i recently started using QoT in game and I understand where you're coming from.  Unfortunately I don't really share you passion for needing to get a type of reward.

Honestly i find myself almost always having the highest assists, having a high number of flag caps, grunt kills, structure kills and almost always the lowest number of deaths.

What she lacks in offensive power she gains in staying power.

The last game I played with QoT, my team was doing so well I was able to go buy slayer wraps and actually ended up having the most kills... it was stellar if i do say so myself.

I'm in favor of a conbined healed/shielded/absorbed stat at the end of the game that simply totals the damage reduced.

However, I'm not in favor of an award like this:

The reward for saving your teammate is your teammate's continued presence on the battlefield, as well as the removal of the bonus gold and experience your enemy and all assisting Demis would get. In this respect, it can frequently be a better reward than a kill.

No change is needed.

_Songstar: I'm not talking about hundreds of gold or whatever, just something tiny to get more people to play support, because most of them won't without some kind of reward. Now the reward for denying a kill goes fully to the teammate you saved, even more if he gets a kill instead of dying. How many QoTs do you see that extensively uses Bramble Shields on thier teammates? One in 40 games? Less??

_pseudomelon, that's why I explained:

"If this reward is anything like gold, experience or only counts in the statistics at the end of the game should be decided by the developers." Moreover, you seem to play mostly damage dealer Demigods. Actually, the aim of such a reward is getting people like you to play a support Demigod.

For everybody else, I hope that the following graphs makes my intention more clear.

Players can always drop items for you, but not alot do so, and its somewhat wordy to always type out "Hey can someone buy me a xyz?" Until we get integrated voice chat, that is

What would be cool would be if you could mark items in the shop that you want.

And then when someone hovers over your char, it could show a little bit at the bottom like "Wants: boots of speed, teleport scroll" , and in the shop, it could pop up when you hover over an item: "Wanted by players: Frogboy, CosMoe".

Generous players could then buy said item for a player and the player can go to the shop and pick it up. The player would get a little msg like "CosMoe has bought you: Boots of Speed".

Might give a little depth to allow strong players to easily directly assist teammates. And if its build into the game, it would be more encouraged than simply having to drop items.

Maybe this is something that can be done with mods even?

DOH!  It says it did not save my post, then double posts.

I support with well-timed stuns and slows. 30% reduction in an opponent's speed for 3 seconds does more for a fleeing teammate than 1500 health ever will. The idea that a demigod can only support by healing or shielding is simply rediculous.

Furthermore, if we consider certain Demigods to be "support oriented" (sedna, QoT), while others focus more upon your own abilities (Regulus, UB, etc) and that the average player plays in public games with random teammates, we can assume that the average player will consistantly take a killer Demigod, instead of one which relies on the chance of getting a decent teammate. Thus, if QoT and sedna were played as frequently as other gods, we could assume a serious imbalance.

Generally speaking, don't you think that there's something wrong with the game if an "offensive skill" outweights the advantage of a "support skill" for your teammates?

Which would change if active support skills which cost you a lot of mana and have absolutely no advantage for you if you use them on your teammates would get you some tiny reward. The better you support your team (and therefore abstain form doing damage yourself) the better your Demigod should get (at least in the stats, similarly to the "Citadel Upgrades" stat). This would encourage real teamplay, not the kind of ganking that accounts for most of the "teamplay" I witness in Demigod now.

     Wow.

First of all I don't believe that a 30% slow on 1 target will often be more useful than 1500 HP. But anyways, Snares are not purely "offensive." They are "utility" skills, meaning they can be used either offensively or defensively. 

As per the OP, I play "support" all time and I don't mind not having a favor award for it. My reward is winning the game.  

Most stuns/interrupts have either have a limited range(foul grasp, pounce) or a fairly long and noticable cast time(frost nova, mass charm) when compared to ranged skills. The only stuns/interrupts that would be reliable against a ranged skill are penitence, deep freeze, and boulder roll(although the near instant cast of spit and penitence means boulder roll has little chance of interrupting them at range).

A slow isn't going to stop me from casting a skill, since you only need to be in range when I actually activate it. It would only stop some of my AA damage.

Finally, none of this is going to stop Regulus from backing off and casting Snipe from behind his towers. Or from him just casting Snipe from another lane after his ally did the damage.

True that. The problem with the QoT as support is that you need to be in closed mode always because the switch time is very long. In closed mode you don't have a damage spell like Sedna's Pounce and the Shield skill gets worse each level, therefore the QoT support build is very very unpopular. In my 130 games I have seen maybe 2 other QoTs who Shield their teammates...

I wouldn't mind if they made a statistic for healing/shielding, but I think it (the shielding part at least) would be difficult to code. I definitely wouldn't want to see a statistic for "saves", because I know people would try to hold out to the last minute to get that point (like how people buy loads of upgrades at the end of the match )