This update introduces the Stranger Things Battle Pass

The SMITE midseason update is set to release tomorrow, July 13th, and we’ve got the update 8.7 patch notes. This update addresses numerous bugs brought on by the latest update, but also adds a brand new battle pass: the Stranger Things Battle Pass. This pass includes plenty of new paid, prestige, and free track item to play with, all listed below.

The patch notes for this list are quite extensive, over 8000 words, so buckle up. These notes include stability improvements, bug fixes, and nerfs for many different Gods, game modes, buffs, maps, relics, and weapons, and this doesn’t even cover all of SMITE 8.7. There are two more bonus updates set to released as part of SMITE 8.7 on July 27th and August 10th, though more details are yet to come.

SMITE Midseason Update 8.7 Patch Notes

The patch notes are taken directly from SMITE’s official website.

Stranger Things Battle Pass (750 Gems)

Stranger Things Battle Pass Plus (1350 Gems)

Paid Track Items:

  • Hopper Apollo Skin
  • Waffle Avatar
  • Hopper Announcer Pack
  • The Upside Down Loading Frame
  • The Upside Down Pedestal
  • The Demogorgon Bakasura Skin
  • The Mind Flayer Loading Screen
  • The Demogorgon Death Stamp
  • The Mini Demogorgon Ward
  • Nat 20 Global Emote
  • The Mindflayer Sylvanus Skin
  • Eleven Avatar
  • Waffle Ward
  • Neon Poster Level Up
  • Portal Entrance Jump Stamp
  • Hopper Avatar
  • Eleven Scylla Skin
  • …and more!

Prestige Track Items:

  • The Mindflayer Avatar
  • Ahoy! Avatar
  • Hopper Loading Screen
  • The Upside Down Avatar
  • Hopper, P.I. Apollo Skin
  • Eleven Loading Screen
  • Camp Know Where Cap Avatar
  • Baby Demogorgon Avatar
  • Starcourt Mall Avatar
  • The Demogorgon Loading Screen
  • Starcourt Eleven Scylla Skin
  • …and more!

Free Track Items:

  • The Demogorgon Avatar
  • RUN! Global Emote
  • Eleven Announcer Pack
  • The Mindflayer Title
  • Cutesy Avatar Chest
  • Battle Emote Chests
  • Battle Cosmetic Chest
  • Battle Avatar Chests
  • Boosters
  • …and more!

Ranked

  • Ranked Reset for Masters/GM only
  • Players above Diamond 1 will be reset to Diamond 1.
  • Players above 2400 MMR will be reset to 2400 MMR.
  • Good luck to everyone on this split’s grind to Grandmasters!
  • Increased Ban Count from 5 to 6 per team in Duel.

UI

  • Players above Diamond 1 will be reset to Diamond 1.

  • Players above 2400 MMR will be reset to 2400 MMR.

  • Good luck to everyone on this split’s grind to Grandmasters!

  • Fixed an issue where Role Queue lobbies had a chance to assign multiple players the same role

  • Fixed an issue where multiple Role trades could cause duplicate roles to be assigned

Gods

  • Sylvanus
  • Added a basic attack successful hit sound to all skins
  • Fixed an issue where plant deployable shadows could persist for longer than intended
  • Fixed multiple visual issues with Nature’s Grasp on all skins
  • Persephone
  • Allies will no longer see her minimap icon while she is in her dead passive state
  • Yemoja
  • Fixed issues where her Omi bar could display unintended information
  • Odin
  • Fixed an issue where the Birdbomb combo was not properly dealing damage (went live in previous hotfix)
  • Morgan Le Fay
  • Fixed an issue where her Basic Attack animations could get out of sync when she had high attack speed
  • Fixed an issue where she could get stuck in an unintended state when repeatedly targeting and cancelling her first ability
  • She can now use relics while in the targeting state of her first ability
  • Fixed an issue where enemies could be permanently slowed by her first ability.
  • There have been multiple hotfixes that resolved some cases this could occur.
  • Fixed an issue where her sword could disappear if basic attacking at the same time as casting her second ability
  • Adjusted the timing in which Arthurian Items trigger with her Ultimate
  • Fixed an issue where some of her abilities did not reflect the effect of CDR stats in the text only
  • Poseidon
  • Various visual FX updates have taken place across Poseidon’s abilities and his skins
  • Adjusted the visual FX on whirlpool for all skins to more clearly show the difference between warming-up and active states. And adjusted it across many skins to be more consistent in its visuals with base
  • Adjusted visual FX and Animation on Release the Kraken to make the Kraken emerging from the ground animation timed more closely with the damage and knockup, and adjusted it across multiple skins to be more consistent with base
  • Aphrodite
  • Fixed an issue where love birds would sometimes not hit enemies who were in the area and standing very close to Aphrodite
  • Chaac
  • Fixed an issue where his deployed rain area of effect could rarely persist much longer than intended
  • Gilgamesh
  • Fixed an issue where allies could be buffed from his 3rd ability for longer than intended
  • Loki
  • Adjusted the Flurry Strike ability text for grammar issues
  • Set
  • Adjusted the targeter on the close + skewer combo targeter to be more accurate in its hit area

Items

  • Added a basic attack successful hit sound to all skins

  • Fixed an issue where plant deployable shadows could persist for longer than intended

  • Fixed multiple visual issues with Nature’s Grasp on all skins

  • Allies will no longer see her minimap icon while she is in her dead passive state

  • Fixed issues where her Omi bar could display unintended information

  • Fixed an issue where the Birdbomb combo was not properly dealing damage (went live in previous hotfix)

  • Fixed an issue where her Basic Attack animations could get out of sync when she had high attack speed

  • Fixed an issue where she could get stuck in an unintended state when repeatedly targeting and cancelling her first ability

  • She can now use relics while in the targeting state of her first ability

  • Fixed an issue where enemies could be permanently slowed by her first ability.

