Guild Wars 2

Please add a 1s toggle cooldown to Shroud / Reaper shroud so that people don’t accidentally toggle it off when trying to enter shroud form. (this is particularly the case in WvW where there’s skill lag).

Please no, some of us like to flash death shroud.

Tim.6450:

Please no, some of us like to flash death shroud.

I’m assuming it’s for the fury toggle from going into shroud? Even if you like to use it just briefly a 1s toggle cooldown which exists for all of engineer’s kits is only going to help people not accidentally toggle it off.

Reaper already does have this iirc. But likely because it’s treated as a weapon swap. I would hope they streamline this because I’d gladly accept a 1 sec cd shroud for it to activate swap sigils.

xAtri.9378:

Tim.6450:

Please no, some of us like to flash death shroud.

I’m assuming it’s for the fury toggle from going into shroud? Even if you like to use it just briefly a 1s toggle cooldown which exists for all of engineer’s kits is only going to help people not accidentally toggle it off.

It’s for the healing on exit, a second is a world of difference in this a game. Also better finger control will also help the necromancer or fixing lag in servers, but hey why solve the problem when you can use a bandaid solution that will hinder as much people as it will help.

Hell no, its a bad idea. ^^

Don’t even think about it !

Such a cooldown is already on place for Reaper’s Shroud.

It needs to be removed. Furious Demise, Foot in the Grave, and Life From Death are all traits that are worth flashing for, and Reapers can’t do that.

I personally love that the reaper shroud does have this 1s CD. This probably comes from the fact that I play with 300ms ping and 12-16 FPS at best (6 FPS at worse…).

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Such a cooldown is already on place for Reaper’s Shroud.

It needs to be removed. Furious Demise, Foot in the Grave, and Life From Death are all traits that are worth flashing for, and Reapers can’t do that.

Reaper’s shroud has skills worth staying in shroud for. Namely, that 8 seconds of stability. (the tooltip says 1 stack, but I noticed the skill actually pulsing 3 stacks.)

Quarktastic.1027:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Such a cooldown is already on place for Reaper’s Shroud.

It needs to be removed. Furious Demise, Foot in the Grave, and Life From Death are all traits that are worth flashing for, and Reapers can’t do that.

Reaper’s shroud has skills worth staying in shroud for. Namely, that 8 seconds of stability. (the tooltip says 1 stack, but I noticed the skill actually pulsing 3 stacks.)

It does, but you may very well not want any of the RS skills at that moment, or could want a trait while not wanting to lose life force. MM builds, for example, want to use Life From Death when out of combat to heal up their minions (including Flesh Wurm or trying to keep Jagged Horrors up until the next fight). This exit cooldown means this happens less often, but also means the Necro is constantly losing life force.

Alternatively, say I’m at high health, low on life force, and get stunned. I might want to pop Foot in the Grave for a quick stunbreak, confident I can survive until Shroud is off cooldown again and wanting to conserve what life force I do have. Or I want to pop FitG to cover my Consume Conditions cast. With the exit cooldown, I’m having a tougher time getting the necessary Stability coverage.

Also, Infusing Terror pulses 1 stack of 3 second Stability each second for up to 8 seconds. It will get up to 3 stacks, but never above that without boon duration.

Skill lag shouldn’t matter. Going into shroud is an instant cast, so as soon as you press shroud it’s going to happen no matter what, regardless of skill queue. Don’t spam it.

This is especially true for reaper when you can’t flash toggle it at all as there is a delay.