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Blind gate is useful but it's worth it with it's current cost. A gate that cost 650 all together isn't worth it when it deals no damage or had no health. All the other units like this in this game effects units in some type of way while blind gate just effects the player. Also the fact that it can just be walked through which gets rid of the effect, also makes it not worth it. I would use it if I got the air back instead of the earth. No one uses it at it's current state because it's broken. Either lowering the price of this spell or adding an a damage or health upgrade would fix this issue.

Deals small damage to units within range, if you walk past it, you slow down? :O

New Ele 101

Make Air, then make Earth. Press into opponent's base with Air and Earth. Make Blind Gate over opponent's gold row. GG.

Miner walks through bg and nullifies its properties entirely.

GG no re.

If it deals

Deals small damage to units within range

Miner dies shortly after. Game is now Ele two chomplers versus Order no income.

Quote from Skeletonxf

If it deals Miner dies shortly after. Game is now Ele two chomplers versus Order no income.

GG ele cause Order has tower :)

Quote from Sevarus

GG ele cause Order has tower :)

Okay let's split this up into what will happen

Order has about enough time to spend 500 gold before an Air is in its face

So:

AM - Archer gets forced back by Air then Order has an Archer that can barely get through the gold row without dying and 3 useless miners. I'd say Ele wins by streaming Earths after.
SA - Possibly the only viable Order strat here, so Ele will just stream Earths for a bit before the almighty blind gate finish.
MSS - Ele easily puts down the almightly blind gate and then streams Earths against the two swords. Ele will eventually win
Castle Archer + Miner - Ele doesn't almightly blind gate and instead gets free tower and wins by eco

Yeah to be honest this would be crazy strong and force Order to go super aggressive starts every game - allowing Ele to then win via eco spam.

If it were to do that it would likely not be that strong, honestly. You can simply move your miners to the second row and wait the 30 seconds for it to wear off. The Standard Archer/Miner Strat would allow you to just move to tower uncontested and rival their income that way while they have literally 0 map presence other than the gate. This is, of course, also assuming the "small dot" isn't like meteor pools damage. In that case Elementals might finally have a way to stop chaos by virtue of being stupid strong.

Forgot this portion: Make the damage/slow down a researchable, that way you can't rush early game with a win that easy.

Oh Blind Gate only lasts 30 seconds? I thought it was more.

Please don't tell me this is real. Blind gate it shit. I can't believe anyone think's its OP