I think this ultimate could be adjusted to suit the needs of a great amount of players without significantly altering much to the game. The change I propose is that the 2nd morph does an aoe pulse that applies a tuant to all nearby adds. For the animation, I'm picturing the character shield bashing the magical shield infront of him and causing this resonating pulse. Something like the liquid lightning synergy does.
Now, there are multiple benefits to this. So I'll list off my reasoning for these changes here: the snb ulti sees limited use in pve. This morph would promote build diversity amd strategy. It would also weaken some of the perma block tanks in pvp since they won't be allowed to ise discounted damage abilities along with the rapid resource/free blocking regen the current morph gives. Many people have been requesting an aoe taunt, and this would provide a means for ANY class to have this ability while not having to abandon gear that gives them similar pkayability to other classes, or strategic setups, or setups that allow build diversity. In this way, we can incorporate this long sought after skill without needing to murder build diversity with a 5 peace with awkward triggering, or need to incorporate a specific new weapon/skill line to achieve these benefits.
Additionally, it is a buff to pve as well. Because you also need to be setup as a tank to use it, minimizing the potential for newer players to accidentally use this skill without meaning to taunt. Being locked behind an ultimate makes it so that you would need to time it effectively, which bonds to my next point. It is a buff to pve because you save resources that are valuable to tanking as you don't need to apply so many taunts. This skill could also be used by more experienced players as a means to ease the artificial damage difficulty of dungeons by protecting them from damage that they don't have the means to mitigate.
I think this would be a really good boon to the pve side of things while maintaining your attempts and quelling permablock builds in pvp.
Edited by Ep1kMalware on February 18, 2018 11:47AM