Remove lightning lasso

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It’s so toxic for the game, grossly overpowered in 1v1 situations, and has no setup. Not even a maelstrom cost.

I’d say nerf it to cost 100 maelstrom, or remove it entirely.

The pvp devs are too busy mocking people on twitter and will never do it, but it needs to be addressed. Bigger problem than maledict right now tbh.

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I dunno if I’d go so far as to say it’s worse than maledict

but I will say % based abilities are cancer.

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If every class had lightning lasso it would be just as bad as maledict. :wink:

It’s only OP in 1v1s due to it’s relatively short cooldown. But, we are in the neck of the wood where 1v1s don’t matter, remember?

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Make kidney shot a 1 minute cooldown and sure.

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People complaining and asking for Kidney Shot nerfs in 2019 loooooool

Literally one of the only abilities in the game that hasn’t changed since release.

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Ok so it has changed and regardless saying because it hasn’t changed since release is a horrible justification

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Saying it should be changed now because you don’t like it is horrible justification to change it soooo I meeeeaaaan…

There aren’t too many abilities in game that haven’t changed since 2004 and Kidney Shot is one of them.

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Did I say I want it changed?
All I’m saying is an ability not being changed isn’t a justification for it not being touched

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It’s plenty of justification.

People want to complain about it when it’s literally been the same for 15 years? Seriously? Nobody said ANYTHING about it until Cdew made a tweet about it.

Get real.

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Lasso wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t also double as a CC.

It forces you to either save a dispel (for your teammates), trinket, or cc on the shaman. There’s no way around it, you have to save some kind of counter ability for it.

In 1v1 it forces your opponent to trinket, which is kind of dumb, but it’s 1v1 and Blizzard doesn’t care about that so :roll_eyes:

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Another Battlezone thread… nothing to see here.

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I don’t think it needs to be removed. The % of health pool part is what’s cancerous. Maybe change it to an actual damage per tick rather than % and it won’t be so cancerous to deal with?

EDIT: Or increase the cooldown substantially?

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Oh look an ele complaint thread didn’t see this one coming but I guess it’s been a while.

1 v 1 problem give me a break

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Yea but combo points and rogues and the rest of the entire game has changed since release, lol wtf logic is this

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Not to mention how many times other cc have been nerfed like fear/poly and the extensive list of other original spells that were changed or gutted over time or went from baseline to talent. Silly argument

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Kidney shot doesn’t do 40% max health over its duration?

Please tell me you can figure that out

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The logic is that it was never a friggen problem until Cdew knob riders started complaining after he made a tweet about Kidney Shot…15 years after launch.

So where is YOUR argument? Ignorance at work here folks.

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Who said I was arguing anything, you’re logic and reasoning on both ends just has holes in it.

People have been complaining about kidney shot since vanilla man, as classes have lost counters and stuff like mage rogue barely lose anything the issue with a 6s stun on a 20s cd becomes more pronouned.

You’re really out here herp derping thinking everyone has been ok with KS til Cdew said something (which I didn’t know or care that he did)

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Lies are the new truth.

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Not true. I haven’t seen this much uproar over Kidney Shot my entire time playing this game as I have the last 2 months. Even when rogues were absurd in season 1, nobody complained about Kidney Shot. Then they reduce their damage and force them to use Wound Poison which reduces their damage even more in season 2 and now Kidney Shot is the problem. Make up your mind people.

Kidney Shot isn’t, nor has it ever been an issue. Rogues have always been a control class, and for that they are very, very squishy outside of Evasion and Cloak of Shadows.

Whining about a 20 second cooldown is a pretty poor argument too seeing as how you have to wait until 4 seconds after it’s off cooldown to land another full Kidney Shot, unless you use it on a different target which is incredibly stupid. 90% of the time Kidney Shots should be used on the kill target.