  • There have been multiple hotfixes that resolved some cases this could occur.

  • Fixed an issue where her sword could disappear if basic attacking at the same time as casting her second ability

  • Adjusted the timing in which Arthurian Items trigger with her Ultimate

  • Fixed an issue where some of her abilities did not reflect the effect of CDR stats in the text only

  • There have been multiple hotfixes that resolved some cases this could occur.

  • Various visual FX updates have taken place across Poseidon’s abilities and his skins

  • Adjusted the visual FX on whirlpool for all skins to more clearly show the difference between warming-up and active states. And adjusted it across many skins to be more consistent in its visuals with base

  • Adjusted visual FX and Animation on Release the Kraken to make the Kraken emerging from the ground animation timed more closely with the damage and knockup, and adjusted it across multiple skins to be more consistent with base

  • Fixed an issue where love birds would sometimes not hit enemies who were in the area and standing very close to Aphrodite

  • Fixed an issue where his deployed rain area of effect could rarely persist much longer than intended

  • Fixed an issue where allies could be buffed from his 3rd ability for longer than intended

  • Adjusted the Flurry Strike ability text for grammar issues

  • Adjusted the targeter on the close + skewer combo targeter to be more accurate in its hit area

  • Seer of the Jungle

  • Fixed an issue where this item was not applying Bonus Damage to Jungle Bosses

  • Bumba’s Spear

  • Fixed various issues where this item was not applying bonus damage or healing when killing jungle monsters, bosses, or structures

  • It should now we properly applying both Bonus Damage and Health on kill to all 3 categories of enemy targets

  • Infused Sigil

  • Fixed an issue where this items passive could not hit enemies if the owner was being pushed, pulled, grabbed, or knocked up while the effect triggered

  • Purification Beads

  • Fixed an issue where some gods would not be able to use beads immediately if they were CC’d while in the casting time certain abilities.

  • This only affects a small amount of abilities. Notably Zhong Kui’s Book of Demons and Chronos’ Stop Time.

Conquest

  • Fixed an issue where this item was not applying Bonus Damage to Jungle Bosses

  • Fixed various issues where this item was not applying bonus damage or healing when killing jungle monsters, bosses, or structures

  • It should now we properly applying both Bonus Damage and Health on kill to all 3 categories of enemy targets

  • Fixed an issue where this items passive could not hit enemies if the owner was being pushed, pulled, grabbed, or knocked up while the effect triggered

  • Fixed an issue where some gods would not be able to use beads immediately if they were CC’d while in the casting time certain abilities.

  • This only affects a small amount of abilities. Notably Zhong Kui’s Book of Demons and Chronos’ Stop Time.

  • This only affects a small amount of abilities. Notably Zhong Kui’s Book of Demons and Chronos’ Stop Time.

  • The Ocean’s Fury Conquest Update has arrived!

  • A raging storm summoned by Tiamat culminates in a massive tidal wave washing over the lands between Olympus and Babylon. The skies clear, shining a light on the effects this event has had on the map. The storm has passed but the sea just outside the map still seems angry.

  • General Map Changes

  • We’re excited to present new areas, pathing, and points-of-interest to spice up this Conquest Refresh for Mid Season. Heavy layout changes for Duo-lane, including a new playable area, adds more geometry and NPCs to fight around. Solo-lane, which historically has had less points of interest than the other lanes, is getting contestable XP camps added into the mix. These sources of farm on the edges of the map encourage Junglers to make more rotations, increasing the benefit of successful ganks while reducing the amount of lost farm when the opportunity for a gank slips out of reach. With all of these new additions, Vine Walls have been removed to prevent any slowdown in rotations to each of the new map features.

  • Duo lane has a new side jungle area on the outside of the lane, as the landmark here was washed away by the wave

  • Duo lane Alpha Harpies have had their pathing adjusted and split into 2 Alpha Harpy spawns, one that favors each team

  • Solo lane has a new XP camp area, marked by a wrecked ship on the environment

  • Back harpy location on the Red Buff side have been adjusted to make room for a new camp

  • The maps lighting has been returned to its 8.1 state

  • Various sea life, puddles, and damage are scattered across the map

  • Vine Walls have been removed

  • New Objective – Draugr

  • The Draugr is a medium-tier objective with similar health and strength to the Greater Scorpions. Slaying it rewards your entire team with a nice Gold & XP injection, plus a long-lasting defensive buff to your Towers and Phoenixes. In the mid-game, this buff can help relieve pressure in a match that has veered out of your team’s control, allowing you to group up and make a stand at your towers more effectively. While not strong enough to be a direct counter to the Enhanced Fire Giant buff, teams on the defensive can race to grab this before preparing for a phoenix defense to help turn the tide of battle.

  • This aquatic entity has risen from the deep to challenge the gods. Slaying it grants your entire team Draugr’s Boon

  • Towers and Phoenixes receive a stacking buff of +7% increased Power and +5% Damage Mitigation for every allied God within their radius. Max 3 stacks. Lasts 240 seconds.

  • Spawns in the new Duo Lane side jungle area

  • Base

  • Health: 720

  • Power: 60

  • Physical Protection: 16

  • Magical Protection: 16

  • XP (Team): 30

  • Gold (Team): 35

  • Scaling (every 1 minute)

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +2

  • Magical Power: +1

  • Physical Protection: +1.5

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP (Team): +1

  • Gold (Team): +1

  • New Jungle Buff – Support (Green)

  • Rejoice! Supports are getting their own buff! This aptly named Jungle Buff belt allows Supports to provide a direct benefit to their lane partners while sharing farm. Later in the game, being able to extend the lifetime of your allies’ Jungle Buffs during Fire Giant stand-offs becomes a decisive advantage. As a bonus, this buff also gives Supports that normally build tanky a nice boost to their sustainability. Also, you’ll never have to fear accidentally picking up Red while this buff is on you!

