Wow Frogboy. That'd break the game so bad.
If that was patched in, say, tomorrow, Generals would be far better than Assassins if it weren't for rook and TB being rather broken. But they'd probably be as good as Rook and TB, still, maybe even better depending on the bonus.
But, they wouldn't be good using their minions or idols. They'd still not use minions, they'd be better from using their money bonuses to buy items which make them better as pure assassin playing style.
Generals work fine right now as Assassins.
So people think they're bad because they're newbies, and don't know how to play the game(this is said frankly, not offensively), so they try using the minions and idols which are bad. Generals actually are all pretty good right now when you play them as an assassin. And it SHOULD be that way. You should be able to play them either way. It's their Minion builds that are bad. Their solo builds are fine. So the solution used needs to be one that just buffs their playability with minions, without improving them significantly when played without minions.
Generals aren't bad. General minion builds are bad.
If you cheapen the Idols about 1k across the board for all the level 4's, and add items which only give bonuses when you have minions, and give better bonuses for more minions in some cases, then Minions will work better. That solution only effects them being used with Minions, is it's the proper one, in my opinion.. If someone has a better solution, that's fine. But every other solution either makes them completely overpowered and they'll still just be used as assassins, but overpowered ones(frogboys), or makes them useless as assassin's(what most of the community has suggested with nerfing their damage and buffing their survivability).
See: http://forums.demigodthegame.com/343154 this thread on general items.
Like if you have a +100 armor +health item per minion you control (max 800) then you have to at least buy 3 idols and use level 1 of the minion skill for Sedna/QoT to get the maximum bonus from it. Or level 3 of it, and buy 2 idols. Oak and Erebus could get the bonus with their minion skills maxed alone. That last part woudl be interesting in of itself, how it works differently on two sets of Generals, and is more depth some people say the game lacks. (Which, it lacks FAR FAR less than pretty much everyone says. The game has a good deal of depth, but COULD have more without adding senseless things.)
Plus, fix bugs like nightwalkers not (or not able to) attack people that are moving. Spirits do a bad job at this too, but are slightly better since they move faster. Not sure about Yeti's but I imagine they have the same problem.
It's hard to judge how good something is when they won't even work because of bugs! What if thye're actually okay, but no one can tell because the bug makes them useless?!
I've also had tons of cases where minions ignore my orders, or move in the complete opposite DIRECTION of where I tell them to go. It does this with my Demigod too, but less often.
Thanks...
With love, Innociv.
