[Update: Hi-Rez deployed a bug patch today fixing some issues from Wednesday’s patch. The new changes are in their own section just after yesterday’s bug patch.]

[Update 2: Hi-Rez deployed another bug hot-fix patch today, along with a quick balance change to Fenrir’s #2. You can find this section just after Fenrir’s abilities]

Hi-Rez Studios felt the need to unleash Ragnarok upon the world, and so Fenrir has appeared to join his father, Loki, on the battlefield.

This god plays very akin to his father, but is substantially tankier than Loki. Build him as a bruiser, akin to Thor or Hercules, and you will have no problem devouring your enemies. He still has some need of being carried, so having a good support such as Ymir with you is a great idea.

After having a chance to play him, and try out all the little nuances such as the broken selection screen after the cut. In addition, you can watch Fenrir bring Ragnarok upon the world in his SMITE God Reveal video, along with the full patch notes, and the text version of his abilities.

Regardless, here’s my highlights of today’s patch:

• Active items now have 3 ranks, with Rank 2 usually being what the item was pre-patch.
• Motivate & Portal are removed.
• You can overwrite the “Recommended” tab of the in-match store with your saved build on the “Character Builder” screen on the “Guides” tab.
• Your last used skin for a god is saved, and selected by default the next time you select that god.
• Spectating is now publicly open!
• Voice packs were added (see patch notes).
• Kali received a nerf, taking her back to where she was 2-3 patches ago.

Fenrir

Unbound Runes (PASSIVE): Fenrir gains efficiency as he attacks. Every hit from a basic attack activates 1 rune, up to a max of 5. Each of Fenrir’s abilities gain an additional benefit when used at maximum runes and the runes are consumed. Enemy gods that die near Fenrir will fully activate all his runes.

Unchained: Fenrir leaps forward, dealing damage to all enemies when he lands. At full runes, the leap stuns the enemies hit. If the leap hits a god, the cooldown is halved.

• Damage: 95/155/215/275/335 (+80% of your physical power).
• Stun: 1 second.
• Cost: 65/70/75/80/85 Mana.
• Cooldown: 15 seconds.

Seething Howl: Fenrir rears back and howls, inspiring himself with a physical power and lifesteal buff. At full runes, the buff is increased by 50%.

• Physical Power: 10/20/30/40/50.
• Physical Lifesteal: 5/10/15/20/25%.
• Buff Duration: 6 seconds.
• Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 Mana.
• Cooldown: 13 seconds.

Brutalize: Fenrir pounces to his ground target location. If there was an enemy in the radius, he strikes them 4 times, dealing additional damage with each strike while being immune to knockups. At full runes, each strike deals 75% damage to nearby enemies.

• Damage: 10/20/30/40/50 (+30% of your physical power).
• Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 Mana.
• Cooldown: 14 seconds.

Ragnarok: When Ragnarok arrives, Fenrir grows massive in size, becoming immune to crowd control while moving faster. Fenrir bites enemy gods, dealing physical damage and carrying them away. Biting a cc immune target deals the damage but ends his ultimate. At full runes, his protections double.

• Damage: 150/225/300/375/450 (+120% of your physical power).
• Movement Speed: 50%.
• Carry Duration: 2 seconds.
• Cost: 100 Mana.
• Cooldown: 90 seconds.

Hot Fixes (May 3rd, 0.1.1493.3)

• Fixed an issue in which Heartseeker stacks would not wipe on Fenrir’s death.
• Fixed an issue in which Fenrir could get stuck in his Ultimate.
• Fixed an issue in which items that should not be available in Assault gamemode were still purchasable.
• Fixed a crash condition related to the in-game browser.

Seething Howl

• The amount of physical power gained has been reduced from 10/20/30/40/50 to 10/15/20/25/30. (+0/-5/-10/-15/-20)

Bug Fixes (May 2nd, 0.1.1491.1)

• Fixed an issue with certain notifications and accolades not playing.
• Fixed an issue in which Fenrir could get in a strange state if bitten by another Fenrir at the same time he is shrinking from his Ult.
• Fixed an issue with buying Rank 2 and Rank 3 Active Items in the Item Store.
• Fixed an issue with the display of Rank 2 and Rank 3 Active Items on the HUD’s Ability Bar.
• Fixed a couple UI bugs on the God Screen during the purchase process.
• Fixed a crash when leaving a spectated match.
• Fixed an issue with entering Promotion Codes during a 3D scene transition.
• Fixed a bug with Sobek’s Charge Prey.
• Fixed an issue in which a spectator could lose goodwill if leaving the match lobby.
• Fixed an issue with auto purchase and excluded items in Assault mode.
• Fixed an issue with Custom Matches and Banning in some Pick Modes.

New Skins

• Surfin’ He Bro
• Frostfang Fenrir

Voice Packs

Players can now purchase custom voice packs for Neith and Fenrir. Voice packs can be purchased from the GODS menu for 200 Gems. Packs will be made available for additional gods in future releases.

