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Shoes
Mana Potion
Shoes of the Magi
Demonic Grip
Warlock's Staff
Rod of Tahuti
Polynomicon
Obsidian Shard
Doom Orb
Void Stone
Chronos' Pendant
Cloak of Meditation
Heavenly Wings
Shoes
Shoes of the Magi
Demonic Grip
Telkhines Ring
Polynomicon
Fatalis
Gem of Isolation
Gem of Binding
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B
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Behold Freya, the sexiest god in Smite! Freya is a very versatile Melee (or Ranged) AP god. This build focuses on mostly playing her as a ranged god. There are obviously many different ways to play her while looking at all the available guides here on Smitefire. I have found this build to work well for me and I've had great success playing her like this.
Pros
Skill break down as follows (I will explain the use of her skills in my build later in the guide):
Brisingamen's Blessing
Freya's necklace grants her an additional +15% magical lifesteal.
Irradiate
Freya activates a buff that lasts for 5 seconds that makes her basic physical attacks do an additional 40/55/70/85/100 (+35% of your magical power) magical damage. The additional damage is halved while Pulse is active.
Pulse
Freya activates a buff that lasts for 5 seconds that makes her basic attacks ranged that deal an additional 20/30/40/50/60 (+20% of your magical power) magical damage and slow by 25%, doing the same damage to nearby enemies. While Irradiate is active, the additional damage is halved while the slow and area damage are not applied.
Banish
At her ground target location, Freya banishes her enemies into the air for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds. The enemies can't be hit or take action while in the air.
Valkyrie's Discretion
Freya uses her Cloak of Feathers to fly above the battlefield where she fires down blasts of 120/150/180/210/240 (+40% of your magical power) magical damage up to 4 times while flying. Freya can't be hit during her ultimate and can right click to cancel it early.
Item's uses for my build as follows:
Shoes of the Magi
This is an obligatory item for Freya. This item gives the bonus Mana and Magical Power that you will utilize with this build. Fully upgraded gives you magic penetration which will help mid/late game. There is no substitute for this item.
Demonic Grip
I've added this item since my last update. Excellent item to get early game because it makes your Pulse hit faster and harder, (which will help you achieve that awesome k/d). Plus the passive is great for making early game squishes rage. This replaced Fatalis from my original build.
Warlock's Sash
This item is also obligatory. It gives Magical Power, Health, Mana, and permanent stacks towards Magical Power, Health, and Mana. Maxing the stacks on this item early/mid game will give you an awesome boost in your Magic Damage and give you even more survivability since you're so darn squishy!
Rod of Tahuti
This is an obvious item for most AP gods. You get 125 bonus Magical Power, extra MP5 (regen) and at it's max level +25% Magical Power. This is strictly a DPS item. This is going to give you that extra Magic Damage mid/late game.
Polynomicon
I've come to realize that the passive on this cannot be ignored. Using Pulse with a full Polynomicon is just awesome. It's a huge nuke and it add's to your maana pool as well as your magic lifesteal for sustainability.
Obsidian Shard
NOTE: THE FINAL ITEM IN THIS BUILD MAY BE EXCHANGED FOR ONE OF THE THREE SITUATIONAL ITEMS I LISTED
Obsidian Shard is great to get last because it gives you even more Magical Power to up that Magic DPS of yours. It's also nice because it gives you that Magic Penetration which will be important mid/late game since your enemies (if they are aware of what is happening) will have grabbed some AP protection. No worries! With this item you will still be tearing them up.
Situational Items
Doom Orb
Doom Orb is a stacking item like Warlock's Sash, however they are not permanent and lost on death. I would only recommend grabbing this item if you're not dying a whole lot as it's a pain to re-farm the stacks. If you do grab it though, you'll note the huge boost in Magical Power from the stacks (+160 Magical Power total). It also gives you some extra mana so you can spam skills more often. If you decide you want Doom Orb, I wouldn't get it last. I would get it right after getting Warlock's Sash so you can farm stacks for each item at the same time (then continue with the normal item order).
Void Stone
This item can be your last item if you feel you need more survivability. If the opposing team is stacking AP, this would be a nice so you can have a little more defense against those AP gods. It's also nice that you get that debuff aura at max level (-30 Magical Protection). This will counter their AP protection and allow you to dish out a little more damage.
Chronos' Pendant
Self explanatory item. If you feel that the cool downs are holding you back from dominating your enemies even more, grab this. Simple cool down reduction plus a little magic damage increase.
Fatalis
I'm throwing Fatalis back in the mix after some experimenting. I don't usually recommend getting it in conquest as it does not directly boost your magic damage. The movement speed and attack speed is nice but I don't think it's critical. I've used it a few times in Domination and Arena for moving around a little faster. That leaves Fatalis as a situational item.
Pulse will hit so much harder if you're decent at aiming. However, it can be slightly easier to line up shots if you're shooting faster. Also if you're playing a game mode like Arena where you just wanna run around using Banish and then Pulse this build is nice. It focuses on maximizing attack speed and movement speed so you can move around the battlefield a little faster.
As you can tell, this build focuses on stacking Magical Power (to increase your Magic Damage). While also maximizing your survivability (you're squishy, remember?). To really utilize the items and skill order I have presented, you should play Freya primarily as a RANGED god. Many of the other Freya guides seem to focus on maxing Irradiate. I have tried these other guides and I simply do not agree with this. While Irradiate is extremely powerful, it means playing melee. As I stated before, Freya is incredibly squishy! In my experience you can dish out a great amount of damage using Pulse as your primary skill and have excellent survivability because of it! (Now I'm not saying not to use Irradiate, it's great for farming creeps or finishing up a gank!)
Thanks for reading this guide. It is my first guide here at Smitefire, but I think it's pretty thorough and accurate for my first time.
If it helps you out be sure to up-vote it! Criticism and comments are welcome as always! I will try to add more to the guide as I try new techniques, if there is something you would like me to add please leave a comment and I'll do my best!
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- My skills are the same as yours.
- Start off getting the Boots of the Magi
- Now I get Obsidian Shard
- Then I grab Demonic Grip
- Then I choose two out of either Polynomicon, Book of Thoth, and/or Warlock Sash
- Then end with Rod of Tahuti
- Situational items are Spear of Magus and Ethereal Staff
This usually gets me to +650-ish Magic Dam (not counting stacks, etc) and an at least decent Atk Speed.
Everywhere I go, everyone says I'm building wrong, saying I have to go almost full Atk Speed. Help? Also advice on which actives are best are welcome.
My suggestion would be Boots, Sash, then Spear, then followed by Fatalis, Rod of Tahuti, and lastly Obsidian Shard.