WickedDemiurge

Reply to Erebus nerfed? Fine... Now lets all complain about tower Rooks. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I'm sorry to insult your friends, but they suck. Erebus isn't that hard to beat. Now, it may have to do with me playing Erebus as well, but in games where I fight other Vampires, they end up being some of the best contributors to my kill count. You see, many a nublet hears that Bite is the be all-end all of skills, and thinks they'll be invincible with Erebus... a few games later, they realize just how much they suck. Erebus certainly isn't the hardest Demigod i

Reply to Erebus nerfed? Fine... Now lets all complain about tower Rooks. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="theubersmurf" reply="18" id="2206232"] I find that believable, but I think your circumstances are atypical. I'm not saying it invalidates your observations, they could be right on the money, but it takes conversation argument and peer review. It may be that those observations are correct, but you need more feedback to have everything that needs to be understood, understood. That was a crappy sentence.[/quote] I agree with what you are saying, but a lot

Reply to Swift Anklet simply needs to be removed. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote] Being able to read a situation is far more useful then having the speed and never learning anything. I hardly use swift anklet on UB due to inner beast letting me keep up with regular enemy Demi-gods. Even If i'm slightly slower I just pick up the 1k boots. That combined with diseased claws makes demi-gods unable to run away from me. Combined with the fact i'm not going to put myself in a situation where I can't run away effectively. There's much more important favor i

Reply to Restorative Scroll & UB Vemon Spit in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]May 14, 2009 19:01:41 No one said that the Restorative Scroll would make people immune to status effects, even suggesting is blowing the suggestion completely out of wack to give more favor to an argument that is straddling saturated earth. There already exists a favor item, so why not a normal item with similiar effects but has a cooldown, cast time, and price based on what would be rational. I'm not asking for a favor item to be purchasable and reuseable as a basic item,

Reply to Erebus nerfed? Fine... Now lets all complain about tower Rooks. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I think you can see it happening, when people's understanding allows them for vivid pointed thorough description, that shows one way or another the character of an imbalance, then you're there. I don't think people's depth with the game is there yet, it's difficult to even play a large game without technical issues. I can't imagine having enough experience to really criticize it, when technical issues bar some gameplay.[/quote] Besides the official games I've pla

Reply to Swift Anklet simply needs to be removed. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Protocept00" reply="21" id="2206095"] Quoting WickedDemiurge, reply 8Swift Anklet is incredibly broken and does need to be nerfed (I think deleting them before trying a nerf would be premature), I agree. The mere fact that a gigantic proportion of all players playing all Demigods take it show that it is overpowered. And the only real way to counter it in many cases is to take it yourself, which vastly reduces the strategy and variety involved in t

Reply to Swift Anklet simply needs to be removed. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Xinoxlx" reply="14" id="2206023"] Quoting Busdude, reply 7Um, Iggs , you do realize that the UB and TB you mentionned have the swift anklet also? UB will also benefit more from it because he has a higher base movement speed than most other demigods. People keep disagreeing but they don't even address the fact that OVER 80% OF PEOPLE TAKE IT. If you don't address that, your opinion really isn't valid. Prove 80% of people take it first. I very ra

Reply to Swift Anklet simply needs to be removed. in Demigod Demigod Forums

Swift Anklet is incredibly broken and does need to be nerfed (I think deleting them before trying a nerf would be premature), I agree. The mere fact that a gigantic proportion of all players playing all Demigods take it show that it is overpowered. And the only real way to counter it in many cases is to take it yourself, which vastly reduces the strategy and variety involved in the game.

Reply to Is back-dooring considered cheating? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Backdooring is fine. It was fine in DOTA too, but a lot of people whined about it because they would rather see big auto-attack numbers with their cheapass late game heroes than actually have to think about strategy. It's even more fine in this game because Cataract, for example, is specifically designed to allow you to take a risk to capture their Portals, capture lock them, and then teleport to safety. If they are smart, they'll teleport home and get a free kill as yo

Reply to Restorative Scroll & UB Vemon Spit in Demigod Demigod Forums

Potions counter spit by healing the damage. Apparently players who primarily play other Demigods feel entitled to getting cheap potion replacements against UB just because. This is absolutely ridiculous. You don't get to completely disable a specific Demigod's best ability for pocket change in a balanced game. There's already an favor item which, while it does have a real oppurtunity cost to take it, is too good against UB. And that's precisely why people don't want to use it. Because they wa

Reply to I can understand the networking issues, what I can't understand is the lack of an option to resign. in Demigod Demigod Forums

I think a team vote based resign option should be available, and that any game that goes from all humans to humans on one side vs. all AI ought to end right away in victory for the human team. I don't actively dislike playing AI, but my team once made both members of a 2v2 team ragequit in 6 min, 24 seconds, so the whole rest of the game was just a 2 AI comp stomp.

Reply to A better economy system in Demigod Demigod Forums

I don't necessarily agree with your specific numbers, but the base idea is very solid. It makes one feeder not a near automatic game loss and encourages pressure on someone who is doing really well which will help challenge them.

