Assault of Shadows

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The SHD AA Assault of Shadows I think is pretty weak, the hate generated from it doesn't seem to be as much as from Terror of Kaezul and it takes up a slot as a debuff so you can't cast it over and over for extra hate. This AA costs 5 points to get, so you'd think it would be as good as Terror of Kaezul or even slightly better, I know it's a mana free hate spell but unless you use it with Terror of Kaezul it's not really worth it. I suggest either increasing the hate generated from it to be equal to or greater then Terror of Kaezul, or make it so it's not a debuff so you can cast it over and over to gain hate.
 
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But it was changed awhile back because people (I guess) could just keep agro with the Cmal3 gloves and the AA.
Maybe keeping the agro generated the same, make it just like the other Terrors, but with a recast of around 5-6 seconds?
 
Oh no :(

It just really seems like a waste of AA's. I mean free agro rocks, but waiting the 30 some seconds to recast on the same mob is kinda gimp.
Oh well :)
 
Just dont get this AA, like I dont plan to. We Sk's dont really have problems getting agro generation without it anyways so...yea.
 
I love this AA, fast insta recast makes multiple pulls a snap, target one, press 2, target the next, press 2, etc. etc. and I know i'll have plenty of aggro on all of them.
 
Its a useless AA from my vantage point, you could do the same damn thing Volkov by targetiing one Terroring it, targeting 2 terroring it, targeting 1 debuffing it, targeting 2 debuffing it or doing what Myhtryn said.
 
Wave of Enfeeblement is PBAE, i'm talking about before the mobs are even close to you. Plus no mana is $$.
 
Name a reason to be OOM or LOM and pulling 2-3 mobs? I only use gloves/AA when I am LoM, or just want to hit hotkeys.
Now, I could go on to say how another classes class AA is better, but given the recent OMG LETS NERF IT deal going on when something is brought up, I won't. If the devs don't think it needs changed, fine, but players obviously feel differently.
 
Mythryn said:
Name a reason to be OOM or LOM and pulling 2-3 mobs? I only use gloves/AA when I am LoM, or just want to hit hotkeys.
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Ever had to fight a AE mana draining mob? I guarantee cmal gloves won't be enough aggro.
 
In that case this AA prolly wouldnt be enough agro either Volkov. Also, this is an extremely rare situation for 5 AA points to get put to use in (any other time our other agro abilities are perfectly capable of generating an enormous amount of hate without sapping too much mana at all).
 
Yeah I have actually, and I can build up enough agro before all of my mana is gone to not worry about it. Terror of Kaezul is almost 2x the agro that the AA is(according to the spell parser, which could very well be wrong), so what, *maybe* two Assault of Shadow casts over the whole fight won't do too much. Granted it IS free agro, and I am not going to say free agro is a bad thing, but it could honestly be a better AA.

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EDIT: I have never been able to keep agro with just AA/Gloves in their current form.
 
Just to comment on the "players don't think so" comment, players thought Assault of Shadows was fine when it didn't have a target recast and a SK could keep aggro on a raid mob by just hitting it over and over, so that really doesn't say much either way.
 
But, we dont NEED IT. SKs already have so many choices for agro, that this AA in its current form is redundant. If its about free agro on a mana-draining mob, then SKs and Paladins ARE NOT meant to tank them in the first place. Why not just scrap it and give us something else altogether?

And if I recall (since I AM the one who started the last AA/Gloves post) It was only Ponden and I that were against it being changed. Heres a link: http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2625&highlight=assault
 
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