ArenaNet:Skill feedback/Monk/Symbol of Wrath and Kirin's Wrath

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Symbol of Wrath and Kirin's Wrath

A. von Rin's Issue

Discussion

Issue

This is part of my "make Smiting viable" campaign. Make these skills more active and improve them. They are just terrible and need to be changed completely. This proposal is based on Ancestors' Rage, with it's new better balanced stats.

Suggestion

"Skill. For 2 seconds all foes adjacent to target ally are struck for 5...40...50 holy damage each second." *5 Energy / *1 Activation time / 12 Recharge time.

Frozen Archer's Issue

Issue

The recharge is too long

Suggestion

Make the recharge to 20

Phill Gaston's

Issue

This SPEEL is useless in MOST situations, even against AI.

Suggestion

Spell. "For 5 seconds, all adjacent foes are struck for 5...10..22 Holy damage each second."

5 En./2 Cast/ 15 Rec

Arcdash's Issue

Issue

PBAoE damage on a monk?, you're kidding right? I'd rather not die. Lava Font has its uses, but this skills monkliness, combined with a high recharge, make it unwieldly for most circumstances.

Suggestion

Like I said on the talk page (the anon talking about heats), make it do a short pulse aoe damage based on a foe's location, up the cost a bit, and leave the rest as is. We want them useable, we don't want to dethrone the fire-nuker as nuke master.

Justice's Issue

Issue

As others have said, PBAoE on a monk is silly.

Suggestion

Forget the Pointblank or even the AoE over time.

• Symbol of Wrath
• Hex spell
• 5e 1/4cast 10recharge
• Target and adjacent foes are hexed Each foe takes 1-10-15 more damage whenever struck by holy dmg. Ends after 15seconds.

and make

• Kirin's Wrath
• Hex spell
• 5e 1/4cast 10recharge
• Target and adjacent foes are hexed. Each foe burns for 1second whenever struck by holy dmg. Ends after 0-7-10

Dont need two copies of an un-used skill.--Justice 19:17, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The Monk's Teinai's Heat and Searing Heat?

Issue

As above

Suggestion

Give them some range.

Symbol of Wrath / Kirin's Wrath. 5 2 30 .

Spell. For 5 seconds, foes adjacent to target foe's current location take 5...17...20 holy damage each second. Attacking foes struck by Symbol of Wrath / Kirin's Wrath take double damage.

This would give smiters some AoE damage to compete with fire eles. I was going to give it a 10 cost but given its smaller AoE and lack of burning as compared to Teinai's/Searing and lower damage (though it is armour-ignoring), I kept it at 5.

However, since this might deviate a bit too far from the smiter's current theme / intended role, something slightly less offensive might be prefered:

Symbol of Wrath / Kirin's Wrath. 5 1 30 .

Spell. For 5 seconds, foes adjacent to target ally's current location take 5...29...35 holy damage each second.

This could be used on allied monks to punish attackers or on your frontliners to deal extra damage (perhaps just as they KD foes or something). Either way, it would be better than self-targetting and would benefit massively from the faster activation time. As an ally-targetting spell, it would also benefit slightly from Diving Favour, which the previous suggestion doesn't.