How about asking the "noob fruitcakes" not to buy priest at the start of the game. Communication????.

Well I for one agree with this. Sure i do communicate i'm not a bad player. But i'm sick and tired of having to power through 1000+ xp off only killing the first 2 spawns at level 7 or so. It takes forever to level up. I think priests should be automatic for both teams. At a certain point for both teams (lets say 10 minutes) they start spawning or when the average level on the field is level 5 or something in that area.

A) so you dont' have to level up at level 10 using minotaurs and archers (makes game last longer)
no more noob feed crap
C) even xp

Thankfully angels give low enough xp and do high enough damage they are worth it and same with catapults but priests almost DOUBLE xp per wave. Fix the xp for them or make it even.

Now you people are going to critizise me but i love GPG and i own several of their games. They do a great job and i just think the poster attacked this too angerly. The forums ARE FOR feedback. Don't discourage posting. Encourage good posts. Start a praise post if you hate these "sorry ass loser"s who give feedback.

I've won with early priests plenty of times.

You obviously don't take advantage of them. 

Given you can't let the game drag on if you get them.

So, yeah, the original poster is correct. Buying priests early pretty much just doubles the gold/exp that the enemy gets per wave, almost guarenteeing they end up 2 to 3 levels above your own team. The added stability of priests in a wave is kinda nice, but against many demigods who can easily kill creeps (TB, Beast, Reg, Queen) it is just feeding the enemy.

I've gotta agree with Spooky on this... Although, I really wouldn't mind seeing Priests and Angels switched, but I don't think that'd solve the problem.

It's very counterintuative; you should want to buy most upgrades if you can, and they should help, not hurt.  This needs some sort of fix for sure.

Thing is, they are currently 'do not buy them ever' upgrades.

In fact, at the moment, the number of upgrades that are 'worth it' is really small, mainly because later upgrades tend to have diminishing returns, but greater costs.  The only real exception to this is catapults, where the upgrades availability at the end of a tree rationalizes the cost of upgrading all the way to it.

I mean, the Tower damage upgrades 5% per level...and keeps costing more.  It's ludicrous!

Yeah, but no game should have a button that is there just so people learn not to push it.  That isn't a learning curve, its a poorly balance game mechanism.

Sorry but its just incredibly frustrating when you're having a good close game and then suddenly you know the game is pretty much auto loss because the enemy are being fed priests. And its not just the extra feeding for them, but now your creep is killing their creep, so to get anywhere near their creep you often have to go right up to their towers. They can just sit back and let your creep kill their creep and advance up close to their towers and pick the creep off. So you're forced into meeting the enemy DG far away from your own towers, which is ust going to result in more kills for the opponents.

I dont like having to "tell" my teammates how to play. It might be necessary in this case, but Ive always thought of it as being a bit rude when you start getting told by a strager how to play the game. Normal mistakes you need to make over and over to turn the course of a game too, ie if you arnt careful and die a lot, you need to do it multiple times to turn the course of the game. This is just 1 click and its game over. No way to undo it. You're screwed. gg.

Sorry but the people here who say that they are valid strategy are just plain wrong, and doing the community a disservice by posting such nonsense here. Dare I say it part of the problem.

This. ^

Priests are part of the game! Can anyone put their hand up and say they did not buy Priests when they first started out.

lol, if you call not using something until you have to "strategy" then you must be pretty simple minded.

Theres no "too soon". Its not at all. Theres no learning to to work with them. Its gg once someone buys them. You really are clueless about it aren't you.

The game mechanic is so horribly broken, and must be fixed, and for you to call that "childish" and defend it just makes yourself look like a total douche.I hope the develops listen to the majority rather than a few vocal fanboys like yourself.

Priest are just awful.  There's no such thing as using them to win, there's just winning in spite of them.  The fact that the proponents here both admit to buying them when they were noobs and to having to end the game quickly speaks volumes, allow me to rephrase:

Priests are counterintuitive and will sink you in the long run.