Sorry about being absent for so long, my video recording & rendering software were having trouble cooperating so this video took wayyy longer than planned to make! Got a REALLY long video lined up for tomorrow, so clear some time in your day if you wanna watch it all ;)
I used to play this game during the dirty bubble meta and was a ullr main in Gold 4 in season 3. I stopped playing at the middle of season 3 and coming back to the game, I lost my skill and looking at this is so crazy. The community grew which is crazy and it seems into be going in a good direction.
season 4 was the season I only spent lost all monument for smite all the assassins I liked couldn't compete with warriors high rez refuses still to rework them or give them separate items from hunters making so they now continue be balanced around each other. Players almost dreaded new (CELTIC)releases with them all seemingly more bloated than the last
NO FRIKKEN WAY HE'S MY MOST PLAYED/FAV CHARACTER WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT. Then get new crusher and mystical mail and watch everyone's health go through the cheese grater.
Malik Moffett Since I won't know for a while, due to me being on console and all, but Crusher's new passive sounds like it isn't on a cooldown. Should make Master Blaster (Ability Damage) builds much more fun.
I feel like the changes made to Mages Blessing and how AMC's Bees! Now trigger that is going make AMC overtuned for early game and may unintentionally give him a huge buff. TBH I have played AMC throughout S4 with Bluestone Pendant and I think this will end up being more powerful for him. Thoughts?
I find blessings interesting on a conceptual level, since they are supposed to be the "strong early game weak late game" starting option that starter items never managed to be. This is due to the fact that they can't be sold. However, I think that a build without a blessing might just be so weak during early game that it might not even be worth it; blessings either provide sustain or more clear, which in a weird way turns into sustain, since it allows you to not lose health and mana instead of having to sustain them back up. This turns into a scenario where the character without the blessing is constantly losing the laning phase, has to back much more often and loses farm and objective play as a result of this.
duuuude. Thanks Duke I never thought of Chang’e Jungle😂 she’s my fave mage but I’m not the type of player to continue playing a god when they are diamond. I’ll try it still. looks hard early game but who cares I’ve fone Ymir and enjoyed it and now guardians actually have some sort of place in the jungle role now.
One obvious time it's good is against Cu Chulainn since the flat 3 damage mitigation applies to each tic on his 2 and you mitigate quite a lot, similarly it's good if the enemy comp has a lot of DoT(just like mark of the vanguard was)
Returning player here, and I'm still on on the ropes about warriors. What God's is it good with? What situations would mages be better? Thanks in advance to any clarification
10:26 what happened to sol's belly LOL ... great vid duke! thx for the breakdown :D.....also magis is broken on warriors right now. the clear is insane so i feel like thats more crucial for solo lane phys/mag than warriors blessing or hunters
So what do you recommend for a god like Anubis? Or any other mage with tick damage. Does that mean that extra ability damage on Mage's blessing only procs on the first tick?
Hell, I'm still trying to understand if it gets Hunter Blessing on the entire Wave, or just the first one hit. THEN we can settle if it applies on the return as well. LOL! If so, her huge damage just got bigger.
I would build the regular support item, if 200 hp and free regen wasn't better. 50 more hp and 5 more protections, then I'd be inclined to join the meta. Like the Warrior's blessing. That's kinda there. But the defender's is definitely on the verge.
UkeSama It is bad lmao, the passive is almost useless, and now with all the lifesteal that we have in S5, one being less then 50% health will almost not matter, mages and adc will just lifesteal to get max hp, there is no point of building it in this current state
It's more situational now, some gods would still do quite well with it (namely Zeus and Thoth, who both have abilities that hit after the target is below 50% hitpoints) I could see it on Scylla too just to guarantee more resets with the ult.
PkmnLovar Doesn't double proc exactly because the dog only hits for 15% of your basic attack damage but you do get the extra 15% of it added on(so you're hitting for an extra 17-18 is per basic attack instead of 15)
I use hunter blessing plus trans tier 1 for the 10 power and I pressure most people with mages because my basics per basic hits for 60 without damage and around 80 with damage and rushing trans or just going boots I do around 120 per basic already on the adc with damage it only effective when your aggressive poking the adc and know what you doing
Skarmory Dx only conquest will have mages, assassins, warriors, guardians and hunters blessing while other modes will have attackers and the other general blessings
Well yeah, I know what was their thing first. But later they mentioned on twitter "all 8 blessings will be avaiable even on non-conquest modes!" I could link the twitter But alright, I could still check tomorrow since it's the patch release too if I still doubt.
