Orbit Breaker critique/idea

“Orbit Breaker: Every 30th Shooting Star calls down a Full Moon at 80% power upon its target.”

So, I’m a huge believer in Full Moon. I’ve made at least 1 post about it saying Boomy’s should be known for it, and the spec should revolve around it. It became instantly iconic when it came out in Legion, and I believe Blizzard failed to capitalize on it still.

Anyways. Could this talent be slightly different and instead of dropping the Full Moon instantly with the 30th shooting star, just give us an insta Full Moon proc that we control when it drops? So we can pool it and use it when we best see fit? I dont feel like I’m the one dropping an almighty Moon on someones face when it randomly drops on a 30th proc. Let us cast it ourselves so we can feel the power.

EDIT: Forgot to mention. You can’t even see how many shooting stars you’ve dropped. Which makes the feeling of it falling even more disatisfying. Sometimes you dont realize it happening. Please Blizz. Let us have control of the Moon.

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Lmao absolutely not. An indicator for how many procs would be nice however.

The reality is Full Moon, atleast in PVP, just isn’t ideal right now because it’s an astral cast. You get kicked, you are afk until the lockout is over.

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Are talking about Full Moon the talent/cast? I’m not talking about that. Ofc you get kicked with Full Moon casts.

I’m aware. The reality of Full Moon in PVP is that you get locked out, and you can’t do anything.

Orbit Breaker’s only true problem is the lack of actual knowledge to when it drops, and I don’t know of a weakaura that tracks shooting stars to properly track that.

An insta proc Full Moon that’s usable on demand is WAY too much if used properly.

Tbh i’d rather have a juiced non channeled version of huricane for aoe fights, and a single target variant New moon is alright, but I don’t care to cast it 3 times or for it be randomly dropped.

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Yeah, I wish Full Moon could find a way to be more useable in PvP.

I just want the change because its not satisfying when it drops without us actually deciding it does. We dont get to feel it at all.

Honestly, I’ve only thought of attaching it to your next Starsurge. Making it work similarly to Charged Blast with DevEvokers. More controlled proc and you don’t have to worry about it hitting the sheep in the corner.

But that’s the only way I think would be more useful in PvE and PvP content. (Especially since the proc only does 80% of its normal damage).

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I mean yes, this would be nice. That’s one hell of a power jump for boomy if that change were to take effect though, granted when it doesn’t crit it’s not like insane or anything.

Convoluted solution because instant damage that can hit 100k+ is annoying for the recipient especially when we did nothing to ramp it up really however in its current iteration it’s awesome at best and useless at worse as it falls on a random pet or something. Well, not useless, it still gives us AP I think but, you know what I mean.

Let’s just go nutty and make Incarn turn every starsurge into moons instead! Mwahahah

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There’s some good ideas in here.

I envision this working like old school starsurge procs used too, could be a really cool way to get full moon back to being an iconic ability for us

Or, “replace” Starfall with hurricane so it’s nature, make starsurge arcane again. Boom solar cleave is back!!! And now lunar is the ST eclipse solar is the AoE eclipse. Best part is it wouldn’t feel bad because we don’t have to cycle ecplises anymore

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Or what if it costed astral power once you received the proc? So you have the instant Full Moon proc, but you have to hit a required astral power threshold in order to be able to drop it, similar to earth shock.
Or you can release it at whatever astral power, and it’s damage is modified based on how much astral power you dumped into it?
Idk how it needs to happen, but I just know it needs to happen

You’d have to be careful with that because it would stand to be a large nerd. While I agree having agency over its target would be nice, going from free damage AND resource generation to costing resources is a massive change. I’m also not sure dumping 100 AP into a super moon would be balanced :stuck_out_tongue:

Interesting idea though.

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I’m in a crane and can’t really hear what’s going on. Sorry lol.

Basically Goku explaining that it isn’t even his final form, proceeds to AHHHHHHHHHHHHH his way into súper saiyan 2 for the first time I think :joy:

Haha ah okay. Well yeah dropping a spirit bomb on someone is likely gonna cause massive tears :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yesss yesss :smiling_imp::grin: