Sphere Specialist: increase field duration, not boon duration

[Sunshine.5014]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sphere_Specialist

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Persisting_Flames

Right now it's impossible for Hammer Catalyst to maintain 10 stacks of Persisting Flames because the Fire field last 5 seconds, but with 15s cooldown.

Instead of making Sphere Specialist to give 100% boon duration, just make it double the field duration (from 5s to 10s). The end result is the same for boon duration, but now Hammer Catalyst can actually keep Persisting Flame up.

Bonus: the trait should also make the field moves with the Catalyst.

 

[SeTect.5918]

18 minutes ago, Sunshine.5014 said:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sphere_Specialist

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Persisting_Flames

Right now it's impossible for Hammer Catalyst to maintain 10 stacks of Persisting Flames because the Fire field last 5 seconds, but with 15s cooldown.

Instead of making Sphere Specialist to give 100% boon duration, just make it double the field duration (from 5s to 10s). The end result is the same for boon duration, but now Hammer Catalyst can actually keep Persisting Flame up.

Bonus: the trait should also make the field moves with the Catalyst.

 

Tho that would just boost the dps of boon catalyst, not of dps Catalyst, because dps Catalyst uses Empowered_Empowerment.

Imo Persisting Flames should be possible to do 10 stacks by both full dps Catalyst and quickness Catalyst and not just for boon catalyst.
Its also, as I said, only a buff to boon catalyst, not the dps catalyst. Why only giving boon catalyst the ability to keep up 10 stacks of Persisting Flames?

They should just do Fire Fields on hammer.
Maybe fire hammer 4, or even fire hammer 5 that could work like symbols of guardian.
Or even fire hammer 2 that causes a field to the first hit enemy then, maybe 3 second field (+2 seconds with the trait)

I want Persisting Flames to work ESPECIALLY on the dps build because its a dps trait. No need to give it to boon support only.

[Kozumi.5816]

  

1 hour ago, Sunshine.5014 said:

Bonus: the trait should also make the field moves with the Catalyst.

Should be baseline, like every other buffer.

Edited March 26, 2022 by Kozumi.5816

[Sunshine.5014]

4 hours ago, SeTect.5918 said:

Imo Persisting Flames should be possible to do 10 stacks by both full dps Catalyst and quickness Catalyst and not just for boon catalyst.

Or make Persisting Flame only requires 5 stacks. Maybe we should think more in term of buffing Core Ele instead.