Frederik Falk that didn't look bad to me, if you get to late game, which one often does he just deletes mages/hunters and I really don't find that amusing. Guaranteed high payoff with low risk incentiveses low skill. I really can't stand that God
Fushin What? That doesn't make any sense! Honestly though, a change would be pretty unnecessary since nobody would ever build Hunters in Sylvanus, but still...
the guardian blessing's passive for 4g/5 sounded good until i actualy thought about it... basicaly it's 48 gold every minute - 480 gold in 10 minutes. then i thought that it could at least be good for covering the cost of wards but again i thought about it... 50 per ward and after a certain point you have to get sentries which are 120 so you still spend more than what the blessing gives you. the rest of the stats are nice but the passive looks terrible to me.
Most guardians are building mage's blessing anyway...hell...most EVERYONE is building that one. The guardian blessing is 'ok', but nobody is going to use it with the overly aggressive nature from the very start now. They are going to draft aggressive guards and they will use mage's if anything. The warrior one is worthless, you will lose solo lane with it unless your opponent f'd up and got it too or is just bad. Why it gets an internal cooldown for its passive while mage's can proc multiple times on every damn ability is insane. It's bluestone on crack (bluestone was a dot that could only stack twice vs an instant that can hit as much as you hit). The main blessings you will see are mage's and assassin's. The assassin one more because of the sustain to keep them in the jungle. Hunter's might be used on occasion, but given the meta, the ones who can make use of mage's will out perform. Hell, you think Ullr is broken *now* ?? S5 there might as well be no other hunter.
Well, basically everyone- gods, mortals, demons, and what have you- dies during the Ragnarok since it's the end of the world. On the plus side, afterwards there's supposed to be a new world where things are nice.
I really don't like the new starter items. because I play duel alot and bluestone & death's toll are very important items for early game .and I think deleting them is a very big nerf for many gods plus you only have 3 starter items now
Empress Nu Wa Oh, golly gee willikers, friendo! TH-cam certainly dang diddly does a good job of saying whether or not someone actually watched before someone else did! (Crawl plays faintly)
I was the athena here, that tyr was sooooo toxic. And the Anubis said he just downloaded the game for the first time like a week ago. Not to mention Medusa ignoring every Mia we sent to her.
So, I wanted to know about the non-conquest Blessings and got SFA from this. I know you're a Conquest main but FFS, Sloth, give other modes more than a damn minute in a 14 minute video. :(
Sorry about being absent for so long, my video recording & rendering software were having trouble cooperating so this video took wayyy longer than planned to make! Got a REALLY long video lined up for tomorrow, so clear some time in your day if you wanna watch it all ;)
DukeSloth i am happy that you made a new amazing video
i think your recording/rendering softwares are still broken cause there's a crap ton of screen tearing at the top
It made me feel in the 90' as if watching a Videotape...
DukeSloth heck yea love me a long video. Stay awesome duke
It's as good as I could possibly make it for this one, literally 1 hour for a single render attempt. Still trying to figure out what the issue is.
Rendering glitch? The top of the screen is freaking out.
i think it might be with vertical sync cause i usually get that if i turn it off but as soon as you turn it on it stops
Yee see pinned comment
Omg i thought my phone was freaking out. Thank god
I used to play this game during the dirty bubble meta and was a ullr main in Gold 4 in season 3. I stopped playing at the middle of season 3 and coming back to the game, I lost my skill and looking at this is so crazy. The community grew which is crazy and it seems into be going in a good direction.
season 4 was the season I only spent lost all monument for smite all the assassins I liked couldn't compete with warriors high rez refuses still to rework them or give them separate items from hunters making so they now continue be balanced around each other. Players almost dreaded new (CELTIC)releases with them all seemingly more bloated than the last
Rip deaths toll
TheV1DE0G4M3R it won't be miss :)
ya heck it straight to the ground man. you get em aha
Mage's Blessing: The Return of Guan Yu
coming to theaters January 30th
dragontyron I never thought of that holy shit and cu chullain level 1 vent lol
NO FRIKKEN WAY HE'S MY MOST PLAYED/FAV CHARACTER WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT. Then get new crusher and mystical mail and watch everyone's health go through the cheese grater.
