UncreativeGreen.2019 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) Can we please take another look at the latest balance pass for Ventari out in WvW. It really didn't feel like well thought-out balance decision, more like a rocket powered sledge hammer to completely remove a skill from the field. Energy Expulsion: Lowered the stability duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in WvW only. Increased the cooldown from 2 seconds to 15 seconds in WvW only. Serene Rejuvenation: Reduced the Energy Expulsion resistance duration from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds in WvW only. In my opinion, this was complete overkill. I understand the overall goal was to remove stab spam from the boon-ball. (Or at least whatever beats Roy's Boon-ball guild.) But could we have maybe taken this approach in steps rather than jumping off a cliff. The 15s cooldown is ridiculous. A 750% increase in cooldown on top of duration nerfs... doesn't the cooldown increase already take care of the boon uptime? Why the double nerf? I know that balancing low cooldowns with energy costs haven't worked out for Rev in the long run, and that it's easier to slap a cooldown on it and call it a day, but 15s? Really? Rev typically runs in 10s cycles in fast pace fights. AKA swapping legends off cooldown. If I use Energy Expulsion right before I swap out of Ventari, it wont even be up when I swap back into Ventari. Ruins the flow of the class. Energy costs should weigh into some of the cooldown. 35e is a 7s cooldown already. That said this is some of my ideas I list here for the devs to ignore... 5s cooldown to Energy Expulsion with the nerfed boon durations. This keeps it close to the 35e/7s cooldown while not letting it be spammed when stocking up energy or when running charged mists. 10s cooldown to Energy Expulsion with the old un-nerfed boon durations. Still keeps meaningful boons on a longer cooldown. Doesn't feel as bad and will always be up when swapping into Ventari. 2s cooldown to Energy Expulsion but remove the stab and keep the nerfed duration on the resistance. Keeps its old cooldown, keeps a thematic defensive boon, but loses stab that really didn't belong on Ventari. In addition make Purifying Essence into a stunbreak (finally). None of these will happen, I'm well aware. They'll keep it a completely dead skill and sweep it under the rug. I have a better chance waiting for the 4th rework of Ventari in 2057 to make the skill good again than them reverting a balance change. Thanks for reading my rant.... Edited April 16 by UncreativeGreen.2019 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arazoth.7290 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 22 minutes ago, UncreativeGreen.2019 said: 5s cooldown to Energy Expulsion with the nerfed boon durations. This keeps it close to the 35e/7s cooldown while not letting it be spammed when stocking up energy or when running charged mists. This one looks most balanced for WvW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncreativeGreen.2019 Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 14 minutes ago, arazoth.7290 said: This one looks most balanced for WvW Yup. That's my preferred version too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sereath.1428 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 No utility cooldown should ever exceed the legend swap cd. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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