Legolan

Please, for the love of God, don't use statistics to balance the game. Why? Because statistics give equal weight to all players' choices, and not all players are good enough to comment on balance (me for instance). Really, the best way to balance the game is to set up a team automatch/tourneys and see if there are specific dominant strategies on high levels of team play. Sure, there are minor imbalances (from my understanding), but it seems pretty balanced to me. Using stats w

[quote who="fenyx" reply="68" id="2326704"]Quick note about Oaks counter: foul grasp may use up some shield time, but don't be fooled, it won't slow down an Oak under "last stand". Also, armor of vengeance has an interesting synergy here: any damage sent back to the attacker will trigger disease / plague , hence snaring him... especially useful for a quick escape against ranged demigods. Since you have no armor item, it maight be a fair option. <b

[quote who="Soultwister" reply="31" id="2326374"]I don't know if anyone else thought about this, but if you are getting hit by two snipes or two spits and dying, you are being attacked two enemies different enemies that happen to be the same character. You are likely to die if they weren't the same character anyway and you couldn't get away. It's not a problem with double classes being unbalanced, it's just that 2v1 never really going to end well and the fact that the enemy is using two of th

[quote who="MisterHankey" reply="9" id="2331726"]I like playing with newbs. The more I help out, the more they learn and play better, and stick around to play more. Don't nurture new people, the less there will be to play with. [/quote] This. Plus, talk to them. I'm mediocre at best right now (albeit I still am stomping other players just because I read the forums), and when I talk to people most of them are pretty good about listening.

[quote who="TheScottishAlien" reply="14" id="2331909"]well from a RPG stance it makes sense: make ur biggest weakness you greatest strength. i'm been in way to many situation were an oak or erebus hunted me down from basicly full HP just because i couldn't run away fast enough. i find that with rook boots is a must have item at least if only to bring his speed up to the rest of the DG's. as far as stacking speed i think it probably better suited to someone like Ic

[quote who="Primal Zed" reply="2" id="2331682"]random is random? Making it dependent on the demigods in your team means it's not random? Also, doubles isn't a problem.[/quote]This. Keep random, random.

[quote who="WoTFan" reply="5" id="2331522"] Quoting alvaro202, reply 2 Yet another post describing why playing with noobs sucks. I still don't get why people have such a hard time learning this game. The whole "everyone was a noob once" arguement isn't really valid. I played this game for a week single player mode and read the forums that same week. When I got into the online play I actually was better than 80% of the people I met. If I

[quote who="mgmetal13" reply="13" id="2331658"]Is it really that hard to check the game setting before you play? [/quote] No, but sometimes you miss stuff. Heck, I joined one game, checked the settings, and they were all normal. The one thing I didn't think to look at was the FoW setting -- he had turned it off and didn't bother mentioning it. And he was Reg, hardly a coincidence. We still beat him though :P. But really, it would be a lot nicer if it just had a little ale

He had Groffling I think. Calcs: Groff absorbs 300 (iirc). You normal hit for 140. So you knocked it down to 160 in one hit. Then you critted for 280, whith 160 absorbed, knocking it down to 120. Problem solved, I think.

It should just have a little message in the chat box when you enter, that says "standard settings" or "custom settings." That way you'll know if you need to check the settings after you get in the game.

[quote who="Shadow" reply="22" id="2289015"] Quoting Auro5on1c, reply 20 Sedna's pounce should be nerfed for sure ... There's no build for UB against good Sedna. Her pounce deals 3k damage in 5 seconds. l2p. [/quote] This. Oh, and of course, it could at most only deal 2k (opening at t=0 and then hitting again directly fron CD).

