Magnus:
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First, from the time you hit the base of the circle on Leviathan and have to choose to go left or right it takes LESS time for monks to walk from there to either sides tower than it does from the citadel on Cataract to either side because of pathing issues. Within 2 seconds of the game starting I said "no monk" so you would know what to do.
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I knew what I would do as well: not give you a monk. You fail to realize I have no problem sabotaging a game to piss someone off. It seems I was quite successful as you write pages of ranting.
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Second, you don't lose half the healing unless you are counting the healing of creeps. One monk can heal 2 dg's with very near 100% efficiency.
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Not true. TB halves the rate at which monks heal, because a monk won't heal a demigod with a larger % hp than itself. Rain of Ice II cuts a monk to less than half hp. This results in not getting any heals for a demigod with 50% hp for 10 seconds, which is more than enough time to die, given the fact that there was an enemy Regulus.
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Third, any good group of players that had 2 generals on their team would inherently understand that only one of them should buy monks while the other buys clerics ASAP. This gives both lanes almost the exact same healing at the start while one side has an extra armor+hat for regen and can push harder. A couple minutes into the game when the clerics are split both sides now have double the healing from split monk/cleric, who do not share the same cooldown healing dgs, on both sides and also the early advantage from early regen.
Fourth, if there was ANYONE who I thought would understand game mechanics it would be you.
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I understand. I choose not to cooperate to piss you off because it's funny. I know all these things and when I used to play Sed/Oak on 2v2 Cataract me and irek did this very same thing for months at a time.
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Sixth, you were generally a jerk. When I asked for the monk and said that I would be getting clerics ASAP your exact quoted response was "no". When I asked why, you said "I don't want to send my monk behind a tower". Like, wtf does that even mean? It would have taken less effort to click the monk and click behind the other tower than it would have to hit enter, hit N, hit O and hit enter again.
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Not really a jerk. You see, you're obstinate and selfish and I just don't happen to like you.
A monk behind a tower isn't helping you hold the damage flag. It's helping you protect a tower next to a flag you don't own. After you died and raged, I laughed and then proceeded to give Cow a monk because he's a cool guy.
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Seventh, there are maybe a couple dozen people who I think are very good at this game. 8 of those people were in that game. If this sort of thing can happen in a game of that caliber, then the odds of it happening again and again are high with such a small community. "I really need to find a game that is less of a joke" is what I was thinking while running around dying for admittedly stupid reasons.
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Edit: misunderstood what you were saying. Anyway, Cow and Rawr were drunk and I wasn't in the mood for a serious game.
