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Swift Anklet simply needs to be removed.

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Swift Anklet simply needs to be removed.

from Demigod Forums

I don't know if everyone is aware of this, but if you haven't noticed, movement speed is extremely beneficial in this game, as with it you can catch fleeing demigods and finish them off, run away from demigods chasing you, and get from flag to flag quicker.

That being said, there is no denying that at least 80% people take the swift anklet as their favor item. I take it constantly no matter which Demigod, because I'm practically forced to.

I have tried to be creative and taken something else, but that simply doesn't work. It was very frustrating when I could killed a nearby demigod who was very low on health, but I couldn't because he got away since he took the stupid anklet and I was bored of it so I took something different.

No favor item should give any sort of speed boost at all.

On a side note, double the cost of boots and wand, and rework the way the journeyman boots work, 5% chance to get 50% increase is just messed up.

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Reply #26 from Demigod Forums Top

wand of speed for 1250 anyone?

 

to be honest, it just sounds like the counter to your build what ever it may be is speed.

Reply #27 from Demigod Forums Top


Being able to read a situation is far more useful then having the speed and never learning anything. I hardly use swift anklet on UB due to inner beast letting me keep up with regular enemy Demi-gods. Even If i'm slightly slower I just pick up the 1k boots. That combined with diseased claws makes demi-gods unable to run away from me. Combined with the fact i'm not going to put myself in a situation where I can't run away effectively.

There's much more important favor items to get then the anklet.

 

1K boots are not a counter against swift anklet because the person with swift anklet can buy them at will, and then the original problem remains. 6.75K boots are a legitimate counter due to the proc, but they cost 6.75K. Wand of Speed may be a counter and I find people less willing to buy that, but it depends.

 

So I guess anklet is overpowered if you can't read a situation correctly or put yourself in situations where you can't run away if something happens. Only demi-god I find I actually need speed for are TB and QoT. QoT doesn't need though as her auto-attack doesn't work properly when moving anyways.

 

I only usually die once or twice at most to someone abusing swift anklet before getting clued in, but being able to always escape and always win a chase mid-field means a DG can lock down large areas of the map on certain maps, especially Crucible, where it's important to cap the middle flags, but there are no towers or even creeps in sight. It's much less an issue with Cataract, for example.

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