  • While wearing this, Jungle Buffs on nearby allied Gods will not expire. This effect does not apply to other Support Buffs. Also grants +50 maximum Health and Mana, plus an additional 30 for every 50 total protections on the wearer

  • Enhanced: Grants +10 HP5 and MP5

  • A Draugr minion holds this buff on the red camp side, just outside bases

  • Base

  • Health: 300

  • Physical Power: 15

  • Physical Protection: 9

  • Magical Protection: 2

  • XP: 35

  • Gold: 24

  • Scaling (every 3 minutes)

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +4

  • Physical Protection: +2

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP: +9

  • Gold: +1.5

  • Balance

  • Adjustments to map balance were needed to counteract the removal of boots and the addition of several new Jungle objectives. Fire Giant, Furies, and Oracles have had their base stats increased to help account for the additional Penetration that Carries will receive earlier in their item builds. Small buffs were given to the rewards of both Scorpion types to make them more useful to take among an abundance of options in the Jungle. With new and major changes to the map, we will be keeping a close eye on balance and make any necessary adjustments as everyone gets their hands on this map.

  • Buffs

  • Enhanced Damage Buff

  • Increased Lifesteal bonus from +7% to +10%

  • Enhanced Speed Buff

  • Increased Movement Speed bonus from +5% to +7%

  • Enhanced Mana Buff

  • Increased Maximum Mana bonus from +10% to +15%

  • Fire Giant

  • Increased Max Health from 6300 to 6600

  • Increased Physical Protection from 110 to 120

  • Increased Magical Protection from 70 to 80

  • Gold/Primal/Oni Fury

  • Increased Max Health from 3250 to 3500

  • Increased Protections from 30 to 35

  • Oracle

  • Increased Max Health from 500 to 600

  • Lesser Scorpion (Lane)

  • Increased Healing effect from 10 to 12 per tick

  • Base

  • Decreased Max Health from 450 to 390

  • Scaling

  • Decreased Max Health from +140 to +110

  • Alpha Harpy

  • Base

  • Decreased Max Health from 630 to 580

  • Decreased Physical Protection from 12 to 9

  • Decreased XP Reward from 71 to 38

  • Decreased Gold Reward from 28 to 24

  • Scaling

  • Decreased Max Health from +150 to +90

Other Modes

  • Duo lane has a new side jungle area on the outside of the lane, as the landmark here was washed away by the wave

  • Duo lane Alpha Harpies have had their pathing adjusted and split into 2 Alpha Harpy spawns, one that favors each team

  • Solo lane has a new XP camp area, marked by a wrecked ship on the environment

  • Back harpy location on the Red Buff side have been adjusted to make room for a new camp

  • The maps lighting has been returned to its 8.1 state

  • Various sea life, puddles, and damage are scattered across the map

  • Vine Walls have been removed

  • This aquatic entity has risen from the deep to challenge the gods. Slaying it grants your entire team Draugr’s Boon

  • Towers and Phoenixes receive a stacking buff of +7% increased Power and +5% Damage Mitigation for every allied God within their radius. Max 3 stacks. Lasts 240 seconds.

  • Spawns in the new Duo Lane side jungle area

  • Base

  • Health: 720

  • Power: 60

  • Physical Protection: 16

  • Magical Protection: 16

  • XP (Team): 30

  • Gold (Team): 35

  • Scaling (every 1 minute)

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +2

  • Magical Power: +1

  • Physical Protection: +1.5

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP (Team): +1

  • Gold (Team): +1

  • Towers and Phoenixes receive a stacking buff of +7% increased Power and +5% Damage Mitigation for every allied God within their radius. Max 3 stacks. Lasts 240 seconds.

  • Base

  • Health: 720

  • Power: 60

  • Physical Protection: 16

  • Magical Protection: 16

  • XP (Team): 30

  • Gold (Team): 35

  • Scaling (every 1 minute)

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +2

  • Magical Power: +1

  • Physical Protection: +1.5

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP (Team): +1

  • Gold (Team): +1

  • Health: 720

  • Power: 60

  • Physical Protection: 16

  • Magical Protection: 16

  • XP (Team): 30

  • Gold (Team): 35

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +2

  • Magical Power: +1

  • Physical Protection: +1.5

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP (Team): +1

  • Gold (Team): +1

  • While wearing this, Jungle Buffs on nearby allied Gods will not expire. This effect does not apply to other Support Buffs. Also grants +50 maximum Health and Mana, plus an additional 30 for every 50 total protections on the wearer

  • Enhanced: Grants +10 HP5 and MP5

  • A Draugr minion holds this buff on the red camp side, just outside bases

  • Base

  • Health: 300

  • Physical Power: 15

  • Physical Protection: 9

  • Magical Protection: 2

  • XP: 35

  • Gold: 24

  • Scaling (every 3 minutes)

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +4

  • Physical Protection: +2

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP: +9

  • Gold: +1.5

  • Enhanced: Grants +10 HP5 and MP5

  • Base

  • Health: 300

  • Physical Power: 15

  • Physical Protection: 9

  • Magical Protection: 2

  • XP: 35

  • Gold: 24

  • Scaling (every 3 minutes)

