Rook's hammer smash has always been targeted only.  However, I do agree that hammer smash should become ground targeted for leading purposes.

I think I liked it better when it could target a location.  Against high level competitive players it might become difficult or impossible to land the full hit on them without a snare of some kind, but I think that's okay.

It most certainly was not unit targeted in the first beta.

It most certainly was not unit targeted, but due to fast spell speed and high AoE, it was very hard to miss. It could however be done.

I think that the damage nerf to be much more in line with the other Demigod's nuking skills means that it should now be a tradeoff, accuracy (it's not really a big hit) against AoE.

It was unit targeted, but it didn't follow the units around. If the unit moved at all, it wouldn't hit it.

It was NOT unit targeted in beta1 FFS.    Ugh.  You could click on people but doing so really just clicked on where they where standing/behind them.

TheBigOne, that would be sort of odd to want since that makes it easier for someone to get out of the way, but okay.

Also, the Hammer Slams activation time was increased in 1a.  With the lack of ground targeting it's pretty imposible to hit with.  And frankly doesn't hardly seem worth the 900 damage now.  In the 1.5sec, or 2sec, or whatever, you're better off doing normal attacks.  It seems like just a creep killing AOE ability now, no longer dual-function. :/

I like the long delay if it had ground targeting and high damage, because then it takes skill.

uhuh..  And if the target moved before you reached them it'd hit where you clicked.  Also, you could click on the ground and it'd hit the ground.

It was ground-targeted.

That's like saying the AoE's in DotA are unit-targeted because you can set the center of them on a unit.

Don't think AOE but rather splash.  The hammer isn't an AOE effect.  It is a single unit effect that has splash damage to units near it.

No, he wouldn't.  It was very annoying, because I was always missing units and having to click multiple times to actually get him to target something.  If you clicked on ground that did not have a unit standing there, he would not swing.

But yes.  It did target the ground under the unit, not the unit itself.  However, as you had to click on a unit to use the attack, it is technically unit-targetted the way I see it.  Epic breakdown of communication, lol.