I play rook pretty often, and towers really don't need a nerf.  The root of the problem is that upgrading to priests is suicide, so you're stuck rushing into towers which synch attacks on you immediately because all of the nearby troops can be obliterated by the rook's archers alone.

When priests hit the field towers become much, much more balanced, but priests don't hit the field until catapults and possibly giants can be purchased, so there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I think it's at the root of a lot of perceived balance issues on this game.  UB's spit is a perfect example.  It's an incredibly frustrating ability and whenever someone posts a counter it always involves being railroaded into a specific FP item, a specific armor set, and oftentimes getting support from a partner, when the ability is easily countered by just a couple priest heals every now and then.

Fix the issue with priest xp and you'll be able to handle towers much more easily in the early mid-game, and as has been mentioned here already they scale down on their own late game.

That combo you listed is 2100 mana at level 10, to be "repeating" that you're gonna have to be letting him pop HoL between them (which is being addressed in 1.1 anyway), or he's going to have two slots taken up by helmets, which still only allows 2 uses of the combo and means he's much weaker in other areas.

And Erebus comes up pretty short against a good HP stacked Oak. Maybe Oak is OP since he can beat something?

I'm not even going to comment on people still thinking tower Rooks are OP.

EDIT :

1. Shield can be cast on allies, Shield can be used whilst moving, you can be targetted by allies buffs whilst Shielded and most importantly you can perform actions whilst Shielded. Also Orb of Defiance is an item everyone can use, I don't think it's meant to outshine a Demigod's specific ability.

2. Deep freeze decreases movement speed of everyone that it hits, it also has a shorter cooldown.

I stand by the assessment I made 3 weeks ago (who resurrected this thread?) that towers should have a little less hp at lower levels an much more hp at higher levels. They simply arent any use later on.

I wasn't trying to do it in a mean/trollish way, I was showing you the stats and my opinions of why these abilities are much better than the ones Erebus has that you compared them to.

Point 5 >> Priest.

Heart of life should either be removed from the game alltogether, or be interrupted even while shielding, and prevent the demigod from moving while using it. I hold that it's the most powerful combo in the game. Not many know how to counter it, and not all demigods can.

This thread is a month old btw

Actually, twerless Rooks do quite well, as do non spit UBs. An Ooze UB is capable of some of the highest HP in the game.

I do declare, what is the word on the street nowadays?  There was some phrase I recall that quite adequately summed up the traditional rebuttal to the Original Poster's post.  Now what was it... Oh yes!

"Cry some more, noob!!"

Just want to point out again I made these points one month ago, and so think differently on them. However its still open for discussion.

Oddly enough, I think the game is remarkably balanced compared to other GPG games that have come out.  I have played them all, Chris Taylor has serious talent in that regard.

So here is why I think this game is balanced.  Every game like this is either decided by a singular gameplay strategy (i.e. an imba strategy) that everyone adopts, or it is decided on the skill of the player.  Discussions like this will never get resolved because you have input comming in from all the different tiers of players. 

So, tier 1 - the Beginner..  just got the game....  this player will say anything they get killed by quickly is OP. 

tier 2 - been killed alot, this player has found 1, maybe 2 strategies that allow them to survive longer than some other player.  Not winning yet, but able to stick around and start seeing how fun this game could be if they just play more.

tier 3 - Killing some, getting killed some.  Still getting ganked by very skilled players.  Lots of frustration because they think they know the game well enough to be considered competent.  But they are not. 

tier 4 - Wins most games, starts seeing the real metagame that the good-great players have started to adopt.  They start thinking about mid game early, then start reacting strategically to advanced gameplay from their opponents.  This is where the game starts getting fun.

tier 5 - hey, your a good player, acting on instinct and thoughful consideration.  Talent defines who wins more often than not.  Everyone is good, sometimes you lose, sometimes you win...   sometimes you plain fk up and get ganked...   just not very often.

The problem here is that at any one point in these tiers, a player is going to have drastically different opinions about what is imba and what is not.  What combos are pissing them off today, as opposed to tomorrow. 

So far, I have found that if you play someone in the same tier as yourself, player skill has WAY more to do with the outcome of the game than any one of the proposed strategies.  Personally, this is what I would call the ultimate definition of balanced.

anyway, that is my assessment. 

For the record, Core lvl 1 bombers were imba. 

Snake