i do like the idea of only being able to have one of each type of item, and I also wish that rarely used items were tweaked so there were more options in a build. But really the only thing that i want changed in DG more than anything else is the stability.

The main question I ask myself when I think about Demigod is, why is it so time consuming trying to play games with people that I know aren't idiots?  I think the reason for that is people are just so frustrated that they don't bother talking to each other anymore.  I'm guilty of this myself, it's been months since I've made a new demigod friend that I play regularly on the same team with, despite having plenty of opportunities.  I'm just old and stuck in my ways now; I had to make some new game friends after my real life friends left for LoL back in October but haven't put much effort into it since.  If all those randoms out there would just simply add the last person they won a game with to their friends list and pm them saying "hey man whats up, nice work out there last game, you interested in playing together some more?" then we could get some more teams formed and a lot less whining about premades. 

I know just saying toss out all these jerks who play now and replace them with more sociable people doesn't really answer what I'd change about Demigod, so what I'd change is anything that could help bring these people together.  Maybe a more robust in game messenger/chat system and in game voice chat.  Despite all the lag, and instability and blah blah blah there's a lot of people out there who would still play this game if it was less of a hassle to just play with your friends against competitive teams, because there's not much out there like some good premade Demigod action.  Now if only people were willing to make teams and play it, how sweet it would be.

So - I'd like to figure out some small requests that we can put forward to SD to see if they'd get GPG to implement.  My initial thought is item tweaks.  My build is almost always the same anymore (probably identical on like 5-8 demigods).  Obviously, we'd want to pick a few items that are NEVER used and come up with some changes for them.  But my real goal would be to come up with something where its actually a strategy decision on what items you would choose.  For instance, what if we took slayer's wraps and dropped the price to like 2000 or 1750.  I'd consider adding that to my build instead of a HP stacking item.  I'm not sure about other suggestions, but I really think if we can make 2-3 of the existing items more viable, that would be a great thing.  Do you guys see a big problem with my first suggestion of reducing the cost of slayer's wraps?

Not really. It's something that's surprisingly difficult. All the items would be the same if they were just 'balanced.'

Each item should have some interesting side effect or mechanic (that actually works) as well as it's normal health/weapon damage/armor/mana/what have you.

Nature's Reckoning and orb of defiance are great examples of interesting items that have a place in certain games, but not all match ups.

Balance needs to be fixed up a bit...

1)1) Reg, QoT, DA, Yetis all need to come up a bit in weak spots (reg/QoT need an interrupt, DA needs more 1vs1 focused tweaks and Yeti need to unsuck) Occ should have an interrupt too, but for the most part he is a strong DG,
1) Bad untaken skills need to come up in power (even on the tier 1 DGs) Build diversity is a good thing.
1)c) minion/DG/structure equation needs reevaluation. Minion builds should be a DG vs Dg viability without being overpowering via citadel cheese tactics. Simply putting a ToL and archer tower on the cit and undoing the previous minion nerfs could be a possible fix.
2) Some items need to come down in price
3) Some favor items need to go up in power
4) Some broken map balance need to be fixed/tweaked. eg: Crucible could really use a tower on each side of the gold flag.  

I would add Master Verga froim Elemental.

I just say remove them and replace them with something new.  Yetis don't even really jive with Sedna's mythos (She's Inuit in mythology and Yetis are from Tibet)  and they don't have any synergies with her other abilities.  I liked my idea of giving her an aura that either causes creeps to switch sides or one that gives a chance to raise a just dead creep to life (but not under her control).

There are truly a bad (or less good) number of Favor items, but most cannot be tweaked to add any interesting elements.
However, out of the list, these are truly the stinkiest of the stinker favors that may also have potential to do something interesting if tweaked.

Bejewled Goggles: Remove ranged item proc penalties + 10% chance to do 25% damage crit
Could be interesting on Reg or QoT. eg: Might be worth it for Nature's Rec alone

Staff of the Warmage: +5 mana per second aura
There are only 2 other + mana item, and those are Essence of Magic and Cloak of the Night. Blade of the serpent is also very nice, but does not increase pool like this one does. This could be a 3rd option for a spammy build and early team lane boost, and can be taken by both generals and assassins. 

Furious Blade: Proc effect increases movement and dodge by 10% too, and grants a cleave attack (hit close & adjacent targets, maybe the same size AoE as QoT closed mode).
I am thinking DA.

