So to equal out the items to encourage more diversity i propose the following changes:

Changes are annotated by --

Reason for changes beside each change

• Common Items Achievement items common to Generals and Assassins.

  Bejeweled Goggles (500 favor) +12 vision radius        --   + 10% speed          -  Will now be useful for rook, no need for totem anymore Can detect normally invisible objects.   Charm of Life (500 favor) +400 Health -- +5%  to +20 Health Per Second   - allow for regen builds Death Penalty time reduced by 10%.   Brilliant Bauble (500 favor) Increases experience gained by 10%.         --  +400 health to bring into line with charm of life      Magical Coin Pouch (500 favor) -- Decreases cost of items by 15 - 20%.  Discussed elsewhere - 15% is not enough to make viable             Swift Anklet (500 favor) +15% Movement Speed  no change   Symbol of Purity (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: Instant -- Cooldown: 15 seconds - will now actually be useful for removing spit Use: Purge all negative effects. Cannot use while stunned or frozen. +250 Health   Blood of the Fallen (500 favor) +800 Health +5 Health Per Second No change - will still be the highest hp item   Staff of the Warmage (500 favor) +800 Mana +15 Weapon Damage         --  + 5% attack speed -- needs attack speed to allow for damage bonus to take full effect   Dark Crimson Vial (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: 1.0 Seconds Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: Heal 33% of your maximum Health. No change - 1 sec will be enough for cast time   Amulet of Teleportation (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: 5000 Yards Casting Time: 3.0 Seconds Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: Teleport yourself and your army to targeted friendly structure. No change - already a very nice item   Diamond Pendant (500 favor) -- 250 - + 350 Mana           -- + 10 mana regen -10% to ability cooldowns   Cape of Plentiful Mana (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: +400% Mana Per Second Aura for 10 seconds -- + 20 HPs for 10 seconds. Currently BotS is better, this will allow for a HoL like favour item   Saam-el's Cloak (500 favor) +7.5% Movement Speed Movement Speed cannot be reduced by more than 15%        --   -20HP regen for enemies - gives battle usability   Wings of the Seraphim (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: +200 Health Per Second Aura for 10 seconds. Any damage will break this effect. The effect works only on Demigods.          -- 5% movement aura debuff for enemies

  [hide] Assassins Items unique to Assassins.

  Blade of the Serpent (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: 100% chance on hit to gain 75% of your damage in Mana for 10 seconds. +400 Mana -- +25 to +35 Weapon Damage- Currently a very nice item but needs small buff to allow for late game application   Poisoned Dagger (500 favor) +5% Attack Speed 20% chance on hit to reduce Movement Speed by 25% for 8 seconds. Note - Ranged attacks only have a 13% chance to reduce movement speed.    --       + 200 health - brings more into line with above changes to charm of life etc   Mard's Hammer (500 favor) -- +40 to +30 Weapon Damage           -- +5% movement speed -- +5% to + 10% Attack Speed - currently pretty useless favour item due to limited bonus lategame, will now allow for use with ub and rook   Staff of Renewal (500 favor) -- +200 to +300 Health -- +175 to +300 Mana -20% to ability cooldowns   - Brings into line with BoTS   Essence of Magic (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 45 Seconds -- Use: The cost of all abilities is reduced to 0 for 3 seconds (change to 6 seconds) - Alternative to magnus rod now +210 Mana +7 Mana Per Second   Furious Blade (500 favor) -- +100 to +300 Health -- +5% +10% Attack Speed           -- -10% movement speed 15% chance on hit to increase Attack Speed by 30% for 5 seconds. (10% chance on hit for ranged attacks. Does not activate with rook's passive weapons.)        Makes the buff on this item stronger but reduces movement speed to prevent from being OP, will be good on ooze ub   Heaven's Wrath (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: Fire a beam of searing light at the targeted location, dealing 250 damage and throwing smaller units into the air. No change, currently useful

  [hide] Generals Items unique to Generals.

  Totem of War (500 favor) +15 Weapon Damage           -- +10% minion movement speed - will allow minions to actually hit the target +5% Attack Speed +5 Minion Damage   Tome of Endurance (500 favor) +400 Health -- +5 to 15 Health Per Second - bring into line with charm of life etc +130 Minion Health   Pendant of Grace (500 favor) +10% Dodge -- +15% to 10% Minion Dodge           --  + 400 minion health -- make more minions more viable   Ring of Divine Might (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: Minions are infused with divine power, allowing them to knock away smaller units for 10 seconds. -- +15 to 0 Weapon Damage -- +10 to +30 Minion Damage            -- Static : +10 minion hps -- provide minions with some staying power that this item currently lacks and make this item more damage based   Horn of Battle (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: Minions gain +200 Health Per Second for 10 seconds. +10 Health Per Second?? cant really find the change here it was said it was a nerf? No change   Blood Soaked Wand (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: Self -- Casting Time: 2.0 Seconds to instant -- only 1k health so instant would allow for equivalent of dark crimson vial Cooldown: 45 Seconds Use: Heal self and all nearby allies for 1000.   Cloak of Night (500 favor) Mana Cost: 0 Range: 15 Yards Casting Time: Instant Cooldown: 60 Seconds Use: Warp to a targeted location, dealing 100 damage upon entry. +280 Mana -- +5 to +11 Mana Per Second - mostly used by oak and QOT, will allow for qot to have better MPS which she definately needs

Only one I don't agree with is ring of divine might 30 more dps per minion will be over kill for erebus and oak.

haha, BotF tooo powerfull... well i think its balanced but anyway... what is about the new 1.2 "botf" for assasins only? (forgot its name) if you think BotF is too powerfull this new one must be gamebreaking.

and at least it will remove the already low diversity of favor items used.

