SaulTigh

Y'know, it's been all of 24 hours and I'm already missing the game. There has been a level of hostility growing over the past few months which is impossible to ignore, though. I watch it get taken out on myself and other players, and sadly sometimes I partake as well. Last night it got under my skin, which is saying something. In retrospect, I should have cooled off before posting, but, Jesus, getting ragged on and then booted from a lobby was too much for me to stom

To those of you who played with me today (and then kicked me from the lobby! That was nice. Really? I deserved that?), this wasn't a one day thing. This had been my feeling for weeks, maybe months. I guess you provided a sense of clarity to how little I enjoy playing now, despite that I love the game itself and have played it since day one. I'm pretty thick skinned and if it got to me, then I can only imagine what others may have felt in the past.

I swear people go out of their way to alienate every mid player out there, and frankly, I've had enough. It's so tough to find a game anyhow without having to catch a ton of bullshit in the lobby and in-game. I've never been a top-tier player. I'm good at best. But some of the shit I catch? Forget it. This is no longer worth my time or aggravation. It's been so bad the past few weeks, the game just isn't fun anymore. Some of you people really need to

[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="28" id="2716517"] not getting warp strike drops DA's killing potential almost to zero imo. Unless your going AA DA [/quote] At Level 10 - L1 Swap - L4 Warp - L4 Spine: Mana (450+ 950 + 1000) = 2400 - Damage = (700 + 1150) = 1850 At Level 10 - L1 Swap - L1 Warp - L4 Spine - L2 Warp area: Mana (450 + 500 + 1000 + 1000) = 2950 - Damage = (250 + 500 + 1150) = 1900 More mana, same amount of damage and thr

[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="26" id="2716178"] Quoting Maxsteel32, reply 25why do you get Warp Strike before Spine? And yeah i agree with Teseer Swap II is the Bee's Knee's the debate over spine at 1 or warp at 1 is kind of silly because you get the one you didn't get at 2. But generally I get warp becasue its a more versitile skill. In trouble? warp to a creep. Want to get two yellow flags at the begining of a game? grab mid than warp to

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="10" id="2709982"]Ah - its an item you can't cast on yourself? If that's the case, then you could do the strat I listed in a 2v2 or 2v1 situation where a ub is coming up to spit on your teammate. Again, not exactly awe-inspiring, but one of the few potential uses. Good thought about removing spit on monks though. I've seen bots ubs doing that as well from time to time. [/quote] Oh it's much worse than that. It only remove

I lived in NYC during 9/11 and was a huge CS fan at the time. After that, I couldn't play the terrorist side. Sounds crazy, but it's true. I doubt I could ever play the Taliban, certainly not when the war is going on. For the German - WWII analogy, you need to really think about who the Taliban are and what they stand for. I doubt I would play a WWII game as a Nazi, but I can handle playing as the Wehrmacht.

1. 1,500. There's a steep premium for getting an extra equipment slot 2. Hauberk, unless I'm really getting hammered by minions. Hauberk is great for Sedna with Bishops and HW2. It effectively gives you and extra 26.5 health per second and buffs the Bishops by 200HP making them tougher to kill 3. Wyrmskin, hands down. 4. If cost is no object, Doomspite. For both DGs, you're picking up the AOE to tag creeps for gold. For S

[quote who="OMG_DD-shred_demon" reply="50" id="2709072"] Quoting OMG_pacov, reply 47 I'm trying to think of who actually did spirit oak well... omicron? maybe janook.... other than that, no one really comes to mind. Soccer_Mom and Wip[/quote] PeterDumpTruck can make it work when he isn't yelling at everyone.

My idea was just to stick a Tower or two on the citadel. It'd be enough to stop rogue spirit attacks. I played with an awful spirit Oak last night who basically ignored everything but playing with his spirits. That made it a 2v3 from my point of view. We got slaughtered and couldn't hold any flags. And YET! we nearly won the game because his spirits had their citadel down to about 25% when ours fell. I felt dirty just being in the game.

Simply put, you didn't strike a killing blow and I do not know why. Trust me I was there. At the 18:00 mark, you had WS8 and we had WS5. Between the three of you, you had enough money to get priests, angels and cats in maybe a minute. At the 20:00 mark, both you and Kiamori have gone in, but upgraded equipment instead of buying creeps. At 21:00 Angus heads in, buys equipment. You now have WS 9 At 23:00 You are at our portal but we lock i

I would still say the best L5 ability is DA's shadow swap. When used correctly it is utterly devastating and impossible to counter. 'Correctly' is the operative word, though. Using shadow swap badly will usually result in the DA getting killed, where using Silence incorrectly just wastes mana.

