"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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