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So after playing with Penitence Oak for a while, I'm pretty pleased. I've won two out of three games, although obviously teammates influence the outcome a fair amount. I'm landing a couple kills with Penitence, and trying to open fights with it where possible. I find I miss the minions a lot for soaking up tower shots and helping me bring down waves that much faster, and a lot of the items I would usually go for that had +minion stats aren't necessarily as helpful. Right now,

Chaos: Thanks, I get the gist of it, quote tree aside. I will start picking up Penitence first! I alway have trouble using it to interrupt abilities just because so many characters have such little windup, but I completely forgot/ignored the other benefits. Opening with it sounds like a good idea. Will have to test when I get home later. Also, good call on Mage Slayer. I never really looked at the Artifact shop because I didn't put up enough gold to warrant it, but if I can nail a few

So I really like Oak, but I find it hard to survive the early game, and even if I do I have an impossible time killing off other DGs. By the endgame I am usually unkillable, provided there's a source of creeps around for me to leech health off of... but I hardly ever pull in any kills, which leaves me with little gold. Level 1, I'll pick up the Universal Gadget and Banded Armor and go run right for a creep lane. I don't pick my power until I see what's going on up there; if there