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +4

  • Physical Protection: +2

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP: +9

  • Gold: +1.5

  • Health: 300

  • Physical Power: 15

  • Physical Protection: 9

  • Magical Protection: 2

  • XP: 35

  • Gold: 24

  • Health: +135

  • Physical Power: +4

  • Physical Protection: +2

  • Magical Protection: +1

  • XP: +9

  • Gold: +1.5

  • Buffs

  • Enhanced Damage Buff

  • Increased Lifesteal bonus from +7% to +10%

  • Enhanced Speed Buff

  • Increased Movement Speed bonus from +5% to +7%

  • Enhanced Mana Buff

  • Increased Maximum Mana bonus from +10% to +15%

  • Fire Giant

  • Increased Max Health from 6300 to 6600

  • Increased Physical Protection from 110 to 120

  • Increased Magical Protection from 70 to 80

  • Gold/Primal/Oni Fury

  • Increased Max Health from 3250 to 3500

  • Increased Protections from 30 to 35

  • Oracle

  • Increased Max Health from 500 to 600

  • Lesser Scorpion (Lane)

  • Increased Healing effect from 10 to 12 per tick

  • Base

  • Decreased Max Health from 450 to 390

  • Scaling

  • Decreased Max Health from +140 to +110

  • Alpha Harpy

  • Base

  • Decreased Max Health from 630 to 580

  • Decreased Physical Protection from 12 to 9

  • Decreased XP Reward from 71 to 38

  • Decreased Gold Reward from 28 to 24

  • Scaling

  • Decreased Max Health from +150 to +90

  • Enhanced Damage Buff

  • Increased Lifesteal bonus from +7% to +10%

  • Enhanced Speed Buff

  • Increased Movement Speed bonus from +5% to +7%

  • Enhanced Mana Buff

  • Increased Maximum Mana bonus from +10% to +15%

  • Increased Lifesteal bonus from +7% to +10%

  • Increased Movement Speed bonus from +5% to +7%

  • Increased Maximum Mana bonus from +10% to +15%

  • Increased Max Health from 6300 to 6600

  • Increased Physical Protection from 110 to 120

  • Increased Magical Protection from 70 to 80

  • Increased Max Health from 3250 to 3500

  • Increased Protections from 30 to 35

  • Increased Max Health from 500 to 600

  • Increased Healing effect from 10 to 12 per tick

  • Base

  • Decreased Max Health from 450 to 390

  • Scaling

  • Decreased Max Health from +140 to +110

  • Decreased Max Health from 450 to 390

  • Decreased Max Health from +140 to +110

  • Base

  • Decreased Max Health from 630 to 580

  • Decreased Physical Protection from 12 to 9

  • Decreased XP Reward from 71 to 38

  • Decreased Gold Reward from 28 to 24

  • Scaling

  • Decreased Max Health from +150 to +90

  • Decreased Max Health from 630 to 580

  • Decreased Physical Protection from 12 to 9

  • Decreased XP Reward from 71 to 38

  • Decreased Gold Reward from 28 to 24

  • Decreased Max Health from +150 to +90

  • Classic Joust and Duel

  • While Animosity has become a prevalent upgrade that is difficult to build defensively against, Benevolence itself adds a lot of free reward for playing passively or even overtly reckless. These items made this starter tree overwhelmingly desirable, and have been banned from Joust and Duel. Also, the collision around Phoenix pedestals has been updated to allow projectiles to pass through. This matches the behavior in Conquest.

  • Once a Phoenix is slain, all ranged auto-attacks will now pass through its pedestal

  • The Benevolence starter item and both of its upgrades are now banned in these modes

  • Arena

  • Arena has a very aggressive yet delicate economy. Mid Season changes have given players extra Gold to spend, giving them a bit more time to play with expensive builds and upgraded starters. This is a fantastic side-effect, but a very precise XP boost was required to keep the XP curve in the same place relative to Gold. Thus, this spooling increase only applies to the 3 lowest XP members of each team.

  • This map has had a complete visual overhaul to match the theme of this Update’s Crossover: Stranger Things. The Greco-Roman Arena now lays in darkness, covered in otherworldly life as the gods battle through this parallel world known as “The Upside Down”.

  • The 3 lowest XP members of each team will now receive 1 extra bonus XP per second

Relics

  • Once a Phoenix is slain, all ranged auto-attacks will now pass through its pedestal

  • The Benevolence starter item and both of its upgrades are now banned in these modes

  • This map has had a complete visual overhaul to match the theme of this Update’s Crossover: Stranger Things. The Greco-Roman Arena now lays in darkness, covered in otherworldly life as the gods battle through this parallel world known as “The Upside Down”.

  • The 3 lowest XP members of each team will now receive 1 extra bonus XP per second

  • Meditation and Neith, name a more iconic duo. Meditation has struggled to be taken seriously as a relic, offering easily countered healing and lacking in utility to compare against Shell or more purely defensive choices like Beads and Aegis. We are changing it from a single burst health to many pulses of healing that restore based on missing resources. This means its healing can be much higher and gives it a clear goal to shoot for to maximize its effect. It’s upgrade takes this a step further and reduces cooldowns of all nearby gods by 2.5s if they stay nearby, giving this much more utility than it previously provided.

  • Enter a meditative state where nearby allies gods within 50 units restore 8 + 5% of their Missing Health and Mana each tick. Heals occur once every second for 4s.

  • Cooldown : 160s

  • Enter a meditative state where nearby allies gods within 50 units restore 8 + 5% of their Missing Health and Mana each pulse. Additionally each pulse reduces cooldowns for all abilities by 0.5s. Pulses occur once every second for 4s.

