something about balance.
Sometime ago Zymoran changed old "relocate" mechanics with new. As many players remember relocate mostly used to make one combo - "relocate + scourge". It was very effective on the early stage of the game becouse of low cd and nearly instant scourge (thus player just simple pressed "f" and then "r" so when relocate missle landed he instantly casted scourge).
In the middle and latter stage that combo gradually lost its power (despite of low cd of relocate) for some reasons:
1) relocate missle could be destroyed -> in consequence of which player wasted his scourge
2) relocate wasnt instant and during the game opponent had time to react
3) it had very small range
4) no bufs were granted after sucсessful combo.
Now we have new relocate. I write this post becouse this spell becoming that abusive thing that Zymoran tryed to change.
Why so:
1) Its possible to instant cast scourge. How it works now: player A is casting scourge, player B throws missle (homing, fb, boom etc), player A instantly swaps missle and instantly realize scourge (+ get 4 second speed buf), so player B even cant react. Doesn't it remember you something?
2) Its able to make same thing on a pillars, so if there are many pillars on arena player B can't run closely to them. There can be situation when no pillars at all, so its pure random.
3) Relocate have 13.5 second cd., 10 on the second lvl. TP (thrust) have 16.5/13.5, so the difference can reach 6 second. And after swaping any missle player get a speed buff (comparable with a rush) for some seconds.
4) Range. I dont know exact range of relocate, but looks like it is much more then TP or swap have.
Not much players use relocate in their builds but it can be really abusive thing in right hands. No other R can give advantages that relocate gives. I am not againts its mechanics, not against range, not against even speed buff granted. I know there are some good combos with relocate that any other R spell cant provide, but what i'm see now thats i cant cast fb, homing, any missle spell without a chance getting insta scourged and then i cant strike back becouse my opponent gets speed buff... And that story repeates every 13.5/10 seconds. Relocate makes many spell unusable (magma, drein, homing boom etc). It forces to play in close combat to avoid instant swap with the same build to counter it.