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Unless these items get hard nerfed, this build should be good throughout the entire year. I know I didn't get a relic at beginning but it all depends on the mid/jungle duo. You can also put this build on any character that works well with conduit. Also, you can swipe out any spears for a divine if the enemy has a healer.
Conduit Gem
Chronos' Pendant
Spear of the Magus
Rod of Tahuti
Obsidian Shard
Spear of Desolation
Archmage's Gem
Calamitous Rod of Tahuti
Aegis of Judgement
Temporal Beads
Y
B
A
X
Hi, my name is actually TheClumsyBoi but I can't change my username. I have played SMITE for 3 years and have been on a high school SMITE team for all 3 of those years. I have had a great deal of success over in the PlayVS league and made it to the east coast championship the final year that they hosted. Now I am currently in the AVGL league with playoffs happening right now. Ever since season 6, I was an ADC main but have switched over to Mid at the start of season 9. And the one thing I see common no matter what meta you are in, all mid items consist of power, penetration, and cooldown. That is why I created a basic guide to use in every match with every mage character for people starting out in mid.
One thing that will help me make the guide better are giving me feedback in the comments. Also if you want to talk to me more, I work on a discord that hosts tournaments for popular games and we also have smite. Here is the link to the Discord Genesis Esports
One thing High-Rez likes to due in mid is always play with the items more than the characters. The item tree High-Rez likes to play a lot with is the magic focus aka power pen tree. Other popular trees that affect the meta are lost artifact, spell book, and tiny trinket. With may of these changes being unique in the last few years, this leves many good metas/gods unnoticed until big events. The best example is Paul's Scylla is season 7 worlds. I encourage you to rewatch worlds that year because of the long and great matches that took place.
This seasons meta Is nothing short of being diversified but consistently evolving. The current meta is played through getting the flat penetration online before anything else. With the most recent nerfs, This might change build order. The only other consistent item that is being built in almost every build is Chronos Pendant. Early pathing was also changed this year resulting in the mid and jungle being together early. They will start at speed buff and then they will get red before going to mid. The only person who might get Hand Of Gods to start would be the jungle but that is just an option and not a must need.
Top 10 Gods
1) Thoth
2) Agni
3) Poseidon
4) Eset
5) Scylla
6) Persephone
7) Janus
8) Discordia
9) Ra
10) Ah Puch
Top Item Categories To Build
1) Penetration
2) Cooldown
3) Power
4) lifesteel
5) Health
6) Protections
7) Movement Speed
Top Items To Build (excluding starters)
1) Spear Of Magus
2) Divine Rune
3) Chronos Pendant
5) Spear of Desolation
6) Rod of Tahuti
7) Obsidian Shard
8) Soul Gem
9) Soul Reaver
10) Typhon's Fang
If you made it to the end, thank you. If you are interested in participating in a tournament related to smite, I am planning a 50,000 gem prize pool with AVGL/Boom TV. If you are interested, Here is the link. If you want to join a smite community I am a part of then the discord link is Here.
Thanks to all who have read and leave a comment because I would like feedback!
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Will provide some comments on your builds.
Simple Mage Build With Conduit
- Flat pen items are typically built early to mid game. If you want both Magus and Deso in your build, you might consider them back-to-back.
- Tahuti is fine mid build and on, but again, with Deso in your build, consider Deso before Tahuti except for some specific gods.
- Even if you're mainly just providing a single build, it's still good to have a listing of functional situational items, and if you want to put in a bit of extra work, explain when those items are used and where they'd slot in a build (and in place of which other items).
- Further to the alt items, while all of the items in your main build are common items, there are others that are used very often as well. It would be good to see
Simple Mage Build With Sands
Simple Mage Lifesteal
Meta Ranking
Just curious where and how you defined these lists.
- Top 10 Gods: Is this top gods picked or pick+ban? Top gods for win rate? Casual or Ranked? Might be good to define this. Also, if you're numbering this list, is it in actual order? If you want some current reference, check Casual Smite. You can choose between Casual and Ranked, which patch (9.3 is current), then order the lists based on role/class (Mage) and further define orders based on things like win rate, pick & ban rate, etc.
- I'm not sure you need to define "top item categories to build." Providing your example builds negates the need for this to some degree. If you do want to keep this...shouldn't Power be at the top? Power is in almost all mage-preferred items. You would also want to define flat pen and % pen as separate IMO, and in terms of actual preference, those should be right after power. Things like MS are usually afterthoughts (or just added utility). Again...think you'd just remove this list.
Hope my comments are helpful!Thanks,
TheClumsyBoi