  • Cooldown : 160s

  • Sundering Spear has seen some play but it struggled due to its variance. Unlike most relics this relic had a clear fail state which made it highly variable. Combined with the ability to 100% counter shields this relic had some wild swings. We are giving it two charges and toning down each individual component. Not only can you achieve slightly more by double casting this relic on a single target, gods now have the flexibility to spread out its effects and have a second shot to get some of the benefits on a pure miss.

  • Fire a bolt that travels 70 units, stopping on first god hit dealing 10% of their Current Health as True Damage and reducing any active shields by 50%. Targets hit take 10% increased damage for 5s, stacking 2 times. This relic has 2 charges.

  • Cooldown : 90s

  • Using this item fires a bolt that travels 70 units, stopping on first god hit dealing 15% of their Current Health as True Damage and reducing any active shields in by 75%. Targets hit take 10% increased damage for 5s, stacking 2 times. This relic has 2 charges.

  • Cooldown : 90s

  • Bracer of Undoing and the new Meditation overlapped in quite a few ways. We are removing this relic and making room for a new Bracer to take its spot.

  • Removed these relics from the game.

  • Bracer of Radiance is designed as a Support Relic to rival other utility relics like Girdle, Shell, Meditation, and Heavenly Agility. Bracer of Radiance allows you to create an area of safety and power for your team. This area will not only serve as a ward but boost players ability to fight or flee depending on their health. It’s upgrade further empowers Supports to control the area of the map by making the relic reveal wards in the area. A well placed Bracer of Radiance at Fire Giant can not only clear out enemy vision but boost your team’s ability to threaten taking the objective, putting pressure on your foes.

  • Place a radiant glow at a target location for 90s. Allies who move through this field gain 10% increased Power if above half health or 10% Movement Speed if below Half Health for 8s. This fragment acts as a ward. If destroyed the cooldown of the relic is reduced by 20s.

  • Cooldown : 100s

  • Place a radiant glow at a target location for 90s. Allies who move through this field gain 10% increased Power if above half health or 10% Movement Speed if below Half Health. This radiant glow acts as a Sentry Ward. If destroyed the cooldown of the relic is reduced by 20s.

  • Cooldown : 100s

  • Welcome to SMITE without boots! Boots have been in SMITE since its inception and served an important role. At the start of the game lower movement speed encourages laning and contributes much of the feel of the early game we are used to. This base speed however feels too slow when teammates need to begin rotating and grouping up. In come boots, a cheap and stat efficient way of gaining this speed and making the mid and late game rotation speed feel right. It comes with drawbacks however. First, these are required. Not building boots is a death sentence in many situations. Second, many of our modes don’t have the same considerations with keeping speed lower at the start of the game. Finally, this takes up an item slot which really limits item expression during the early and mid game.

  • With boots being removed players will now gain 18% Movement Speed over their first 7 levels. This pacing felt the most consistent with when players of all roles obtained boots and considers that players are gaining incremental speed with each level, rather than a sudden spike when they fini boots. This will change balance quite a lot. In our internal tests we have seen a large shakeup in builds and a lot of experimentation. Items that previously felt too slow to build or utility items that had to compete with getting boots online feel very different. This will affect power curves, which roles feel impactful, and at that time they feel impactful. We are excited for everyone to get their hands on this change and we will be ready to make any adjustments necessary as players explore this bootsless world

  • Removed this item and all boots upgrades from the game

  • Players in all modes now receive 18% Movement Speed (Boots Speed) over their first 7 levels

  • Removed this item and all shoes upgrades from the game

  • Players in all modes now receive 18% Movement Speed (Shoes Speed) over their first 7 levels

  • With boots and shoes gone this elixir doesn’t have much of a purpose anymore in freeing up that extra item slot.

  • Removed this elixir from the game

  • Enchanted Spear and Heavy Mace were standouts from our initial testing. While we have our theories as to what is strong and what isn’t; we only wanted to adjust items we had strong feeling were going to be too strong or limit build options. With ~1500 gold freed up to spend items that are incredibly efficient such as Enchanted Spear and Heavy Mace with their 10 Penetration can create very early snowball opportunities. We are shifting their stats around, lowering their Penetration but providing some offset benefit in return.

  • Decreased Magical Penetration from 10 to 5

  • Increased Magical Power from 30 to 40

  • Decreased Physical Penetration from 10 to 5

  • Decreased Cost from 1500 to 1450

  • Brawler’s Beat Stick, Jotunn’s Wrath, and The Crusher should have their total costs unchanged

  • Ichaival, Mystical Mail, and Winged Blade fell into a similar boat as Enchanted Spear and Heavy Mace. Previously these items made you very difficult to fight but came at the cost of not rushing boots in the early game. This limited how useful these items could be. With that limitation gone we felt we needed to shift their strength around (or tone it back a notch) to ensure they didn’t become the only viable early option for Hunters, Solo Laners, and Supports.

  • Decreased Attack Speed Reduction from 10% to 7% per stack.

  • Increased Physical Power from 30 to 35

  • Changed Passive damage from 40 to 30 (+1 Per Level)

  • Decreased Crowd Control Reduction from 20% to 10%

  • Staff of Myrddin is receiving a rework. The previous version had some un-intuitive interactions and struggled to find use on all but a few gods. The fantasy of the item is to be a spell slinging, cheating the cooldown system. This is something we wanted to preserve with the rework.

  • The new Staff of Myrddin will trigger like all Arthurian items do but will now provide 80% Uncapped Cooldown Reduction for a small window. Rather than affecting only a single ability you can use your full rotation and, if done quick enough before it decays, get a second rotation during a teamfight. We feel this rework will not only be more applicable on most gods, but remove many of the unintuitive interactions with the previous version of Staff of Myrddin.

