Ya, I love playing Sedna, but in the end, like I've written in other posts, there are no "Saved Butts" stats.  I would not mind if I got some "assist" favor from healing a DG that was battling other DGs, then your alli killed the DG.  It sure would make me feel better.  I play WoW too; play a priest there also; and I thought this game would be different, but it's not:  Keep the team alive the entire dungeon, and the most you get is a shoulder shrug.  If ONE person dies, it's YOUR fault!  At the end of the game, you look up to the gods to see thier Favor towards you, and it's "minimum wage".  It's all about how many you klled, not how many you saved.

I had an Oak player shield me when I was reatreating last MP game; which game me JUST enough time to drink a potion (I was out of mana), but he got no assists either.  But we have to watch favor balance too; spamming heals/shields on allies that are fully healed or have no de-buffs on them could lead to some pretty nasty favor exploits: "STOP healing me, there is not an enemy DG ANYWHERE near us!!!".

i play sedna and kill people and heal teamates when i can

Anyone from Stardock commented on this yet?

Ok, bursdude I understand that you clearly don't understand much from your post in my other thread, but that's OK. I'm here to slowly explain things.

I never said she could not get awards. I said she's more poorly suited to it. Which is a fact.

There should be a healing reward for a number of reasons:

1. Sednas who focus on healing should get a reward. If you focus much of your energy (both mana and cognitive energy) on healing, it will be at the expense of most of the other things you mentioned that she can do.

2. With the award, more players would play her, which is good because A. She is underutilized, and B. Having healers on your team is always good.

3. I don't care about support awards. If we really wanted, we could toss in damage healed or negated and count both the oak's invincibility and bramble sheild. Or would that be unfair to characters that don't have "sheild" abilities?

Some characters are inherantly better suited for some awards. This doesn't mean they shouldn't get them.

Bottom line: Support award: Player who heals/prevents the most damage to TEAMMATES. This is important. That way if you only heal yourself all game, you don't get shit.

That is the answer.

No, I am thinking all the way through. You said unattainable, which is incorrect, since all have the ability to heal. Sure, it's not cost effective. But hey guess what? Why would you be trying to get a healing award when you aren't a healer? That's the reason Sednas don't usually get damage awards, and rooks get lots of assists. Because, and I'm going to use caps here SOME DEMIGODS ARE BETTER SUITED FOR SOME TASKS THAN OTHERS. TB is better at killing creeps than sedna, and people aren't whining about that.

I don't think alot of you are getting the point here. The healing/damage negated award will usually be won be whoever is playing sedna/QoT. This is OK. Because that is what they are supposed to be doing. Supporting their team. I'm not going to go out and play Sedna and then complain that the UB on my team got the most kills award and say that award should be taken away for being unfair. That's the point here.

People should be rewarded for playing a support character and helping their teammates.

These arguments you people are making are completely irrelavent.

There needs to be a healing/damage negated award to have a reward for playing support classes.

So, I've hear lots of irrelavavent whining, which doesn't surprise me. I'm going to sum up my suggestion.

Support Award:

At the end of the round the demigod who healed/negated the most damage dealt to allies recevies the support award and the corresponding favor bonus.

No one in their right mind should complain about this. I've broken down the attacks on it in the preceding pages. To sum up the attacks:

Sedna has an advantage! WHIIIIIIINEEEEE.....

Different Demigods are suited for different things. TB pumps out creep damage, Regulas snipes and lays mines, Sedna and QOT SUPPORT. It is obvious they are likley going to win this most of the time, as it is likely they will not win damage or kills, and the rook won't win flags. Duh, duh, duh. That's not a reason to not have it. If people think all awards that are not equally likely to be won by all demigods are unfair, then all the awards should be removed.

You can gear/equip sedna up to rape face, unfortunately you will severely limit your support abilities for your teammates, if I play sedna, i want to be able to support my team, capping flags fast as fuck, tossing a heal at the odd Rook who's in a tricky situation and pouncing anything that tries to leg it.

If I wanted to rape damage, i'd go as Oak or Rook.

That being said. It would be nice to have a support/help favor thing, instead of me winning flags all the time

healing gives u exp so the not getting a award for it seems stupid  but to make it so that u do get a award would require that there is alot more complicated in the  code otherwise  people would get awards for it without doing anything supporting

so al though is is needed for somepeople to feel good about there playing style it also isn't  and would proberly take a while to even get the code to a reasonable lvl for it to be implamented

but i personally dont think it is needed why do u need a award to make u think your doing better  you should already know if you are

I have like 10000 favor points.. just sitting there. Is it really an issue?