Neutral creeps would make me so happy

You could have flags that drop a chest bound to each player on the team for every 120 seconds it's owned.  That'd be a real incentive on something to defend, since you'd have to start from 0 if you let it get recapped.  That type of thing you'd just want one on a map.

I would suggest a neutral creep in the form of a large bullfrog.  This frog should be difficult to kill, have 0 offensive capability, and be able to leap great distances, over the void perhaps, from flag to flag.  Killing this frog will result in the desired treasure drops  

...started as a joke but, hey, that doesn't sound half bad does it?

Wyrmskin Gloves

Increase cost to at least 2250 gold. Too useful. Everybody and his dog gets them. Great items, but too powerful for cost (I know - this point has been made many times before).

Parasite Egg

Eliminate. Or seriously curtail effects; I prefer elimination.

In other posts some have lamented the uselessness of Idol Minions, making the case for their ineffectiveness. This has most validity when your foe utilizes a Parasite Egg, delivering their damage not only to your Demigod but instantaneously to your Idol Minions. Then, by attacking a single target, the foe addresses your entire army... this is silly. Particularly in the face of the aforementioned concerns over Idol Minion usefulness.

Even if the item is retained, by the time you have purchased higher level Idols, your enemy has purchased not only the Egg but attack Items that boost his/her damage to the point that your Idol Minions *still* drop like insignificant flies.

An enemy should have to either exert themselves via an ability or address in melee each individual army member to take them out... kind of the point of an army. Right now, Parasite Egg instantly and invariably completely nullifies the entire concept of armies. Definitely my least favourite Item.

Death: I dont see why you cant do a thing while dead, you have to be at least able to see and modify your skilltree while dead. There is no point in punishing the player during this time. Dying is always frustrating but in demigod that sentiment is increased by the fact that you have to wait all that time. The screen effect that appears while you are dead is nice, but you should be able to have a better view of the battlefield, this way you could at least use this time to see what happens.
The actual death system would especially be boring for beginners that could use that time to watch the skilltree or the battle and you dont want to make the beginners flee from your game, do you?
Adding what has killed you in a team fortress 2 fashion (for exemple X has killed you with a fireball) would also be fun, but is far less important.

I agree that one ought to be able to at least browse one`s own statistics & abilities whilst 'dead'. You have the time then to read ability descriptions... that is the time to do reading, if you must.

Pursuant to the elimination of Parasite Egg...

If Idol Minions are so useless, then why are opponents who face them compelled so consistently to purchase the Parasite Egg?

ANSWER: Because they are not useless. They are quite useful, actually.

ADDENDUM: Unless you confront a player with (drum roll) Parasite Egg.

I suggest a small change in the listing of the demigods (see here).

Maybe you could change the font of the ingame chat?

Smilies aren´t looking like smilies right now, because of the appearance of the bracket "(" & ")"

Updated

Very cool that you guys are adding in the teleport animation.  Even cooler linking to Chirmaya's video to demonstrate it

Gotta give credit where credit is due.

Some nice updates, thanks. 

It will be interesting to see how rebound plays out.

Have you thought about tweaking Currency at each level to +4 gold, +8 gold, and +12 gold?

For day 0 we're trying to be pretty conservative.  We have a year's worth of updates roughly planned so we'll have plenty of opportunity tweak that sort of thing based on player feedback.

I would like to share my impressions about some demigods and suggestions regardging those impressions:

Unclean Beast

As often said his damage is currently a little to high. But in my opinion he has little speaking for him beside this high damage:

• Afaik the best build is currently: 1x Post Mortem, 1 to 3 Deseased Claws, max. Inner Beast, max. Stats, 1 x Foul Grasp for teleport canceling. Other skills matter very little.
• Ooze is quite weak (debuff and damage-wise) for such high hp costs and its not that easy to get enogh health to use it frequently. Other skills have way more killpotential and thats was unclean beast is mostly about: killing your enemy.
• Plague is just a waste of skillpoints since its very weak. It fullfils a similar role like Ooze. Both skills would be much more attractive if they would be controllable, direct active skills. Something like "Ooze" 200 HP cost 600 dmg in 10 seconds and a -20% attack dmg debuff.
• Venom Spit and Foul Grasp do little and have quite high mana cost. Its hard to get a good mana gain since you would sacrifice much needed attack power if you buy any mana items, so you cant use these skills frequently. Venom Spit could be much more interesting if it would be casted instant with an quick, fluent animation. But since the damage wouldt justify a "caster build" the mana cost should be lowered too. If you would add an strong slow on it the skill would rise from near useless to near must have. And active skills are allways more interessting than passive ones
• The same could be said about foul grasp. Unlike Venom spit it has its uses because of the stun, but the mana costs are to high to fit in his scheme and the damage and leech are too little. Its so bad, unless you need the full stun, you are better of canceling the skill after you stoped someones teleport to attack him normal (which does more dmg). More dmg and/or leech would make this skill more appealing, lowered mana costs are necessary. Making it instant cast alone could possibly solve the problem.
• Bestial Wrath is quite nice, at least on paper.  In a real game the cast time is a huge drawback because your target could run out of sight. The mana costs are a problem here too if you want to use it frequently. And most of all its not such a huge dmg boost if you consider its only 10 seconds so you are better of with attributes or inner beast most of the time. How to change it? Making it instant cast without a need to stop walking to use it would make it really intresting alone. But how about adding some runningspeed to it so you could catch up with enemys. Or make it cost even more mana or have a higher cooldown on it but make it even more dmg % and perhaps some crit %

Over all my impression is that unclean beast is a well rounded character but some skils need a little tweak to fit really well in.

Currently he is too much centered arround passives and his active skills are to stationary but that could be worked arround with my suggested changes

With those changes even an "caster-build" or cast-centered build could be viable.

Torchbearer and QoT impressions follow soon.

May be its not the best build but the passives are no doubt the best skills of Unclean Beast and sadly enhanced attributes is one of these best skills

But regarding your advices: Did't you ever played Unclean Beast against humans or took a longer look at what you get for your skillpoints in foul grasp and especially Venom spit? I don't think so.

If yes please be so kind to describe me your exact skill order, item build and how often you are trying to use those skills.

Ooze is my favorite skill I love the speed debuff

With UB it really depends who you are fighting with and against.  I lost a 1 v 1 UB match against Kira the other night because he built a fast tank and I built a squishy caster - but the caster build works really well in some team settings.  I've played against a very strong spit/ooze/plague build - it doesn't matter that you aren't hitting too hard because you are gonna take half their life without touching them and give them a side of massive debuffs. 

I'd actually say Beast is more versatile than any other DG right now.  That's a good thing.

Well there are people which play a dual element Torch Bearer and also get kills.

The skill build is not the only influence. And I think everyone will agree that dual element torch bearers are crap the way the element changing works curently. But they are played. And the same can be said about caster Unclean Beast, yes it's playable, especially if you are skilled or/and your enemy isn't. But that doesn't makes a caster UB even slightly better it stays much less effective than a mostly passive skilled UB.

it depends a lot who you are up against, if you face a sedna, venom spit is pretty useless but vs someone like Regulus or torchbearer venom spit is very useful.

Stunlocking fix:
http://forums.demigodthegame.com/345038