[quote who="angryandroid" reply="24" id="2247222"] you cant punish people for not wanting to play with you. We dont want to punish them, its just we dont want to play with them either.[/quote]Are you being facetious or what?
[quote who="Teseer" reply="10" id="2246651"]I just frost nova and 90% of the time the Rook runs like a bitch[/quote]A good rook is going to punish you with a boulder roll more often than not, though. I really don't fear fire TBs either for that reason - either they do their AoEs out of range of most of my towers or they get into range and I have a decent chance at getting a stun-hammer-tower attack combo. It's not a very safe proposition. I really, really think most people
[quote]The whole idea of sportsmanship is that you have a responsibility to the other players in a game.[/quote]When you mention sportsmanship I think of real sports, with which this game has very little in common. Take baseball, you could, at any given moment, turn a game around, however unlikely. I certainly played a lot of games where a missed catch or an amazing hit turned the game around, and more importantly if our team left because we were losing that would be it, we wouldn
[quote]hmm i find that 3 seconds off of boulder roll cooldown isnt as beneficial as blood of the fallen.[/quote]To each their own, but it makes it possible to churn out a ridiculous number of towers as well and it does at least give you a small HP/mana boost. You say you enjoy using fakeouts to get people to stay away, but I prefer to use it on towers and then just surprise people when it's ready to go again by the time they get into melee and they can't dodge it because of a boulder ro
[quote who="StAcK3D_ActR" reply="1" id="2245854"]rook owns. i dont understand why people say he is so bad here is how i play him. favor item: blood of the fallen starting items: banded armor, 1 tp scroll, 1 health potion items later: if you are not getting harassed and you can farm easily, mageslayer + duelist cuirass. if you are getting harassed, stack HP items(they are OP) and play a supporting role with boulder roll. <br /
I'm a big fan of that feeling you get when you finish sweeping and go to bathroom.
Rook can easily push towers at level 4, I really don't get where you're coming from with the level 10 talk. Just set up three towers out of range, drop one in range, fall back, and set up a second on in range, and then start building all of them there. Just beware of enemy DGs, but if they fail to react you'll drop the tower quite quickly.
I think it highlights a game design flaw. The lack of skill damage enhancing items is the culprit and it should be fixed. I'm going to be blunt here - I think it's an awful and uncreative build. What really blows my mind is that if you dropped vengeance and either impedance bolt or tracking device (since you can't snipe anyway) you could max out mark of the betrayer to make your auto-attack inescapable or if you drop all thee you could max out mines and grab shrapnel
Fire and Ice definitely doesn't do it. I can't remember if I've ever gotten x4, but if it's possible I assume it's coming from RoI, Deep Freeze, Frost Nova's stun and Frost Nova's snare... I know I've seen x4 before, but I don't remember why and I doubt Nova alone is enough to give x2 no matter how fast you shatter, but it shouldn't be too hard to test.
Banning item swapping would be overkill. Non-consumables should just have their cooldown started whenever you first acquire them.
I had heard armor mitigates rook's tower damage, so logically spikes and bite should improve it. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe they're dissimilar to base towers in that respect as well.
I seriously doubt you can bring down towers faster than I can buid them with a staff of renewal. When I play rook I go heavy mana regen early and play extremely defensively. Most players don't cope well with a rook who's got the mana to actually drop a new tower every 8-10 seconds and follow it up with boulder rolls and the occasional slam. I think most rook players are working with 12 second CD towers and are too short on mana to build continuously without sacrificing bou
Even though he can cleanse a parasite egg easily I think you could still get some mileage out of it with certain heroes. For example an ice TB could hit it and immediately RoI, which is going to be 1800 damage up front to them, an auto-attack can finish them off if he's not super quick on the mist, and if he is you're forcing him to use an emergency tool at the start of the fight. A rook with bould>hammer could probably put some hurt on him too. That being said, the min
Does it disappear from your buffs when you start mist up?
[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="8" id="2245444"]Well, the bad news is many leavers may become griefers[/quote]This. I would wager people who are angry that they have to stay but don't want to quit because the game will stop pairing them up in skirmishes and pantheon (and who won't be able to get into custom games) will either afk or just right click the opposite end of the map every time they ressurect. If you think comps are bad feeders, picture griefers. Conversel
[quote]Regardless, once a ranked match begins the game should count. Whether its 5 seconds or 1 hour.[/quote]I completely agree, just for a different reason. I think quitting based on which DG you're fighting will be a huge problem.
Dead Ghost, that would be a wash anyway. If you make it so that every leave counts as a rage quit it'll simply mean that nearly everyone will have a certain number of blemishes on their record, and the perception of that record will change accordingly. Sitting at zero won't be feasible for the majority of people, so logically having a small number of them won't preclude getting into games. With your voting system it means some lucky people will have virtually none, whereas
[quote who="RapierX" reply="12" id="2244006"] Quoting TheBigOne, reply 16if you allow quitting in the first 3 minutes of a match you allow people to dodge good opponents to get to the top of the rankings. If you already implement a concede vote, I could imagine it wouldn't be that much work to also implement a mutual game abort/draw where the majority of both teams have to agree. I agree with TBO, we already had this issue in early SupCom previousl
[quote who="woppin" reply="14" id="2243880"] Quoting Obscenitor, reply 12 You act like there's a big enough community for friends to really do much else. Play against each other?[/quote]This may sound crazy, but I think most people prefer to play with their friends, not so much against them.
[quote who="Zanobi" reply="1" id="2243517"]I don't see how a TB would beat you 1 on 1 unless you're dumb enough to not get mines.[/quote]I usually go frost TB and I can generally take out reg 1v1 pretty easily. I go with the Staff of Renewal so on most maps my RoI is down to a 9 second cooldown, as is my shatter. I lead in with the RoI which debuffs his attack speed and puts us on more even ground and I sit on the shatter until he goes in for mines. If we dance in and out I
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[quote who="RainFall2112" reply="11" id="2243827"]Uh rolling pugs is for scrubs. Anyone can do that. [/quote]You act like there's a big enough community for friends to really do much else.
[quote who="uberShade" reply="5" id="2243479"]Exactly, right now a 2v2 becomes a 3v1 with your AI only helping the other team, and something needs to be done about this before punishing the quitter.[/quote]Precisely. There are some things the computer does very well. When players cap your side alleys on Cataract it's very dilligent about getting them back if they abandon it for amoment and it frees you to do other things. Also it nobly buys upgrades before equipping itself,
[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="25" id="2243121"] So you've identified the real problems and you still support this solution? Of course I support the better solution - leaver's gold should be distributed to everyone else, you should get control of their hero and all future gold they get should be redistributed too. They've said they can't do this currently. And look at the game interface - it's clearly not going to work right now. So I think the leaver h
[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="10" id="2242635"]Anybody else noticing a pattern here? If someone thinks they MIGHT lose (and the list of reasons they say they "might" lose the game seem to be infinite, and are irrelivent in the end), then suddenly they "don't have the time to waist", or they will go afk ("rage pout" seems like a good term for that, and again, because they don't want to get a "Loss" on their record), or they don't want to play with noobs (again, because they migh