No.  UB has a higher base speed than the others.

But AFAIK Rook moves the same as all but UB and Erebus. He just looks slower because he's big.

You won't outrun UB with the same items because he has +movespeed skills.

He also won't out-last you one vs. one in the correct build to counter.

Translation: LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE GAME OR YOU SUCK.

WEll his point about autoattacking being a bit overpowering is valid.

Past lvl 15, you really are better off auto attacking than using hammerslam in most cases.  Better to have put those points into other skills, because you can do more DPS than hammerslam does, and not have to worry about missing or interupts at least.

Same when you look at fireball.

It's not that fireball really needs a buff.. just some items like mageslayer, ashkandor, bracelet of rage, and all father ring need a nerf.

The other stuff said is mostly whining though.

So basically hiding behind your towers the entire game. No good UB player is not going to spit on you once or twice before moving in to finish you as you try to limp off. Plus till you get level 2 boulder, slam can be stopped by foul grasp. Rook is one of the easiest match-ups for UB due to the fact that unless you're hiding behind your towers, you're going to get spit on and UB isn't going to take much damage in return. He's already naturally faster then rook plus he has inner beast to increases it further. The only success a rook has had for keeping me away was hiding behind 3-4 towers. He wasn't doing anything by hiding behind them though.

It's kinda sad rook who's a giant castle, has most of his damage coming from auto attacking skills. (towers and shoulders) That, and when you look at rook you think he's the toughest to kill yet QoT is several times harder to kill and she's only slightly bigger then the starting minotaurs. (not counting the chariot obviously that's not her)

In a team with good coordination spells are much stronger because you'll get so many kills at the begining of the game that you'll simply outlevel and outupgrade your enemy. However this is obviously not the case with random teams, damage item are really strong on Regulus and UB, and defense items on Sadena....holy crap she's unkillable.

I find it very sad that there are no items to improve spells but rather there way to go is insane attack speed with huge crits. Thank god no "bash" is in the game. This was one big flaw with dota late game, it's really sad they didn't expand on it. I mean this problem has been looooooooooong solved in RPGs. Obviously mana cost increases when the damage increases so you don't get infinite mana at some point. Also we'll see more variety of item combinations isntead of massssss damage. At least that's what I always go for, sometimes with 1 defensive item but that's about it.

All I keep reading is: "OMG, my team let the other team farm us for artifacts! Now we are losing! THIS GAME IS SO UNFAIR!!!!"

Um.. It's irrelevant.  These are the predominant items.  Next after you have those you'd probably get bracelet of rage.  Then you're doing like 1500DPS with, when hammer slam is much less DPS than that in melee range and it's easy to avoid while autoattacks hit no matter what.

Fact is, IAS stacking is what causes this.  IAS stacking needs a nerf.. both to how it calculates, and the itesm themselves. +25% ias with +dmg and life steal on a 8k item is HUGE.  Even at 10% or 15% IAS mageslayer would be worth the 8k.

Mageslayer has +45 damage too.

So if you want to compare..

+22.5 dmage
+12.5% IAS
+6% life steal for 4k

vs
+30 damage
10% damage for 3.3k

It's not just that though, it's item spots too.  More expensive items shouldn't(and usually don't) give as much benefit for their cost, they just give high benefit per slot.

And it's not just that, but IAS stacking.  You get mageslayer and ashkandor, and that's +50% damage.  +50% is fine when you're doing base damage, but you have +dmg items being MULTIPLIED instead of added as well as increased procs(like from poisoned dagger, wyrmskin)

IAS is the most powerful offensive buff.  If you have 100 damage, +25% IAS is the same as +25 damage until you add +dmg items, % chance on hit items, crit more, and so on.

So yes.  Mageslayer would still be worth 8k with 15% IAS.

I 100% agree with this. I don't even bother getting boulder anymore. The cast time is too long, the boulder frequently misses, and the stun is not near long enough. It's deffinately not long enough to boulder and then wind up a hammer, at least not until level 10 or 15. There are so many better builds to take than this one.

Rook is slow, you should play to his strengths not try to compensate for his weakness with items. I've been more effective with a tower build and forcing enemy demigods to come to me. Makes it much easier to land a hammer smash. The key is to use the hammer smash so they won't have enough health to run away afterwards (meaning don't open the attack with it, wait until they're at about 50% health).

I agree with most everyone else here...don't let the game get that far. A good skill build will tend to outlevel others up until lvl 15. Just beat them before that point. That said, I do think there should be some +skill dmg items. It would make the game a little more interesting.

+Weapon damage items effect all base attacks, So a Torch bearer's fire ball auto attack is effected -- same with attack speed increases. 

What it won't effect is abilities, like say the button push to fire a long range fireball.

The escalation in gold/items is one of the ways the game is guaranteed to end.  It also means if you're losing you'll be facing some powerful demigods with powerful gear/items.

IMO the more you've been out played* the more powerful your enemy demigods will feel at end game.

*Out played could have been: Early game micro, timing of abilities, teamwork, map control, itemization (better gear choices), or fortress upgrades (timing of when they upgraded things Vs you).