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Thanks! we do have more plans for recommended items! will make sure rat acorn is an included test case.

Hey, thanks for the response.

I have checked and I've been wrong about Zenko, my bad, I really thought it had a lighter tail before the change but I was wrong.

Also, thanks for confirming its indeed intended for the hair and other details on his anime skins - it looked off to me at first but I can see why it would be this way, it does give him a unique flair.

Also on the last one its a shame there are some tech limitations, but its understandable.

GG otherwise on the work put in from the whole team, it really looks amazing.

EDIT: Also, another bug is suggested builds not recommending an acorn upgrade at all. Maybe just a look into that for new players

• anime skins hair color is not a bug - before the color-from-acorn tech was applied to them - only Zenko had hair that did not match his glow color, so we kept that mismatch. The other skins hair all matches their ears and tail.

• Lobby presentation for all rat skins shows their "tail glow active" at T2 acorn - so people can see it active, you only see the base when in game with T1 acorn. Zenko blue was designed to look like this when we added the tail glow. And i don think it changed, so maybe this is just more of you noticing the color change and disliking it?

• This one is known and had some tech limitations, ill look into if we have made progress on it.

Hey, could Rat's acorns visuals be looked at? There's some problems:

• His anime skins aren't consistent in coloring, some skins color all of the color they have, some don't color hair and feet etc. its a bug

• A bigger bug is also where Zenko rat now has his base blue skin instead of the light blue one when not having an acorn and it's really out of place

• Floating acorns do not change their color based on the acorn purchased, but the acorn in the backing animation does

Cheers!

What's up Divine Deities!

PTS for The Trickster God Update is LIVE for the weekend!

You can find the full Update Notes here.

Be sure to post any bugs or issues found from PTS in this thread, and please leave any feedback you have about any of the latest god or item change. Also, be sure to check out the long awaited Loki rework!

If you would like to participate in the PTS click here to find out how.

Thanks so much for helping us test all the new changes coming to SMITE!

See you on the Battleground.

I'd say we actually are leaning towards keeping all reworks unbanned in ranked. for 2 main reasons

1. People want to play them. Its a realy big dissapointment for our ranked players where they cannot even play the new updated characters without switching to casuals, and this actually has a very noticeable effect on pros and streamers, who tend to get better metrics when playing ranked.

2. "Rework" is vague - there is a lot of gray area between balance and rework, and we explore lots of different levels of change on these gods. Banning reworks would still need some case by case evaluation, and we don't want to be banning "heavy balance" gods as a side effect of this.

To comment on some other things ive seen in here

• Pro play has specific constraints placed on it all the time. I guess most of this was not visible to the community, but gods like Persephone and Heimdallr were banned for months due to very rare bugs with ve...

Hey there! The pedestal was a mistake in PTS and there is none in the Odyssey this year. There will be a pedestal coming in an event in 7.12! Sorry for the confusion!

Silverbranch should be for Stim hunters really. When the power was lower, even those hunters werent picking it up. Crit was still considered very strong until recently, and seems like a reasonable option on many other hunters. If we see a scenario where "only hunters who can abuse silverbranch are playable" we will look more into it, but as this time we dont think thats going to be strictly the case.

Qins being core is likelyt because of more health-heavy builds on guardians and warriors. We dont want to nerf it because it was a "victim" of the other meta changes - Qins was considered weak for a long time, and its stats diddnt directly change. Generally, we get a lot of negative feedback from players when we nerf items that were indirectly brought into the meta. We are likely to adjust the bow tree more in the future before we consider making changes to Qins.

This will be fixed in the Loki Update

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We wanted to treat %pen like any other stat, probably the closest comparison is CDR.

In order to have a good variety of build choices to meet the 40% cap, you need a significant number of options at 10% and a rare few at 20%. This requires more items to have the stat, more than we were planning to add as new items.

We also chose the items to gain percent pen quite carefully, looking for underwhelming options or ones that needed shifts.

As for executioner, we felt it was necessary to keep its current identity even in the new pen world. Reducing enemy prots is NOT the same thing as pen, because the 2 can stack, and exe can provide more damage to other physical gods on your team, not just yourself. We felt that putting more %pen as a stat on exe would make it even more of a must have catch-all item than it was before, which is pretty insane because it was already a 99% bought item.

So: putting pen on exe would do the exact opposite of our goals: whic...

This decision was made to specifically nerf penetration, and it statistically has. What we are currently trying to figure out is how to connect the perception vs reality.

In Reality:

• A single item used to provide 60% Penetration against tanks - now its capped at 40%, requires more items, and only rarer conditions can go over 40%. It is factually harder to achieve a full penetration build than it was before.

• Warriors and Guardians are both dying statistically less now than they did Pre-S7 Mid Season (when running stat querys for "average deaths per god by class for 7.6 vs 7.7 conquest")

• Mages did noticeably less damage after 7.1 than they did before (when running stat querys for "total player damage dealt by god for 6.12 vs 7.1 conquest")

• Hunters are doing more damage than they did before mid-season, which is why we implemented the recent hunter nerfs to Atalanta's and Silverbranch. However, we have only seen...

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• My irl LGBTQ friends are actually terrible people causing harm to everything they touch

or

• you are bigoted and generalise people into boxes and then insult them

You decide.