Reduce Blink Arrow - Reuse Delay / Cooldown

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Sulik7 wrote:

There is a build that uses the skill for offense, reducing its cooldown would be stupid for game balance.

This post seems to me the classic "I want my char to be better plz ggg buff it".

Do you even know what balance means? I don't think you have read a single post in this thread or the discussion on reddit.

It's not meant to be a movement skill, its a re positioning, dodge skill.

Which is weird because LW and WB do both. Maybe GGG just does not the concept of a bow user being able to outpace a dagger or hammer user.

if you read the skill description on the gem
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Blink_Arrow

And the earlier reddit link you can see what the gem was originally intended for and what the gem Says it does .

It is a movement skill.

It is not an issue of ranged vs melee being able to outpace each other .. There are different ranged skills that allow for use of daggers and Whirling blades.


What are the times where you actually need to re position yourself / dodge? In tough boss fights. Now there are a lot of boss fights with graphics heavy/ large aoe ground spells that cover almost the whole screen leaving little room for a tiny second to escape too. Due to the random nature of these aoe skils coverage You have no way of predicting when you might get cornered and how soon you would get cornered again.

When this skill does not serve that basic purpose of letting you re position yourself in the much needed situation what is the point of it?.

*updated first Post with new data*

*updated first post with video showing skill fail*

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Zinja wrote:

*updated first post with video showing skill fail*

Yeah that player failed the skill check, why did they use a movement skill directly towards the Oversouls while they were shooting lasers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqX_vPekvw

ziggyd reviewed it after it was added
it was added during the pvp patch, together with mirror arrow

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Extreme_Boyheat wrote:

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Zinja wrote:

*updated first post with video showing skill fail*

Yeah that player failed the skill check, why did they use a movement skill directly towards the Oversouls while they were shooting lasers?

It seems don't use the skill much to understand what is being shown.

The skill fail was not because that player got shot by the vaal oversoul lazer( firstly there was no place else to evade / dodge the ball lightning attack - Its chain and linked)

The skill fails because from the start to the end of the skill You still keep taking damage. it makes it so like you are walking through the ball lightning rope and still taking damage. In the case of uber where the damage is so stupidly high you die for that one or two hits of the ball lightning because the damage is too high.

What you need to notice is that when the player starts the skill he is near a ball and not hit yet.
when he finishes the skill by landing he is linked by chain to the ball lightning ... all the wile being damaged by that skill through the cast.

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xrook wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqX_vPekvw

ziggyd reviewed it after it was added
it was added during the pvp patch, together with mirror arrow

And your point with that video? What i am talking about has nothing to do with what was mentioned or reviewed in that video.