ArenaNet:Skill feedback/Ritualist/Earthbind

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Earthbind

Lancy1214 -- -Active Rituals-

Issue

-useless if not used properly, overpowered if used properly

-making it active and giving it an alternate

Suggestion

• Earthbind -

10 1 20 - (Communing) - Binding Ritual. "Create a level 1...8...10 Spirit. Every 3 seconds, one random foe within earshot is crippled for 1...5...6 seconds. Knocked down foes within Earthbind's earshot are crippled for 1...5...6 seconds. Earthbind lasts 15 seconds." For every 3 ranks in Spawning Power, Earthbind lasts 3 seconds longer.--Lancy1214 23:06, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Reason

Maintain a degree of synergy with Wanderlust and Trappers, and a general purpose snare for PvE.

Clunky skill

Issue

Same as above. Also, the 5 cast time makes it really hard to use. That combined with its quick dying due to health loss and loooong recharge make it pretty poor except in well-planned situations (where it can sometimes be OP).

Suggestion

Make it a bit easier to use. To balance this it might have to be made so that it dies more easily, but with a lower cast time and recharge it wouldn't matter so much since you could recast it.

Earthbind. 15 3 30

Binding Ritual. Create a level 1...7...8 Spirit. All non-Spirit foes knocked down within its range are knocked down for at least 3 seconds and take 5...29...35 Earth damage. Whenever this happens, this Spirit loses 50...30...25 Health. This Spirit dies after 10...22...25 seconds.

Here the skill has a much faster activation and recharge, but to compensate is a slightly lower level (so it dies quicker from health loss and is easier to kill) and dies after only 10-25 seconds instead of 15-45.

I liked the idea of Crippling, as suggested above, but felt that adding this would make the skill a bit too OP so put in a small amount of earth damage instead, in a Brambles-like manner (I reckon this and Brambles could have quite a good synergy, which ofc would be even better if a short Cripple was added, since the two effects would cover each other).

An alternate with Crippling (though this may be slightly OP in the right situations):

Earthbind. 15 4 30

Binding Ritual. Create a level 1...7...8 Spirit. All non-Spirit foes knocked down within its range are knocked down for at least 3 seconds and Crippled for 2...6...7 seconds. Whenever this happens, this Spirit loses 60...36...30 Health. This Spirit dies after 10...22...25 seconds.

Yullive's Issue -- 22:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Issue

Same as above.

Suggestion

• Earthbind -

15 5 45 - (Communing) - Binding Ritual. Create a level 1...10...12 Spirit. All non-Spirit foes knocked down within its range are knocked down for 1 second longer. Whenever this happens, this Spirit loses 65...37...30 Health. This Spirit dies after 10...26...30 seconds.