I found that the characters leveled up quickly enough that the game went to late game everygame because its hard to push towers early on.  I also found that in say the rook, that the choice of skill was quite clear, his warhammer skill was superior to the other skill choices at low levels also that his skills were spread far enough apart that i had everyone of them maxed as I was able to pick them.

This seems to be a common theme amongst most of the people I've talked to. Some close friends included. The progression appears far too linear. Especially on the regulus which is a straight up stat boost, and just about the only skill you use is Snipe. it's auto attacking for an entire match. it's pretty redundant in that respect

Yes but like brn4meplz pointed out the regulus has only one 'build' if you build him with mines... your screwed, mines do no damage compared to snipe and mines require people to run over them. Thats why we should have real skill trees, have more skills, or some other way to increase the matches. Perhaps having actual 'WoW' style talent trees for example.

It needs more skills period, I know they wanted to be like DotA but only 4 skills is ridiculous. I mean seriously none of the heroes even have a set ultimate thats really devestating. Id love to have tier and skill trees.

I actually do like the idea of a passive skill tree which boosts aspects of your demigod.  Torch Bearer for instance has very little purpose going fire I feel.  I've tried fire, I found it quite weak.  Sure his fireball does a nice 850 damage at high levels, but his fire storm is 50 damage in three waves.  50 x 3!  Maybe if that was a programming typo and it's suppose to be 150 x 3 (since his burnination mode is a limited time frame) it'd be useful.  His attack speed boost aura doesn't seem to do much at all either.  As for his ring of fire and fire nova, ok, they're good for dealing with the creeps, but they're useless against another demigod.  He even seems to get weaker attacks!  His ice spells however are devastating.  Ice nova and his ice bolt are a considerable stun and a means of escaping from or paralyzing an enemy demigod while you hammer on it.  And his ice storm is 100 damage in 3 waves.  100 x 3.

For example, if there was a means of improving his elements in a separate passive skill tree, he'd be considerably better.  For instance ice element gains a small damage over time for freezing enemies (10/20/.../100 per second), all ice damage and attack damage out of burnination mode improved by 5% per skill level investment (up to 10).  Fire damage could likewise be improved 5% per level (since it's a time limited mode), with an improvement to his aura of 1% per level (up to 10).  This is compariable to Rook's godly strength, which honestly should be split up into finer granularity to balance him out.

BETA BETA BETA BETA BETA.

They've already said that this first phase is not meant to be fun or balanced or have all the features. It's just meant as a tech test. Skills not being balanced, gameplay not being in depth, that's to be expected. They aren't looking for any gameplay issues, as far as we know there may have been a lot of changes to skills since this build was made that we don't know about. I'm just saying wait until they ask for feedback regarding gameplay before you say it has no depth or replay value. Of COURSE there's no replay value when there's only 3 demigods and a few unbalanced items.

I mean, already there's several ways to play each demigod. Rook can go stun + hammer to go demi killing, or he can go hammer + eat building to become a great pusher, or he can go stun + increased damage to be another style of demi killing, or +damage and tower upgrades to become another kind of pusher. Each of these builds, if actually well balanced, would play significantly different from one another. There'll be even more choices when items are fully implemented, and there are different maps to choose from, and there's at least the apearance of balance.

Basically my point is that it's pointless to banter on about depth and replayability because these tie in to gameplay balance a lot, and we can't test balance with 3 heroes on a single map with some untuned items.

One final note, what would be the point of splitting the trees into passives and active abilities? The only way this would change current functionality would be if you got different skill points that could only be used in one of these trees, or multiple skill points per level or something. It would be a pointless change.

Not allowing people to keep picking the same skill isn't a solution to people not wanting to pick them.

No!  No limitations like that!

Well I think he might be fun to play (I love techies) but I still want more depth, choices, synergy ect.

If there was an added talent tree seperate from a skill tree then they could impliement a techies style of playing Regulas by making his mines do more damage or have other effects like slow, as well as a skill tree where you could decide what sorts of spells you want to play your techies style.  Prehaps if the skill tree had say 5 tiers of spells and at certain levels (say 3,6,9,11) you could pick from the next tier down.  Each tier would have maybe 2-3 skills on it and you can only choose one per match. 

This basically means you could be picking trap based tech skills, but you find that you're lacking some survivability, so you decide for your tier 4 spell you're going to pick something that helps you escape or deal some instant direct damage.  This way theres numerous types of builds and play styles plus a passive tree to do things like increase range on attacks or add effects to mines.

Yeah the skills become alot more involved with tactics morale and the backlash systen on casters, I only listed abilities but the whole amalgation of avaible additions is quite involved. Maybe i should have stuck with Guild Wars comparisons, which is also a great list of skills(but ultimately again it too can be broken into Energy, damage AoE range Cooldown) anything involving numbers can be seperated mathematically, thats always a truth about games. it's when variables come into effect during matches that player skill is determined

Not with the Bright Wizard, no .

Otherwise, I agree with your general feeling, although vanilla or quasi-vanilla skills aren't always bad if there are a couple of them; they're build essentials.