Proposed Tweak to Ley Lines

[hallena]

What's the point of having it be a circle if you almost never have to leave it?

Removing the drawback to the skill isn't going to make it balanced. Maybe reduce the CD to 60 seconds, but...don't remove the drawback.

How about we give Battle Litany a 50% chance to not activate but go on cooldown when you cast it and call it a drawback

[Higashikata]

How about we give Battle Litany a 50% chance to not activate but go on cooldown when you cast it and call it a drawback

Sure, but only if we completely remake leylines to be a party wide 15% spellspeed buff with a 50% chance to fail.

[Causality]

They already tweaked it by not having it disappear if you leave it. If you're not careful they'll change it so you turn into a Mysidian Rabbit if you leave it while its up. Ninja's know this as the Rabbit Hat of Shame.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Mysidian_Rabbit

[hallena]

Sure, but only if we completely remake leylines to be a party wide 15% spellspeed buff with a 50% chance to fail.

Sure. That would be a massive buff compared to what it currently does
Which is a selfish 15% haste which scale less the more spellspeed you have that is completely useless if the boss decide to target you with an aoe that just so happen to all be 200% its size

[SuzakuCMX]

How about we give Battle Litany a 50% chance to not activate but go on cooldown when you cast it and call it a drawback

I was saying if you increase the size so that you never have to leave, just make it a 30 second Haste with no condition.

[hallena]

I was saying if you increase the size so that you never have to leave, just make it a 30 second Haste with no condition.

But even if its big enough so you don't have to leave. it still limit you to its radius, which is smaller than the whole arena. we're talking about going from 3 yards to 6, not 15-20

[SuzakuCMX]

But even if its big enough so you don't have to leave. it still limit you to its radius, which is smaller than the whole arena. we're talking about going from 3 yards to 6, not 15-20

If it's too small that you can't stay in it whilst dodging AoEs then the change to area is pointless. If it's too big that you can dodge AoEs in it, making it a placeable circle is stupid because you'd never leave it. Why would you ever leave the radius except to dodge AoE?

[hallena]

If it's too small that you can't stay in it whilst dodging AoEs then the change to area is pointless. If it's too big that you can dodge AoEs in it, making it a placeable circle is stupid because you'd never leave it. Why would you ever leave the radius except to dodge AoE?

Because mechanic would require you to.
Ravana's swords icon charge thing for exemple.
Ravana's purple aoes
Bismarck's weather
Last boss of the vault when you are chained.
Earthshakers in t13
Add phase in T11
Charges in T10
the drawback should be to place it when you know mechanic won't require you to move far distances. just like you don't use blood for blood when you know huge raid damage will happen soon.
Not RNG AoEs that can happen at anytime

[OmegaStrongtan]

Suggestion: Make Ley Lines do the following:
1. 15% spell speed increase like it already does
2. Astral Fires/Ices and Enochian ti8mer will run out 15% slower!

I like th Idea to try to stand inside my circle at all costs and make it even more rewarding :P

[Geologo]

Anyway up to now some AoE are avoidable even staying in leylines, usually I use it then I DON'T stay in the middle but move myself on the limit of Leylines, so for small radious AoE you can still avoid them staying on it.