Both sides should be able to get artifacts no problem. But you're right, if they can stack many of them it is pretty much game over. Thats my point. Theres NO chance of comeback and RUINS the game for the losing team.
I love this game, but the frustration factor absolutly kills the game for a lot of people (my friends included) and if it helps make that better, I feel the game would benefit.

The game is meant to be lost by one team. If it gets to the point where one team is stacking artifacts, there shouldn't be a comeback, and it's time for the game to end.

So you would much rather have the entire opposing team drop out at about lvl 12 when momentum becomes obvious? Or how about when you barely get to mid game and are slightly losing to have one of your teammates quit and get replaced with a dumb as fuk computer AI?

I think there is too much gold awarded for player kills which means the first few kills gives far too much momentum and the game is decided too early. Items are worth far more than levels and abilities. Gold is the primary defining aspect of winning or losing.

Which leads me to my last point: Why even bother sticking around for a 30 minute game when you know the game has been decided within the first 10 minutes? The game hardly gives any incentive to stick out a losing game with only 10 favor points awarded for sticking around to get ass raped.

That is the only thing that I believe is...."OP"....I've read enough of these (sad as that is) to safely say that EVERYTHING IS OP! Seriously consider your own gameplay before saying something is overpowered. Maybe Sedna's pounce shouldn't hit so hard, but pounce doesn't make or break a game. That can apply to almost everything. The artifacts are there to give an edge, that's why they are there. Games need to end sometime and people win or lose. Have a nice day, or night whatever

Hmm..

And a lot of people are apparently playing a different game from me where it takes 20 minutes to kill ONCE you have momemtum.  Most of my games last 14-28 minutes.  I've only had like 4 games that took almost 50.

One thing I've noticed is that if both teams get gints at about the same time, it can seriously stalemate.

Na.  Maybe when 2 evenly bad teams. W ith 2 good teamates mistakes and weaknesses will get better exploited.

Weee..

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I name the room "good players only" or "pros only".. and get all these people from dota thinking they're pro's at DG and they get rolled.

Sedna's early tower pushing ability is so insane.

Isn't it ridiculous the amount of favor points you get for damage done?  You would think with 5 more kills and 1 more assist that you would have dominated the favor points category.  I know they don't really matter to some people who only see the anklet, but it still makes me wonder exactly how it scores favor points for people trying to earn them.  It certainly doesn't promote team play that's for sure.  If as Sedna/QoT you only went support and didn't attack, you would get the default amount of points even if it was your support that won the game for your team.

Um...  I would say in a Straight up starting from lvl 1 game its hard to see what Demigods are Imbal.  However,  once all the Demigods hit lvl 20 Unclean Beast can pretty much three shot The Rook no matter how much gear you put on him.

Even spit is silly. You only need 7k hp and you'll survive 4 spits. Get Bulwarks and you'll survive 5. Add in Structural Transfer and he'll survive 7+. Add in his hps, and well. >.>

You mean askander + other stuff. It took bestial wrath plus a whole bunch of other artifacts to hit that number vs a QoT.

Hm.. i've gotten 4k+ crits without bestial wrath and at around 30 minutes.