I will be around the next 3 days, its raining finally, so I dont have to go out and do yard work

lol, You shall feel the wrath of my hammer

Thank you very much, the quality isnt on the high side, but it will do just fine for some is there a limitation to how big a video file may be? what kind of formats do you accept? is there anything else i should know about? as there is no FAQ to answer those question

200mb will do fine, will have to reencode some down to 200mb anyway since gametrailers.com only allows 200mb

I will properly do some upload while i goto sleep since it takes quite some time with only 1mbit upload

Do you mind me asking? are you Danish? since the dk after your name

Actually there are replays recorded by the game (!) as .DGreplay files, even an automatic recording of your last game gets saved.... there just doesn't seem to be a way to play them.

Video 2 commentary:

A quick visit to the item shop to see what’s available shows that the +health armor is still just out of reach. Again it’s probably worthwhile to wait the extra few seconds to have enough gold to buy it, and this time you appear to do so, but get a major health potion instead. A valid choice, but I suspect the permanent +health and regen would have been better. If you do go for potions, mana heavy characters, especially ones with lower base health, almost always get better utility out of the purple Regeneration potions. These can be used as either a mana or a health potion in a pinch, or as a complete rejuvinator after you've been in a tough battle. With a 3s use time potions arn't very practical in combat to anyone but those with the highest health and armor values, such as the Rook.

Back to the game: The Rook is happily killing creeps, and taking out the creeps on the other side is certainly a good idea, but don’t neglect the flags! Flags give significant bonuses, 10-20% on things like health, experience and cooldowns.

The next battle between the Demigods sees a victory for the home team, in no small part due to the increased speed of the Rook, who’s independent weapons keep the pressure on Sedna as she tries to get away, and a fireball finishes it off nicely. Now is the time to farm what creeps you can to level up, and importantly grab those flags!

With level 4 come the second tier of the starting skills, and fireball is a good choice here: your opponents have show themselves to be escape artists, the extra bursts of damage can make a big difference.

With over 2000 gold now due to the Sedna kill, another trip to the shop is in order. Here we must be careful though: more expensive doesn’t always mean better! The Hauberk of Life is a fine armor, but as you’re not a general with Minions the Nimoth Chest Armor, for 250 gold less, is actually a better piece of kit. Indeed, you have enough gold for the Nimoth and the Banded Armor, at 300 gold more than the Hauberk, but the two together outclass the Hauberk by an order of magnitude.

Back out on the field flag capping is good, and there’s a lovely clump of creeps just screaming ‘let me give you another level’ an opportunity well taken advantage of. With the fifth level comes Fire Nova, a good burst AoE spell. Still, it’s worth looking at the second tier of Circle of Fire, as the extra spell will drain your mana very quickly, while CoF functions perfectly adequately for the same purposes. Still, getting fire nova increases your short term damage output more, which will help in battles vs the opposing DGs.

Another battle concludes this segment, but as you used the mana-heavy Fire Nova on the creeps you’re left with no usable abilities. Getting the Vlemish Faceguard or the Battlecrown should now a top priority. Despite the mana woes you manage to bring Sedna down to low health, but being faster the player lures both you and the Rook past Regulus and the two forward enemy towers, reducing your health to a sliver in moments, while healing herself back up… It was a trap.

Video 3 commentary:

Well that trap from the end of segment 2 did end up killing you, but it presents is with a bit of time to look at the stats. With a flag advantage the home team is clawing up some war-score, but it’s still far behind. We see that Kitkun as Sedna has managed to collect a bit of gold with her three kills, so that’s something to take into account.

As you come back to life the map is firmly in the hands of the Light side. Quickly another fight starts, and this time Sedna follows you in to the towers hoping for a kill, a wish which is quickly thwarted due to that health potion working just in time. She gets away, but they’re forced to retreat for now. Again the mana-woes show themselves, but at least now you have enough gold for the Plenor Battlecrown, which would fix a good portion of that.

More fighting follows, and the Rook’s high health and armor let him stay in for a long time, even pushing Sedna into a half retreat, but Sednas healing and her priest minions are more effective.

I’m up in the air about the Faceguard vs the Battlecrown. I don’t see how you can tell what your mana/s is, so is 70% more mana/s more than 15m/s? On a mana-heavy character like TB I believe it is, also the Battlecrown is cheaper and gives a bigger manapool boost, but as TB it’s not unusual to end up buying both. In any event, either will make a big difference to your effectiveness at this point.

