Spear card suggestion

[Tinkerblue]

I just had an epiphany over in the samurai discussion. What if the spear card reduced enmity? DPS could go ham on the boss, your fellow overhealing cohealer...perfect reasons to use it instead of throwing away. Although I can see the troll healers popping it on tanks

[Darkseth]

or.... OR!
you could just get Tanks that are not shabby and know how their job works. And no dps will take aggro, nor any healer :P (except a WHM spams Cure 3 or something like that..)

Jokes aside. That would be a huge nerf. Attack Speed is already a dps buff for dps already "going ham", and noone is close in getting enmity problems.
While this change would be completely unneeded, since enmity is not an issue.

[Lunali]

That would be a huge nerf. Attack Speed is already a dps buff for dps already "going ham", and noone is close in getting enmity problems.

Spear is recast time, not attack speed. If I were to change it I would make it affect abilities that are currently on cooldown as well.

[LegoTechnic]

Melee DPS already have a new cross-role skill called Diversion that reduces enmity generation for 15 seconds (120 second cooldown).

Typically when a healer pulls aggro it is because they have heals active when an add spawns, and no amount of enmity reduction will help with that. AoE healing can also pull aggro, but if you needed to rely on a randomly occurring Spear card draw to handle it, then your group has problems that RNG isn't going to fix.

[Averax]

>accidentally cast spear on tank
>tank loses aggro
>everyone dies.

I think if it were truly to be on par with the others, then it'd need to just shave off a chunk of cooldowns that are already running as well as reducing cooldowns you've yet to use.

[Shurrikhan]

Spear is recast time, not attack speed. If I were to change it I would make it affect abilities that are currently on cooldown as well.

This. Have Spear increase cooling speeds by 20%. Abilities already refreshed are then also permitted to "overcool", decreasing their following next recast time by the overcooled amount. At that point there's no efficiency decrease from using after pull, and it's almost competitive with Balance in some scenarios (if the abilities are necessary enough to affect fight interactions via Healer/Tank CDs).



EDIT: That said, I'd still just like Balance itself to be more... balanced? Not only in the sense of not being the only desired card, but also of having an affect on more than just damage-dealing (similar to how Arrow will at least affect healing output to some degree as well).

Ideally, any of the cards should be worth casting on anyone, though this would require a change to Balance and Bole, Spire and Ewer alike.

[Darkseth]

ugh,.... why was i thinking about Arrow.....

nvm :< *goes into my Corner of Shame*

[Tinkerblue]

Ideally, any of the cards should be worth casting on anyone, though this would require a change to Balance and Bole, Spire and Ewer alike.

I agree! It would add depth to the job instead of fishing for balances all the time.

[OcieKo]

Honestly they could nerf the potency and just have it reduce all current CDs by 10% Reg, 15% Enhanced, 5% Expanded and it be 10X better to use on something other than card phishing when you havent set royal road yet. Keep in mind the #s are half of what it is now, just less restricting on usage time. Fair tradeoff if you ask me. Tho it could very well work with its current #s as well, maybe cut out its ability to reduce draws CD tho.

To be fair all of em can be nice, but more dmg or nothing mentality is killing em. Heck just allowing one to opt when they use royal road would make all those phishing fails worth more.

[HyperSMB]

As with many others, I believe spear should affect things already on cooldown.

I will also agree with the notion that Balance needs to be balanced.