Generally, I've never been the guy to care about my stats in any game, but for some reason, I care a lot about them in Smite. I know you can shut God Stats off on your Loading Screen, but that's the glory of having good stats, is to have people fear you on the loading screen alone, right? Nothing is worse than seeing an
Ah Puch with 3k kills.I tend track my progress with by setting quotas for myself, such as, 100 Kills per rank, with the hopes that at Rank X I will have 1k kills. Which is going fairly well with my
Ne Zha project right now...587 kills, 593 assist w/ a 2.28 KD at Rank VI, but, no...you have players like Johnny F%$&#*& Appleseed who pop into your game, instalock 
Loki, and activate a Worshiper Boost after you lock-in! Not to mention, I feel like HiRez makes every weekend Double Worshipers now, which sucks because it seriously deters me from playing the Gods I want to play like Ne Zha.I just feel like Double Worshipers take away from the meaning of Rank X, in a sense, takes away its exclusivity, you know? Maybe I'm overthinking the whole Double Worshiper situation, and harping too much on my God Stats, but that's how I feel.
and for real it doesn't there are enough people that can have rank X and be very bad. the only thing it shows is that people have played the god and should know a bit how to play it. I just turned it off. it's more fun to let people with a mastery lvl think you don't have one and then they go in overconfidently and feed you.
(edit: even in LoL I don't really like the system for kinda the same reason. however in a lot of cases the mastery lvl is spammed when people **** up and I never heard someone say somethink like, htf are you mastery *insert masterylvl) )
and for real it doesn't there are enough people that can have rank X and be very bad. the only thing it shows is that people have played the god and should know a bit how to play it. I just turned it off. it's more fun to let people with a mastery lvl think you don't have one and then they go in overconfidently and feed you.
(edit: even in LoL I don't really like the system for kinda the same reason. however in a lot of cases the mastery lvl is spammed when people **** up and I never heard someone say somethink like, htf are you mastery *insert masterylvl) )
Guys, I think I've found my next case.
(Devampi, the first step is admitting you have a problem.)
Loading screens are intimidating enough for me already (with everyone having much, much higher FP values, high God levels etc.), now I have to worry about everyone without a high God level because they might just be hiding it??!! :P
You shouldn't let the cards intimidate you. I've beaten plenty MR10's or so with ease and I have also gotten my backside handed to me while playing one of my MR10's couple of times. Mastery ranks and god stats don't have as much of an impact as much as people make it out to be.
But hmm...yeah, that's what I was thinking of...my bad.
Darn. You beat me to it ;-;