SMITE

Introduction

Welcome to the world of Magic: The Gathering! In this exciting update, players can look forward to a range of new skins and cosmetics that will add a fresh twist to their gameplay experience. Get ready to unleash the power of Teferi Chronos, Nicol Bolas Tiamat, Vivien Reid Artemis, The Wandering Emperor Mulan, and Nissa Revane Eset. These stunning new skins will bring a whole new level of style to your favorite characters. But that's not all! The Mythical Market is here to offer you an exclusive shopping experience like no other. With personalized bundles tailored just for you, you can enjoy big discounts on a variety of content. From the Bumble Bee Jing Wei Skin to the Honey Bug Avatar and Honey Bug Fountain Skin, there's something for everyone at a buzzing low price. Plus, each Mythical Market will feature unique bundles handpicked based on your personal SMITE preferences, including exclusive and normal skins and cosmetics released before Update 8.8. So get ready to dive into the Mythical Market and discover the perfect additions to your collection.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING PT. 2

NEW SKINS
- Teferi Chronos
- Nicol Bolas Tiamat
- Vivien Reid Artemis
- The Wandering Emperor Mulan
- Nissa Revane Eset
NEW COSMETICS
- Phyrexian Bundle (MTG Chest)
  - Phyrexian Pedestal
  - Phyrexian Player Title
  - Phyrexian Fountain Skin
- Spellslinger Bundle (MTG Chest)
  - Black Lotus Ward Skin
  - Oblivion Ring Death Mark
  - Nope Global Emote
- Event Quest Rewards
  - Nicol Bolas Avatar
  - Nicol Bolas Announcer Pack
  - The Wandering Emperor Avatar
  - The Wandering Emperor Announcer Pack
  - Nissa Revane Avatar
  - Nissa Revane Announcer Pack
  - Teferi Avatar
  - Teferi Announcer Pack
  - Vivien Reid Avatar
  - Vivien Reid Announcer Pack

MYTHICAL MARKET

General
- The Mythical Market is your very own shop tailored just for you with big discounts!
- All players will have a new bundle featuring the brand new Bumble Bee Jing Wei Skin, Honey Bug Avatar, and Honey Bug Fountain Skin at a buzzing low price!
- In addition to the Bumble Bee Bundle, each Mythical Market will feature a unique set of additional bundles featuring content picked specifically for you based on your personal SMITE preferences.
- Your bundles can include Exclusive and Normal Skins and cosmetics released before Update 8.8 at a discounted price.

YEAR 10 VIEWER STORE

General

There will no longer be a purchasable Viewer Pass and the ability to earn double points will no longer exist. Everyone will be able to earn the same amount of points for free!
To help with this Viewer Point gains have been increased in the following areas.
- Twitch Viewer points have increased to 2000 Viewer Points per drop
- Additional Viewer Points have been added to both the Free and Premium tracks of the Battle Pass
- Additional Viewer Points will be available via event quests throughout the year.
Points will also still be earned by picking esports matches and the new player Welcome Pass.
Viewer Points will be soft reset for all players in 10.2. All points above 75,000 will be removed.
The Year 10 Viewer Store will not have any new content exclusive to the viewer store, but the total content pool has been updated to feature more recent skins.

QUALITY OF LIFE

General
- Updated the Profile Stats Ranked Placement tab with new Conquest and Joust art
- Updated the Play and Gods background UI images with new Conquest art

