I've been experimenting with albowtross builds lately. I'm still working on some of the strategy and it can be pretty powerful. But what I figured out is that it's rather hard to get the initial albow. Not impossible, but harder than it should be. They simply take a bit too long and their upgrade is too expensive. I still have much room for improvment with the certain micro and macro needed but my point still stands.

My suggestion is to reduce blazing bolts cost to 300 or maybe 350, 400 is too much. And reduce que time to around 20 seconds. Initial cost is okay.

What do you guys think?

Blazing bolts was fine before Burn nerfed it. Just undo that nerf.

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Blazing bolts was fine before Burn nerfed it. Just undo that nerf.

Explain how burn actually nerfed albows?

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Explain how burn actually nerfed albows?

They do less damage when there are 2+. Think about them doing 100% of their potential damage before whereas now they do 90% + 20% in burn. When two are attacking a unit the burn doesn't stack so cumulatively they just do less.

I agree albows a blows overall... the upgrade is insanely expensive, the unit is super slow and expensive, and it takes forevs to train them...

Make burn cumulative I guess. I still think it's way too hard to get albows into the field. Albows themselves are pretty okay besides the damage.

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Make burn cumulative I guess. I still think it's way too hard to get albows into the field. Albows themselves are pretty okay besides the damage.

Burn being cumulative would be overkill. Give it more damage and less burn?

I don't really care that much, just fix the way it deals damage lol.

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Burn being cumulative would be overkill. Give it more damage and less burn?

What about instantly inflicting half the remaining dmg of burn when an arrow hits a target already inflicted with burn?

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What about instantly inflicting half the remaining dmg of burn when an arrow hits a target already inflicted with burn?

So if an albow hits a unit with 39% time of burn left, it will get inflicted with another 39%s worth of burn damage?

Really I don't have much of a problem with damage and I don't think it's the big issue. Maybe increase the initial bolt's damage on burning targets and eliminate the burn. This way you don't waste burn because you have no burn and you can deal more damage in exchange for no DoT.

Speed up the training cost of albows, maybe lower blazing bolts to 300, and cost of albows to 400 and maybe I'll consider using them.

400 gold seems fair to me. Coupled with slightly decreased training time and I agree entirely on hash's proposal.

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So if an albow hits a unit with 39% time of burn left, it will get inflicted with another 39%s worth of burn damage?

If there's 39% burn damage left to inflict that burn will be reset from the new arrow and 19.5% of that total prior burn damage instantly inflicted as raw damage. Thus albows could then synergise in a fancy way with Magikill blast and they'd have a sort of 'lighting up' system that should undo their nerfs previously and cement them into a slightly more spellcaster sniping role than before.

Personally think albows are fine the way they are in OvO, a couple can eat through spears very quickly

I don't see how reducing their cost will make them any more viable in OvC or OvE