Blue Protocol: Star ResonanceVerdant Oracle Smite Spec GuideBest build and how to play the class.

Basic ATK

Vines’ Embrace

Skill

Wild Bloom

Ultimate

Divine Circle Bloom

Slot 1 - Mandatory

Feral Seed

Slot 2 - Mandatory

Infusion

Slot 3 - Mandatory

Regen Pulse

Slot 4 - Mandatory

Nature Ward

Energy - This resource is consumed to cast Wild Bloom and some of our Expertise skills. It regenerates at a rate of 4 points every second, and thanks to a talent in the base tree, the recovery scales with haste.

Regen Bud - Regen buds are our other resource, which can be consumed by our Ultimate and Expertise skills to create Seeds that either release a strong heal or deal AoE damage, depending on the ability used. Triggering the Seeds with a heal launches the healing Seed, while triggering them with a damaging ability launches the damage one. 8 buds can be stored with our baseline talents unlocked. Buds are generated via abilities thanks to our talents, the most basic of which allows us to gain 1 bud every time we use our Special, Wild Bloom.

Symbiotic Mark - While this is not technically a resource, it's our spec's main mechanic. After activating Smite Spec Wild Bloom, Regen Pulse, and Nature Ward, all apply Symbiotic Mark to nearby allies on use. Symbiotic Mark lasts for 10s and causes the holder to be healed for 45% of the DMG we deal.

Seed Trigger Counter - Tracks how many Seeds we’ve used from Regen Buds. At 10 points, the stacks are removed, and an enhanced version of

Wild Bloom

Fixed Skills

• 

  Vines’ Embrace
  - Verdant Oracle’s basic attack provides healing when not attacking enemies, and deals damage in addition to healing when attacking enemies. It is mainly used during rotational downtime or to heal when bosses aren’t targettable. Has a small chance to grant Regen Buds on hit thanks to one of our talents.
• 

  Wild Bloom
  - Consumes 20 Energy and deals damage while healing nearby allies. It is one of the few easy ways to apply Symbiotic Marks to allies and serves as our primary Regen Bud generator. It also has incredible synergy with a number of our endgame talents.
• 

  Divine Circle Bloom
  - Creates a barrier that inflicts damage to the enemies and heals the allies that are inside the barrier. It also provides the caster and up to 10 allies within a radius 25% damage reduction. It can be used as soon as available or saved as more of a defensive cooldown to mitigate threatening abilities.

Mandatory Skills

• 

  Feral Seed
  - Summons a Seed that does damage in a small AoE and reduces the movement speed of enemies hit, while restoring 30 energy. Has 2 charges and a 15s cooldown and has many incredible synergies with our talents. This is our primary source of energy regeneration; we’ll always want at least one charge on cooldown with the remaining one held in reserve for when energy is low.
• 

  Infusion
  Begin channeling a Seed machine gun that launches a multitude of bullets at the enemy. This is our highest damaging ability and therefore one of our best burst heals. Most of our most important talents require the usage of this ability and provide powerful effects based on the number of bullet hits
• 

  Regen Pulse
  - Initiates a lengthy cast that, once complete, emits a green pulse that heals allies and cleanses them. Can be upgraded with talents to deal damage, emit multiple pulses, and even have those pulses return to deal their damage, healing, and cleansing again. Becomes enhanced after using Infusion, making it an ability we ideally want to combo with it. An incredibly useful tool when AoE healing is needed. Also applies Symbiotic Mark.
• 

  Nature Ward
  - Quickly provides a shield to up to 10 allies, scaling off of our magic attack for 10s. Gains an additional charge (up to 2) with talents and is an outstanding damage prevention tool. Gains plenty of new functionality with our talents and also applies Symbiotic Mark on use.

Skill Priority

Regen Pulse

>

Infusion

>

Wild Bloom

=

Feral Seed

=

Nature Ward

>

Divine Circle Bloom

>

Vines’ Embrace

Advance

Regen Pulse

Infusion

Feral Seed

Nature Ward

Wild Bloom

Divine Circle Bloom

Vines’ Embrace

If you want to create your own Talent tree, check our tool:

Talent Planner

Important!

All gear & talent related info is based on extensive in-game testing, parsing, theory crafting and simulations. If you want to learn more about how damage works to understand our decisions, check out our Damage Formula Guide.

