It would make demigod's nigh unkillable and be counter productive.  It wouldn't change UB's approachableness, (is that a word?) because spit recharges in about 4 seconds.  However, you could run away a lot easier, making UB very underpowered by this.  (Might as well call it a UB nerf scroll eh?)

However, other demigods rely on negative affects to kill other demigods.  Oak comes to mind right off the bat with pentanence, as does Erebus.  Demigods rely on negative effects to kill others, and taking them away would mean a ton of games would be dummed down to basically no demigod kills.  Oak, UB, and Erebus at least would be hit with very large and spiked nerf bat and make them get killed a lot easier and have a lot more trouble killing when it comes to other demigods.

And Mauxe brings up a very good example as to why they work as is with only armies.

Well, Sedna might not be, but this item would impact a TB as you could remove the effects before the TB uses shatter (which consumes those negative effects).

Although, I had thought that this item worked on the Demigod as well as their minions... at least, that was how I interpreted "your army." If it doesn't work on the Demigod themselves, then it's a pretty useless item and it should work like the favor item that removes negative effects.

UB spit wouldn't become worthless due to this item. It would force the opponent to spend money on the scrolls to counter an ability that can be used every seven seconds. Not to mention that it could just as easily be given a 30 second cooldown, like teleport scrolls; it could even be given a cast time.

Poor ice TB. Shatter is already bad now, what about when they let us "remove negative effects" after he has done rain/etc and before they shatter? Hehe...

-Drexion/Ragarth

Tactially, I probably wouldn't remove TB's Shatter if it was just that. I'd be a waste of a scroll.

Alsoo.... To be frank, I feel the Symbol of Purity is a pretty useless favor item, and something I would I've wasted a slot using it. Often, you don't know what type of build you're facing for quite a while. The argument is about a purchaseable item, we already know of the existance of a favor item. So you're not adding to the discussion, merely stating what we all already know.

Achievement: Favor Item 

Symbol of Purity 

Cost: 560 points

Use: Instant ----- Cool Down 30 Seconds

Use: Purges all negative effects. Cannot use while stunned or frozen.

Additional Effect: +250 Health

   Ah but a common choice for the 3 DoT Build is the Staff of Renual, which is a Favor Item. So I shouldn't pick a favor item that'd compliment my build, just because I sometimes want to counter a spit. Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense.... yes, that was sarcasm. Still doesn't address why we have such a useless 250 scroll sitting in the Mutli-Shop.

I had seen that scroll and even suggested someone use it to counter spit in an old thread. Agreed that its effect as is means they may as well change the description to 'Ooooo shiny....'

I know when I see two beasts against me in panth/skirmish the SoP is a given. If you take it, the beast can't do crap early game and later game if he's continued the spit line, you're saving yourself from 1K+ dmg every 30 seconds so long as you play it right and don't let him spit you while you're still cooling down (make sure he wastes that mana).

Two favor item slots would be cool... it would also add depth.

What it comes down to is that Spit is UB's Main skill attack just like every other demigod they have at least one main damage ability to use against other demigods.  UB's (if I remember correctly) is the only one that is a DoT.  The other DGs have direct dmg skills for this purpose (e.g. Reg's Snipershot, TB's fireball/rain of ice, Rook's Hammer, and so on and so forth).  If UB's spit is what you think the problem is you shouldn't be asking for a counter to it since it is that DG's main attack against other Demigods.  To make an item that negates Spit you'd have to make sure an item that is balanced which would mean you'd have to make an item that negates every other DG's main skill attack. 

Of course that option would be pointless because everyone would buy that item and everyone would use it to negate the other DGs main attack.  So you'd have fights where both DGs would negate each other's main attack once per cooldown (30sec or so).  That doesn't make the game more balanced and definitely doesn't make it fun.

As far as the AI being fodder for UB, well let's be real here the AI is fodder for any other player DG out there too.  UB doesn't have some cornered market on being about to kill an AI opponent.  Any decent player will kill the AI with any DG they are playing.  To effectively address the AI issue many things can be done; none I will go into here because I don't feel like it and I'm sure the argument has been made many times.

