Elemental Barrier (Magician AA)

[Ryei]

Well, at the moment, this AA works like this:

Elemental Barrier at lvl 3:

- it increases your group(and only your group, not the whole raid), fire/cold +100. its 9 minutes re use time, and lasts only 2 minutes.
Also it doesnt really work over the cap, like if you have 500 of Fire/Cold resist, it would only work, if you got a debuff on you, like Malo or whatever, otherwise... its a waste to use.

Anyways, id like to see this AA to change, i see very few use of it as it is, who would let 1 buff slot open for this buff, if it only lasts for 2 minutes? Only good place as far as i can see to use it, is ValorB. Altho the only 2 minutes make it not as good when fighting the bosses, since they take more then 2 minutes to die.

What i suggest is:

- Make that AA as the level goes up, like rank 1 / rank 2 / rank 3, last longer... maybe at rank 3 it could last for 5 minutes, that would make more usefull for bosses, and not only trash.
- Also could be made Raid wide... that would be more desireable for having a mage with that AA at raids...
- Or maybe make it like an absorv shield , like a rune spell, against Cold/Fire spells.

Discuss please

Thanks for reading, hope we get some admin/gm responses here, since all mage threads usually dont get much attention :-(

 

[Syalara]

It may need some attention, idk. But no way to raidwide. Thats infringing on bard territory and would be terribly overpowered despite its short duration. Ala...more then one mage in a raid.....if thats ever happened.

I will say that I would not click off a raid buff for it though as is.

 

[Waldoff]

resists over cap work whenever there is a resist mod on a detrimental spell. still very very useful

 

[Finny]

I think this skill is great how it is. Sure, it's semi situational, but in those situations it totally rocks out. You should hear how jolly Aisling gets when he pops it and saves the caster group from Seferons [lack of] group heals.

 

[Brimztone]

I think this skill is great how it is. Sure, it's semi situational, but in those situations it totally rocks out. You should hear how jolly Aisling gets when he pops it and saves the caster group from Seferons [lack of] group heals.

Pretty much true.

Theres a couple encounters where it is just completely awesome.

 

[JayelleNephilim]

I think this skill is great how it is. Sure, it's semi situational, but in those situations it totally rocks out. You should hear how jolly Aisling gets when he pops it and saves the caster group from Seferons [lack of] group heals.

I'd have to agree. Any time we hit a mob that fire or cold ae's I pop Elemental Barrier and it really seems to make a difference. As already mentioned it's situational, but not all AA's are going to be anything other than just that.

 

[Ryei]

i agree its a nice AA, but i wish it would atleast last longer... 2 minutes seens way too low to fight a boss imo.

 

[seferon]

Well to be honest as the druid that has to heal the casters i love this aa. It would be nice if it was longer but in fights were you have ae's 2 min of not having to heal the casters is a huge boost to my mana pool much longer than this and I wont ever have to heal the casters during a ae fight and I guarantee it will make alot of encounters pushovers.

 

[Brimztone]

Well to be honest as the druid that has to heal the casters i love this aa. It would be nice if it was longer but in fights were you have ae's 2 min of not having to heal the casters is a huge boost to my mana pool much longer than this and I wont ever have to heal the casters during a ae fight and I guarantee it will make alot of encounters pushovers.

Wait, you heal?

But yeah, longer might overpower this AE, and as some have said trivialize some encounters.

 

[Allielyn]

Wow, yeah, I never knew magicians got an AA like this. + 100 fire/cold is incredible! 2 minutes is a bit short for most raid fights but it would probably be overpowered otherwise (and they can't change stuff like that, can they?)

 

[vistachiri]

I think this skill is great how it is. Sure, it's semi situational, but in those situations it totally rocks out. You should hear how jolly Aisling gets when he pops it and saves the caster group from Seferons [lack of] group heals.

damm skippy, this shit is great. Only way I think it could be possibly better would be if it counted as a song so I didnt have to bitch at people to keep slots free, but then there would prolly be stacking issues w/pot4 etc. But as is it can save your ass, and the ass of everyone in your group quite alot. Very handy for soloing wizzies, and the short recast makes it pretty much an every other kinda deal. Really I've always seen it as being most useful on raid trash.