Open Beta 9 - Saint of War Update Notes

The Battleground continues to evolve with the Open Beta 9 update for SMITE 2, bringing a powerful new god, stylish cosmetics, and strategic changes to Conquest gameplay.

The Saint of War, Guan Yu, charges into SMITE 2 with a hybrid-scaling kit that blends healing, mobility, and sustained damage. His new Aspect of the General, releasing May 9, shifts his playstyle by converting attack speed into intelligence and enhancing his team utility.

A wave of new skins and cosmetics joins the battle, including Miss Senshi Bellona + Prisms, Hive Mother Yemoja, and the adorable Bumble Bee Jing Wei. With additional options like a new ward skin, jump stamp, and the introduction of Classic Announcer Packs, players can fully personalize their divine presence.

Conquest mode pacing is also getting a small tune-up. Leveling will take a bit longer, but players will earn gold faster, allowing for quicker full builds without speeding up power spikes. These changes aim to keep matches balanced while rewarding smart farming and rotations.

There’s a ton of balance and other changes below, so get ready to show off your favorite gods in style, and conquer the Battleground once again.

Note: The following represent the patch notes for Open Beta 9 at the time of publish May 2nd, 2025. Additional notes may be made available prior to release.

🛡️ Guan Yu

🎖️ General

⚔️ Melee Basic Attacks

💥 Damage Type: Physical

📈 Scaling Type: Hybrid Scaling

🔸 Passive: Battle Fervor

Gain Stacks of Fervor when dealing or taking damage

Fervor provides 🌀 Attack Speed per stack

At Maximum Stacks it provides more 🌀 Attack Speed

🩹 Ability 1: Conviction

Heals nearby allies for ❤️ Health

Healing allied gods reduces Guan Yu and his allies ⏳ cooldowns

🏃‍♂️ Ability 2: Warrior’s Will

Dash forward, dealing 💥 Physical Damage to and ❄️ Slowing enemies you pass through

Hitting enemy gods reduces your ⏳ cooldowns

🗡️ Ability 3: Taolu Assault

Swing your blade in a flurry, dealing 💥 Physical Damage repeatedly and stealing their 🛡️ protections

Damages 🔟 times in 3s

Every 25% 🌀 Attack Speed causes it to damage 1 additional time

🐎 Ultimate Ability: Cavalry Charge

Mount a warhorse gaining 🛑 crowd control immunity

Strike enemies while riding, dealing 💥 Physical Damage

Dismount with a final swing that also 🌀 Stuns all enemies hit

Enemies hit by previous strikes take increased damage from the strike. This 🔁 stacks

Swing faster as you gain 🌀 Attack Speed

✨ Aspect releasing May 9: Aspect of the General

🌀 Battle Fervor now provides 🧠 Intelligence instead of 🌀 Attack Speed

🩹 Conviction now applies an additional ❤️ Heal over Time and will share 🛡️ Protections from Taolu Assault

❌ However, Guan Yu loses all 💪 Strength scaling

The Spring Time Traveler has arrived in the Wandering Market! Enjoy some SWEET cosmetics straight from the Beehive!

Contents

Classic Bumble Bee Jing Wei Skin - Instantly unlocked after purchasing the Premium Traveler Page

Premium Page Contents - Unlock the following items with Wandering Market Coins

• Hive Mother Yemoja Skin
• Bee’s Knees Title
• Buzz Off Ward Skin
• Sweet Honey Badge
• Bumble Bee Lady Bug Jing Wei Prism

✨ Classic Skins (purchasable for 100% Legacy Gems)

• Miss Senshi Bellona

✨ Prisms (purchasable for 100% Diamonds)

• Miss Senshi - Neowave
• Miss Senshi - Golden Grad
• Miss Senshi - Varsity

✨ Cross-Gen Skins (purchasable for 50% Legacy Gems)

• Shadow Sentry Cerberus

✨ Cosmetics

• Mom Tattoo Jump Stamp, Available in the Mother’s Day Event
• Mother Tiamat Badge, available via a special First Win of the Day Mother’s Day quest

Esports Quips Pack 1 - This Quips Pack features iconic caster calls from SMITE’s history!

