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How would everyone like this balanced?

1. Should it do damage?

2. You suggest range of 40. Would you like it to be able to be cast into fog of war?

3. Would 3.5 seconds be enough of a cast time (otherwise you could just use teleport).

4. Cooldown time? (i reckon 40 sec).

Ty Shiro_Sol !

  Your bug hunting is awesome 

Anyway heres where i am at with 1.8

Still trying to get Golems hammer slam working. If anyone has any code for this it would save me alot of time. I am trying to get it to work as a secondary weapon with long cooldown as ptarth suggested.

Changing XP minotaurs from 2 units (2 units was OP) to 1, This minotaur will be 75% bigger than a standard minotaur and will have Damage and Health and Attack Speed that scales with the level that the unit was summoned at. Will retain the same XP buff.

Will look into changing the code for Albatross damage and mana drain  to scale with level.

Added Mr Rappards Item Tree - Shop Mod.

Removed Tower of silence from achievement Items

Added Tower of silence as a consumable from shop (still needs some balancing for cost, suggestions?)

Will add slow ward into shop, but i think that i will leave it as a favor item as well. Might alter the buffs between the shop one and the favor version.

New Consumable:

Skeleton Key - Removes Enemy Caplocks, Adds Caplocks to Friendly Flags. Cooldown 50. Cost 750. Max 3 per stack. (item has been completed, just awaiting addition to consumable shop).

Still trying to get flag mine to work. Here is what i am trying to do, let me know what you think.

Flag Mine - applies altered caplock effect to flag. While applied, Flag Warscore Rate is doubled. The mine lasts for 1 minute or until 2 explosions have occured. Explosions will meta all nearby infantry (knock small units into the air). Flag is capable at all times, however you will have to move into the radius of the mine to be able to capture the flag, and as such you will set it off.

This item will be a consumable.

Still to add Invisible Cloak but i will see what i can do. I was thinking about adding this as a ward that makes a radius 12 invisible for 20 seconds. Would you guys like a particular one of these items or both?

Vortex Tower

Will remove the fire nova attack of the vortex tower and will add spike wave attack (as standard AOE has been used for thumper, this will give both towers a unique feel).

Tower Balance.

For Balance, I was looking at limiting the number of towers able to be made to 4, but boosting the individual tower damage. This would prevent the overkill of tower clusters that could potentially occur.

Note that Tower Balance is potentially going to be a major holdup on the release of this patch, as when mines were first released they were very OP, and ppl didnt enjoy the games they played as the IMBA items were always picked. As i spend most of my time coding atm, would anyone be interested in beta testing what i have done? In partiticular, the new towers.

Pls post up if you would be willing, if i can get a group that is willing to try it out then i will post it up. I really want to balance these items in 2v2+ as 1v1 is not a good indicator, and ai is horrible at playing against the new towers.

Exx

Ok i have now also done:

Consumables:

Flag Mine - Looks like cap lock, flag will still be captureable. Capping the flag will remove the mine. Mine will explode when an enemy hero enters within 17 radius. 2 Explosions will occur before flag mine is removed. Minimum time between Explosions is 4 seconds. Lasts 60 seconds. 500 damage per explosion. Will knock back smaller infantry. Will also double the warscore rate of a flag for the duration of the mine. (ie so it will be worth taking the damage to remove the mine.

Warscore Manipulator - Looks like cap lock, flag will still be captureable. Capping the flag will remove the manipulator. This item will increase warscore obtained from capped flag by 5x for the duration of the maniplator (or until removed).

These items can be applied over top of eachother and over the top of a caplock

However, if any of these items ends, then they will remove all effects on the flag (ie if you canplock a flag and then add mine, when the mine explodes the second time it will remove the caplock). Also note warscore alteration gained will be dependent on which item is used last (mine or manipulator). I am looking into a fix for this last issue, as i think if you use a warscore multiplier on a mined flag then you should always recieve the higher buff.

Edit:

Vortex Tower Has Been completed- Now uses Spike Wave, Damage scales with level, Health Scales with Level.Spike wave applies a 5% speed debuff.

and heres another one:

Consumable- summons structure : Forge - Will add +2 gold per tick to allied team - cost 2500. Structure has 1250 health, so keep them safe! 60 second cooldown

New Xp minotaur - only 1 summonable ---- Big enough for you Mac? NB: minotaur on right is Xp minotaur, while the left one is standard idol.

nice mod, thx. what means perminant?

i think removing locks shouldnt be possible. but there could be an item that prevents flags from being locked for a certain amount of time. it should be applyable to enemy flags as well of course.

At 750 a pop that's more than fair.

Architect's mechanism with optical enhancement is great, especially on high towers. Good job with this mod, it definitely adds some novelty to a game that has been analyzed and processed.

OK, this needs some work. The last couple games I've been using or seen these used to death. Thirty-five seconds is WAY too short for this.

Architecht's Mechanism: With five minutes you can have +4500 health, heal for 2250 health, add 18 regen, and it cannot be taken down while you are guarding it because of the triple aura

I suggest increasing the cooldown to 1 minute, removing the regen aura, and make it add 300 to maxHealth

Optic Enhancement: In five minutes you can increase the range by 6, and over the course of the game your tower will be able to hold its lane alone. If you use it right when an enemy attacks it will deal massive damage to them and force them to back off. This isn't as strong as the architect's mechanism, but if they are used in tandem, it becomes an incredibly cheap favor item.

I recommend that you increase the cooldown to 45 and reduce the range bonus to 0.55

Was that giant quote really necessary for a 5 word comment  

You might want to consider removing slow ward, it's basically an area of effect that makes the game unplayably slow.

I have an idea for a fairly complicated favor item.

You could call it mimic or chameleon, or something to that effect. What it would do is allow you to take on the appearance of another demigod. For example, you play as UB, you click your favor item, then you click your allied (could be enemy) regulus. You then look like regulus but retain all of your UB skills. The beauty in it is that people expect you to be awful 1v1 but all of a sudden you ooze/spit/grasp them for nine million damage per second and they die. You may want to add like 5% attack speed or some little buff.

Exxentric, the mod looks terrific!

I have an idea that might make a superb favor item:

Two-way mirror

Use: Teleports you to another location. Seven seconds after casting, it warps you back to your original spot.

Cooldown: 30 seconds Cast time: 1 second.

I read about the skeleton lock or something like that that would remove locks. I think it would be better as a consumable (200g). I wouldn't personally take it as a favor and miss out on other excellent favor items. just my thought.

 (too lazy to read above )

'btw can't wait for V1.8

TY,

curious for balance reasons:

who was using the mechanism (ie rook?)

Did they have more than one on a single team?

These 2 things have are important for me to adjust the item to a more desirable (or less lol) level.

 I want to keep the cooldown minimal, as that requires a more labour intensive play style to have a profound effect. However i will nerf health bonus to 200 to compensate. Changing regen aura to +2 and cooldown to 45

these changes have been done, let me know if anyone thinks that this is not enough/overkill.

Dejavu cloak tooltip has been fixed

That sounds reasonable, I'll test it if I can get a favormod game later. I can't find the replay but the game basically deadlocked with super powerful towers that had incredible attack speed, regen, health, and splash damage. I found one early replay with jonathan1 where he used it, but he was rook and just temporarily buffed his towers... horrible use of a permanent item.

ROFL, i managed to get it done!

There are now 3 stages of Golem:

lvl 1- 4 you get clay golem

lv 5-9 you get babylon golem

lvl 10+ you get the babylon titan

Clay Golem

Babylon Golem

Babylon Titan

your mini-rook concept is exactly how I would want Yetis to be redone :-/