Frogboy

This might make uproot a little more interesting.

It may be, but as nothing is written in stone, it can be changed or even removed any time. Regarding fun, was it less fun when we had almost no favor and were proudly wearing "Bejeweled Goggles",

while playing against those, who could afford much better items? I think not, although that was a serious disadvantage. At least you and I are still here.

All righty then. Would you agree to pass at least some ammount of your favor points to my account please? I am ten thousands favor points short to aquire all four new items. I am sure, that it could be arranged, if we are strong enough in our determination.

It was barely worth it passing up BotF in the past. I'm not sure how any assassin can afford to pass on an extra 1000 hp. My teleport amulet and BotS builds are less useful now, meaning that I'll probably have to solely use these new favor items. HP stacking has been made worse.

On a more postitive note,

I'm completely jazzed that the mana items are cheaper. Hungarlings Crown is now viable in certain instances.  I think that all of the cost reduction on items were good ideas.

hmm, ok.  In order of appearance

1.  Awesome news about the desync, hopefully this solves it
2.  The graveyard buff is nice on paper, but I still don't think people will be using it.   There needs to be a secondary buff imo, make it temporary, but a % health/mana increase or a % xp/gold gain increase on respawn would at least make it worth looking at
3.  Horn of Battle really didn't need a buff - it's already the go-to minion favor item.  Keep the regen if you want to but lower duration of the active effect to 8 seconds rather than 10. 
4.  The rest of the Favor buffs look good.  Coin Purse is a nice one..
5.  The l33t favor items are going to be an adjustment
      a.  Spirit of the Fallen - this item will make UB dominant through level 7 even if he didn't already gear HP, make Rook much harder to kill early (which is when you have to kill him) and be much less useful for the other assassins.  It's a massive buff for the two DGs who are already at the center of most strong teams .  This is the only thing on the list which I can say unequivocally shouldn't be there.
      b.  Haste Anklet is fine - 2% on a speed build isn't going to break anything
      c.  Pendant of Prescience, along with upped dodge cap, is going to make HorseRadish's Dodge LE a real PITA rather than a minor annoyance.   Hard to say if it will be OP yet, but it's looking close on paper
      d.  Tome of Champions - BoTF + a minion buff, ok, I guess we'll see how this stacks up, but I think what happened is that the LE/Rook/UB combo just got stronger, and it really didn't need to be

*The objections already raised to l33t favor in another thread are valid, especially with regard to (a).  You are giving experienced players an unsurmountable advantage over new players, one which I would say is out of proportion relative to unlocks in games like Modern Warfare (which I spent all night playing, so forgive me).  You can kill a level 50 enemy with level 1 weapons in CoD.  All other things being equal, UB with BotF will never, ever win a battle against UB with SotF, which means your newer players will give up on a game they can't win without a significant investment of time

6.  Item Costs - I like all of these changes.  I also like how selective they are i.e. lowering the price on Groffling Plate would have been a bad idea.  We'll see what happens with Theurgist's and Hex Scrolls.  Thanks for the lock nerf.  All around - Good work, GPG and SD

7.  The dodge cap change will be interesting to play with - on paper it introduces some build diversity

8.  My understanding of QoT's Shambler issues is that they have more to do with pathing and target acquisition than anything else.  Number changes on summons are a good start, but I think you will continue to see "Buff Queen" threads until the mechanics get worked out.

As others have said, the Shambler/Entourage tweak for QoT does not appear to be enough. I would have preferred a decisive shambler buff, along with some buffing or overhauling of her level 15 skills.  Anyhow, the "repair friendly towers" ability seems very promising, but needs to be carefully implemented.

On the issue of favor items, if the point is to create new favorite favor items, then Spirit of the Fallen and Tome of Champions will be the new ones, which will put any new players at further disadvantage.  If the point is to make current favor items more appealing, then this will probably not be the case.  I would much prefer a complete overhaul of all favor items which balances them all and sets a single price.  That way, the quality and usefulness of favor items is not tied to a cost scale, but instead to how player view the functionality of any given item on any given map, demigod, or build.   I personally believe that the current number of favor items could be cut in half without losing anything. Then make the remaining ones interesting and useful enough to force players to make real cost/benefit assessments about them. 

Overall, an interesting change log that I would like to see in action. The biggest change might actually be the capture lock time.  I have seen many a demigod make a suicide dash just to lock a portal.  This will not be quite as easy now.

I been testing a Sedna Dodge build with her health regen and speed buffs. I think she is going to be as much as a terror as my Erebus.  At level 15 Desperate boots and Life Child seems like a lot of fun +50hp and + 20% dodge when under 30%hp with new 15% dodge favor item I will let you know how it works.

Really nice improvements until I read about the second part of the QoT "buff".

Entourage (with Tribute as special skill) was already one of the worse skills and now you nerfed it to uselessness.

Thus, QoT now has 6 useless skills (of 12, including special skills):

1. Entourage, which at maximum skill level now adds 18*0.5*4= 36 dps and 1-(495/750)= 34% less health to you whole army of 4 Shamblers.
2. Tribute, which equals a level 3, 1800 gold citadel upgrade that any Demigod can buy.
3. Uproot, which is far worse for taking down towers than Ground Spikes and is absolutely useless once the towers are gone.
4. Violent Siege, which deals very low and very easily avoidable area damage.
5. Compost, which is a weak upgrade for two already weak skills.
6. Morale, which is 2,5 times better for Oak and Erebus because they have 2,5 times more minions.

On the one hand, adding up the bonus to Summon Shamblers and malus to Entourage, the "buff" amounts to +120 health and +1,5 dps for each Shambler. On the other hand, the new General favor items are a much better improvement for Oak's and Erebus' numerous minions (which were already very popular) than for QoT's and Sedna's few minions (which almost nobody uses).

This makes me think that the whole patch with the new favor items was more of a nerf to QoT than a buff. Thus, I expect QoT to be played even less (after initial testing). I hope you can acknowledge this as constructive criticism. If not, please try playing QoT for a few weeks.

Edit:

This might change Uproot(?) into something worth skilling. Thanks for listening to the community.

Well, I was saying that assuming that they would remove the new favor items. Honestly, the speed favor item isn't really that bad.

It might be sweet pop sigil then Vial heal for 3k-4k health in 1 second

You probably want to make Haste Anklet a little better.