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Circles need an Upgrade
hasukurobi
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Our current magical circles are awesome additions in terms of powers but they really are not that great. They are rarely used and that is because being glued to one spot is a serious disadvantage.
This is what I would love to see with these:
First of all I would not change the Circle that brings you back to life in any way. (Radiant something?)
Secondly, I would make it so that the MOMENT the caster of a circle left the circle (by choice or otherwise) the circle would disappear.
Third, any friendly standing inside a circle should benefit from it.
Now all of these would increase in effectiveness by level and I will leave it to the Devs to decide the exact amount they do what they do but it should be decent.
Circle of Ebon Destruction
-Requires Half your Maximum HP to cast
-Requires Half of your Equilibrium to cast
+Increases the Damage Dealt by those in the circle
+Decreases the amount of Aggro produced by those inside the circle
Perk: Ambient Dread: Inflicts enemies who are close to the circle or attack those within the circle with Fear.
Circle of Arcane Power
-Takes twice as long as any other Circle to Cast
-Requires Half your Maximum Energy or all your Current Energy to cast, whichever is higher
+Decreases the rate at which energy decays for those within the circle
+Replenishes the energy of those within the circle once every two seconds
Perk: Conservation of Energy: Those within the circle receive energy equal to 25% of the raw damage received from non-physical attacks directed at them. This can only occur once every two seconds.
Circle of Primal Domain
-Requires Half of your Equilibrium to cast
-Smallest Diameter of all the Circles
+Increases all Damage Resistance for those inside the circle
+Heals everyone within the circle every two seconds
+Reduces the duration of all debuffs on those within the circle by half
+Increases the duration of buffs on those within the circle by half
Perk: Personal Space: Enemies that enter the circle are struck by a Lightning Bolt that Repels them away from the circle. This can only occur once every three seconds.
This is what I would love to see with these:
First of all I would not change the Circle that brings you back to life in any way. (Radiant something?)
Secondly, I would make it so that the MOMENT the caster of a circle left the circle (by choice or otherwise) the circle would disappear.
Third, any friendly standing inside a circle should benefit from it.
Now all of these would increase in effectiveness by level and I will leave it to the Devs to decide the exact amount they do what they do but it should be decent.
Circle of Ebon Destruction
-Requires Half your Maximum HP to cast
-Requires Half of your Equilibrium to cast
+Increases the Damage Dealt by those in the circle
+Decreases the amount of Aggro produced by those inside the circle
Perk: Ambient Dread: Inflicts enemies who are close to the circle or attack those within the circle with Fear.
Circle of Arcane Power
-Takes twice as long as any other Circle to Cast
-Requires Half your Maximum Energy or all your Current Energy to cast, whichever is higher
+Decreases the rate at which energy decays for those within the circle
+Replenishes the energy of those within the circle once every two seconds
Perk: Conservation of Energy: Those within the circle receive energy equal to 25% of the raw damage received from non-physical attacks directed at them. This can only occur once every two seconds.
Circle of Primal Domain
-Requires Half of your Equilibrium to cast
-Smallest Diameter of all the Circles
+Increases all Damage Resistance for those inside the circle
+Heals everyone within the circle every two seconds
+Reduces the duration of all debuffs on those within the circle by half
+Increases the duration of buffs on those within the circle by half
Perk: Personal Space: Enemies that enter the circle are struck by a Lightning Bolt that Repels them away from the circle. This can only occur once every three seconds.
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Primal Dominion is great for tanks who want to stay still so the boss stays still and Arcane Power for 100ft high energy consumption builds using self rooting attacks like Lightning Arcers and Defilers. In Gravitar its not uncommon to see 3 melees using Primal Dominion circles around her.
Ebon Wrath is additive damage but it does proc Fear so it has its uses too.
The arcane circle is very useful too.
I think the Ebon Circle is somewhat weak.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
The others are pretty good to great, though. CoAP scales w/ Rec- we need more stuff that scales w/ Rec/End (pity it counts as an energy form, but I guess it had to be- it does allow Grimoires to spam Skarn's if they want to). CoPD is great vs. Gravi and for ranged tanks or knock-prone melee. CoRG is a pretty nice backup move and aoe heal (helps it has a larger radius and can be placed down instantly after the first one).
I mean, I like the notion of making the circles more of a tactical group buff, but we already have sigils for that concept, soo..
- Be safe and have fun, champs - for science!
Yep--the sigils do the tactical bit.
Maybe another set of sigils? We have one for DoT (sorta), one as trap damage, one for healing, and one for debuffing.
Maybe energy-granting sigils? Maybe attack-buffing sigils?
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
My suggestion to fix Circle of Ebon Wrath:
-Change damage bonus to multiplicative rather than additive (this would go the furthest to making Ebon Wrath a power worth considering)
-Keep threat reduction
-Keep the Fear applications when struck and on melee hit
-Change the heal received reduction to personal bonus healing reduction (others would be able to heal you the same regardless, your own healing powers would be lessened regardless of target; shouldn't be hard to implement since there already is a healing bonus modifier)
-Give health on kill and attacks restore health based on a percentage of damage dealt. (healing reduction issues are moot since you would need the Circle active for this to trigger; either accommodate for or ignore it)
- Maybe give an increasing damage bonus as health goes down
-Having the glowing hand animation disperse after a short period of time; it's the only Circle power that keeps the glowing hands when in the Circle long after power activation. It may have been originally intended as a sign to other players about the healing reduction, but the Aura system throws a wrench on that.