Hows that dead horse flogging going gkrit? ^^

Changes as listed i have completed all the common items.

For mod see here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/e0onqzzy0yn/Favor mod Exxcentric.rar

You will need older version of demigod for this to work as current hash check prevents mods currently (tho hopefully fixed by next week)

Unzip to your extracted dgdata.zip folder and activate with sorians mod manager.

Try some of them out if you have time, i think that some there is metagame changing potential there although balance may be a bit off at the moment.

Cheers Exx

+20 health per second would be balls-out insane on the charm of life. It should be +10 tops. you've gotta realize it'd be +400 health in just 20 seconds, ignoring monks, it'd catch up to BotF within 26 seconds and outpace it dramatically afterwards.

I dont disagree with you guys, as with the balance mod thread that is around, i am trying to look at how to change the metagame, as i think a large majority of the health stacking problem is due to limited favor items ie. BoTF and shop items (ie not much else in the shop with but health items until you reach artifacts)

This gave a VERY interesting effect, perminant ooze for any character  (although the damage is not too high) = farming creeps much easier.

  Saam-el's Cloak (500 favor)

+7.5% Movement Speed

Movement Speed cannot be reduced by more than 15%

       --   -20HP regen for enemies - gives battle usability

Anyway in order to determine what is OP i think that first i need to assess the affects of the item ingame as they dont always reflect the on paper theoretical.

For example, this combined with Vlemish would make a very very good QOT favour item, effectively BotS accessable for everyone (currently imo what makes qot weak is limited mana).

  Cape of Plentiful Mana (500 favor)

Mana Cost: 0

Range: Self

Casting Time: Instant

Cooldown: 45 Seconds

Use: +400% Mana Per Second Aura for 10 seconds

-- + 20 HPs for 10 seconds. Currently BotS is better, this will allow for a HoL like favour item

As a side note what would you guys be interested in (ie item wise) for build styles.

I would like to see:

Support Heal

Support mana

Drain Mana

Health Stack

Evade stack

Health Steal

Regen

slow

powerful minion

Tough minion

Speed

Pls post any other ideas you have so i can try to come up with some items. Once i find a balance for items against the current best (ie BoTF, Swift anklet, CoTN, etc) i will then try to rebalance these items (as now the coding is done it is just changing a single variable or two.)

Ok out of the old list - see gkrits post all of these are very doable - prbly take me 10 -15 min each:

2. Steel Skin

3. Ice Shard

4. Searing Stone

5. Static Orb

6. Water of Life

Im quite keen on seeing how these few items out of my list will work. Steel skin has had the most attention so far, so we should def test it (if we get to that stage).

 

out of your list id like to try...

Ether Stone

Armourment

Vile Falichon

Wand of Fast Casting

Furious Staff

The one exception is 2. Steel skin, i have spent +5 hours trying to get the reflect to work, however ingame i can only get i single figure to occur, regardless of the damage dealt.

Will play with this for a few more hours but i dont know if it is possible without me writing several new functions (which i am not very good at yet lol).

Will update soon

Can this be moved to the modding sektion?

It'd be great if you can implement all of these and then release a mod, so they can be tested. Finding pictures for new favor items might be a problem, something you might wanna skip at first.

about staff of renewal...

we all no casters need to invest heavily into mana equips and even with vlem and plen, mana can still be tight for some
skill-dependant characters. What i suggested, i dont rlly think could be that OP. Any max mana bonus isnt rlly that great unless you have something to regen back efficiently thats why i proposed a +6 regen. ALSO, if your casting faster (due to the -20% cooldown), that means your max mana will drain faster coz ull tend to spam skills as they r more readily available for you to use.

so say youre able to use 4 rain of ice coz of how much max mana you have. now, is 20% less cooldown rlly that much of an advantage? the only advatange ull get is faster casting but thatll put u out of effective play for a long time due to very low mana regen (early -midish game). for Staff of renewal to be effective you have to counter this fast mana loss  to make the -20% cooldown effective/efficient.

so based on all that (if u understand where im comin from) is why i feel that it would be as effecctive as Botf or swift anklet.

and for diamond pendant, i think u underetsimate its "use". thats a 30% less cooldown on the next skill or item. just say if your a ub or oak (or anyone), and u have 2 sigils, that means youll be able to chain the effect.

wait .. u sure u got the functionality right for dejavu essence?

coz the next skill u activate within the 5 secs, recharges 50% faster and activates 25% faster. im not sure wat u mean about the similarity between tb deep freeze and this.

and thx for working on it anyway. would love to check out all these when ur done

http://www.mediafire.com/?l5jgaedmmjx

http://www.mediafire.com/?lmdk4kwnztz

as above for install strategy

Edit small changes made to reflect final build for items (cooldowns and proc rate)

Ok so somehow this go derailed a bit,

Back on topic - i have modded in some more favour items, I will be looking for some ppl to playtest these with me / other ppl once 1.2 comes out. note thread here:

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/362060/page/3/#replies

Now as it is at the moment, if anyone would like to see any of these in particular in game to see how they perform can you pls post here and i will make all attempts to get them in my first version of my favor mod.

Note that my mod will also balance out costs for all favour items such that they all cost 750 favour points (0 cost during intial testing so you can try them out) - this is not too expensive to be prohibitive and will keep some application for favour points (as i think that gaining favour points to buy new items is a good part of the game, i just dont think that favour items should be balanced to by cost).

I have done these items : (completely new) - generic favour items (not assasin or general atm)

1. Dejavu Essence

3. Ice Shard

4. Searing Stone

5. Static Orb

Plus i have done all these in a seperate mod -