In practice priests run out of mana rather quickly.

I often get the chance to duel Sedna + Monks vs Sedna + Armor/HP at level 1. While the monks keep you up at 100 percent health longer, it quickly drops off after a few hits, leading the Armor/HP to win.

The player with 2k health is either on the wrong side of a massive level disadvantage, or doesn't know how to play. In either case, altering priests to ensure that a 2000 hit point difference is negated is fairly stupidic. Considering Minion's cost they need to scale, otherwise past a certain point they become useless. Minions are strong and provide a significant advantage, however they're not cheap and if you target the healers at the outset you negate the advantages they give somewhat. There are tactics for fighting Generals and Assassins, and targeting only the enemy Demigod is exactly why healing minions work so well - fighting a General like they were an Assassin is a mistake.

True, however as you pointed out the numbers would be need to be generous, where as right now they don't have to be. It's difficult to work through some Demigod's healing minions, Sedna can be a right royal pain combined with her Heal ability, however if it wasn't the benefit the minions conveyed would be minimal at best and this would decrease the viability of a minion build. Don't fix what's not broken.

The critical hit gloves are a perfect counter to priests...they cost about 3k which doesn't do you a log of good against the level  1 guys but hey mid and late game...you should be tearing people up..

Polynomial often said my balance whines are wrong. Maybe. But some things rly need to be changed:

The Yetis need to be buffed.

QoT should be buffed a bit.

Gloves are too weak & Some favor items too.

Fire TBs Autoattack must work, evenso sludge slinger and warlords punisher.

You said we need to check the high level players, which DG they play, i did it some take a few DGs, but some only take UB.

Miya your posts are usually fairly accurate so this one comes as quite a shock. Priests do not have mana, they heal every time their time limitation allows them to. Also, my friend and I have tested Level 1 Armor/HP Sed vs Monk Sed: Monk Sed wins with 500-700 HP left, every time - and thats assuming they just wail on eachother with no cat and mouse (any of that just leads to a wider margin of victory for monk Sedna). I dominate Armor/HP Seds early/mid/late all the time, every time in actual games. It is completely impossible that Armor/HP Sed might win that fight. 

As for the OP, it seems that the underlying problem you are trying to address is HP stacking, but I question why you try to tackle this so indirectly by focusing on priest healing. From past experience with other games, indirect approaches rarely have the desired effects, usually failing to affect what they were meant to and generating a plethora of new and unintended problems. If HP stacking is the problem, then HP stacking should be addressed directly by dealing with the HP items. 

People continue to think of this game incorrectly. This is a team game. Everyone who is complaining about "balance" thinks of this game as 1 demigod against another single demigod. That's not the way this game goes.

I'm not sure how this changes the argument of percentage based heals?  Are you saying only an idiotic team wouldn't have 1 or 2 generals on it?  Are you saying in a team environment it's easier to kill the monks making them less efffective?  I don't get why increasing the number of players in the equation overrides the argument.

absolutely true

this is exactly the point

the end of this discussion is "a team of assassins only would lose against a team of only generals"

probably is true but... WHO CARES?????

its like saying" a team of 11 goalkeepers would lose against 11 midfielders"

who cares?

a team need still midfielders AND a goalkeeper to succed

Its not so much that they think of it as a 1v1 game, its that a 1v1 situation is really the only fully testable situation since anything else gets very complex and you cant really test well.

Think of it this way - one side of the argument has results from a test.  Its a nice piece of evidence to support the argument, although its hardly completely conclusive as you point out since its just a 1v1 test.  But the other side of the argument has no support in terms of evidence and just requires that people accept that things are fine on their word alone.

So while 1v1 tests arent conclusive, they do provide some information, which is better than no testing support at all.

You can complain about the results of 1v1 testing all you want, but I still maintain that the following two points that are closely related to the OP are well established:

1) HP stacking is THE way to go and is generally superior to other stacking strategies

2) Healing minions are EXTREMELY powerful to the point where all generals would be fools not to use them.  They are probably the best value for the money that any general can use.

The strategic depth of the game probably suffers since there are well established "best" practices instead of a wide range of choices with advantages and disadvantages that are roughly equal to each other.

It sure would be nice if there were situations where a damage stacked DG with lower health could beat a HP stacked DG with lower damage output.  Maybe not enough to overcome 2k hp (which is an extreme example).  But the point is that it really should be possible for somebody to spend their money on damage items and have a chance against somebody who spent all their money on defensive HP/healing items.

Honestly I think your interpretation of this game's methodology is completely off. No DG in this game is designed with the old school RPG mentality of being dependent on other characters to do anything. Rook is slow, but he has bonus HP to help make up for it, Regulus has low HP but range to make up for it. Rook is not so slow that he can't run at all and he can still use teleports, Regulus is not so fragile that he can't take a hit.

All characters have powerful defensive items available to them, the majority of HP comes from equipment. The healers have their own powerful attack skills. This isn't dungeons and dragons or shining force or whatever. The characters are designed to be effective in small encounters, including solo. Some have advantages and disadvantages, but not as extreme as you think they do.

Ok question. If minions are so costly and need to stack. (Which makes sense minions need to be more viable late late game >lvl15). Then why do only healing minions get this? Why doesn't minion damage increse based on how much health your opponent has?