Once purchased, the voice pack is always used for that god, regardless of skin choice (in the future, some epic skins may overwrite the standard skin choice). All team members will be able to hear the voice pack when you use Voice Commands.

General Changes

• You can now spectate the matches of friends that are currently in a match from the SOCIAL | FRIENDS menu. You will be spectating on a minimum 3-minute delay.
• Challenge matches for Assault, Arena, Conquest and Domination can now be setup as 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 or 5v5.
• Saved Profiles on the CHARACTER BUILDER screen now appear in the Item Store as “FAVORITE” items, replacing the RECOMMENDED list. If you have not saved a profile for a god, you will continue to see the RECOMMENDED items.
• Performance improvements have been made to the in-game Twitch.TV Broadcast functionality.
• Achievements have been added for completing the Tutorial the first time, and for winning a match in Arena and Joust Practice for the first time with a god. These give modest Favor rewards.
• The God List in the Match Lobby and on the GOD screen now scrolls instead of pages.
• The HOME screen now provides the ability to easily switch between the various 3D promotion scenes.
• The Match Lobby now displays the name of the Queue from which your match launched.
• The “last skin played” with a god is now saved with your profile, so that the game will default to that skin in the Match Lobby the next time you play the same god.
• If you purchase a god while in the match lobby, it is now selected for you after the purchase.
• Your choice of “Casting Type” in SETTINGS is now stored in the database against your account, so it should follow you between different PCs.
• Fixed an issue where Cyclops were not playing a death sound when ragdolled on death.
• Fixed an issue where idle sounds could still be heard on dead ragdolling bodies.
• The Minotaur can no longer be critted and no longer gives lifesteal (similar to towers).
• Minions have been been made slightly smaller.
• The Match Lobby, God screen and Home screen have undergone visual improvements.
• The normal Conquest queue again accepts 4- and 5-person teams. The algorithm for matching these teams has been tweaked some.
• The free god rotation is now Freya, Hades, Loki, Xbalanque, Zeus.

Spectator Changes

• Smoothed out rotation into isometric view.
• Fixed an issue with FOV popping when going in and out of isometric view.
• Fixed an issue in which a match could close prematurely if a spectator left the match lobby.
• Spectator min/max heights are now configurable via Input.ini config file.
• Added a default start height for the top-down viewpoint, also configurable via the Input.ini config file.
• Fixed a rare crash issue with Hel and spectating.

Map Changes

Assault

• An issue in which Blink would not work in Assault mode has been fixed.
• Assault gamemode now does not allow some “snowball” items (Book of Thoth, Devourer’s Gloves, Doom Orb, Gauntlet of Thebes, Heartseeker, Shielded Recall, Transcendence, Warlock’s Sash).
• The spawn area architecture has been reworked again to prevent gods from sitting on top of other gods.
• The shop in will now turn off after a player leaves the base, and will not be available if a player manages to return to it.
• The spawn area no longer offers heals to friendly players; however, it will still damage enemy opponents who manage to make it into the spawn area.

Jungle Practice

• Fixed an issue where players would not be able to use the shop in the recall location
• Fixed an issue where the ground effect for the Fire Giant was not being seen
• Fixed an issue where the Ra Bot would constantly kill himself trying to leave his encounter area.
• The speed buff icon in the temple is now orange instead of green to match the buff color.
• Tentative changes have been made to fix an issue where Ra would not level up.
• Changes have been made around the Level Up volume, which was only working to level up one player. It should now level up all players in the instance.
• The Message Alert for individual practice segments should now only show to one player, instead of all players in the instance.

Active Items

• Motivate and Portal have been removed from the game.
• Active items now have 3 Ranks, similar to regular items. The price for the ranks is 250 gold, Rank 2 is 500 gold and Rank 3 is 1000 gold (Total: 250, 600, 1100).

Aegis Amulet

• Rank 1: Using this item makes you invulnerable to damage for 1 second, preventing you from taking action. Cooldown – 240 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item makes you invulnerable to damage for 1.5 seconds, preventing you from taking action. Cooldown – 180 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item makes you invulnerable to damage for 2 seconds, preventing you from taking action. After the invulnerability fades, you gain a 20% damage reduction buff for 4 seconds. Cooldown – 120 seconds.

Blink

• Rank 1: Using this item will allow you to teleport short distances instantly. You must be out of combat for 15 seconds before it can be used. Cooldown – 180 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item will allow you to teleport short distances instantly. You must be out of combat for 10 seconds before it can be used. Cooldown – 90 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item will allow you to teleport short distances instantly. You must be out of combat for 6 seconds before it can be used. Also, you gain 40% movement speed for 1s after blinking. Cooldown – 45 seconds.

