Self buffs SO SHORT

Avaricious - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Isn't it not a reflect, but damage based solely on your soulforce? That's what I remember the descrip. saying anyway. Even if the buffs aren't that long, I tend to recast the ones that can be recast before they run out. Then again, I don't PvP TOO much, just enough to test out my skills. Should I be put in the situation where someone wants attacks me w/o buffs on, I'd probably just cast Soul of Stunning on the spot, then Soulburn, then White Voodoo.

Honestly, just because we don't have our buffs on doesn't make us completely incapable. And if I don't use Soul of Stunning, I could use Earth Vector. It's not bad damage wise, and has a 76% Stun chance at level 1, so I don't think there'd be too much of a problem with getting surprised. If we can take at least one or two hits, we should be fine.

If you were on LC and planned to rebuff yourself every 30 seconds while in mass PvP or even group PK or TW..that is just not possible. That stun buff is perfect to hold off death and give you time to start attacking whoever attacked you, or run away some, or whatever. Clerics have a sleep to stop them, veno has a buff so they run fast to get away as well as killer pdef in fox form and some kind of stun from their pet, wizard has a teleport, archer has stuns. Psy, however, have no surefire stuns, other then the selfbuff one, which lasts 30 seconds..thats nothing.

Yes I know the 79-100 skills have not yet come out, but I'm just pointing out how short the buffs are that they are of basically no use because if you were attacked out of nowhere, you're dead if you have no way to stop your opponent.

Spaylz - Lost City wrote: »

I've read somewhere on this forum that on the chinese patch, those things have been fixed (leveling Souls), or I'm hoping so. At least some moderator said that it takes a while for the GMs to translate the chinese patches, but that the fixes and changes should come in due time for the new classes.

Black Voodoo does have a short duration, should last a bit longer indeed, eventho the casting time is short and you don't have to wait for it to expire (unlike Soul of Vengeance) to cast it again.

Oh god I hope so. It seems to me if they increased the time for the voodoo's by 60 seconds for each level of them, it would work out perfectly, because 10 minutes is long enough. Thats the same time as the veno's damage reflection buff, I'm pretty sure.. Plus it works perfectly: 10 levels, 10 minutes maxed.

-fingers crossed-

Mrvate - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Just as second post said, you never played a cleric. our debuffs which are basically necissary for pvp only last 20 sec at lvl 10 (30 sec if you go sage). yes we have a sleep and a paralyze, but the paralyze ppl don't usually use in pvp since it will lower our attack power and the sleep is really only enough for us to seal spark then attack, your buffs are plenty long to last for most pvp battles. or at least 1v1 I'd guess.

Just as 4th post said, cleric buffs last for 30 mins, and party buffs last an hour. If a cleric is attacked they can immediately sleep the other (so long as they are not stunned) debuff them, and start damage dealing. If the first attack doesnt kill them or get them close enough, they either spam ironheart or put on plume shield (if vs. physical opponent). Even those 20 seconds though are long enough for you to take down your oponent.

However, what I'm talking about is self buffs. A self buff for deffence for attack for damage reflection and several others, all of which last no longer then 3 minutes (180 seconds).

Also, to Amouriv, that is still not enough. I can't see Sage/Demon version of those skills being that much longer..60 seconds - 120 seconds? Idk, still doesn't seem fair to me. The way the skills are set up with 10 levels, it seems perfectly reasonable for them to go up 60 seconds per level, so that they are 10 minutes when maxed.