SMITE 2 - Desk Dive: Ares

The God of War has fought tirelessly on the Battleground of the Gods since the beginning and he isn't done yet.
Ares has arrived and is looking deadlier than ever. Join the team for a look at how he's transitioned to SMITE 2!

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[yaroslavka]

Not shitting on semi-rework, but expected god of war to be more dynamic, flexible.

Unfortunately he is AGAIN reliant on specific items to be viable. We HAVE to build prots and CD, otherwise he has no passive at all.

My point - make the passive the other way around too. If you build STR or INT, you gain some defensive benefits. It doesn't have to be prots, it could be like CC reduction, slow reduction (beacause he has no movement abilities), % damage mitigation or something crazy, like extra chain on his 1 if he gains more than 200 STR for example. Please, make passive more flexible, it's not too late

[lingwong]

Ooofff, I didn't think you could make Ares any better and boy was I surprised. Ares was my first guardian to hit diamond and I'm excited for the team fights that I'll be able to jump into.

[TTVKiraGloom]

Titan Forge with this new engine please give ares a cool interaction between his chains attaching and following up with a flame thrower igniting down his chains. Adding some kind of additional debuff or damage. Visually this would be so cool and feeling like ghost rider.
I think this would keep ares feeling refreshed by retaining his identity.

[giggsi]

My main character finally gets some love

[lamp]

Cool, make a Durag Ymir and add Merlin

[ДавидДавид-из]

Support smite 2 on steam deck or Nintendo switch 🙏

[topornik]

Passive rework is very welcome change for ares.

[caiwenji]

& I hope y'all make Nox strong too like some of the other OP Gods

[HW-owzp]

How come you guys say in interviews like this that you literally made the morrigan first with smite 2 so that she always worked but during the play test weekend she was as broken as ever in smite? Abilities not working, game breaking when she transforms. HOW ARE YOU GUYS SO INCOMPETENT

[justinanderson]

Can we get a Desk Dive on the Zeus rework please? He was the first god i ever picked up, he's my most played, highest ranked and he's the poster boy for the entire Smite franchise - yet somehow he gets a rework for Smite 2 and no-one even mentions it? Perhaps I'm missing something but this just doesn't make sense.

[Eliteplayer]

I wish they would make "drastic" changes. Yes, you would potentially lose your main/favourite god but you also could get new mains. What I mean by that is making Loki a mage like Morrigan and making Morrigan an assassin. Make Ares a warrior and Thor a guardian. Things like that. Reimagine some gods like they did with kkk and Ao Kuang. It does not have to what I said, I was just brain storming. Chabrakan is a fat Loki. With the changes to the stats and the new intelligence and strenght system there could be more fat Lokis and thin Cabrakans. And btw, if you wanted to make Ares chains more like chains, than they should behave more like chains (see Persephone ult). Imo missed a chance to improve or get rid of the chains.

[jackbarrera]

Ok for real Hi Rez where's the hulk skin for cu chulainn already?

[HadeyanUtkan]

As a supp main, I didnt like his #2 also his passive kinda lame. But the new #2 definitely way worse than the of #2

[Snubzad]

Did you guys just rework the characters add a few more graphics updates and release the same exact game ? ... I was clicking this vidoe to see smite 2 and the whole time I thought I was watching smite 1 with update lmaooo .

[lblykon]

Remake Janus portal on the floor move😔

[adithyaananta]

Rip, only america and europe server, unplayable, rip ping😢

[braven]

So is ares still a mandatory beads purchase orrr...

[Nonco-]

Ares is very strong atm. I dont think that he should be getting the strength/Int aura that he gives his team, or at least he should be getting half the aura he provides his team. Because right now you can build as many prots as you can and get 100 STR for practically free. This makes it so a support ares can 100% to 0% just about anyone in the game by himself. I think the aura he gives is awesome, I just think he should not get the entire buff to himself when he's alone.

[HW-owzp]

Morrigan already broken in smite 2 rip hirez

[jackbarrera]

They should do a collab with MARVEL with Thor as MCU Thor Loki as MCU Loki Sylvanus as Groot Hou Yi or Hachiman as Hawkeye Danzaburous as Rocket Raccoon Jing Wei as Iron Man Merlin as Doctor Strange Zeus as Captain America and Apollo as Star Lord but I don't know witch god could be Black Widow?