You'll always get a like with an outro like that, great job!
Thank you for that magnificent outro 👍👍👍🙂
Fun fact: Bakasura 3 can activate items like Heartseeker/Gladiator Shield. New Crusher should be fun for him.
Geez that first hit w/b.blades +quin's is gonna hurt and with enough atk speed you could proc it twice in one application of 3
Malik Moffett Since I won't know for a while, due to me being on console and all, but Crusher's new passive sounds like it isn't on a cooldown. Should make Master Blaster (Ability Damage) builds much more fun.
I hope to see more bakasura, he is a really fun god to be in a team with
My favorite part about s5 is solo lane is solo and duo is duo
Filthy casual
I still don’t know if I should use the blessings at all over my current starting item should I always go for a blessing to start out with or what
Yay gonna enjoy hunter's blessing on Artemis
im not gonna lie, the glitch gave a vcr feel which was really cool and it didnt really take from the video
Totally intended :^)
The outro was easily the best part of the video
Jungle is chang'es best role tbh
DizzyLimes im questioning the build 😒😒😒
crazy backup dancer same xD
I feel like the changes made to Mages Blessing and how AMC's Bees! Now trigger that is going make AMC overtuned for early game and may unintentionally give him a huge buff. TBH I have played AMC throughout S4 with Bluestone Pendant and I think this will end up being more powerful for him. Thoughts?
Some Ignorance Mage Blessing + Warrior + Crusher
Last time I heard is that AMC got nerfed for S5, making him slower movement speed, not sure though, i recommend u check
Oh yeah he did get needed how ever I think this will manage to keep him in the spotlight to the pros
Thank for this video, you answered all of my questions about blessings
Do you keep the starter items until level 20? When can you sell your starter items?
I find blessings interesting on a conceptual level, since they are supposed to be the "strong early game weak late game" starting option that starter items never managed to be. This is due to the fact that they can't be sold.
However, I think that a build without a blessing might just be so weak during early game that it might not even be worth it; blessings either provide sustain or more clear, which in a weird way turns into sustain, since it allows you to not lose health and mana instead of having to sustain them back up. This turns into a scenario where the character without the blessing is constantly losing the laning phase, has to back much more often and loses farm and objective play as a result of this.
Chazaqiel you can sell them it was a bug
Duke for the first part of the video nice snipe
You are the best smite TH-camr out there you are reason I'm as good as I am no lie stay posting till TH-cam ends
duuuude. Thanks Duke I never thought of Chang’e Jungle😂 she’s my fave mage but I’m not the type of player to continue playing a god when they are diamond. I’ll try it still. looks hard early game but who cares I’ve fone Ymir and enjoyed it and now guardians actually have some sort of place in the jungle role now.
Thanks for the video Duke! Really informative
9:43 🎵All around me are familiar faces...🎵
Thx for the clarification about the blessings duke sloth
13:20 so now 3/5 surrender is enough?
Spore Maker has 3/5 not always been enough? If not that's weird, since it is majority
MultiKool13 np, if gets 2 against the team can't sur, just a 4v1 can surrender
Athena left at the end... so that was 3/4.
Khorne oh, ic when she left the games over, didn't catch that one, ty
Np
Hey I was the athena on the enemy team! Didn't even know that was you.
The only thing you need to know is that warrior blessing sucks in solo
Not necessarily, depends on the god
One obvious time it's good is against Cu Chulainn since the flat 3 damage mitigation applies to each tic on his 2 and you mitigate quite a lot, similarly it's good if the enemy comp has a lot of DoT(just like mark of the vanguard was)
Scottish Spells it sucks, mages is way better
Mage's is definitely not better in every situation. There are situations where mages is better, but that's NOT all the time.
Returning player here, and I'm still on on the ropes about warriors. What God's is it good with? What situations would mages be better? Thanks in advance to any clarification
10:26 what happened to sol's belly LOL ... great vid duke! thx for the breakdown :D.....also magis is broken on warriors right now. the clear is insane so i feel like thats more crucial for solo lane phys/mag than warriors blessing or hunters
Allen Alex that's her leg, the way she is standing makes it look like her stomach
Spear of magus on chang'e is really bad
So what do you recommend for a god like Anubis? Or any other mage with tick damage. Does that mean that extra ability damage on Mage's blessing only procs on the first tick?
So hunters blessing works on Bellona bludgeon?
