I suppose while on the topic of bugs I should also mention concern over pathfinding bugs most notably on Crucible, which others have spoken of often. Potentially this problem is worse for lesser A.I.s?

Armor of Vengence does not reflect arrows.

Trust me, I tested that out about 3 days after the game was released.

Btw, regarding lesser A.I.s, I notice that the Hard enemy A.I.s get stuck or try to navigate impossible paths (i.e. across spaces in the map) far less frequently than Hard friendly A.I.s.  I assume that lower difficulty A.I. characters are also less adept at pathfinding.

You should look into Peppe's AI Mod. It makes an amazing difference in AI performance.. I don't believe he has gotten around to pathfinding yet. However, the other improvements are, again, amazing. The best part is that it isn't a cheating AI, he makes it better by helping it to make intelligent choices.

well the ulterior motive for complaining about Vengence not working with Orb of Defiance was I was trying to do an end-game farming technique with Sedna.

Walk up into the enemy creep wave, take a little damage, Orb. In those 5 seconds you should nuke the minotaurs and the catapults half-way. Bishops heal you for the damage you took against the creeps while you're Orbed. Then fall back, let the enemy giants walk forward and AA the giants halfway so you mark them, then switch to the other one. NR takes care of the catapults.

Beast isn't actually that great at pushing creepwaves (though admittiably, far better than Sedna). Though he has high armor and Narmoth's essentially lets him gain hp kiling giants while he is attacking Giants he is getting hit by Catapults. Oak is much better at pushing creepwaves. Beast's major advantage when it comes to pushing creepwaves is that he can do it nearly forever, like a BotS TB, unlike just about everyone else who has to expend mana doing so. He may not do it "well" but he can do it forever...

Also, you have not made a pact with the devil to make NR proc about 20 times a minute ^^;

Sedna has a slower rate of attack than Erebus which could mean that it takes longer for it to work.

But no, NR only has a smaller proc rate for ranged characters (which is 8% instead of 15%).

No. Splash attacks also do not trigger lifesteal (Queen's cleave, I mean) or any other "on hit" triggers.