Golden Zeus: This special skin is only available if you are at least God Rank 1 with Zeus. The skin includes a gold frame displaying your God Rank and Stats.
General
The damage that minions do to structures has been reduced by ~20%.
If you lose a match, you now earn 1/4 the amount of worshippers as you would have earned if you had won the match.
Damage against towers from basic attacks that deal magical damage has been adjusted to be more effective. This currently only affects Isis and Zeus.
An issue has been fixed in which some abilities were charging double mana costs.
With Zeus' small decrease in damage on detonate, along with the changes to overcharge and his basic attacks scaling with MA, should make demonic grip a viable option on him, maybe even fatalis( hate myself suggesting that), in combination with Polynomicon.
From a competitive standpoint, Zeus was always considered to be inferior to most other mages, notably Agni and Poseidon. Whatever damage he could output, the others could inflict much more reliably and with CC! His ultimate depended very heavily on certain team comps to make it effective. And to top it all off, he often relied on using weak basic attacks in order to stack up his Detonate charges if his Chain Lightning was cooling down.
Pub games only served to make him look much stronger than he really was. Players unfamiliar with his mechanics who let themselves fall for his team's setups ( Odin+ Zeus still gets lots of noobs killed) end up feeding him to the point where he just rips through health bars in a matter of seconds with nothing anyone can do about it.
If anything, this change is going to help pull him out of that "situational pick" status that he's been sitting in since closed beta and make him a bit more effective without relying so heavily on his ultimate (and they seem to be moving in that direction too, given the reduced magic power contribution on it now).
I like the changes to Zeus. Too much of playing him revolved on popping his Ultimate, and I've only really seen him played well in Arena and Assault unless he's with an Odin. This should make him much more viable in every game mode, now.
From a competitive standpoint, Zeus was always considered to be inferior to most other mages, notably Agni and Poseidon. Whatever damage he could output, the others could inflict much more reliably and with CC! His ultimate depended very heavily on certain team comps to make it effective. And to top it all off, he often relied on using weak basic attacks in order to stack up his Detonate charges if his Chain Lightning was cooling down.
Pub games only served to make him look much stronger than he really was. Players unfamiliar with his mechanics who let themselves fall for his team's setups ( Odin+ Zeus still gets lots of noobs killed) end up feeding him to the point where he just rips through health bars in a matter of seconds with nothing anyone can do about it.
If anything, this change is going to help pull him out of that "situational pick" status that he's been sitting in since closed beta and make him a bit more effective without relying so heavily on his ultimate (and they seem to be moving in that direction too, given the reduced magic power contribution on it now).
Agreed 100%
Mages are my favorite type of gods because I love playing as most of them, but Zeus was a mixed bag. Sure his synergy with Odin, Ares or Hades obliterates new players, but other then that he was really lacking in every other area compered to other mages.
The changes sound like really good changes, notably the fact that his basic attacks now deal good damage as he needed to hit the enemy with them to do damage and that Detonate Charges on someone with 3 charges stuns them, giving him CC (something he had noting of earlier).
About the fact that you now earn worship for losing and not just winning I can only say, FINALLY!
All in all I like these changes and I can't wait to go home so I can mess around with Zeus and get that sweet golden skin!
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