Out of curiousity, anyone tried agi Bane with encouragement, or an Agi Frost Shield Tyrant or Agi Treant with entangle or tangleweed dps Dryad or dps Rune Knight or dps Colossus with crumble or a dps Ascendant (or anything else that doesn't seem commonplace)?
Do they work, or fail miserably?
Actually, they (most of them anyway) work very well. Gravel is totally scary played with maxed crumble and earthquake. Add the blink totem and some dmg stuff and you become imba fast, too fast. I actually play Gravel this way, and forgo HOTM and ult.
Tyrant played with agil is also very effective, though I mix this with dmg/str as well. You'll want to forgo shield and ult even (his ult is less than impressive imo). Maxing Shatter and Cataclysm. Points into dmg, items would include Warrior's rings and agil items.
Bane I mix dmg with str, Warrior's and Str rings. Not strange build really, putting points into attack, str, and int. Max Breath and Encourage.
Dryad is actually quite impressive with Weed+agil, the crit gloves are also fun due to her high AS.
RK I have played as DPS several times, but have decided to stay away from this build. For me its a straight out tank with AoE support.
Treant is dmg all the way with me, always. Heavy Warrior's usually, may grab the utlimate orb. Usually end up with an the skill orb though, rings, and crit gloves.
DPS garg I haven't tried, nor do I think it will be anything impressive. I have seem dps gargs though, but the guy was a noob, so....
Neph is also an very fine DPS hero too, though I don't remember with skills you get, shadow and blood? Who knows.
Lol, forgot Tact, can't believe I missed that one. I'll add it, thanks!