There are way too many times in pve and open world and even got it in pvp rarely where freedom just doesn’t remove roots or snares and your just walk speed with the freedom buff on you. ITS REDICULOUS, dont make the tooltip say removes all snares and roots if it doesn’t remove all, say ‘’ remove some snares and roots’’ at least !
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Honestly, it hasn’t been consistent since vanilla. And even there I don’t think it worked everywhere either (BWL Suppresion room?).
But yeah, feels like it works on half of the snares in game right now.
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In pvp you could run talents to have short steed often with BoF tied to it but a 3 second BoF feels terrible in pvp, because then your moving slow for what is left of your Steed duration and Steed is so telegraphed everyone knows to stun or fear you once you press it. I feel for me it is better to have manual casted BoF for the longer duration and normal duration steed, but BoF still wont work on all snares/roots. I think it works on all slows, but all of those just get reapplied as soon as BoF ends or is dispelled/spellstolen. Walking full speed in pvp is rare without using cooldowns to force freedom of movement. Could really benefit from DRs being consistently shared for all snares/roots/slows. Sloge through 3 of them and get 15 seconds of immunity to them would be fantastic.
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I would say spurs/steed of liberty is more meant for templar usage since it covers their higher steed increase more then for herald’s usage.
Been using Templar just the last maybe 3 days, and those talents still seem worse for me than traditional Steed and BoF for BGs. Used them in Arena some with success, I feel mostly because it’s just a few less globals to use and 1 less button to press helping me maybe squeeze out a little up time on target and a few more offensive abilities used for the duration of a Solo BG round.
Slows, roots, and snares are so common, if a situation call for me to press steed, BoF is required to make steed function a lot of the time, so I see why the Devs added it.
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Maybe try it with spreading the word and lead the charge?
Since spurs activates freedom more often (with steed having spurs dropping the cd down to 36 seconds, which is better then 1 minute for freedom and 45 seconds for steed hese utilities) for maximum use.
Edit: just thinking that liberty paired with spreading the word might allow us to drop taking unbound as templars, since our party would be free of current snares and unbound’s movement increase (may) not stacking with steed (as with most movement increases.) Unless i am wrong anyways.
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You don’t have a slot to use spreading the word as ret. Glare+reck+lumi for bgb, glare/spell bop/lumi +reck +bosanct for shuffle/3s.
Does freedom still cost $1.05?
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Doesn’t glare have a cast time? That is just asking to get kicked and spell locked.
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That’s assuming they know you took it.
1st cast USUALLY gets through, after that, unless they are saving a kick for something else, otherwise it’s a case of ‘‘why not kick u at that’’. And they should kick you if they can afford the kick becuz that would mean missing the caster for the next 4 seconds which by now, is nearly all it needs for a healer to pull off a big heal and bring you back from 5% to 45% in a single global.
You can always fake the cast/position yourself the way it is hard for melee players to kick you. Getting spell locked instead of your healer is a big w too. And you can still cast it later successfully anyway. The value you get by double/tripple blinding is huge.
On bgb you can even cap against multiple enemies if they all get hit by the spell.
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I see the appeal but I’ve experienced being kicked. Being silenced on holy school for Retribution is no joke, that’ll get you killed pretty quick.
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And it’s not like we are like most classes that has a 2nd school to fall back on, we only have one school for basically 90% of our skills to use.
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Very unfortunate
Reticulous 
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