With all the projectile hate HoT introduced I was thinking a great way to make this skill useful would be to lower the cooldown to 30 seconds and add “Your attacks are unblockable” for 8 seconds.
Or increase the bleeds to 10 stacks and make it a 6 second unblockable duration. Either way the cooldown is way too long.
Edit:
Well they fixed the cooldown but still left the skill way to kittening mediocre to take up a utility slot. I’d like to hear some more ideas on what they could add that would make you want to use it.
-unblockable for x seconds
-For x seconds every attack made by you and your pet cause bleeding (better synergy with barrage, warhorn, etc.)
-your next 6 shots inflict bleeding and strip a boon
-You and your pets next 6 shots apply bleeding, cripple and torment
-(boring but always useful) stun break
The second suggestion sounds good with duration of unblockable.
Cool would be if the sharpebing stone would apply bleeding every hit you make in a certain duration. E.g. 15s every attack does bleed and first 5s are unblockable.
The second suggestion sounds good with duration of unblockable.
Cool would be if the sharpebing stone would apply bleeding every hit you make in a certain duration. E.g. 15s every attack does bleed and first 5s are unblockable.
So basically like old school preparations from GW1. I’d be good with that. I’m betting 12 seconds would be the max we could get with a 30 second cooldown though.
I think I might be the only ranger alive that thinks this skill is mildly awesome. As a skill it’s terrible beyond acceptance, but with a condi WS ranger, it sort of does everything on a short CD. You can literally use it as a utility condi cleanse, and then it does a bunch of other stuff you didn’t ask it to.
I think I might be the only ranger alive that thinks this skill is mildly awesome. As a skill it’s terrible beyond acceptance, but with a condi WS ranger, it sort of does everything on a short CD. You can literally use it as a utility condi cleanse, and then it does a bunch of other stuff you didn’t ask it to.
Even on my WS crit bleed build I end up taking QZ and lightning reflexes over it because SS just doesn’t compete with the utility that those skills provide.
Boon removal is something we desperately need, especially with the ridiculous +boon duration wars/revs running around that are immune to our cc.
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I think I might be the only ranger alive that thinks this skill is mildly awesome. As a skill it’s terrible beyond acceptance, but with a condi WS ranger, it sort of does everything on a short CD. You can literally use it as a utility condi cleanse, and then it does a bunch of other stuff you didn’t ask it to.
Even on my WS crit bleed build I end up taking QZ and lightning reflexes over it because SS just doesn’t compete with the utility that those skills provide.
Boon removal is something we desperately need, especially with the ridiculous +boon duration wars/revs running around that are immune to our cc.
I run sharpening stone, qz and LR.
Now that you mention it, I could go for some boon strips.
I think I might be the only ranger alive that thinks this skill is mildly awesome. As a skill it’s terrible beyond acceptance, but with a condi WS ranger, it sort of does everything on a short CD. You can literally use it as a utility condi cleanse, and then it does a bunch of other stuff you didn’t ask it to.
^This.
SS is also insta-cast so its a really nice condi-cleanse and you can now perma-pre-pop it.
Funny thing is, that a necro would kill for a skill like that – it’s just that bad stacking bleeds on a necro. For ranger however, that is indeed bottom of the barrel. Why waste a precious slot for it when we got shortbow, sharpened edges and tons of bleeds from pet..
Funny thing is, that a necro would kill for a skill like that – it’s just that bad stacking bleeds on a necro. For ranger however, that is indeed bottom of the barrel. Why waste a precious slot for it when we got shortbow, sharpened edges and tons of bleeds from pet..
Anti anti projectile would be sweet and make the skill mandatory for any ranger with a bow. Apply bleeds with every hit for 15 seconds? Quick draw Rapid fire, Rapid Fire, and swap to staff 1111 plus bleed on crit trait and bleed on crit sigil. That’s kind of insane.
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