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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Subzero008 » October 2, 2013 10:34pm | Report
Some passives in this game...suck. They're just not very useful.

List of useless passives:
Still Target
Funeral Rites
Righteous Spirit
Blessing of the Nile

Still Target does almost nothing early game and is useless late game.

Funeral Rites...I might cause some controversy over this, but late, or even mid game, even the full 20 hp5 is nothing. The mana regen is quite good when laning, but it also becomes useless later. If Isis could get Shield of Regrowth, that might be worth noting, but as it is, I don't think it is very useful.

Child of the Lotus requires you to die. In other words, Ne Zha has no passive 90% of the time. That's useless enough in my book.

And Blessing of the Nile is hard to use, and all it gives is a measly 15 protections. I don't think I need to explain further.

Do you agree? Disagree?

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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by M4XiiMUS » October 2, 2013 11:30pm | Report
Imo still target is not useless at all. And Lotus child Is definitely odd for an assassin, I think one reason it is there is because it gives you a reason not to focu him, because otherwise in a team fight it us a pretty big constant heal.

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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by All4Games » October 3, 2013 12:05am | Report
I disagree with all of them. Still target is a bit under wellming but its not useless.
Funerall rights is great early. You won't be pushed out because you won't have mana problemes ant you will heaa a god bit to.
Lotus is good in team fights. As long as i did my part in damage i don't mind dieing so 4 team mates can heal u a lot.
Crocs protection is under wellmin but pretty good
When you body blocking.

They aren't the best but they are not usless.
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Nex The Slayer » October 3, 2013 12:42am | Report
I also disagreed with these passives being "useless".
Funeral Rites gives Eset a good amount of sustain early game (especially if she can get/watch a kill or two).

Righteous Spirit is a pretty neat passive in my opinion. It allows Ne Zha too help is team even when he is dead (something no other god in the game can do) even if he for example: was the first one too die in a teamfight.

Blessing of the Nile extra protection on a tank is never a bad thing. It is pretty dam strong early game and if you get full stacks, then use Charge Pray and you miss you wont get punished as hard.

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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by HiFromBuddha » October 3, 2013 1:11am | Report
Funeral Rites is invisible power. You don't really do much to get a decent chunk of sustain, so it generally does go unnoticed.

Righteous Spirit is definitely odd for an assassin. After thinking about it however, I suppose it does kind of work, considering how assassins like to go full Rambo and murder someone, and possibly get killed in the process. This is does synergise decently with that playstyle, but he could definitely have a better passive.

Blessing of the Nile is... Alright. It does help early game when laning, but it does become somewhat irrelevant late game.

Still Target has potential. In my honest opinion, I feel that it gives the wrong stat. Crit chance is pretty weak early game, and abundant mid-late game. If its mechanics were change up a bit and gave attack speed, penetration or just flat out damage, it would be much better.
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Sunfall » October 3, 2013 2:27am | Report
A topic about useless passives and nobody brings up Blight? It's hard to call it a passive when it's really just a mechanic that Hades' skills are built around, requiring him to use basics or Death From Below (also applies Blight) to be effective.

Blessed Presence is really gimmicky for all it's worth, given only a few aura items are worth building on Ares (usually Void Stone, Sovereignty, and Mystical Mark). You could often get better results building different items.
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by LevasK » October 3, 2013 3:24am | Report
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Nine Lives.I think they should have changed it to this
if Bastet would take more then X to respawn she respawns at X and passive would have 9 charges.

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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Tantal » October 3, 2013 3:31am | Report
Still Target is one of the most effective passives in this game...
It's 17.3% additional damage worth if you use a Deathbringer only build.

If you search for useless passives take gods where the passive is only the mechanic of the god - e.g.: Vulcan, Neith or Hades.


Do you really think that Still Target is useless but passives like Brisingamen's Blessing are ok/great?


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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by MadDanny » October 3, 2013 4:32am | Report
LevasK wrote:

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Nine Lives.I think they should change it to this
if Bastet would take more then X to respawn she respawns at X and passive would have 9 charges.


They already changed this patch.
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by LevasK » October 3, 2013 4:54am | Report
MadDanny wrote:



They already changed this patch.

Yes I'm aware.I corrected my post.

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