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12 May

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Originally posted by Falcrus

Yeah, this realy made me be nervous <3

What if, in future, update his Updraft (1) description to make it more clarify. The same way as Tsukuyomi?

yes ive already got a note to the designers to look at some of these ability/item texts to better clarify this. Will work on it for a future update!

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Originally posted by Falcrus

Oh thank you, thank gods!

I gonna say that i love you, ajax ! Not that much as horus, but still!

With all your dev might you just sowed a peace in all horus worshipper's hearts

youre welcome, sorry about this

the change as listed in 9.5 might ship and remove his procs for some amount of time, but we will undo it as soon as we can to return those item interactions back to him.

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Originally posted by BlizzardEternal

Hi Ajax! First just wanna say, thanks for the thoughtful and detailed response. I for one really appreciate the hard work you and the rest of the team put into the game.

9.5 has some huge changes, and its going to create a lot of unpredictable results. We wanted to make sure that Hybrid item spam was not a likely result, as that could lead to a lot of negativity about the update overall.

Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense. I am concerned that solo as a role will become much weaker, or that guardians will start to dominate again, but I'd have to see this in action before I could really make those guesses anyway. As long as the team is keeping an eye on the hybrid items typically underused and is prepared to revert nerfs if necessary (which is typically true), its a good call.

The Horus "Fix" will be reverted The decision was based on a misinterpretation of some wording, and it should not have ...

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thanks for the detailed information. both of those posts are quite recent, was the susano change also recent? or are these likely returning players or players returning to susano for the first time in a while?

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Originally posted by uhhmason

Ajax I love all the changes this next patch. There was one Item nerf i felt was missing though. You forgot about rats acorn. It's kinda cheese right now lmao.

Rat most likely needs buffs, not nerfs, i think?

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Originally posted by Falcrus

Do yo mean that this "Fix" was a mistake, or horus able to proc hydra since his release?

God, please let it be first

yes

Horus will continue to proc all types of basic attack items on his gust

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This was a mistake based on some misinterpreted wording and will be reverted.

Unsure exactly when the revert will launch at this time though, keep an eye out for future announcements

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Originally posted by CraptainPoo

Well put, people don’t like change. One of the reasons I love the game is the constant changes, keeps you adapting and experimenting. Sometimes things can be frustrating but hey that’s all part of it.

People do like change, though. A lot of our recent player feedback has been encouraging us to push more and more change, and bigger changes.

The strange thing going on here is taking 1 small negative and focusing excessively on it. This thread barely evens mentions the TTK changes, nor the huge shifts to conquest. They just wanted to be intensely rude about a few small changes they disagree with. So i felt compelled to share some more information on the process.

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Originally posted by KeenKongFIRE

Well, the people i play with and me myself are all awaiting for the next patch with excitement, curious how big the changes in the meta will be, and some of those changes sounds like fun, while others sounds "meh", but you know how is this, the negative voices always make themselves sound louder by shouting stronger

glad to hear it! I hope you have fun out there :)

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"do the devs actually play this game"

Do not say this. Just don't. Its extremely rude.

This has never, in the entire history of angry gamer speak, been correct. We play the game constantly, we have been playing it for years. The current design team with Aggro and Lermy being added is probably the most competitive and high-ingame-hour design team in SMITE's history.

Its fine to disagree with our changes or give feedback about things you think are wrong. But the devs time and dedication to the game is never, ever the reason behind this.

ok now that we've gotten that out of the way...

It was explained on the show, but im happy to restate it now

  • Hybrid Items were previously confirmed to be quite OP on 9.4 and earlier patches.

  • We wanted to nerf those specific high performing hybrid items

  • When working it into the whole process of 9.5 some more things became clear

  • first, if we nerf on...

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11 May