First of all.. lol. I know it sounds strange but after Into the Void nerf I noticed a different change in the fight. First thing first, of course, we’ve lost the ability to instant pull our enemies but I feel like we’ve been granted a “bluffing” ability instead.
That is, in the past, when we used into the void, our enemies got pulled instantly. This was mostly, in my point of view, useful when we want to interrupt our enemies in a small group fight (somewhere around 1vs1 to 5vs5). The 1 sec cd doesn’t really matter when pulling enemies in group anyway since out of 10-20 people, someone always gets pulled. And the knockdown duration is usually so short that it doesn’t make much difference. What I meant is that, at most, you can chain another skill after knockdown. Unless you play shatter bomb, which in that case you probably don’t use focus, it doesn’t really matter much. But once it is nerfed, it became a mental game since your enemies don’t really know when to dodge. And 4 sec is a very long time to wreck someone’s nerve.
I’ve noticed many times in my fight that when I popped temporal curtain and left it there, my enemies usually wasted at least one dodge because they now can’t anticipate the skill, and most of them dodged twice. After that I would unleash burst skill. The damage is now more effectively employed since it’s less likely to be mitigated by dodge. This would usually lead to killing them or force them to use retreating skills.
Anyone shares the same thought?