The patch notes are out for SMITE 5.14. The patch is subtitled Goddess of Volcanoes in honor of Pele, who will be joining SMITE’s god roster in patch 5.14 as the first Polynesian god. Other notable mentions from the patch include the continuation of the Divine Uprising event, adjustments to some of the new features from patch 5.13: Mid-Season Update and balance changes.

First Polynesian God: Pele, Goddess of Volcanoes

Pele, an assassin, is the first god to grace the Polynesian pantheon. She will be added with her default skin, Caldera Pele recolor skin and mastery skins.

Passive: Everlasting Flame

When Pele drops below 50% health her flame is set alight, and she gains increased Physical Power, Lifesteal and Ability Lifesteal. This passive has a 20s cooldown.

• Power: 5+2 per level
• Lifesteal: 40%
• Ability Lifesteal: 20%
• Cooldown: 20s
• Duration: 6s

Ability 1: Pyroclast

Pele flourishes and fires out a magma orb ahead of her in a line. Once the fiery projectile reaches maximum distance it hovers for a brief instant, solidifies, and then returns back in pieces, dealing damage to enemies on the way back. The number of shards returning is dependent on the rank of this ability.

• Pele has 2 charges of this ability.
• Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+60% of your physical power)
• Return Damage: 30 (+10% of your physical power)
• Range: 60

Ability 2: Eruption

Pele fiercely erupts energy into the ground, exploding in an area around her, causing damage and Knockup to all enemies. At ranks 3 and 5 the area expands again at a delay, dealing less damage and a smaller Knockup.

• Three Exploding circles
• Inner Damage: 100/140/180/220/260 (+80% of your physical power)
• Outer Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+60% of your physical power)
• Knockup: 280/240/200
• Radius: 15/25/35

Ability 3: Magma Rush

Pele starts to churn the land around her, dealing damage to nearby enemies and giving her constant movement speed while this ability is active. Toggle this ability again to enter an amplified state, expending more fuel but dealing more damage and providing additional movement speed. This ability has no cooldown but uses a fuel gauge and cannot be activated when below 10 fuel.

• Damage: 20/25/30/35/40 (+10% of your physical power) every 0.5s
• Amplified Damage: 40/50/60/70/80 (+20% of your physical power) every 0.5s
• Movement speed: 30%
• Amplified speed: 60%
• Initial Fuel Cost: 5

Ability 4: Volcanic Lightning

After a short warm up, Pele dashes forward dealing massive damage and a slow to the first enemy God hit, and dealing additional damage to enemies behind in a cone. For the next 10 seconds or 3 attacks, every time Pele hits an enemy with a basic attack, additional damage is dealt behind the enemy as well.

• Damage: 200/280/360/440/520 (+60% of your physical power)
• Extra Damage: 100/140/180/220/260 (+40% of your physical power)
• Range: 60

New skins

There aren’t many new skins this patch, mainly the continuation of the Divine Uprising event chests.

• Pele default skin
• Caldera Pele recolor skin (direct purchase, favor)
• Pele mastery skins (direct purchase, favor or gems)
• Molten He Bo (exclusive, Divine Uprising event)
• Mystic Guardian Athena (exclusive, Divine Uprising event)
• Primal Storm Susano (exclusive)

Miscellaneous additions

Cosmetics

• Polynesian Loading Frame
• Polynesian Music Theme
• Cutesy Pele Avatar
• Primal Storm Fountain FX

Announcer Pack

• Primal Storm Announcer Pack

Chest additions and Fantasy Points Store rotation

Awesome Chest

• Electric Dream Nox
• Chompy Chibi Fenrir

Fantasy Points Store rotation patch 5.14

• Beamy Chibi Ra
• Bizzy B Cupid
• Scarlet Coven Isis

Changes

There have been changes to some of SMITE’s functions.

Ranked Joust

• Increased the second ban phase from 1 ban to 2 bans (total bans increased from 3 to 4).

Jungle Practice

• Added a pad for players to add protections to Odin Bots
• Added a pad for players to spawn minion waves in the Tower/Phoenix area

Arena

• Decreased the minimum respawn time from 20s to 10s to make deaths less punishing in the early game or on losing teams

Triumphant Chests

• Have been relocated to the “Play” Screen on Xbox and PS4

Prompt for Report

• Decreased the likelihood of being prompted for reporting due to frequent deaths.

