Pantheon Winter Festival

The gods of every pantheon have united to celebrate the winter season, bringing unique festivities, challenges, and rewards. The event focuses on seasonal cheer and cooperative competition. Players can unlock exclusive skins, titles, and badges by completing themed quests and battling against each other in the exclusive game mode, Frostbound Clash.

Frostbound Clash:
Gods battle in a festive snow-covered arena to collect Winter Orbs that are thrown on the field. Deposit the orbs at the enemy team's Winter Shrine to deplete your enemies points, but beware, if you die with orbs, the enemy claims them as theirs. (Players would take their orbs to the enemy portal and use the 'interact' button to place them in.)

At minute 10. the Frost Giant (make fire giant blue or something lol) spawns giving a substantial amount of orbs to the team that kills him.

The arena is exposed to the elements, so be wary of the ice patches and snow drifts (the ice would be like Skadi ice, and the snow drifts would act like stealth grass).

Community Challenge: The Festival Tree:
Through the event, players work collectively to "decorate" a massive world-tree displayed in both the menu screen and the arena map. Decoration unlocks will be based on players completing quests and accumulating points. Players can then spend their points in a pool for unlockable decorations for the tree on the events tab. Quests may include:

• Winning matches with specific pantheons

• Earning gold across games

• Gifting a player a chest (ala Smite 1 gift system)

  Playing Frostbound Clash
  

  Winter-Themed Skins (don't ask me to draw lol):

• Santa? Danzaburou: He's dressed up like Santa, but all of his presents from his sack hurt. His voice pack would be his default voice but with lines of him trying to pull it off.

• Holiday Pajamas Jing Wei: Like a child who has matching Christmas pajamas with her family, and speaking of family...

• Holiday Sleepwear He Bo: He's not in the game yet, but he is Jing Wei's uncle

• Treemir Ymir: Sentient coniferous tree that is a little cold this holiday season, but he doesn't want to be cut down!

• Sapporo Sculpture Yuki-onna: Later down, I decided to include a new goddess and have her bring in the event, but the Sapporo Snow festival takes place in Sapporo, Japan and it celebrates the winter season via ice sculptures, so it would be a neat skin to include.

Once you spend enough points for decorations for the Festival Tree, players unlock Winter Wishes. Winter Wishes can be used to shop for rewards, including cosmetics and boosters. Purchasing skins during the event also unlocks Winter Wishes.

Cosmetic Rewards:

• Snowball Fight global emote

• Ice King/Queen badges (maybe use faces of skins that already represent these?)

• Snowscape background for god selection

• Event Title "Winter's Herald"

Usually events this big are brought in with some Smite lore and a new god (it was Danza for the last major winter event I know of), and I am going to be so real with you, I am not caught up on that. I am about 30 chapters in, so if this lore hook doesn't fit, oh well.

Lore:

From all of the chaos brought from the gods and goddesses raging war against each other for years, Nut has called forth Yuki-onna, a Japanese maiden brough forth in blizzards (the spirit that inspired the Pokemon Froslass), to demand respite. Whether it be from pure awe or respect, a cease fire has resounded across the battleground. Together, Yuki-onna and Nut have gathered the gods to announce that this winter season, no battles will be fought. Instead, they will celebrate their differences as we enjoy this holiday season together. The gods have agreed to this, but that has not stopped their competitions. Together, the pantheons have banded together to create the "most" representation without disobeying the order of Nut and Yuki-onna.

I hope y'all enjoy reading this and lemme know what you think!

Pretty sure this hasn't been a bounty yet, but I'd like to see one that rewards cosplay. I saw a Mini Metal Jing Wei the other day on Twitter, and it just got my gears turning. I want more incentive for cosplay.

Kinda along the same train of thought, I have this friend who is very good at decorating cakes, and I think it would be a very zany but fun idea to make a bounty that is themed around culinary creations designed around the Smite 2 gods.

One last one, and I remember suggesting something like this before to someone, but we should have a bounty about creating events for Smite 2 to get the community involved. Like, we could have something where each host of Casual Friday represents a pantheon and have a tracker for how many game were being played and/or won with every pantheon. We could use Titan Talk to keep track of the progress and hype it up through Twitter and make it a whole event. I would absolutely root for Celtic (yes, just Cernunnos, fight me) over Greek. It would give me incentive to stick to a set of gods as well and help out with getting gods radiant since I am a very sporadic player when it comes to picking.