Totem of War: Effects are a friendly aura, minions also get the 5% attack speed increase. Could be useful for a dual minion build, or a fun additive to ground spikes in the lane. I always thought this was supposed to be a QoT favor.

Blood Soaked Wand: Life Steal 5%
Add Bloodstone Ring as an early item and the life steal would make this a respectable choice. Then you get to heal everyone for 1000 points if you can pay attention to timing. Also think of the possibilities of late game LE with 26% life steal. Sure it is only 5% higher than now, but the path potential is there from the start of the game. Simply buying Bloodstone is not that big a deal early game, unless for 1750 and your favor you get late game level lifesteal effect along with a heal all. 

On Firepower Cit Upgrade:
I am thinking they never meant for the default splash to work like it does. They put it at 100% to make sure something that "looked" like it got hit by the ray didn't take reduced damage... and somewhere along the lines it got messed up. That said, it seems to be a necessity to work the default way regardless of what they intended.

So, just remove the edge reduction. So Firepower 1 does 110% damage to an area of 1 etc...For certain area can get large, but at Firepower III and IV minions will be sporting armory and DGs will have high armor. Also, no amount of firepower will help you if you leave cata unattended on your towers.

I am thinking this will make Firepower I and II be taken in most games. and slow down the ability to take out double towers solo. QoT would still be awesome at taking out towers since her units are ranged and not susceptible to the splash if used properly.

Yetis:

1) 25% splash damage, on hit -2% speed for 1.5 seconds
2) 50% splash damage, on hit -4% speed for 2 seconds
3) 75% splash damage, on hit -6% speed for 2.5 seconds
4) 100% splash damage,on hit -8% speed for 3 seconds
5) 3% chance for 0.3 second stun, you want to melee late game yetis? Be prepared to be bruised. 

Reg: How to make tier I

-MoTB is an interrupt on application (not trigger)
-Snipe 1V: Interrupt (late game flag lock defense... an arrow comes out of the fog of war when you try to lock a portal) + counter spamming skills with spam. eg: Unlikely you can specifically aim for an interrupt with snipe, unless they are spamming skills left right and center and you are paying attentio to the timing.
-Crippling shot: Applied 100% on Snipe
-Dead eye- Remove current junk (it's either going to be too good or useless) Change to +7% proc effect rate on attack items

QoT- Look at the LOP mod, but remove healing on towers.

DA- Needs experimenting on the first 2 since there is nothing euivalent to these. 
Elusiveness (I know there is a value for cap time, but not sure if you can apply it to a DG skill)
1) +5% flag cap speed bonus
2) +10% flag cap speed bonus
3) +15% flag cap speed bonus

Demon Speed (He refreshes his consumable before you do, enhancing survivability and making it harder to judge he will win a close fight)
1) -9% item cooldown
2) -12% item cooldown
3) -15% item cooldown

Critical Strike- Start at 20% chance instead of 10%, increase by 10% per level as normal.

Occ
-Allow brain storm to work on enemies too. Mana damage to enemy instead of gain + interrupt (so really only useable on slow skills/items, which is fine)

TB: How to Make him tier I
-The 2 Aura skills increase their respective Heart of Ice and Soul of Fire duration for 3 seconds per level
-Get rid of the whacky 1 second delay when changing into fireform, make it work like the switch to frost form
-Get rid the whacky 1 second delay on frost nova, it's a level 5 skill and easy to interrupt... damn that's a crazy bad penalty.
Firenova = interrupt.

Sedna - How to make her tier 1
-Base speed to 6.4 (this also indirectly increases yeti power)
-Pounce= 1 second grapple like UB's claw. I guess this means remove the delay after cast and replace with the grapple effect. Sedna is still immobilized for 1 second, but so is her target. Now pounce is awesome sauce (can setup teammate's slow cast skill) and yetis are slightly more powerful indirectly. (can get on target)
-Put a Canadian flag on her

This is planned using impulse::reactor for elemental and I'm thinking we could get that functionality added to demigod.  I believe we get access to it in elemental beta 4 which should be less than a week away or so.  I don't know what it will be like until i try it out though.

Pssssh you all underestimate the vision radius! It lets you see ganks coming. It's tactical value is immense.

Can you see mines with the goggles? If not, you should.

They're not bejeweled binoculars. Also, why would you take that instead of wrath? So you can look at the XP you could be gaining?

I dunno seems kinda redundant, reg has track.