Ball of Lightning morph needs to be adjusted

Sanguinor2

To all the people saying BoL is fine. Here´s a thought experiment. Would you be fine with increasing wings absorption effect to 100% and making it ignore ccs/debuffs/negative effects like BoL does if its duration gets reduced from 6 to 4 seconds? If no why not?

Chilly-McFreeze

Sanguinor2 wrote: »

To all the people saying BoL is fine. Here´s a thought experiment. Would you be fine with increasing wings absorption effect to 100% and making it ignore ccs/debuffs/negative effects like BoL does if its duration gets reduced from 6 to 4 seconds? If no why not?

I'd even be fine if Wings get their old reflect back, at least under 2 circumstances.

1) Rework some class skills so those classes can deal with it (magNB)
2) Make sure high uptime is uneasy to archieve (e.g. via fatigue cost increase or your mentioned duration reduction etc.)

But anyway, I can only repeat myself that BoL could use a little tweaking. Like absorption limit.

And on your other comment. Which gapcloser are you using? The one that pulls you or the one that pulls the sorc? The former shouldn't be absorbed (if you ask me, but I haven't checked). Anyway, if some sorc is streaking/BoLing away from me I am lucky that I can use some of his entourage as anchor point since those often stay back for a while.

Sanguinor2

Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »

I'd even be fine if Wings get their old reflect back, at least under 2 circumstances.

1) Rework some class skills so those classes can deal with it (magNB)
2) Make sure high uptime is uneasy to archieve (e.g. via fatigue cost increase or your mentioned duration reduction etc.)

But anyway, I can only repeat myself that BoL could use a little tweaking. Like absorption limit.

And on your other comment. Which gapcloser are you using? The one that pulls you or the one that pulls the sorc? The former shouldn't be absorbed (if you ask me, but I haven't checked). Anyway, if some sorc is streaking/BoLing away from me I am lucky that I can use some of his entourage as anchor point since those often stay back for a while.

Empowering chains (aka pulls myself to sorc) last I used it it did get absorbed (pulled me to the ball of lightning instead of the sorc) and never saw any patch note indicating that this was changed.

PhoenixGrey

Sanguinor2 wrote: »

To all the people saying BoL is fine. Here´s a thought experiment. Would you be fine with increasing wings absorption effect to 100% and making it ignore ccs/debuffs/negative effects like BoL does if its duration gets reduced from 6 to 4 seconds? If no why not?

As long as we also can increase number of projectiles in shimmering shield to a bizzare number

Dakkx

StaticWave wrote: »

I'm a stamsorc main and as much as I like the skill, I think it's absolutely broken. It's a defensive ability that creates distance, absorbs all projectiles, including ultimates like meteor, and also removes snares and gives you snare immunity. You literally cannot die if you have it on your bar. This ability is even more broken on magsorcs as they have the magicka to cast 7-8 BoLs in a row.

Some suggestions for adjusting Ball of Lightning:
1) Increase the base cost
2) Reduce absorption duration
3) Remove snare immunity
4) Increase the cost increase penalty

Honestly you’d kill the skill with all 4 of these. One or two of the suggested changes may be ok but not all of them. One of the few skills with morph diversity please don’t kill it.

StaticWave

Dakkx wrote: »

StaticWave wrote: »

I'm a stamsorc main and as much as I like the skill, I think it's absolutely broken. It's a defensive ability that creates distance, absorbs all projectiles, including ultimates like meteor, and also removes snares and gives you snare immunity. You literally cannot die if you have it on your bar. This ability is even more broken on magsorcs as they have the magicka to cast 7-8 BoLs in a row.

Some suggestions for adjusting Ball of Lightning:
1) Increase the base cost
2) Reduce absorption duration
3) Remove snare immunity
4) Increase the cost increase penalty

Honestly you’d kill the skill with all 4 of these. One or two of the suggested changes may be ok but not all of them. One of the few skills with morph diversity please don’t kill it.

You're not supposed to pick all 4, you're supposed to chooses 1 of the 4, or 2 of the 4