Also, some of the problems I see (and viciously exploit) are known to me from years of playing and beta testing MoBA's. I showed a DoTA/HoN pro the game and the moment he saw the numbers like 50% hysical resistance his reply was: "Are they serious?". My reply was: "I'm not sure." I whish there was a way to illustrate to you guys exactly how wrong those nubers are without getting you hooked on that crap. Could I at lest get your reasons for focusing so much on scaling DMG resists? Becasue any MoBA player can tell you that a char with any % based abilites revolving around DPS, but especially tanking can mop the floor with the entire other team once he gets a few lvls and items. Complete years of DoTA and HoN were revolving around one team trying to get their "Monk" or carry farmed up, while trying to prevent the other team from getting their carry from getting farmed up. And monsters in this game are static, and can do fuck all to defend themselves, while no sane MoBa developer would allow anyone to have static 50% dmg resists in RPG.
Anyway, I'd really like to have a chat with you guys on this topic, I actually know what I'm going on about.
The second thing I'm really wondering if it's being discussed in your sessions is - you've added a lot of features without a way to gauge their effect, and certain ones, like conversion and Piety are even more busted than the prep system q3 rightfully complained about. You have spent a lot of time trying to tackle te untacklable (the % based resists, if you don't believe me, the MONK was not supposed to be able to beat Slime Pits if he was a reasonable class).
What I'm getting at is that exploiting piety and conversion is easy and powerfull, and is the main reason you don't need anything but GG and TT to become a monster. GG thrives off conversion, and adds piety onto the benefits you already get from conversion (and all that is just extra oomph to characters, compared to Alpha), while GG lets you convert gold into piety and tack on more abilities to allready gamebreaking characters. The Blood Symbol and Troll Heart are incredibly powerfull because of their cost/conversion ratio's - so powerfull in fact that they destroy design space. And to people claiming Troll Heart's effect is bad - I say it's quite nice and I'm mopping floors with everything with two gods and no whoopaz. I see it as sort of a bonus on my conversion milestone.
My question is: Why aren't there monsters that tax your piety? Your gold? Your conversion points (making someone go negative conversion and lose his benefits would be a GREAT hazard)? Percentage based damage reduction can't effectively be dealt with by monsters in an RPG (too much of an advantage, too wide a differance between characters that have it and those that don't), but money, conversion points and piety are so plentifull, abusable and beneficial that they allow chars to compete with an unbeatable tactic creating the illusion of there not being MAJOR problems with the game.
I'd like to discuss these issues, or at least get some answers and justifications for stuff, as I feel like fixing some problems is not that difficult (ok, so the imput might be tedious, but the solutions might not be so drastic). I don't WANT to play a minimalist game, but I can find no reason to play it any other way ATM.
Oh, and I know all the interactions can be insanely difficult to keep in mind and keep track off, as what you have designed is not a game as much as an ENGINE
And it's GREAT 
