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Few terrible things I encountered in last couple of days:

- There are no players playing League arena at all. That's why we never get into a game. Leagues conquest sure has lots of players.

- Lost two consecutive games in league arena after winning 2, just because of the same nooby guy matched in our team twice, he didn't care about what other players are saying and team balance just took the 2 gods he knew to play. Abused our carries in both games and did worst in the game if anything at all.

- One guy spoiling the show continued in a conquest. Where, in the match lobby our ao and aphro called for duo lane like stupids. And they both were eager on surrender vote and pressed F6 four times, yet we finished the game. Ao was the second worst (my jungle guan was more level than him throughout) and all did well except that aphro going 0/11. What can the carries and other players do.

- One more story, in league conquest our Baka didn't knew wat is jungling. When all teammates were level 14 he was level 5 and mostly AFK and abusing all others throughout. The game ended in a surrender.

What can the team or carries do?

Ben playing Dawngate when I'm bored of smite. I recommend it. Pretty casual feeling Moba. But really fun. Seems theres no serious meta currently. Well big patch just came out, it might be changing that. We'll see.

Don't get me wrong. The new patch for what I've played has ben amazing.

The recent patches of the game just made me feel... unwilling to play it. Certain buffs and nerfs, the removal of Domination( My favorite Game Mode). And now, they play to give us less patches due to the game release. HiRez really needs help with the balance team, or else we'll be doomed to play an unbalanced game, or to not play the game at all, getting the balance only after an entire month, and maybe even more time! This concerns me a lot.

Yeah, the visual updates are nice. Some god additions are good as well( Geb became one of my favorite gods in a long while, thanks HiRez!), but the buffs and nerfs are what concerns me the most.


Now, we shall wait to see what happens. Until there, I'll stick to Starcraft II, Dawngate and League of Legends.

In jungle practice-yes,but i guess he means arena practice,joust practice etc

I guess all gods are playable in practice mode.. m I wrong?

Just bring back domination for the love of God and allow use of all gods in practice mode.

Few Domination memories: I can recall how important was the role of Ao Kuang in the middle lane. I played a lot of games with old thumper XVI Vulcan and really enjoyed defending/capturing lanes with him. His ulti was awesome in defending sentinel. My father really enjoyed watching me playing domination, as it was very simple to understand for even a non-player.

I also agree with all4 and intuition says that hi-rez must be doing some serious work to bring back or reinvent domination. So we still have hope!

Note: Also we have sent our letter to Kelly. It contains 3 sections:

- The letter subzero wrote
- Summary of my various posts including criticisms from various members.
- A note from the game veterans. ( this section includes some of the stuff from this blog including the whole mid paragraph of the post by jararonatsu.
- +some extras like idea of customizable legendary skins.

Yeah. I remember. Baka and Monkey were the best and most fun gods in Dom. It was really simple:
You jumped over the wall towards mid, ulted, and got a penta. And once you got Bloodforge on baka, you just didn't care. You tower-dove all day every day.

Domination was defenatly a fun game mode. My bakasura omnomnoms is something i miss, but hirez is working on a new game mode that is similar to dom. Hang in there

For me, Domination was the most fun in SMITE. It's just, so relaxing. And fun. You can always carry your team. With gods like Bakasura and Hun Batz, it was the most fun I have ever had with SMITE. It was something between Conquest and Arena. You didn't have the clusterf*** of Arena which is a constant CC-chain team fight (which is nice to have sometimes, but not all the time), and it wasn't as "serious" and commit-demanding like Conquest. It was in-between. And yes, Domination had its problems, but I just miss it so much.

It was also the best game mode IMO for testing gods that you haven't played yet, as you had always where to fight, didn't care THAT much about dying and you'd have both 1v1s and team-fights, unlike the two other game modes I've mentioned, as 90% of Conquest games end up in surrender and I almost never get to late-game.

i am now playing too much League of Legends, it just feel more variated than the current SMITE

I've actually been playing a lot of Dawngate as of late. I recommend that everyone tries it. It just had a "big, fat, sexy overhaul" as I like to call it. Read the latest patch notes.

Smite is just going down a road that I'm not favoring. I don't think that Hi-Rez listens to the community well, unless it's SmiteFire (to an extent, maybe?) and the Ranked players. Hi-Rez can't seem to comprehend how to balance a game and/or the Gods, and overall has made the game not as fun as it used to be.
Each released God is more OP than the next, and nerfs and/or buffs are ridiculous. FPS problems are horrible for me and this was rarely a case prior to the recent patches.

The removal of Domination really did it for me. Not gonna lie.

I would ask that people listen to the last... three Ward Up! podcasts, especially the one that last had Sunfall in it. That explains how we feel pretty well, I must say. The one after is pretty good, but it's mostly me ranting. I love ranting XD