Give the higher levels of transfer a shot if you haven't already, stacked. At max level, you can eat a citadel in blinding speeds. I have single-handedly walked into the opposing team's base while they were otherwise occupied and brought it down to quarter health before they even react many times.

People don't usually think of incremental damage to the cit as being a big deal because it will just regenerate... but if you back that up quickly with a proper push from your whole team, you can sometimes spike damage and ignore the other DGs for long enough to win a game that you really have no business winning.

EDIT: And yeah, fake casting hammer slam will get you SO far in this game. Nothing like the threat of 1700 damage to make a DG GTFO.

hmm i find that 3 seconds off of boulder roll cooldown isnt as beneficial as blood of the fallen.

it also has another, more powerful use, causing players to waste their interrupts

Although I havent played in any online games, (scared to get my ass kicked), I dont understand how you can think Hammer is bad, like the last few posts, just to have them waste an interrupt is key, or to just make them run away all willy-nilly gtfo-ish. Hammer is useful for teams that know just what they are doing, or very good players. Setting up stuns FOR RooK can be a game breaker, tp/run in/warp, then do a stun/freeze/ AS the RooK player comes in and set up a hammer slam, id say having one demigod possibly die (the stunner) is better then just running in (if you can say that the RooK runs...) and Hammer Slamming. Even if the stunner dies, crippling two to three enemie DGs to stop a push, or to help set up a gank (a third DG comes in to finish off the people who didnt die from the stoning) is way better.

Again this is for people who know how to play as a team, IMO, from hearing how people play him, and what ive played, RooK actually fits as a support role/last hitter. RooK is slow, yes, but that Hammer Slam is devestating if used correctly. "some one set us up a RooK." is a good way to describe it.

Again, this is from someone who hasnt played online (guess its a reaction of the community, as I am a DotA player, and people that play DotA get angered easily) I dont play online, if the playing community is better then that, ill be happy to jump on and play.

I lol'd a great big lot at the OP.

I played Rook today a bit. What I really love about him is that moment when you first make contact with the enemy and they realise you have 2700+ health, about a thousand armor, and they just chicken out while you creep up to your flag, hug it, and erect a tower next to it.

And I really love the ROOK SMASH!!! hammer animation. Talk about a weapon of fear! Damn, that thing sends people running away so bad it's ridiculous! It's like "Oh crap, almost dead, and I have no heal potion... wait, lemme scare him off! ROOK SMASH!!! Yep, there he goes, now let's shamble off back to base."

Also, picket fences are nice. Their damage/recharge/life expectancy might use a tiny buff, as they take a long while to set up, and they die after a slightly longer while. But they're nice.

Oh, and have you ever hammer slammed at a demigod teleporting into your target tower? Makes people cry, it does!

The Rook has the least amont of natural armor in the game... yes, less natural armor than even Sedna.   I think this is what new people don't understand. Can you blame them? It doesn't really make a lot of "reality" sense, having princess skin stronger than giant castle skin. Suffice to say he takes a full pounding from standard damage.

I think my favorite is when a rook hammer slam gets silenced in mid swing. Bwhahahaha.

For everyone who's been bashing slam, you must have been fighting idiot rooks. The potential on a roll+slam combo is enough to keep most melee characters at bay. Combine that with common sense (aiming it a little bit ahead of a fleeing opponent, cancellation baiting, TP crushing, reverse TP crushing, etc), and it becomes not only an effective skill, but a hilarious one. "Oh god, you just walked straight INTO 1700 damage! Hoo boy, there goes your health, old bean."

Properly aimed rolls and slams, combined with some reasonable display of timing (this means that you have to stop using it as your first attack in a prolonged fight. Shame.) create an amazing advantage for your team. Did I mention they're both AoE? Win.

I don't play rook much because I basically found myself to be like the person in the OP lol. Question though...What is the dps increase for having your towers connect? And what is the dps increase for having them connect to your base's towers?

It's entirely possible to backdoor the enemy base as rook by lvl 6 or so. Get the tower eat ability, a heal favor item, banded armor, and whatever other armor/health items you can then just hit the side towers (not the front ones, those are suicide on almost all maps) until you see a DG, run or TP, rinse, repeat.

I had one game just recently that ended at lvl 8, I got lucky to get a kill in the early game so I was able to get the hauberk of life with banded armor, and the +800hp +5 regen favor item. Along with lvl 2 tower eating and raising my own towers near enemy ones (yes, they do attack each other) I was in there base at lvl 4 capping their portal without any difficulty. It really comes down to the fact that a tank rook can solo towers easy by lvl 5 or so, but demigod+tower is suicide for anything less than a lvl 10 rook.

at level 4 i can kill a lone tower no problem, without any danger to myself and with minimal health loss (30%) which is negated by structural transfer anyway. just drop 2 towers nex to the tower, move in for the kill, structural transfer when said tower has you down to 70% health and 2 or 3 smacks tops and it's down.

Good rooks will use their hammer slam and then abort it 0.3 seconds later, trying to fool the enemy into using their interrupts. So while it is one of the most interruptable abilities in the game, that doesnt make it unusable.

Of course it can be difficult to interrupt even a slow ability like Hammer Slam if there's enough lag.

The funny thing, is that there is one player I know, who ALWAYS plays like this with rook.  It's absolutely silly, and nobody wants him on their team.  Everyone in the community always is sad when this guy is on their team, and we all know him by name.

Who am I talking about?

Guy we all know, his name is "AI" and he plays rook like this to the worst degree.

I guess i've never thought about the mind games you could play with hammer slam...the way you can make enemies all scatter in different directions by just starting the hammer slam animation, then aborting it when they all move.

seems like making your opponents walk around uselessly for a second or two would help in a fight with multiple DGs from both sides.