  • Decreased Magical Power from 110 to 95

  • NEW PASSIVE – When your ultimate ability has finished casting you gain Myrddin’s Brilliance which provides 80% Uncapped Cooldown Reduction, decaying to 40% Uncapped Cooldown Reduction over 7s. Uncapped Cooldown Reduction overrides normal Cooldown Reduction. At the end of the 7s you lose Myrddin’s Brilliance. This can only occur once every 45s.

  • War Flag struggled to see play in Conquest, lacking the economic reward needed for supports. The items identity was to offset the need for economy with early lane aggression but even in that situation it fell short in Conquest. Now when you have obtained enough stacks of War Flag, each of your damaging abilities and Basic Attacks will pulse a strong heal on your allies and provide you with gold. This reinforces the items identity as the aggressive support option while giving it what it needs to succeed in Conquest.

  • NEW PASSIVE – Getting an assist when an enemy dies provides a stack that gives 1% Movement Speed and 2% Attack Speed for 8s to nearby allies up to 10 stacks. While at or above 4 stacks each time you damage an enemy god you restore 15 Health and Mana to nearby allies within 55 units and you gain 8 gold.

  • The upgrade mirrors the change to War Flag, but successful hits allow you to extend the buff in addition to restoring health. Skilled supports can not only provide a burst in speed and Attack Speed, but if they can find opportunities to fight enemy gods they can bring this into a tower siege, a phoenix siege, and even when they try to end the game.

  • NEW PASSIVE – Getting an assist foran enemy dying provides a stack that provides 2% Movement Speed and 4% Attack Speed for 8s to nearby allies up to 10 stacks. While at or above 4 stacks each time you damage an enemy god you restore 1.25% Health and 1.25% Mana to nearby allies within 55 units and refresh the duration of these stacks.

  • Corrupted Bluestone was intentionally a weird upgrade, asking ability gods to pivot towards an Attack Speed build right at the very end. It turns out this was just too weird, only seeing use in very limited capacity. We are simplifying its rules and shifting around what it provides to be more all around for Warriors. It still focuses on pivoting your build but the shift is much less severe and provides more general protection that Warriors need to fight.

  • Decreased Physical Power from 60 to 50

  • Now provides 150 Health

  • Will now provide its stacking benefit for applying Corruption, rather than actively tracking how many applications of Corruption are active. This stacking benefit now lasts for 6s.

  • Decreased Attack Speed provided per stack from 15% to 10%

  • Stacks now provide 4% increased Protections

  • These next few changes are focused around Basic Attack Warriors who have struggled to fight against the Bluestone Warrior meta. Death’s Toll in particular should provide strong sustain and boxing power to gods like Osiris and Bellona but the cleave sustain was too low. We are boosting it for Melee cleaves specifically to help provide additional sustain for gods who need to fight in the thick of a wave to sustain.

  • Increased the heal on melee cleave Basic Attack hits from 50% to 75%

  • Ranged cleave basic attack hits remain at 50%

  • Increased the heal on melee cleave Basic Attack hits from 50% to 75%

  • Ranged cleave basic attack hits remain at 50%

  • Berserker’s Shield is receiving a unique change we have avoided doing for a long time. The idea of class restricting items often is a last resort or limited to trees where that is the core identity of the tree. In most cases we have been able to balance and tune bruiser items to work but Berserker’s Shield offered just the right stats that it had to be tuned down so much that Assassins and Warriors could not use it due to Hunters ability to leverage those stats.

  • This is something we don’t plan to do more in the future as most other cases have ways they can be adjusted in case one role is using an item that limits it for other roles. With this class locking we are boosting the Attack Speed and Physical Protection this item provides to better work with Basic Attack Warriors or Assassin’s looking for some extra tankiness.

  • This item can only be built by Assassins and Warriors

  • Increased Attack Speed from 15% to 25%

  • Increased Physical Protection from 20 to 35

  • Shogun’s Kusari provides strong team utility but it is difficult to build. The lack of raw health made it difficult for Supports to purchase and even for Basic Attack warriors looking for some extra Magical Protections it struggled to bring enough to feel worth the tradeoff. Replacing the Crowd Control Reduction with Health and a bump to the Aura’s strength should make this feel like a more viable choice for Supports and Warriors alike.

  • No longer provides Crowd Control Reduction

  • Now provides 150 Health

  • Increased Attack Speed Aura from 25% to 30%

  • Serrated Edge made a big impact when we first launched it but quickly fell after a round of nerfs. A bump to its Physical Power should round it out as a powerful offensive choice.

  • Increased Physical Power from 25 to 35

  • Manikin Scepter has not delivered on being a viable option for Junglers looking for some extra aggression in ganking. Specifically the lack of sustain, its lack of enough clear speed, and it struggling to really be felt as a boost to your lethality all came together to create this feeling. We are adjusting it quite heavily to address all of these and make it better compare to Bumba’s Spear and Eye of the Jungle. Its damage over time not only reaches maximum strength more quickly, but it now scales with your power. Similarly, the heal upon defeating a Jungle Monster scales off your health and mana, making it relevant past your first clear.

  • Increased burn Physical Damage from 12 over 2s to 16 (+5% of your Physical and Magical Power) over 2s

  • Decreased the amount of stacks from 4 to 3

  • Increased Health Restored from 15 to 3% of your Max Health

  • Increased Mana Restored from 15 to 5% of your Max Mana

  • Increased Health Restored from 2.5% to 3% of your Max Health

  • Increased Mana Restored from 2.5% to 5% of your Max Health

  • Sentinel’s Gift and Benevolence walk a fine line with each other but as Season 8 has progressed Benevolence has become the go to. We are boosting Sentinel’s Gift’s strength to further differentiate the two items. With an even lower cost and some raw protections, players with Sentinel’s should feel more comfortable pushing against Benevolence at its weakest point; the beginning of the game.