Yes, it should
Does hunters blessing bonus damage proc on abilities that count on hit effects? Like Merc's 1
So wait you do or don't recommend Mage's Blessing for Freya? Because you also said her 2 wouldn't proc Hunter's Blessing
Do the blessings stay evolved after a match r do I have to keep evolving them each match?
Does Mage’s double proc on Morrigan’s omen activation?
How does mage blessing affects mages with ticking damage. I main aphrodite, will the extra 25 ability damage apply to her love birds
Sol with Hunter Blessing or Mages Blessing?
So uh.... Does that mean Izanami gets the hunter's blessing proc on her aoe twice?
Hell, I'm still trying to understand if it gets Hunter Blessing on the entire Wave, or just the first one hit. THEN we can settle if it applies on the return as well. LOL!
If so, her huge damage just got bigger.
1:30 is the video glitchy or is it just me?
Do all of Da Ji's hits on her 2 proc mages blessing?
So ranga's mask has been removed from the game?
Just when i got a pretty good bakasura build with it :(
6:50 that wonky loki ult tho
I would build the regular support item, if 200 hp and free regen wasn't better.
50 more hp and 5 more protections, then I'd be inclined to join the meta. Like the Warrior's blessing. That's kinda there. But the defender's is definitely on the verge.
Does hunters blessing proc on every Izanami basic attack?
Deviant Bruner only the first one hit
Duke you screen is doing a weird line glitch, usually at the top
Still wait a video about new crusher
so mages blessing on cu chulain?
That poor Loki lost the penta
Thanks for the information. This will change the meta, but how is true. I guess time will tell. Thanks.
Wait so are the blessings permanent throughout the game or is that a glitch?
vertical sync ?
I dont check the pts changes in a while, so im asking you guys, is tahuti still bad in S5?
Tahuti was never bad
UkeSama In S5 it is, no one is building it, mages dont do the stuff that they did in previous seasons
just to make it clear, tahuti is still nice
It's not bad
please don't say it's bad
UkeSama It is bad lmao, the passive is almost useless, and now with all the lifesteal that we have in S5, one being less then 50% health will almost not matter, mages and adc will just lifesteal to get max hp, there is no point of building it in this current state
It's more situational now, some gods would still do quite well with it (namely Zeus and Thoth, who both have abilities that hit after the target is below 50% hitpoints)
I could see it on Scylla too just to guarantee more resets with the ult.
Does Hunters blessings double proc on Erlang Shen?
PkmnLovar Doesn't double proc exactly because the dog only hits for 15% of your basic attack damage but you do get the extra 15% of it added on(so you're hitting for an extra 17-18 is per basic attack instead of 15)
I use hunter blessing plus trans tier 1 for the 10 power and I pressure most people with mages because my basics per basic hits for 60 without damage and around 80 with damage and rushing trans or just going boots I do around 120 per basic already on the adc with damage it only effective when your aggressive poking the adc and know what you doing
0:12 Didn't they said on Twitter that all 8 blessings will be avaiable on all game modes? or was that PTs only?
Skarmory Dx only conquest will have mages, assassins, warriors, guardians and hunters blessing while other modes will have attackers and the other general blessings
Well yeah, I know what was their thing first. But later they mentioned on twitter "all 8 blessings will be avaiable even on non-conquest modes!" I could link the twitter
But alright, I could still check tomorrow since it's the patch release too if I still doubt.
Yo guardians could be used in solo low key if the jung stuck around some
BAKASURA'S BACK BABBY!!!
Minute 8:14 why did loki need a buff exactly, poor anubis got insta deleted!
João Matias loki is still bad, the buff was to make up for the change in starter items, his 2 is not affect by assassins blessing
Frederik Falk that didn't look bad to me, if you get to late game, which one often does he just deletes mages/hunters and I really don't find that amusing. Guaranteed high payoff with low risk incentiveses low skill. I really can't stand that God
João Matias He's is one of the worst gods in the game.
A little quicker on that last enemy and that Loki would have had a Penta.
Anybody else watch the game chat while hes talking because the Bellona was pretty chill and badass
Miguel Guajardo I was the athena on the enemy team this game. If only you could see our chat, that tyr was absolutely toxic.
Louie Bryant Lol. He looked like he quit trying and just started diving anyone and anything there around the middle of the vid.
