The Rook: Towers are for sissies - Strategy Guide

I can't tell the exact build, but when I fought OrexxerO, he ran a no-tower build himself, and it cleaned shit up(still beat it, but holy crap, it was tough). I'll definetly say it has potential, but since I know nothing about rook other then RTSD or Stay the fuck away from him, I can't really comment on the build itself.

wut, no God Strength? 

Quite interesting, very efficient build !

But maybe getting some cheaper items first would help ? Like BoS after Plenor ? Because by the time I can afford Journeyman's, it's pretty much GG already

With all that structural transfer, it's probably a good idea to at least grab tower of power I to have things to munch on when you not pushing or have most structures down in your area. It'd be more useful to get it between lvl 10-14, and pass on either dizzying force or poison arrows at lvl 15. Also if you have energizer it kinda negates the need for Heart of Life.

ignore this

Much better then wuss tower build

I agree with another poster that you should probaby get a least 1 level of tower of power so you can use your own towers for structural transfer. Also I'm confused as to why no god strength as well. Trying to think about how to squeeze in good strength.. maybe avoid the stats... dunno.

Why not get God Strength instead of attributes?

Also, have you tried using Warpstone with this build instead of (or in addition to) Journeyman Treads?  In good hands, it makes landing roll/slam combos or just slams very easy.  It changes the battle entirely because they never know when you will suddenly be behind them swinging the hammer.  Its good for escaping bad situations as well.

having played against iphires rook last night, i can tell you that its very nasty, specially if you have some teamates that can slow down the enemy

can you clarify this? you want them to move?

Fail because no god strength, there's just no reason to skip it.

What he means is..... If the Oak uses Pentinence earlyer, the enemy can move to soon and get out of the spike range of the hammer slam.

Waiting just before the hammer hits make sure the enemy gets the debuff, but has little to no time to move out of the way for the hammer slam.

ah for the debuff, forgot about that, i understand now

it requires good timing on oaks part, but when used like that its very effective

As per the God strength comments I don't get God Strength because I don't typically melee damage people often, but if you prefer +150 melee damage over enhanced attributes go for it. 

As per the power tower you could also fit that in but I prefer to have Level 2 smash and boulder roll by level 5 to start hero killing otherwise you can fall behind in levels.

 I can testify that the UB foul grip and hammer smash works even on mobile characters like erebus.

boulder roll -->hammer slam   is a viable tactic

one on one, I made hammer rook quit when I was on oak and interrupted every slam.  It is a viable build though if I played rook that's how I'd play one.

You can interupt slam with Pentinence but not if he stuns you first

You played a hell of a Rook in a game last night

What's the duration of stun compared to hammer cast timer?  I could've sworn i came out of stun and interrupted a split second before it hit.  I do remember going up toe to toe with an offensive rook who was stacking gloves, on my UB a while ago and just getting my ass handed to me if I missed Grasp.

Hammer is a 1.5sec cast...   Boulder Roll I is a 1.5sec stun, Boulder Roll II is a 2.0 sec stun, Boulder Roll III is a 2.5 sec stun.

My build is actually similar to this but I get God Strenght instead of Attribute bonuses to knock down enemy buildings quicker more then for more killing power.

I use the Amulet of Transportation for my Favor item so i don't have to spend gold on Teleport Scrolls. Then I just get the two Mana masks and stack up my armor and health.

Bulwark of the Ages and Allfather ring usually won't come into play but the Bulwark can up the Rooks health to over 7k HP sometimes depending on what other health and armor items you have.

And as Iphire said, gotta get Bolder Roll and Hammer Slam in sync big time to net kills. If your off by a fraction it won't work, and you will only hit the enemy DG with the AOE damage and not the raw max damage.

One nasty strategy I use is if a enemy DG is tagging a flag I will tele to it and then instantly bolder roll and hammer slam, they usually arne't expecting something like that.

I makeup for not picking attribute skill points with items. I usually spend alot on armor and health items.

IPhires build seems to be more speed based. Mine is more Armor/damage based.

The order of skills you take and the items you buy is very weird/bad.

I will say, good show. Best rook i've been put up against. I was trying to make a build like this that worked. yours seem pretty close. Dropping a point or two out of structural transfer and getting god strength might be the only thing I'd change.

I'm also not too sold on the Idea of getting Journeyman's as my third item. I guess it's possible if you're cleary winning the push.  I will say playing against a rook that fast was pretty insane.

The team you guys had was pretty solid, if you dropped regulus for UB or Erebus I don't think i'd want to play you again.