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there was a incredible long cast delay for ele druids(Firestorm/Fissure) and it was only there to prevent lags/frame breaks due to its “complex” animation.
But after 20 years of hardware evolution it should be obsolete to cover this issue with a forced handbrake.
I don’t see any balance issues there(TBH there is no balance in D2 anyways xD), fire resistance/immunity is the most common in this game(NM+).
PVP should also be fine and you would see more ele druids there.
I have to admit that a Fissure spamming enigma druid sounds kinda tempting in PVP :o)
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I would also like to see the removal of cross-cast-delay from between Armageddon and Hurricane. I dont mind if the cooldowns remain on them independently to prevent casting them over-and-over again, I would even say that simply casting them again - as long as you have mana - should just restart the duration.
that may cause some balance issues. In a similar vein, sorcs cannot cast blizzard and meteor and frozen orb at the same time. They can spam their lower level skills like fireball, but not the big ones.
I do agree that it sucks that you are locked out of fire with druid. At least the sorc has lower tier spells as options. I think possibly making the lower tier spells spammable for druid would be a good solution.
There should DEFINITEY be no cast delay for Hurricane and Armageddon as spamming these spells does nothing. Recasting Armageddon shouldn’t lock me out of other spells. An unfortunate example of this is playing a WW fire hybrid. If I cast Armageddon and then right after my WW form ends, I am locked out of recasting WW because WW has a cast delay.
More to the point, the cast delay should instead be treated as a cool down. The cast delay for one spell should NOT lock me out of casting another spell. This is why Fire druids are so frustrating. Every spell has a delay. Let me alternate casting Fissure and Volcano and refresh Geddon as needed.
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I created a thread about fcr on pelts It should be added to them they don’t spawn with faster cast rate and that makes no sense at all… And secondly no other shield gives faster cast rate and damage reduction with 35% other than storm shield it would be cool to see a druid runeword or item made that has fcr fhr and some DR they need the help they are uber weak characters and im not sure ele or fire druids will be viable even after this update… The FHR BP is horrible… 99% is way to high.
I can accept some casting delay on some spell, but why it is a global dealy? Casting a spell and wait 1 min to cast an different low lv spell? Nothing can do in this mins?