Stat Priority

Crit Rate

    

Haste

  

Luck

     

Mastery

   

Versatility

   

Main Stats

1. Luck - Is our core stat and one we want to maximize before anything else, as our Lucky Strike Dmg Multiplier gains a 1.5 times increase in scaling from our talents. We recommend aiming for 1910 - 2400 points to achieve roughly 40% Luck Chance. Any points above this can be invested in other stats to avoid diminishing returns.
2. Crit Rate - Doesn’t have any direct synergy with any of our talents or abilities, but as both our damage and direct healing can Crit, it makes this a strong stat for us to have. When not investing in Luck, Crit Rate is a solid option alongside versatility, but it usually wins out over it.
3. Mastery - Mastery increases our Forest Damage by 0.7% and Shield Strength by 0.3%. This contributes to our conversion of damage dealt to healing and provides additional potency for our shields. Also, thanks to the Breath of Symbiosis talent, we’ll also gain an additional 1% damage to healing conversion every 5% mastery we have.
4. Versatility - Due to our ability to do damage, shielding, and healing, Versatility has good value for Smite. It provides a multiplicative gain of 0.35% per 1% Versatility for the aspects mentioned. Investing ~ 600 points towards this stat will yield the best result, albeit a slight one.
5. Haste - Haste can help in reducing the cast times for Regen Pulse and Infusion. Having a small amount is recommended just to accommodate these skills, but stacking it is not preferable when we can get Cast Speed from other sources.

Bonus Stats

In gear slots you’re not using Set Gear in and which aren’t taken up by your class's signature Class weapon (if you have it), prioritize the following Purple Stats:

Helmet, Armour, Gloves, Boots

Intelligence%

Weapons & Accessories

MATK% = Cast SPD% > Ranged DMG% = DMG% vs. Bosses

Set Gear

Smite’s 2P and 4P set bonuses are both definitely worth equipping as soon as you’re able to complete Raids and are better than Purple Bonuses. Here is what they do:

2-piece SET

Increase healing from Symbiotic Mark conversion by 4%.

4-Piece SET

Casting

Wild Bloom

or

Feral Seed

increases DMG of your next infusion by 20%, or increases the shield of the next

Nature Ward

by 10%. Stacking up to 3 times.

Class weapon

Our Class weapon is also definitely worth using over a Legendary weapon with a purple line. Instead of a purple line, it grants:

• 8% Ranged DMG%.
• Increased recommended main and sub stats.

Here are the best modules for Verdant Oracle - Smite - listed in priority order:

1. 

   Intellect Boost
   - A good module for additional Magic Attack, INT, and bonus damage, things we can always use. Despite being a DPS module node, this is one of our best options until extreme modules come out.
2. 

   Crit Focus
   - Grants us some much-needed Crit Dmg% and Crit Healing% as well as some extra Forest DMG%. Since we can Crit, the abilities that get converted into our healing are a great option.
3. 

   Elite Strike
   - A great module for damage, since we are often fighting at least one Elite or higher-level enemy.
4. 

   Cast Focus
   - Provides us with 12% Cast Speed, allowing us to shave some time off of our Infusion channeling and Regen Pulse cast time.
5. 

   Luck Focus
   - It provides Luck DMG Multiplier, which is most of our damage; its value will diminish relative to the amount of Luck that we have, but it is still a good option.

Attention!

The best Smite Imagines are incredibly flexible with what’s best, depending on the content you’re running and the Imagines your other support party members are using. Below is a guideline of what we recommend for different goals. Also, Sustain and Support-based Imagines have some of the most unique effects in the game, often meaning they don’t have direct equivalents. Due to this, there is no exact F2P substitution; please refer to our purple Imagine listing for more information.

Note

The damage from Imagines and their passives works with Symbiotic Mark, allowing them to boost our healing and damage at the same time.

Premium Offensive

Tina

+

Brigand Leader

/

Venobzzar Incubator

Premium Defensive

Tina

+

Golden Juggernaut

/

Airona

Top Gold Imagines - Universal

• 

  Tina
  - Tina is the best supportive Imagine in the game and is usually expected to be run by sustains. Tina grants the party a 50% cooldown reduction for 20 seconds. This allows us and our party to regain their cooldowns more quickly, improving survivability, healing, and most importantly, group damage significantly.
• Once a party member is affected by this effect, they can’t be affected again for 60 seconds.

