Is the PvP talent basalisk worthless? When I pop it in arena instead of at least spawning near my target it spawns on other side of the arena and barely moves toward target. When it does reach the target they simply run away. Why is this talent so bad and haven’t been buffed? Am I using this ability wrong? Watching damil on twitch right now and he seems like he has the same effect. It does nothing.
It actually got heavily nerfed at the start of the expansion, if you can believe it. Despite it being very easy to avoid, as you detail, melee players who stood on the basilisk and tunnelled until they died screeched enough to get its focus cost doubled and its damage heavily nerfed.
It is slow as a dead fish, for PvE it works fairly well, but yeah the player will just run around to the other side of you and lay the smack down on you completely avoiding the basilisk, hence I don’t use him in PvP arenas
I don’t know why it wasn’t made to spawn on top of your target. At least it could get in one good hit before the player walks away from it.
I stopped using it because I got tired of it spawning so far away it literally did nothing in most situations.
I’m thinking about putting it out to pasture as well now that I have my Azurite Shoulder pieces that periodically summon little versions of Rezon and a trinket that randomly summons another little beasty to rend and tear my foes
I use it in 2s a lot, otherwise I mostly use dire hawk in 3s.
If you’re getting trained by melee, or their stuns are about to be up, pop it and run towards it. Don’t wait for it to reach the target, cuz it never will.
As has already been mentioned though, its been heavily nerfed (along with the spec in general) since the start of the xpac
after running this a few times it became obvious to me this a team peel ability. pop it and have your team stand in it. am i wrong here? its not meant as a dps CD more as a defensive CD
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