It's not that I've consigned myself to having a slower demigod, but rather that my issue is when I'm playing a slower demigod.   Getting speed items helps only so much, because enemy demigods can do the same to you.

As I said, the primary issue is that when the enemy is faster than you, even by a slight margin (or if they have skills like maim or diseased claws) then they're just kiting you all the way back to your tower line, and usually that's enough to bring you to the brink of death, if not kill you.  If you're faster than them, however, there's no problem.

It was actually a game as unclean beast that prompted me to make this post, and Sedna was the faster demigod.  I was trying to whittle away her mana with a continual barrage of spits, but as soon as I ventured too far from my towers she just began an all out battle of attrician.  I quickly saw that she was going to win in the long run, so chugged a potion to get back to 80% health and started to run, but all that health was whittled away before I got back to my tower line.

I've done that; quite fun but also quite risky.  Obviously you can't hold the gold mine flag against competent enemies, but there are some great DG counters.  Regulus and TB are great for breaking a Rook's advance with their AoE damge, for instance.

That doesn't seem smart to me.  I can certainly see locking it after you take it, but "keeping it locked" seems woefully impractical.  In addition to being quite expensive to perpetually keep something locked, you'll easily spend half your time running back and forth between the lane and the flag to keep applying new locks.  If you're actually outplaying an enemy well enough that you can afford to make a trip like that every 45 seconds, I don't think you need the locks in the first place.

Don't let the small size of the map fool you, TP scrolls are really important on this map due to the layout.  flag lock/TP on the gold flag (and later on flags near the enemy base) can be crucial here.  I've had good success as UB with a Rook partner where he'll maintain the main lane and the xp flag while I keep the other two flags and assist him when needed.  Was a pretty stellar setup.

It did seem like to get to the light citadel you needed to go closer to the enemy health crystal though, which seemed odd.

Damn, it's so cool to be Erebus, because I can sprout little light towers wherever I want, plus I can snipe enemies from halfway across the map, and even lay mines too! With my shield ability, I can remove any debuffs and have up to 9 seconds to attack the enemy and take no damage! Plus sometimes I come back from the dead and can kill you before I finally die. Being able to spit on towers and do massive damage is super sweet, and usually I'll spit on a player as they are escaping and kill them with dot's. The best part is my long range fireballs and ice attacks that slow down the enemy, I can even increase their cooldowns! Man Erebeus is the best!.............

Wait a minute..........

I don't have those skills, some characters have those skills! I have to pay gold or favor points to get something similiar, if I can get something similiar at all!

THIS GAME IS IMBALANCED!

/massive sarcasm

I didn't intentionally misunderstand anything. I may have misunderstood your comment.

I think you feel that because Erebus is able to achieve things other demigod's can't without spending gold or favor points because of his abilities / skillset, you feel the game is imbalanced. Correct?

If I am wrong, correct me.

My counter arguement is that every demigod has skills abilities that other DG's must pay gold / favor for or simply cannot have.

No other character can imitate those techniques, even with favor items.  They provide distinct advantages in certain situations.  That's the whole point of having multiple character classes.  Situational advantage.

errr....

starting with oak: he has to die for it, so i guess that's why it can be considered balanced

regulus: you can adapt to three of them and the way they are playing, they're easily beaten, there's nothing imbalanced about that

rook: you'll have a hard time with him, for sure, but he can be beaten. in comparison to erebus imbaness, that's nothing

erebus: oh i just bat swarm to the gold flag and constantly hold it, get huge amounts of money and buy items that make me invincible, then i bat swarm over to your portal flag, lock it and teleport back to my base and buy the whole creep row, cause i'm just rich as hell. that's also balanced for sure

honestly...you're pointing out that a good tower rook can cause severe problems on crucible...well, isn't that obvious. i guess a good "anyone" can cause severe problems anywhere. and a good "anyone" will also know how to counter the "good tower rook". i don't see how a rook could get anywhere near as badass as the erebus exploit there.

But also, i think there's no point in discussing this any further

play as erebus