lol I'd call that an exploit. I guess you couldnt farm gold with it though because your team will get raped if two team mates spend time killing themselves a whole bunch.

It is still one of the biggest and most exploitable bugs out there (besides any UB running Ooze + a sigil of vitality having a great chance of suiciding in the middle when sigil runs out of combat instead of getting "killed"). Granted, it requires you to die, but still, it's a way to deny your opponenet the gold from dying and gain a lot of gold. It's a bad idea to set up the exploit specifically, but it's possible to happen in a game.

It is a big deal because you should not, ever, receive gold/credit for killing a teammate. While it's not something you'd want to do as a strategy, it's something that certainly is not right.

It's like scoring a point by kicking the ball in your own goal. Unacceptable under any circumstances.

You get gold for killing yourself?  Hilarious if true.  But doesn't change the point that anyone could stop you from doing it or just drink the potion themselves.  You eat a death timer regardless.  It's not significant enough to change anything.

Do you really want to get to 400 health so you can kill yourself?  LOL SNIPE!

Whenever I die I let my teammates know where my blood is for three reasons:

1.) Avoid it if you need health but can manage
2.) Push opponents into it so hopefully they'll drink
3.) Drink it if you are unavoidably going to die so I CAN HAZ RICH!!!!

You don't make your gold from creeps, you get most gold by standing there.  You lose out on the ~30 seconds of autogold, which is usually 8/sec  So you lose 240+ gold right there that you would have gotten.  Add to it that if any enemy hit you during this "gank yourself" process they still get assists - so gold for them, and there goes your "advantage".

And they can also swoop in for an easy kill if they know what you're trying to do as they watch you grind yourself under 600 life.  Fireball for 650 damage -> you die.  Snipe from beyond -> you die.  They run past you and chug the potion first?  You die.  They appear when you have 1000 health?  Now what?

It's massively risky and as I said, not big enough of a deal to be exploitive.

FFS get the numbers right.

It's 750 health, 1500 when maxed. No skills deal 1500. And even if they can play perfectly to prevent you from exploiting the glitch, it still involves them intentionally having to hurt themselves, and it can still be exploited in normal play.

I don't see why you think this isn't an exploit. Just because the other team can, in theory, beat the exploit, doesn't mean it isn't an exploit. Forcing the enemy to make a dumb move and hurt themselves to prevent an exploit is bad enough in itself. Even more than that, it still gives more gold than just dying if you use it in a real combat situation.

Considering there are no other major bugs besides mana regenning from dropping items and Ooze suicide, it seems like it should be pretty high priority.

Yes, but spit deals it over time, so it just makes it easier to gank on Poison Blood. Hammer Slam is the only skill in the game that can prevent somebody from ganking themself on Poisoned Blood. And assuming that somebody is going to grind himself under 600 to gank himself is getting the numbers wrong; that just won't happen at level 5 if he has any armor, (and nobody does like 700 damage with long range skills at level 5), and at level 10 it's 1500 health, way away from 600.

Good strategy, though unless you are leaving the lane then it's still a bit of an advantage because you can more easily be pushed out by another Demigod. While it does prevent the exploit, there are still quite a few situations drinking it isn't the smartest idea.

Well, I meant more along the lines of exploit bugs; we all know pathfinding and the AI are shit, but those have been at the top of our priority list so long it should probably go without saying. Still, I would rather have good pathfinding than this exploit fixed.

Yes but if you lower yourself to 750 life and run over to grab the potion you'll have regenned enough to live.  That's why you'd need to get yourself down to a "safe" amount to guarantee the kill.

Additionally the tower you are grinding yourself against is not doing 10 damage a shot to allow you to leave with the exact HP number you wanted.

You're mostly just theorycrafting.

I never said it wasn't an exploit and I'm not sure what made you think that.  I just don't care about it because there's just as much risk trying to gain an advantage from it as there are benefits.  If I was Regulus I've love to see an Erebus try to farm himself.  Free kills for me.

Under 600 is still absurdly high, especially since most people will die pretty close to the enemy towers (unless it's on a shit map like prison), and since it deals 1500 damage.

~170 damage per shot leaves you a pretty wide margin per error and still keeps you with more HP than anything else at your level can deal besides a hammer slam or a spit.

I've pulled this off in actual games (during fights; I even said that killing yourself on a tower was juts one way to exploit it). It's not theory, it works. And it's even more hypocritical considering all your posts are even more theory than mine; if an erebus doesn't notice somebody teleporting in and if they have a strong enough attack (IE significantly outlevelling him unless they are both at the 7-10 range) or if somebody wants to hurt themselves drinking it just to prevent an exploit, it's prevented. Those are a ton of assumptions to make just to say an exploit is counterable, and that doesn't even factor in it happening during a battle.

I don't see why you think this isn't an exploit.

Have never dealt more than 1100 snipe.