Smite Avatar: The Last Airbender 10.8 Patch Notes Update

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Smite is known for being a free-to-play third-person multiplayer game, allowing people to have an online battle arena fight with their friends. The game is available on all major gaming platforms, allowing everyone to take part in this fun team-based combat. Players can get even more excited now as a new event just began, and players can participate in the Avatar: The Last Airbender event.

Below is all the information players will need to know about this event and all other updates for Smite.

Smite 10.8 Patch Notes

The full list of patch notes can be read on the official website.

NEW EVENT – AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

Welcome to the Avatar Event! All former crossover Avatar Skins will be in an avatar chest along with NEW Avatar crossover skins and bundles! You are able to direct purchase the new skins or roll them from the chest! Any three Avatar crossover event purchases will unlock the Fire Nation Toph Reward Skin!

Purchasable Event Items

• Scylla Toph
• Yu Huang Roku
• Avatar Cosmetic Bundle (3 items)

QUALITY OF LIFE

• General
  • Updated the Jungle Practice Queue Art
  • Added Martichoras’ Avatar

BUG FIXES

• UI
  • Fixed an issue with the Charon Diamond Avatar being awarded to players too early without getting him to Diamond. Players that achieved Charon Diamond in the 10.7 patch will receive the avatar in this patch
• Localization
  • Fixed an issue where tooltip descriptions were appearing as Undefined on Charon’s 2nd, 3rd, and 4th abilities on Spanish clients

• Gods
  • Ix Chel
    • Fixed an issue where she was classified as a Tier 3 healer for Assault instead of Tier 2
• Game Modes
  • Fixed an issue with the Order Titan’s model in Assault

BALANCE LIVE WITH THE 10.8 UPDATE

Game Modes

General

There has been a lot of discussion regarding this seasonal mechanic and perhaps there could have been alternative methods for their success. Making the Soul Surge Spirits more passive was attempted but the consensus was clear and the Surges have been removed from all modes.

• Soul Surges have been removed from all game modes

Conquest

The Unleashed Titan mechanic has been quite an interesting addition to the Conquest game mode and most of the feedback has generally been pushing for slightly faster fights. Reducing the Beacon cooldown by one minute will shorten the loop and bring the momentous clash in earlier. We also wanted to buff up the Titans, making them more of a threat. Finally we wanted to acknowledge a bug that caused EFG to be significantly more tanky than expected. In fixing this issue we expect there will be a noticeable change in how easy the EFG will be to engage and defeat. Still a challenge, but not as insurmountable.

• Stygian Beacon cooldown decreased from 6m to 5m
• Unleashed Titan Stat changes
  • Increased
    • Base Health from 5500 to 6000
    • Base Physical Prots from 45 to 55
    • Base Magical Prots from 35 to 45
    • Base Physical Power from 175 to 200
    • Kill XP from 200 to 210
    • Kill Gold from 150 to 170
• Enhanced Fire Giant fix
  • Fixed an issue where on enhancement from FG to EFG, EFG was gaining twice the intended amount of increased stats
    • This affects the increased enhancement stats only and not the entirety of the base stats of the jungle boss

Underworld Arena

The return of the cataclysmic, Underworld arena but with fiery twists! Pyroclast boulders are a new feature that spice up the deathmatch experience, becoming even more important when the new Fire Giant challenger arrives. Watch your feet and get to the Pyroclasts first to get an advantage. The Bonus Round will also be returning with a new lava field ringing the smaller arena that, while dangerous over time, is not immediately threatening.

• Pyroclast Boulders
  • 2 of these spawn offset near the center of the Arena when the match begins (at 0 min) and respawn every 30s
  • On being attacked by a basic attack these boulders fire off in the direction hit damaging and knocking back enemies in an area
• Fire Giant
  • At 8 min Fire Giant spawns in the center of the Arena, ringed by many, quickly respawning Pyroclast Boulders
  • The team that kills FG gains Gold, XP and a short term FG buff reward alongside short term CC-Immunity
    • Fire Giant’s Fury Buff
      • +80 Magical Power
      • +50 Physical Power
      • CC-Immunity
      • 2% Health and Mana restore
      • 20s duration
  • Killing Fire Giant decreases enemy team ticket counter by 10
• Bonus Round
  • Once a team loses all their tickets and the game ends, the bonus round begins
    • Players can still purchase items during the phase change
  • There is a row of Pyroclast Boulders that can be utilized if quick enough
  • Lava rings the smaller arena that deals damage to players inside it over time

Joust

The starter item changes in Joust created an interesting and unique meta which has allowed us to better understand the core issues surrounding the previous tank concerns within the mode

Starter items provide an important stat boost going into a game even beyond being a fun choice to diversify builds. However, between our internal playtesting and external data, the strength of the additional gold spooling and sustain that Support starter items provide proved to be too much, so we will leave them disabled while re-enabling all other starters.

Additionally, Emperor’s Armor has become a must-by in most situations, as diving the towers is perhaps the most important strategy to the double tank style. By removing it from Joust, we are encouraging players to break the enemy’s defenses in other ways that don’t involve a race between who can finish Emperor’s first.

We will continue to keep a close eye on these changes to see if there are any other outliers or if more needs to be done to make Joust as fun as it can be!

• Re-added all starter items and upgrades except for
  • Sentinel’s Gift and upgrades
  • Benevolence and upgrades
  • War Flag and upgrades
  • Lono’s Mask and upgrades
• Banned Emperor’s Armor from this mode