Official QQ Thread

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But yea throw me a friend request on Smite -Lickalottapuss-

This is the support for solo queue.

Ares is easily my favorite God in appearance and stylistic vision. I love the idea of the chains, his lore, and the overall direction they took with him.

My QQ is that I never see him being balanced. I think he is just going to pop back and forth between OP and UP. It seems like he'll either be completely countered or almost uncounterable due to abilities. Before the Bacchus patch he was obviously overpowered with his amazing defensive support, great damage/slows, and his insane ultimate.

But now that his defensive support has been nullified for the most part and buyable abilities (I'm looking at you AEGIS/SPRINT!) are cheaper, more effective, and have the exact cooldown as his ultimate, he seems relatively underwhelming. That's not to say he's useless as he is still formidable due to his damage, overall tankiness, and inability to be completely shut down stat wise, he his just easily countered by people who have the most basic understanding of his mechanics.

I mean, I still do just fine with him in PUG games and that's great, but I don't think I'd ever consider him for a pre-made 5 man team at the moment. Someday though, someday I'd like to have a 5-man team with him as my main character, haha.

On another note, I hate how Hel can also negate his ultimate with her CC. Excuse my language, but FORGET HER (I DECIDED NOT TO CURSE, WHAT OF IT?!).

Also, although he's effectively countered, he still forces people to get Aegis, which may hurt their early/late game since Meditation is almost necessary now for early game sustain (unless you can score the Mana buff) and sprint is so OP late game you'd be a fool not to get it for its insane chasing/escaping usefulness.

Blah, don't mind my rambling... QQ

I was actually talking to a friend about this earlier today. It is fairly common, not only in many MOBAs but, in many class / ability based multiplayer RPG style progression games. I don't know if the devs do this to more accurately gauge the community's reaction or what, because it doesn't make any sense.

As you said, pre-patch Ares is OP, post-patch Ares nerfed to hell and UP (underpowered, yes you saw it here first). IMO they need to nerf Bacchus and give Ares back a bit of his swag. Bacchus built with Phys Power is unbeatable in the hands of someone that knows how to use him. He hits for 100 at first level....AT FIRST LEVEL!...which makes Thor look like a little girl early game. On top of that he's a tank and has, arguably, the best cc in the game.

Again, did HiRez introduce Bacchus like this just to see what would happen?? He is utterly, ridiculously OP and Ares has been tossed to the curb. We'll see what happens in the near future, cause this craziness can't go on for long.

Bacchus can be crazy OP, especially early game due to his Drunk meter giving him insane, right off the bat physical attack. I've only been around for 2 God releases, but it seems that Hi-Rez likes releasing Gods OP and then bringing them down overtime. The reasoning behind this may be to get people interested in playing the new God (lets face it, no one would want to play a new UP God) so they can better assess glitches the God may have.

I just want Ares to be a God I can pick with confidence! QQ.

What might be interesting is letting Sprint alter his movement speed while doing his No Escape ultimate. That way he could semi-negate his 50% mobility debuff at the cost of burning a chasing/escaping cooldown.

The 50% slow during ult makes no sense to me as to why they did that, it wasnt that he was able to move same speed that made the ult insane, it was the fact that he pulled everyone and then STUNNED them in place for a full second.

His 2, Ill give em that one. His 2 was incredibly insane and needed the nerf, not the press and hold the nerf button for maximum power. It has become worthless to even care about anymore. 4 protection level 1, doesnt stop a single point of damage lol.

Yet, they leave his 1 alone. You know, the actual OP object of him besides the ult. The nuke skill that also slows and dots.

They need to throw out Ares and redo him 100%

This.

The cooldown on Loki's ult. It's not worth 90 seconds.

Rage more! ;)

My game just crashed, as usual when something IMPORTANT HAPPENS, while I was in ranked.
Then I joined back right when the game ended so I was bugged in the game no one was there just me. I left the game was reset to 0% goodwill, but had no deserter status.
I still got some Elo, 20, which isnt much for the fact that I had 12 kills I think.
Weird **** is going on.