Balance Hotfix March 26th

Today's hotfix has a few bug fixes and a number of balance changes for SMITE 2:

God Balance:

Merlin:

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Adjusted the timings of his Basic Attacks to better match his animation.

•       Made adjustments to Frostbolts timing and blending for better feels.        
  

Conquest:

Jungle base health changes are reverted

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Fire Giant’s base health increased from 4500 to 6300

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            As an example, Fire Giants spawned health at 15 minutes                increased from 10,200 to 12,000            
        

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Gold Fury’s base health increased from 2200 to 2750

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            As an example, Gold Fury spawned health at 5 minutes is now                increased from 3850 to 4400            
        

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Ancient Fury’s base health increased from 2560 to 3200

•       Pyromancer/Naga’s base health increased from 1800 to 2250        
    
    
  

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  As an example, Pyromancer’s spawned health at 10 minutes is now increased from 3870 to 4320

Item Balance

•       Blink Buff        
    
    
  

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  Reduced Cooldown from 240 to 210s

•       Sunder Nerf        
    
    
  

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  Decreased Per Level damage from 6 to 4.

•       Ancile        
    
    
  

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  Fixed an issue where this was sharing the cooldown with Hide of the Nemean Lion.

•       Arondight Nerf        
    
    
  

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  Decreased Strength from 65 to 50.

•       Avenging Blade        
    
    
  

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  Fixed an issue where the Movement Speed and Shred applied to non-god targets.

•       Bragi’s Harp Nerf        
    
    
  

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  Reduced damage dealt to Structure and Jungle Bosses by 50%.

•       Sun Beam Bow Nerf        
    
    
  

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  Reduced damage dealt to Structure and Jungle Bosses by 50%.

•       Obsidian Shard Shift        
    
    
  

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  Increased cost from 2400 to 3050.

  •       Increased Penetration from 15% to 25%            
          
      
    

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    The tooltip currently states 25% but is currently giving 15%.

•       Titan’s Bane Shift        
    
    
  

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  Increased the cost from 2450 to 3100

  •       Increased Penetration from 15% to 25%            
          
      
    

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    The tooltip currently states 25% but is currently giving 15%.

•       Warrior’s Axe Nerf        
    
    
  

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  Decreased Strength from 15 to 12.

  •       Decreased True Damage Base from 40 to 30.            
          
    

  •       Increased Heal Base from 20 to 30.            
      
    

  Bug Fixes:

•       Merlin Stances and flat cooldown changes fix        
    
  

•       Fixed an issue where Merlin Ability 1 (Eclipse/Radiate/Frostbolt) FX            would track dead enemies        
    
  

•       Fixed an issue with Merlin’s Elementary Mastery FX        
    
  

•       Fixed an issue with Merlin's ability and enemy coloration