Pls decrease the cast time of Crystal Blast and then it might be worth using

Benemime

Am I the only one that thinks the cast time of crystal blast isn't really 1 second at all? I mean, the first shot of Crystal Blast takes so much time to cast - then when you cast again, consecutevely, it feels like it is 1s.

When I get bored, I like to test builds, unusual skills and stuff, and Crystal Blast is a pain to use, I felt really frustrated while using this skill, that is supposed to be a "spammable" AoE. When I was in craglorn, doing Anka-Ra this weekend, by the time that I finished casting my first Crystal Blast, the "boss" (the gargoyle statue that slowly walks towards the NPC) was already with almost half of his hp - and I was in a team with 2.

Not to mention that everytime the mob dies before you complete casting, and if it's a first cast, not a sequential cast, it feels like it takes forever. Also, when the mob dies, you have to cast all over again and you lose like 2s/3s recasting crystal blast on some other target, the casting feels really delayed.

The devs should test this skill tirelessly, as their main spammable ability, so they could see what they are doing wrong.

Anyway, IMO this should be a spammable ability (while frags is the proc ability), with no casting time or with reduced cast time by half at least.

datgladiatah

It's such a worthless and boring ability at the moment, but at the same time this is one channel compared to like 5 templar channels. ZOS clearly thinks its worth it if they keep insisting on making non-ultimate abilities with channels

Kikke

datgladiatah wrote: »

It's such a worthless and boring ability at the moment, but at the same time this is one channel compared to like 5 templar channels. ZOS clearly thinks its worth it if they keep insisting on making non-ultimate abilities with channels

A templar has enough channel abilities that he can take in use Dmg reduction while channeling effect set, and increase spelldmg on channel spells by 400 set. It's a pretty strong build using beams, flares, sweeps etc xD

Tasear

It's same thing with the twlight heal. Some of the anything animations are to slow. You won't notice it at first but it exists.

Minalan

It really needs a proc like frags. It might be worth using for the stun over the damage.

Benemime

Minalan wrote: »

It really needs a proc like frags. It might be worth using for the stun over the damage.

I don't know about that, I feel like Frags should be the proc one, and Blast should still be a spammable since we don't have a spammable alternative to force pulse, but since it does more dmg than force pulse (but also costs more magicka) and also has a stun, it might be still balanced if it remains as a casting ability, although the animation is rather slow, so decreasing the cast time by half and fixing the animation feels like a proper fix.

I might be against blast becoming a proc ability, because we should have more alternatives to force pulse (that I find really boring).

Even if crystal blast receives a fix for its casting time (if it's reduced instead of becoming a proc ability), force pulse might still be a better spammable option since you can use light attacks between each force pulse (especially with the upcoming summerset changes to light attacks scaling, bound armaments and stuff) and also procs frags, so - while with crystal blast that doesn't goes well because casting light attacks between each casting, it interrupts the consecutevely casting that feels more fast and bursty - so cyrstal blast is still way behind, and it will be even more behind when summerset comes without fixes to crystal blast

ToRelax

Make it fly in a straight line or otherwise decrease the travel time.

GreenhaloX

Should be an instant cast. Currently crap for PvP..

Seraphayel

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Should be an instant cast. Currently crap for PvP..

Sure an instant AoE with a stun and quite a lot damage. Great idea.