AST changes, where we're still weak, and why I'm not upset with Yoshi-P...

[RichardButte]

In this case, being RR Fodder is still better than a person staring at the card and blanching, so I find it acceptable in my mind.

Unless we've already got one RRed, which seems to happen a great deal, heh...

Though if they buffed Spear like that, it would certainly make Spear significantly more desirable. I got a feeling actually programming that in though is much more difficult than us discussing it is.

True, though I think I'd still like to see this change.

I think EVERY card should create a debate in the AST's mind: "Do I use this, or do I RR it?"

Spear is a no-brainer. If by some chance I'm about to use a CD, I use it on myself, unless there's a ninja, then I always dump it on the ninja. Otherwise, I RR it. CDs tend to either be used in a rotation and therefore instantly or in the event of an emergency, and neither of those are situations where a CD can be held off for a Spear.

If it reduced existing timers, it'd be perfect: you could fire it off on anyone and odds are that you'd give them some serious benefit because they either will have a CD to cast in the next 20 seconds or they'll have existing abilities on CD.

Maybe they'd need to make it so you couldn't double dip or something (ie an ability cools down faster while under the effect of spear and you use it again).

Another idea would be to make spear last 60 seconds and have 2 charges, where each CD used spent a charged and reduced it by 20%...

I'm just saying that without considering Spreading the card, there a lot of situations where the 15s window of the card drawn and waiting can be used on you to reduce at least one of your healing CDs.

If you're in a situation where you're rotating healing CDs for big mechanics, yeah, spear SHOULD always be useful there.

Also, you can make a post, then edit it and paste in your post and save to bypass the character limit.

I don't know why they have it, TBH...