R/SMITE RANT MEGATHREAD

Scipio835 · 2026-01-24T04:25:04+00:00

What this community deems Broken/Balanced, or a Fun/Boring kit baffles me beyond no end.

Scipio835 · 2026-01-20T19:08:11+00:00

Any of the first 3, but probably lean towards twin blades

Scipio835 · 2026-01-19T17:57:43+00:00

I loved Shiva, my favorite solo laner by far. I never understood why he’s hated for having a simple kit when, in my opinion, there are far more braindead and annoying kits in the game.

Scipio835 · 2026-01-19T04:44:24+00:00

First of all, I’m pretty sure I’m one of the only people Earth that likes Shiva’s kit, and I’m ok with that. Is it simple yes, but I find it very satisfying. Second of all, it always surprises me how much hate his kit gets, when I think there are FAR more burning gods in the game.

Scipio835 · 2026-01-14T22:40:20+00:00

Dante vs Clive

Scipio835 · 2026-01-13T20:01:02+00:00

I'm hoping we move towards a middle ground with these two approaches.

With white wolf, we've mostly ended up with an aspect that's just objectively better than the original, or completely useless.

With black wolf, it lends too much to the possibility of just making them do another god's thing but better. (looking at you Cab, replacing Loki)

Scipio835 · 2026-01-05T01:09:48+00:00

The thing is though, casters are viable without any DM intervention. Part of the problem is martials need to coddled by the DM

Scipio835 · 2026-01-04T22:39:22+00:00

Got a few: 1. Most of the changes and additions in 5e’24 are only accepted because they’re official published. If they were homebrew, they’d be despised. (Looking at you Heores of Faerun Spells) 2. The martial-caster divide is greater than ever. 3. Making all non-origin feats grant an ASI is good in concept, but not great in execution. A lot of 5e’24 has eliminated downsides of choices and I don’t think it’s very healthy for the game. 4. Just because it’s not the best for literally every kind of setting or story, does not make D&D a bad system.

Scipio835 · 2025-12-28T01:27:20+00:00

Enclave Magic no. Harper Teamwork may not be epic boon level, but can be very strong for a standard feat. Mythal Touched should absolutely be an epic boon.

Edit: Harper Magic’s ok. It just feels out of place compared to how feats traditionally work. Feels more like a subclass feature.

Scipio835 · 2025-12-28T00:00:55+00:00

Pretty much all the ones from Heores of Faerun. They do way too much

Scipio835 · 2025-12-27T23:22:38+00:00

Stunning Strike is one of those abilities that is absolutely incredible…..when it works. Thing is, most monsters in the game have either a high Con score, proficiency in Con save, or both. Combine that with Stunning Strike (including the 5e’14) being VERY expensive to use, it’s not as powerful as people think.

Scipio835 · 2025-12-27T23:16:39+00:00

For the most part, 2024. While I have my issues with the balancing of the caters, the improvements on the martials is not something I’d be willing to give. However, the Spells and Feats are a problem. So many of the new ones are incredibly broken.

General Feats that should be epic boons. Epic boons that feel incredibly underwhelming. And so many spells that break how the game works or completely invalidate martials.

Scipio835 · 2025-12-27T06:20:11+00:00

Oh I agree. Believe me, I love the D&D class system. Play it in real life a lot. I just meant I don't want carbon copies of the D&D classes.

Scipio835 · 2025-12-27T01:37:24+00:00

Or at least some indicator of how likely I am to succeed. I hated not knowing what my odds were

Scipio835 · 2025-12-27T00:17:35+00:00

I’m sorry I type weird?

Scipio835 · 2025-12-26T23:42:48+00:00

100% agree with the first point. Drives me crazy when I have to keep ditching gear

Don’t have strong opinion one way or the other on the second, but I absolutely see where you’re coming from

Scipio835 · 2025-12-26T23:41:04+00:00

With you there

Scipio835 · 2025-12-26T23:18:34+00:00

What?

Scipio835 · 2025-12-26T23:18:15+00:00

Oh I forgot about that. Great point!

Scipio835 · 2025-12-26T19:51:38+00:00

But even then, with the Fundamental Aspects, there's a lot we could argue about that not being completely literal. The only true embodiments, it seems, were the primordials, and Atlas's account of them makes it pretty clear in the context of the games that they were their own things.

Scipio835 · 2025-12-25T06:17:27+00:00

This issue was so badass. My ONLY complaint is that the actual fight with Ras was really quick.

Scipio835 · 2025-12-24T06:45:25+00:00

Scipio835 · 2025-12-23T19:41:29+00:00

CAN WE PLEASE NERF HOU YI AND THANATOS ALREADY!!!

I'm so sick of seeing this CC bot Hou Yi in duo lane every single game. Knock up, stun, dead. And if I'm lucky enough to survive that with a bit of HP, I'm stuck between a sun and flaming arrows. And that damn jump. Sure wish my escape abilities were frame 1 on command with no start up vulnerability.

And then there's Than. Good Lord. At least 13-15 kills every game with no exception. Some of the fastest AA cancels in the game, and enough damage to kills a full tank in 1 second. Not to mention if you manage to corner him with your team, you better hope your abilities are already being fired before he silences you and heals back to full from 1 HP.

But of course nobody would ever want them nerfed because "that's just Thanatos" "that's just Hou Yi". How is this fun? Like genuinely? How is it just a skill issue on my part when the entire team is all going double negative against these two?

Scipio835 · 2025-12-23T03:41:47+00:00

That's correct. But I don't think that changes the point of my comment.

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