I agree with your sentiment, but they will do more tweaking.  Clearly a lot of abilities are being changed.  Add your suggestions, what do you think it should be?

I think it should be 300-->600-->900.

@tesb

I dont care that its balanced to match up with other characters I just would rather have the weak 600 dmg back then this 450 no matter how unbalanced that makes it right now cause like u said its not about balance right now if they changed this in beta 2 i woudlnt mind.

uh yea i knew EXACTLY what tesb was saying i know this is an stress test like anyone else im just kinda ticked they made a weak ass move weaker i dont have a problem if they dmg was high then making it lower but it was low and making it lower gives more of a reason to not play him

It's EXTREMELY useless now, especially when you realize the cooldown time is 30secs.  Weaker shot and less often?  A weak attack is now useless.  That coupped with less dmg icons make regulus much weaker.

it's useless the way way we used to play him...Personally I'm looking forward to carpetting the map with stun mines and running whenever someone goes for me   1a Regulus = angelic clown

Mmmm after playing him against a friend who was playing UB, I can understand the frustration.  If they were going to make balance changes with 1-A, they probably should have gone the other way with Reg.  It's almost as if they didn't test him in the office.  Weak mines, weak nuke, weak initial attack, and low life.  What are the pros to playing this character?  Stasis mines do negligable damage and stun for such a short period of time that you can only get in a maximum of two weak attacks.

This IS an engine test beta, but it really doesn't seem like many of the bugs from the previous beta were addressed...  The AI still occasionally hangs out at the base the whole game (though it is better than before), evade affects health regen, you can still see enemies in the fog with your mouse, and the pathing for grunts/creeps is still unpredictable.  Was this just a feature addition, not intended to address problems with the previous version?

I think the normal mines are still rather useless.  Don't get me wrong, they are a lot better, they just still can't be used effectively.  Against creeps, the first creep that walks over them gets blown up.  Its a waste, because it blows up before the rest of the creeps get there.  One mine will kill one creep.  I think if you gave them a short delay (one to two seconds) before detonation, it would be much better against creeps.

You need quite a few to take down a Demigod, although I guess it could be done.

They reduced the damage but drastically increased the range of snipe.  Its a strange adjustment but I guess they felt it was a good trade off?

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Stop hiding behind "Beta 1 is not for balance".  If balance like changes are made to the game(1-1A) and they are poor decisions they are fair game for criticism.  If Beta 1 was not for balance then snipe would be the same damage. If someone feels they took a skill in the wrong direction of balancing they should say so.  Obviously though, calculating out elaborate DPS scenarios for heroes is probably a waste of your time.

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pretty sure it was  200>300>400>500>600 and now its 150>300>450

I wonder if snipe is just not being used appropriately, or is designed for a context we haven't encountered yet.  For instance, maybe it's good against generals because 600 is probably enough to one shot their guys from well out of their reach.

Maybe it would be useful if the cooldown were lowered by a good amount so he could apply solid amounts of pressure to enemies while safe, or maybe changing it from set damage values, have it take his base attack and do 200% > 300% > 400% of that, or something to that effect, so his regular attacks never render snipe outdated.