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The most broken pvp spell
lyrad12
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Is one of the clerics, they have this ability that puts a circle on the ground that reduces dmg by what seems to be 90%, 9k crits become 1k crits on the same target with the same ability. This same spell heals as well, if dmg is reduced across the board in pvp then the % mitigation from this ability needs to be lowered as well since people in it are pretty much invincible as it is right now.
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And you sir have no **** clue of what you are talking about. The skill is Astral Shield and used with divine power it turns blue instead of yellow and pretty much makes anyone inside of it quite durable but not unkillable. Like people have said, push him out and he dies asap, easy as a pie.
EDIT: For Mr Bloorf who is a bit aggressive: I mentioned i had just gotten it on my cleric and was offering assistance to what i learned with it, and i did mention pushing them out of it so my advice wasnt entirely wrong or entirely correct. Game is seriuz bizznizz.
When used with Divinity it gives everyone inside the circle regeneration and heals them once every couple of seconds.
When I hit level 40 I stopped pvping on my cleric because everyone focus's the cleric first and I was LITERALLY being cc'd 6 out of every 10 seconds when in combat. I would walk in, cast a spell if I got lucky, then get focused and die. This was NOT fun.
Astral Shield is VERY powerful; its also mandatory for ANY cleric in PVP because it allows us to live against 3 people pounding on us; and even then we will die. It gives us a tool that is needed. Also generally when I do die its because of GF or CW or GWF who have knockback moves; you get knocked out of it and you can be 2 shot. This ability seems well balanced, the key is thinking how to DEAL with it, not nerfing it. This isn't like rogue daily that does 1/2 a full healthbar.
+20% resistance to incoming damage (and yes 20 only) and a massive heal in divine mode. It's the only power allowing your team to survive to stunlocks as i said, and it's definitely not perfect, the circle is pretty small and you can't always stay inside.
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How can you say its balanced when you can surive 3 people pounding on you, and the only way you die is if you get knocked out? Oo
Rogues cant knockback either, so they have no chance killing clerics.
Problem is also that everyone ELSE standing in the circle ALSO becomes unkillable. Basicly you need 2 clerics and 3 CW in your team, put one cleric on capture points 1 and 2 together with 1 cw, and the 3rd cw runs back and forth, you cant kill them.
I agree with OP, for a single skill, Astral Shield is the most OP skill. The radius is quite huge aswell.
I see you have DAoC in your avatar, I played that for 5 years, my main was a warden, I supposed you flamed the forums there cause you could not kill them when they had RVR shield boosts and Pulse Bladeturn running too huh.
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like they cant just run back in..
you guys are so funny defending the most broken skill ingame..
I play a GWF and roars knockback isnt that far at all, given that clerics have dodge (incincibility) it isnt hard for them to get back into the circle even if you knock them out. Add the fact that their teammates are all at 90% dmg mitigation and it becomes an issue. What if one team doesnt have a cleric? how is the other team going to ever deal with 90% dmg mitigation for the entire team, you cant knock them all out of the circle. The mitigation right now is just plane too strong given that dmg is already reduced in pvp.
No as I said, im a GWF.
To put it simply, I cant even do dmg to a cleric standing in this thing, his bar never goes below 90%. None of the bars standing in this circle ever go below 90%. GWF damage is fine, but its not good enough to do anything to anyone in this circle, neither is a GF, or a mage or even a rogue.
im not a rogue, lrn2read.
Pretty much this, I have 8500 GS 27% damage reduction and even in astral shield the rogue daily can hit me for 20k. Outside one of the pay to win crowd can pretty much one shot me from cloak. Astral Shield is far from OP, classes get knockback and a lot of CC. Learn to use it.
To many little babies crying for nerfs on these forums.
no, those spells would not be able to keep him from dashing back into his circle for more than 1 second. Also, to the previous poster noone is critting anyone for 20k inside the circle.
How long is the duration of the spell... near immunity spells shouldn't last more than 3 seconds.
You should stop listening to op who is either under-geared or bad. I can and have been killed inside a circle many times (not to mention how much knockback and cc a group has) you just need to focus healers, which all good teams do and use your cc. It really isn't difficult, this is why I have stopped playing PvP now. You spend 70% of your play time CC'd and focused by the enemy dying repeatably. It's really not as strong as OP would like to think. The rogue needs some balancing first IMO and if you change anything with the shield it would be stacking 2, but rarely do you get 2 clerics unless you run premade.
I agree... CC is too powerful in this game and with no diminishing returns you spend half of the fight CC'd before dying. I think this was a problem in WoW pvp before they introduce diminishing returns to CC.
My gear is fine, im at 8.5k gs with a few t2 items and all the pvp items. I wouldnt mind if it was a cleric only 90% reduction, but when your whole team standing on a cap point can get 90% reduction its too much and makes clerics too powerful. Any team without a cleric can never compete against one with this spell active. Maybe they can reduce the mitigation to teammates in pvp, while keeping it for clerics this would be a very reasonable compromise given other classes already have their own mitigation techniques.