I really dislike Alter Time

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Out of all the defensives in the game, this is the one that aggravates me the most. You decide to burst into a mage, they pop it right away and take some dmg, blink away and then end it and not only be back to full health, but if you are a melee you now have to chase them down again.

It’s like, when they use it, do you go after them? Or do you just ignore them knowing that whatever you do to them will be wasted? Also as stated, if do go for them then they’ll just teleport back to where they were when they used it. But if you don’t go for them, then they can just blast you the entire time.

Yes… I know it can be purged, but of course not everyone can purge. With this skill only being a 1 min cd, it should get the fade treatment and have it last two seconds and make it non purgable. 2 seconds can negate a lot of burst and it would also allow them get away with a blink and make you go after them and then get back to the original position. 10 seconds is just way too long for a 1 min cd.

If this was their only defensive, then it’d be okay the way it is. But when you add in ice block and cheat death with fire or double ice block with frost or ice block with extra blinks, it’s just way too much as it is.

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I feel like Mage, especially with hpal in every lobby, just kind of can’t ever die in some lobbies.

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And yet lizard’s does nothing…

they’re blind

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yeah it’s been broken ever since they added it back and it’s one of the big reasons why mage is extremely livelord. 10 seconds is way too generous of a time period to be able to call it back along with changing your position, causing this one ability when used correctly to negate an entire teams go.

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it lasting 10 seconds is brutal

make it like 3 or 4 seconds and unpurgable

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I mean I hate Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates too, but what do they have to do with this?

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alter time should show up as healing done on the scoreboard

should also be 4 seconds and unpurgable, it’s either too good or does barely anything at all, which is the same reason combust was changed

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I would prefer this. Mostly because when I play mage Alter Time always gets purged instantly.

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i really really hate triple vanish

whats next? double bubble for paladins?

double ice block for mages?

poop

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Seems fine. It’s dispellable, and if you hard CC them so they can’t use it they die through. It doesn’t make them take less dmg.

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At least we got rid of the rune. I absolutely hated that talent since it was released.

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its easier to just say you don’t actually play the game

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That’s already a thing, just spec frost.

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For those that don’t know how to deal with it? Yep. You want an example of someone that doesn’t play the game? Yourself, I guess. Acting like alter time is broken when it’s not, just because you have a tendency to play that which doesn’t have offensive dispels.

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I hate the ability and the discord as well

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you can purge/dispel it
that’s the counterplay for it
it feels unfair until you learn that, i suppose

quad dbts and penta turtle

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it’s pretty broken in the sense that if you’re fighting comps that have a consistent purge it’s unreliable and borderline useless. and if you’re playing against a comp that lacks a consistent purge, alter time creates a situation where the mage is near immortal lol

that isn’t fair for anyone involved and is why hardcounters have been slowly pruned from the game

it’s too lopsided of an ability, by shortening the duration and making it unpurgable, alter time would still take effort and actual coordination without straight up making mage the kill target or a non target

this was the appropriate response to you tho

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shut up

u try wasting 5 globals as a priest or shaman to get it off from all the other trash buffs the mage has while avoiding sheeps and keeping ur team alive

then come back

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Nah just means you have to position accordingly or cross CC to make use of it.

In this case it just means stunning/CCing the mage during it and either bursting them or target swapping during CC.

‘Hard counters’ uh huh. Totally slowly pruned from game and not around.

Clearly not, since you essentially lost the argument. I guess bye though, back to… whatever you usually do, not sure what that is.

Ask yourself what just won AWC, wasn’t a mage.

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anybody who argues that alter time isnt broken is

A) delusional
B) doesnt play the game and trolls forums while playing tetris
C) is an rmp abuser in disguise

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