UPDATEY! Revison 2.0D

Good stuff... I'm still a few days away from being able to do any testing on this, but should be able to soon.  really hoping to get some folks to play test this and call out balance concerns, etc, first. 

UPDATE

unrar (i think all zip programs should be able to do this if not get winrar its only 3mb and a very nice application) in mods folder as per usual. Dont have software installed to do autoinstaller atm

got a game in - some feedback - going to start combining mod tests... used uberfix, skirm ai .26j, and favormod 2.0E.

I tested armadillos.  First impressions... a little on the large size, but I don't think that's really a problem (might be best to check and see if they interefere with any dg or creep pathing at that size... nothing really stood out to me there.

As far as balance - at 1 pointed, after about 50 hits and not a single tower freeze, I was thinking maybe there was a problem.  But then, I have about 10 continuous freeze effects.  Balanced seemed pretty reasonable to me.  Not super powerful and pretty weak early game, but could prove useful and its a good addition to the mod. 

• Claymore mines do not work properly. They do absolutely no damage and never impart the stated attack speed buff.
• upon use the graphic for combat blink pot turns black
• combat stun pot needs to have a cost increase, I would say 700 gold
• also combat stun pot seems to only work when facing enemies and I also got stuck in a spot unable to move until I used another consumable
• I do not agree with assassins being able to us general favor items and vica versa
• slow ward should not slow the user and friendly units in the area other wise there is no point in taking the ward. I would also suggest a slow decrease of 25% instead of 50% now that it only affects enemy units.

I have had a great time so far playing the mod! thanks for putting in the time!

idk about 700 for the interrupt pot.. but 300 seemed very cheap.  Maybe 500 like a sigil so it feels like it costs more.

The interrupt pot also requires you to be facing the target.

The text for claymore mines also doesn't make sense.  lvl 7: 6 mines created, lvl 10: 3 mines are created.

The crystal idols that shield seem very weak even with the scaling.  

 Despair set totally not worth it.  Significant auto attack time barely drained mana from enemy at all.. plus it requires 3 slots to gain relatively nothing in return (ya you get reduced cd's.. but with no mana or hp on any of the 3 items other than 350 total mana, you need hp still, and then you don't have mana for ability usage.  So you just run out of mana really quick anyway).

Well, if it's like other buffs in the game, neither the heal effect or the slow effect would stack (only ones that I know of that stack are beast abilities)

Also, I think a 30% slow only for enemies would still keep the spirit of the favor (although potentially op with ganks)

thanks for the comments guys i REALLY appreciate it. +1 for all!.

Planned fixes:

Claymore bugs has been identifed - will fix soon ( i think i got halfway with this in V1.8 and forgot about it lol). Also plan to do a code cleanup of this item so it works more efficently.

Remove Evasion Buff from nightmare

Stun potion not working properly - Requires Facing --> increase cost to 450, casting time increased to 1.25 seconds.

No cooldown icon for potion of blink (when you have more than 1)

The crystal idols that shield seem very weak even with the scaling --> will add a scale to user level and then change the TB fire aura buff to this unit to be a multiplier. This should make it more effective.

A note about how slow ward works: (let me know if you still think that it needs changing)

Slow ward passively prevents your movement speed from ever reaching below -20%

When activated slow ward will slow everyone by 50%. However, the maximum a unit can be slowed (IIRC) is 40%. Therefore the addition of this debuff onto a unit will effectively negate boots of speed (if he has them) and ensure that the unit speed is reduced to the threshold.

this gives you a 20% speed advantage while in the ward.

This items original concept was to have a team of demigods with ward and Sam-eels Cloak which could gank the other team while in slow ward (but forcing them to give up BOTF for this advantage).

It is also effective at keep enemy demigods contained within tower farms.

This was done because it has been requested several times over. But i am happy to revert the change if you guys dont like it. Personally with 3 more pages of favor items to pick from i cant see the harm in removing the General/Assassin distinction between the demigods when selecting items.

Despair Set:

Can i get more information on your test with these? 

Just a bit of info on how i use them:

Demigod: TB/QOT/ Reg (snipe mines)

Favor item: Wraith Gloves (mana source)

Initial Purchase: band + helm

Strategy: Form switch as much as possible with TB stay in closed with QOT

Take more health (nimoth) then add set items getting warlords punisher last.

