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@OP specify which game mode you're building for.
Shoes of the magi
Chronos pendant
Spear of desolation
Soul reaver
Obsidian shard
Situational
I left a situational spot in the build. Thats for bancroft. Building it early is valid as well.
You prefer early soul reaver in arena? Early bancroft i can understand. The whole early soul reaver is new to me.
Just don't get Chronos' Pendant that early on him and don't ever get Rod of Tahuti on He Bo.
And in this instance, I absolutely acknowledge that Ka4Drog is building it WAAAAAAAY too early.
That said, it still provides the highest base power of all mage items, and a significant power boost to enemies below 50% health (when it's already got a solid base of power from other items). Water Cannon has 80% scaling. Waterspout has 75% scaling. Crushing Wave has 115% scaling.
In a build containing Shoes of the Magi, Bancroft's Talon, Spear of Desolation, Ethereal Staff, Chronos' Pendant, and Rod of Tahuti, that's 605 base power, I believe, with a boost to 756 power against damaged enemies. 705 base power with He Bo at low health due to Bancroft's passive. Up to 881.25 total power potential.
Given that he usually will use multiple abilities to finish off an enemy, there's decent reason to believe he'll get that extra power boost in a fight. In a teamfight, he might have opportunity to benefit from it multiple times on multiple enemies. Soul Reaver only has the one, and if it triggers against a squishy god, is only adding ~200 extra damage every 40 seconds or so.
I'm just not getting why you say it's bad.
I think it works better on mages with tick damage like Anubis.
When you accept that asi bridge is love, asi bridge is life, everything will make sense to you my dear friend.
Anyway, Rod is only good on healers, Chronos, Sol and Zeus at the moment.
Yea then tahuti isnt the greatest item on anubis. Thanks for clarifying.
I'm not sure that this is correct, honestly. I could be wrong, though.
Tahuti is merely an item that can be considered on Anubis, like most other mages. It isn't core or essential for him by any means.
PonPon's response: https://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/8cmtgg/all_rod_of_tahuti_interactions_with_dot_damage/dxggrug/
From HiRezPonPon:
"There are three types of damaging effects; Immediate Damage (Scylla Crush), Pulsing Damage (Anubis Grasping Hands) and Damage Over Times (Zhong Kui's Card). Immediate Damage and Pulsing Damage are applying Rod of Tahuti passive correctly because they update on each time they hit, because each time it hits it is considered a unique instance of damage. Damage over times are an initial hit that stores that information and does the rest of the damage according to the initial stats it had when it hit."
So for Anubis, seems like since each instance can hit if they're in range/area, or not hit if they're not, it's pulsing damage...so in fact, Anubis should work well in general with the Tahuti passive.
If it's a DoT that gets applied if the person gets hit, and the damage just then applies over x time/hits, then it generally doesn't work with Tahuti.
This is pretty interesting. But goes to show, Tahuti switches function as it transitions from >50% to <50% health in only some instances.
But bran is saying the ***ive of Tahuti wont kick in for anubis?
Whats rhe final verdict? (I trust bran more than pon pon)
In fact, based on PonPon's response, it's only partially correct, and his explanation helps explain when it should work, and when it doesn't...and why healing over time, as a separate function, is still nice with Tahuti.