  • Decreased Cost from 600 to 550

  • Increased Both Magical and Physical protections from 7 to 10

  • Conduit Gem is gaining some additional mana to better support other Mage builds. Specifically the lack of a Mana providing starter weakened Book of Thoth and Book of the Dead builds; leaving those items to live only when Book of Thoth can be safely rushed. With the removal of boots we expect some pretty serious shake ups with what can be started and rushed and felt a little mana here could ease this shakeup some.

  • Now provides 100 mana

  • Vampiric Shroud struggles to compete even where it would be expected to be strong; with Brusier Mages. Rather than bringing up power more to compete with Conduit Gem and Sands of Time we want to highlight its unique strength as a defensive option. A boost here should help it stand out as an option when a mage is particularly worried about early physical aggression.

  • Increased Health from 75 to 100

  • Increased Physical Protection from 10 to 15

  • This upgrade had an identity that fought with itself. This was the tanky option but encourages heavy lifesteal builds which scale their healing off damage. This made it lackluster for damage dealers who would simply go Sacrificial Shroud and lackluster for bruisers who didn’t benefit enough. We are removing the stacking lifesteal and making this item more focused as a direct upgrade to Vampiric Shroud for Bruisers.

  • Increased Physical Protection from 40 to 55

  • Increased Health restore from 12 to 2% Max health

  • Increased Mana restore from 6 to 2% Max Health

  • Removed the Bonus stacking Lifesteal from this item’s passive

  • Sacrificial Shroud promises heavy damage at a cost, but the damage tradeoff didn’t feel quite there for most players. Some extra Magical Power will help this item stand out as a potent damage option.

  • Increased Magical Power from 100 to 115

  • Warrior’s Axe has been mostly overshadowed by Bluestone Pendant in recent play. Since our last nerf on Bluestone Pendant we saw some use of Warrior’s Axe but it still struggled. Looking at the current Bluestone Pendant we feel its overall power is where it should be and rather than nerfing it we need to bring other starts that compete with it up. Warrior’s Axe will now not only steal health more effectively at the start but will now scale over the laning phase and game. Gods who feel like they can win trades should feel rewarded for playing into this trading playstyle in between clearing the wave.

  • Increased Passive Bonus Damage and Health Steal from 30 to 35 (+1 per level)

  • Atalanta’s Bow is getting an extra bump in power, letting it flex more into Hunter builds as an option.

  • Increased Power from 35 to 40

  • Leather Cowl is an all around starter but with no mana sustain it can be difficult to utilize at the start of the game. Some extra MP5 should help it compete as an option with Death’s Toll, Gilded Arrow, and Bluestone.

  • Now provides 7 MP5

  • Now provides 15 MP5

  • Warding Sigil is a strong defensive choice but doesn’t quite offer anything else to help in the early game. Freeing up some gold in the early game to pair this with what you need in the early game should help it find a spot more often.

  • Decreased Cost from 700 to 600

  • Tainted Steel is seeing quite the change. While minor anti-heal can be impactful in some matchups, it doesn’t really help you personally in ways you would expect a starter to. We are now letting it steal healing like Tainted Amulet does, giving it something more direct to feel in the laning phase.

  • Decreased Healing Reduction from 20% to 15%

  • You are now healed for 100% of the healing reduced

  • Tainted Amulet and Breastplate struggled to see play largely because it only made sense in matchups where you could justify Tainted Steel. Upon looking at it closer even with Tainted Steel being a more attractive choice Tainted Amulet and Breastplate don’t quite stand on their own as potent end game starter upgrade. We are boosting both these items to make sure this feels rewarding in matchups where they make sense.

  • Increased Healing Reduction from 20% to 30%

  • Increased Physical Power from 40 to 50

  • Increased Magical Power from 60 to 75

  • Jade Emperor’s Crown can be a potent counter to high Physical Power teams but it lacked enough personal stats for the wearer to feel tanky enough. Some extra help with make this team utility choice feel better to buy for the wearer.

  • Increased Health from 150 to 200

  • Tyrannical Plate Helm boosts a specific game plan but its high cost makes it a difficult game plan to go all in on. A lower cost removes some of the friction in building this item and frees up some gold for Supports who go this route.

  • Decreased Cost from 2600 to 2400

  • Players in all modes now receive 18% Movement Speed (Boots Speed) over their first 7 levels

  • Players in all modes now receive 18% Movement Speed (Shoes Speed) over their first 7 levels

  • Brawler’s Beat Stick, Jotunn’s Wrath, and The Crusher should have their total costs unchanged

  • Ranged cleave basic attack hits remain at 50%

  • Increased Charge Rate from taking damage from 4 to 4.5

  • Increased Charge Gained from hitting an enemy from 0.15 to 0.2

  • This means Amaterasu will gain charge on Heavenly Reflection more quickly for taking damage and for each enemy she hits

  • Increased Base Damage from 80/120/160/200/240 to 80/125/170/215/260

  • Increased Base Damage from 25/40/55/70/85 to 35/48/61/74/87

  • Decreased Cooldown from 18/16/14/12/10s to 14/13/12/11/10s

  • Increased Movement Speed from 20% to 25%

  • Decreased Cooldown from 18/17/16/15/14s to 16/15.5/15/14.5/14

  • Decreased cooldown from 16 to 14.

