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Ive noticed a lack of ASTs actually using CO unless its only AoE card buff, and people saying it has no utility(yeah it could be a better skill but still, play with it more at least people)
More things you can use it on
-AST refresh (It shares the same CD as CO/thats two more refresh ticks for MP)
-Lightspeed
-Extending your buff with your synastry target(they must be in it)/Extending your own card buff on yourself
i don't think it's people dont know about this, i think it's more about getting the most bang for your buck.
Sure you can use it to increase the duration of Synastry or LA but the best use of it is using it combined with Expanded Balance or Arrow.
Still, if the cards line up and you plan it right, you can get some overlap.
i think the point of only using it on cards (and aether, i always pop it even when i dont need it before i co) is because 5 seconds of synastry and lightspeed are negligible, whereas using it to extend cards is two gcds of increased power for your dps.
unfortunately, lightspeed doesnt reduce your global, and synastry is already pretty long, and you probably wont need 5 more seconds of synastry by the end of it. its just overall more useful to extend cards and aether
Using it for Lightspeed is pointless.
Celestial Oposition's power and utility lies on the fact it extends all buffs on everyone so its power and effectiveness are based on how many buffs you're extending. Of course that extending an expanded card, dirunal regens and Collective Unconscious' regen are all obvious choices but the fact that CO cd lines up with Luminiferous Aether means that you'll always have something to extend if you time both together. This doesn't mean you should only use CO with LA, you can use other times but if you manage to extend LA together with other buffs (cards, snastry, regens or even lightspeed) means you'll be taking a better use of CO's power, even if 5s feel pretty weak.
CO on Lightspeed isn't bad because it reduces mana cost, using only for Lightspeed however, that is pointless indeed.
Something that is nice to point out: you can only extend Synasty with CO and only if you extend the buff on the Synastry target together with your own Synastry buff.
Should note that CO works on everything.
Food buff? Why not
Drac pot? Sure
Sprint? Here ya go
Its a really lazily coded ability.