Creeping Curse

• Rank 1: Using this item reduces all enemies ground speed by 30% in a 35 foot radius around you for 5 seconds. Cooldown – 120 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item reduces all enemies ground speed by 40% in a 35 foot radius around you for 5 seconds. Cooldown – 90 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item reduces all enemy gods ground speed by 50% in a 35 foot radius around you for 5 seconds. Their healing is also reduced by 50% for the duration. Cooldown – 60 seconds.

Girdle of Might

• Rank 1: Using this item gives all allied gods in a 35 ft radius a +10 and 5% Physical Power buff and a +20 and 5% Magical Power buff for 10 seconds. Cooldown – 90 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item gives all allied gods in a 35 ft radius a +20 and 10% Physical Power buff and a +40 and 10% Magical Power buff for 10 seconds. Cooldown – 90 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item gives all allied gods in a 35 ft radius a +30 and 15% Physical Power buff and a +60 and 15% Magical Power buff for 10 seconds. Allies also gain +10% physical and magical penetration. Cooldown – 90 seconds.

Hand of the Gods

• Rank 1: Using this item deals 480 damage to enemy minions, jungle camps and the Minotaur in a 10 ft radius. Cooldown – 90 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item deals 480 damage to enemy minions, jungle camps and the Minotaur in a 10 ft radius. This will automatically kill the Fire Giant or Gold Fury if they are at or below 10% health. Cooldown – 90 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item deal 480 damage to enemy minions, jungle camps and the Minotaur in a 10 ft radius. This will automatically kill the Fire Giant or Gold Fury if they are at or below 20% health. Cooldown – 90 seconds.

Heavenly Agility

• Rank 1: Using this item buffs all allies ground speed by 40% in a 35 foot radius for 3 seconds and makes them immune to slows. Cooldown – 150 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item buffs all allies ground speed by 45% in a 35 foot radius for 4 seconds and makes them immune to slows. Cooldown – 120 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item buffs all allies ground speed by 50% in a 35 foot radius for 5 seconds and makes them immune to slows. Their healing is also increased by 25% for the duration. Cooldown – 90 seconds.

Meditation

• Rank 1: Using this item heals the owner’s mana by 75% of their maximum mana and gives them 15 MP5 for 15 seconds. Cooldown – 120 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item heals the owner’s mana by 75% of their maximum mana and gives them 30 MP5 for 30 seconds. Cooldown – 120 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item heals the owner’s mana by 75% of their maximum mana and gives them 45 MP5 for 60 seconds. This also heals the owner for 25% of their maximum health. Cooldown – 120 seconds.

Purification Beads

• Rank 1: Using this item removes crowd control effects and makes you immune for 1 seconds. Cooldown – 240 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item removes crowd control effects and makes you immune for 2 seconds. Cooldown – 180 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item removes crowd control effects and makes you immune for 3 seconds. This also reduces all god cooldowns by 5 seconds. Cooldown – 90 seconds.

Shielded Recall

• Rank 1: Using this item allows you to recall faster and without damage interruption. You can still be damaged and are unable to move. Cooldown – 240 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item allows you to recall faster and without damage interruption. You can still be damaged and are unable to move. Cooldown – 210 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item allows you to recall faster and without damage interruption. You can still be damaged and are unable to move. You also gain 50% movement speed for 8 seconds after using this item. Cooldown – 180 seconds.

Sprint

• Rank 1: Using this item increases your ground speed by 35% for 4 seconds and makes you immune to slows for 2 seconds. Cooldown – 240 seconds.
• Rank 2: Using this item increases your ground speed by 35% for 6 seconds and makes you immune to slows for 3 seconds. Cooldown – 180 seconds.
• Rank 3: Using this item increases your ground speed by 35% for 8 seconds. It also makes you immune to slows and you no longer have the movement penalty while firing for 4 seconds. Cooldown – 120 seconds.

Item Changes

Vampiric Shroud

• This item now gives benefits if your pets killed the enemy.
• The rank 3 passive of this item was only activating once every 5 seconds and is now set to activate once every 2 seconds.
• The description now also shows how often it can occur.

God Balance Changes

Apollo

Serenade

• This ability now grants Apollo 10/20/30/40/50 additional protections for 5 seconds after firing.

He Bo

• FX have been improved for looks and performance.

Hercules

Strength From Pain (PASSIVE)

• The amount of additional physical power based on a percentage of his missing health has been increased from 20 (+2 * your level) to 30 (+3 * your level). (+10(+3 * your level))

Kali

Blood Lash

• The base damage has been reduced from 85/155/225/295/365 to 75/140/205/270/335. (-10/-15/-20/-25/-30)
• The physical power contribution has been reduced from 110% to 100%. (-10%)

Ne Zha

Armillary Sash

• The description for this ability was incorrectly displaying a 150% contribution. It has been corrected to 50% to match the actual contribution in the game.

Ra

• Ra’s model (and that of his skins) have undergone significant visual modifications.

Vamana

Sleeping Giant

• The amount of physical protection converted to physical power has been increased from 15% to 20%. (+5%)