Bright wizards also don't wear heavy armor, hence the diffentiation between the two. Reflecting back up to 600 damage a second in extreme situations on a tank isn't super strong. Reflecting back up to 2400 damage a second in extreme situations is a bit too much. This also doesn't mean that other chosens combined can't total up more dire shield procs to similar amounts.adamthelc wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:35 pmIt sounds like they have already decided what tweak they are going to make. Instead of just viewing the high thorn damage as a byproduct of the AoE cap that makes BW so strong, they are going to arbitrarily decide which abilities have a 24 cap and which have less.emiliorv wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:58 pmThere are a lot of "tweaks" that can be done/tested....you can make to grp restriction and tweak the effect: since chosen is a tank, what about to give the % dmg reflected as a mitigation => like misdirection M1 from casters but with a lower % value. Only for grp and only if tactic is slotted (of course)....this will not bring a massive aoe backlash and give a low amount of magic mitigation for your group, something that will be "intended" as a support class...Illuminati wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:38 pm AdamtheLC had the best suggestion. If you equip DireShielding it shortens the hell out of the duration instead of adding to it. Test that for a few days. If still too overpowered, restrict to WB and allow the duration back, test etc.
Would be willing to help test of course.
You’re right though, will be rubbish any other way.
Mindlessly spamming Rain of Fire = ok. Mindlessly using Bane Shield = not ok. Since that would interfere with the BW Rain of Fire spam and they wouldn't be able to use funnel power to hurt themselves for more obscene damage. Bane Shield needs to be low impact enough so people can continue to spam AoE and essentially ignore it.
Kind of a smart ass comment, but it seems like only one side of whats really happening is being taken into consideration.
And I am only bringing up BWs because that was what was presented in the OP. Sorcs and Magus do they same thing as BWs, they just aren't as good at it.
I'm not saying they need to lower the AoE cap, but this seems like a situation where they are nerfing somethings AoE cap to protect the ability of other classes to exploit the AoE cap. Which to me is a little goofy.
But don't worry, the irony isn't lost on many people that engineers and BWs are complaining in this thread about the "dumb fire and forget" buff of dire shielding while in the same breath complaining that their fire and forget damage abilities aren't able to endlessly spam damage on keep funnels anymore.