Isn't the Temporal Alignment change a nerf?

Classes Mage
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Maybe I’m missing something obvious here but :

Old: Upon dropping below 25% health, your past self corrects your timeline, casting Alter Time and instantly returning 50% of your maximum health.

New: Upon dropping below 25% health, your past self corrects your timeline, casting Alter Time and instantly returning 20% of your maximum health and healing you for an additional 30% over 6 sec.

The old version immediatley returned 50% of your health. The new version returns only 20% immediately, and the other 30% over time. Both of these end up returning 50% of your Max HP, but I’d rather get that health instantly rather than over time if I’m low HP.

This is strictly a nerf, isn’t it? I haven’t seen anymore mention this, it’s another nerf to Mage Survivability isn’t it?

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It is, but it’s also a bad talent to begin with, so whatever.

3

Alter Time has struggled with the fact that it is very powerful at high levels of play but completely unused for those without practice. Temporal Alignment added in a choice to be “simple” and still feel like you’re using the ability.

My guess is this change is to make it just a little worse to encourage players to use the full kit more. I’m not saying it’s a good way to do it, just that it’s a guess.

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It should be it’s own standalone and not proc the CD of alter time to be worth taking.

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