A.E.D. and Alchemy Line

[jkj.9475]

Something needs to be done on the tier 2 Alchemy trait line so that certain builds can be utilized and not handicapped.

At present, if you are not using an Engineering Kit, you are forced to take Self-Regulating Defense, or else you would be completely wasting a trait. Okay fair enough. But if you are using the A.E.D. heal and it is casted before 25%, it is completely useless, as you become invulnerable for 4 secs at 25% and the entire duration of A.E.D. is wasted. Now you may say, well why don't you use it after the elixir S duration. The problem is that the cast time of 3/4 sec is quite long as it quite simple to do 5K dmg in 3/4secs (I believe the cast time was shorter when A.E.D. was introduced but I cannot remember).

Even if this the trait line isn't changed, a timer or a buff indicating when Self-Regulating Defenses would be extremely helpful as its very hard to keep track every 60 secs whether you're going to shrink or not so that you can maximize your heal.

What do you all think, is this unreasonable? Has anyone else experience difficulties using Alchemy line, without kits and A.E.D?

[Sagramor.7395]

According to the wiki the cast time was actually 1 second at release and cooldown was 40 seconds. Can't really comment on using it with self regulations defenses though, sorry.

[Toeofdoom.6152]

Yeah, I run aed + backpack regenerator in wvw for this reason even though I don't spend long using kits. The interaction is a pain, especially since you can easily tick down to around 1-2k from condis while invulnerable. Another option at that tier would be welcome.

[Arimas.3492]

I hope Alchemy gets a few changes as well as Med Kit. Backpack Regenerator could be combined with the Inversion Enzyme trait and make room for a new trait. Stimulant Supplier is a terrible trait for a GM, either get rid of that totally or move it to adept line and combine it with Health Insurance then put in a new GM.