SMITE 2 - What are Ascension Passes?

Want to know more about Ascension Passes in SMITE 2 before picking up a Founder's Edition? We've got you covered!
Join us for a look at SMITE 2's new Mastery System and how you can ascend to new heights with Ascension Passes!
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[Rendertk]

Just going to copy the forum info here for anyone looking:
TL;DR: Nothing we had previously seems to be paywalled, ascension passes give faster worshipper boost, cosmetics, we don't know what the advanced trackers are but kills and assists as well as emotes are in default mastery not ascension. The 11 gods are Zeus, Anubis, Bellona, Chaac, Ymir, Bacchus, Neith, Anhur, Loki, Cernunnos, and Hecate.


God Mastery


- Play games of SMITE 2 to earn Worshipers.
- Gain Mastery Levels as you reach specific milestones of Worshipers.
- Earn Cosmetic Rewards when you reach certain Mastery Levels.
- Many Mastery Levels will provide Cosmetic Rewards for free as you level up.
- Unlock the Ascension Pass to earn additional - Cosmetic Rewards as you level up.

Individual God Progress

- All Mastery and Ascension progress is tracked individually per god.
- Playing games as a specific god in SMITE 2 will earn Worshipers for that god, which earn progress toward Mastery Levels for that god.
- Ascension Passes must also be unlocked per god.
- Ascend anytime and claim the Ascension Rewards, even if you already reached God Mastery Level 10 on that god.

Free and Ascended Mastery Rewards

Free Mastery Rewards

- Unlocked Through Mastery Levels
- 1 Skin
- Clap Emote
- Wave Emote
- God Kill Tracker (New Item Type!)
- God Assist Tracker (New Item Type!)
- God Mastery Level 10 Badge (New Item Type!)
- Mastery Emblem
- Mastery Emblem Stars for Levels 11+


Ascended Mastery Rewards available after an Ascension Pass is unlocked

Unlocked Immediately

- Permanent Worshiper Boost for the Ascended God
- 1 Skin
- 1 Advanced Tracker (New Item Type!)
- God Mastery Emote

Unlocked Through Mastery Levels

- 2 more Skins
- 1 more Advanced Tracker (New Item Type!)
- 1 Global Emote
- 1 Title
- Additional Loading Screen Cosmetics

The first 11 Gods that you'll receive Ascension Passes for via the Deluxe Founder's Edition will be Zeus, Anubis, Bellona, Chaac, Ymir, Bacchus, Neith, Anhur, Loki, Cernunnos, and Hecate! We can't wait to share more information on new SMITE 2 cosmetics when they release!

[ketchupboy]

I just wanted to express how much I dislike the fact that the ascension passes give boosts to worshippers. I purchased the Ultimate Founders Edition minutes after it's release in hype for Smite 2 after sinking 4k hours in the original. Giving permanent boosts to really our only form of progression to people that pay though feels BAD. It takes away a lot of the motivation and feeling of accomplishment knowing I literally have paid for a boost. I would MUCH rather be given higher quality skins and cosmetics over having a permanent worshipper boost. Worshippers don't serve any tool other than individual accomplishment, which feels diminished by the ability to effectively pay to boost it.

Edit: To reply to some of the comments, I think a lot of you are missing the point. Currently, the ascension passes will only really sell because of the fact there's a permanent booster attached to them. Instead of letting player pay for more worshippers, I'd rather have better quality cosmetics. It seems the old mastery skins are effectively being put behind a paywall with this, which few care about, but people will still buy the passes for the booster. The whole argument for having the boosters, is that worshippers don't matter so I shouldn't care. On the flip side though, if worshippers don't matter, why wouldn't you care?.. If you honestly believe that and support the booster being a part of the passes, why would you not want more quality cosmetics for your money instead of a booster that you effectively view as useless? Another view however is that masteries are effectively achievements. Worshippers are effectively achievement points, as they have no other use, so it's just really weird that they're going to be purchasable in a way. For some people that do enjoy getting masteries however I know that this could absolutely create a lack of meaning and genuinely ruin the feeling of accomplishment when hitting those goals. I would much rather the pass give something somewhat useful like a small number of gems (like the current battle pass system), favor, potentially a favor boost when playing those gods(?), better/more cosmetics, or just anything. I just don't see the reason to devalue worshippers, a form of achievement points.
Also, I wanted to acknowledge the fact that Hi-Rez can say the reason for the boost is to progress through the pass faster. I think there's a happy middle ground though. Make the pass's points separate from worshippers. 1 worshipper can be equal to 1 pass point, but if you buy it, 1 worshipper then is equal to 2 pass points, or something like that. Or, make it so after completing the pass (Mastery 10 presumably) the boost stops so it's not just a permanent thing that continues to devalue worshippers indefinitely.