BUG FIXES

UI
- Fixed an issue where parties of mixed PC and Console players couldn’t queue for Ranked
- Fixed an issue with Ranked wins not displaying correctly and showing Season 9 progress on the Ranked Rewards tab
- Fixed an issue where enemy player names were being shown in the Pre-selection Lobby for count up queues
- Fixed an issue where the Gold Fury and Pyromancer were missing UI Objective HP Bars in Conquest
- Fixed an issue where Relic Shards couldn’t be included in a Custom Build in the God Builder along with a second Relic
- Fixed an issue where if someone joined a Clan, their player level was incorrect on the Roster page
- Fixed an issue where after the match accept timer reached zero, it reset to an incorrect number when the match accepted
- Fixed an issue with Shard Relic cooldowns being reset when un-doing purchases in the item store
- Fixed an issue with Ranked God Leaderboard entries not being shown on Console
- Fixed an issue with the Console HUD Mana bar being the wrong color
- Pre-Match Lobby Console Freezes
  - Implemented a fix that should decrease the chances of crashing in Lobby for Consoles. We’ve seen good results from a 10.1 hotfix for Xbox and are doing a similar change for Playstation. We will continue to closely monitor this issue after the release of this update
- Localization
  - Fixed an issue with Evolved Prophetic Cloak displaying in English and displaying the wrong Cooldown Reduction %
General Gameplay
- Conquest
  - Fixed an issue where the Fire Giant could be auto attacked outside of the pit range by Gods that have longer base auto attack range
  - Fixed an issue with the damaging fire pool around the Fire Giant’s waist not placing players into combat when they became damaged
  - Fixed an issue with the Fire Giant’s blocking volume being larger than intended for abilities and wards
  - Fixed an issue with the Fire Giant’s fire ring ability being on a cooldown and not re-triggering properly when at 80% HP
  - Fixed an issue where the Fire Giant debuff icons did not have tooltip descriptions
  - Fixed an issue where the Order and Chaos Fountains had dead zones along the back wall that didn’t count as being in fountain to buy items
  - Fixed an issue where God pets were getting stuck on the Titans (Baba Yaga, Chang’e, Skadi, etc)
  - Fixed an issue where the Bastions could be moved out of place by certain God abilities
  - Fixed an issue where Gods could become stuck behind the Totem in the Solo lane if they dashed towards it
  - Fixed an issue with the Chaos side Blue Buff wall geometry causing Gods to be knocked up if they walked over the specific area
  - Increased the size of the UI icons of Jungle Camps following a player
  - Increased the size of the UI icons of Dropped Jungle Buffs
- Assault
  - Fixed an issue where some Chaos side rock geometry was appearing black and untextured
  - Fixed an issue where the map was brighter than intended
- Jungle Practice
  - Fixed an issue where the Fire Giant was missing
Gods
- Baba Yaga
  - Fixed an issue where her passive was not stacking Prophetic Cloak
- Kukulkan
  - Fixed an issue with his Infernal Winds skin having an unintended expanded hitbox
- Sobek
  - Updated the tooltip description of his Charge Prey ability to clarify he becomes briefly CC immune while throwing an enemy
- Arachne
  - Fixed an issue with her Web of Fate skin’s voice lines playing on the wrong abilities and voice line audio cutting out during abilities
- Fenrir
  - Fixed an issue where his Brutalize was following Surtr through his ultimate ability
  - Fixed an issue where his Brutalize was following Ishtar through her third ability backflip
- Eset
  - Fixed an issue with the animation of her first ability on all base skins using an unintended animation
- Persephone
  - Fixed an issue with her flowers being untextured in Lobby and EOML on her base skins
- Yemoja
  - Fixed an issue where her basic attacks could proc Cannoneer’s Cuirass passive on allied minions
Items
- (Starter) Gilded Arrow
  - Fixed an issue where this is providing 25 Basic attack Damage to Magical Gods instead of the intended 20
- Divine Ruin
  - fixed from dealing Physical damage, now appropriately deals Magical damage
- Contagion
  - Fixed an issue where the initial hit of the passive would reapply if an enemy refreshed the passive by walking in and out of a hard crowd control field
  - Fixed an issue where Nox’s third ability was doing too much damage while inside teammates with the passive applied
- Frostbound
  - Fixed an issue where triggering the passive was causing a short postfire delay where the owning player couldn’t cast abilities normally afterwards
- Runeforged Hammer
  - Fixed an issue where the passive would sometimes fail to apply a damage taken debuff to a target that was crowd controlled
- Absolution
  - Fixed an issue with this item’s passive breaking Tsukuyomi’s and Mulan’s ultimate abilities
  - Fixed the tooltip stat text to say Crowd Control Reduction instead of CCR
  - Fixed an issue with the passive playing FX when not properly triggered
- Phalanx
  - Fixed an issue where the passive was affecting pets when it should only apply to minions
- Rod of Asclepius
  - Added text to state this item’s passive does not stack with similar Auras
- Caduceus Club
  - Added text to state this item’s passive does not stack with similar Auras
- Gladiator’s Shield
  - Added text to state the bonus damage type from the passive is Physical
- Fail-Not
  - Added text to state this item is for Hunters only
- Arondight
  - Added text to state this item is for Assassins and Warriors only
- Wing Shard
  - Fixed the tooltip text typo where Attack Speed had an extra “t”
- Claw Shard
  - Fixed missing tooltip text for “per level” on Magical Power
- Horn Shard
  - Fixed the tooltip text to specify that this shard decreases CDR by 0.5s every 0.5s (3 seconds total)
- Tablet of Destinies
  - Fixed an issue with The Morrigan where stacks would reset after each use of her ultimate ability
  - Fixed the tooltip text to clarify that the bonus damage and stacking of this item work on a Internal Cooldown of 2 seconds
- Heroism
  - Fixed an issue where the Buff bar icon was showing the Heroes Axe icon
- War Flag (and upgrades)
  - These items will be re-enabled
  - Fixed an issue where this item was double triggering the bonus effect

