SMITE: New Bonus Update Nerfs a Bunch of Gods and Items

Titan Forge Games implemented balancing changes to SMITE in the newly released 10.6 Bonus Update.

Soul Surge is a new seasonal mechanic in SMITE. Whenever a god dies, a Soul Surge is created at the point of their demise. When it's active, Spirit Minions will spawn from the center that attacks nearby gods.

According to the dev team, the spirit minions can sometimes lead to undue frustration because they get increasingly difficult to kill, especially later in the match. To address this, the health scaling of these minions is reduced from 100 to 70, making them a bit squishy.

SMITE Soul Surge

In addition, some items and gods have received adjustments. The Sundering Spear, for example, fires a bolt that not only deals true damage but also makes targets take 5% increased damage for several seconds. This increased damage debuff no longer stacks in the 10.6 Bonus Update. This nerf applies to its Tier 2 (Greater Sundering Spear) and Tier 3 (Sundering Blast) upgrades as well.

Some of Guan Yu's abilities got nerfed too. Conviction's cooldown has increased from 13 to 14 seconds. Furthermore, Taolu Assault's base damage per hit is reduced from 20/30/40/50/60 to 17/27/37/47/57.

Here are the other changes:

Relics

• Horrific Emblem/Greater Horrific Emblem
  • Decreased the Damage Dealt Debuff from 15% to 10%
• Emblem of Increasing Peril
  • Decreased the Damage Dealt Debuff from 15% to 10%
  • Decreased the Debuff Amplification per stack from 10% to 5%
• Flameforged Hammer
  • Decreased Bonus Damage on the passive from 5+10% of your protections 5+7% of your protections
  • Decreased Duration of the DoT (Damage Over Time) after leaving the area from 3s to 2s
• Manticore's Spikes
  • Decreased Bonus Damage from 4% or 8% of the owner's max HP to 3% or 6%

Mage Items

• Obsidian Shard
  • Increased the Bonus Penetration on the Item's Passive from 10% to 20%
• Book of Souls (Tier 2)
  • Decreased Magical Power from 65 to 55
• Book of Thoth
  • Increased Magical Power from 50 to 60
• Rejuvenating Heart
  • Increased Magical Power from 50 to 60
• Talon Trinket (Tier 2)
  • Decreased Magical Power from 65 to 55
• Typhon's Fang
  • Increased Magical Power from 60 to 65
• Enchanted Ring (Tier 2)
  • Decreased Magical Power from 55 to 45
• Warlock's Staff
  • This item now states that it provides an additional 25HP when evolved

Gods

Bakasura

• Eat Minion
  • Decreased Active cooldowns reduction from 2s to 1.5s

Fenrir

• Seething Howl
  • Decreased Physical Power from 20/35/50/65/80 to 15/25/35/45/55

Discordia

• Contest of Gods
  • Decreased Physical Power per level from 2 to 1.5
  • Decreased Magical Power from per level to 3 to 2

Guan Yu

• Cavalry Charge
  • Decreased stun duration from 1.5s at all ranks to 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5s

Martichoras

• Death from Above
  • Decreased Protection Debuff from 4% per stack to 3% per stack

SMITE 10.6 Bonus Update is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.