Bug fixes

There were a lot of bug fixes, especially for the new features that dropped in patch 5.13.

Clash Phoenixes

• Fixed death animations and attack animations

Joust XP Camp

• These should now correctly appear as Tigers, not Cyclops.

Fountains

• Will now only heal or damage Gods

General

• Fixed an issue where some percentage increase or decrease effects were not additive
  • For example: an item with 20% increased damage dealt and 15% damage dealt should result in 35% damage dealt
    • Sundering Spear
    • Runeforged Hammer
    • Bakasura’s Take Down
    • Artemis’s Still Target
• The Popular Items tab will now default to showing Tier 3 items

Audio

• The following Voice Packs and Announcer Packs have been remastered for more consistent quality and volume
  • Announcer Ddot
  • Khepri Steel Scarab
  • Neith Scarlet Dangerfield
  • Odin Pandamonium
  • Raijin Drum’s Out
  • Rama Nature’s Guardian
• The following Abilities have been remastered for more consistent quality and volume
  • Secret Agent Apollo’s Ultimate
  • Guan Unicorn Guan Yu’s Basic Attacks

UI

• Fixed an issue where bank time could appear in Normal matches after playing a ranked match
• Fixed issues where the scoreboard was sometimes missing players

Spectator

• Fixed an issue where gods/items could get out of order if a player disconnected

Commendation System

• Fixed an issue where the screen would be off-center on some resolutions
• Fixed an issue where the skip button would not work sometimes
  • Changed the text of this button from “skip” to “continue” to make it clear your commendations are saved even if you leave the screen early
• Fixed an issue where commendations were not counting for the correct progress amount

Items

Ethereal Staff

• Fixed an issue where a god could have more than 3 debuff stacks if multiple opponents had the item

Gods

Ah Puch – Empty the Crypts

• Fixed an issue where his Ultimate was damaging structures

Artio

• Fixed an issue where spamming stance change could cause the bear to T pose

Bakasura

• Fixed an issue where Take Down debuff would display confusing damage calculations in the combat log

Chernobog

• Chernobog can no longer recall to base while inside of a wall

Freya

• Fixed an issue where her abilities were highlighting too many enemies

Hel

• Fixed issues where certain Hel skins would not play certain audio emotes on certain skins

Mercury – Fastest God Alive

• Fixed an issue where the Movement Speed from Bumba’s Mask would not provide additional Power until something else updated his Movement Speed.

Scylla

• Fixed an issue where the item stack pad would fully stack her passive in Jungle Practice

The Morrigan

• The Morrigan’s ultimate now copies the target gods item stack number and evolved items
• The Morrigan will now gain the correct amount of gold while in her ultimate form
• Fixed issues where The Morrigan could be hit by certain effects more than once when reverting out of her ultimate

Thoth

• Fixed an issue where his ability targeters werent always highlighting enemies in the area over walls.

Balance changes

What would a SMITE patch be without balance changes?

Item balance

Atalanta’s Bow Buff

• Added 10% Movement Speed
• Decreased Max Stacks of the passive from 4 to 3
• Decreased Movement Speed per stack from 7% to 5%

Gladiator’s Shield Buff

• Added component to this item where Basic Attacks heal 1% of your Maximum Health and Mana on successfully hitting an enemy
• Updated description to clarify these heals can trigger multiple times per ability or basic attack, scaling on number of targets hit

Fighter’s Mask, Rangda’s Mask and Protector’s Mask Description Update

• Updated Description text to show classes who can buy the item

Lono’s Mask Nerf

• Added a new sacrifice stat to the passive
  • -20% Healing Done
• Updated Description text to show classes who can buy the item

God balance

Achilles Buff / Nerf

Gift of the Gods

• Health Bonus increased from 35 + 10 per level to 25 + 15 per level
  • 235 to 325
• Protections Bonus increased from 5 + 1 per level to 5 + 1.5 per level
  • 25 to 35

Radiant Glory

• Physical Power and Protections now scale from 15% to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%.

Combat Dodge

• Cooldown changed from 12s at all ranks to 14/13/12/11/10.
• Damage Reduced from 55/95/135/175/215 to 50/90/130/170/210.

Bakasura Camera Height Increase

• Increased Camera Height from 42 to 64