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cyclonic posted:On another note, Clash promotion this weekend: This reddit thread I made got some traction and a response from Hi-Rez, but no Clash changes in 4.3 make me  I'm hoping they just didn't want to steal any of the limelight from Adventures (which to be fair looks very fun) and we some changes to Clash in 4.4
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I'm up to Win X Clash Games for the season questline but haven't tried the mode yet (or conquest). I have enough fun just bouncing between arena and assault. I guess with xp spooling the clash basics are try to make a balanced party, support your team mates, don't overextend, and keep an eye on the enemy? Is it worth warding or is the map too small to bother? I won't be around this weekend and don't care about cutesy avatars, but I may as well give it a try soon.
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bagrada posted:I'm up to Win X Clash Games for the season questline but haven't tried the mode yet (or conquest). I have enough fun just bouncing between arena and assault. With xp spooling in Clash, as long as you don't completely poo poo the bed, you and the enemy will be full build and equal footing at 15 minutes. At that point run as a group, try to get some picks, and if you wipe them you can easily take an objective or two if not the game. Warding's good (more useful than in Arena and Assault, in any case) but the only key areas are Apophis and in the middle of their jungle so you can see if they're trying to flank you as you push down their lanes. Ben Nerevarine fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Two more Smite Tactics beta keys posted in the Discord private server thread for anyone interested.
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I've been feeling bored with HOTS, so I figured I'd give Smite a try. Just played through the tutorial and had a blast, and I'd love an invite to the guild for that sweet Goon lovin. My IGN is PunkinDonuts. Thanks!
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Punkin Donuts posted:I've been feeling bored with HOTS, so I figured I'd give Smite a try. Just played through the tutorial and had a blast, and I'd love an invite to the guild for that sweet Goon lovin. My IGN is PunkinDonuts. Invite sent!
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So, if you don't buy the Adventure Bundle - is there really no reason to play it? I don't seem to be accruing anything for wins.
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Worshipers on the only 5 gods allowed in the mode and FP. Other than that, there's no other reason to play it unless you find it fun since the games aren't tracked (yet??) Edit: Since each team is forced to play the exact same lineup... this might be the most balanced mode in the game, just sayin'
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 reddit tier list, Patch 4.2 (Kuzenbo) edit- Crutch posted:So, if you don't buy the Adventure Bundle - is there really no reason to play it? I don't seem to be accruing anything for wins. Achievements?  Honestly I think HiRez dropped the ball with this event, but correct me if I'm wrong: you don't even need to play to get the items from the bundle? Just pay and get everything? cyclonic fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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I really really wish HiRez would stop with the whole "add leagues/games to pick ~1 hour before they go live and you can't pick them any more" thing. God forbid they have some idea of what their schedule is more than a day in advance.
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Can someone help me figure out who to play who is super fun but not like a hunter/assassin carry? I like supporting as a guardian or mage, and geb is a lot of fun, but ymir is super boring.
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What are build strategies for Ah Puch? I built Pen boots/Chronos/Spear of the Magus/Gem of Isolation/Obsidian Shard and appear to have been working on a power item of some description last night, and did okay but felt like I wasn't doing as much damage to gods as I could be. Is he better suited to straight power/pen building or does he work well with effect items like Gem of Isolation / Soul Reaver?
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Pimp Drakula posted:What are build strategies for Ah Puch? I built Pen boots/Chronos/Spear of the Magus/Gem of Isolation/Obsidian Shard and appear to have been working on a power item of some description last night, and did okay but felt like I wasn't doing as much damage to gods as I could be. Is he better suited to straight power/pen building or does he work well with effect items like Gem of Isolation / Soul Reaver? The thing with Pen is the weird order of operations rules kind of undercut your build; Shard is WORSE if you have Spear, because (according to the wiki) the order is: - Percent Reduction. This will reduce a target's protection values by a percentage. For example, The Executioner will reduce a target's physical protection by 12% (per stack). - Flat Reduction. This will reduce a target's protection values by a specific amount. For example, Void Shield will reduce a target's physical protection by 20. - Percent Penetration. This will bypass a target's protection values by a percentage. For example, Obsidian Shard will bypass 33% of a target's magical protection. - Flat Penetration. This will bypass a target's protection values by a specific amount. For example, Dynasty Plate Helm will bypass 15 of a target's magical protection. So the Spear is making your Shard effectively do less, BUT your shard is making your boots do more. I usually go (fair warning: Arena casual scrub territory): CDR Boots / Warlock's / Chronos / Spear / Gem if I need extra durability + their team doesn't have a lot of movement abilities already (if they do, it doesn't matter if they're slower, since they can just jump/dash out of your poo poo anyway) , Rod if I don't / Shard MAYBE if their team built enough protections. Overall the key to making Puch feel good, in my experience, is not trying to do 3/4 of someone's life in one combo, but planning+weaving in and out of the fight enough that you can land 1/2 their life in two combos. Also landing the combo (132 in the right timing order causes the corpses to hit as the toss hits as the purge goes off) is deceptively difficult to get down, especially on wonkier ping.
