Hello again all, i posted a few weeks ago about my recommended changes to necromancer staff abilities becoming more generic instead of marks (which i recommend reading if you haven’t seen it yet). However I come to arenanet with another proposal idea.
If AN is really into using marks (as much as i hate them having to be triggered) I cam up with the idea of, after casting the mark and having it go into cooldown to have the icon switch to a detonation secondary ability to which can be manually triggered for a ‘lingering effect’ similiar to its original ability. This would help clean up the battlefield after combat to not aggro unintended mobs as well as general additional combo fields.
2 – mark of blood – (manual trigger) blood mist (3-5 seconds of regen to allies)
3 – chillblains – (manual trigger) chill mist (3 seconds of chill)
4 – poison mark (forget name) – (manual trigger) 3-5 second poison cloud
5 – also forget name usually causes fear – (manual trigger) darkness field (2 second blind)
now as for minions. part of the problem obviously with minions is the lack of controllable ability and a kitten AI. likewise we cannot control 2-5 minions separately simultaneously. However considering they are only alive due to necromancer magic they should have a telekinetic bond allowing simple AI controls (attack, return, stay). Also i am sure many have had problems with minions aggroing mobs you intended to avoid just by proximity. I further suggest we be able to click on the minion, right click its portrait and dismiss the minion manually much like a puppeteer cutting the strings sending the minion into a death state.
I could be completely wrong on this next point but I feel there is a major lack of combo field interaction with melee characters in general compared to range. Especially in terms of minions and pets alike. A ghoul isn’t going to care if they are poisoned, chilled, burning etc but should when attacking give some additional elemental damage. (those that played wow remember burning and freezing ghouls in the plague lands and how annoying they were.)
Because I didn’t insult anyone, offend anyone, threaten anything etc that this post will be put on the back burner and never seen again I will take my chances and hope the intelligent masses (haha) will take it seriously and provide some feedback to help improve the game.
Well that’s all I have for now. Thrill, kill and be merry everyone.
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