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Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

25 Arena matches played.

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8.72%

How to unlock the Blood and Sand achievement in SMITE - Definitive Guide

NOTE: During Spring 2022, this achievement was marked bugged as it appeared that no tracking was being done on Arena matches. Fortunately, as of May 18, 2023, it appears this achievement is now unlocking properly again. See the comments section of this solution for the latest updates.

This has to be done in PvP matches, Co-op matches against AI don't count. You'll need 25 matches completed, win or lose. Of course, its always more fun (and time flies faster) if you're winning, so heres some Arena tips for you:

1.) First off, understand scoring. There are four ways to reduce your score:

* Killing an enemy God deducts 5 tickets.

* Last hitting an enemy minion deducts 1 ticket. (Minions are spawned in waves of seven every 20 seconds.) NOTE: Once a team is down to 10 tickets, killing small minions will no longer deduct tickets. Killing large minions and escorting your minions through the enemy portal still deducts tickets.

* Escorting friendly minions to the enemy portal deducts 1 ticket each.

* Escorting a friendly Arena Juggernaut (they spawn after a team gets 10 kills) to the enemy portal deducts 15 tickets.

2.) Make sure to kill as many minions as you can in between fights with other Gods -- though only one point a minion, they add up quickly over time. I have won many matches where out k/d ratio is unfavorable, but since our team took the time to kill minion waves, we had the best score at the end. I cannot stress this enough, your team should constantly be killing minions.

3.) This may be obvious but try not to die, as this shaves five tickets off for the enemy -- if you're at 60% health or less, retreat and heal up. Fight that urge to chase the guy with low health, as more often than not you'll run into a wall of full health enemy Gods and have a bad time of it (thanks to short respawn timers and close healing zones). Use this time to kill five minions instead, as its a guaranteed boost for your team. Remember, the only thing that matters for the win is ticket counts, K/D ratios are meaningless.

4.) Lastly, be constantly aware of team positioning. Never fight 2 on 1 (or 5 on 1, as I've seen from some really bad overzealous players), Always stick with the pack, and use each other as human shields to help hurt players escape. People too far out in front of the battle line get picked off -- remember, you want to 5 on 1 them, not have them 5 on 1 you.

Remember: minions, minions minions.
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30 Aug 2015 08:37

16 Comments
Did you transfer your game stats from PC to Xbox? This sometimes causes these type of glitches. Barring that, it may be a new issue introduced by a patch. Watching the "Recent Winners" list and seeing if anyone unlocks it over the next few days may determine if the latter is occurring...
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By JohnnyInterfnk on 14 Apr 2022 13:25
I didn't transfer my stats. I'm a new account as of just a week ago or so. I'm seeing some people unlocking it still, so might be something with new players.
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By Transmutate on 17 Apr 2022 10:58
The only other thing I can think of is to be sure you're playing PvP rather than co-op. Outside of that, I don't know what is going on.

If anyone else sees this happening, post here and I'll put a warning in the solution.
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By JohnnyInterfnk on 17 Apr 2022 14:05
It's not unlocking in smite either, I'm having same problem with the 100 tickets as well. Any achievements tied to either arena or joust just aren't unlocking.
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By Transmutate on 27 Apr 2022 09:05
I emailed smite, and got back a response that said it's a known issue and they are working on a solution.
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By Transmutate on 05 May 2022 19:52
Thanks for reporting that here Transmute! If its not fixed by next patch, I'll make notes in the solution, though Hi-Rez is usually very good about such things (minus "The Poseidon Incident").

Keep me informed by commenting here or DMing me so I can keep my solutions up to date.
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By JohnnyInterfnk on 05 May 2022 20:57
I am having the same issue. Im lvl 26. Well over 25 matches
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By Phinz4life85 on 05 Jul 2022 06:22
Same problem, I've played at least 20 arena matches in the last couple of weeks for sure. My achievement progress is at 4%.
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By AKAthatoneguy on 28 Jul 2022 22:04
It’s not tracked one win for me since I started this game in feb and played on and off and arenas all I played really lol
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By Phantasy Zebra on 17 Sep 2022 23:43
As the last few patches failed to fix this bug, I put a note at the top of the solution informing people this achievement is bugged. If you do unlock this, please leave a comment here so I can remove the note. Thanks all.
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By JohnnyInterfnk on 18 Sep 2022 01:06
Nice and it’s still bugged 😞 wonder if they’ll ever fix it
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By Phantasy Zebra on 22 Nov 2022 12:41
Still bugged a year later..... How can they take sooo long, longer then the game load times... 😔
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By FESMO on 18 Apr 2023 00:13
This now tracks.
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By PirateRyanG on 18 May 2023 17:40
Thanks for the head up! I'll fix the top info bit!
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By JohnnyInterfnk on 18 May 2023 17:48
This is glitched for me. As well as the other game type achievements besides the conquest one. Not registering the games at all for any of them.
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By Transmutate on 14 Apr 2022 07:39
The other thing I just though of is you can check the SMITE in-game achievements list (not the Xbox achievements, the internal SMITE ones). If this is unlocked but the Xbox one isn't, its a problem of messaging between SMITE and Xbox. If the achievement isn't unlocked in SMITE, than its a SMITE specific problem. May help in directing who to talk to about this...

In other news, I just got a note from someone having trouble unlocking the win by 100 tickets in Arena, so it may be a system-wide issue. See: Solution for Super Cheer In SMITE
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By JohnnyInterfnk on 25 Apr 2022 14:15
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Arena is a 5v5 gladiatorial-style match. The majority of he action happens in and around the center of the map with buff sites located on either side of the map. You must simply complete 25 matches of arena to unlock the achievement. See the video below for a brief tutorial on arena.
 

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Practice games, custom matches or cooperative games against bots do not count
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10 Jul 2016 23:11

The first 10 matches in the arena after loading the game will be against bots, it is better to play on the North American server, the delay will be the same, but the difference in the level of play will be noticeable
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17 Aug 2021 17:13