TB is almost as squishy as Reg, and to be effective with his fire powers, most have no range; you have to be right in the middle of mobs/fights sometimes.  And that gets you killed if you are'nt quick, good, or both.  That, plus you have to spend time "switching" from fire to ice powers (if you get both, it takes several seconds) can make it even trickier for new TB players.

maybe he isn´t that easy to play or you just got bad mates.

i think for the most part the demigods are balanced

Any demigod is extremely powerful in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing. Myself and a buddy of mine makes excellent TBs. He's much better at the ice but I make up for that with fire.

Depends on your team in 2v2. If you go for Regulus and the other teammate goes for TB then yes, you are BOTH gimped. If you go UB/Oak/Rook/Sedna and tank it up while the TB can play his natural role as glass cannon, then no, he is not gimped. TB is a great demigod if he has a tank to hide behind. He just takes a bit more skill than spit/run/spit/run/charge-in-guns-blazing UB build.

TB rocks.. i dont know what all of you are talking about. Easy to level up then once you get 1k fireball you get easy DG kills alllll dayyyyyy.

Most people prefer to play Fire TB, but Ice TB is much better in my opinion. Anyway, tne only thing which makes me aggresive is that on later lvls, you have no chance vs a 11k live ub player

You can HP stack as TB you know. Drugfreeboy actually loves doing that and generally has the highest or 2nd highest hp of anyone in most games. It can make a TB a real beast to deal with.

The trick with TB well at least fire is the huge amount of damage you can put out in a short amount of time. This will scare most players normally into thinking they need to run sooner than they should or they will ignore it and run too late and die.

1k Fireball + 400-600 Nova + 1200 or so Ring = at least 2k of near instant damage.

I think most tb builds are kinda endurance builds..you try to keep getting more damage to your enemy while not taking damage, then your enemy starts to get a bit worried about their hp being at 1/3 while yours is around 1/2 so they start running. Then you just gotta chase them halfway across the map to finish em off haha. Chasing works better with ice. Also you like to fight in a creep lane so that your aoe can kill their creeps and yours can help you out a bit.

I play TB more than any other DG.  Ice TB.  I find that by focusing on the overrall game (wiping out creeps, citadel upgrades, assists) you can really push a game into a win.  Since your greatest strength lies in your AOE, you don't need a lot of items to scale well into late game.  That allows you to funnel cash into gold upgrades, flag locks, etc.  Works great for me.

Playing with a Staff of Renewal you're pretty much golden for destruction. He's very easy to play, very HARD to master, and very difficult to kill when played correctly. That being said...

A good TB needs a lot of mana, a lot of HP (choose high HP items over armor), and a lot of SPEED.

really?    

fire tb for me is so easy to play and very effective.   maybe not super powerful but very easy to make a difference and get kills.    

and he doesnt really have any bad match ups, can fill some useful rolls and works well in groups.

[quote who="SoFFacet" reply="22" id="2286323"]There are a lot of bad TB players. I suppose its concievable that they're all just doing it wrong and he could actually be a good DG, but from what I've seen thus far I'd rate him like 6th out of the 8 DGs. 
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If you rate him by what you see - which is that TB is not effective, and you already admit that people could just be playing him poorly...the conclusion seems obvious.  Every game seems to have certain characters that are just a bit more difficult to play as, not because the character is better in any way, shape, or form than any of the others, but just because of the way the character was designed.

The same is true for Demigod.  While the demigod's may be fairly well balanced towards each other, it still boils down to the person playing.  I would venture a guess that the TBs style of playing in a way that is noticably effective is not intuitive to a lot of people.

All of the Demigod's are effective.  Most people want effectiveness with the least amount of work, however.  Hence, people expect that and play with that mindset, causing problems for themselves.

Two things.

First, that 1k fireball. I can cast that from a million miles away. Odds are that you don't get to do any damage to me at all. A few seconds later my cool down is up, so I do it again. Repeat a couple of times and u gotta go home (especially with Heart of Life nerf). Lets say you decide to finally rush me. I just gotta get you down to about 2.5 thousand hp, then I can burst damage you to death nearly instantly if you are alone and don't have any cool shields.

Like someone said, they focus more on the whole game rather than kills. Kills don't win the game...a dead citadel does. Killing all their creeps instantly while your giants roll on through is pretty powerful...even if you have a hard time killing one particular target.

When you say he doesn't 'scale' well, you gotta take into account that every time the enemy buys a creep upgrade his nukes hit two or three more targets.