• Bow Down
• Crowd Explodes
• EZ Game
• I Cannot Believe
• I’m A Monster
• Let’s Get Down
• Paul’s Better
• Vamos
• Versus The World

✨ NEW FEATURE - Announcer Packs

• Announcer Packs are now in SMITE 2 with a variety of packs from SMITE 1 available in the Classic Announcer Pack Chest. Open Beta 9 features the first wave of Packs being introduced with more coming in future Updates, so be on the lookout!
• Announcer Packs can be equipped on the Account Profile Loadout Screen.

✨ Ping System

• Players using Mouse and Keyboard can now press the middle mouse button to fire a general ping on the map wherever their targeter is placed

✨ God Builder

• Search functionality has been added to the God Builder page to allow for easier discoverability for community builds
• Pinned builds are now integrated into the Auto-Buy and Auto-Build systems

✨ God Mastery

• A new icon has been added to God Cards/Portraits on the God Page and God Select screens that shows your current Mastery progress

✨ Chat

• The chat window will now show notifications whenever you or an allied player purchases or picks up a team based item or consumable (Ex: Wards, The Executioner, Talisman of Purification, the Runic Bomb, etc.)
• Chat messages will now display longer in the chat window before fading away.

✨ God Pages

• The team has started rolling out new Pantheon specific backgrounds on the God Page starting with the Egyptian Pantheon. Keep an eye out for new backgrounds for other Pantheons in future Updates!

🌸 Season 0 Spring Split

🔄 Soft Reset

There will be a Soft Reset of player Skill Rating in OB9

This soft reset will be as follows:

🟤 4,000 SR (Obsidian 2) → Reset to 4,000 SR (Obsidian 2)

💎 3,400 SR to 4,000 SR → Reset to 3,400 SR (Diamond 2)

🟦 2,800 SR to 3,400 SR → Reset to 2,800 SR (Platinum 2)

⚪ < 2,800 SR → No Reset

📌 This reset is intended to shake up the top end of the leaderboard, and allow player Skill Rating to more accurately reflect recent matchmaking changes

📊 Skill Rating Update

In OB9, there have been changes to how SR is calculated:

➖ Less aggressive adjustments at the start of a player’s Ranked career

📉 Adjustments to limit SR inflation

🔁 More consistent adjustments match-to-match (less variability in +/- SR)

⏳ In an upcoming update, there will be further changes to the SR algorithm, mainly to more accurately take into account a player’s current SR vs. average SR of the Lobby when making adjustments

🏆 Rewards Due to development limitations, Season 0 Winter Split rewards will be granted in the next patch (OB10) There will be two main rewards handed out:

🎖️ Ranked Border Based on a player's maximum recorded SR during the Winter Split

All players who achieved at least Silver Rank will receive this reward in OB10

🏅 Ranked Titles 🧱 “Deity” Title → Top 100 players when servers go down (morning of May 5th, pre-OB9 maintenance)

🔥 “Demigod” Title → All players who reached 5,000 SR at any point during the Winter Split

⚡ “Speedrunner” Title → The 10 fastest players to reach Demigod during the Winter Split

The goal of the upcoming XP and Gold changes is to try to realign the pacing of the two systems together while also addressing some of the feedback we received from the community. In summary, players will level slightly slower but gain gold slightly faster. That means reaching level 20 takes a few more minutes, but the time it takes to reach full build has been reduced.

⚡ Gold Changes

• Jungle gold scaling increased from 0.5 to 1
• Lane gold scaling increased from 0.25 to 0.375
• Side elder harpy base gold increased from 10 to 15
• Side small harpy base gold increased from 2 to 5

⚡ XP Changes

• Jungle XP scaling decreased from 9 to 6.5
• Lane XP scaling decreased from 5 to 3
• Melee minion base XP decreased from 50 to 45
• Ranged minion base XP decreased from 30 to 25
• Big harpy base XP increased from 72 to 80
• Small harpy base XP increased from 12 to 20
• Scorpion base XP increased from 219 to 240

⚡ Increased Minion vs Minion damage scaling over time

⚡ Decreased Minion vs Phoenix damage

🔼 Athena Buff

🌀 Confound (2)

⏱️ Decreased Cooldown: 18s → 16s

🛡️ Defender of Olympus (4)

⏱️ Decreased Cooldown: 120s → 120/115/110/105/100s

🔼 Bellona Buff

⚔️ Scourge (3)

📝 Clarified: Heal scaling is only from Physical Protections

💚 Increased Heal Scaling: 5% → 10% of Physical Protections

🦅 Eagle’s Rally (4)

💥 Increased Damage: 150/250/350/450/550 → 220/305/390/475/560

🔼 Nemesis Buff

⚡ Swift Vengeance (1)

