removed incorrect link in above post

TY pacov. If that is possible than Fantastic! 

However, atm I am not too concerned about getting a game against players, i have been testing out against ai and with the latest set of changes to skirmish AI, they seem to suffice as a basic player. (nightmare difficulty). Mostly, i just want to know if you still think that these items have had enough of a reduction in utility to make them more of an option and less of an I WIN button. 

Currently have added another 6 units to the game: (not yet balanced)

Armadillo - Catapults that freeze enemy towers on hit (5% chance, 3 second freeze), 2 summonable - low health. May provide early tower pushing strategy if taken with demolishers.

Silence archers: cast a ring of silence (6m) on the a target that they hit (2% chance) however you can have 4 of them. Low range to limit their usabity for pushing towers (more a support for characters that have no interupts at all and could do with a meatshield (prbly useful for ub/reg)

Nightmare:  Unit has been coded in but trying to come up with a unique effect for its "Rain of Fire" ability other than straight out damage. 

Replicators - Cast AOE heal (12m) (uses chain of 2 from first target) of 4% health to ALL friendlies (including towers) every 6 seconds with a 9 second buff cooldown (ie you can only get healed every 12 seconds). This uses a chain effect so occasionally you will get more than a single heal. Heal has no priority for demigods. Heal also provides an armor bonus of 250 for 9 seconds.

Mega Ent - Currently does AOE ground spikes every 6 seconds (aura), debuffs armor. Will look into changing the utility of this skill.

Bloodlust Yet - Applies 5 second Stun immunity every 12 seconds to all allies in 12 radius. Due to testing constraints i am unsure if this effect will break an already active stun (although i doubt it). You cannot receive another buff if you already have one.

Other Balance changes to be made:

All Units (including towers) that use abilities will no longer be able to do so while frozen.

All minion units summoned through favor items have an integrated health/damage scale with level. This will allow me to balance these units more effectively.

Need advise here: what is an appropriate range for health damage scale for minions summoned in this manner? I was thinking at lvl 1 between 25/45 damage per unit and 500 --> 750 health

At lvl 20 50/ 75 damage per unit and 1400 --> 1800 health

DISCUSS

Brainstorm Area - 

Rusty Ward - Reduces the armor of all units in the area of the ward by 900. Provides the user with base 650 armor bonus and 7% attack speed bonus. (low mana cost, 45 second cooldown.

Demistify- Unsummon up to 2 units (chain effect) of an enemy  or unsummon up to 1 enemy created structures in range 12, cooldown 45, no mana cost, targeted.  -----> regenerates 350 mana on use.

Escapism - Casts invunerability (but you cannot move) for 2 seconds (Think Orb of Defiance). Following this the unit becomes invisible for 7 seconds provided you dont attack/cast an ability/use an item. Invisibility slows the recipient by 15%.

Single targeted use, range 30. Cooldown 50, mana cost 300. (nerfed from previous post). Might provide some team utility to the invisiblity function, with the invulnerability period working as a limitation. --> i will also try to code it so that the invunerability period does NOT remove debuffs. Taking damage (ie through use of googles to see the player) should also remove invisibility.

New consumable - (@ PACOV  and Hedgie)

Hedgies Arsenal: Cost 500 - Changed as per advise below (now named after the resident hedgehog!)

Scaling HP/MP restore (1---> 20)    700 / 250   --> 2500/ 750

Scaling HP damage and MP damage    (1---> 20)    500/ 350 --> 1200/ 1100

Scaling Tower repair           1000 -----> 3000

This provides some control as to when the item become powerful. At early levels, it would be more efficient to take UG over this item. However at higher levels this item scales to become the more powerful. This removes the problem of it being OP at the start of the game where even small mana/health changes can have a large impact.

This has been done now. It was FRUSTRATINGLY difficult lol (i must be out of practice hehe). Anyway, this item is currently set with these stats:

if not IsEnemy( target:GetArmy(), unit:GetArmy() ) then

 if EntityCategoryContains( categories.HERO, target ) then

  mxhlth = 700 + 65 * herolvl mxenergy = 250 + 60 * herolvl  

 elseif

EntityCategoryContains( categories.STRUCTURE, target ) then

 mxhlth = 1000 + 100 * herolvl  

 end                

else if EntityCategoryContains( categories.HERO, target ) then

  mxhlth = 500 + 35 * herolvl mxenergy = 350  + 82 * herolvl  

 elseif EntityCategoryContains( categories.STRUCTURE, target ) then

 mxhlth = 500 + 50 * herolvl    end end

It now does damage to enemy towers as well as heal friendly ones. 

Comments/Cost changes/balance issues?

Forearm Crossbow - An item that turns a melee character to a ranged character.

Thief - Be able to pickpocket gold or items.

