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[Shadow Warrior] Broadhead Arrow Flight Time

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Jevanko
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[Shadow Warrior] Broadhead Arrow Flight Time

Post#1 » Fri Apr 13, 2018 6:03 am

Identify the issue
The flight time on BHA is too long.

Explain why it's an issue
The reason why BHA's flight time is an issue is because of Shadow Sting. Shadow Sting requires an ailment on the target to be available. In practice this means that 90% of the time you will be applying BHA before Shadow Sting. The issue is that because BHA is quite slow and has a significant travel time, often you have to wait half a gcd to have shadow sting available. This means that you are either wasting half a gcd with waiting or you have to use another ability before you can apply your healdebuff/dot. Obviously you prefer to apply the dot/healdebuff as early as possible, so option 2 feels bad as it is inefficient. Option 1 also feels unsatisfying as you are basically left doing nothing for half a gcd.
In addition to the above, in today's game with plenty of avoidances, it is very likely that bha will be dodged, meaning you have to wait for it to be dodged before reactively applying it again. This means you waste a good 2s. Spamming BHA just in case it gets dodged is very inefficient as you are basically reapplying a dot without any instant damage, so super frustrating and inefficient. If the flight time was removed, you would get instant feedback on the dodge and not have to wait while trying to apply shadow sting, instead you can instantly react and not waste time trying to apply shadow sting while it is not available.


Propose a viable solution to the problem

The easy (low resource) solution:
Make BHA have significantly less flight time, possibly instant (similar to rapid fire).

The extensive solution:
Ideally all ability time issues SW has would be addressed in a minor rework.
I realize this is a lot more work, and requires additional issue identification (imo the lack of variety in flight times of SW makes for less interesting gameplay, currently everything has very long flight time, compared to SH's nice amount of variety).
Most of the abilities you want short flight times on SHs have much shorter flight times when compared to SW, providing a better 'quality of life' playstyle. In addition to this their self knockback also has a much lower (about .5-1s) animation time.
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dansari
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Re: [Shadow Warrior] Broadhead Arrow Flight Time

Post#2 » Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:51 am

There was already a discussion on this: viewtopic.php?f=100&t=22372

Peter and I will be working through these pending reviews to bring them to torque. We're in the middle of assessing priorities/outlining summaries of the discussions. So, going to lock/reject. Cheers
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