[OmegaLittleBob]

I'll be frank, I watched this video a few times, I read the blog post a few times, and I'm still not 100% sure what Ascension Passes are.

[FufflesTheLion]

Okay, but you never address how to get said "god-specific battle passes" outside of the founders edition. Do I spend gems on them and if so are Legacy Gems worth anything towards these? Do you use Favor on them if that still even exists in Smite 2? Do you only get it via DLC purchases? You need to actually go into detail.
Also no Diamond skins anymore? Kinda sad, but not as much as Fenrir still remaining a solid material statue compared to other characters just getting their clothing gilded. I find the pearl theme quite cute tho and its nice to see shadow skins return.

[anon]

Basically looks like colorforge for default skins, which is great. Good way to reward dedication to a character.

[bowlinbob]

So how much are Ascension Passes if you dint get a founders pack?

[Squidachu]

please tell me the god stat trackers actually track like specific actions on a god like say how many times you've pinned someone as Erlang and not just quadras with this character

[clc]

can you choose for which god you want to use this pass or is it predetermined?

[hugeguy]

So if we just get the 30$ pack can we buy the passes with the Legacy Gems or with whatever the new currency is?

[Zanroff]

The wording suggests that it force unlocks the ascension pass on the first 11 or 23 gods. That sounds kind of insane though. Not the good kind of insane. I would have expected that I could save my ascension passes for the day of full release and use them on whoever I want.

[MystiNebula]

Reading through what an ascension pass gives, it seems to make up for the big price of the ultimate founders edition. Considering each ascension pass would give you 3 skins (Maybe 4, I got a bit confused whether the free skin was included in the count for the ascension one), the emotes, and a bunch of other cosmetics, and you get 23 of them, so you get 23*6=69 (nice) skins, along with the tier 5, the neith skin, and the godpass. Seems good to me.

[TimeyWimey.]

Would be cool if it was something they added to in the future. Or if there were specific currencies you could get for each god throughout the pass where you could get some of their skins if you accumulate enough of it. Right now it just seems to be a mastery + thing (or something pay walling previously available mastery items).

[Folkeregor]

So essentially, you pay to get an Permanent EXP boost to get all the god's regular stuff, and at Max Level you'll now have the option to "ascend" which increases the level cap further for more cosmetics and emotes and stuff to unlock. (in addition to a few minor thank-you items for purchasing).

[MutantmanKJF]

So I can prestige my diamonds? Could be cool way to unlock shadow skins that disappeared when yall killed the clan system

[ozvespinoza]

My purchase of this pass is pretty much dependent on ps5-Pc coñrosssave, or at least knowing that if cross save is finally posible for Playstation in a few years i can link my old account.

Saying it because in smite you can PERMANENTLY link your account with the smite 2

[Knuckelsix]

So each god has a BP??? Am I interpreting this right? If so yikes.

[LmaoZeroGN]

I seriously wish you guys would clear up the explaination on legacy gems. In your original FAQ pre-Founders pack release, you describe the founders pack doubling your legacy gems as "giving you equivalent buying power in smite 2", but does this mean instead of the legacy gems only covering 50% of purchases they cover 100%? Or are you saying that having double the legacy gems that cover half of the purchase, but double the purchases to use them on, is an equivalent amount.

I already bought my 30 dollar pass, but i wouldnt consider it equivalent buying power from game to game, because i have well over $2000 into smite and id essentially now have to pay $1000 into the new currency to have, as you called it, "equivalent buying power"

[ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

*_I REALLY WISH THAT THIS WAS CLARIFIED “BEFORE” I BOUGHT THE SMALLEST FOUNDERS PACK._*

[destroazuredx]

I think a big part of ascension passes, should give you a big discount on the skins hi-rez releases for said god, or maybe even that class of god (this can be conditional, like the discount gets wider on the skins if you own enough passes of that god class) ...if you make it worth it, between rewards, pricing etc people WILL pay. I believe more people overall paying for things is better than big burst buys but I could be wrong.

When for example, smite 2's oddessy rolls around, since more popular/newer gods get skins anyway a discount on that product could get more people guaranteed to buy that product or to spend money at all if they are trying to grind fwotd or daily log in gems.

Between Daily log in gems, and maybe adding a way to get gems for FWOTD or by playing enough games daily without leaving (like maybe 15 or 10 extra a day) Especially after you guys change your prices for gems; assuming those prices will go up? I think ascension passes are a good idea, just make it possible to get if someone grinds your game enough, smite 1 had some f2p systems that kept people willing to play, come back etc.

[grimreaper]

The most important info, namely whether you can choose the gods who receive their Ascension or not, was not in the video. My sincere gratitude to the user whose comment made clear, that you CANNOT choose the god.
That is a deal breaker for me. HiRez, I am positive that you made this decision with full awareness of its implications, but I will not spend a single Euro on your game if you will not let me choose my favourite gods to ascend them