[SMITE] Smite - Balance Patch 11/20/2013

[Geoff]

Vulcan emerges from his workshop: The gods re-equip.

Ability Makeover: Vulcan

• General

• New loading screen card.

• Backfire

• The backward dash movement on this device has been re-enabled. It will also now slide against angled walls and surfaces, rather than come to a complete stop. Note: The movement now acts like a traditional dash. He will no longer have invulnerability frames, or lose the point in Domination while moving.

• Inferno Cannon

• The tooltip now indicates that this turret takes 50% additional damage from non-god sources.
• The Inferno Cannon’s current target will also now have a targeting beam drawn to them, similar to those of Towers

• New #3 - Magma Bomb

• Vulcan returned to the workshop and re-emerged with a new gadget. His Thumper XVI has been replaced with the Magma Bomb. The Magma Bomb is a ground target projectile that explodes on impact, damaging nearby enemies, dealing magical damage, and stunning and knocking back enemies within the explosion radius.

• Volcanic Overdrive

• The bonus protections have been removed and replaced with 30% damage reduction across all ranks.
• This ability now also grants CC immunity while active.

• Misc:

• Vulcan received some visual FX upgrades to his melee attacks and other miscellaneous areas
• Vulcan should no longer play his intro animation twice/

New Skins:

• Golden Chronos
• Golden Ares
• Golden Athena

Voicepacks:

• He Bo’s voice has been updated.

General

• The free god rotation is now Cupid, Ao Kuang, Thanatos, Sun Wukong, and Ares.
• Implemented a possible fix to an intermittent issue in which players would load into a map without any devices or abilities.
• Fixed an issue in Assault where towers range did not align properly with the ground indicator.
• Fixed an issue in Conquest in which players could ping far outside of the map.
• Fixed an issue in Joust in which jungle camp help volumes displayed the wrong information.
• Wards should once again have a visible preview mesh in the targeter when being placed
• Wards are now team colored (red for enemy, blue for friendly).
• Protected Recall and Aegis can no longer be used simultaneously.
• Fixed a bug in which the end of match lobby was showing different stats than the in-match scoreboard.
• Fixed a chat-related crash condition

Spectator:

• In Assisted mode, the camera height is now locked. Director mode however still allows for up/down camera movement.
• Spectator minimap opacity is now set to 50% at all times.

League:

• Added new loading screen frames to show League status.

Items:

• Frostbound Amulet

• Reworded tooltip to be more clear that the slow only affects enemies damaged by your abilities

• Frostbound Hammer

• Reworded tooltip to be more clear that the slow only affects enemies damaged by your basic attacks

• Fist of the Gods

• Cooldown increased from 60s to 90s.
• No longer grants the 10% instant kill on Fire Giant and Gold Fury that the Hand of the Gods ranks do.

• Teleport to Towers

• Ranks 1 and 2 of this item will now properly be interrupted on damage taken, and also fixed an issue where hard crowd control was NOT interrupting.

Gods:

• Ah Muzen Cab

• Bees!

• Reduced damage from 10 per tick to 5 per tick.
• Reduced physical power scaling from 15% to 5%.
• Bees cannot spread from minions to gods.

• Hive

• Reduced the maximum number of deployed hives from 8 to 4.
• Increased the cooldown from 8s to 16s.

• Aphrodite

• Back Off!

• This ability will no longer originate from Soul Mates, instead always originating from Aphrodite herself for damage and knockback.

• Arachne

• Tangled Web

• The ground target for this ability should now highlight eligible targets

• Cocoon

• Increased stun duration from 1s to 1.5s
• Increased projectile width from 3 to 5 ft

• Ares

• Bolster Defenses

• Aura protections granted increased from 10/15/20/25/30 to 20/25/30/35/40

• Shackles

• The Shackle damage and cripple is now removed from targets when he dies.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes firing another Shackle wouldn’t actually fire.
• Successive Shackles after the first can now be fired at twice the previous rate.
• The ground target now properly highlights only one god at a time.

• Athena

• Defender of Olypmus

• Reduced damage from 350/500/650/800/950 +100% of your magical power to 350/450/550/650/750 +90% of your magical scaling.
• Reduced allied damage mitigation from 25% to 20%.

• Bakasura

• Eat Minion

• Minor animation adjustments.

• Bastet

• Open Wound

• Additional damage against wounded targets increased from 15% to 20%

• Chang’e

• Moonlit Waltz

• The evasion now occurs 0.1s earlier to better match the animation

• Moonflower Dance

• Now also deals 50/80/110/140/170 (+30% of magical power) magical damage to enemies within range
• The bonus healing to Chang’e for healing teammates has been removed

• Chronos:

• Accelerate

• Increased cooldown from 15s to 17s.
• Decreased attack speed bonus from 20/25/30/35/40 to 15/20/25/30/35.

• Cupid

• Heart Bomb

• Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10s

• Flutter

• Attack Speed increased from 5/10/15/20/25% to 10/15/20/25/30%

• Fenrir

• General

• Added new basic attack hit fx.

• Brutalize

• Addressed issues with him leaping and getting stuck in map walls sending him up into the sky.

• Ragnarok

• Addressed an issue where sometimes he would shrink and end up stuck in a map wall.

• Freya

• Banish

• Now interrupts Teleport to Towers.

• Valkyrie’s Discretion

• Reduced magical scaling from 45% to 35%.
• The ground target for this ability should now highlight eligible targets

• He Bo

• General

• Modified Default Voice Recordings
• Removed the two water spout animations during recall to avoid confusing players.

• Mercury

• Made you look

• Now applies damage to all targets instantaneously. Note: This means golden bow will now only proc once per enemy hit by the ability, rather than a potentially unlimited number of times.

• Special Delivery

• Fixed an issue where targets would continue to be tossed if Mercury was silenced while spinning around the target.

• Sonic Boom

• Reduced physical damage scaling from 120% to 100%.

• Odin

• Odin’s Shout

• This ability now also grants Odin an additional 5/10/15/20/25 Physical Power passively
• Duration of the attack speed buff decreased from 7s to 5s

• Sobek

• General

• High Seas skin turned the lifetime of the mist particles to 1s down from 3s.

• Thanatos

• Harvester of Souls

• Now correctly indicates that this also grants 5s Cooldown Reduction when delivering the killing blow to enemy gods

• Death Scythe

• Adjusted the projectile FX to better fit the collision radius of the projectile

• Tyr

• Fearless

• Fixed a spelling error in the tooltip

• Vamana

• Colossal Fury

• The health regeneration while in giant form increased from 3% per second to 5%
• HUD now properly reflects what can and cannot be used during ability.
• Re-addressed him visually being stuck in big form. (hopefully fixed now)

• Ymir

• General

• New loading screen card.

• Zeus

• General

• New loading screen card.

• Detonate Charge

• Reduced the magical damage scaling from 25% to 20%.

• Aegis Shield

• Movement speed bonus changed from 25% to 10/15/20/25/30% per rank.

• Zhong Kui

• Demon Bag

• Bonus protections granted for each captured demon reduced from 3 per demon to 2

• Recall Demons

• This ability will no longer heal allied players