at the beginning of every pug i play I say

not dying>killing

no priests til rank8

As for the people who say that communication is key, you're just defending a bad mechanic, and your argument doesn't really make sense because there's a ton of bad advice on the internet so people are naturally going to try it for themselves eventually, especially when you're a complete internet stranger telling them what to do.

http://demigod.wikia.com/wiki/XP_and_Gold_mechanics

Look at the considerable exp and the massive gold disparity between a wave with and without priests.

Priest are not useless.  However, the risk to reward ratio is way out of whack on them.  Why do they give as much exp as giants and more than catapultasauri?  I think that 40'ish xp and 16'ish gold would be much more reasonable and would keep the mechanic it being risky to put more units on the field intact.

I'm sure you'll ask me to prove that as well, which is obviously impossible (your position is also impossible to objectively prove).  However, I am confident that the vast majority of good players will agree that getting priests early is an awful idea and that priests are out of whack.

Regardless I'll probably just start a new thread about this topic without the indendiary wording the OP used, since Frogboy basically alerady said the post is going to be disregarded...  or maybe I'll just necrobump the most reasonable one I can dig up since nothing has changed.

priests are fine, they take more to kill, get the game going if you buy them for a push, and if you cant push with them dont buy them

point is they can work, the op messed up

the real problem to me are the angels

you really are missing the problem here. the problems not the priests, its the op's lack of communication. i have seen people never buy a single minion upgrade, i've seen them buy only priests, i've seen them spam them all at the end. the key is being on the same page as your allies, so if you do buy  priests, you know you need a man on each lane pushing with each wave to take down towers, they can do immense damage if you can take some of the hits from a tower.

however, if you are on cataract, and you see  rook holding a lane and you can't push, well you need to say don't upgrade, we'll feed him and his tower farm

problem: lack of communication

solution: communication

Don't you see you're admitting that priests are so bad that players have to remember to warn their team not to get them every game just in case?  That's indicative of a problem.  Also I'm sure we can both agree that getting people to do what you say on the internet is not guaranteed to be successful.

This kind of post only worsens the signal to noise ratio and is a self-fulling prophecy.  I'm guilty too for responding to it.

Link!

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/357131

Rather completely disagree that buying Priests is necessarily a disadvantage...

Granted, buying them as soon as you can with no specific purpose in mind isn't necessarily always the best idea.  However, one of my favored strategies is to quickly secure the neutral portal flags and to use those to up my team's War Score and then to grab the Priest upgrade as we (myself and my team) push other flags and points.

Why?  Simple strategy really.  Priests keep minions alive longer against towers- long enough for them to actually deal some worrying damage.  When waves of minion spawns with Priests are allowed to continue assaulting a path of towers without an enemy Demigod stepping in, those towers are going to fall.  This very quickly creates an issue for the enemy team- do they not try to counter my team's push (and remember as well, we have Priests backing our push so not only are they facing us but tougher minions too that cannot be wiped-out as easily) and instead shore-up the issue of their beset towers despite that our push will likely result in destroyed towers of theirs as well?  Or do they let the waves of minions crash against their towers, putting them in a potentially grave position?

Not to mention the capability for Priests to basically build-up from successive waves of them coming to complement a push- plenty of times have I benefitted from and had to deal with 10+ Priests all in a massive group with no easy way to exterminate them at hand while trying to fight-off an enemy Demigod or two (or, ofc, this from the other point of view).

More or less, I do find them quite valuable when used as such.  And if a member of your team buys them prematurely, well it's still quite possible to hasten some efforts anyway.  Priests only feed enemy Demigods when you allow them to by not supporting them and allowing enemy Demigods to prey upon them unchecked.

Funny we don't really seem to suffer this massively debilitating problem when my mates all LAN together.  I'd take a gander that it's to do with our communication.... It appears other players here also don't suffer this massively debilitating problem either.  If you want to play without any communication between team mates at all this may be the wrong game for you.  We simply stated how we had all learned to deal with this situation, it didn't agree with your own belief so you got nasty in your retorts.

What I called childish was the manner in which you referred to the 'problem' initially.  Was it constructive? No, was it an unnecessarily over-the-top demand? I'd say so.  You going to tell me your title was a prefectly mature way to get a response?

I'd also like to point out that if you want to argue majority/minority, there are more posters in this thread who seem to side with it's fine, and learn to deal with it and/or communicate, than there are people who think this is a problem (and -they- seem to be the more vocal ones.

Could the mechanic be changed a bit?  Sure, but so could some peoples posting manners.  As has been stated FrogBoy himself said this sort of thread makes dev's want to read forums even less.  Im glad a more constructive thread was formed.