Zygwen

I think one of the problems with the current matchmaking system in Pantheon and Skirmish is that it doesn't wait long enough before forming games. It used to be that some people would have to wait 15 minutes or more before getting into a game which was obviously too long but now I think it doesn't wait long enough which results in lopsided games of various types. Currently for high ranking players in skirmish they can expect to be paired up with a really bad player versus two

I think Custom Rankings should stay in their own tab. By adding them to the over all ladder it dilutes the value of playing Pantheon and Skirmish. A lot of people don't bother playing Pantheon and Skirmish because they know it is easier to get your ladder rank up by playing Custom Games. If you do add Custom Rankings to the over all ranks then I think there should be a tab for cumulative Pantheon Ranking because there currently is no way to track that.

I prefer buying gear instead of priest with the first 1k. I get priest once I make 900 more gold. One of the reasons is that the heal doesn't amount to much when you have less than 2k hp. If you are going to get priest the only way to get over 2k hp at the start of the game is to get one of the HP favor items which I rarely do. I also find that players often under estimate your ability to dps or mitigate damage early game when you don't buy priest. For erebus I prefer getting scaled h

[quote who="DarkW01f" reply="7" id="2303284"]what do you mean by "Note that there is a hard attack speed cap of 0.5 seconds. watch your stacking"[/quote] There is a cap on how often you can auto attack. You can't attack more than twice a second so any attack speed boost over that is wasted.

[quote who="Daikaze" reply="1" id="2297284"]For me the minion Oak and Assassin Oak are pretty much the same. I get my minions, my soul power, penitence, and everything else is just fluff.[/quote] My Oak is similar except my main skill is Surge of Faith instead of Penitence.

[quote who="Jalicos" reply="14" id="2296511"] Also, who hasn't wanted to rampage across the battlefield in a pink Fafnir? [/quote] Rhonda's Highlander in the Battletech TCG was pink. Most regular mechs would use standard camo but the occational exceptional mechwarrior had special paint jobs done. I've been itching to play Mechcommander again but maybe I'll wait for the new Mechwarrior instead.

The fact that Custom Games are included in ladder rank pretty much removed any interest on my part to improve my ladder rank. Why bother when they can avoid losses by stacking their games in their favor either by dropping if they are losing or setting up premade teams versus anyone that shows up. Versus playing Skirmish and Pantheon where the higher you rank is the more screwed you are when it comes to who you are paired with. This was somewhat manageble in Pantheon but my recent Skirmish gam

Well it's been a while since I've played a Rook.

I beleive that Trebuchet accuracy is reduced while moving. If you stand still, you should have no problem hitting towers.

1 minute is a long time in DG. An unenhanced tower had 5600 hp which takes 93.3dps to take down in 1 minute. By level 2 all DGs can do more than that so left unattended any DG can clear a lane. All Generals can do so with minions thus taking no damage. TB can do it with rank 3 fire ball. UB can do it with rank 3 spit and Rook has structural transfer which counters the tower damage. The problem isn't that Regulus can take down a whole lane by himself. The problem is that no one is hara

The first few pantheons had matches on Mandala, Brothers and Exile but people complained about them being either too big or unbalanced so SD/GPG changed it so that those maps aren't chosen anymore. I think it is a shame that they did. Having more variety is a good thing and it can be fun to play cat and mouse on a big map sometimes. Exile was one of my favorite maps because of the dead end health crystals and how you can corner people in those dead ends.

Might be a bit of a stretch, they are talking about MMOs.

[quote who="pacov" reply="6" id="2282871"]Look here - http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/demigods/ for some info demigod usage. Apparently some people like generals. It takes a bit of work to get a solid minion build together. Quick tip in case you didn't know - press M in game to select only minions and then issue an attack command. [/quote] It doesn't always work though. Lost count of how many times pressing M results in minions not moving or the DG

I just crashed mid game I think I god the same error. EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x771535c9 attempted to write memory at 0x8bc44d93 Program : C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Demigod\bin\Demigod.exe Cmd line arguments : /skipintro /noAI Callstack: RtlLeaveCriticalSection + 9 bytes ((Unknown)(0) + 0 bytes) Reactor version: 1.00.56 Demigod version MAIN.1.10.0146 Last 100 lines of log..