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Knifegrab posted:Can someone help me figure out who to play who is super fun but not like a hunter/assassin carry? I like supporting as a guardian or mage, and geb is a lot of fun, but ymir is super boring. Kumbha is my go-to for fun guardian. Killing someone with his ult + belly bounce combo is super satisfying (or when someone successfully lines up a skillshot when they land: the best is a Kumbha ult into a Ne Zha ult). So is "sniping" someone with a minion off a belly bounce. So is mezzing and disrupting an entire team and letting your teammates get away. Or when 2-3 people die from trying to kill you during your passive. Everything about his kit is just so satisfying.
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Pimp Drakula posted:What are build strategies for Ah Puch? I built Pen boots/Chronos/Spear of the Magus/Gem of Isolation/Obsidian Shard and appear to have been working on a power item of some description last night, and did okay but felt like I wasn't doing as much damage to gods as I could be. Is he better suited to straight power/pen building or does he work well with effect items like Gem of Isolation / Soul Reaver? I haven't played much Ah Puch since the end of season 2 (I think?) or whenever they nerfed CDR/health/defenses, but I think now that they decided to slap CDR on half of the items in the game, dirtybubble-type builds might be more viable again? You build a ton of defenses, CDR and health, 1 or 2 pen items, and just play like a magical warrior, using your corpses for self heal. This works particularly well when you don't get enough peel from your teammates. So any combination of 35-40% CDR (boots, spirit robe, mantle of discord, shield of regrowth, spear of desolation), more defenses/health (gem of iso, eth staff, urchin, jade emperor), pen (boots, desolation, void stone), situational items (nemean, void stone, stone of fal, winged blade). I like playing bruisers so these are my favorite types of build. Especially in arena where people don't seem to know how to press tab and look at your tanky build, so you always get lokis ulting you while you're surrounded by your teammates, and you get to spam VEL when they inevitably die after wasting their full kit to take off 40% of your health.
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:I usually go (fair warning: Arena casual scrub territory): CDR Boots / Warlock's / Chronos / Spear / Gem if I need extra durability + their team doesn't have a lot of movement abilities already (if they do, it doesn't matter if they're slower, since they can just jump/dash out of your poo poo anyway) , Rod if I don't / Shard MAYBE if their team built enough protections. Esoteric Scientist posted:I haven't played much Ah Puch since the end of season 2 (I think?) or whenever they nerfed CDR/health/defenses, but I think now that they decided to slap CDR on half of the items in the game, dirtybubble-type builds might be more viable again? You build a ton of defenses, CDR and health, 1 or 2 pen items, and just play like a magical warrior, using your corpses for self heal. This works particularly well when you don't get enough peel from your teammates. I will try both of these tonight. I've been trying to find a mage that people want to be far away from; Hades is effective but seems to work best with defense instead of kill power and if people learn to disperse when he appears his 2/3/4 don't give much recourse, Anubis with Blink and copious pen/lifesteal has been very promising but if I miss with his 2 I might as well disengage.
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Pimp Drakula posted:I will try both of these tonight. I've been trying to find a mage that people want to be far away from
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Yeah, Zhong is definitely a very strong late-game mage. You struggle early due to lack of defenses, health and mobility, but once you get somewhat tanky you become a monster. I think my only issue with him is that outside of conquest stacking his passive can be a pain. Chang'e is also a very good late game bruiser-type mage. She's not as naturally tanky as Zhong (frontline mage) or Hades (guardian), but if you just build her like a bruiser, your passive and abilities make up for the slightly lower defense/health pool. Once you get used to juking while using your abilities you become very annoying to deal with. You can also just go for high damage guardians, like Bacchus or Cabrakan. Build some defenses, power, lots of pen, and burst down their carries.
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Knifegrab posted:Can someone help me figure out who to play who is super fun but not like a hunter/assassin carry? I like supporting as a guardian or mage, and geb is a lot of fun, but ymir is super boring. I usually play guardians (partly because no one else wants too) Cabrakan can put out crazy damage for a guardian, and I've been enjoying Kuzenbo. He's not very controlling for a support, but he can be super disruptive with his ultimate, and his nene can do respectable damage.
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Cabrakan is so stupid-fun. Your initiation: Run up to them while you're sped up and immune to slows+roots, stunning the first person you hit, and maybe other people if they also hit you. Your poke: Do the same thing but run away. Your teamfights: Do the same thing but hit your ult.
