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=== PvP Balance Issues ===
*{{Skill Icon|Melandru's Shot}}: increased recharge to 12 seconds.

After an extended period in which many different Ranger elite skills were all seeing play, our last change to Melandru's Shot gave it too much of an edge over the other Ranger elites. Any time we nerf a skill for PvP-related reasons, we consider whether or not to create a separate PvP-only version of the skill. In this case, we did not think this change would affect PvE play enough to justify splitting the skill.

*{{Skill Icon|Dwayna's Touch}}: increased recharge to 5 seconds.
*{{Skill Icon|Finale of Restoration}}: increased recharge to 20 seconds. Functionality changed to: "For 10..35 seconds, the next 5 times that a chant or shout ends on target non-spirit ally, that ally is healed for 15..75 Health."

Overpowered healing is generally not good for PvP. We've made adjustments to two skills that have seemed a little too powerful. Dwayna's Touch had a very low recharge for a healing skill of its potency. We've bumped that up a bit to be more in line with other such healing skills. As an Echo skill (which triggers whenever a Shout or Chant ends), Finale of Restoration had the potential to put out massive amounts of healing with no set cap. Teams were able to capitalize on this, using it in GvG to indefinitely take up residence in the enemy base without fear of pressure from the defending NPCs. In response to this tactic, we have limited the number of times Finale of Restoration can trigger its healing and increased its recharge a bit. Again, we did not think these changes merited splitting these skills into separate PvP and PvE versions.

*{{Skill Icon|Aegis (PvP)}}: now must target a party member.

In May, Aegis was redesigned as an anti-spike skill. Heroes' Ascent players realized, however, that its duration and ability to stop targeted spells was perfectly suited to keep Ghostly Heroes from being interrupted while using the Claim Resource skill. This has been detracting from the basic strategies in many of the HA maps and made Aegis a required skill. Now restricted to targeting party members, it can no longer be used in this way.