ArenaNet:Skill feedback/Ritualist/Binding Chains

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Binding Chains

Bargaw Issue -- 09:36, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Issue

Too easy to broke, long casting time, expensive, long recharge, poor meele counter slow/disable attack alone is enough to disable meele

Suggestion

10e 0.5c 15r

Hex spell 5..15s duration. Target foe attacks 50% slower, if in area if spirit target also moves 90% slower. Ends if you hit target with attack.

Yullives' issue -- 01:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Yullive 23:10, 31 August 2008 (UTC) Discussion

Issue

Nice effect but to long , to long and to much . Not practicable if damage ends the hex.

Suggestion

• Binding Chains -

5 1 15 - (Communing) - Hex Spell. (1...8...10 seconds.) Target foe moves 90% slower and cannot attack. Ends if this foe takes damage.

FalconEye's Proposal

Issue

See above 2 issues.

Suggestion

-Make it Weapon Spell

• Binding Chains -

10 1 30 - (Communing) - Weapon Spell. (5...13...15 seconds.) You and target foe moves, attacks, and casts spells 66% slower. No effect unless spirits are within earshot.

--Falconeye 07:28, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Just Not Useful

Issue

Like Iron Mist, the way this skill works just isn't really useful. It requires much too much effort and coordination for its benefit, and even then it isn't great.

Suggestion

Give it a shorter effect and make the conditions less stringent. If this became a useful snare, Communing Rits might be useful as support characters much like water eles (e.g. Dulled Weapon for anti-melee, this for a snare, Brutal or Sundering Weapon to buff melee et.c.).

Personally, I would have:

Binding Chains. 10 1 20 .

Hex Spell. For 5...17...20 seconds, target foe moves and attacks 66% slower. Binding Chains ends if damage drops that foe's Health below 50%.

This would make it much more viable as a snare in terms of energy cost, duration and recharge, but stop it from being so horrible on attackers. Also, it's not going to end on a mere wanding from someone on your team, but the 50% health requirement does mean that if you try to spike someone snared by it they will have a chance to get away.

Akira's Issue

Issue

It's been pointed out Hex removal doesn't fit the rit. This is fine by me, but I'd like to see all hexes removed from the skill line up as well. (It's not like any of the hexes actually see use anyway).

Suggestion

15e//2c//15r Spell. Target spirit and all nearby spirits deal +5..17..20 damage but lose 0..5..7 health every second.

Takes over the spirit spam +damage function Painful Bonds used to hold, but makes it an AoE effect which kills its own spirits; harder to use in RA, easier to use in PvE.

Gutti's Suggestion

• Issue:

same as above

• Suggestion:

• Binding Chains -

15 ¼ 10 - (Communing) Skill. (5...9...10 seconds.) All of your spirits within earshot inflict Cripple condition (1...2...2 seconds) when they attack. -Gutti Loh 08:11, 5 July 2009 (UTC)