  • Increased Shield Health scaling from 15% to 25%

  • Increased Knockback Strength from 330 to 400

  • Increased Hysteria applied from Basic Attacks from 2 to 5

  • Increased Hysteria applied from 10 to 15 per hit

  • Added Power Debuff duration to the description (3/3.5/4/4.5/5s)

  • Decreased Cooldown from 15/14/13/12/11 to 13/12.5/12/11.5/11

  • Decreased Cooldown from 13s to 11s

  • Increased Ammo count from 3/3/4/4/4 to 4 at all ranks

  • Decreased Cooldown from 12 to 12/11.5/11/10.5/10

  • Decreased Mana Cost from 50/60/70/80/90 to 50 at all ranks

  • Increased Physical Power Scaling from 45 to 55%

  • Increased Attack Speed from 5/7.5/10/12.5/15% to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%.

  • Decreased Cooldown from 11s to 10s

  • When Pillar of Agony damages an enemy all of Hades’ other abilities have their cooldown reduced by 0.2s

  • Increased Base Damage from 60/110/160/210/260 to 80/125/170/215/26

  • Increased Magical Power Scaling from 50% to 60%

  • Decreased Mana Cost from 55/60/65/70/75 to 45/50/55/60/65

  • Decreased Mana Cost from 55/60/65/70/75 to 45/50/55/60/65

  • Increased Magical Power Scaling from 70% to 75%

  • Increased Magical Power Scaling on Argus’ First Hit from 30 to 35%

  • Increased Magical Power Scaling on Argus’ Second Hit from 30 to 35%

  • Increased Magical Power Scaling on Argus’ Third Hit from 40 to 45%

  • Increased fist damage from 80/130/180/230/280 to 80/135/190/245/300

  • Increased Basic Attack damage from 9.6 to 10.4.

  • Increased Movement Speed from 25% to 35%

  • Increased Base Mana from 205 to 225

  • Decreased Mana Cost from 70 to 60

  • Increased Blade Damage from 35/45/55/65/75 to 37/49/61/73/85

  • Total increased from 105/135/165/195/225 to 111/147/183/219/255

  • Increased Base Health from 480 to 490

  • Increased Base Health per level from 82 to 84

  • Increased Physical Power Scaling per hit from 30% to 35%

  • Total increased from 30/60/90% to 35/70/105%

  • Now provides 5% Protections in addition to the Movement Speed when mastered.

  • Increased Grapple Protections from 20/25/30/35/40 to 25/30/35/40/45

  • Decreased Cooldown from 16/15/14/13/12s to 15/14/13/12/11s

  • Increased Physical Power Scaling Throw Damage from 50% to 60%

  • Increased Magical Power Scaling from 15% to 25%

  • Decreased Cooldown from 140/130/120/110/100 to 120/115/110/105/100

  • Olorun now gains 40% Crowd Control Reduction while in this area

  • Decreased Movement Speed from 8% to 2%

  • Decreased Movement Speed from 10% to 4%

  • Decreased Movement Speed from 20% to 6%

  • Susano can now refire Typhoon while dead

  • Terra can now refire Crushing Earth while dead

  • Increased Radius from 30 to 55 units

  • Increased Physical Power Scaling from 90% to 100%

  • Increased Magical Power Scaling from 20% to 25%

  • When Serpents damage a Phoenix or a Titan they take 1 pip of health in damage

  • Decreased Lifetime from 30s to 15s

  • Decreased Mana Cost from 60/80 to 45/65

  • Increased minion damage from 50/85/120/155/190 to 50/90/130/170/210

  • Increased minion damage scaling from 40% to 50%

  • Yemoja no longer needs to gain Mana or MP5 to obtain extra Omi. She instead gains 1 Omi at levels 6, 11, and 16

  • Mana and MP5 are now converted to health at a rate of 20%

  • There is now a small delay when attempting to spam these abilities back to back to back. For example, if you use Bouncing Bubble into Moonstrike as fast as possible, there is no delay. If you then attempt to use Bouncing Bubble again as fast as possible there is a small delay.

  • Increased Base Damage from 30/65/100/135/170 to 40/75/110/145/180

  • Increased Postfire from 0.3s to 0.43s

  • Increased Cooldown from 110s to 120s

  • Decreased Magical Power from 95 to 85.

  • Decreased Uncapped CDR provided from 80% to 70%.

  • Decreased time to decay from 7s to 4s.

  • Increase cooldown from 90 to 110

  • Decrease stacking damage increase from 7% to 5%.

  • Increase cooldown from 90 to 110

  • Increased Cost 2450 to 2600 (reverting a buff from 8.6)

  • Decreased cost from 2350 to 2250

  • Decreased Protection Debuff from 10 to 7 per stack

  • Increased Protection Buff from 10 to 7 per stack

  • Updated the description to better reflect how this functions when multiple War Flags/Banners are stacked.

  • Players at level 1 will have +0% Movement Speed.

  • Players at level 2 will have +3% Movement Speed.

  • Players at level 3 will have +6% Movement Speed.

  • Players at level 4 will have +9% Movement Speed.

  • Players at level 5 will have +12% Movement Speed.

  • Players at level 6 will have +15% Movement Speed.

  • Players at level 7 will have +18% Movement Speed.

  • Players at level 8 through 20 will have +18% Movement Speed.

  • Decreased Initial Slow from 20/22.5/25/27.5/30% to 20% at all ranks

  • The Root at the end of the ultimate no longer cripples

Yeah, that might be a lot of information to take in all at once, but hopefully, you were able to at least make a mental note of the new changes to the God you main, and the items you like to use.

  • This means Amaterasu will gain charge on Heavenly Reflection more quickly for taking damage and for each enemy she hits

  • Total increased from 105/135/165/195/225 to 111/147/183/219/255

  • Total increased from 30/60/90% to 35/70/105%

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