In my opinion Ladder Rankings are currently messed up because Custom games are counting but Ladder Rankings only affect Pantheon and Skirmish match ups. So if you only play Skirmish and Pantheon it is much harder to top the ladder because the game forces you into skewed matches but Custom players can just keep playing their premade games versus non premades. Then these custom players complain when they get hosed while playing Pantheon and Skirmishes because their rank is so high that the game

They reduced the change of a game starting as 3vs2 http://forums.demigodthegame.com/356654/page/3/#2271348 but it still happens in ways that are obviously not balanced. http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/668574/player/27496/ 2 new players vs 3 players with high win percentages.

With the gear I listed, it takes approximately 9 seconds for Fire Nova 3 + Circle of Flame 4 to kill fully buffed Nightwalkers. All other minions take longer to kill because they have higher base hp. In that time, your full army will dish out 8.1k damage before any armor mitigation. TB normally doesn't stack armor and even if they did, Bite would negate a good chunk. The 650 hp from armor lets your minions survive for 5 additional seconds which makes a huge difference.

If you are going against 1 Ridiculous I mean Regulus, make sure you have atleast 500 hp at all times. Against 2 you need 1k hp and against 3 you need 1.5k hp. Similar rules apply vs multiple Torch Bearers or combinations of the two. You'll need more hp as they increase their snipe/fireball skill. A spitting UB will probably kill you if you have under 1k hp and you are still in melee range. UBs have been known to burn people down to a magic number then spit on them and

Get Banded Mail or Charm of Life or Blood of the Fallen to boost hp and hp regen Get Scaled Helm or Mana regen favor item unless the map you are on has a +mana per second flag inside your territory. Don't go in range of enemy towers unless your are level 5+, you are destroying them or it is a guaranteed enemy DG kill.

Minions are weak without minion buffing items. So I usually end up with Hauberk of Life, Platemail of the Crusader, Theurgist's Cap and Gloves of Fell-Darkur. Last slot varies depending on how the game is going, usually Vlemish Faceguard or Boots of Speed. Cost about 20k to get all the gear and idols. I used to get monk idol off the bat but now I usually get some cheap items first and save up 900 or 1800 gold before buying idols. Often I can finish the game with just rank 1 idols. I u

This thread might help http://forums.demigodthegame.com/354405

All generals work fine with minion builds if you know how to do them properly. Erebus and Oak ramp up faster than Sedna and QoT but they can all be effective. QoT is my least favorite general to play as a full minion spec but it does work. The main reasons why most people can't build an effective minion build is that they aren't buying the right equipment and they aren't getting the minion boosting skills. Failing to do that means AoEs pwn you. If you do get the right equipmen

I tend to max bite, have 2 points in Bat Swarm and go full minion build with Erebus. I find that both Mist and Mass Charm are situational. If you have a full army, Bite is usually enough to slow your opponent down enough for them to finish off unless the opposing DG is smart enough to turn tail before you even reach them. I try to get my minions to engage the DG first then bat swarm in and bite or teleport ambush and bite. Mist is used to cancel Mark of the Betrayer and can also be us

If your ladder rank is between 1-1000 you can expect that a good number of your games will be stacked against you. If you don't like playing against the odds, you can either lose a ton of games so you aren't ranked so high anymore or play Custom or Skirmish. In Dead Ghost Example, you where actually paired up against 2 players but they dropped or timed out because Demigod took too long to start the game. I see this happen every so often. It is annoying because if you don't wai

I think there are currently two main issues with Pantheon. 1. People dropping because they are trying to get into premade teams thus game the system. 2. Lack of trust on players part that the system will make relatively balanced matches, partly dues to people gaming the system and also because it sometimes makes bad parings. I don't think it is an easy problem to solve though. On one hand it would be nice to know more information about the players in the matchup withou