Drop Kicks & Domination. | The Gilgamesh Update

The King of Heroes has arrived—and he’s bringing the fight with him.

Gilgamesh enters SMITE 2 with a unique progression system that transforms how you play mid-match. Complete in-game quests tied to your abilities to unlock powerful upgrades, earn bonus gold, and push your advantage as the battle unfolds. Every fight brings you closer to your next power spike—if you can rise to the challenge.

His kit is built for domination:

• Drop Kick enemies into walls or gods to set up devastating combos

• Control space with Winds of Shamash, trapping enemies in a deadly arena

• Leap, chase, and disrupt with relentless pressure and mobility

And with the Aspect of Shamash (dropping March 27), Gilgamesh evolves even further—transforming his ultimate into a standard ability. This new wind wall can be empowered by his other three abilities, becoming burning flame, impassable rock, or a breezy launch pad.

Item System Evolution

A new era of buildcraft begins.

This update introduces entirely new item stats and mechanics that reshape how you build and play:

• Plating – Mitigate incoming attack damage

• Dampening – Mitigate incoming ability damage

• Echo – Critical strike for abilities

• Pathfinding – Out-of-combat Move Speed

• Tenacity – Crowd Control Reduction

With brand-new items and reworked classics, build diversity is deeper than ever—and every choice matters.

• Radiant Bulwark – Deploy a wall that shares your defenses with allies behind you

• Doublet of Binding – Link to an ally and redirect damage to yourself

• Kinetic Cuirass – Unleash a shockwave after taking sustained hits

• Wyrmskin Hide – Ramp up Dampening against targets you’re fighting

• Alchemist Coat – Generate free consumables and gain bonuses from using them

• Mercury’s Talaria – Store movement energy to massively boost your next ability

• Resolute Mantle – Gain stacking Tenacity and regen after being crowd controlled

• Shroud of Vengeance – Punish CC with a damaging shockwave

• Damaru – Weave crits and abilities together for stacking bonus damage

• Omen Drum – Echo a portion of your ability damage across all marked enemies

A Better Battleground: Anti-Leaver 2.0 (Phase 1)

Competitive integrity takes a major step forward.

This update introduces the first phase of Anti-Leaver 2.0, designed to reduce match disruption and reward players who stay in the fight:

• Leaver Points track dodges and abandons across matches

• Low Priority Queue penalties scale with repeated offenses

• Improved AFK detection and enforcement

• Clear in-game messaging and accountability systems

This is just the beginning—future updates will continue to evolve this system.

New Travelers & Rewards

Expand your collection with new Wandering Market Travelers:

• Fiend Hunters Artio & Tsukuyomi

• Warrenborn Artemis

Earn cosmetics, prisms, and rewards as part of the ongoing Reign of the Archfiend event.

And So Much More

• Tower targeting responsiveness improved

• Arena and Assault pacing adjustments

• New bots and AI improvements

• Major bug fixes and balance updates across the roster

Forge your legend. Complete the trials. Become the King of Heroes. Play the Gilgamesh Update now. Full update notes are available here: https://www.smite2.com/news/open-beta-31-update-notes/