Next patch - make everything with cast times interruptible.

Baphomet

Please take this game back in the visceral and reactive direction it originally was intended to go.

I remember the very first teasers for this game which aired during the closed beta, and back then the original vision was a game where you could block, interupt, evade and synergize in a fast-paced environment that no other MMOs could offer.

Over ther years, the ability to interupt cast-timed abilities gradually disappeared, and nowadays, almost everything with a cast time is safe to use. In the beginning, synergies sort of mattered - nowadays you just take the purge in PvP. And up until now, the game has been relatively tactical with how CCs worked - but now they are not accessible in the same way.

So what we have now is a game where you just apply a lot of DoTs and try to outlast your opponent who does the same thing to you. The tactical aspect of the game has been dimished and dumbed down too much now. Almost all the competitive guilds left the game within a few years, and they are not coming back as long as this game is becoming more and more casual.

It time to take the game in another direction, and with the removal of many of the classics stuns and roots, at least make more tactical again by making abilities with cast times interruptible.

Most cast-time abilities are extremely powerful and should follow the "high risk - high reward" philosophy. Ultimates should be an exception from this, but for regular abilities, what is the worste that could happen? The player would have to do a CC-break and then life goes on. However, it would make the game more tactical and reactive.

Vapirko

And you think making ultimates with cast time interruptible or other abilities that way is going to make people want to not play two button dot builds? Dah ***?

Baphomet

No, what I am saying is that it would open up for some more tactical and responsive gameplay.

Rianai

Tactical and responsive like crushing shock/venom arrow spam?

WuffyCerulei

Rianai wrote: »

Tactical and responsive like crushing shock/venom arrow spam?

Technically Crushing Shock is a spammable.

WuffyCerulei

I actually do agree, but only to active skills and not ultimates. There’s such an inconsistency on what you can interrupt, like I can interrupt snipe spammers but not dizzying swing spammers. Like ????. It’s got a cast time and everything.

MurderMostFoul

Lol @ interruptable melee skills.

veil_

welcome to pepega's may i take your order

Heatnix90

Not even sure if this is a real thread or not.

This is the state of the casual gamer.

chrightt

Probably should just be able to interrupt regular cast time skills instead of ultimates. Let us be honest here, this game isn't made for you to tactically interrupt most cast times anyways. This game's cast time is quite short to begin with. If you accidentally interrupt an ultimate that has even shorter cast time than most skills in the 0.4s it takes to cast it, you just got lucky. Don't BS and say you reacted in that 0.4s and had the animation of your skill shoot out quick enough to stop them.

Emma_Overload

Nah.

If anything MORE abilities need to be uninterruptible. They can start with Crystal Blast. Nobody is going to use this skill in PvP unless they know they can always cast it. Wrecking Blow is uninterruptible, so I don't see what the big deal is...

Bergzorn

IMO, the 'new' interrupt mechanics, coupled to CC immunity, was a bad change and should be reverted. *** those snipe spammers.

Emma_Overload

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

Rianai wrote: »

Tactical and responsive like crushing shock/venom arrow spam?

Technically Crushing Shock is a spammable.

Venom Arrow is a spammable, too, but the other morph is so overpowered, nobody uses it.

Nerftheforums

Emma_Overload wrote: »

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

Rianai wrote: »

Tactical and responsive like crushing shock/venom arrow spam?

Technically Crushing Shock is a spammable.

Venom Arrow is a spammable, too, but the other morph is so overpowered, nobody uses it.

Only people like you would use a skill with an 8k initial hit tt (max) as a spammable :')

Jeezye

I mean a 0,5 or 0,7 Cast time with lag is a *** idea in the first place. Either up cast times, make them interruptible but increase their effectiveness in return, or remove cast times at all. If you waste more than a gcd for a casted ability, it’s effectiveness should be comparably higher. Just leave our snipe

KageNin

No ultimate should be interrupteble, which is case now not only I have 0.4 second delay I can even use it as there's 8 Stuns 4 roots and 2 snare on me half the time.

MehrunesFlagon

Bergzorn wrote: »

IMO, the 'new' interrupt mechanics, coupled to CC immunity, was a bad change and should be reverted. *** those snipe spammers.

Things like channeled acceleration a pet summons should not be interruptable. Especially if there is a period I have to wait to cast again,which unfortunately is the case with those.So yeah that needs to go.As well as cast times in general.

NordJitsu

This is wrong. I do quite well in PvP with both my builds and neither uses much in the way of DOTs.

I melt stuff with direct damage and use my mobility to escape damage, with buffs and self heals to keep me going.