Decrease Gpy travel time?

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After watching the Gpy shenanigans lately, it seems like one reasonable change would be to greatly decrease its travel time. This would prevent mages from being able to get a second Gpy off before the first hits with the target in a polymorph/blind.

A more drastic change would be to make shimmer interrupt Gpy.
Thoughts?

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shimmer shuld interrupt gpy

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are we reducing its cast time by 1.5s?

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sure if we also reduce the damage it does to only 20%

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kinda hobbles the entire spec, i don’t like that it revolves around this talent, i really don’t, but your suggestions would reduce it to mm levels

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remove shimmer

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idk why the choice is always to remove a class niche talent instead of removing the completely useless talent choices and replacing them with more compelling ones

melee brain?

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yeah because shimmer is a really niche talent that has alot of counterplay! totally can line double blink gpys :smile: :smile: :+1:

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How would decreasing travel time make it worse than sniper shot, which does 20% health with a 10 second cd?

My suggestion is either or, not both.

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what is incap for 500 alex

actually i’m not even going to play this ultraspecific game with you

we all want to see changes, what we need are more diverse talent choices that feel like they actually have an impact based on what we do

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Lol hardly… Fire still has tons of instant damage. Tons of cc with your own set up. Still tilts me that db doesn’t Dr with sheep/ring. 3 schools of magic to cast from.

I kinda like this idea tbh… Don’t worry though, blizzard will just do something smart like nerfing fire mage ice block or something :joy:

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using a 45 secound cd to counter shimmer. Nice. Didnt think of that one.

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i give up, hire this man blizz he’s obviously a genius

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Thanks, glad you agree

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Shimmer is toxic gpy is toxic 2 negatives make a positive therfore shimmer and gpy are good for the game

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i disagree with this. there are fire mage specs such as the flamecannon one that doesnt use gpy at all. samiyam showed this to be very effective when he was still playing mage

gpy just really carries a lot of mages and should be more of a bg noob buster talent rather than a talent that competes in high end arena

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Snipers shot damage is reduced based on armor type making it much worse than gpy

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Sam refused to play GPie.

What would be nice is for castable spells to actually do damage again, you would have to cut melee nearly 100% uptime and yes, this include rogues. =)

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no. stop asking.

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LUL because that’s a skillful move to begin with?

How about they REPLACE IT with something that plays part in PvP.