War has a new goddess.
Ishtar, Goddess of Love and War, enters SMITE 2—bringing flexible, high-skill ranged combat with her signature arrow stances. Adapt on the fly with explosive volleys, rapid-fire pressure, or wide cone attacks, and punish enemies with devastating crowd control and mobility.
But this update doesn’t just add a god—it reshapes how SMITE 2 is played.
⚔️ Conquest Reforged — Fight Back From Behind
This patch delivers a major pacing overhaul designed to stop runaway snowballs and create real comeback potential:
- Dynamic Jungle XP: Kill higher-level camps to catch up faster
- Lane XP Scaling: Behind? You gain bonus XP from lane minions
- Enhanced Bounties: Taking down fed enemies is more rewarding than ever
- Objective Rewards Reworked: More local power, less passive global snowball
If you're winning, you'll still have a meaningful advantage. But if you’re losing, you now have real paths back into the game.
🌿 Jungle Power Reined In
Junglers no longer control the entire map by default:
- Reduced camp rewards and farming efficiency
- Pathfinder buff reworked (less burst, less mobility)
- Harder neutral objectives require real commitment
The result: more balanced map impact across every role.
💥 Economy & Map Impact Changes
Victory now goes to the players making plays—not teamwide passive gains:
- Towers and bosses now reward local players, not team-wide
- Jungle gold pickups are no longer team-wide
- Objective control matters: Who does it—not just that it happens
One winning lane won't snowball the entire map anymore.
🆕 New God: Ishtar
Master three combat styles with Imbue Arrows:
- Strike Shot – explosive AoE pressure
- Spread Shot – cone burst with on-hit synergy
- Storm Shot – rapid-fire ranged DPS
Lock down enemies with lightning, dash in with blade combos, and finish with Blades of Retribution, a devastating two-phase ultimate.
🔥 New Ishtar Aspect (April 24) — Passionate Storm
Turn Ishtar into a relentless, jungle-focused DPS machine:
- Permanent Spread Shot
- Build Storm stacks, then consume them with your 3 for burst damage
🎁 Tracker Syndicate: New Travelers & Rewards
- Mystic Enchantress Nu Wa
- Shadowrunner Ratatoskr
⚙️ System & Gameplay Updates
- Critical strike damage reduced
- Tenacity improved to counter more CC effects
- Fatalis properly affects Aspects and Abilities that change a god from Melee to Ranged
- Dagger of Frenzy stacks are used by Abilities that benefit from its attack speed
- Party queue reliability improvements
- Multiple QoL and gameplay refinements
And So Much More
- Balance changes across gods and items
- Bug fixes and gameplay polish across all modes
Play SMITE 2 now.
For full patch notes, visit https://www.smite2.com/news/open-beta-33-update-notes/