Freya's 2 still looks good ;)
evryone buys mages blessing video over .
YhaanZor lol just no
Here's the question though... WILL HUNTERS BLESSING WORK ON SYLVANUS?!? 🤔🤔
Tedesco it doesnt
Fushin The bonus damage doesn't get applied to all enemies hit?
Tedesco noo
Tedesco not even to 1
Fushin What? That doesn't make any sense! Honestly though, a change would be pretty unnecessary since nobody would ever build Hunters in Sylvanus, but still...
Can’t you use any blessing in any game mode now?
Nah, only the first 5 are available in Conquest, the other modes have all 8
Are you from Germany by chance? You have a slight accent but I like it.
Yeah, haha
I keep having DK flash backs with the music.
Is the patch live
Vass TheSavage Tomorrow
You mean on wednsday
?
Vass TheSavage yup, it is the official release, 30 of January, tomorrow, wednesday
Andrés Pereira because i am from another country on for us is already wednsday and sorry to bother you but i just can t wair for it
Goood, Good let the AMC solo begain!
RIP season 5 hog(( you will be missed bro(
think about making worth the lie by monster cat your outro
Yo guys check out Erlang shen with warriors blessing
Wait... you can only have one blessing? Rip raid boss
the guardian blessing's passive for 4g/5 sounded good until i actualy thought about it... basicaly it's 48 gold every minute - 480 gold in 10 minutes. then i thought that it could at least be good for covering the cost of wards but again i thought about it... 50 per ward and after a certain point you have to get sentries which are 120 so you still spend more than what the blessing gives you. the rest of the stats are nice but the passive looks terrible to me.
Chalice of the Oracle ;)
Most guardians are building mage's blessing anyway...hell...most EVERYONE is building that one. The guardian blessing is 'ok', but nobody is going to use it with the overly aggressive nature from the very start now. They are going to draft aggressive guards and they will use mage's if anything. The warrior one is worthless, you will lose solo lane with it unless your opponent f'd up and got it too or is just bad. Why it gets an internal cooldown for its passive while mage's can proc multiple times on every damn ability is insane. It's bluestone on crack (bluestone was a dot that could only stack twice vs an instant that can hit as much as you hit).
The main blessings you will see are mage's and assassin's. The assassin one more because of the sustain to keep them in the jungle. Hunter's might be used on occasion, but given the meta, the ones who can make use of mage's will out perform.
Hell, you think Ullr is broken *now* ?? S5 there might as well be no other hunter.
Good vid needs more retik
Why does sol look pregnant?
Destructive -_-D fun fact she has a daughter and dies in ragnarock
Diao Chan oh that’s sad
Well, basically everyone- gods, mortals, demons, and what have you- dies during the Ragnarok since it's the end of the world. On the plus side, afterwards there's supposed to be a new world where things are nice.
I really don't like the new starter items. because I play duel alot and bluestone & death's toll are very important items for early game .and I think deleting them is a very big nerf for many gods
plus you only have 3 starter items now
Warriors blessing is good against AMC.
I ain't no child
Poor erlang
this could be shorter
Did hi-Rez kill smite ?
No?????
We'll see...someone clearly doesn't know how to tell Ajax 'no'. This is going to be a hot mess of balancing for awhile.
Eric Quick it's not dead. Not even close
#StarterItemsMatter
FIRST, BOYS
Sorry for the first, just my first first. Keep up the good info, Sloth!
Empress Nu Wa Oh, golly gee willikers, friendo! TH-cam certainly dang diddly does a good job of saying whether or not someone actually watched before someone else did!
(Crawl plays faintly)
Why does dm bash on duke so much
dm bashes on anyone he disagrees with
There we go lol
I'm glad Blessings are gone...
I really like your videos, but watching that gameplays is so painful
Ângelo Figueira painful*
I was the athena here, that tyr was sooooo toxic. And the Anubis said he just downloaded the game for the first time like a week ago. Not to mention Medusa ignoring every Mia we sent to her.
So, I wanted to know about the non-conquest Blessings and got SFA from this. I know you're a Conquest main but FFS, Sloth, give other modes more than a damn minute in a 14 minute video. :(
Why do they keep dumbing down smite
Them rapists love Chiron. 12:45
goodbye complete builds... fuck this game...
Get rid of the aegis, shitty playing style should go punished.
Wesley Mayhew ya.. I bet you get aegis yourself m8