How Do I Build A God?

1.Shoes/Boots Should be a Part of Your Build.


    Some form of shoes/boots should be a part of your build no matter what gamemode or god you are playing. They give 18% movement speed which you will notice immediately and give you decent power along with other stat increases. 

2.You Are Only as Tanky As You Build

This is a general tank build that can work well for me. Mark of the Vanguard is sold late game for a situational item depending on the other team's composition. 

   Guardians and warriors are naturally  tankier than mages, hunters and assassins but tank items help reinforce their natural stats.

3. Tanks need Physical AND Magical Protection, AND HP.

As you can see in this build Spirit Robe and Hide of the Urchin give you both magical and physical protection. At the same time, Bulwark gives additional magical and Breastplate gives you additional physical. This build also give you max cooldown reduction, a good amount of health and CC reduction.

   If you are going to be tanky or a bruiser then you need to have magical and physical defense. Another good stat to include in a tanky build is HP, and HP5 is a good stat for gods that have heals.



4.Penetration is A Must

This is what Penetration  can do to protection.

   Penetration is a necessary and important part of every build that lets you do more damage to towers, gods and objectives because you penetrate their protections. 

5.Start With A Starter 

   In game modes like Conquest, Clash or Siege buying a starter item will help you get through early game and then still help until you sell it off late game.

If you are a jungler Bumba's Mask is a must.

6.Mages And Hunters Get Stacks on Stacks On Stacks

   
  Mages and Hunters can buy items that stack to give them increasing stats that will help once they are bought and then get better as you build more stacks. 

  Usually you build these items 3rd or 4th to get them to full stacks as quickly as possible

7. Build To Your Role 

ADC,Support, Mid, Jungle, Solo 

   How you build depends on your role, in general ADC build damage and attack speed, Mid build damage and cooldown, supports build protection and health, solo laners, build bruiser with damage and protections, and jungler build either damage or crits depenging on who they are.

8. Hit Your Targets 

Just make sure that what you hit you hit multiple times.

   Items that require multiple hits to be at their maximum effectiveness like Executioner or Spear of the Magus are very strong items but only if you can insure that you will get the maximum amount of stacks. For example Spear of the Magus works best on gods like Anubis, Poseidon and gods that have attacks that do multiple hits.

9. Finish What  Your Started

Don't Build Like this 

   When you are building an item it is better to finish building 1 item fully until before you buy another item unless you absolutely need the other item. Finishing the first item will be more cost effective and more effective in a fight.

How To Use VGS in SMITE (PS4)

To use VGS Click Right on the D Pad  To use VGS Click Right on the Directional Pad. Then You Have These are your general categories for communication. From here we will only go over the most important commands for tactics and at the end we will see the more social commands. First I will go over the commands and after each section  explain what they mean and when to use them.

Start By Pressing Right on the D-Pad Then..

    Square = Emote

Fun ways to communicate and show personal flare with a character.

Triangle = Talk

General communication with your team but in a more social and friendly way

Circle = MIA (Missing)

One of the most important call outs to make. This lets your team know that the enemy in your lane (enemy mid laner if you are in mid etc.) is not in lane with you and to keep an eye out for them. This should be used every time the enemy that should be in your lane isn’t there, if they still aren’t there after a minion wave then call missing again.

X = Attack

This lets you team know that they should attack and tells them that you are about to attack and puts you on the same page as them

R1 = Tactics

Under the Tactics Menu you have the options for Gank, Help, Ward and Defend.

Square = Gank  

Gank basically means go for the kill and is used when you are making a rotation to a teammates lane and lets your team in lane know to be aggressive and that you have their back. This is an important call out to know so that you don't sneak up behind an enemy and then die because your team didn't know what you wanted them to do.

Triangle = Help

When things hit the fan, call for help or if you see on the map that a specific lane is getting pushed, telling them to "Help ___ lane" lets your jungler know which lane he needs to focus on ganking/pushing.

Circle =  Ward

Wards are a vital part of SMITE because it lets your team know when the enemy jungler is going to gank them, it gives you a heads up on rotations, and it can tell you when enemies are going for objectives. If see a lot of ganks in specific lane or area telling your teammates to ward near that area can save a teammates life.

