That is a huge death effect.  Is there a big radius on that?  I can see a lot of deaths from that kind of damage.

Well it is a giant walking castle falling on you.

Actually it kinda looks fine to me, but I would like to see a reduction on tower hp early game tho.

Some games with a rook worth their rocks do not last past mid game, or about when we reach late game the opposing team is basically lost.

The problem with Tower rook is if he can block your only pathway and that the towers are very strong in the beginning, so you can only go in with the creeps. You'll need to get priest to be able to solo push through a farm, and even that is likely hard. Usually you'll need 2 or even 3 dgs to push the rook back.

I was looking into adding to his Structural Transfer.

I wanted it to also dispell negitive effects on use.

Would give him a bit more survivability from Spit, could remove snares (Which I like this because if you wanted to get away, you couldnt stand still, thus you would have to pick to just start the transfer and cancel it just to dispell the slow so you forgo the health: Long story short - I like abilities that give choice)

I also thought the final level should make him immune to debuffs for the duration. Make it uninterruptable and unstunnable for the duration. Given the fact that he cant move or do anything else, it wouldnt be horrid like Oak's Shield.

Imo he has to be speed, that is his weakness, which every demigod should have

Issue with that is that if you make it so that he is "on par" with everyone else at level 10, then he would be a full 6.6 at level 20 which is as fast as Sedna with two skill-point investments of Inner Grace or most characters with a Boots of Speed for... no skill investment.

I would be okay with a slight increase in speed every level (.02 makes him a 5.8 at level 20) OR allowing him to increase hiis speed with God Strength.

+ 5/10/15 might be okay and it compares to the other demigods' speed-buff passives, for Rook it would be +Weapon Damage. That said, a full 5/10/15 might be a little much since it would be a helluva lot better than Inner Beast or Inner Grace since +10/15/20 hps < +50/100/150 Weapon Damge.

It could be something like 2% though? That might be enough to give the skill a little more of an allure without making it clearly superior in every way to other Demigod's speed+ skills. Though it would still probably be better than Inner Beast.

If anything Rook should get more armor. Why the hell does a walking castle get the least armor?

Because he has the largest HP pool. That's what the developers were looking at.

HP / Armor / HP regen / Mana Regen

Weaknesses (bottom 2) are Italicized, Strengths (top 2) are bolded. No formatting is 'normal' (middle)

Level 20 Passive Stats with no items or abilities:

Sedna:

3785 / 798 / 8.3 / 8.5

Beast:

4115 / 1083 / 5.8 / 9.5

Ereb:

4405 / 885 / 7 / 7.8

Oak:

4360 / 875 / 7.6 / 6.4

Rook:

4750 / 658 / 9 / 8.2

The issue, however, is that a difference of one or two regen points is virtually useless: the hp or mana regen by BotF/Narmoths/Banded/Monks or Vlemish far, far outweigh the indivisual demigod's regen which makes "having a high natural regen" rather useless. If you invest with passives then sure, sometimes its okay, but not always. Look at Ereb, he has the second-highest Armor AND HP pool, but lowest in both the regens to "balance". Who is one of the strongest demigods? hmmmmmm. It seems that a demigod's indivisual regen rate matters quite little in determining a demigod's final balance.

Rook does have such a massive HP pool, however, and that is probalby one of the reasons why buffing Armor would have a massive effect. Sedna has a full 1k hp less than Rook at level 20. Boost her Armor by 50 and it won't be as significant as if you boost Rook's Armor by 50.

That said, I do think that Rook needs some help late-level (he's fine early level) and I think that increasing his Armor/level would help with that. Rather than just increasing his base armor.

I'm just telling you why the developers' did it, not that I agree with them. The current meta favors a large HP pool, then a large Armor, then high HP regen, then high Mana regen. Early-mid game most damage is done with Skills. End-game more and more damage is done as Auto-attack which makes Armor a larger and larger handicap for these character. Torch is the stronger the late-game characters and certainly the best late-game Ranged Character, possibly because he has the largest HP and Armor pool of the ranged and roughly equal to Sedna. That is why I'm in favor of increasing the Armor/level values so that Rook and Sedna scale better into the late-game without buffing their early game which doesn't need a buff.

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Adding +0.2 Movement Speed to each level of God's Strength is a decent fix. It's the worst of his abilities anyhow. The question is whether or not that makes him overpowered. I can't believe that anyone can fairly argue that would overpower Rook."

That would be a +3/6/10 Movement Speed to get him to 6 at level 15. (5/10/15 was wayyyy too much wasn't looking at the numbers). I have no problem buffing God's Strength, Rook's slow AA makes the +Weapon Damage not huge and Rook rarely engages in a lot of AA anyway. Which makes it okay for it to be better than, say, Inner beast (+2%/2% AA-speed, Movement Speed <<<<<<< +50 Weapon Damage/+3% movement speed). There is also the point that it is a level 5 passive and level 5 passives should probably be better than level 2 passives