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="12" id="2690407"]I welcome your feedback, SaulTigh. I know you're one of the few other people who main Sedna so I certainly appreciate your input. I'll put it into the OP now. I do usually pick up Bishops as my first purchase against super-AoE 2v2 teams (Occ, TB, Queen)[/quote] Thanks! I trimmed down my OP, now that it's in your main.

I think the point still remains that if only one specific build of one specific DG can maybe counter minion Oak before level 10, I'd say that's a bit unbalanced. Especially when that one specific DG is the only one that is possibly more powerful than Oak in the first place. The only saving grace with minion oak is that it takes finesse and patience that most players don't have or aren't willing to develop.

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="38" id="2690277"] Quoting coreimpulse, reply 37I would add Master Verga froim Elemental. heh - I saw the translation on that this morning. Pretty awesome Re: sedna's yettis, I wonder what could be done to make them viable, but not over the top... [/quote] I just say remove them and replace them with something new. Yetis don't even really jive with Sedna's mythos (She's Inuit in mythology and Yetis are from Tibet)&nb

Hedgie, I hope you don't mind this post. It's my current build and it would be better to consolidate it into this guide than having a separate post. If you want me to post it in another thread, I'll erase the response. Blood-Tank : (See above)

I sorta agree with this. I've seen some ridiculous Oaks lately, even if he wasn't ridiculous before. Certainly in 2v2 the Oak anti-citadel minion build is an easy win. If one of the two players has to baby sit the citadel then it is just trivial to win with war score, gold and experience. Remember that someone baby sitting gets no experience and basically no gold. I'm usually don't get bent out of shape if a minion Oak is busy tearing up towers. There are a

Has anyone realized the real root of the problem is that there are so few people playing at any given time that there isn't a good mix of skills around at any given time? The real problem isn't the stats, it's that there aren't enough people playing.

For the record, I played against 4Nana's mulch build yesterday and it is brutal. 4Nana plays her very very well, to the point that QOT was as impossible to kill as a high HP Sedna. Level 10 mulch heals as much as Sedna's heal with the same cooldown for insignificantly greater mana. Between that and a 1,450 pt shield every five seconds you will not be able to take her down as long as she has mana. With me as Sedna and a Regulus constantly shrapnel mining her, she was ab

1:24 AM. Random game. Opposing team draws double Erebus. Loss. 9:04 PM. Find a game against a bunch of OMGs. They are playing random, and their random draws are Erebus, Oak and Sedna. Loss. 9:38 PM. Graphics glitch causes me to drop in the first two minutes. Someone on my team hangs around past the three minute mark and I take a loss. My W/L drops to 48% so I am no longer welcome in 50% games. Get accused of being a l

Funny. Over the past two weeks I've twice had graphical related issues with DB where I had never had any before. In both cases, the whole screen went black, with the exception of the bottom bar, mini-map, and damage numbers. In one case I fixed it by alt-tabbing out and back. In the other case, alt-tabbing out crashed the game (luckily within the first three minutes).

[quote who="OMG_Splitshadow" reply="26" id="2681472"] So there's nothing wrong with slam, it's a great skill. But the build I like, especially against melee/minion teams emphasizes using boulder as often as possible. Taking Slam instead of GS and stats gets you pretty close to the same build, but if you play in my *style* you'd find yourself rarely with a good chance to use Slam. If you want to play a Rook using slam as your primary weapon, choose a Slam build, bu

[quote who="OMG_Splitshadow" reply="22" id="2681361"]Any build that doesn't max out hammer slam and towers by level 15 is just completely wrong. Any build that does not get shoulder upgrades is completely wrong. Rook is one of the few characters who has enough useful abilities for 19 levels along with Oak and Sedna. Stats on a Rook is really kind of unnecessary when you can hammerroll someone standing in the middle of all of your towers.[/quote] I thought the same thing too. But

1. Tower I 2. Shoulder I 3. Save 4. Tower II 5. Boulder + Shoulder II 6. God Strength 7. Tower III 8. Shoulder III 9. Save 10. Boulder II + Tower IV 11. God Strength II 12. Stats 13. Stats 14. Save 15. Boulder III + Shoulder IV Favor: Staff of Renewal Items: Scaled Helm + Banded Vlemish Unbreakable Boots Scaled -> Plenor Banded -> Nimoth Haburek

Beast's grasp could be easily balanced if it counted as a stun like Rook's boulder roll or Erebus's charm. The reason grasp is so freakin overpowered is because you can stun chain someone for five or six seconds. If you try and grasp someone that has stun immunity, tough cookies, you need to wait. Grasp stun time should be reduced at low levels and increased at high levels. There should be a reason to sink points into a higher level grasp. Grasp should