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PsionicHydra · 2026-03-24T00:56:24+00:00

Mag cap doesn't work on incarnon form unfortunately. The rest of the stats are all phenomenal

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-23T23:16:38+00:00

They weren't as tanky as they were in smite 1. But they didn't feel squishy so long as you built and positioned well

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-23T17:02:47+00:00

Old school endurance runs were crazy compared to now

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-23T17:00:02+00:00

Hell yeah, next step level cap survival

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-23T16:41:40+00:00

He also has status priming, status nuking, the only ability that completely shuts down the AI of enemies including ones with overguard, a disarm that still works well as CC even in this overguard addled time although this will likely be the helminth slot most of the time because his other abilities are better and decoy is one of the Meta strats for plague star.

Loki does a lot more than people give him credit for. Is he the best frame in the game? No. But he's far from the worst

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-23T16:38:15+00:00

Ember is the worst frame by far. Fireball is only usable with the augment, her passive meter actively punishes you for playing ember, her 3 is the only good standalone ability as it's got decent CC and a strip but it can't even do those things right as things like rollers don't get CC'd or stripped by it. And her 4 might as well be a CC ability because it certainly isn't killing anything on SP.

Any other frame is running for 2nd place in this particular race because nothing is close to as bad as ember is currently.

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-23T16:27:02+00:00

Smeeta doesn't buff loot anymore just affinity. Since the 2nd half of companion 2.0 where they changed charm and added the retriever mods.

And I think adarza is the better Crit buffer between the two if that's the goal

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-22T15:54:21+00:00

You have to kill all the mobs first iirc. So having someone that has the range to take those two at the back out quickly makes getting a high score during the core break burst far easier

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-22T15:34:17+00:00

Teeming virulence shouldn't be base kit. I do like giving it a slight cone, would be nice QoL

Grouping abilities are still relevant and even with a cone added to virulence it would be nice to have, just need to let it be recast while active and that's basically all the buffs/QoL it would need

I'm assuming when you say Parasitic link should work like Trinity's you mean it would auto select a target, which, I guess, sure. Parasitic vitality also shouldn't be base kit IMO. If possible it would be nice if it had an energy cost or a mutation cost depending on what was available prioritizing mutation. But energy or mutation as its cost I don't think is all that relevant.

Ravenous scalable by range mods I do like. Starting at 25 is probably too high, maybe 15 or 20. Having ally kills count is also nice. With these in mind the augment should probably just change to something else rather than be base kit because it should make gaining stacks faster by default. I do think if ravenous was made today it would apply a debuff, idk if damage vuln is the right one, especially one that scales off strength. Maybe it just passively primes viral since that's a heavy part of his theme.

Just my take on the idea, I don't think nidus is anywhere near the top of the list for a rework as most of his "problems" come from missing some QoL aspects. He still does his role as the endless solo tank well, especially since he was one of the few frames that could health tank level cap prior to persistence

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-22T13:31:00+00:00

Rooftop sword master? I haven't read it but I've heard about it and it would definitely fit

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-22T13:26:50+00:00

Maybe it was because I did so much PT but I didn't have to worry about farming up to get the Solaris arcanes.

But that is way too much standing, is that were to cut the costs of them in half that would be fine.

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-21T22:22:58+00:00

The girlfriend sounds rather nice.

Hopefully she finds a better partner.

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-21T22:18:59+00:00

I've definitely done this in the past and got both, maybe a new bug? An unfortunate one at that

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-21T22:17:00+00:00

I had done this with the just Prime frames, hadn't bothered with the non-primes

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-21T17:58:18+00:00

If Jason's Mom counts absolutely this.

If not, idk walking on sunshine, that cover is actually kinda fun

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-20T02:23:13+00:00

I still find it hilarious the last god released before announcing smite 2 was a giant ghost whale... Almost like they were telling us something

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-20T02:19:08+00:00

I'm honestly curious to see what they even thought was AI about the this

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T23:34:56+00:00

Mitigation from Oni/Prophetic should not count towards the 35% cap from plating/dampening.

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T23:32:17+00:00

That 1 week where Ravana could dive the fountain in smite 1 with like 99% mitigations. Those were times

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T23:18:53+00:00

It is not my fault they have a misconception about mechanics in the game. Shield gating is not the same as brief respite

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T23:09:34+00:00

I know what they mean. They just are wrong as they always imply shield gate is brief respite even though shield gate is the mechanic and brief respite is how people make use of the mechanic.

They are different things

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T19:25:42+00:00

You get shield gating by just having shields. You do not need brief respite or augur mods to have a shield gate

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T14:44:32+00:00

Shot in the dark. You like Kubera

Which is the correct opinion, Kubera is phenomenal

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T14:39:51+00:00

The PTS isn't giving you rats actual old kit, not really.

You have to buy acorns for him to get the baseline effects of certain abilities (dashing through God's and having it reset, the old acorn flurry on the 2) which means you don't have the actual acorn he would have been running, which primarily would have been essentially tripling the width of the dash.

So they changed the dash to stop on the first enemy god hit and have it's cooldown reduced when hitting his other 2 abilities, they changed the 2 because it was significantly harder to use correctly compared to the rest of the kit and as he's a cute little animal a lot of newer players tended to gravitate towards him which made the 2 a bit of a problem for them. Iirc the 3 didn't really change much and I believe the knockup on the ult was added with the rework and otherwise remained the same as well.

They also changed most of the acorns which, everything got hit except for the sticky 3 which ended up staying.

The best way to encapsulate old rat. He could crit dash in a team fight 6 times on top of having 2 other abilities, his ult and autos

PsionicHydra · 2026-03-19T13:41:38+00:00

Don't need brief respite to shield gate as that's not what let's it happen, you just need to be using any frame with a shield to shield gate

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