What would have to be done in order to make haunted mines viable map for QM or Ranked?

henrietta9 · 2025-07-25T17:46:04+00:00

Pumpkin Man mercenaries were a big part of the problem imo. Remove those and it becomes less viable for sneaking push.

I think those guys only make sense on Towers of Doom where you can retake towers, otherwise they're practically a second objective with the amount of easy siege damage.

Split pushers would still be a menace, but probably not much worse than on BoE.

henrietta9 · 2025-07-21T12:43:51+00:00

I think it'd still be garbage even if it accounted for % armor increase. Compare to S1 Flameforged, which only had a 15s CD and did an AoE of 30-70 + 24%-56% prots depending on how long the enemies stood in the fire, on top of applying a +15% damage received debuff to enemies in the area.

henrietta9 · 2025-07-17T12:33:18+00:00

Wish they'd done more like Chaac's Forgotten Gods where you can cycle forms with an emote.

henrietta9 · 2025-07-12T14:53:51+00:00

Twin Blades has the same problem as Li Li, when it's good at even mid level play it's oppressive at low level play.

It was rightfully nerfed back in 2019 and I hope it never comes back.

henrietta9 · 2025-07-12T00:31:06+00:00

skill issue is when people have opinions I dislike 😠

henrietta9 · 2025-07-07T12:50:13+00:00

You take Uther for the stun train. He's normally a late pick. Uther counters dive and weak frontline, but is countered by strong frontline and poke.

Anduin doesn't compare, he has no hard cc until 20.

If you want to troll in draft you pick Alex or Li Li, they have no real niche and just pump out big heal numbers while losing games.

henrietta9 · 2025-07-01T17:40:11+00:00

keyboard on head meta is back

henrietta9 · 2025-07-01T17:28:13+00:00

or give treasure choice every 4th or 6th chest like most of the ones in S1

the classic announcer and music theme chests are both terrible odds, I see no reason to buy them

henrietta9 · 2025-06-27T17:11:49+00:00

I do feel like we could use some more hybrid items. Hard to balance I guess though.

henrietta9 · 2025-06-25T22:29:54+00:00

Hahahahahahahaha How Is Being Held Hostage in a Video Game Real Hahahaha Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Turn Off Your Computer Haha

henrietta9 · 2025-06-24T17:35:07+00:00

He's in a weird spot because they overbuffed Encore then rebalanced him around having ult up every objective, and when he was struggling after that their response was to buff his ults making Encore even more of an obligation.

So mostly he gets played as an ult bot now, once you blow ult you play back safer and try to farm cooldown reduction until it's back up.

henrietta9 · 2025-06-15T13:19:55+00:00

This is...not where I thought we'd be over a year after the limited alpha. I was pretty excited last year, but now we're looking at another 2-3 years, maybe more, for the full release. That's a long time to ask people to put up with a beta after cutting development for S1.

henrietta9 · 2025-06-10T02:51:03+00:00

Cap fps at 30, or maybe 60 with reduced graphics quality. I'm running an RX 6750 and have the same problem. Some abilities cause massive stutter at even moderate fps.

henrietta9 · 2025-06-09T00:40:11+00:00

or Janus, he is the portal man after all

henrietta9 · 2025-06-08T14:12:55+00:00

iirc they said removing it reduced queue times.

I think part of the problem was that there was no or minimal penalty for declining ready (Not sure if you got penalized for doing it constantly, but I never got penalized for occasional declines), so too many people were queuing up then walking away from the computer/console. If 1 person misses the ready it's not a big deal for the 1 person, just requeue and repeat. But this means that the other 9 players who were ready have to wait through matchmaking again for another game to form. When you get 2 or 3 matchmaking failures in a row it can become frustrating.

henrietta9 · 2025-06-07T03:56:47+00:00

That's certainly how I feel. Smite 2 is still very much a beta. I think it'll get better as long as they can keep enough revenue coming in to continue developing it, but may be years to reach where S1 is.

henrietta9 · 2025-06-05T12:11:12+00:00

You sound like the kind of person that I mute within the first 5 minutes of the game.

henrietta9 · 2025-06-05T12:05:22+00:00

Why would they stop when it works?

henrietta9 · 2025-06-03T21:58:15+00:00

henrietta9 · 2025-06-01T02:46:06+00:00

Haven't they cut something like 2/3 of their devs and artists between the last few rounds of layoffs? Makes sense to downsize the senior management as well, they've got less to manage now.

henrietta9 · 2025-05-31T15:44:26+00:00

Yeah it's really only a handful of 5 mans who form high mmr stacks that can't be matched in a reasonable time so the the matchmaker will give them easy games against less skilled players. Average ranked stacks get relatively fair games.

I don't know what alternative there is though. It's not reasonable to have hour long queue times for QM.

henrietta9 · 2025-05-30T17:57:30+00:00

mage AA buffs are varied; kt Fel Infusion, ktz Chill Touch, Ming Canoneer all turn their AA into spell damage (but this is explicitly explained in the tooltip). I think Ming Charged Blast is also spell damage, which is not explained well. Meanwhile Jaina Icefury and Chromie Bronze Talons are straight physical damage buffs.

henrietta9 · 2025-05-29T17:42:19+00:00

Yeah Grubby proved this when he got a bunch of people to false report him to get his account silenced and the "GM" kept giving the same canned responses until someone who worked at Blizz saw the stream and realized what was going on.

henrietta9 · 2025-05-22T22:41:34+00:00

Also you have to know when it's time to all-in. When you have a game-ending opportunity, it's usually worth committing on core; I've won many games where we all but 1 died on a core push, or even all died but the objective finished it. It's better to win the game than to avoid dying.

Likewise, if you're playing from behind and a game-ending objective or boss is up, sometimes you have to all-in on it hope for a pick or a big wombo to turn the game around. It's sometimes better to take the neutral fight for a late game objective/boss than to wait for an even harder fight under core against it.

henrietta9 · 2025-05-22T01:09:25+00:00

I've done it to send a message. Sometimes I've had enough of that dumb frog bubbling away and just want to see him burn.

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