Illusion of Life: Cast Time Suggestion
In my opinion it should work like this: have a buff on you that lasts for 10s~15s, if you don’t die again within this time you stay alive when the buff expires, if you die though you don’t get downed, you get dead-dead. Keep cooldown, increase cast time to 2s~2.5s. It would be better than it is now in some situations where it’s usually more useful and would keep the “Illusion of Life” theme, I believe.
Edit: After reading more, if Illusion of Life had these features I suggested it’d deserve a cast time increase, not decrease.
(edited by Chaos.2108)
It is not the best revive nor does it have the most gracious of cooldowns, thus how about simply making it faster to cast so that we might revive with greater reliability?
It already is the fastest revive skill. And has the longest range. That range can be artificially extended because you can begin precasting with a person who downs on your portal exeunt and cast it as your portal. They jump in the exit portal and are now 5000 distance away to self res after they go downed again.
It gives essentially gives people a mix of vapor form and vengeance. The only reason why it is not widely taken is because it takes up a utility slot and is a conditional revive.
“Kentigem”-chief. Born cycle of Dusk. Wyld Hunt:
Learn as much mending and medical info as possible so that it can be added to the Dream.
Become the first Chief of Mending and guide the newly awaken as well as those who want to learn.
Learn as much mending and medical info as possible so that it can be added to the Dream.
Become the first Chief of Mending and guide the newly awaken as well as those who want to learn.
The problem is that in the current PvP meta, people just don’t die fast enough… So while there are times where this could be useful (imagine one or 2 allies downed, one enemy down, but you cannot revive your allies and finish the enemy: you cast that and finish the enemies), but this is otherwise too situational. Your chances of killing someone after one of your allies went down are not so high.
I like that this skill has a theoretical niche (low cast time, low CD, but conditional revive skill). But mesmers utilities are just too expensive.
All valid points. I’ve actually found it quite useful. Well, I thought it would have been worse, but it’s quite decent in team fights.