Why do ele shouts have cast times?

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Posted by: phaeris.7604

phaeris.7604

I thought the whole point of shouts were that they’re instant, much like the warrior/guardian?

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Posted by: Vitali.5039

Vitali.5039

They yell it too slowly :P

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Posted by: phaeris.7604

phaeris.7604

Apparently so!

Needs to be instant

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Posted by: Shadow Bane.9362

Shadow Bane.9362

They use to be instant IIRC except elite but got nerfed because of pvp reasons.

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Posted by: alain.1659

alain.1659

Because reasons.

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Posted by: DirtyDan.4759

DirtyDan.4759

because of pvp reasons.

I am so tired of this.

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Posted by: Zintrothen.1056

Zintrothen.1056

Ranger shouts have cast times. Why should ours be any different? If anything, because they’re elite spec shouts, they should be harder to use but more powerful when successful.

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Posted by: AllNightPlayer.1286

AllNightPlayer.1286

And why does Tempestuous Aria not reduce the cooldowns for the usual 20%?

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Posted by: Jski.6180

Jski.6180

At one point Anet was fearful of power creep and shouts where a power creep of cantrips but was able to help out your full pt. So they gave them a cast time. But Anet seemed to comply forget about the core classes just tempest has not been buff to reflect that new mind set comply.

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Posted by: Wolfric.9380

Wolfric.9380

i would love the -20%. None of the competative builds use tempestious aria and i donĀ“t think it will affect PvE much. It might be that they fear it will push shouts to allow more offensive tempests dropping water …. And while it would be great for us it might be a goal to keep PvP tempest down to support and reserve offense to next elite ….
Because with lower CD it will give good weakness uptime which will allow agressive tempests like fresh air to have a mitigation option + might and not rely on healing.

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Posted by: Waisenpai.6028

Waisenpai.6028

Because ele was meant to be a free kill profession! However, everyone loved ele just like in the first game and found work around. Thus nerfs such as gutting base damage via crit and power nerf. Nerf to equipment stats, runes and sigils. They allow the condi meta power creep to grow during the last 2 years. Ele had burn but that was nerfed back in June 2015.

Than you can only play as a solo bunkeroo, nerfed! Than players had to play team bukeroo, nerfed. Now you got a luke-warm, condi removal heal bot that stalls and dies quickly to experienced 2v1 love.

I mean don’t worry they won’t save tempest, they moved on to the next expansion it that seems to be more like core ele self sustain yet hopefull with burst and new condi.

Well I could be wrong. It could be overpowered and lead to core ele’s further nerfs and mechanics removal like current arcane line over 2 years. And when enough copies are sold it would be stripped like it’s predecessor.

At least it will look cool? Till they nerf the visual noise and slow down the animation to make it more readable in competitive game play.

Min Min core d/d ele Borlis Pass Bunny Thumper

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Posted by: Wolfric.9380

Wolfric.9380

yea after HoT having lots of effects combined and the so called “Kittencluster” they work on having most skills quite readable.
I realy hope they make an expansion that leads to each profession having both elite viable with diffrent playstyles so building up diversity again. Powercreep would work against this. Hope dies last ….

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Posted by: Muchacho.2390

Muchacho.2390

All healing and elite shouts have casttimes.

Its only the utility shouts that are mostly instant. And for utility shouts eles have 2 with casttime (aftershock and flash-freeze) and necros have 1 with casttime (nothing can save you). So eles arent unique in that regard.

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Posted by: Valento.9852

Valento.9852

They yell a bible… so more words to pronounce = longer casting time. xD

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