Happily your opponents have bought priests early, giving you nice gold and XP rewards while making it much harder for them to level due to the creeps fighting near your towers most of the time.

In the last battle of this segment, something happens that has caused the death of many a new DG player: levelup just before a fight. Thankfully you didn’t let it distract you, as comparing different ability upgrades as half your health melts away is a surprisingly common cause of death. Something else that I suspect played a role here though is the ‘new item = invulnerable’ feeling. When someone buys an item that ups their effectiveness significantly (most often an artifact, but the Faceguard in this case) they often feel they can stay in battle for longer, even take on 2v1 odds. We see you were able to for the first time use all your spells in quick succession and still have some mana left… but unfortunately the health bar wasn’t quite so full. This happens to me all the time, it’s quickly cured by just playing your Demigod of choice with the various items and learning their capabilities.

hmm, good advice, back then i just saw the "health" "armor" and didnt look at the small text, thanks for the advice, i will take advantage of that

hahaha it is so true, funny that it does make one feel this way, since then ive noticed some DG's where standing still and didnt fight back for like 3-5 seconds, might be as you said they are leveling in battle. I may even do it still... will make a reminder of this, as its not best place to do so 

Video 6 commentary:

With a little discussion on warscore to while away the long gray seconds, when you’re back to life you’re faced with the option of buying priests. This is one of the most important choices in any DG game, priests give you a significant advantage by healing you, and they can let your otherwise cannon-fodder reinforcements stay alive long enough to damage your opponent’s structures. Yet they’re also a big juicy target giving gold and experience to your opponents.

At the end of the previous video we saw during death-time that despite being ahead 7 kills, 7 assists to 3k / 3a – these giving a lot of cash and experience – you are still leading with level 10/11 vs 9/9. That’s pretty much entirely because your opponents bought priests too early. That mistake has kept them from dominating at this point, had they not done so this would be much less the even battle that it is.

With the first DG battle of this segment we see that with less than 3000 health, Sedna is having a lot of difficulty keeping up with the damage that the 4^th tier fireball can put out, and a high tier hammerslam from the Rook proves more than she can handle. Regulus is fast and more than happy to run away though, so chasing him into his base is a mistake, even if one fireball would finish him off, you’re not going to be able to launch one. Learning to let you of an enemy that’s getting away is a close second in important to know when to run yourself.

Taking out the forward towers is a good first step for the invasion, but ideally you could have waited for Catapultasuari, though that is warscore dependent, and due to the lack of realisation that flags give warscore, the flags stay in Light side hands.

Don’t let the enemy base beat you up too badly while you kill it. Rightly you retreat to heal up while you have more than 1000 health left, anything less than that would leave you open to a quick snipe from Regulus at the back of his base. The Rook is a good base assaulter, as is Regulus due to outranging towers, the healing characters are ok at it, but TB and others have a tougher time. As Frosty you can of course use rain of ice, but as Flamey your best tactic is to rush in, activate Circle of Fire where it will damage 2/3 enemy structures, and get out again while it does its luminescent work. If you’re fine for mana, launch of a Fire Nova too, but CoF will do plenty of damage given a little time and won’t expose you for as long as using both; health recovery is a big issue for TB, though during an invasion priests will be a big help there.

While running away, don’t be tempted to fire off a shot at your pursuer. Sure it’ll feel good if you make it back safe and they’ve taken damage, but to a Sedna or other healer it’s not going to matter at all, and it slows you down… this is a very bad thing, and here results in a death. Unfortunately the Rook also dies at this point, mostly because he didn’t run straight towards the home base, nor had he invested in escape items like a tele scroll or the wand of speed.

It’s worth noting that in DG the battle isn’t so much won by the victors as it is lost by the losers. Not dying is the most important thing, more so than killing. The XP and gold from a death helps your enemy more than any other event in a DG game, and the stats show that they’re catching up: both opponents having reached lvl 10 now, while having a large warscore advantage and enough gold to exploit it.

Nevertheless, you also have a good amount of gold, and the Groffling warplate would be a good place to spend it as the warscore won’t allow much in the way of citadel upgrades right now. The Groffling is a bit like the Nimoth on steroids, but over 3x the price for a bit less than 2x the effectiveness. That’s a feature of DG items: diminishing returns. Only rarely before the end of a match when gold flows much more freely is it worthwhile spending more than 2000 gold at a time on items, let alone one item.

