He's the one Demigod I've never really even experimented with, but my experiences has been pretty good with having one on my team as long as he's got a good build that doesn't include Warp Area.

He's not a "tier one" demigod but the way the game is played nowadays makes your team's demigod selection rather limited. You can have two Demigods on your team that are Oak, Erebus, or Unclean Beast.  Then you can have the third Demigod one of the other 6 "Support" class demigods.  Deviating from this formula is fine unless you are playing against a good team made up of the better classes of demigods... then bad things happen.

After games like this, people will blame whatever poor bastard happened to get killed the most during the game and say "I will never play with (insert underpowered demigod here) again."

I love DA. He is great in team games. So much fun.

But I agree, especially early on, he simply can't hold a line or push.

Why all the hate for Warp Area?

If you use EoM it is free damage. (Hey and add a health stack while you are at it using EoM)

There is a DG all by himself. You press F4,2,1,3... the 3 part is free damage,

I've had some fun playing DA.  He's not that bad.  And you can get by with 2 helms.  You don't have to spam his abilities.  That's a very predictable way to play him as well.  Sometimes its best to wait until someone gets overly aggressive and then unload all of that burst damage and hinder their escape.  Which is why I like going blood on him so he can take a bit more of a beating and do a little auto attacking.

He's not great at holding a lane but he's decent at protecting towers.  Being able to swap someone out of place behind a tower is threatening.

I updated my "Viable" demon assassin guide to include spine attack and some basics on playstyle.  Send any n00bs there for some pr0 demon tips.

I use warp area inbound to deal damage, I am usually not aiming at creeps with it.

Pulling 2,1,3 on inbound is alot of mana to have to recover using BotS for this item load out if you expect to spine and strike again when the cooldowns are reached, or you want to swap later or pursue to warp strike behind towers (thanks to that much life.)

There's also much less DA squishiness using these items. Max spike, warp strike, and swap, 2 points in warp area and the rest in dodge.

I guess for this build I find that EoM is simply easier to manage mana then BoTS for DA once you go into battle.

because in 3v3 2v2 or 1v1 DA is shit, he has absolutley no staying power. Any general will destroy him, he can't touch UB or Rook either.

i actually play a pretty good DA and i enjoy playing with him and im hoping my teammates feel the same.......hopefully

What about a Passive Ability DA? I always use one, and it works great. Get items to boost attack speed and other critical items, high move speed means you get almost full DPS as your opponent is retreating. Death by a thousand paper cuts style. Usually when I play DA I don't have active abilities until I've run out of passive abilities to get. It may just be that I'm not very skilled, and don't play against very skilled players either, but our impression of Passive ability DA was that he was obscenely OP.

yeah, the kind of DA i fear is warp+range+swap, with a speed boost. the passive line is really kind of worthless. i've tried playing warp+range vs range+passive and warp+passive, and the two attack moves are so much better than the passive line it's not even funny.