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Reply to So far Occulus is the new QoT in Demigod Demigod Forums

Well he's different than QoT at least in that his level 15 abilities are good. Electrocution is really quite good.

Reply to Warp Area is Awful in Demigod Demigod Forums

I just don't understand the bonus rank of this ability. At first I thought it would throw nearby enemies into the air so that they wouldn't be viable targets for the damage portion and you could focus on hitting DGs, cataputs, or whatever other more important stuff is in your way. However, that doesn't seem to be how it works, so you have the option to spend a point to throw units who die in one hit to it anyway into the air? What am I missing here? Did I just not see what's going on

Reply to Really sick of waiting on pantheon games in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Spooky__" reply="23" id="2454628"]That's what I am doing right now as of today. Or what exactly do you mean?[/quote]I was poking fun at the triple post in which you said 'btw I'm tracking games independently.' :D

Reply to Really sick of waiting on pantheon games in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="pacov" reply="17" id="2454367"]Not really a coin flip this time. Most active players will be on dark. DA almost guarantees that this time around. It's not a DESIRABLE solution, but its one that will work for now. No need to get me going about dropping light/dark distinction again. I still think they should do that, of course. [/quote]Well the Pantheon started before DA was released, and I had the worst problems with the queue this weekend, before

Reply to [MOD] Balance for items 0.3 (beta - need feedback) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

[quote who="lifekatana" reply="31" id="2454332"]Still it's pretty hard to make every helmet usefull while still keeping in line with their orignal line of thoughts without some big changes.[/quote]I disagree, there's only seven helmets and four of them are useful. The Plate Visor, Theurgist's Cap, and Vinling Helm are the unpopular ones, and at the very least the Plate Visor would be easy to fix. Just bump it up to 40% or so regen and give it 400-700 mana. It then becomes very useful

Reply to Really sick of waiting on pantheon games in Demigod Demigod Forums

If only we had a graph of this last weekend, that's when it was really bad. Relatively speaking, today's actually been quite decent. Btw. have you considered trackign queues independently? [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to [MOD] Balance for items 0.3 (beta - need feedback) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

[quote]uuuuh, I suggested it should be rebuild for rather obvious reasons, it's hard to make helmets differenrt from each other.[/quote]There's always procs and auras. They could even add on attack speed or damage if you look at the Cloak of Night's stat combo. I realize it's a trinket, but I just mean that it shows that damage and mana don't have to be mutually exclusive.

Reply to [MOD] Balance for items 0.3 (beta - need feedback) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

[quote]I agree with you obscnetor on that one, although I'd add that pretty much all dmg items are so pityfull being the most effecient isnt much. buff dmg items all together. [/quote]I honestly think you'd be pleasantly surprised by Nature's Reckoning if you haven't used it much before. On a DG like Sedna, DA, or Oak I think its utility is pretty incredible. Oak's probably my favorite, Divine Justice works in if you get a kill on the proc, and it also brings reinforcements low enough for ran

Reply to Really sick of waiting on pantheon games in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="HorseRadish" reply="10" id="2454238"]I just want games if your suggestion is a stardock easy change then great waiting 15 minutes for a game that last 15 minutes gets annoying[/quote]Same. Lemme clarify that I wouldn't be opposed to swapping to Skirmish either if it could be done quickly, I just get the feeling it couldn't.

Reply to [MOD] Balance for items 0.3 (beta - need feedback) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

[quote]Natures Reckoning: Decrease price to 1400. Just so more people try using it[/quote]I disagree on this, it really is one of the most effective DPS items out there right now. The main thing is that the 250 damage isn't mitigated by armor and it's at a pretty massive 15% proc rate, so if you assume people are at 40% armor mitigation, autoattack damage has gotta climb up to 500 berfore the proc alone is outdone by Slayer's Wraps. Considering it has a 50% higher proc rate, I *think* you cou

Reply to Really sick of waiting on pantheon games in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Spooky__" reply="6" id="2454181"]The best solution would be to bring back skirmish and scrap pantheon.[/quote]Lemme play devil's advocate here. I don't believe all of these are compelling, but I do believe these are the likely reasons why your suggestion hasn't been implemented: The mini-tournaments are fun and there are a lot of players who enjoy them The demigods have a light/dark theme which the Pantheon highlights A UI change would need to be

Reply to [MOD] Balance for items 0.3 (beta - need feedback) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

[quote]So you aknowledge I don't intent to balance items in vacuum?[/quote]No, becasue you talk about specific item changes without stating a goal behind them. They seem to be for their own sake, hence the vacuum statement. For example, what's the point in rebuilding mana regen? Here's a direct quote to illustrate my point: [quote]NERF VLEMISH, it should be an ally support skill not a helm everyone gets. Make mana pool items and mana regen items, but don

Reply to [MOD] Balance for items 0.3 (beta - need feedback) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

I discounted your "rebuild from the ground up" statement because I don't see why you want to reinvent the wheel, not to mention it would break TB and QoT.