BALANCE LIVE WITH THE 10.2 UPDATE – FEBRUARY 21

Game Modes

Conquest
- Titan
  - Titan Basic attacks now hit multiple enemies in the area. This was in the 10.1 update was left off patch notes.
- Elder Dryad (Green Buff Holder)
  - Special ability is that it will heal all other allied camps 20 health a second on top of 10 HP5. Does not heal himself.
- Fire Giant
  - The center of the Fire Giant pit is now permanently impassable terrain that blocks ground placement for wards, but allows targeting for abilities and projectiles to pass over it
- Pyromancer
  - Decreased initial spawn time from 10 minutes to 7 minutes
- Mana Camp
  - Blue Buff Holder no longer summons spirit minions
- Health Camp
  - Green Buff now also provides 10 MP5
- Totem
  - Reduced the physical size of this NPC by 15%

Items

Nerfs

DRUID STONE (T1)

We have two clear categories of item nerfs today. The first is tank items, and is mostly focused around tank items that can deal damage. Druid Stone was too cheap for its stats, and Stone of Binding is seeing a noticeable decrease in the amount of Protections it can reduce. Contagion is getting a series of additional bug fixes as well as another damage nerf. As a Healing Reduction item it has two passives, and its new one was clearly overshadowing the rest of the item.

Cost increased from 600 to 650
- The T2 and T3 items Upgrade cost was adjusted to keep their final cost unchanged by this T1 change

STONE OF BINDING

Decreased the Protection Debuff from 5+1 per level to 0+1 per level

CONTAGION

Decreased damage from 35 to 25
Fixed in earlier hotfix (already live)
- Each player can now only have 1 damaging Contagion aura on them at a time
- If a player with a damaging aura Hard Crowd Controls an enemy, the aura is now refreshed.
- Damage Aura no longer ticks at CC Application time (0s), instead it ticks at 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s
Fixed an issue where a 5th pulse that did no damage would play
Known issue is persisting with this item of audio not playing on additional pulses if the damaging aura is refreshed. Also will occasionally play an extra visual FX pulse that does no damage (but significantly less frequently than before)

PROPHETIC CLOAK

Tanks are also getting some slight nerfs to their Protection stats. Prophetic Cloak is an exciting new item that rewards those who focus on stacking it, but the stats provided here were just too much. We are making the item a bit easier to stack, but decreasing the amount of protections the owner of the item gets upon evolution.

Decreased the Internal Cooldown from 10s to 8s
Fixed text to clarify the ICD and to state that the increase in protection stats on evolution is intended

EVOLVED PROPHETIC CLOAK

Decreased Physical Protection from 55 to 40
Decreased Magical Protection from 55 to 40

SIGIL OF THE OLD GUARD

Along with the Prophetic Cloak protections nerf we have some nerfs directly to Damage Mitigation items. These items have been showing up in builds recently and when all stacked together they can make the targets especially hard to kill. In many cases the target is also losing out on a lot of damage output, but we are moving quickly to bring the top end down on this as soon as possible. These two items are the primary sources of mitigations that are usually not built by Supports, and thus they will be the first target for nerfs.

