ArenaNet:Skill feedback/Necromancer/Vocal Minority

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Vocal Minority

Life Infusion Issue -- 18:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Issue

no effect on anyone not a Paragon. Marginal effect on Warriors.

multi-Paragon teams carry Expel Hexes

Suggestion

give it 1 degen so it isn't entirely useless

reduce recharge to 6 given that it only affects Paragons anyway

Niche effect

Issue

Very poor skill on everyone except Paragons and slightly on Warriors, but when it does work it's too powerful.

Suggestion

Change it from completely disabling shouts and chants to making them harder to use, and give it an additional effect. This would make it more useful in other situations, but not really powerful in niche ones. Something like:

10 1 10

Hex Spell. For 5...17...20 seconds, target foe and all nearby foes take 25% longer to activate Spells, 100% longer to activate chants and 1...2...2 second(s) to activate shouts.

Having the ability to slow spells would make this very useful in a hex pressure team, especially given the AoE effect and the fact that the recharge is now halved. This would mean people would be able to bring a counter to shouts and chants without giving up an entire skill slot.