Video 8 commentary:

This time we start off with a fight, and you manage to drive off sedna all on your own while Regulus just stands there and shoots: the +armour and +health of the Groffling Warplate adds enough survivability that you can stand there and take the crossbow auto-attack for quite a while now, at a guess you’ve got 40% or more damage negation at this point. Remember though that armour does not protect against damage from abilities such as Snipe/Fireball/Spit… it only helps against auto-attack damage (that includes all reinforcement and minion damage though).

We see a good use of another health potion half way through, and because you now have such a high health-pool a rejuvenation potion is no longer automatically better, though it would still of course help with the mana also, but now the health pot fills the health bar further, where before its extra health was wasted due to capacity being full already.

With a lull in the battle, a quick teleport to base is quite a good idea. You can restock on health and mana potions (and get a new teleport scroll) or you can see if there are other items that might help you more. As you have over 4000 gold I would consider the Heart of Life trinket. This is effectively a mobile base-crystal, it will regenerate your health and mana pretty much fully so long as you don’t take any damage while you use it. The Platemail of the Crusader isn’t a bad choice though, increasing your automatic health regeneration by a good amount and also reducing incoming damage even further with another impressive 1000 armor points; its special ability to gain health on being hit is also a nice bonus.

Going out into the field yields another impressive kill on Sedna despite her speed and healing, so your gold supply looks to be alright for quite some time. Itemwise that last plate did fill up your inventory though, so spending it has now become a tiny bit tougher. With Sedna out of the picture for the better part of a minute it’s an excellent time to take all flags and make some more headway on clearing those towers. The creeps are helping out well with this so long as their opposing numbers are taken care of by judicious use of Fire Nova.

The segment concludes with the announcement that the Light side have spent some of their gold on Catapultasauri, making their creep waves significantly more powerful and making it likely that the next video will bring an assault on the dark base…

Video 10 commentary:

Well, we’ve reached level 15, the highest tier of abilities has opened up. Now the choices become a little harder too though… none of the new things is really hugely interesting. Inspirational Flame will solve any mana problems that still show themselves, so it’s a useful choice.

Capping flags is a good way to spend the time waiting for your ally to respawn, unfortunately the opposing time is just as quick to reap them. Firenova shows its usefulness once more as a perfect creep-clearance-cast, and then it’s time to run from getting caught in a 1v2 just in time to learn of the latest development:

The Light Giants have joined the battle.

This is getting very hairy, but it does rush you to level 16, with the final level of fire nova making it a bit easier to stem this new tide of giants. The two AoE abilities in combination are doing an excellent job holding back creeps, but while the giants live they do heavy damage… not to mention that finger of god. Nevertheless, the base structures are holding up very well, and you manage to push back the creeps more than halfway down the map.

Fighting Regulus is getting harder. His snipe does close to 1000 damage but that’s not the problem right now, his auto-attack speed is through the roof, and even with the massive amount of armor you’re wearing he’s doing ~175 damage per shot. I think we can say with confidence that he’s bought an artifact or two.

All levels are around 16 now as this episode draws to a close, and that’s the last of the video’s that have been posted as yet.

Thank you Multianna for letting me give some commentary and advice.

I hope everyone who takes the time to read these posts will find them educational, or at least a good basis for discussion and disagreement

And now, I think it's time for me to

Video 11 commentary:

Early on we see the ability of the Torchbearer to easily roast creeps, pushing waves of giants back to the flag line and taking the opportunity to grab a flag. When two enemy DGs approach the wisest choice is almost always to run, but firing off a fireball or two at them while they chase you is fine if you have range… just don’t get stuck in a corner or get caught by a faster DG as happens here.

The 3s activation time of the major potions is fairly easy to spot, and some DGs like Sedna and the Rook have abilities that will interrupt casting - while the cooldown will have activated - as we see happen here with Sedna’s Pounce.

Another war rank is achieved, nearly to catapultasauri of your own now. In the mean time, Trebuchets add a decent amount of damage output to your forts, but I don’t think the highest currency level is worthwhile. It costs 4200 gold to add 2g/s to your cash flow, that means divided over the two DG’s on your team it’s going to take 20 minutes just to pay itself back. There’s probably something better you can do with the money, even if it’s just saving for the next Warscore tier.

For the rest of the video there’s some good work keeping the pressure on your opponents, forcing them away from the creep waves stops them from leveling, and it lets you grab some flags again.

Dark Catapultasaurii have joined the battle!

Part 13 is here, check out this great battle!

Be sure to come back tomorrow as the final part shall  reveal who runs off with the victory!

Enjoy