In case you don't keep up on Smite News, it was announced when 5.22 patch notes dropped, and i'm pretty sure it was supposed to go live with 5.22 but got pushed back to 5.23.
Also, its all random gifts, meaning you pick the category, ex. Skins, Voice Packs, Emotes etc. and the game will select and send a random gift to the player you chose. I'm pretty sure it's picking from what you currently have unlocked, its not like you roll a chest and it's sent to someone else..
I personally think this is a dumb way to do this. If I have a friend that really really likes the Dark Whisperer skin for
Ah Muzen Cab, and he has Chompy Chibi for 
Fenrir, I want to be able to effectively trade those skins. Though technically you can, if you just gift over and over and over again until you're both happy.. But that sounds so tedious since I have like 140 skins or something and my buddy has close to or an equal number to that, that's a lot of luck to get what you want..Anyways, I'm curious to see if anyone likes it better how they're proposing, or the more traditional way.
Also, in other unrelated news, I decided last night to stop going for mastery of every god after getting to like 68 or so mastered.. I'm finding that its making it difficult for me to enjoy the game having to switch up the god i'm playing so often.. Obviously this is only an issue now since I've played with all the gods and have a solid grasp on which gods I enjoy, and which ones I hate...
Guan Yu *COUGH*Anyone else stop trying to "catch em all"" and just focus on enjoying the game?
In all honesty, this is an absolutely stupid set of limitations on what would otherwise be a great feature. Gifting means spending money (Hi-Rez getting money). Why would you enforce stupid limitations?
Here's the fix, which will likely never happen:
- Only items that can be bought with gems are allowed to be gifted
- First choose the player you will gift
- The system then limits gifts to what that player doesn't currently own (prevents from gifting something they already have)
- Gifts are NOT random. You get to F-ing choose. WTF HR.
- Fine, you like the random ****? Okay, just like you can buy a chest roll, you can gift a chest roll also. That fits within these rules.
Simple. Not stupid.As for mastery of all gods...I blogged about doing this over a year ago.
Now, if you don't like the variety of playing different gods all the time, that's absolutely fine and your call. I think you might just enjoy playing gods you're comfortable with more, because maybe you have more consistent success or something...I don't know. If it's about winning and doing well, okay, but I can have fun even when I don't win.
The bigger point here, and why I strongly, strongly suggest "mastering" each god, is due to familiarity. When you've played the gods enough to at least be familiar with their kit, it also means you know more specifically what they can do to YOU. It can absolutely help when facing them, as you know that, okay, they can push me or knock me up, but I know what the ability looks like and how long I have while it cools down to engage safely...or, I know that god has that burst combo, but it's not actually that powerful, and no one else is around to add to the damage, and I've got better burst, so I'm okay to engage without much fear of dying. Things like that.
And you might "know" what a god can do...but until you actually experience it yourself, you won't convince me you've got enough knowledge to utilize that info effectively.
Hence...it might be a slog, but I feel it's absolutely a solid idea to just do it.
I think the solution to this is devote 1 or 2 games at the beginning of the session to playing a new god, and then move to a more comfortable pick for a while, since thats about how long it takes me to want to rage quit. Lol. It'd also help me work towards my in progress rank 10's (
Regardless, you're 100% right as always. Lol
I can definitely understand...there are a small group of gods I prefer playing more than others right now...including
My friend said he was going to send one rat skin but looks like it will not happen anymore ;-;
I'd love to change some skins to try get Final Fusion of Rat but unfortunately I think they will not allow exclusive/limited items be exchange.
And I do hope they put a limit like 2 skins per week to avoid someone hack your account and take all your skins.