💥 Increased Dash Damage: 50/80/110/140/170 → 60/90/120/150/180

🔪 Slice and Dice (2)

📈 Increased Center Damage Scaling: 80% → 90%

🔼 Ra Buff

🔥 Searing Pain (4)

☄️ Increased True Damage: 5% → 8% of Target’s Max HP

🔁 Rama Shift – Aspect of Precision

🌠 Astral Strike (1)

❄️ Decreased Slow Max Stacks: 3 → 2

⏳ Decreased Slow Duration: 1.5s → 1s

💥 Increased Bonus Damage Scaling: 10% → 15% Strength

🔼 Susano Buff

🌪️ Wind Siphon (2)

💥 Increased Damage: 90/120/150/180/210 → 90/130/170/210/250

🌊 Typhoon (4)

💥 Increased Max Damage: 220/285/350/415/480 → 250/310/370/430/490

🔼 Thanatos Buff

💀 Harvester of Souls (Passive)

💚 Increased Minion Kill Heal: 8.5% → 10% of their Max Health

⚰️ Death Scythe (1)

⏱️ Decreased Cooldown: 12s → 11s

🔇 Soul Reap (3)

⏳ Increased Silence Duration: 0.75s → 1s

🔼 Ymir Buff

❄️ Frostbite (Passive)

🌀 Now applies 10% Attack Speed debuff to affected enemies

🌟 Kali – New Aspect: Aspect of Unbound Destruction (May 12)

🏹 Kali’s Basic Attacks are now ranged

💥 Rupture: Consumes at 5 stacks to deal damage and heal Kali

🌪️ Incense: No longer stuns or consumes Rupture — instead knocks enemies away and applies Rupture

🔥 Destruction: No longer damages, prevents death, or gives immunities.

Now grants:

📊 Bonus stats

⏱️ Lower cooldown

🔁 Cooldown resets on Mark kills

🎯 Basics pierce targets and apply 2 Rupture stacks

Penetration Item Changes

Tier 2

🪓 Lucerne Hammer

❌ Removed % Penetration

💪 Increased Strength: 15 → 35

🧱 Now a T2 Pure item (no longer builds from a T1)

💰 Total Cost: 950 → 1250

👁️ Evil Eye

❌ Removed % Penetration

🧠 Increased Intelligence: 25 → 45

🧱 Now a T2 Pure item

💰 Total Cost: 1000 → 1200

💀 Killing Stone

🧠 Decreased Intelligence: 40 → 35

💸 Decreased Recipe Cost: 550 → 450

🧩 Void Shard

❌ Can no longer purchase multiple copies

🎽 Survivor’s Sash 🧱 Now a T2 Pure item

🔁 Passive: Gain 25 Strength or 35 Intelligence, depending on the higher stat

🧱 Tier 3 Item Changes 🪓 Titan’s Bane 📈 Increased Passive Penetration: 25% → 35%

💸 Recipe cost adjusted to maintain same total cost

💠 Obsidian Shard 📈 Increased Passive Penetration: 25% → 35%

💸 Recipe cost adjusted

💀 Totem of Death 🧠 Intelligence: 40 → 45

🔁 Cooldown Rate: 15 → 20

📈 Max Stacks: 4 → 5

💰 Recipe cost adjusted

❌ Demonic Grip ❌ Removed from the game ➡️ See: The Executioner

🗡️ The Executioner ❌ Removed base Strength

🔁 New Passive: Gain 40 Strength or 70 Intelligence, depending on the higher stat

📈 Max Stacks: 4 → 5

🧾 Recipe Change:

Replaces Lucerne Hammer with Survivor’s Sash

🏹 Oathsworn Spear ❌ Removed % Penetration

💪 Strength: 40 → 55

💸 Recipe Cost: 550 → 300

💰 Total Cost: 2500 → 2550

🧨 The Crusher ❌ Removed % Penetration

💪 Strength: 40 → 55

🔁 Cooldown Rate: 10 → 15

🧾 Recipe: Void Shard → Lucerne Hammer

🧱 Brawler's Ruin ❌ Removed % Penetration

💪 Strength: 50 → 65

💸 Recipe Cost: 900 → 650

💰 Total Cost: 2450 → 2500

💘 Heartseeker ❌ Removed % Penetration

💪 Strength: 30 → 50

🔋 Mana: 150 → 250

🧾 Recipe: Void Shard → Lucerne Hammer

🕊️ Divine Ruin ❌ Removed % Penetration

🧠 Intelligence: 85 → 105

💰 Recipe cost adjusted

🗡️ Spear of Desolation ❌ Removed % Penetration

🧠 Intelligence: 85 → 100

⏱️ Passive Cooldown:

