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Celestial Avatar suggestion
I haven’t found many opportunities on these forums to say this but I actually like your suggestions. .
Cosmic Ray – I agree with you regarding Cosmic Ray. The current iteration of the skill is the exact reason why I don’t like Grenade Kit on Engineer even though it’s such a powerful option; my wrists absolutely loathe me after a few minutes of skill use and make sure I am aware of their unbridled distaste for everything me. Pair that with the fact that hitting a target that’s actively trying to survive and it actually doesn’t tend to heal for much unless the Druid gets lucky
Seed of Life – I don’t mind this one too much but, personally, feel that it’s effect animation is very underwhelming. Half the time I can’t actually tell if the skill actually cast without looking at my skillbar and, likewise, if the seed has burst to apply its effect.
Lunar Impact – I wasn’t even aware that this was supposed to be a blast finisher. Aside from that I think this skill is one of the better ones we get in CA.
Tidal Surge – Honestly, this skill feels just right at the moment as a short duration, high impact, mobile water field. I found it was a large chunk of my healing output when stacking or grouped up.
Natural Convergence – I would love this change. We don’t get much access to stability and, as a result, this skill is pathetically easy to interrupt especially since it’s a channeled ability that roots us in place.
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Thanks for your feedback Llethander
I agree on the subject of grenade engineer and similar types, where you need to constantly focus an area with ground targeted spells. Using your mouse to steer your character, control the camera and also to aim GT spells feels kind of sticky/messy, but I can’t see any solution at the moment, other than avoiding adding those types of mechanics, which is probably another reason that I don’t like Cosmic Ray
Agree very much with your point on Seed of Life regarding its appearance, and personally had thought to mention my distaste in the way it looks in my earlier post. I had some number of comments made to me by others, which I found to be congenial with my own opinion, that the thing looks rather ugly. For an object of healing, it appears to be nothing of the sort, rather more of a discoloured, disease riddled globule of pus to be avoided at any cost..
But that’s also beside the point. Perhaps if it were easier to identify/see on the ground, it might make it more effective to use. But I still can’t like the fact that it is like a second slot 1 skill that is boringly similar to Cosmic Ray.
Finally, Natural Convergence, given stability pulse would add good decision making to the Avatar, when you could say, do I need to heal my friends? or do they need this other kind of support right now? Could be more fun?
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Some damage component to 1-3 and some effects
Thanks ProtoMarcus. I like the idea of vigor for skill four, blind at the end of skill 5 makes sense to me as well.
Damage on some of the other skills also makes sense to me, since you are throwing out beams of what appear to be large amounts of energy, so making them also harm enemies could work well to make CA more effective the entire time it is up.
But that brings me to a point that I was considering, which is, what is the main intended purpose of celesial avatar?
To me Avatar feels like it doesn’t yet know what it wants/needs to be. Since you can sustain its use for 95% of the time and remain in it almost always, is it a stance? Should it be more of a power up with less access time and greater unlock/build up time for powerful healing? Is staff made redundant by it? Should staff need to compete with it, or can they be made to work well with each other?
My feeling is that CA should be a stance which allows for greater healing/support, while staff will be for the damage and other utility such as mobility. CA should drain slower and replenish itself by healing in that form, meaning it never has to be left, if desired.
Leaving CA would still fully deplete the resource, but getting back into CA should take longer/not be almost instant through the use of staff skills.. This would mean choosing between better damage or better healing. It would also add some interest in deciding to leave CA for the utility/movement skill of staff and then not being able to immediately return to CA, having a risk of reduced healing capability for a short while as you recharge your CA power might be fun/exciting?
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