Well I dont mind OP as long as I know WHY its OP. Like if class A has an attack that class B is especially vulnerable to and if class A picks up artifact C that weakness or strength is magnified yada yada yada then it makes sense, devs can look at it and rebalance it if they feel its not working as intended. But for the life of me I just cant stand these rare encounters where you find something that just has no explanation and is, as you said, unfun.

I couldnt tell what he was using, He was point blank range to me and there were no visual cues. Im not familiar with the class so I dont know what combination of skills+items could have achieved that.

Then maybe you should try playing a TB so you can figure out what he's doing.

he teleports, slows me down, and kills me in about 5-10 seconds. If he lands on 6 mines MAYBE I can kill him. Cant stand toe to toe, cant get away.

Okay Annekynn, I was able to only get one online game tonight after hours of trying.  It was against a torchbearer, vs. my rook.  It was a "flag control" type setting, i.e. control flags for X amount of time to win.  As soon as I saw this setting I decided on a "map control" type of strat.  I put all my points into towers first and foremost, with some structure eating ability to keep me healthy, a hammer slam, and a "god ability" (forget the name of it).  My strat was simply to run around capping the flags, then popping up towers to defend them before running off to the next flag.  Also would get flag locks and what not to help further my strat.

Okay, I was ahead by a fair margin with this strat until we both hit level 9.  Then his torchbearer was unstoppable, meaning it would appear out of the fog of war, and before I could even turn around and run I'd just evaporate within a second.  I wouldn't even have time to instantly click on a teleport scroll and teleport out.  In other words, screw fighting the bastard, I couldn't even get away if that's all I was trying to do, even if I loaded up on teleport scrolls.

The guy went all ice.  I don't know what all that entails (I'm sure many things), but one of his abilities was the ice storm thingy that would fall from the sky.

As a general balance statement about the game, I don't think that any character should be able to evaporate any other character in the game within a second or two if both characters are the same level, or close to the same level.  I especially don't think this should be possible if the player being evaporated has deployed what most would say is a "reasonable build."  Now, should one player be able to beat another player?  Of course they should - that goes without saying.  Should a player be able to evaporate another player within a second or two if the evaporated player has leveled significantly less than the evaporating player?  Sure, I guess.  But I don't know why it should be possible to evaporate a same-level character within a second or two, especially if the same-level character has a "reasonable build."

At any rate, was the guy slaughtering you fire or ice (you may have already stated this, but I don't have it at my fingertips)?

feeding also exist in other games where kills can give power to the enemy team, like Tremulous, Gloom and Natural Selection. 

At this point all I want to see is some sort of combat log so I can see what it is im being hit with. The more information we have the easier it is to diagnose potential problems.

Well I admit when im wrong, its NOT torch bearer, its Lord Erebus. My apology to all the TB fans, got you mixed up. Edited title and original post.

Its the ability Bite.

I can't wait for the rematch I like the buff erebus has gotton and is one of the Demigods I don't enjoy playing unless they don't know how to retreat and one tip for you erebus players going up against a regulus that has a mine build when you come out of that mist mines do hurt

Personally, as an Erebus player, I've seen/encountered very few Reg's who can stop me dead. Erebus just seems to be a character who does well against Regulus. My advice? Avoid Erebus and let someone tank him while you stand back and pew pew. Also using towers (especially early game) helps. Kite him around them, hide behind them, ect. Try buying boots of speed (1000 gold) to get a speed boost and help you get away from him. Don't try direct confrontation if you see he has full minions with him (two healers, two seiges, two minotaurs, plus night walkers). That is basically asking for death. Hope this helps

Given that some flags give bonuses such as +10% damage received by opposing team and -15% to cool downs timers and the fact that equipment can make you into a glass canon or a tank or somewhere in between, I think it is quite possible for a demigod of an equal level to quickly kill another.

If you play a glass canon and the other peson manages to stun you, you're a sitting duck waiting to be killed. I tend to load up on armor when I play regulus and by the late game I can often tank demigods one on one and win.