Consumables: (HAVE NOW BEEN ADDED)

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/399748/page/1/#2815962

1. Potion of Speed: 350, increase speed by 17% for 7 seconds.

2. Potion of Slow: 200g, decrease opponents speed by 20% for 10 seconds.

3. Potion of Interrupt: 300g, Interrupt ability. Stun for 1 sec.

4. Potion of Blink: 250 g, same as Cloak of Night.

Flag Mines:

These have been rebalanced they now do 2 sets of damage (4 seconds apart) according to the following formula:

Flagmine damage = 300 + 80 * herolvl 

They now cost 450, dont actively show that they are present (no flag lock Mesh) and stay active for 90 seconds. They have also been increased to a 3 second cast with range 10 to prevent them from actively being overused in the midst of battle

Had an old version of skirmish AI. It has been removed, i wont replace it due to the rapid evolving nature of skirmish AI.

done -- > currently using my post above as a changelog. Pls refer to it atm until i make another changelog post

Added my first gear SET:

# Boots of vengence --- cost : 750

                  Armor = {Add = 500},      

                 DamageReturn = {Add = 15},

# Armor of vengence --- cost : 3250 (pre-existing but underused)

          Armor = {Add = 1050 armor},      

                 DamageReturn = {Add = 35},

# Helm of vengence --- cost : 550

          Armor = {Add = 250 armor},      

                 DamageReturn = {Add = 25},

However, once you have all three of these items you also unlock this ability:

Revenge:

Armor = {Add = 1250},     

DamageReturn = {Add = 90},

Should provide alternate builds favouring armor and damage return vs non ability characters.

Total cost: 4450.

Total Armor: 3270 (eribus lvl 1)

Total Damage Return: 165

As this requires 3 slots of your inventory, i thought it was only fair to provide a very substainal buff for possessing all three items.

Thumper test:

Favormod Version 2.0A

Settings:  Cataract/High Towers - all other settings on default
AI settings:  normal

rook (human)/ub/da/ v rook/ub/da

Observed results:

um... I'm seeing some batshite crazy things here... I go to cast thumper and nothing appears at level 1.  And then about 20 seconds later I saw some floating orbs like looked like occulus's lightning balls.

I double checked mods - I only have favor mod 2.0 installed. 

tested again using same setup.  Noticed that the "floating ball" effect happens immediately after I try to cast thumper.

Other quick thoughts - if its non-destructive, it might be best to drop ai skirmish from your mod and just have favor items included.  This will be especially useful if I can get get Stardock/GPG to included these mods in a official release. 

Ok i found it. Must have had something highlighted, gone to save and forgot to press ctrl lol cause i had a stray 's' in the middle of nowhere.

Here is version 2.0B

http://www.mediafire.com/?z2xhp3xyok5s85s

** Removed link to bugged version - replaced with 2.0B test

just made sure that all towers will summon so you should have no problems. 

Thumper Information:

4 can be summoned, at 450 mana each, 45 second cooldown

AoE Damage 

 AffectRadius = 17,    

AuraPulseTime = 3,

thumpdamageA = hero:GetLevel() * 5 + 17

(note that base Rook TOL damage is about 80)

AOE Stun

 ArmorProcChance = 5,

AffectRadius = 15,

Stun timer increased at lvls 1/7/12 (0.75, 1.25, 1.75)

After being stunned, unit is then immune for 10 seconds (note that the downside to this is that they cant be stunned by any other means for 10 seconds)

Stun also applies a 5% speed reduction for 5 seconds

 Health :

local mxhlth = 800 + 100 *  herolvl

Can you clarify this?  How often can stuns potentially occur?  Is that the armor proc change?  Help me understand, please.

heh - will do

BTW all changes posted up in the main post (it is now the correct changelog) are found in the mod that was uploaded. The icons will be off as well as the ingame tooltips, but the item should be named correctly and function as described. 

agreed lol

All icons and tooltips completed.

UPDATEY!

NP

lol i reckon, glad that someone else is around to share the task lol

Ok, i have had a few balance runs with most of the items. Still have to do armadillo's, Rangefinders, Mega Ent, Nightmare, vortex and bloodlusty yeti. 

Also i forgot 1 major patch note to the last update. I have significantly shortened the leash on all favormod summons and reduced the attack scan range for most of the favormod units.  They will now begin to follow you much earlier and are less likely to run off to a distant location to attack something.

Will use this post as changelog for now:

New Set: Despair

Gauntlets of Despair (Existing)  (cost 1750)

350 mana

15% chance to drain 300 mana

Warlords Punisher (Existing)  (cost 2250)

300 damage (range 15)

400 Mana Drain

Passive: 30 weapon damage

Ring of Despair  (cost 2800)

15% chance to drain 300 mana

-15% to cooldowns

Set Bonus

+15% Speed

-10% to cooldowns

Implemented. Now with this and staff of renewal/Dejavu cloak/Wraithgloves we have entry into lower lvl cooldown builds and will allow for mana drain builds to enter the fray

Fix - Mega Ent is now mulchable by QOT.

Fix - Wraith Gloves Tooltip

Fix - Retroactively applied stun constraint to all units that use aura (ie towers and summonable units will no longer be able to attack/buff/debuff while stunned if they use an aura activated ability.

Fix - Cooldowns for several of the summonable units was adjusted.

New Set: Assassin

Assassins Foot-guards (Existing)  (cost 1750)

5% Attack Speed

10 % Dodge

Assassins Grips  (cost 2400)

7% Attack Speed

7% Damage Reduction

Assassins Embodiment  (cost 2050)

7% Damage Reduction

5% Dodge

Set Bonus

10% Attack Speed

5% Dodge

Friendly Flags in Range 15 of demigod produce 3x normal warscore

Fixed - Re-organised consumables shop to make it more user friendly

Fixed - Icon for Ancient Glove