by Bwrgarbl on Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:24 am
Actually, the other gods dominate Taurog in the hard maps (which is where the dailies mostly are). Once you get into vicious and vicious token Taurog starts to come back in (and Pactmaker too)... very good for piety farming to feed another god or Pactmaker, resistances become more critical, and the death protection chain becomes a key game winning tool with the way most bosses hit for tonnes. But at the hard level, resistances aren't so important and it's easy to take hits from the bosses... so Taurog often never gets used. Of course, when Goblin comes up in dailies, Taurog becomes key if you want to ramp up your XP (so much CP in those items).
Note that Taurog isn't really special on easy or normal maps either... it's just that any leverage there works to bulldoze the map and thus everything seems great. So Taurog is actually more of a late game god than a noob one... very useful for late game play, but you need to know how he fits into the big strategy. With vicious + VT, you need to think about how you can use everything available, including a Taurog altar... with lower levels, you can typically ignore a lot of things safely.