I was gonna post one and then got lazy, and then the forums went down which made me lose even more motivation.

Best tower Rook by Obscen

PoT I
Arrows
Save
PoT II
ToL + Boulder Roll
Slam I
PoT III
Trebuchet
Slam II
PoT IV
Slam II
Slam III
Slam IV
Boulder II
Whatever

Reason: Hold lane (HP flag on cata), XP up. Late game, fighting you in a tower farm is fatal vs your Boulder Slam. You can often 2vs1 at level 13+ in your farm.

Situational Stuff
Favor 3vs3+ BotF: Exception: Enemy Rook or Reg, and you have a general on your team that attaches a monk, then you take Crimson Vial to control lane vs enemy Rook or counter Snipes.
Favor 2Vs2: Crimson Vial, holding a lane 1on1 or 2on2, crimson vial is stronger on Rook then BoTF. Especially later when you sigil and then vial.

Treb @ level 8 is amazing in good games, always the level 8 choice  eg: Chances are you cannot safely push the gold towers on Cata by yourself, but trebs will take them out while you lane safely for XP while controlling the HP flag.

Warning. Doesn't matter how good you are as Rook, you need a good support team. If you get caught in a 2vs1 or 3vs2 against people who know what they are doing, you are going to die when things are equal if there is no inbound TP for support. I've died many times as tower rook to a strong push, as well have killed many good players with a strong push against their rook. When you yell HELP, you better get a teammate inbound or you will start feeding the enemy.

On the flip side of the coin, when things aren't equal, Rook can be godlike with higher gear. 10K+ life on a sigil and 2000+ uncounterable damage? Real hard to overcome.

Another problem I've noticed with this build: You must get some time to lane alone before level 10 once your farm is setup. If you constantly have a backup DG in your lane, you are going to be level 7-8 and the rotating enemies will be level 10. This is catastrophic.

Awareness: When your tower farm is setup, Do not be afraid to TP in to boulder a 1vs1 fight when the enemy is about to need to withdraw. This will allow your teammate to chain stun for a kill.  

Weakness: Occ rapes this build. You need to go hammer Rook vs Occ.

Mostly agreed, but when you have 6 towers in play you are not really over extended to be in Treb range on the gold towers.

eg: drop 2 towers past the original downed tower and step back to max treb range with 4 surrounding towers. It is hard for even TB to attack you 1on1 effectively. Occ is a different story though, frontal towers do not delay his attacks against you at levels 7+  since lightning + minions negate tower damage completely. You need a different build then the one I recommended.

You are also right vs TB and I should have added more: Until PoT III, you cannot be standing past your side of a flag vs TB unless you want to be taking damage you cannot retaliate against. Vs TB before level 7, the tactic is to drop towers and then fallback so TB cannot fireball/RoI you without being in tower attack range, which means the flag can be contested 1on1 by TB.

You may also think you are OK 1on1 vs TB, but the second a DG pops in lane 2vs1, you have a huge ass problem if you are standing past the flag without 6 towers in play to cover your retreat, In that case, you might die in a push, but an enemy is not escaping vs TP in if he has to traverse back through your farm after scoring a kill. This is where strong teamplay come in if you are extending past a flag as tower rook.

Yeah, I think this is where teamplay comes in.

I remember our last 2 games... your build vs my build. When my team was stronger, my tactic worked just fine and shut down your team from contesting the HP flag, and ate your gold towers safely, which has obvious benefits when my team fights your team.

On the flip side of the coin, my tower rook couldn't hold vs a better team and eventually you could simply kick us out of lane and then rape our towers directly instead of my more cautious and patient approach.

My opinion, when you are playing with a strong, good team... tower rook beats offensive rook unless you are facing Occ.

If you have teammates that are dependable, it's better to prioritize hammers - because stronger hammer = win ganks. If you have completely useless teammates, then prioritize towers.

Try a build with boots of speed+poisoned dagger on rook. No tower. Just go hammer+passive+attribut

Rook can't autoattack while moving (see Uberfix). Poison Dagger is useless.

Nope, always towers, then hammer, especially if you're facing a hammer Rook.

http://www.gamereplays.org/demigod/replays.php?game=51&show=details&id=129164  There's a tower Rook dominating vs Occulus and Rook.  We played this one untraditionally though, I solo'd with Rook on mana until I outlevelled everyone making the game much easier.  It's not exactly Obscenitors build but it's tower focused.  I delayed boulder for towers and hammer, missed one kill because of it but gave me greater pushing power.

And I disagree, have you spoken to Orcun directly about this, I'm pretty sure he understands the power of the tower.  He would say it's bad vs Occulus is true, but it dominates a hammer Rook.  The only thing you have to be careful of is a hammer Rook is more likely to port and gank.  So if your teammates don't realize you'll be staying where your towers are and pushing, it can go badly, like in this game http://www.gamereplays.org/demigod/replays.php?game=51&show=details&id=128471 where Cow was porting everywhere hammering people since he couldn't touch the HP flag and my team wouldn't back out because they expected me to come.

My replay doesn't even work anymore and I'm not going to make an effort to make one - but a hammer rook does a better job crushing an Occulus than a tower rook.

Any build that doesn't max out hammer slam and towers by level 15 is just completely wrong. Any build that does not get shoulder upgrades is completely wrong. Rook is one of the few characters who has enough useful abilities for 19 levels along with Oak and Sedna. Stats on a Rook is really kind of unnecessary when you can hammerroll someone standing in the middle of all of your towers.

I thought the same thing too.  But I find that in a tower-slam-boulder build you're going to have mana to do two of those three things well or do all three poorly.  The build I used to use was identical to Obscen's, but I tried dropping slam for God Strength and found my game improved.  I think because:

1.  I pay much more attention to exposure without Slam.  I will always have my towers built and retreat lines open.  I am forced to play more conservatively.  If there is any DG that will be punished for not being conservative it is Rook.  If you take a risk with him and it doesn't pay off, your chances of survival are grim.

2.  I always have mana for towers and boulder.  Plenor+Vlemish+UbBoots+SoR give me enough mana that I will be able to always plant a tower and only after a long heated battle will I run out of mana to spam boulder as well.  If I tried to mix in Slam I would either run out of mana or be caught trying to Slam when I should have been bouldering

3.  Long range boulders from behind a tower farm creates hesitation.  Hesitation creates time and adds to your war score.  Essentially it intimidates at a much greater range than slam

4.  Boulder is more versatile in ganking than slam.  Boulder will keep enemies from escaping, allow your teammates to escape and can deny reinforcements from saving a teammate.

5.  At decent level of play, you're never going to get the opportunity to slam someone in your farm unless DA swapped them in there.  You will get plenty of opportunities to boulder someone at the fringes of your farm and you can do that from safety.

So there's nothing wrong with slam, it's a great skill.  But the build I like, especially against melee/minion teams emphasizes using boulder as often as possible.  Taking Slam instead of GS and stats gets you pretty close to the same build, but if you play in my *style* you'd find yourself rarely with a good chance to use Slam.  If you want to play a Rook using slam as your primary weapon, choose a Slam build, but you won't be throwing as many boulders as I would in a match.