One week before the patch. I hope they also balance in 1.2, because if not they effectively lost one Demigod while introducing another.

Only newbies will try her out a few times, only to see playing QoT is not only uneffective and bad for your team but also no fun to play (I tried Stun/Slam Rook recently and it's a lot more fun).

My suggestions:

• Change Tribute to be a Shambler-specific special skill:
  • the number of active Shamblers give QoT some bonus:
    • +10 health per second and/or
      
    • +10 mana per second

• Give Bramble Shield some side effect for 3rd and 4th skill level:
  • not interruptable when Shielded
  • throws back slowing effects on attacker

• Improve Ground Spikes:
  • Too weak against Demigods and too strong against towers:
    • at maximal level (-1500 armor), an armor reduction from 3000 armor (55% dmg reduction) to 1500 armor (37% damage reduction) means only 18% more autoattack damage for 5 seconds (in comparison: Oak's Pentinence increases all damage by 17% for 7 seconds)
    • Tower upgrades should also increase tower armor (+200)
      
    • Demigods should not regenerate health (and mana?) during these 5 seconds

• Change Uproot to channeling spell:
  • interruptable
  • duration of 5 seconds, each second damage is done
    
  • does increasing damage per second:
    
    • level1 -> 100 + 125 + 150 + 175 + 200 = 750 maximuml damage
    • level4 -> 400 + 500 + 600 + 700 + 800 = 3000 maximum damage (it's a siege only skill after all and it's interruptable!)
      
    • towers can't attack while Uprooted from skill level 3 upwards
      

• Violent Siege: deal normal damage as area damage

• Change compost to something useful. It should temporarily:
  
  • increase maximum health of QoT or
  • increase armor of QoT or
    
  • increase attack speed of QoT or
  • increase attack damage of QoT or
  • increase movement speed of QoT

• Increase effect of Goddess of Thorns:
  • 25% less damage taken
  • Bramble Shields deal 100 damage per second area damage (Shields only last seconds at this level)
    

Good ideas in this thread.

But what about Shamblers? As it stands they will never be useful without a significant boost in HP and damage. They're too expensive as well.

IIRC Night Walkers start off with more health than Shamblers. And you can have 10 of them!

Really, every one of QoT's moves needs buffing/reworking, with the exception of Ground Spikes. As the others said, even Shield becomes increasingly useless late game, and is clearly inferior to Heal at ranks 3 and 4.

OK, here's my take...

First, fix bugs :
- QoT AA targetting
- Shamblers AA range (cf. http://forums.demigodthegame.com/358902, very easy fix)

Skills :

Open / Close
- Lower animation time
- Closed form bonus : +100 armor, +10% armor, +10 HP / sec
- Opened form bonus : AoE attack, +50% mana regen, +5% speed

Ground Spikes
- Tweak mana cost progression : 400 / 500 / 600 / 700
- Remove armor debuff (yes, you read that right)
- Increase damage vs creeps and minions (this is her army destroying skill) : + 10 / 15 / 20 / 25%
Now, this is her mass killing skill, so it's further boosted by the Compost synergy.

Spike Wave
- Lower mana cost
or
- Make it an interrupt

Summon Shamblers
- Max cap : 2 / 3 / 4 / 6

Mulch Shambler
- Skill actually might need nerfing. But let's not touch it for now.

Uproot
Allow it to be targeted at an enemy DG with the following effects :
- stuns target for 0.6 sec (+ compost synergy)
- lowers armor by 450 / 900 / 1350 / 1800 for 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 secs
Keep the siege effects.

Shield
- Easy one : make it absorb armor mitigated damage

Goddess of Thorns
Swap the effects :
- Shield gives 15% damage reduction
- Ground Spikes does 35 DPS DoT for 20 secs

Violent Siege
Haven't seen it in action, so dunno. But AoE should be similar to that of Circle of Fire.

Entourage
Scrap damage bonus, give armor and life regen bonus instead :
- + 10 / 15 / 20 HP per sec
- +250 / 500 / 700 armor

Tribute
- make it 4 gold per shambler (now, we're talking money)
or
- each shambler around QoT (10m radius) takes 5% of the damage she's dealt in her stead

Compost
- Increase cap : 6 / 12 / 18 (ie, max effect level 2 / 4 / 6)
- Scrap shambler bonus health
- Increase shambler damage bonus : +10 per compost effect level (thus capping at 60)
- +3 % shambler run and attack speed per compost effect level
- shamblers healed by 10 / 15 / 20% opponent's life when they or QoT make a kill
- +0.4 sec stun duration per compost effect lvl when Uproot is used on a DG

That's a valid objection from the point of view of in-game "realism" but since it's a game and not very "realistic" to start with, sometimes "realism" has to be forgotten for the benefit of balance.
The issue with shield is that it doesn't scale as the game progresses. Auto-attack gets stronger, and shield goes down faster and faster. Players offset AA increase by stacking armor late game. We could suggest giving the shield itself an armour value, but since shield caps at level 10, it would come too soon, making it stronger when it's already strong. Hence the idea to let it scale along with players equipment choices, even if it's not very "realistic".

We might suggest making it a tad weaker at slvl 1 & 2 (less absorption, higher mana cost) to compensate, but to be honest, a QoT doesn't have the mana pool / regen to support Shield chain casting before lvl 4, and lvl 4-6 skills do most of the damage and people have low armor values (usually a single +armor item, if any), so the impact would probably be minimal.

Agree completely. It even fits her character. I would love to see something like this.

Ah, the obligatory "QoT is fine" post.

Sorry, she's not. Play as her some and you'll see that early game shield is about all she has going for her. She's squishy, weak, slow, and insanely mana dependent. Most of her skill tree is completely useless. She is inarguably the worst late-game demigod.

but ur missing its main ingredient -- condition removal. That out ways any heal amount imo.

we dont want i higher number, coz that wont improve the skill at all. Coz late game heavily depends on dps, percentages are a good way to counter such fast dps. You will not have to increase mana cost becoz its underpowered as it is now.

or the ppl vsing her arent very good... and if u use her alot u no a combonation of those skills will deplete her mana completely.

Please read all my posts geez. I didn't say she is fine, I said a few times her other skills need some buffing.

Again read the whole post...

I was saying that shield has advantages over heals, you can over heal wasting it, heal takes time to cast and the sedna must be in range, where as you can shield at anytime when your near a friendly and let them run off, there isn't a restriction on it.

I've played QoT a few times, its not one of the classes I play regular, usually Reg or Oak, sometimes others. I did a 2v2 pantheon with my side both QoT the enemy been TB/UB, and we won, wasn't a close game or anything. I've played QoT and never really used shield cept once. From what I've seen in games, a QoT who is whoring for another class like Oak/UB/LE usually results in an unbreakable duo even if its 3vs2. A co-ordinated strike will only sometimes break it, but its hard to do with another enemy there.