SMITE Doesn’t Tick Around with Time by Adding Chronos, Keeper of Time in Patch 0.1.1616.1

It isn’t just Chronos that Hi-Rez Studios has added – they’ve made some pretty significant changes to Conquest in order to further test this balance between two MOBA METAs (Most Effective Tactic Available).

The forums have been a volatile environment since they released the most recent Conquest map change two weeks ago, but this one seems to solve a lot of problems people have felt from the previous.

Notable changes are:

• Movement speed overall has been nerfed
• Each player may only have 1 Jungle buff on at one time, and cannot override the previous one
• Jungle buffs drop from the jungle creep that a player from the team that killed it may pick up within 30 seconds of killing the jungle buff creep
• The 5 free gods new accounts receive have been changed to Poseidon, Neith, Ymir, Ra, and Thor
• New item, Watcher’s Gift, to be a laning equivalent to Bumba’s Mask

Let’s not forget Chronos himself! Watch his video after the cut, and check out the rest of the patch notes following him.

Chronos – Keeper of Time

Wheel of Time (Passive): The wheel of time is always spinning and for Chronos, it is no different. Depending on where the wheel is when activating Accelerate, it provides a different benefit to Chronos.

• Section I = +20% Magical Lifesteal
• Section II = 75% Mana Refund On Abilities
• Section III = +20% Magical Power
• Section IV = +35% Magical Power Contribution to Basic Attacks

Time Rift (#1): Chronos creates a rift in time, dealing 80/125/170/215/260 (+85% of your magical power) magical damage to all enemies in the area.

• Cost – 50/55/60/65/70 Mana
• Cooldown – 5 seconds.

Accelerate (#2): Chronos accelerates himself over time, allowing him to progressively move 10/15/20/25/30% faster for 8 seconds. While active, his attack speed is increased by 20/25/30/35/40% and he is not affected by the attacking movement speed debuff. This ability also stops the Wheel of Time.

• Cost – 70/75/80/85/90 Mana
• Cooldown – 15 seconds.

Stop Time (#3): Shooting forward spinning gears of time, any enemies hit by Chronos’ attack are slowed to a stop, taking 30/50/70/90/110 (+40% of your magical power) magical damage on the initial hit and again when they are stunned for 1 second.

• Cost – 65/70/75/80/85 Mana
• Cooldown – 16/15/14/13/12 seconds.

Rewind (#4 Ultimate): Chronos travels through time to where he was 8 seconds ago, gaining health and mana back to the values of that time. All of his cooldowns are instantly reset as well.

• Cost – 100 Mana
• Cooldown – 120/110/100/90/80 seconds.

New Skins

• Young Zeus
• Golden He Bo
• Legendary Skins: Every gold skin purchase will award a Legendary Skin that is automatically given to the player for that god when they achieve Mastery Rank 10. NOTE: If your god is already rank 10 prior to the patch then you must play one match that gives rewards to unlock the new skin.

New Voice Packs

• Chronos
• Poseidon
• Vulcan

General Changes

• Jungle Buffs
  • The buff holding leaders in the jungle camps now drop their buffs when they are killed.
  • The buff remains on the ground for 30 seconds.
  • Only the team that last hit the camp leader can pick up the buff.
  • Each player can only have 1 jungle buff at a time. Players that already have a jungle buff will not pick up another buff when they walk over it.
• Newly created Smite accounts will now be given Poseidon, Neith, Ymir, Ra and Thor as their permanently free gods. If you created a Smite account prior to the patch date, you will still own the previously provided permanently free gods (but will need to purchase any other unowned gods).
• The new free god rotation is Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Fenrir, Isis.
• Fixed a bug in which the Recorded tab on the TV menu was not displaying some information correctly.
• Fixed a bug where players would see gods permanently in their stun pose.
• Gods with magical damage basic attacks now gain 100% of their magical lifesteal when hitting an enemy with their basic attacks. This currently affects Zeus, Isis, Anubis, Athena and Chronos.
• The death recap screen no longer shows the killer first. It now sorts by the most damage done to you in the previous 10 seconds, , showing the top 3 contributors.
• “Toggle Map Overlay” (default bound to ‘M’) shows color-coded outlines on paths in the Conquest map that lead to objectives.
• Teleport is no longer available in Assault mode.
• Player characters will now flash an outline if they take damage from your character or if you take damage.
• A number of inconsistencies related to projectile ranges have been addressed. The tower ranges in the Conquest map have been adjusted accordingly.

Spectator Changes

• Fixed an issue where the red team’s wards were not visible.
• Fixed syncing issues for party spectating.
• Fixed an issue where chat was rendering in the wrong place.

Item Changes

• NEW ITEM – Watcher’s Gift
  • Cost – 800g
  • +100 Health
  • +10 HP5
  • +5 MP5
  • PASSIVE – The last hit bonus is given to the owner even when assisting on minion kills.
• Bumba’s Mask
  • The movement speed buff has been removed from this item.
• Demonic Grip
  • The 10/20/30 Physical Power has been replaced with 20/40/60 Magical Power.
• Meditation
  • The heal has been reduced from 40% to 30% of your missing health.
• Wards
  • Enemy wards are now detected by Towers, Phoenix and the Minotaur.
  • Wards are now forced visible while teleporting.
• Boots of Celerity
  • Unique speed modifier decreased from +10/15/28% (40% out of combat) to +6/12/22% (35% out of combat)
• Reinforced Greaves
  • Unique speed modifier decreased from +10/15/21% (33% out of combat) to +6/12/18% (26% out of combat)
• All other Boots, Greaves, Shoes, and Tabi
  • Unique speed modifier decreased from +10/15/21% to +6/12/18%.

God Balance Changes

Athena

• Fixed a bug with her passive spear being blocked by friendly minions.

Bacchus

• Some visual adjustments have been made to his model.

Loki

• Vanish
  • The cooldown for this ability has been reduced from 18 seconds to 15 seconds. (3 second reduction)
  • While invisible, Loki now takes 25% less damage from all sources.
• Decoy
  • The physical power contribution of this ability has been increased from 80% to 100%. (+20%)

Neith

• Broken Weaves
  • Neith’s broken weaves no longer act as wards.

Ne Zha

• Ne Zha’s model has undergone modest visual improvements.

Poseidon

• Poseidon’s model has undergone modest visual improvements.

Xbalanque

• Rising Jaguar
  • The leap portion of this ability is no longer interrupted by crowd control.
• Some FX have been updated.

Zeus

• Zeus’ basic attacks now utilize a hit progression with a 1/1/.5/.5x timing and damage scale