Can Solar beam just be made into a normal kick?

Classes Druid
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Solo delves continue to show how awful Solar beam is.

Since inception, i dont even think i could count one 1 hand all the instances where the AoE factor mattered, at all.

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It’s strength shines in M+ with 4 other single target interrupts handling the vital things, while you use solar beam for the big packs. No, I agree with you, solo delves are a nightmare with a 1m cd interrupt. Solar beam should go on a 24 second cd if it only interrupts one target.

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I feel like this would be too good. Solar Beam is intended as a trade off - long CD for an objectively better upside.

What I think would be better is a choice node where you can choose either Solar Beam or a 24 second standard interrupt. That way you can run Solar Beam for the mostly M+ times where it can carry entire pulls when planned around and then the single target 24-second CD variant where having more frequent single target interrupts are more critical, like delves.

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This would be a wonderful choice node. I would happily even let them completely delete the 15 second reduction talent “Light of the Sun” if we could have this choice node (and you probably would have to or else we would have a 9 second interrupt LOL). I can’t remember the last time I took Light of the Sun.

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Could change the talent to reducing the cooldown of [interrupt choice here] by 25% rather than a hard coded 15 seconds. That way Solar Beam would still go down to 45 seconds, but the choice node would become 18 seconds. Perhaps Blizzard would deem that overpowered, but w/e.

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Big flaw is our interrupt is on the right side and our node to reduce it is also on the right side. It really should be baseline and the node to reduce it should be on the left side.

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Works for me :smiley:

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Balance druids are so weird for anything but mplus…

Got no good single target CC compared to other classes (gotta get tons of feral passives to get a long CD single target average duration stun), no execute, no real kick, no real defensives/shields in comparison to other specs, No anti heal, Super weak knock back, super slow ramp. Just so outdated.

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