ahead of your opponent. This can also help you
learn to plan to clear camps in between waves, or
even ping your jungler to help you and gain more
value out of them. Remember: sharing is caring!
Moving on from the xp camps, we can now
cover buff camps. The same principles of for getting
additional xp and gold applies to these camps of
cyclopes, providing a nice 229 xp and 71 gold in
total. However, these camps have additional buffs
that are dropped upon killing the large cyclops.
These buffs last for 90 seconds, and picking the
same buff up while having one active (e.g. picking
up a blue buff while still under the effect of a blue
buff) refreshes the timer to that exact same time.
On the conquest map, the following
four buffs can be found:
• Damage (Red) increases your power by a
flat amount (5 phys or 10 mag), and then an
additional 20% afterwards. This buff has a
respawn time of 4 minutes (240 seconds)
• Speed (Orange) increases movement
speed by 20%.This buff has a respawn
time of 4 minutes (240 s econds)
• Mana (Blue) gives you 25 MP5, or 5
mana per second, as well as a cool 10%
As you can see, both camps provide amounts of
gold comparable to the amount gained by clearing
a wave of minions, along with good chunks of
Cooldown Reduction. This buff has a
respawn time of 3 minutes (180 seconds)
• Attack Speed (Purple) provides a 15%
experience. Having this slight advantage gained
attack speed bonus along with an attack
repeatedly over a match on top of clearing your
power buff (12 for physical gods and 15
waves can easily add to additional levels and an item
for magical gods). This buff has a respawn
over someone whose team isn’t taking advantage
time of 3 minutes (180 seconds)
of the camps. Camps can also be cleared with a
• These will help your game during all
teammate to help share the gains. A good habit to get
stages of the match. Whenever you can,
into is keeping a slight awareness of their respawn
you should try to pick up a buff or, for
times, 3 minutes for Mid Harpies and 1 minute and
the daring, steal the enemy’s buff. Just
20 seconds for Back Harpies. This will allow you
make sure you and your team agree on
to farm as efficiently as you can, and hopefully get
who should be getting which buff!
The SMITE Community Magazine Issue #19
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