Reply to Erebus nerfed? Fine... Now lets all complain about tower Rooks. in Demigod Demigod Forums

My experience leads me to believe towers need to be modified a bit. I'd like to see the towers cut down to 1/2/3/4 towers or somesuch, but have them have more HP and more damage (perhaps not twice as much, but close). However, having his firepowerer concentrated in fewer towers would let Rook get them up faster and then be able to do more stuff. At least when I'm playing a tower centric Rook, I wistfully long to be doing stuff other than planting

Reply to UB Spit Is NOT Overpowered? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="angryandroid" reply="23" id="2202089"] Quoting WickedDemiurge, reply 20 Quoting angryandroid, reply 18 Thoughts? I think you are right except the range of the spit seems a bit over the top. It just feels wrong for a mele only character to have such a range on their best attack. This I vehemently disagree with. All his other abilities are melee only, and he his slow is one of the least effective (in terms of % slow anyways, if not overall)

Reply to UB Spit Is NOT Overpowered? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="angryandroid" reply="18" id="2201955"] Thoughts? I think you are right except the range of the spit seems a bit over the top. It just feels wrong for a mele only character to have such a range on their best attack.[/quote] This I vehemently disagree with. All his other abilities are melee only, and he his slow is one of the least effective (in terms of % slow anyways, if not overall) and is melee only.

Reply to UB Spit Is NOT Overpowered? in Demigod Demigod Forums

My reply to you, transitive, would be that pure counters are actually a bad thing. Since a player only gets one unit (well, plus some minions as a general) and cannot quickly change their strategy, anything which made Spit useless or nearly would be too good. It's important to recognize Spit is UB's only actual targeted damage (Grasp does damage, but in negligable amounts). A game like Demigod can't be Rock / Paper / Scissors, it has to be much more nuanced and with vas

Reply to UB Spit Is NOT Overpowered? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Xinoxlx" reply="7" id="2201811"] @wicked I find sedna is only a problem early on when spit doesn't do as much. Due to better creep killing and constant harrassment I find she starts to lose out very quickly.[/quote] I think it depends a little, but once she hits Heal III, if she's the same level / gold, you cannot kill her unless she overextends. It heals 1200 HP, removes Spit, and costs less mana than Spit. I've certainly run into unkillable Sednas bef

Reply to UB Spit Is NOT Overpowered? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="5" id="2201781"]Uproot needs serious buffs. Or the ability to use it on heroes. That would actually be decent, you know?[/quote] Disclaimer: I don't have enough QoT experience to speak with too much authority. What if they built Violent Seige right in? My early game strategy often involves retreating towards towers for safety. But if said tower was shaking itself apart, it might be more

Reply to If You Don't Want Quitters, Give More Favor to Losers in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Chaosnaska" reply="7" id="2201726"]Seriously, do this. Infact, why stop there? Why not give MOAR favor points to the losers, to help them cope with being noobs. Rewarding good play and making general nubness costly is a thing of the past. Wtf Stardock, get with the program.[/quote] You are so angry at everything Chaosnaska. You need to have a couple beers and relax or something. The idea is the winners get reward

Reply to UB Spit Is NOT Overpowered? in Demigod Demigod Forums

I agree entirely with your post, DalzK. Though I would actually change it a bit. I would amend the damage to: Rank 1: 50 damage + 450 DOT to 150 damage + 300 DOT Rank 2: 100 damage + 800 DOT to 300 damage + 500 DOT Rank 3: 150 damage + 1150 DOT to 500 damage + 700 DOT Rank 4: 150 damage + 1500 DOT to 600 damage + 900 DOT or so. Spit might be slightly too good against Torchbearer or a Tower, but it's a

Reply to It's nice to see Erebus got a nerf. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="WombSplitter" reply="10" id="2201710"]People who play pantheon 2v2 and complain about balance, make me laugh. Wait till organized competition is in, and we'll see whats "overpowered" and whats not.[/quote] It's possible for something to ruin PUG games and be reasonably fair in a clan match, and it would still need to be fixed. Pre-nerf Erebus definitely ruined PUG games, and I won't discuss either way if he would be fair in a premade of all good players, bec

[BUG] Sound error / popping in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

I've had a problem with sound in the most recent patch, which seems to be related to Sedna's Silence on Low settings. This problem is new as of this patch, and does appear to be reproducable on demand. Here's my DxDiag for reference: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 5/12/2009, 15:03:09 Machine name: EPIC Operating System: Windows XP Professiona

Reply to If You Don't Want Quitters, Give More Favor to Losers in Demigod Demigod Forums

I agree. From a completely armoral, self-interested point of view, since a winner can get up to 20x a loser, it makes sense to cut your loses. To maximize favor points per hour, you can afford to quit a half dozen games partway through as long as you end up getting a really high favor point total on the one you stay in and win. Now, anyone who does the above is an asshole, but I think it's important to set rewards systems to reward good behavior along with hoping people

Reply to Erebus balance discussion in Demigod Demigod Forums

To discuss the nerfs I would use: Bite: Remove armor debuff. Possibly increase cooldown by 1 second. Mist form: A higher cost to go into Mist (as it removes negative buffs and can dodge slow attacks, so even a single second in mist is often a couple hundred mana worth of value), and cooldowns are frozen while in Mist. Bat form: Reduce to 20/25/30 teleport.

Reply to Erebus balance discussion in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Krangerang" reply="15" id="2199409"]Its funny to see people throw around blatent lies about Erebus because they are so afraid of him they have allowed their perceptions of him to outgrow the truth. If people bothered to read an FAQ on the base stats of all the DG's then they would see that Erebus has the lowest Armor, lowest HP and lowest damage of any DG (TB is tied as lowest with armor and hp and Queen is tied with lowest dmg) So Erebus has the lowest HP, A