Revert Streak Stacking Cost and Reduce Matriarch Heal

SoixanteNeuf

MagSorc was a high risk/high reward class in the past, where snares and direct damage in an environment with less healing balanced out their mobility, even which came at a cost.

With the addition of twilight heals and streaked cost reduction plus ball of lightning (snare removal/projectile absorption), the sorceror's weak points have been negated.

Now throw on pets like engine guardian / daedroth / twilight / familiars blocking your cursor and you have a class that adds a lot of unwanted features to BGs and the games in general.

Suggestion

• Increase the cost of streak stacking, back to where it was 3 patches ago.
• Nerf Twilight Matriach heal significantly below Breath of Life because it's an AoE

Implementing these things would help make BGs a more enjoyable experience.

zvavi

SoixanteNeuf wrote: »

Nerf Twilight Matriach heal significantly below Breath of Life because it's an AoE

... what?

VaxtinTheWolf

It's as strong as it is presumably because it requires two slots to be used instead of one, and requires the summoned creature to be alive to use.

SpaceElf

VaxtinTheWolf wrote: »

It's as strong as it is presumably because it requires two slots to be used instead of one, and requires the summoned creature to be alive to use.

You mean on the combat bar? I see it taking up only one slot.

Dagoth_Rac

SpaceElf wrote: »

VaxtinTheWolf wrote: »

It's as strong as it is presumably because it requires two slots to be used instead of one, and requires the summoned creature to be alive to use.

You mean on the combat bar? I see it taking up only one slot.

It must be on both bars. If you bar swap and the Matriarch is not in the same spot on both bars, the matriarch will despawn. Even if on both bars, if the Matriarch is killed, there is a significant cast time to resummon it. Matriarch is a high risk/high reward heal. You have to sacrifice a skill slot in a way you do not have to for Breath of Life or other burst heals where you just have them on one bar, and can have some other useful skill in that spot on other bar. Plus, Breath of Life will never die and need to be resummoned. You just press the button and Breath of Life always work.

Hint: Pets are highly resistant to AoE damage because there is no way to micromanage their movement and stop them from standing in red. But pets are very vulnerable to direct damage. And sorcs stuck in an animation for a couple seconds while they resummon a pet are very vulnerable to CC and damage.