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Unnecessary Cooldowns
badmojo
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There are a few things in this game that I believe need their cooldowns removed.
While doing my writs, I have noticed that unsummoning the banker assistant prevents me from mounting until the banker cooldown has run its course. Why is this a thing? We can't mount in combat, I am not sure why applying the consumable cooldown to mounting even is needed.
It's the same with potions, why do I sometimes spam that Q button like crazy in Cyrodiil fights, only to die without popping a potion? What is it that is preventing my potion from firing off? Why do I hear that 'ding' sound indicating it didn't fire? Whats the point in preventing a potion from firing if potions already have their own potion specific cooldown timer?
If I press a button, I expect something to happen. I can deal with a global cooldown for regular abilities to stop ability spamming, but I shouldn't have to worry about pressing Q and a potion not popping, or having to consciously wait a second between pressing Q to unsommon the banker and pressing H to mount. These are both pointless cooldowns that cause button presses to be wasted, which makes player feel a loss of control. You fixed the synergies, time to fix the rest of these issues.
While doing my writs, I have noticed that unsummoning the banker assistant prevents me from mounting until the banker cooldown has run its course. Why is this a thing? We can't mount in combat, I am not sure why applying the consumable cooldown to mounting even is needed.
It's the same with potions, why do I sometimes spam that Q button like crazy in Cyrodiil fights, only to die without popping a potion? What is it that is preventing my potion from firing off? Why do I hear that 'ding' sound indicating it didn't fire? Whats the point in preventing a potion from firing if potions already have their own potion specific cooldown timer?
If I press a button, I expect something to happen. I can deal with a global cooldown for regular abilities to stop ability spamming, but I shouldn't have to worry about pressing Q and a potion not popping, or having to consciously wait a second between pressing Q to unsommon the banker and pressing H to mount. These are both pointless cooldowns that cause button presses to be wasted, which makes player feel a loss of control. You fixed the synergies, time to fix the rest of these issues.
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✭✭✭✭✭A few cool down timers have been added to prevent exploiting.
I.e. Rewards for the Worthy - before they introduced the cool down it was possible to open many in quick succession to get more than one geode per day3 -
SammyFable✭✭✭✭I think the potion not popping is caused by lag. That should be worked on anyway.
I agree with the mounting problem. Consumable cooldowns of any kind should not prevent you from mounting.
Lastly I'd like them to also remove the cooldown on opening boxes. This is especially annoying when doing crafting dailies, as the lazy writ crafter addon will automatically open all the boxes for you. These cooldowns also prevent you from mounting.1 -
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✭It's the same with potions, why do I sometimes spam that Q button like crazy in Cyrodiil fights, only to die without popping a potion? What is it that is preventing my potion from firing off? Why do I hear that 'ding' sound indicating it didn't fire? Whats the point in preventing a potion from firing if potions already have their own potion specific cooldown timer?
The worst part is; it didn't use to be like this and it changed with the changes to animation cancelling around the time of One Tamriel. Potions used to be useable while doing other things, now it's on the global cooldown and you have to stop doing everything for a split second to get it to fire off. This is especially annoying on my Templar as I cannot use it while channeling Jabs - my primary damage spammable.
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