Top Gold Imagines - Offensive

• 

  Brigand Leader
  - Brigand Leader increases your and your team’s Attack %, allowing for more damage. It also scales very well with Luck, which we stack a lot of. Every Lucky hit will now apply a DoT, with the catch being that DoT will immediately tick every Luck application, allowing it to serve as an on-hit effect as well. Time using the active of this Imagine to maximize your party's damage.
• The ATK buff is unique and cannot be stacked, meaning in high party count content, you may want to use a variety of support Imagines.
• 

  Storm Goblin King
  - Storm Goblin King provides Luck and Luck Damage, temporarily enhancing our damage potential during a burst window. His active skill deals a large amount of AoE damage, allowing us another burst heal option. While very strong in AoE, Storm Goblin King's damage output suffers tremendously against a single target. A good boost to our damage and therefore healing, but lacks the buffing capabilities of other options.
• 

  Venobzzar Incubator
  - This Imagine pulses damage in a large area, applying up to an 8% generic damage taken debuff on enemies hit for the whole party. This debuff isn’t that strong as it only lasts 8 seconds, and stacks additively with all other sources of non-elemental DMG%, resulting in it usually being heavily diluted. Mostly useful in 20-man content; otherwise, Brigand Leader will perform better.

Top Gold Imagines - Defensive

• 

  Airona
  - When cast, summons Airona who performs a short prayer before reviving up to 4 downed teammates. Airona is powerful in standard play to resurrect teammates and can be used as a part of resurrection cheese strategies as well. While very useful, this Imagine is frequently run on tanks, meaning you won't always need to run it unless you’re running strategies that require 2 or more Airona.
• Allies resurrected by Airona can’t be resurrected again for 60 seconds.
• 

  Golden Juggernaut
  - Provides us with a boost to our Shield Strength and an HP scaling shield for the whole party. An effective additional defensive cooldown for ourselves and the group, while also adding in a bit of extra damage as well.
• The additional hit granted to allies can Crit and Lucky Hit, has a 0.5 second cooldown, and is unique, meaning only one of these buffs can be held at a time

Top Purple Imagines

• 

  Muku Scout [A5]
  - This skill grants a passive 15% Magic ATK as long as you are consistently landing attacks. Upon activation, the stacks double, providing a tremendous 30% MATK buff that greatly amplifies all of our damage and healing. The only downside is that the buff will fall off when there is no target. Great for raw output, but no special effects put it behind high-utility options.
• 

  Lizardman Hunter [A5]
  - A far more accessible alternative to Storm Goblin King that brings similar benefits thanks to his AoE-based Lucky Hit activation and boost to Lucky Hit Dmg Multiplier% and increased Luck Rate.
• 

  Inferno Goblin Mage [A5]
  - Providing passive 10% Intellect and 20% upon activation. It is an overall very solid and powerful option for boosting our raw damage and healing output. A suitable alternative to Muku Scout without the need to consistently keep the buff active by attacking.

• Diamond - Intellect (Luck) - Use to balance Luck % if you are missing the amount needed or for reaching higher values.
• Ruby - Intelligence (Crit) - A solid option after Luck begins hitting diminishing returns.

This skill order maximizes damage and healing, while keeping Nature’s Ward and our ultimate on reserve to provide shields and damage reduction as needed.

We begin by putting our bigger skills on cooldown first.

• 

  Nature Ward
  to begin with a shield
• 

  Wild Bloom
  to proc Symbiotic mark
• 

  Infusion
  for a big burst heal
• 

  Regen Pulse
  because it is enhanced after using
  

  Infusion
• 

  Feral Seed
  if energy is less than 50
• 

  Wild Bloom
  until Stag Proc and then use Stag
• Enhanced Infusion
• 

  Regen Pulse
  because it is enhanced again

This will loop back around when

Nature Ward

As we are using our skills, there are various interactions that will reduce the cooldowns of other skills.

• When
  

  Wild Bloom
  lucky strikes, it reduces the cooldown of
  

  Infusion
  by 3s
• 

  Infusion
  ,
  

  Feral Seed
  , and
  

  Wild Bloom
  have a 30% chance to reduce the cooldown of our ultimate
• 

  Regen Pulse
  reduces the CD of
  

  Nature Ward
  by 2s
• Gaining Regen Buds reduces the CD of
  

  Feral Seed
• Stag occurs when we have triggered 10 total Regen Buds into Seeds

Can Smite be played on auto?

This class will keep you alive on content that you overgear, or in situations where you don’t need to pay too much attention to other players’ HP. The autoplay AI tends to use all of your skills off cooldown, so it will often burn both Nature Ward charges. Another flaw in the logic is that it will never cast Regen Pulse, which would make us lose out on a good portion of our damage.

If you are aiming to utilize this class on semi-auto, then just having Basic Attack, Wild Bloom, Feral Seed, and Infusion active will suffice. This allows you to still cast Regen Pulse when you have the energy to do so, and to shield your team manually to ensure it is at a more opportune time.