DiceAreEvil

Ground spikes is a devastating spell. I don't think Queen is as bad off as everyone says she is. If you get high level ground spikes and you buy minions you're taking some serious damage 1 v 1 if you stick around to fight that. If you groundspike an entire team it's like Erebus just bit everyone. They go liquid. Late, late game, like level 15+, yeah she doesn't have many places to go to improve. If you're looking for an easy fix, buffing the shield you re

Well, time to put a nail in this coffin. I didn't appreciate that disc leave yesterday, py4eek. So here's the replay back to haunt you! Basically me and a pugger tore him a new one and he bounced. http://www.gamereplays.org/demigod/replays.php?game=51&tab=upcoming&show=details&id=105228

[quote who="nomilarac" reply="40" id="2484453"]Great, let's create a small, elitist, closed circle of players inside the already small and low populated community of people that play Demigod online. Yep, it sounds like a great idea for the game's community health. Let's scare away unexperienced players a lil bit more. "Give me a sec, you're not in the list of top players. Sorry, you can't play in this game." [/quote] Ho

I nominate Cowbuttzex. Lot of good players up there. I think we should end this with a vote of the best of the best, and then arrange some type of showdown.

Uhhh... I believe my DA was nominated. Yeah, that's right. Amazing_Oak was good too we probably should've won that game especially since we had Yetis on our team. I see where this list is going. It's basically an online pre-made family. I had a family once. They died when the info bar came out. Now I must pug against my favor, or face the wrath of 2 hour wait times. I guess what I'm wondering is, are these players playing each other regularl

Yeah Ereb vs beast is not in Erebs favor unless the beasts team is greedy and won't share a priest. Luckily Ereb doesn't have to win the battle because he can batswarm away from it. If you want to push him off you'll probably need a buddy.

There are some really good team players, really good pug players, and really good lobbygod players. I'm just going to cast my vote for what feels like the best players for each demigod. I recently picked up DG again and have been mainly straight puggin it but I'll hopefully start playin in a competitive team again soon once I scrape the rust off. Some of these players have probably left, but they'll be back. I've decided to set the restriction that I can only vote fo

Well, this thread is basically going to make no sense now, but I've updated the build. Thanks for all the input. For those interested in the original build, it was basically getting more speed early, replacing spine with dodge, and stacking HP with Assassin's Speed at 15. Wooo.

I give them awesome advice. Stop wasting mana on heals. More Yetis plz.

Naur is a really good, underrated player imo

I already disregard stats in my mind. High win% usually means a decent player, or a chronic disc hax0r, but ultimately there is no final determinant of player skill in a game where you can choose your opponents unless it's two preformed teams. Even so there are still a plethora of DG balance issues. Yeah, at this point, I think I'm gonna stick with playing for fun, with whomever is willing to start the game in under 2 hours. Stats are indicative of a different game I

Just throw a boulder out and you've got all day to slam people in the face. Wait until you can melee them or slightly before and it's almost guaranteed they're gonna get owned once you get level 2 boulder.

I really like speed on DA. Running around and capping flags is a major source of xp for me when leveling him since he doesn't kill grunts so hot. Also, without stacking hp blood and dodge he really gets the short end of the stick statwise. As Frogboy mentioned in his DA post, an Ereb/Oak would have 4k at level 4 while he gets like 2.3k. He really needs to GTFO once a group of DGs decide to focus on him. Plus he starts off slow as crap, erebus food. Bollocks.&nb

And I don't care enough about him to look up his stats.

[quote who="STYJ" reply="27" id="2476795"]why essence of magic ? a 45 second cool down isn't nice . IMO, i'd rather you get magnus rod, spend a little more on hungarling's crown and you can spam spine attack + warp strike all you want . magnus rod and spine attack both have a 15 second cool down . save your favor item for something better e.g. BotF[/quote] I dunno about you but Essence pretty much solves my mana problems with only 1 hel

Having played both the Essence build and the Viable (life) build for a while now I'm going to have to admit the Essence build is superior... at least in most circumstances. This Viable build started off as a concept build to make the DA as unkillable as possible which is fun but you definitely miss out on kills by not taking spine. So I can't wholeheartedly recommend a build without spine attack despite my efforts to try and make one. Is the Viable build bad? No, it'

Why would an ooze beast stand in the mist? Just cap the flag, and walk back to towers to assist with killing all the minions, and get ready to beat ereb to a pulp when he unmists. If he never does, who cares, you got the flag.

Yeah, I love Shadow Swap. It's a gank machine.

[quote who="grant_nick" reply="24" id="2475606"]Thank you for one of the more well formed discussions concerning the viability of a particular DG build. The summary of arguments for and against this build seem well thought out and laced with a fair degree of critical thinking. It's very refreshing I am anxious to try this set-up out as I feel I am overly dependent upon Spine Attack, and have generally disfavored Warp Strike. [/quote] Yeah, the goal of this

[quote who="STYJ" reply="27" id="2476795"]why essence of magic ? a 45 second cool down isn't nice . IMO, i'd rather you get magnus rod, spend a little more on hungarling's crown and you can spam spine attack + warp strike all you want . magnus rod and spine attack both have a 15 second cool down . save your favor item for something better e.g. BotF[/quote] Getting the gold for hungarling and magus takes time, and a lot of gold to solve

The first couple of lines of this post are comedy gold- especially the one about playing an easier demigod like Rook or Reg (lol). After that I lost interest.

Edited- same build as above

Per ntropy's suggestion I actually added Nature's Reckoning to the item lineup. It helps with dps and killing grunts. So I do get damage items now. After a swap and shadow strike I don't leave my ally to finish the job. I auto-attack/warp strike finish it with him. I pretty much just substitute spine attack for more aggressive auto attacking and repeated warp strikes. I agree the DA is about using mana wisely. This sort of makes it a bit easier by

When I go spit I pretty much always get Blade of the Serpent now. And straight Ooze gets Blood of course. Both are good builds. It also should be noted that Blade gives a bonus to attack damage that nobody seems to care about.

Those stats aren't entirely accurate. I played a number of games recently that haven't been updated yet in that menu, and a good number of my DA wins were ended with some type of disc hack. Also I've been playing DA since before his official release with the mod. I've tested a variety of builds with him. I do like the Essence of Magic build and I don't use this one exclusively but that build is significantly weaker early game and I feel like a lot of momentum comes fro