Revert it to “takes 15% less damage after casting blink for 3 seconds” or something like that, I understand this might empower mongo melees a bit but being polied when you’re behind a pillar w/o anything you can do about it is just stupid.
Stop making more post about pruning… before we know it we will all only have 4 buttons.
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We can’t complain about abilities in the game we feel are broken? I believe the point is OP is trying to make us that in its current state shimmer is hard to deal with and in their opinion it should be changed. Nothing wrong with disliking an ability and opening a discussion on the matter.
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Just port, para, death, shear, ground, or shift the poly bro. Tbh I don’t like shimmer, either. Replace it with Deep Freeze.
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Honestly I’d prefer the old stun removing blink but if they remove shimmer it better coincide with removal of a million gap closers.
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If they keep Shimmer, it should cancel casts. Blinking to poly is dumb, Blinking to gpy is dumb, Blinking to ring is dumb.
They gain enough distance to get these casts off from the initial blink. Blinking around a pillar and casting into someone that LoS’d you after you began to cast is a stupid failsafe design.
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We didn’t ask for them to introduce disgusting broken abilities and leave them in the game. Please remove Shimmer and do something else is all.
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Agreed. Shimmer is insanely powerful. Not only do they get 2 blinks they can keep casting its just bonkers.
Change it to this:
Shimmer: blink now has 2 charges and you gain 1 second of invisibility after a blink. This would drop target like a feign death and dot dmg wont break it. You cannot cast during blink anymore.
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Saying shimmer is a bad mechanic isn’t asking for pruning. Especially since Shimmer is a pretty recent addition to the game.
It’s a bad mechanic though and it should be changed to something else. There are a million other things they can do with blink. It doesn’t need to be this inane ability that allows them to cast around corners and such.
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Shimmer isn’t a button.
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I for one think mobility needs to be toned down heavily so casters can actually be based around casting, this game has gone so far away from that design. Every melee has near infinite uptime, and most casters don’t even cast.
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LOL
shimmer replaces blink
we’re not losing any buttons with that change
plus it’s a skill-less and toxic ability that doesn’t contribute to smart gameplay at all
shimmer+poly, for example, has almost NO counterplay to it
idk why you wouldn’t want it gone if you’re not a mage
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Finally, someone that gets it. Yes there should be uptime for melee but there should also be time that a caster can cast and return to casters actually casting.
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That’s honestly my biggest gripe with the game. The tunnel of ice build at least gives Frost the illusion of the playstyle I fell in love with in classic, but otherwise I don’t particularly enjoy playing any other ranged spec. Melee mobility buffs to compensate for mythic mechanics really need to go.
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wow! who knew stopping mage cc could be so easy! thanks forum poster!! ![:upside_down_face:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/upside_down_face.png?v=6" ":upside_down_face:")
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Maybe make something equivelent to warmode talents, only active in PvE dungeons and raids. Then dump all the melee mobility in there. Then take away my shimmer. Boom.
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You are welcome.
While shimmer is somewhat op the real problem is that fire mages can get away with endlessly attempting to cast poly / pop all their burst in a tiny window upon landing a poly and win the match while being dead last in overall damage done.
Tone down fire damage or remove blaster master, a trait which hugely rewards using instant casts over casted spells and now the mage has to land 1 or even 2 follow up polymorph’s in order to score a kill which would increase the skill level required to succeed by a mile.
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So mages shouldn’t be able to avoid melee classes insta cast spells that take off a cloth wearing mages health quickly ? Melee has so many slow downs and gap closers .
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Prune shimmer, prune some redundant gap closers (dh, rogues come to mind), bring back utility. Thx.