X  = Defend

This means to go and defend a lane/objective. This is mostly used for when your team is not defending a lane/ the enemy is pushing a lane and no one is near it or when you think an enemy is trying to sneak an objective.

Endings =

With each and everyone of the Commands I’ve shown you after you have entered the general command you need to add an ending so say which lane you are talking about:

Square = Left Lane  

Triangle = Middle Lane

Circle = Right Lane

X   = Objectives

Objective =

If you need to tell them to attack, defend, ward etc. an objective then after you hit X you need to enter one more Command.

Square = Fire Giant

Triangle = The Titans

Circle =  Gold Fury

Some Example =

If you want to say attack right lane = Right, X, Circle.

Defend the Fire Giant = Right, R1, X, Square  

Other Useful Command: Here you can find the more social VGS that are used to just be a good teammate, friendly and make the game more fun.
Command	What is Says	General Tips
Right, Circle, X, + Ending	Retreat	If you hit X again it is a general “Retreat”
Right, Triangle, Triangle, Square	Hi	Good Manners to say when a game starts
Right, Triangle ,Triangle, Circle	Good Luck	Good Manners to say when a game starts
Right,Triangle ,Triangle, X	Have Fun	Good Manners to say when a game starts
Right,Triangle , Square, Circle, X	You Rock	Good Sportsmanship and team moral.
Right, Triangle, X , Square	Good Game	Good Sportsmanship .
Right, Triangle ,Circle , Square	Thanks	Good Manners.

If you guys think there are commands that are useful that I missed or if you think I missed something leave a comment. Hope this helps all the new PS4 Players get better and have more fun at the game so Right, Triangle ,Triangle, Circle and Right,Triangle ,Triangle, X. See what I did there...If not look back at the chart, if you don't think its funny then...umm.. I'm sorry, Its hard to be funny over text. See ya guys.

SMITE on Playstation 4 Review

World's Collide Odin
(PS4 Skin)

What SMITE is on PS4?!?!?
   Kinda as of right now it is only on is Alpha stage of development and Closed Beta starts in the beginning of March.


How Can I Play? 
   Right now the only way to play is by following SMITEgame on Twitter, Facebook or by following people who work at Hi-Rez. As of 2/24/16 right now IGN is also giving away codes so check them out.  

   Closed BETA starts in early March and you can sign up for it here http://www.smitegame.com/ps4-beta. 

C4CIDEMON. A PS4 exclusive Ymir Skin

Is it the same as on PC?  

   At its core its the same game and is just as fun but the game is a few patches behind, and the gameplay will feel clunky and awkward at first but the more you play, the more comfortable you feel just like the first time you played on PC. VGS, buying items, using actives and consumables also take a little time to get used to but considering how the implemented so many feature that are only used by a keyboard and mouse they did a really good job. (The buttons and UI are similar to the Xbox One as far as I can tell) 

What Do You Like About It?

• Hitting abilities with small radius is harder and you have to learn how to use the UI and features of the game like VGS with a controller.
• The game looks beautiful, all the effects and sounds are very crisp.
• There are multiple control schemes and they are very simple to follow.
• The gameplay is the same at its core.
• Overall its a really fun experience, clicking the wrong button can be heartbreaking when it makes you die but after a couple of hours of playing you can get the hang of it.

What Would You 
Like to See in the Future?
   It's only in apha and its been out for 5 days so I'm not going to critique it but instead say what I want to see in the future because like I said before this is only an alpha build and I only have a few games under my belt to judge the game by.

• Custom key binding so I can make the controls feel natural to me.
• All of the modes in the game as of right now I have only been able to play Arena and Joust 3v3 online. (probably will be fixed by closed BETA).
• The ability to link my accounts so I can have my masteries and achievements ( I like being noticed for my accomplishments don't judge me).
• Catching up to the PC version when it comes to Patches or getting caught up as close as possible.

I Have More What Do I Do?

  Check out Hi-Rez's PS4 FAQ page click here.