[POLL] Which current Egyptian GP(s) are underwhelming and lacklustre?

Age of Mythology: Retold Discussion
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Which current GP is underwhelming and needs a rework or replacement?
  • Rain
  • Prosperity
  • Vision
  • Plague of Serpents
  • Shifting Sands
  • Eclipse
  • Citadel
  • Swarm of Locusts
  • Ancestors
  • Tornado
  • Son of Osiris
  • Meteor
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Not “rework”, but Tornado could do more damage and Plague of Serpents summon more snakes in later ages

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I find the nerf that shifting sands got, by being unable to shift enemy units, particularly disappointing. It was a cool flavour and made it have clear differentiation from Underworld Passage and Vortex.

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This is very true. I would have liked it to be kept the same.

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Locust feels an underwhelming fei beast now, dunno how it could be modified thou. Also wonder if the serpents being controlable would be too busted.

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It gave way to cheese, trapping enemy units in a wall box under tower and tc fire, it gave a free “no u dont” defense against a tc deny attempt. Basically it was way to versatile, defensive or offensive use in a single god power that now with retold mechanics you spam.

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Yeah I thought if they would change it then just for enemy units and not for your own cause like this is just an earlier vortex but I personally like shifting sands more still cause it doesn’t port all units from everywhere you have to plan it more (personally not a fan of vortex and it’s lack of counter play) and yes we have underworld passage which is one of the most iconic and best designed GPs in my opinion.

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You could either just buff locust or even better let it leave the ones infected with a sickness who they passed through (or bleed maybe?)

Just increase the number of snakes and maybe their health a bit would be already fine in my opinion or let them also infect bitten enemies with a dot like toxin or something.

And about shifting sands yea it was too well rounded before but I personally just would have let enemies units be shifted and not allies to make it more different. Just my opinion though.

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Yea, the thing with locust and fei beast is that its never fun in the recieving end, just loosing 20 vills is sick and dunno if it even exists a point between being underwhelming or being just an unfair stomp.

The snakes thing sounds fun, i didnt know they didnt scale with different age, like fei beats do, and they should imo (dunno if it is because they arent myth units anymore).

If i get to pick 1 fo the 2 between ally sands or enemy sands i think ally is better, gives more versatility. Enemy sands is just either take ttheir units away to stop aggresion or send them to a trap. Ally shifting sands allows to teleport to early tc, retreat vills or army in a loosing battle (against flaming weapons or w/e) timing attacks (siege/elephants/scarab into opponents base) Denying a titan or a wonder, rescuing an ally, theres plenty more uses for it.