Decreased Base Damage Mitigation from 5% to 3%
Decreased Damage Mitigation per stack from 4% to 3%
- (Decreases total Damage Mitigation from 17% to 12%)
Decreased Healing per stack from 3% to 1% of your max health

BERSERKER’S SHIELD

Decreased Damage Mitigation on the passive effect from 10% to 5%

THE CRUSHER

The other realm being nerfed today are Assassin item, specifically ability-base bonus damage effects. Bluestone has been nerfed, but is still strong, especially when paired with items like The Crusher and Heartseeker that do bonus damage on hit. Crusher is seeing a slight shift in that with its Power and Damage nerfs comes a slight cost buff, while Heartseeker is seeing a strict nerf, especially toward targets with lower max HP values.

Decreased Cost 2700 to 2600
Decreased Physical Power from 55 to 50
Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 40% to 30% on the Passive

HEARTSEEKER

Decreased the Bonus Damage from 3% to 2% when the item owner has lower power

Buffs

HORN SHARD

We are keeping a close eye on shards and have seen a clear purpose for each of them since the nerf of Claw Shard. Horn Shard was considered the weakest or most niche by most players, but this was mostly due to its perception. The actual effect it was providing was twice as strong as the text stated, and those who picked up the item found it quite effective, although not clearly stronger than the other shards. For this reason we are keeping this powered-up effect and only fixed the text.

Fixed the text of this item to specify that it decreases CDR by 0.5s every 0.5s (3s total) – not every 1s as listed on 10.1 launch

QIN’S SAIS

There has been a lot of Hunter discussion on the timeline. The data shows them lagging a bit behind, but not as far off as the perceptions might lead you to believe. The nerfs to Assassins and Tanks combined with a few key hunter item buffs should be enough to move in the right direction. If more adjustment is needed in the future for this class we will certainly be open to that as we monitor the data and feedback closely. We are buffing Qin’s to give the non-crit builds or anti-tank builds a noticeable buff, as well as buffing the new Boomerang item to make for a better user experience and buff Crit builds.

Increased Attack Speed from 20% to 25%
Increased Bonus Damage against high max HP targets from 5% to 6%

BLADED BOOMERANG

Decreased Cost from 2600 to 2500
Increased Attack Speed from 15% to 20%
Decrease the offset from player of the buff drops to be 50% closer to the player
Fixed an issue where this item did not describe the stacking buff duration of 6s

CHRONOS’ PENDANT

Mages have been doing well, with the only complaint being item diversity. We will continue looking into that issue for future updates, so we only have one change for now. This small buff to Chronos’ Pendant introduces new CDR option to possibly shake up builds without overshadowing the buffs to Hunters, who need them more.

Increased Magical Power from 90 to 100

BRAWLER’S BEAT STICK

Assassins got nerfed overall, but this item felt too under tuned to leave alone. Its new passive is harder to use than many of the other Anti-Heal items and the cost felt like a huge barrier. These changes should give Assassins more flexibility with how they counter-build without overpowering them as a whole.

Decreased Cost from 2600 to 2500
Fixed Text to describe that the buff field lasts 10 seconds
Increased the base Power (Magical and Physical) of the buff field from 10 to 20

CLOAK (T1)

Finally we have an array of Warrior/Guardian items, most of which have been underused in the 10.1 Update. First, Tier 1 Cloak is getting cost buff to help better justify its lower stat value than Tier 1 Druid Stone. Then we see cost nerfs to Cannoneer’s Cuirass and Dawnbinger, to make them easier to build into, especially for supports. Finally we have some stat buffs for Absolution and Phalanx to help them better compete with the item’s with similar stats that are more popular.

