Overview
*SMITE* beginners Guide to …Tips & Tricks for a Good Startup.I have a lot of little tips & tricks for you here, – and I recommend that you maybe return later on to read this guide through again, as there may be many little things to remember, – but first of all, – let me repeat what I say to all beginners: “Don´t worry!”In this guide you´ll find some advice on: `Voice Packs´.`Auto-Purchase´-function. `Level-Up´ Bonuses. Two Common `Traps´. A Final Good Advice.Please remember to rate this review useful (if you agree, of course), – and feel free to comment or ask if there´s anything you wish to share in regards to this guide.You might also want to see my *SMITE* beginners guide to … : My official *SMITE* review Gameplay & Battlegrounds Teamwork & Communication InGame-Currency & Purchases The Emote Trick
`Voice Packs´
A `Voice Pack´ is an extra feature that can be purchased, which makes your `God´ speak and make sounds and commands InGame with the specific `Gods´ own voice (instead of the standard voice that all `Gods´ have without the `Voice Pack´).
If you want to buy a Voice for your favorite `God´, you can select the specific `God´ and purchase a `Voice Pack´ for 200 gems (which is kind of an INSANE price!) If you buy `Voice Packs´ for ALL the `Gods´ that way, you´ve paid more than 20.000 gems. BOOM, right?!
You could also take your chances and roll the `Voice Pack Chest´ in the `STORE´ for 150 gems, but for a RANDOM voice. That way you may save about 5K in gems, – but it´s still A LOT of gems to pay.
Since you can only buy voices for gems (not for favor) my advice is this:
Patience, my friend.
Sometimes the `Voice Packs´ are on a 50% sale making the price 100 gems for a specifically selected `God´ of your choice. That way you can at least save a little and only buy the voice you want, but I would advise new players to wait a while with the voice-pack-purchases.
Hold on to your gems and use them wisely.
`Auto-Purchase´-function
There is another little advice that I often mention to new players of *SMITE*
(And I have also mentioned it in another guide regarding GamePlay).
It´s a good idea to activate the `Auto-Purchase´-function so your `God´ automatically buys the well-considered and pre-selected items you´ve found.
You can press `ESC´ while on the main page and choose `GUIDES´ in the menu-popup or in the (so called) Match-Lobby just before the battle starts, – and choose `GUIDES´.
`Level-Up´ Bonuses
In the beginning (and for the first 30 levels you progress as a player) there are rewards for every level (- don´t know what happened to level 3, though?).
You unlock a reward every time you level up as a player, – and you `Claim´ the reward by pressing it when it´s unlocked, – but my advice to you, is that you consider a few things before `Claiming´ them, – and follow my directions to get good benefits later on.
These rewards feel `NICE´ and provide you with the impression that this is normal. It´s NOT!
When it stops, – you´ll have to work hard for the bonuses, solve quests or buy access to them.
And in terms of using your `Level-Up´-gems, I will just say, treasure your gems and use them wisely, – in fact, try to hold on to them until you get a feel of what you want and what you need, – what is cheap and what is over-expensive, etc.
(For more specific information on the InGame currencies and earning-possibilities you might want to check out my guide on InGame-Currency & Purchases as well).
Two Common `Traps´
There are two very common `traps´ that new players don´t spot in the upstart until it´s too late.
(Including myself).
- Don´t `Claim´ every level-reward you get, as you `Unlock´ them.
- Don´t spend your InGame currencies on buying new `Gods´.
1.) Don´t `Claim´ every level-bonus you get, as you unlock them.
Of course you should `Claim´ the free `Gods´ you´re given, – and the gems and favor as well. In fact, – there´re only 3 types of level-rewards you need to consider, before you `Claim´ them. They are rewards that only gets better in time, – or is probably better used at another time.
- The `Enigma´-chests (you get 3 of them).
- The 50% Reduction-bonuses (you get 3 of them, 1 on a chest and 2 on skins).