P.S. If the last thing ever becomes a bounty, can I just flesh out this idea more? Thanks for the answer if I get one xD

Narcissus

(Greek - The Echo of Love)

Damage Type - Magical

I love mirror-based characters in games, and I think that Narcissus can fit that bill pretty well. I will say, I'm going to give the ultimate options simply because I know tech limitations are a thing, but either would be super cool.

He would be a ranged, magical god that used a staff with a mirror on the tip to refract light as auto attacks. He would be mixed scaling using strength for auto attacks and some of his abilities to maximize possibilities with his mirrors, but intelligence would be the bulk of all of the ability damage. I can also see him as a backline support that focused on buffing his allies with CDR for his A01 while keeping the enemy boxed in and some great mirror placements alongside the CC provided by his A02.

Passive: Crime of Passion
Each time a mirror is shattered, Narcissus is filled with spite towards the god that shattered it. Narcissus does 5% increased damage against that target for 5s.

Ability 1: Narcissist's Impact
Narcissus places a mirror. These mirrors have the ability to bounce any ally projectile for additional damage. They also reflect Narcissus's basic attacks for a reduced amount of damage, but it always aims at the nearest target. He can have up to 6 mirrors out. The mirrors have collision and take 1 auto to shatter.

Ability 2: Shattered Love
Narcissus cries for himself. His tears ripple out, lowering speed and defense of enemies around him and shattering any mirror in range. Shattered mirrors do damage to any god within the mirror's radius.

Ability 3: Echo
Narcissus enters his mirror and exits another mirror within sight. The cooldown scales off of distance.

Ability 4 (proposed idea 1): Mirror Image
Narcissus holds out his staff and absorbs an enemy projectile. This blocks that ability from hitting him and stores it for later use. When used, this ability goes on cooldown for however long the used ability's cooldown is.

Ability 4 (proposed idea 2): Perplexing Pool
Narcissus creates a reflective pool of water on the battlefield. Anyone standing in the pool for 2s is mesmerized by their own beauty until they take damage. Narcissus can use Shattered Love to break the surface tension of the pool causing it to explode.

• My biggest pet peeve is time-to-kill. Hear me out on my unpopular opinion. If I were a new player and stumbled upon Smite 2 without any prior experience, I would open the game, go through the tutorial, and then try out a real match of either Arena or Conquest (depends which one it shoves towards new players) and I explode... Chances are, I don't understand why that happened. With slower health loss, that gives more time for me to react to the fact that my health is going down, gives me more time to try out my kit, and it just improves skill expression. That last point people fight on, but longer ttk=more action economy=more decisions=more skill.

• My other gripe is the fact that the UI on the T screen (the screen that tells you how you died) is just broken. As an experienced bad player, I wanna know what pretty skill colors hit me while I was blinking irl and convinced my character to vanish. Sure the numbers are there, but I would like abilities associated with said numbers.

• Last, this one is because I'm petty, but I hate Nu Wa minions. They always work for my opponents and never for me. Yes, this is a skill issue, and yes, I do know that there is a targeter to make them lock on. This will not get me to stop complaining about them. This is the most inconsequential pet peeve of mine because I face it alone. Screw Nu Wa minions. Where's my Tiamat minions at?

My favorite content creator for Smite 2 is Cinnamon. Sometimes we all need to step back from the competitive side of the battleground and chill, and Cinna is a beacon of chill. She is not afraid to spread her community's positivity (at the price of a raided pantry for cinnamon of course), and she always makes you smile.

Made this a while ago, but I think it's funny. If you know the Persephone drama, you know.

I mean, I dropped the kill, but can you blame me?

Lived a very sketchy 1v1. I'm proud of it.

I think funniest play would be good as a bounty idea. There's a lot of plays that aren't necessarily top tier, but are still hilarious to watch whether it be through reaction or just what happens.

Another bounty could be weirdest builds. I think there are some under-utilized items that could use some love.

There could be one for designing a god kit. Not everyone who wants to take part in design is an artist, but it could be that you choose a god and create a kit that would fit that god in mythos (it's me. i'm that person. i have great ideas for Aeolus).

And last, skin ideas/art. Artists being more out there is always a win for the community.