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Once we hit around ws 11 or so, the builds are pretty damn similar. 

Yes, that's the point. I do not doubt the conventional wisdom in general, I just think early game staying power > damage. Btw, this build's DoT is not too shabby: ranged cleave, 4 shamblers, 2 demos and 2 monks with Morale 3 do hell of a lot of ranged damage. Of course, it has no burst damage to speak of until 10+.

One early miss and you'd pretty much be better off using ANY other build as you are likely close to oom and got nothing out of it. 

100% true. Similarly, I was forced to concede some laggy games playing Sedna builds relying on WoS, for example. A great item, no doubt, but it's not so great when it refuses to activate -- which it does in laggy games.

maybe not bad

Maybe?! Just maybe?! I will kill your Reg in 15 seconds, I swear!

High towers is for noobs.

-ppapanek

Maybe. But normal towers are for minion users. Give my Regulus some demolishers and some little flying angels and I'll be fine with that.

Oh, that gets offtopic here! ^^

For me, I always played QoT in closed mode, with RoDM and full minion (some would say full retard ). Mulch shamblers is a great skill, I don't know if I would feel comfortable in switching forms. Or maybe not yet, because there comes the day when I might get bored of it and try your build (and if I'm more skilled in using QoT maybe )

Mulch shambler is more egoistic because you can't help other with it, while mulch shambler only saves your own ass. When it comes to teamplay BS is the better skill I guess.

Come on, L-O, don't be so disappointingly trivial  However, it gives me the right to answer you in the same elementary school teacher vein. Take that!

It's obvious DGs get armor as they level. Now, there is a tactical perspective, and then there is a strategical one. In other words: do towers and creeps also get more armor as you level, eh? A rhetorical question. Siege functions (mainly demolishing mid) + dealing with strong creep waves are what QoT is crucial for in a long run, not some hypothetical early game kills, which you won't get anyway vs skilled opponents. And, trust me, those corner towers fall quickly anyway when attacked by a no-GS strong minion QoT.

Early GS = an easily dodged skill, a waste of mana, and your stellar chance to be mercilessly killed while in a much, much, much inferior mode. Late GS = getting this strategically critical, yet tactically overrated skill exactly when really needed and your opportunity to deal adequately with QoT's early game mana shortages. In fact, the only matchup for QoT in which early GS > late GS is, obviously, a tower-whoring Rook.

Not to be construed as anything other than discussion on why I don't agree with your build taking Gspike late.

I've showed you my build before and here is the meta overview to compare vs what you are doing in your build.

1) BS1 is taken only because it gives you lane superiority levels 2-5
2) GSpike and Shamblers III over Morale and Shamblers because it gives you damage superiority
3) Spike Wave is your best defense from death after level 5, always take it at 5
4) Level Shield and Mulch late game because your DG now sucks and you need this to not die while doing stuff. The game usually never goes this high, but I'll fill out the build for others.

Build

1) Shambler I
2) Shield I
3) GSpike I
4) GSpike II
5) Wave I
6) Shambler II
7) GSpike III
8) Shambler III
9) Mulch I
10) GSpike IV
11) Mulch II
12) Shield II
13) Shield III
14) Shield IV
15) Goddess
16) Mulch III

This actually plays alot like yours, the difference is the Gspike gives you crazy push factor with an aggressive team, the spike wave is for both team offensive and defence (wave is better for saves the BS1) and late game the build exits to a focus on not dying since QoT's offensive power is rapidly dissipating. (mainly the worthlessness of GSpike on DGs as time goes on [armor goes up, life goes WAY up so no white damage multiplier and poor magic damage % vs total life] preventing your team from accomplishing anything in a group fight)

Few quick notes if u let me. 

Orion, whats the point in taking both shield and GS early on when u have mana pretty much to use only 1 of them. And if you do want to play offensive qot than why take shield at all? Instead of taking shields you shud raise your dmg output so you wont be useless lategame as u suggested. So do take morale instead of shield. The reason for that is that u need less mana cose you only using wave and GS. This way you can get idols and fell-darkur faster. All i need with my build is unbreakable, boot for 1000 1 helm and then later ofc fell-darkur, maybe nimoth. With wave and boots, you will be safe enough from ganks till late game. And as they say the best defense is offense. 

You must spam too much

With the mana flag, even if you spam, you can fire off 3 of either skills in a row without any mana items.
When you are out of mana, in closed mode you can regen enough for a shield in 1 minute, or a GSII in 1 minute 30 seconds.

So what you are saying does not reflect reality.

>> So do take morale instead of shield

Oh good grief, with Monk idol and Shamblers I, morale is worth 10 DPS ontop of the 190 DPS you are already doing. That is a waste of a point early in the game.

With the mana flag, even if you spam, you can fire off 3 of either skills in a row without any mana items.
When you are out of mana, in closed mode you can regen enough for a shield in 1 minute, or a GSII in 1 minute 30 seconds.

So what you are saying does not reflect reality.

What he is saying does reflect reality, in fact. Now, I'm great at mana conservation. Really. If there is one aspect of this game I'm nearly perfect at, it's mana conservation. I don't spam skills unless necessary (and even then, I never spam them at will). Still, I cannot lane vs good player(s) using both GS and BS when necessary and not running desperately oom. In closed-only mode, with the build outlined, I have enough to re-summon shamblers/monks and shield the lanemate during emergencies. But only barely enough, and I am a real miser with my mana reserve. If he plays open-only, he should be oom much sooner even with GS only.

If you have a replay of hybrid GS/BS QoT early game making timely use of both skills and still not running oom -- in a skilled game, that is, pray share it with me. Until then, I prefer to trust my own considerable experience with QoT.

I dunno, stop playing on high tower n00bs? Probably the only reason where I could see you not understanding this 

When I think about it... That may well be the case. I keep forgetting you are an antediluvian relic The default setting now, even in 50% of skilled only games, is high towers. So it's not a noobiness on our part, it's just a desire to adapt to the ever-changing reality