How prevalent is this "minion meta?"

General Discussion
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Delay

SGG has been pushing minions hard since Season 3

But

players strongly dislike minions for many reasons ( looking at you Titans, see notes )

Undead Hoard

Replacing Field Aid War rule with Undead Hoard War rule severely nerfs already weak Steal Healing heroes ( looking at you vampires ) without significantly buffing minion meta

Clones

In Beta, all Elf minions cloned, but Mother North, and Santa, Bosses became a long slog so that failed

Grimble

If Grimble sacrificed enemy, and ally, minions for mana, Grimble would be more flexible since ally minion summoners are something a player can control

Costumes

SGG made Gormek’s costume a viable version of Gobbler ( use the costume versus minions or ramming pulverizer versus titans ) but makes costumes so difficult to get for many players when a fast mana, red sniper works.

Even better, Kelile’s mini Gravemaker costume is useful again minion summoners and non minion heroes

It would be darkly funny if Wu Kong’s first Beta costume had been replaced with a 4* yellow Delilah instead of whatever we ended up getting ( watered down rabbit costume? )

3 Slots

Minions would be more popular if unlimited minion slots, but that would magnify the animation issue

Notes

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Thoth & Titans

(Thoth-amunnn)

Delilah & Delays

(Choosing among the Holy Trio of healers - #3 by Kerridoc)

Animation

(Add Option to Disable Hero Animations During Titan Attacks and Raids, or Make the Animations Faster / Allow Continuing Attacks During Titan Attack Animations or Speed Them Up [MASTER])

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Empires has problems with summons, and 4* ascension items, that make niche metas, game play and heroes a less than ideal investment when fast mana snipers are always a good solution

But even well designed summons ( looking at you games with shards ) and 4* ascension items ( looking at you games were summoned heroes are already max tier, max level ) can still lead to dead end metas

FIN

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