Cost decreased from 650 to 600
The T2 and T3 items Upgrade cost was adjusted to keep their final cost unchanged by this T1 change

CANNONEER’S CUIRASS

Decreased Cost from 2250 to 2100

DAWNBRINGER BUFF

Decreased Cost from 2600 to 2400 gold

ABSOLUTION BUFF

Increased Magical Protections from 60 to 70
Increased Crowd Control Reduction from 10% to 20%

PHALANX

Increased Physical Protection from 55 to 60
Increased Health from 150 to 200

Gods

10.1 is still very fresh on the minds of most players, with many strategies and metas still evolving. We have some strong data to indicate a few outliers already. We have 2 clear nerfs to gods who have been overperforming, especially in ranked. As for buffs, we first want to remind players that the next update, 10.3, will be the first new season, and with it will come a huge list of god adjustments. For 10.2 we tried to identify some of the clearest underperformers from each class, except for Warriors who were consistently doing well.

AO KUANG NERF

This Magical Jungler has been crushing the queues. Some favorable meta shifts combined with some direct recent buffs have brought back Ao Kuang as the ranked stomp god that he was known to be back near his launch many years ago. We are nerfing the late game damage of his primary damaging ability to take down his top end.

WILD STORM

Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 50% to 40%

HE BO NERF

This flexible Mage is often thought of as a Jungler, but has been a top pick in Mid as well through SWC and 10.1. He Bo brings a lot of utility to a fight, so we are nerfing his damage both early game and late on his primary CC ability to even the odds against other Mages.

WATERSPOUT

Decreased Base Damage from 80/130/180/230/280 to 70/120/170/220/270
Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 65% to 60%

DISCORDIA BUFF

A few of these buffs might be a surprise, as they all had recent meta stints, but direct nerfs and meta shifts have left them in lower than expected spots. Discordia is the first of this set. With a well rounded kit that balances control, evasion, and damage, she never feels completely unplayable, but we could still see clear issues in her match data. We are buffing Erratic Behavior, which is a strong buff to her evasion as well as the rest of her kit because of its CDR-style effect. We are also adding more front-loaded burst damage to her Ultimate, which has been feeling especially weak lately.

ERRATIC BEHAVIOR

Decreased Cooldown from 15s to 13s at all ranks

GOLDEN APPLE OF DISCORD

Increased Base Damage on the initial hit from 100/125/150/175/200 to 125/150/175/200/225
Increased Magical Power Scaling on the initial hit from from 40% to 50%

GEB BUFF

We saw a lot of Geb after his Ultimate buff, but since then he has had multiple nerfs that lead to a noticeable drop. Geb has a better teamfight presence now, but he still struggles in the early game, so we are buffing Shockwave to make sure his lane partners are happy to have him there.

SHOCK WAVE

Increased Base Damage from 90/160/230/300/370 to 100/170/240/310/380
Decreased Cooldown from 15s to 14s

TSUKUYOMI BUFF

Super strong launches can often lead to heavily nerfed gods, and Tsukuyomi was one of the strongest. After such a high point initially, he had to be adjusted many times, which definitely had the intended effect. After watching him for a while, and seeing little resurgence even in the new meta, we finally feel comfortable applying some direct buffs to Tsukuyomi. A split of base damage and scaling damage increases across his abilities will bring him up across the board.

DARK MOON SHURIKEN

Increased Shuriken Damage from 75/125/175/225/275 to 85/135/185/235/285

PIERCING MOONLIGHT

Increased Physical Power Scaling per Dash hit from 45% to 50%

JING WEI BUFF

Oh hey, fam! Jing Wei’s value is often dependant on her passive and safety. Duo is a risky lane in 10.1 but Jing Wei still isnt present. The new speed buff out of base makes her passive slightly less of an advantage, but the goddess also struggles to clear well. We are buffing her primary damage ability to give her the firepower she needs to compete.

PERSISTENT GUST

Increased Damage Per Tick from 10/20/30/40/50 to 15/25/35/45/55
Decreased Cooldown from 12s to 12/11.5/11/10.5/10s

CHERNOBOG BUFF

Lurking in the shadows, this god is rarely seen. Chernobog’s kit bring a unique level of evasion to the hunter class, yet he still often struggles to find a place in various metagames. His mana costs have been identified as one possible thing holding him back, and we are also buffing his dash to help him maximize his most powerful combo plays and to keep him safe.