison and Ruinous Venom are no longer needed for these recipes.
  • Scythe (T1)
    • Decreased Lifesteal: 5% changed to →4%
    • Increased Cost: 450 changed to →550g
  • Adamantite Sickle (T2)
    • Decreased Lifesteal: 7% changed to →5%
    • Increased Cost: 1100 changed to →1200g
  • Cursed Sickle (T2)
    • Decreased Lifesteal: 15% changed to →7.5%
    • Decreased Cost: 1100 changed to →850g
  • Bloodforge
  • The Reaper is now a high risk item, with the potential to actually get weaker if you die too frequently.
  • Serrated Edge has been renamed to Barbed Carver to highlight its different function. It now focuses on apply wounds to the enemy, which grant follow up attacks against them bonus scaling.
  • Devourer’s Gauntlet is returning to its last hit stacking origins, giving it a more clear role for farm heavy gods. Its evolution allows these stacks to continue, especially if you control objectives on the map. We do know that this previously moved away from this stacking method since stacking was difficult in other modes. We may investigate a specific version of this item for those modes in the future, but felt this gave it a very clear identity within the trio.”
  • REMOVED: Serrated Edge
    • Barbed Carver is taking its place with a more applicable effect to a variety of gods.
  • NEW: Barbed Carver
    • Cost: 2500g
    • +40 Strength
    • +7.5% Lifesteal
    • Passive: Enemies damaged by your Abilities gain a stack of jagged wounds for 5s, up to 3 stacks (once per ability per target). Your Basic Attacks and Abilities deal a bonus 8% (+1% per 10% Lifesteal) Physical Damage for each stack of jagged wounds.
  • Devourer’s Gauntlet
    • Fully Evolved Comparison
      • Increased Strength: 60 changed to →72.5
      • Decreased Lifesteal: 22% changed to →15%
  • REMOVED: Typhon’s Fang
    • It has been reworked into Typhon’s Heart with a new effect.
  • NEW: Typhon’s Heart
    • Cost: 2600g
    • Builds from Cursed Sickle + Killing Stone + 850g
    • +40 Intelligence
    • +12.5% Lifesteal
    • NEW: Passive: Every minion or jungle monster Kill provides 1 stack. God Kills provide 30 and Assists, 15. At 30 stacks, summon a monster of Typhon. It has 200 + 50 per level Health and deals damage equal to 300% of your Lifesteal and 20% of your Intelligence. Your lifesteal Heals it. If you would summon another, instead fully Heal your current one and grant it 25% Health, Attack Speed, and Movement Speed, stacking up to 5 times.
  • NEW: Gluttonous Grimoire
    • Cost: 2600g
    • Builds from Flaming Pearl + Cursed Sickle + 800g
    • +40 Intelligence
    • +150 Health
    • +10% Lifesteal
    • Passive: 25% of Lifesteal healing is stored into your next Basic Attack that successfully damages an enemy god as Bonus Magical Damage. If you are at maximum health, store 40% of the healing. The stored amount is capped to 33% of your Maximum Health.
  • NEW: Sanguine Lash
    • Cost: 2800g
    • Builds from Reinforced Axe + Adamantine Sickle + 650g
    • +25 Strength
    • +25 Physical Protection
    • +10% Lifesteal
    • Passive: Enemies within 4m take 2% (+1% for every 10% Lifesteal) of their health as physical damage every second (up to 200). When this damages a god, reduce the Active cooldown by 5s (+1s for every 10% Lifesteal). Minions reduce it by 0.5s. This item's damage can trigger lifesteal.
    • Active: Lash out at enemies within 4m for 10% of their maximum health as Physical damage (max 500). Can store up to 3 charges. Cooldown: 90s
  • NEW: Umbral Link
    • Cost: 2700g
    • Builds from Legionnaire Armor + Cursed Sickle + 1100g
    • +40 Physical Protection
    • +10% Lifesteal
    • Passive: Split your lifesteal healing with allied gods within 11.2m evenly. Each unique ally healed like this grants you 10 Protections for 8s. This link only works while you are above 50% Health.
  • NEW: Daybreak Gavel
    • Cost: 2750g
    • Builds from Survivor’s Sash + Veve Charm + 950g
    • +275 Health
    • Passive: You gain 55 Strength or 75 Intelligence depending on which stat from items is higher.
    • Passive: For each unique god healed by a healing ability, gain a stack, up to 4. Your next ability consumes all the stacks to contribute 10% additional Strength and Intelligence scaling per stack consumed (up to 40%).
  • NEW: Heartwood Charm
    • Cost: 2650g
    • Builds from Adroit Ring + Odigba + 1200g
    • +400 Health
    • +250 Mana
    • +10 Cooldown Rate
    • Passive: Your healing abilities have 20% reduced Cooldowns and each cast reduces this items active cooldown by 10s.
    • Active : Your next non-ultimate healing ability will have no cooldown but deals 50% reduced damage.
  • REWORKED: Rod of Asclepius
    • REMOVED: Increased Healing.
    • REMOVED: Active removing all anti-heal.
    • NEW: Active: Send out healing snakes to allied gods within 8.8m restoring 10% of their health over 10s. This healing counts as healing from an Ability. The snake is sacrificed if the target has 6 debuffs active, immediately healing for 10% health and applying all non-damage immunities for 1s. Costs: 35% Mana. CD: 90s
  • NEW: Regrowth Striders
    • Cost: 2550g
    • Builds from Captain’s Ring + Legionnaire Armor + 1000g
    • +40 Physical Protection
    • +3 Mana Regen
    • +15% Cooldown Rate
    • Passive: When you heal yourself from an ability, gain a burst of 35% Movement Speed that decays to 10% over 5s for 5s. Cooldown: 10s
    • Passive: When you gain a Movement Speed buff restore 5% of your health over 5s.
  • NEW: Vital Amplifier
    • Cost: 2500g
    • Builds from Survivor’s Sash + Olmec Blue + 800g
    • +20% Attack Speed
    • +200 Health
    • +3 Health Regen
    • Passive: Passive: Gain 30 Strength or 45 Intelligence, whichever you have more of from Items.
    • Passive: After healing yourself or an allied god with an ability you gain 10% Attack Speed and 5% Basic Attack Damage for 6s, stacking 3 times.
  • REWORKED: Amanita Charm
    • Increased Heal: 2% HP -> 3% HP
    • Decreased Tick Rate: 0.5s changed to →1.5s
    • Decreased Lifetime: 5s changed to →4.5s
    • NEW: Now ticks once immediately upon deploy
      • Overall this decreases the healing from 20% over 5s changed to →12% over 4.5s.
    • NEW: Gain a stack of Sporeguard. Each buff stack reduces enemy Basic Attack and Ability damage by 10% before being removed. Ultimate Ability damage is reduced by 5% and all stacks are removed.
• Gods
  • Gods gaining Anti Heal
  • Pele
    • Non-Healing Pass Adjustments
      • General
        • Decreased Per Level Health: 97.5 changed to →92.6
          • Pele will have 98 less Max Health at level 20.
      • Pyroclast
        • Decreased Initial Damage Scaling: 60% changed to →55%
        • Decreased Return Damage: 30 changed to →25
      • Eruption
        • Decreased Bonus Movement Speed Peak: 350% changed to →275%
          • Essentially this means Pele won’t cover as much ground upon activating her Eruption.
  • Rama - Not Healing Related