As was previously mentioned by someone else who is to say the AI would even use that item to save themselves from UB's spit?

If you don't like Spit as a player well then as mentioned in this thread as well; use Symbol or Purity or find another strategy to use against it.  I assume your main problem with Spit is that it is a DoT and when you run it is still there ticking away on you while UB is safe away from the towers you are trying to lure him too.  Fair enough.  I play UB mainly and so I'm sure that is really annoying for the people I'm playing against.  You can also run or port back to your Health Crystal; it will wipe the dot off.  Which believe me is great especially since that crystal certainly doesn't protect me from the Snipershot flying towards even though I'm well out of it's firing range.  Same with TB's fireball but that is less annoying because I don't think it actually hits or it takes so long to get to the person by that time they are mostly healed anyways.

Ultimately, the most balanced option I could see and what you probably want is Spit to be changed from a DoT to Direct Dmg and it's damage brought in line to a direct dmg skill.

RC

Hope that never happens.. lets actually have variety of different attacks.

What's interesting to me is that MOTB (Mark of the Bretayer, a Regulus ability) isn't cancelled out by the scroll. Isn't MOTB a negative buff?

It does make perfect sense.  Games are all about making hard decisions.  If there aren't any of these, it's not much of a game.  Some games also emphasize coordination, but they're still nothing without the choices(this is why the point and click genre isn't huge).  Choosing between using your favor item to enhance your own build or to counter your enemy's build is one of these decisions and the fact that it is adds depth to the game(or at least would if everyone had all favor items unlocked).  If you don't want to be confronted with decisions like this, you're free to go to one of the many websites with collections of various browser based games and play one of the thousands of whack-a-mole clones out there.

There are a lot of useless items in the shop and they need to be balanced, but turning the restorative scroll into an "I'm immune to status effects" button would just make status effects a pointless game mechanic because they'd be countered very easily.  It would need to be more in the 500 gold range if it had that kind of effect.

   No one said that the Restorative Scroll would make people immune to status effects, even suggesting is blowing the suggestion completely out of wack to give more favor to an argument that is straddling saturated earth. There already exists a favor item, so why not a normal item with similiar effects but has a cooldown, cast time, and price based on what would be rational. I'm not asking for a favor item to be purchasable and reuseable as a basic item, and considering that is unfounded. I think of several different possibilities of hos an item like that can work, and not be balance issue.

   Try having an open mind for a change and don't think everyone is just trying to 'win'. Allowing an item for a fair price, can take away negative effects if purchased, and has a high cooldown and possibily even a demishing effect. Personally, I'd love to take a huge hit to my damage out put or something else if I could slap the scroll on me to run away from a fight with poison me and survive by taking it off when in a safe location. Why would people be so resistant to that idea, or do they just tend to be in favor of getting any possibile sliver of a chance they can to scrape off a Demigod kill without real effort? Who exactly is the one proposing a sound idea? I'm not hearing any alternatives, just very pour counter arguments.

Since the main issue is Spit, as it is mentioned the most and in the title, I can present an alternative: Potions. You can cast combat and non-combat potions with Spit on you to prevent a death, or to heal from it after it wears off. The only counter to this is to be stunned or silenced, which I'm guessing you wouldn't want this scroll to ignore, and you do use the words "Safe location," so we can even exclude that from the analysis.

I don't see a need to create an item which will disproportionately affect one Demigod. And it's bad game design because damage over time effects are already worse than instant damage effects, all else held equal. Being as damage over time is already less good than instant damage, we shouldn't further dilute it by adding in special DOT only counters. Because if we do that, we would have to buff DOTs to compensate*, making them an all or nothing attack which is terrible for balance.

As Xinoxlx points out, there are already many other counters to it

* You could theoretically argue Venom Spit does too much damage now (I disagree), but if you did, adding it hard counters would still be bad because of the all or nothing effect I mention above.

Editted a bit for content.