I'm sure they want all the demigods to be roughly equally attractive. Right now, before the balance beta has begun, Rook murders.

Rook is either right where he needs to be and all other demigods need to be brought to his level, or he needs to be pulled down to other Demigod's levels.

I don't know if many would agree with this point, but the problem I have with Rook's boulder roll is that there is no real way to avoid it unless you are waiting watching and are ready at every single moment to click in pattern tangent to where the Rook is at any given time, and being as most demigods are Melee based, this means that the Rook effectively completely locks you down from doing anything until he throws that boulder and either misses or nails you and you die. You can't go in and make an attack because if you are too close it is impossible to dodge anymore and if you are too close, his base melee damage will be much higher than yours. So you're stuck at range, doing no damage, constantly waiting, watching, and trying to predict when and where he will throw his boulder and while you do this, he gets to cap every flag, make any foward movement he wants.

If there's a strategy around it, I'd love to hear it, but with a solid .2-.5 s lag between clicking and moving, the only reliable way to dodge the rock and avoid Rook's base attack of 400 is to play evasively, not attacking, until he finally swings. And a smart player will keep that boulder until he's all but sure to nail you, and by then he's taken every flag he wants.

Virtually impossible to dodge the boulder? It's virtually impossible to get hit by it!

Sure, at maximum distance if you're already moving.  I suffer from a very low apm and can't consistently dodge it starting around half of its maximum range.  When I do, its usually because I got lucky.

How do you do it?  Massive amounts of speed boost items?  Short range insta-teleport items?  Spending the entire match never getting closer than maximum boulder range?  If you're a melee hero, how do you dodge a point blank boulder?  Serious questions.

I spend the game moving, of course. Knowing rooks casts boulders that kill me, I get out of the way when they roll up. Unless I am actually in melee range, I rarely get hit by one.

The guy in the other thread suggested not standing still next to a flag.

Yes i have, actually it's one of the only only games i played and with me having 300ms Ping in the game, i managed to dodge nearly every Boulder from wagnard where my partner was just playing stupid and giving them free kills every time. It was like my only ever game against other players and i didn't find it hard at all to miss his boulder.

I agree it's a powerful move but you don't need to call nerf of things because you personally don't have the ability to play well against it. Work on your reaction time and reading the enemy player's movement patterns, yes it is harder to do then to say OMG NERF BOULDER ROLL.

Ke5trel tried that my mines didnt do nearly enough damage to him and I could only place them at one flag at a time. some pathways are very narrow and boulder has like a 90% of hitting because it fills the eniter path way. Not everyone can react in less than a sec in which it takes for Rook to boulder roll when he just tele's on top of u. i could dodge boulder roll but in new vers even if your like a foot away from rock u get stunned. I'm just saying no other demigod can kill that quickly. I mean even with all mines and a snipe and several hit he won't die. He can tele out before I kill him too. I just can't do like twice my health that quickly. I have played Rook against several people some could doeg it and got some kills on me, but He ran from me every time I came running at me making him fall back alot. because with short cooldown's on boulder roll all i need was 1 good shot like when hes trying to lay down mines or snipe. Also usually its 2v2 and my ally goes to other side and since its not prison I'm messed.