[quote who="will516" reply="18" id="2288475"] Heck, eating junk food is fine, so long as you don't eat too much. lol lying to yourself. you can rationalize everything but its better to at least man up to it imo [/quote] Are you kidding me? Look, I know this is the internet, so we are all Chuck Norris's with PhD’s in Nanotechno

[quote who="Lumifly" reply="17" id="2284812"] Quoting SoFFacet, reply 16 I use High Priests every single game, they're so good. It'd be nice to have official word from GPG, but it might be intentional. Some farsighted dev might have thought ahead that since all the other generals on a team will buy Bishops, Sedna with Wind 2 could get stackable and improved priest minions on the cheap. It could be an intentional Sedna perk, though probably an unnecessar

[quote who="Sinzer" reply="8" id="2287859"] How hard is it to program the AI to start running when it is solo and two DGs start coming towards it? Well if it is so easy then maybe you could write it for them? Hmmm, guess it is pretty hard to write AI. [/quote] This. Please, please, please don't oversimplify how difficult it is to make a good AI. Sure, improvements would be great, but this is a complex game with

[quote who="will516" reply="7" id="2288100"]of course they are. so is watching tv, eating junk food, smoking pot ect ect. you shouldnt really need a science project to figure this one out. if you say otherwise you are just lying to yourself. [/quote] No. Not at all. Sure, if you're addicted to them and never do anything else, then they are bad. But so is anything if taken to that extreme. Videogames are fine. They

Sorian, you are awesome. And we love you. I think the devs should look to implement your fixes. Saves them time, gives us better gameplay, everyone wins!

If I remember correctly there was a program/setting/test like this in Supcom. It was fairly nice, I rather wish they would implement it here. It isn't just ping that slows down games (and normally if it is ping it is because of ping spiking).

[quote who="ViViDGear" reply="11" id="2246623"] My thoughts exactly. I'd like to be able to view the Enemies information in a replay though, however ingame is shouldn't be visible. Same here. Items of my Allies should be visible for me. And since demigod has awseomly more possibility than dota it should also be possible to see our allies skill builds. It should be used that there are no borders like they are in funmaps But no

[quote who="csebal" reply="10" id="2241853"]Quoting tperge, reply 6 Hell make HoL remove spit. It wouldnt heal you becasue you would take 1 sec of dmg, but at least it could remove spit. There needs to be a universal non-favor counter. Sorry, but WHY exactly NEEDS there be a counter? Is there a counter for the TBs fireball? Is there a counter for the Sedna pounce? They are all just damage dealing abilities, that in addition deal INSTANT damag

[quote who="StAcK3D_ActR" reply="1" id="2240977"]if they spend 8k on getting those 2 items.. who cares? [/quote] This. Unless I see some wonderful argument for how is this effective per cost, I don't see how it needs to be nerfed. Oh, and it takes up 2/3 of your activatable slots.

[quote who="Shadow_Avenger" reply="23" id="2240828"]I do not mind premades, as you go into custom games expecting it. What I don't appreciate is (example): 2v2, the premade buddies wait for the other team to both hit ready, then quickly change their demigods and hit ready and start the game. I know that's the advantage of hosting the game, but I still feel it's a kind of trickery exploit, although I don't see this changing anytime soon. Would help if there was

[quote who="Szadowsz" reply="11" id="2238494"]bump its awesome [/quote] This is undoubtably the best idea I have seen. Granted, I'm not sure exactly how it should best be implemented (health v timer say -- I prefer timer myself). Also, if the goggles favor item broke the smoke screen effect, that might actually make it a usable/useful favor item. Either way, I think this could really improve the depth of the game. Great idea! (And shop skills).

[quote who="Ferminal" reply="24" id="2237427"]ffs crit noob... [/quote] I presume you are saying that someone should just stack crits against UB? As say Reg? If so: Then this doesn't give you an advantage. If gold is fairly equal, UB can stack just as many crits (or nearly). Plus, with Ooze on higher levels he can slow your Auto attack down, decreasing both your crits and life drain. Double bonus. Now, I am not saying that UB is unbalanced, I'm not good enough to

[quote who="Qieth" reply="7" id="2237891"]Im sorry, but i am getting conflicting information here. Is it the *visual* thats wrong? Does each tower actually shoot independantly, but it just looks like they are chained, and do they then, in essence, stack? Or is it simply one tower shooting? [/quote] They shoot independently iirc. The visual effect means not

[quote who="themadmanazn" reply="3" id="2236627"]Well that sucks, they are making us pay for content... I thought they were just gonna release more content for the current game. [/quote] Because that is certainly how a business works. Although I do admit it seems a bit quick for an expansion. I sure hope it turns out good though -- the trailer looked nice!