There are healer spawn units  IIRC.  Maybe they are mages.  They are what the fatguys in the trailer are.

TYO GIMME MY PRIZE FOR FIGURING THIS OUT.

Also maybe some generals special units will have special abilties.  That'd be cool, yeah definitely! Infat, most of them should have some special ability IMO.

Haha! Nice work Innociv. They are indeed healers.

Hmm, you might be onto something here...

Hehe thanks..

I'd go on to say that those creeps special abilities should synergize with other some other Demigod's skills which aren't that Generals.    Like vampire lords revive-things leech life on hit.  And maybe Sedna has an aura that makes it where when people are healed they damge nearby enemies.  So Vampire Lord + Sedna = great combo.

The life leech on vampire lords revives would be healing, which triggers the damaging nearby enemies from the Sedna's aura, which is adding small aoe damage to all of their attacks.    Just an example, of course.  (Note, I just mean "spike"/"burst" heals, not "over time" heals.  A regen healing aura wouldn't be triggering the damage, nore would a units regen rate.  Healing skills and life leach would.)

Though.. I hope Demigod isn't life-leach heavy on items like DotA.  In DotA i think it breaks things.  I wish Life-leach only came from classes skills.    You can have much cooler things with the gameplay/skills when you don't have to worry about how it'll effect life leach items on all Demigods!

Hey innociv a little late on the ball:

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/322644

I pointed this out days ago.

No it's not hard to balance.

"Hey heres a replay of this combinationg owning really really hard."

It's looked over, decided whether the person is just crying that they lost or if it's really imbalanced.  If it's imbalanced, one of the two, or both skills/abilties, get nerfed, whichever way will effect other builds that use the skills least.

If it turns out they're they where nerfed too much, then noe of em gets buffed in between how they where before..  GW did this with 900 or so skills, not just 80(well, more than 80 since items)

Not to mention, that combination would have to be compared to the combinations of other demigods.  What happens with the Rook and Regulas work together in lane, what about the Torchbearer and Unclean Beast?  What if one is built one way, another way.   Not saying it should be RPS, i'm saying there should be equally powerful combinations both WITHIN each demigod, and when two work together, or three together.  Some demigod combinations might be really powerful with 3 Demigods, but 3 demigods in a lane with 3 lanes means the other 2 lanes would only have 1 person each.  But on a 2 lane map if there is such a thing, they'd be better.

I'm not saying how skills work together across Demigods should be huge.  Maybe they SHOULD, maybe they shouldn't.  There should be skills for your own Demigod that work together  very well, and also Benefits allies.  But this is a team game, and synergies between the Demigods would enhance that, in my opinion. 

If the response to having lots of synergistic skills, both obvious and not(and i'm not talking you have one skill that does, say, a lightning strike, and then another skill buffs that to make it chain lightning.  Also, not like diablo2 1.10+ where skills buff each other for each point.  I'm talking about skills "naturally" working together like how the cards you put in your Magic: The Gathering deck work together.) is "will be hard to balance" then the game will have less depth when it comes to the Demigods.. at least in my opinion.

*shrugs* I hopes that's part of why there is a 4-5 month beta.  Not like the game can't be patched after release too.

I didn't read it so i'm first.

Yeah but i'm not saying copy GW's, i'm saying be inspired by MTG like GW was.  The aura's can fit fine into the synergisticness.  I'll write a long post when Beta comes out.  Then I can see if I really think they're fit, personally.  I haven't played so what can I say now?  It just sounds good on paper and from experiencing other games skill design.

And nothing worth it is easy...

And mooey I was joking.  Sorry I read over that bit about you saying they where healers.  I thought I was the first to say it, but I wasn't.  So you win.   *gives Mooey the prize Tyo gave him of nothing *

We aren't saying GW's had great gameplay and such (though i liked it, i dont think that applies to demigod)  But it is the most competitive RPG theres been AFAIK in the west.

It had very good skill design, more like MTG than diablo.

And most games click-to-move would get you stuck, and the auto attack would be clunky, but GW had good path finding, and something about the combat felt solid despite it happening automaticaly.

It's just a good game to look to for competitive stuff, and cool skills.  It was a love it/hate it kind of game though because it was completely Guild dependant. You needed to be good, be in a good guild, so you could Guild Vs. Guild and Hero's Ascent for the real fun.

I'd say to leave possible special abilities to general units. Make them extra special.

because people grabbed overpowered builds off the wiki and destroyed pvp

thus, the Great Crusade of Balancing began.

I want GW

umm, off topic.

Special abitities for general-controlled units sounds like a good idea to me.

night, minotaurs and archers have the least health