Selenes' Silent Dusk does not interrupt

This skill is trash at best. It feels like it lasts less than the already low duration stated. It doesn't interrupt from what my now 30 minute test against various mobs has shown. It MAY keep mobs from casting but it doesn't stop it once its started and even if it does keep mobs from casting, it lasts a second and you can't reliably time something like that, not to mention all it does is delay the mobs action by that short duration. Thrown ontop of all that is the obscene 40 second cooldown.

I really want to like Selene her cast/action speed buffs are really nice but it is really hard to keep from picking Eos over her in almost every situation.

Edit: Oops I guess is the wrong subforum for a bug post eh?

Silent Dusk needs to be replaced with something more useful. Selene is the least used pet simply because she has one wasted skill. the chances of you ever being able to productively use it in an important fight is slim to none.
A single target Regen that stacks with Eos’ aoe regen would be nice. Or a gift of mana giving 50 mana to a single target every 10 seconds. Or puts a mini shield on a target or I dunno does a cool back flip, even that would be more beneficial than her silence.

I think I would like the skill IF it actually worked. I mean the pet has some really cool feels to it in fact it has potential to up damage output by a considerable number but it lacks its working silence and doesn't use its skill speed buff properly which ends up making the scholar have to micro it which can be difficult in healing intensive fights. As such the only time I ever use it is in non healing intensive situations in which case it doesn't matter which I use (unless its a dps check).

But if it had the silence it could be used to completely negate large nukes. Which is an awkward situation in terms of balance due to the need for some enemies to have immunity to interrupts seeing as how it would make selene RIDICULOUS if she could completely remove primary abilities from some bosses fights. This would likely pigeon hole us back into using Eos the majority of the time.

If I had to replace the silence, which probably should happen, a damage reduction debuff would likely be easier to balance and still feel like its playing a role in the fight. Maybe 10% reduction same cooldown? This way instead of completely removing an attack from the fight the scholar could save an aether charge for Sacred soil and use this debuff for a 20% damage reduction during a heavy attack. I think that might be a bit too much utility though but its better than completely removing the bosses attack.

Edit: Or we could have an increased incoming damage debuff instead. This would likely fit into the kit better anyways.

Selenes buffs are very underwhelming they should give it another dps buff or utility buff (grant target a threat drop or boost ,movespeed buff or increase tp/mp of target)
Maybe even a unique mechanic.
. We sacrifice healing output to use selene may as well make it worth it.
The faeries share cooldowns btw. So we cannot just buff and switch faeries.

Silent dusk seriously does more harm then good building up the silence resistance of target. I would not ever use selene vs mobs that need to be silenced

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Originally Posted by sharazisspecial

The faeries share cooldowns btw. So we cannot just buff and switch faeries.

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This isn't the case. I am unsure if it is the intended result (I think it is) but what ends up happening is the pet can still use all of its abilities on swap we just can't manually use them. You can test this by attacking a low level mob ordering eos to use all of her abilities and then swap to Selene. The AI will use the cast speed buff right from the getgo.

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Originally Posted by HarleenQuinzel

This isn't the case. I am unsure if it is the intended result (I think it is) but what ends up happening is the pet can still use all of its abilities on swap we just can't manually use them. You can test this by attacking a low level mob ordering eos to use all of her abilities and then swap to Selene. The AI will use the cast speed buff right from the getgo.

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The ui is bugged then because what you say does happen.The skills are greyed out like they are on cooldown meaning i can't use them but faerie ai can cast them.