Lets talk Mallyx
granted your resistance is not stripped.
You just reapply it and/or strip it if it was boon steal. That’s not a Mallyx counter as Resistance boon is basically spammed and you have a counter if the opponent (another Mallyx Rev) spams it themselves.
Hard to spam it with energy costs going from 20 – 35(Heal isn’t spammable and Elite isn’t worth spamming just because of the cast time).
Durability runes and Demonic Defiance help maintain it, but they’re just supplements.
I didn’t say spam. I said reapply. That means energy cost will impact the “counter” counter play .. heh
Boon steal should be a counter but for Rev, it’s much much less of an issue compared to say a Stab steal on another class.
granted your resistance is not stripped.
You just reapply it and/or strip it if it was boon steal. That’s not a Mallyx counter as Resistance boon is basically spammed and you have a counter if the opponent (another Mallyx Rev) spams it themselves.
Hard to spam it with energy costs going from 20 – 35(Heal isn’t spammable and Elite isn’t worth spamming just because of the cast time).
Durability runes and Demonic Defiance help maintain it, but they’re just supplements.
I didn’t say spam. I said reapply. That means energy cost will impact the “counter” counter play .. heh
Boon steal should be a counter but for Rev, it’s much much less of an issue compared to say a Stab steal on another class.
Another class like say Ranger who can be pulsing it and reapply immediately? Or maybe like from a Mesmer who can be applying stability with each shatter?
If a Rev is using pain absorbtion(lol) to stack a long duration res then it is worth stripping, especially for someone like a thief who can then have it for himself. And if he is smarter and using a combat flow with Unyielding Anquish to apply it every few seconds, well then there are ways to force a swap out of Mallyx.
The elite has too high of a cost for my tastes and usually I only pop it shortly before I plan to hero swap.
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(edited by dank.3680)
I think a cool change for Malyx would be to make Embrace the darkness waste energy when you take damage. Basically like death shroud. Yeah it’s kind of ripping off death shroud but with some minor differences it could be cool. They have the same visual effect, so why not have similar effects as well? it’s not like you’d be OP because you’d have to either waste your energy on offense or defense.