I haven't seen a shadow in years.
It might be time to make shadows great again.
Vamps could use a buff too. They are absolute trash.

Wyvern has been replacing Raven ever since the Raven nerf. Pretty sure every experienced player knows that, nothing new.

Definitely! Also give phoenix slow damage instead of fire so ravagers can no longer outrun shadows.

1) Bring back Minelayer bomber
2) Give mines slow damage
3) Honk happily

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Bomber with (destroyable) pulse slow bombs!!!!

quote: They still could, players had to babysit their units to give dodge orders.

That was a quick time event because it was quick. Bomb's flight time was under a second, and if i remember correctly, it was also capable of leading target, so you had to change direction very shortly after the bomb was released to travel far enough in another direction to avoid being hit.

A slower projectile, or a non-leading projectile would solve this. Conveniently, Spring's AircraftBomb weapon type is also unable to lead, which is why Shadow originally had this weird missile-based reimplementation: that is something that is necessary for an anti-mobile unit.

Splitting Raven into an anti-unit and an anti-structure unit was proposed a long time ago; the same was also proposed for Wyvern. Both used to basically do the same role: "kill everything", as both are capable of hitting mobile ground, slow air, and statics alike, with minor tradeoffs between damage per cost and weight.

As it is right now, Raven is not effective at killing fast mobiles, so everyone just goes for the generalist of the two: Wyvern. A Raven made even less efficient at generalism will only enforce that further unless Wyvern also loses some of its generalism.

Yes.

Either you're speeding up ravens, which IMO would take them over the edge, or you're slowing down wyvern, which could very easily kill it.

But it's worth a go.

quote: Speeding up High Raven also means speeding up Dive Raven

No, why? You can speed up just the High Raven.

quote: by gaining some speed in exchange for more hp.

Uh...uh yea um, I guess I'd take that deal if I really had to. Sounds like a terrible trade-off to make.




I would be in favor of lowering wyvern speed and damage(getting random things 1shot is no fun) for a health boost.
This way it is resistant to static aa, and you need air yourself to hunt it down and kill it(and you can do this because its slower now). Spamming defenders will no longer work!

Because gunships are the more balanced and fun factory in my opinion.


10 rapiers also cost 2x as much as 5 ravens so....