Hound of Balthazar need a lower CD
Hounds of Balthazar deals massive damage and is AoE. The CD seems reasonable to me. As a human necro, it’s by far my best damage dealing elite elite available to me. When I use it, it easily wipes out any non-boss mob I’m fighting.
they’re really good for soloing for guardian, but the cool down is too long and they die too fast to champion monster with aoe attack.
how does this elite compare to the one that summons a single mist dog (you get this from buying the non basic version of the game)
if there ever was a reason to pick a race for a elite, this is it. Cant belive you complain its awsome.
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I agree with khadorian. This is pretty much an iWin against most PvE mobs and groups of mob. Great for burning vets down quickly or if you get yourself in a bad situation with a big group of mobs. Spell definitely does not need a shorter cool down.
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Blueroseknight, they’re about the same. Cooldown/duration wise they’re identical.
Mistwolf gives burning and frost conditions while Hounds only do burning. Hounds do a leap combo finisher while I’m not sure about mistwolf. Mistwolf also does like a rain of fire AoE which things can run out of and that’s kind of a bother.
Personally, probably mostly ’cause of lore, I dig the hounds better.
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if we dont count the elementalist’s crap elites where hounds are rly great to use
we have good enough elites with about 2 min cd
hounds do good dmg but they can die rly fast so 60 sec less CD will be fine
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Hounds are pretty decent now, that leap with insane aoe damage, just kitten non champion mobs. If they ware any better i’dd just stop using thiefs guild entirely. Only buff they could get is remove rooting yourself when summoning them, so you can still run.
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Let me toss here the real problem.
Hounds is a racial skill. The fact it can help you is already an unbalance factor, since not all other races got such nice skill.
Thus , be happy they are still working , and pray for no nerf.
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Aren’t all racial skills supposed to be useful in some way? Otherwise, it’s awfully silly to bother buying them.
Racial skills are supposed to be flavourful but overshadowed by non-racial skills.
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if we dont count the elementalist’s crap elites where hounds are rly great to use
You mean you prefer them over Glyph of Elementals? That’s totally possible, though I wouldn’t consider Glyph of Elementals to be useless. Even more so because its cooldown can be reduced through traiting.
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Glyph of elementals is much better, 1 minute uptime, 2 minutes cooldown.
Hounds are just very situational, so you have fun for 30s and then you’re waiting…zzZ.
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If Hounds had their CD reduced, they would also need to reduce Mistfire’s CD as the latter is nearly the same thing unbound by race. Sure you have to pay for it, but the CD reduction would make both of them too good for their respective association (Hounds being racial, Mistfire being paid-for).
if we dont count the elementalist’s crap elites where hounds are rly great to use
we have good enough elites with about 2 min cd
hounds do good dmg but they can die rly fast so 60 sec less CD will be fine
I must have missed the part where the water heals and drops ice fields or how the air ele is pretty much the toy robot. stuns like every 2 seconds.
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It is one of the, if not the only good racial skill in the game. How many Norn players use their Form skills in comparison to Human players using the Hounds?
If anything it should be nerfed through the ground and reduced to a “joke” skill like the rest of the racials. Reduction in cooldown is the least of all things it deserves.
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I would disagree on racial elites being junk. Many of them are quite good. Sylvari’s plant roots is known to be amazing, my asura guardian uses series 7 attack golem as his elite and i got no complains about it’s attacking power, and as human…well not there yet to just throw 30 sp to the dogs…but once i do…..flaming hounds form hell!
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Cooldown on all summons are fine, I believe… But, I would like to see summons last for the duration of their life, instead of insta-dying when the time period is up. Even, if they make it so that you cannot heal your summons, I think that would be reasonable.