Movement Speed Related Skills (+Idea)

QoT in closed mode resembles a snail.

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Movement speed is very important in Demigod. It can be the most decisive factor when you chase down a fleeing enemy DGs or try to retreat yourself. Moreover, the faster you are the better you can adapt your strategy like taking flags, changing lanes or going back to refill at your base. This is a short list of movement speed related skills for each Demigod:

  • Regulus
    • passive speed reduction of enemy (Maim).
    • active speed reduction of enemies (Shrapnel Mines).
  • Unclean Beast
    • high starting speed (6.3).
    • passive speed increase (Inner Beast).
    • passive speed reduction of enemy (Diseased Claws).
  • Sedna
    • passive speed increase (Inner Grace).
  • Torch Bearer
    • Ice TB has passive speed reduction of enemy (Permafrost).
    • Fire TB has passive speed increase (Fire Aura).
  • Lord Erebus
    • high starting speed (6.3).
    • active speed reduction of enemies (Bite).
  • Oak
    • active speed increase (Surge of Faith).
    • active speed reduction of enemies (Pentinence).
  • Rook
    • low starting speed (5.4)
    • active speed reduction of enemies (Hammer Slam - Dizzying Force).
    • passive speed reduction of enemy (Archer Tower - Poisoned Arrows).
  • Queen of Thorns
    • active speed reduction of enemies (Spike Wave), but only in open mode.

 

Now for my idea, which is of course related to improving the playability of the QoT.

Imho it would be fair and interesting to give the QoT's Bramble Shield a movement speed related side effect. That's because every other active support skill already has multiple very advantageous side effects (at higher skill levels):

  • Sedna's Heal
    • removes all debuffs
    • deals area damage
  • Oak's Shield
    • removes all debuffs
    • makes temporarily immune to debuffs
    • heals

 

For a Shield it would be quite fitting if it could reflect the effects of movement speed impairing attacks (Maim, Shrapnel Mines, Diseased Claws, Bite, Pentinence, Dizzying Force, Poisoned Arrows and Spike Wave). The attacker, or in case of Regulus' mines the surrounding enemies, should be slowed instead of the Shielded Demigod.

I think such a mechanism would improve the QoT's support role (which definitely is too weak at the moment) and teamplay while not being too strong.

Another idea would be to make Shielded Demigods immune to interrupts.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

QoT support role is not "definitely too weak", it is definitely too narrow.

Looking at the skill tree it is hard to spend points just because a good amount of the skills are nearly useless.

Given this, you want to make her even more narrow by buffing her only really good skill? 

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

If you're going to improve QoT's support by imitating Sedna, look at Inspiring Presence and Healing Wind, not her direct heal, shields are fine.

Shield has plenty of advantages heal doesn't, but if in spite of that heal is still better, that's fine, not every spell has to be equal. QoT has too many abilities with too few purposes. Those need some dual purposes like Sedna's abilities other than heal have.

 

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

bump

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

yes ... qots shield and QOT in general definately needs a buff, no doubt about it.

im trying to be patient until she is finally fixed/changed, BUT do i keep my hopes up still at a chance of her being changed???

 

another shield buff idea could be ...

bramble I - shields X amount of dmg.
bramble II - shields X amount of dmg. 10% of dmg absorbed is reflected back at the attacker.
bramble III - shields X amount of dmg. 20% of dmg absorbed is reflected back at the attacker.
bramble IV - shields X amount of dmg. 20% of dmg absorbed is reflected back at the attacker. When shield ends all nearby enemies recieve 500 dmg over 5 secs.

an alternate compost idea - while effected by brambles, deaths around qot give her mana.

 

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

I like that idea for compost better

I reckon the shambler ability that ups their power should be removed and enrolled into the actual Shambler Summon ability so people actually buy her last Summon Shambler ability