Non-Ultimates: 1s → 3s

Ultimates: 5s → 10s

📖 Necronomicon 💰 Cost: 2650 → 2550

❌ Removed % Penetration

🔋 Added +300 Mana and +5 Mana Regen

🧠 Intelligence: 45 → 50

🧾 Recipe: Replaced Killing Stone & Void Shard → Mana Tome & Evil Eye

💎 Doom Orb 💰 Cost: 2850 → 2700

❌ Removed % Penetration

🔋 Mana: 150 → 200

🧠 Intelligence: 65 → 90

❌ Removed MS per stack

📈 Increased Intelligence per stack: 4 → 8

⚡ Rod of Tahuti ❌ Removed % Penetration

🧠 Intelligence: 65 → 85

🔋 Mana: 200 → 250

🔁 Passive Conversion: 20% → 25%

🧾 Recipe: Mana Tome → 2nd Evil Eye

🔧 General Item Changes 🛡️ Gauntlet of Thebes 🔁 Passive Shift:

+1 Stack per minion assist, +5 per god kill/assist

Each Stack: +15 Max HP

At Max (40): Evolves → +200 Max HP

💠 Gem of Focus 💰 Cost: 2500 → 2350

🧠 Intelligence: 40 → 50

🔁 Passive: On ability use, gain 4% MS for 6s (up to 3 stacks)

⚠️ Now mutually exclusive with Tekko-Kagi

🗡️ Tekko-Kagi 🔁 Same Momentum Passive as Gem of Focus

⚠️ Now mutually exclusive with Gem of Focus

🔥 Mystical Mail 📏 Damage now scales by distance

🌪️ Passive:

4m radius

Base: 15 + 1/level Magical Damage/sec

+50% damage at close range, -50% at max range

🔥 Phoenix Feather ❤️ Health: 325 → 300

🔰 Magical Protection: 40 → 35

🔁 Active:

3 pulses

Heal: 100 + 10% missing HP

True Damage: Level + 3% Max HP (from items)

📅 Cooldown: 120s

🧥 Prophetic Cloak 📉 Threshold for Mitigation bonus: 350 → 300

💢 Rage 📉 Crit per stack: 5% → 4%

📈 Max Stacks: 4 → 5

🛡️ Shifter’s Shield ❌ Removed Mana

❤️ Health: 200 → 300

🧾 Recipe: Replaced Odigba → Survivor’s Sash

🌞 Sun Beam Bow ❌ Removed Strength, Intelligence, and Mana Regen

🌀 Attack Speed: 12% → 10%

🔁 Passive Scaling: 20% → 30% Basic Attack Damage

📊 New Passive: Gain 40 Strength or 50 Intelligence, depending on higher stat

🧾 Recipe: Replaced Soul Reliquary → Survivor’s Sash

🛡️ Void Shield & Void Stone 🔁 Passive (both):

Debuff enemies within 8.8m

Base -10% Protections (Physical for Shield, Magical for Stone)

Scaling: Up to +50% at close range, -50% at max range

🌀 Starter Item Adjustments 💎 Bluestone Brooch 📉 Damage: 120 → 100 over 2s

🐞 Bugfix: Repeat hits now deal proper ½ damage

🗡️ Bumba’s Spear 📉 Attack Speed: 25% → 20%

✨ Achilles: Major VFX rework + updated targeters

✨ Bellona: Targeters updated

✨ Athena: Targeters updated

✨ Medusa: Targeters updated

Quality of Life

• Players cannot use Wind Sprites if they are feared, grabbed, knocked back, levitating, mesmerized, rooted, stunned, taunted, or crippled.

Gods

Jing Wei

• Fixed an issue where Persistent Gust (A01) AoE did not show for local-players

Yemoja

• Fixed an issue where the Bouncing Bubble (A01) Projectile did not use the correct Skin color scheme FX on Low settings

Hun Batz

• Fixed an issue with his Sacred Monkey (A03) FX material

Items

• Fixed an issue where several items were benefiting from lifesteal
• Fencer’s Buckler removed as it no longer built into any current T3 items