[quote who="eX^" reply="24" id="2180403"]Just because I feel like posting my idea again. 
 

Ability 3, 100, 300, 600, 1000 Mana. 6, 6, 6, 15 cool downs.  1, 1, 1, 3 second cast times. Similar to ice shower from TB, except the Swift Comet allows for more of an excitement factor.

 

1.        Meteors: Demigod calls forth a meteor shower from the Heavens to damage enemies dealing 200 AOE damage, as well as reducing armor of any Demigods in the area by 200. (Level 1)

2.        Meteors: Demigod calls forth a meteor shower from the Heavens to damage enemies dealing 400 AOE damage, as well as reducing armor of any Demigods in the area by 400. (Level 5)

3.        Meteors: Demigod calls forth a meteor shower from the Heavens to damage enemies dealing 600 AOE damage, as well as reducing armor of any Demigods in the area by 600. (Level 10)

4.        Swift Comet:  Demigod unleashes a devastating spell calling a comet to deal AOE damage dealing 1000 AOE damage, as well as reducing armor of any Demigods in the area by 800. (Level 15)[/quote]

the swift comet thing sounds major od    a 1000 aoe dmg seems too much

How about a bull-like god, that can move fast; do rams at full speed; maybe snort fire in a cone.  You can call him "Torro".    Or a DG like "Hermes", the messenger of the gods (the guy with wings on his ankles).  He could move really fast; specialize in caping flags, maybe enver have a flag lock ability.  He should suck in melee though.

I thought of this idea awhile back, and think it can be adapted to the mechanics outlined in the original post. I'm fascinated by the imagery of a defenseless child standing with Rook or going toe-to-toe with the Unclean Beast:

Name of Demigod: Ooro the Innocent

Type of Demigod: General

General description: An African child, about eight or nine years old, naked but for a loincloth. Ooro is a demigod of innocence, the child who lays down with lions and frolicks with wolves. He is untouchably, blissfully carefree. He is everything it means to be a child, the essence of the innocence that's lost with maturity. He'd have to be very small, so would likely appear with a companion (lion) so as to be visible in-game without having to make Ooro himself unrealistically large. But I don't want to overlap with Sedna's flavor, so we'd have to be careful.

Abilities:

Pure Soul -- Clears all status effects from surrounding demigods. Higher levels suppress item effects for some period of time.

Bliss -- Causes 15%, 30%, 45% of enemy reinforcements to switch sides depending on level.

Untouchable -- (passive) Magic Armor. Provides 400, 800, 1200, 1600 armor depending on level.

Storm Bringer (Yeah, the name needs work):

Faction: Light

Concept: He/she is a War Wizard General that controls the elements (particularly lightning). So he/she is a lightly armored mage that wields a sword.

Abilities:

Chain Lightning: Casts a bolt of lightning that jumps between targets. As the ability is upgraded the damage increases and the amount of jumps increase.

Lightning Rush: Like Erebus' bat warp, but with lightning special effects.

Jolt: This will be the support ability for the War Wizard. It will boost the move and attack speed of the target ally. The final level should grant a boost to mana regen.

Storm Cloud: The hero creates a storm cloud that will randomly strike enemies under it with lightning.

Charged Strikes: The hero has a chance to discharge electricity when attacking.

Summon Mages: The hero summons mages to aid him. They will be weak, but they have a ranged attack. Their range shoul be on par with the QoT's Shamblers.

A secondary upgrade/ability line will exist for these minions that gives their attack a small AOE property. They will gain a slight amount of damage and health with this upgrade.

After actually using Boulder Roll a bunch lately, I kinda like the idea now of a AoE magic missle. Just make it a smaller area but much greater damage than your average damage spell. Make it a spell you have to aim a little (like Boulder Roll) but yeilds great results when it hits.

I totally agree, it seems the orginal idea has two different Demigod concepts going on here. Half of those would fit with a "Traditional Gandalf" wizard, while the other half kinda fit with a shamanistic style character.

Concept: Insect/Monster that lays eggs to generate minions. This Demigod would be a General.

Faction: Dark

Abilities:

Lay Egg: This Demigod lays eggs that will eventually hatch into minions. The eggs/minions come with an ability that is similiar to compost. After absorbing enough decaying matter they turn into minions. These minions would still benefit from the compost-like ability to heal them from fights, and potentially make them do more damage. Leveling the ability allows for more minions to be under the Generals control. Since there is a tradeoff of having to protect the eggs for them to hatch into minions they should be a little stronger than Erebus/Oak minions and almost as numerous (6 to 12 maybe?).

Web shot: The hero webs the target causing them to be slowed (maybe stunned?)

Webbing: The hero places a web on the ground, enemies that wander into it will be slowed.

Cannibalize: The hero devours her offspring to regain health/mana.

Skitter: The hero recieves a passive buff to move speed.

Sting: The hero poisons the target. This deals damage over time and and increases their cooldown times. The final level of this ability causes the victim to spawn minions for this General if they die while under the abilities effects.

Carapace: The hero gains a passive buff to armor. Final level adds spikes to the carapace that cause damage to melee attackers.

Consume the Dead: The dead feed this hero. This ability works like compost, but with different effects. This ability increases the health/mana regen rate of the hero based on how much has been consumed.

*For some reason I get the feeling that this is familiar. Was there a hero in DoTA like this?

I kind of like the hero that Frogboy has described... but it doesn't all seem to fit together. The +money would be awesome, but it doesn't seem to fit the concept much. I'd definitely cut abilties 1, 5, and 7.

Before I played the beta or got the game I always thought that generals would command creeps...like the basic ones. It would be cool if a new god could control like 5/10/15/20 basic creeps...I've often wished I could herd them along with my attack. Just a nice drag select and off you go!

I just wanted to put my two cents in, that new class that frogboy posted sounds awesome!

I think 1 could be changed to be more balanced and to fit the classical wizard theme, 5 is probably the special minon generation skill that the other generals have. 7 however like you say doesn't really fit

1 lay egg sounds kinda wierd but not in a bad way

2 webshot  sounds like a stunn move like a entangler

3 webbing also sounds like a stuner  but sounds more like a mass stunner  kinda like mines

4 sounds good too

5 skitter  sounds meh ish

6 sting sounds good

7 sounds kinda like  reg's wings

8 hmm sounds like a alright idea but  it wouldn't work seing as the dead dont stay on the battle field at all

this would be better on the light side seeing as the dark has qot

aracnia  would be a cool name

she was born  of humans and wandered into the forest got lost and  fell asleep she died  but spiders and bugs   came over and  started to eat her flesh and body

all the insects came together and  became a spider human beast  she look down at her first body and relised she had been reborn  went back to  the village  were her mother noticed that it was her and took her home

6 months later  everyone in the village grow to like the spider woman and accepted her  then a evil tribe attacked the village and she defended the village by calling forth insects and fighting the evil tribe killthem and eating themall the people  thanked her and gave her the name aracnia

i also like the dragon idea, would love to be a general riding a dragon like sedna rides her cat: I think that would look totally awesome, .. maybe dragon have a fiery breath weapon as well as claw and bite attacks,.. dragon master could also summon minion dragons to fight... could also have a dragon assasin type as just a straight fighter

Im not going to go to in depth but how about like...a balance style demigod, switches between a "light and dark" side one being support skills and the other offensive and how about powering up one aspect while using the other.

ex: casting a healing spell or a buff increases the power of the next offensive spell and vice versa.

I think this game lacks a skilled melee fighter. As it is now we only got support, tank and range demigods.

So i think the next dg should be a fighter that focuses on melee skills and speed.