Druid DS length.

[Wealwawn]

Why are the two relic DSes different lengths? 2 damage vs a ton of fire resist. They have different situational uses. SV vs SSS, they had different situational uses for respective classes. They get normalized. Can the DSes get normalized. If not, why?

 

[Ekyu]

Real. I support this 100%. When doing a full buff cycle you still log in a mage for DoTs "unless you have reagant con 8 w/ phat stacks". The whole "Mage DS will be irrelevant" argument is dumb because it still gives FR.

 

[Zapple]

I support this so that less random people send me tells for damage shields.

 

[Lleoc]

then make regen last as long as ds because they have always lasted the same amount and it will be weird if they no longer last the same

 

[fuwok]

Buffs should last forever. Buff classes rejoice.

 

[Radaere]

Don't change anything

 

[Ekyu]

Don't change anything

This is why the game is stagnant.

 

[vistachiri]

This is why the game is stagnant.

This actually has very little to do with it.

 

[bloog]

There is really no reason for the buff duration to be less then three hours base.

 

[donfolstar3]

This actually has very little to do with it.

stagnant (comparative more stagnant, superlative most stagnant)

Lacking freshness, motion, flow, progress, or change; stale; motionless; still.

Yeah.

Increasing buff timers is categorically a good thing. Buffing is near the bottom on most everyone's 'fun things to do' list. In this case having two buffs so similar that are not normalized is just puzzling.

 

[Mazi]

facetious[ fuh-see-shuh s ]
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2.*amusing; humorous.
3.*lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person.


It does seem rather stupid that druid damage shield has such a short duration.

 

[Dinadass]

It does seem rather stupid that druid damage shield has such a short duration.

Same with regen and GoE and acumen and stats and CotP.

I'm still a big fan of revamping the buff system entirely but longer durations in the mean time would be welcome.

 

[Zapple]

that feel when thread gets hijacked for meta discussion about other things

 

[donfolstar3]

Same with regen and GoE and acumen and stats and CotP [and Necro lich].

I'm still a big fan of revamping the buff system entirely but longer durations in the mean time would be welcome.

Updated and seconded.

 

[Ekyu]

This actually has very little to do with it.

Aisling, you are a cool dude and a great player. I understand the whole "If we had to deal with it, so should you" thing, but maybe it's time to start making transitions out of that. Making certain buffs last longer will cause almost no balancing issues. Hell, the real issue I have faced since coming back is the amount of tomes there are now. With the current XP rate, it's semi impossible to ever catch up. But that's a topic for a different day.


Also, we don't have thaz anymore QQ.

 

[Zapple]

Aisling, you are a cool dude and a great player. I understand the whole "If we had to deal with it, so should you" thing, but maybe it's time to start making transitions out of that. Making certain buffs last longer will cause almost no balancing issues. Hell, the real issue I have faced since coming back is the amount of tomes there are now. With the current XP rate, it's semi impossible to ever catch up. But that's a topic for a different day.


Also, we don't have thaz anymore QQ.

spoilers: He agrees with you.

 

[vistachiri]

facetious[ fuh-see-shuh s ]
adjective
1.*not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
2.*amusing; humorous.
3.*lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person.


It does seem rather stupid that druid damage shield has such a short duration.

It's a throwback to when they both had that duration.

Aisling, you are a cool dude and a great player. I understand the whole "If we had to deal with it, so should you" thing, but maybe it's time to start making transitions out of that. Making certain buffs last longer will cause almost no balancing issues.

Thanks , I'm very not about the whole I had to walk uphill 7 miles in the snow kind of a thing though, I don't care about many things, and buff duration is one of the things I'm rather eh on. It's more of a /shrug at the fairly minor nature of the ds length. I'd sooner ask for improvements to fist of shiritri, or the cause rain spell actually existing and dropping. Though there is probably a fair amount of bias there though from playing mage/druid for an eternity. I just use the one I have to cast less, which also happens to be the one I am more likely to derive the most benefit from (a few extra points of ds isn't a game changer on a caster/healer duo).

spoilers: He agrees with you.

Pretty much. I'm rather ambivalent towards the length of druid ds . There were some really really old arguments, should be somewhere on these forums, when mage damage shield was bumped up in duration. Many of them had to do with class balancing, but personally I'd argue that buffs really don't have much of a place in that for those that last more than an hour. It should increase, but there are bigger fish to fry.