Reply to [MOD] Balance for items 0.3 (beta - need feedback) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

You can't balance items in a vacuum. If you nerf Vlemish you nerf mana regen, which means you buff HP because people have less mana with which to deal damage. When you nerf HP you reduce fight time, which buffs some DGs and nerfs others. When you buff DPS items you reduce total player health without even needing to nerf HP because each DPS item a character has takes the place of an HP item.

Reply to How to fix the Multiplayer in Demigod in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

Lemme point out one other issue with L4D while we're (I'm) talking about it. Lots of servers ran annoying mods that altered the game mechanics and map setups, it was only by sheer volume of servers that you were able to pretty much ignore those crummy ones. If players hosted games on private servers for a game of this size I do worry that you wouldn't have an acceptable place to just play normal games with standard, established rules. That may sound kind of irrelevant to you if you pe

Reply to How to fix the Multiplayer in Demigod in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

[quote]There are new games coming out. I loved Left 4 Dead (1), but it had nowhere near the long appeal that Demigod has. [/quote]Well the long-term appeal of Left 4 Dead was versus. If you did enjoy versus mode, you should definitely check out L4D2, the improvements are massive. I could write out a laundry list of L4D1 issues that were fixed in the sequel.

Reply to Really sick of waiting on pantheon games in Demigod Demigod Forums

If you were going to guess which side would have the longest queue, the best bet would be going with whichever one has fewer DGs, but lo and behold: Ancitipating which side is going to have a shorter queue time is NOT a functional solution, it's a damn coin flip. How many OTHER PEOPLE are sick of waiting? How many of them are going to go light to avoid the wait times? The correct s

Really sick of waiting on pantheon games in Demigod Demigod Forums

If anyone else out there has been wathcing opengames.asp, they will most likely have seen something like this over and over and over again: Pantheon Queue Rest of the World Forces of Darkness MAIN.1.20.0211 4 The problem is that this is actually one of the better

Reply to How to fix the Multiplayer in Demigod in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

One other thing is that back to the intitial idea of people subbing in for players who drop, Left 4 Dead's is pretty much a working model of your proposed setup. That configuration does work really well for that game because L4D's gameplay makes everyone pretty faceless, and also because everyone's health and progress are reset quite frequently. When you leave a character in Left 4 Dead there's very little impression of you attached to it. You can pick your gun, you can be low on heal

Reply to How to fix the Multiplayer in Demigod in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

I don't really have the knowledge to strongly agree or disagree with anyone on how feasible this kind of project would be. What I do know is that GPG is content to have a game with their name on it be unable to provide the basic matchmaking and connectivity functionality which Warcraft 3 provided back in 2002. [quote]however all this changes is the stability of the connections (assuming the 'host' has the extreme level of bandwidth needed)[/quote]Lemme also point out that this is pure

Reply to How to fix the Multiplayer in Demigod in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

This would make sense for an expansion or sequel, but it's just not realistic to expect them to rebuild the game at this point in its life cycle. GPG had a really good window to do things right and they just missed it. WoW was completely stagnant (and still is really) and there were no new solid multiplayer PC games out. Now L4D2 is out and other games are closer to release date, not to mention things like Dragon Age and Torchlight as well as some other solid single player titles came out.</p

Reply to Oh god GPG, what have you done?! in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

He's good in 3s and up, I think he's just awful in 1v1 and 2v2 though.

Reply to Oculus Animations...Not so good in Demigod Demigod Forums

My main issue with him is that his lack of channeling animation makes it a bitch to try to catch his cap locks and potions.

Reply to Stuns in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

This is why I've never been in favor of a Deep Freeze damage buff. It's one of the most powerful abilities in the game if used correctly. That being said, Sedna is the only one with a way out, if she heals herself (rank 3 and up of course) it just removes the debuff without consequence, unlike using an Orb of Defiance or Oak's shield to remove it, both of which will cause you to suffer the cooldown inflation.

Reply to Bugs and Balancing for v1.2+ (updated) in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

As for Regulus, you know what I would do? I would make Mark of the Betrayer interrupt when cast initially (in addition to its other effects) and just have Dead Eye make Snipe always do damage as though it were fired at max range.