what do you wanan tell us? sednas heal is better than bramble shield? of course, why not? comparing skills directly is somewhat useless because you have to consider the whole class with all its abilities.

if you just want to mention that qot is week, then well, against other dg at higher levels she is. but qot has significant other adventages which are extremly nice to win a game. dg killing is not all!

btw. the level 15 skill is not good. inf act at level 15 it is quite useless  because 1. she won't be mire than 1-2 sec under 30% (heal incomming)  or 2. she will die anyway ni a few seconds with or without the +50hps.

edit: qot has a bad reputation because most player try to play her like a dg killer in a shooter (like thex play any other dg). that's stupid.

Yes exactly what i was going to say.

And Celmare aswell.

I havent played Sedna much and not at all online so i cant speak for her, but in my experience a team with a good QoT usually wins. The way i play she is not a dps'er, I dont expect to solo DG's maybe outlast and if they are stupid chase them down, but QoT is a great tank, and a greater support player.

Shielding my teammates gives them a psychological boost, when they go to check thier health it isnt going down, at all and alot of times that makes all the difference in matches. Victory isnt just about getting the kill sometimes its about getting the other guy to run away losing time and experience.

I'm sure i could scratch my head and really get into it but im sure someone better at the game will do that.

As for the stats, i think alot of that has to do with players choice. Its not because QoT is underpowered its because people dont know how to utilize the power she has.

first of all like others pointed out shield is WAAAAAAY better

no argue about it

second sedna got much better passive abilities like regen self and group and over all the speed which make her nearly immortal

thats what makes sedna much loved, self regen and speed, QOT has no escaping

anyway im pretty sure the main reason why QOT is not so much chosen amongst players is that she has too few abilities

QOT is playable only with the pet spec and with that she basically just autoattack and shield occasionally, thats really boring to play

As has been stated by Schobbo, shielding your team before they go into battle is a major +. Also I would like to point out that there is still a cast time on heal, while shielding is instant (small delay but meh). When I was playing Sedna, this casting time on the heal did cause some people to die due to snipe, TB fireball, etc.

I like playing QoT because she can mean the difference between succes and failure in battle, not only by shielding, but also by decreasing the armor (Ground spike) and slowing runners down. Although it's true that you have to switch between open/closed and you receive some downtime because of it, it does help in real combat situations.

As celmare stated, QoT does lack the attack power to completely devastate the HP of an enemy demigod, but I still believe she can contribute to a kill in many ways, from shielding to slowing the enemy down and decreasing his/her armor.

Anyways, hope this answer was good enough

Silvius

hmm in my eyes QoT > Sedna, meh but thats just me.

i love shield a lot more, dont get me wrong heal is great and in many ways just better. but that being said i think the shield is just more viable sense it can be placed on players who are not damaged with out going to waste. i really think combo's with QoT may become more popular with time. Just played a few matchs with a TB / QoT combo and im not sure what the "pro's" think of that pair but i gotta say, it was super effective.

QoT's Bramble Shield:

1. actually decreases its damage absorbed per mana slightly if you level this skill! (1.75 -> 1.73). 
   
2. Highest level Bramble Shield costs 840(!) mana and absorbs less damage than Sedna's highest level Heal (which costs only 750 mana) heals.
3. Instant cast, unable to be interupted, cast it while running.
4. Effectively increases hp and resistance to burst damage.
5. Proactive rather than reactive, cast it before battle for an extra cooldown's worth of heals.

Sedna's Heal:

1. increases its health per mana considerably (1.6 -> 2).
2. it does remove negative effects (like Spit).
   
3. it does area damage.
4. enables a really good lvl15 special skill. 
   
5. teammates increase armor, giving them more advantage of Heal vs. Shield.
6. Cast time, interruptable.

how is this worse than sednas situation?

and what about the stuff qot gets? dmg skills and armore reduction and slows? it's not so somple.

as i said above. qot is not a dg killer. if you want to compair them as how good they can kill solo another dg you are doing it wrong. this is not the aim of the game! inf act you don't even need to kill a single dg to clearly win the game.

using shield intelligent (as mentioned above) you help your allies to survive. using groundspikes helps pushing enemys back, helps leveling faster then many other dgs, helps destroying towers faster. even the shamblers are better then the yetis and usually part of a qot build what yetis aren't, so you have additionally ranged minions to mciro arround. i allready can hurt with only my two priests other dgs at least so much that i get a significant advantege without receiving any dmg my self. with shamblers + priests it works even better.

the point is you will fail if your strategie is to kill dg, no matter if directly or as assistent. your mani aim should be fast leveling and tower destruction and of course surviving. sedna is share the surviving part but is inferior at leveling and tower destruction. on the other side she does better at 1vs1 fights not beccause of their dmg, but because of their selfhealing and interrupting.

qots roll is in mostly different strategie. as i said in a different thread: most people only see builds and dgs without considering the related strategie!

edit: please don't get me wrong. i do not deny that qot still needs some love. but many of the complains come from using her in a non fitting strategie.

they are all able to kill dgs. but why should they all be equally good at doing it 1vs1? qot is still one of the best assister, even better than sedna. this game is not arround dg killing. it is an important and usfull part, but it is not the only aspect of the game. in fact it is only one of many important tasks to win. and qot is one of the best at others.

QFT

Heal also scales with mitigation, shield does not.

If sedna's priests weren't healing for 1800 a pop you'd see QoT get more usage. Also if minion damage were affected by armor you'd see her grinding up LE minion builds with her shamblers, but currently as a whole QoT just lacks much synergy in her builds and runs OOM too quickly.