- The Booster Bonuses (you get 3 of them, 2x`3-Days´ and 1x`15 Days´ of boost).
The `Enigma´-chests:
It´s tempting to `Claim´ an `Enigma´-chest as soon as you get it, but there´s approx. 700 different items in those chests, and more than half of them, can be purchased easy for Favor. (Ex. The `Emotes´). The`Enigma´-chests (and many other chests) does NOT have an equal drop chance for all the items, which means that you´ll only get the `cheap´ stuff in the beginning.
Instead keep the chests on stock for some time – the longer, the better. And `The Emote Trick´ which I´ve made a Guide on will provide you with good benefits, if you can resist the temptation of `Claiming´ them too soon. I know, – that´s quite a big challenge.
The 50% Reduction-bonuses:
It´s feels as if you are actually saving gems on these reduction-bonuses, right? Well, think again. All chests cost gems (most of them 400), – and gems are hard to get, unless you pay real money for them. You only get a few hundred gems as `Level-Up´ bonuses and if you use these 50%-reduction-bonuses you´ve already spent the gems you´ve just earned, – and more. Believe me, – in time you will know exactly when to use them. Keep them on stock for a while, – that is my advice, – and `Claim´ them when you know what you want.
The 3 or 15 Day-Booster-Bonuses:
These Booster-bonuses are actually always nice. They come as 1, 3, 15 and 30 day boosters. Being boosted for this period of time means that every battle you play gives you a double-up on all of the aftermatch-bonuses you can get. You then get 2xfavor, 2xXP, 2xWorshipers and so on.
When you `Claim´ the `Day-Boosters´ THE CLOCK STARTS ticking right away. So here´s my point! Sometimes (often over a weekends) there´re special game-events, – and often these events gives the players 2x`something´ or 2x`everything´ or even 3x`everything´ for the whole weekend (from Friday till Sunday). That´s 3 days in a row, right. So if you would normally get 100 favor for a battle, – you over the weekend would get 200 favor, – but if you have a 3-Day-Booster you get 400 favor instead. See it? All I´m saying is, – keep the day-booster-bonuses on stock and `Claim´ them on these special events to get really big benefits.
2.) Don´t spend your InGame currencies on buying new `Gods´.
You can purchase new `Gods´ for the InGame-currencies if you want to own new ones. This is SO tempting. And what makes it even MORE tempting, is that the favor you spend on the `Gods´ you buy, is kept on account for you.
If you buy `The Ultimate God Pack´ (which I´ve actually recommended in my guide on InGame-Currency & Purchases ) then you´ll get a FULL refund on ALL of the favor you´ve spent on buying `Gods´ uptill the time you buy `The Ultimate God Pack´. This may sound nice, – like getting it all back, – but it´s a `Temptation-Trap´. (imo)
You see, – all the time you´ve spent earning your favor and spending it on `Gods´, you´ve also gained plenty of bonus-chests and rewards, – maybe even been given gifts and more. All these chests have items in them that cost favor. Items, that you COULD HAVE bought easy, but instead have used on buying `Gods´. Meanwhile, you have wasted good chest-rolls on winning cheap stuff, that you could have bought for THAT InGame currency.
Believe me, – it feels like a true bummer to earn some Awesome Chest with a lot of good stuff in it, – and then you roll an `Emote´ that you could have purchased for 2.375 favor, instead of getting a Nice N´Flashy Skin that cost hundreds of gems.
But don´t despair, my friend, – I have an awesome little trick for you that I have explained in a Guide called `The Emote Trick´ – be sure to check it out, – you won´t regret it 🙂
A Final Good Advice
Finally, – my last little piece of advice can be easy to understand, but for some people a little hard to actually practice.
My advice is simply:
Be Nice. I know it´s a killing game, – and that´s NOT nice, – but I mean in the chats and in the interactions with other players. We´re all here to have fun & a good time. Some people can get real nasty and snap at you. You can use the `report´-feature if needed – or just rub it off, my friend, – and enjoy the game. I know I do!