Skills with Cooldowns
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I agree that skills with cooldowns are not fun when enforced, but I see a lot of opportunity in a gem that adds a cooldown. It could increase damage, lower mana cost or raise it, increase radius, crit chance, healing. It could be the type of gem that you would want to stop leveling at some point.
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" If you like it, check out the separate suggestion thread I made for it here :) | |
" I use Fire Trap all the time: it's a huge AoE blast that then burns everything with DoT...and I usually throw 3 consecutively for a huge effect. It's great against groups especially. | |
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Yeah but it's clunky and doesn't feel rewarding for the time it takes to set it up.
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"Just use Flicker Strike to cross distance and switch to any one of the many other damage skills. It's the same overall effect. Last edited by Strill on Jul 20, 2012, 4:41:44 AM
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" I guess you never played D2 then.
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Poison Javelin - 0.6 seconds
Plague Javelin - 4 seconds Valkyrie - 6 seconds Immolation Arrow - 1 second Assassin Dragon Flight - 1 seconds Shadow Warrior - 6 seconds Shadow Master - 6 seconds Shock Web - 0.6 seconds Blade Sentinel - 2 seconds Druid Firestorm - 0.6 seconds Molten Boulder - 2 seconds Fissure - 2 seconds Volcano - 4 seconds Armageddon - 6 seconds Hurricane - 6 seconds Werewolf - 1 second Werebear - 1 second Paladin Fist of the Heavens - 1 second Sorceress Blizzard - 1.8 seconds Frozen Orb - 1 second Fire Wall - 1.4 seconds Meteor - 1.2 seconds Hydra - 1.6 seconds | |
" Mostly cooldowns caused by the animations. It's small cooldowns, and I think, when people hears about cooldowns, they think it's a long time where you just have to wait. But these D2-cooldowns doesn't really annoy the gamer, it can hardly be felt. Danskere: PM mig, hvis I har brug for en guild.
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People are using just a couple of skills because of the design. You want a supper all powerful spell you toss it in a 6L and slap a bunch of supports to it.
Eventually people will start using more skills when they get higher level and their bread and butter skill alone won't help them progress. | |
 When I heard about cutthroat league I had a vision of a place, and in that place I saw a man, and in that man I saw my sword, and in my inventory I saw his loot Last edited by Basinx on Jul 20, 2012, 10:29:07 AM
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GGG has plans to eventually re-add a support gem which increases skill casting time while improving the spells effects and/or damage.
That's essentially what you're looking for right? I think it's okay if we have a few high-CD based skills, but they shouldn't be the norm, nor should they be things everyone wants on their character. My Keystone Ideas: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/744282
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