--> skirmish alot dont commit, your job is to make them goto the crystal/ use consumables not to get kills. LE, rook and sedna are prime targets 

Exx

Weirdness/ bugs/ oddities/ Balance etc....

• On use wand of wastes sometimes causes user to become stuck and unable to move making this item unusable
• Two way mirror appears to be slightly over-powered as there is no real drawback to use. A player isn't punished for swarming into a group of 2-3 people because he will be swarmed back out regaurdless if he is stunned or interrupted. I suggest a increase in cooldown to purhaps 45 seconds (this might be enough to balance it alone). Without touching the cooldown  I think that one of the following things should be done; if interrupted during the time that inbetween swarms that the effect ends and does not get the return. If that defeats the idea of the "two way" effect I suggest a slow on the user upon the return swam perhaps a 30%-50% movement speed reduction. If that is not diserable I suggest a reduction in range of the forward swarm.
• The larger creep units like Armadillos look rediculous at the size that they are currently at and they appear to not do enough damage. Zen_God however enjoyed the enormous size of the Armadillo and hopes it doesn't get changed. A larger scaling of damage or a higher initial attack need to be implimented. The armadillos imo should do more damage then cats at warrank 8.
• Merlins magic missile increase Auto attack range, is this intended? It also looks very weird on melee characters attacking something thats several feet away. On a side note AA reg with this and 3 points in scope is fucking awesome.
• Experience Minotaur seems to not work when minotaurs are split, the buff disappeared on occasion from the UI I would also like to see an increase in dps on this unit.
• A cooldown reduction on the Hellfire is diserable as it is very hard to get out all 6 at the same time without losing one or more.

 One a side note it been very hard trying to explain to people how to download and install this mod because of the RAR file nature. If you could make a tutorial or change the file extension to an .exe and have a self installer that would be benefitial to the computer unsavy.

if this happens in another game ill try to get a replay up on gamereplays and link it here. It is a shame because this item is bad ass when used with a fire tb, oculus etc...

Albatross

• First off this guy needs a cooldown reduction like that of the hellfire fix.
• Secondly these guys going into melee mode and try to attack melee range. This causes them to die needlessly to towers over and over again. I wouldl like for these guys not to go dive bombing enemy creeps but float above and rain down there electricty.

Otherwise fuckng awesome sound effects and crazy chainlightning fun.

Blood Lust Yeti

• This guy is dying to look bad ass, make him black and red. Speaking of which some of our other poor minion friends look like there bland in game counter parts, would be nice to see some new colors thrown on our old friends
• This guy has a bug, I was at level 7 and my yeti had 1560 hp about (no sigil no hueberk on me). Check my minions health again at level 9 to see how badass they became and saw that my poor yeti only had 1000 max hp, just when I thought he was getting viable. I checkd to see if hold hp flag would fix this but no change in yeti hp. So something funkadelic is going on.
• I think these guys need a small dps increase maybe something like 30-35 base damage like a monk

Replicators

• Love this guy great concept, healing towers is great.
• He has same issues as mister blood lust yeti, hp doesn't scale properly and hp that did scale all together disappeared about level 9. Went from 900 hp to 600 and stayed there the rest of the game.
• Needs an hp buff IMO needs to be about 900 at level 5 and scale up from there, attack is unimportant as these guys are just around to heal
• Replicators caused sticky lightning on occasion
• Would love to see these guys in dressed up in black instead of white.

Silence Archers (forgot the name ....)

• Love these guys nice units
• Got the cooldown right
• Range needs to be reduced on these guys so that towers can kill them, right now if placed properly they can attack outside tower range and kill a tower faster then dems
• The silence part of these guys seems to not be working properly, A saw a silence proc and the queen it hit changed forms
• AoE damage is in question, I auto attacked towers with these guys for several minutes procing on towers and I couldn't tell if the damage was being done or not, may just need a better eye then mine
• These guys experience the same hp reduction issue as the rest. I believe that this might be due to buying hp + items for minions making there base hp back to its orginal format and erasing the hp gained according to your scale. I would check over all of your minion units because I am sure they all have the same issue.

Love the color and size of these units. Great job.

ok i will see what i can do