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Cabrakan is great, dumb fun. No better feeling than exploding a mage with his 1+Soul Reaver+Poly
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Not an underrated character at all but I play the hell out of Nox. Max CDR first, and just hold people still with 1 for my team to beat on and use my 2 to interrupt abilities and pop stealthers. I know some people play her as a primary damage dealer but I love ending a game 4 0 22.
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Delpino posted:Not an underrated character at all but I play the hell out of Nox. Max CDR first, and just hold people still with 1 for my team to beat on and use my 2 to interrupt abilities and pop stealthers. I know some people play her as a primary damage dealer but I love ending a game 4 0 22. I played her for the first time last night as a pure damage dealer. Dropping a bomb and then holding the enemy in place is just so brutally satisfying and its hard to gently caress up. Then when I'm about to die I just get inside my teams neigh-unkillable guardian and slip away.
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Nox is a sleeper assassin or the best crowd control in the game depending on build; she's my only diamond god and the only god I'll go down the chest rabbit hole to get skins for.
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Pimp Drakula posted:What are build strategies for Ah Puch? I built Pen boots/Chronos/Spear of the Magus/Gem of Isolation/Obsidian Shard and appear to have been working on a power item of some description last night, and did okay but felt like I wasn't doing as much damage to gods as I could be. Is he better suited to straight power/pen building or does he work well with effect items like Gem of Isolation / Soul Reaver? So I've been playing A LOT of Ah Puch in arena and my build is: Book of Thoth, Pen Boots, Gem Iso, Spear Magus, Rod Tahuti, something/doesn't matter. Abilities: one in each to start. His 1 to level three for the 2 corpses. Max the explosion, then Max his 3, then finish his 1. Put points in Ult whenever you can, in between all that. I do at least 35k damage a match, typically top or second in the game. Once you're on the third item or going into fourth you should be able to just use his 1 -3 - 2 combo to pop a mage/hunter/assassin, or a least when his 3 is done ticking they can be one shot by someone else. Just stay back and let the corpses do the work. I only ult when the enemies are doing a team push, chasing an ally, or wrapping around to gank someone getting a buff. His 132 is all you need. Edit: Oh, and I find that Gem of Iso is almost a must to really secure the crazy amount of damage his combo can do. Knee fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Mar 3, 2017 |
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Pimp Drakula posted:Nox is a sleeper assassin or the best crowd control in the game depending on build; she's my only diamond god and the only god I'll go down the chest rabbit hole to get skins for. I hope you die alone
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Nucular Carmul posted:I hope you die alone
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Play him like an assassin. He's not a support. He's not a tank. He's not a disruptor or initiator. He kills squishy targets - that's why they call him "Fat Loki." Blink, Pen Boots, Urchin, Soul Reaver, Polynomicon, Thoth, Obsidian Shard. Second relic...Sunder. Might as well. (non-Conquest)
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In Arena I literally just build him with whatever looks interesting that game and it's hard to lose if your team understands "stunned guy should be dead guy" and you don't run in when they're on the other side of the map completely. Reinforced Boots? Sure. CDR boots? Why not. Pen boots? Get in motherfucker. One aura item this game? Not a bad choice. All aura items this game? Couldn't fuckin' hurt. The only stuff I'd recommend against on him is attack speed and physical damage. Anything else: Why the gently caress not. Stun kids toss walls get money.
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Very interesting video by Wolfy2032: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wtVfS8qKYk He's predicting a tank meta because of the availability of very cheap strong bruiser items. Skip to 11:05 for his discussion about specific items otherwise watch from the beginning where he justifies why warrior in duo, guardian in solo+jungle works.
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When you're on a win streak for too long in Clash: Then it gets auto-corrected by: 
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:In Arena I literally just build him with whatever looks interesting that game and it's hard to lose if your team understands "stunned guy should be dead guy" and you don't run in when they're on the other side of the map completely. I SWEAR TO GOD!!! People don't understand this concept at all. I love playing Fafnir and other stunners and it's like come on.
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https://twitter.com/HiRezAjax/status/839573993275469824 Next god confirmed. Cernunnos, Celtic hunter
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Already liking how his passive works. The melee cleave and then the 1 is kinda cool too. Edit: so 2 Bramble Blast seems a bit on the ridiculous style. A root with a slow (although weak) Then the Horn Charge... Why give him a charge? It doesn't have a knock-up/back at least... But like... Man he's doing too good right now in the showing. Ultimate: Wild Hunt- Holy poo poo! An AoE polymorph? That seems a bit strong. They say it takes a huge windup but like... It's not that hard to capture people in that. Zain fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Mar 8, 2017 |
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I could see him being really if/when they nerf double-Ich builds, since they just said he's got low base, good scaling, and the current Hunter Meta seems to favor lots of on-hit fast attacking, so you'd really only be leaning on his kit for its utility. Unless you put him in the jungle and built like an AD caster, at which point, who're you putting in the double lane, or what role are you dropping entirely?
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