About Esuna, Exalted Detriment and Leeches change

[Erakir]

It seems like a...very odd decision to me to have made, to say the least.

At the moment, I would have preferred something akin to a Esuna-trait in its stead, where you could take it if you felt like you were going to be cleansing with any sort of regular frequency, but not be completely out of luck without it.

Things like -
Make it instant or an ability (casts so fast as it is, but still)
Give a boon when cleansing, such as a small heal, or a haste to you or the target to help offset the time you spent cleansing
Give it a radius to turn it into a small AoE
Give it the ability to remove multiple debuffs (Because nobody likes what happens when a pull has 5 archer mobs)
Give Esuna a CD (10s?) to begin with and have this 'trait' remove it
Just as some 30-second, 0-thought basic ideas that could be refined. There are countless others. I'd suggest a new ability to begin with, but that goes against the whole bloat thing they're trying to get rid of~

As it is, it's little more than a checkbox to tick if you believe there's anything worth having it for in a fight/dungeon (and going in blind, that's always a "Yes just in case"). Abilities like that being choices aren't fun or interesting to play around. It hamstrings you. Even if unlikely to offset the potential loss, you can gear towards or try to enhance your gameplay enough to, say, not have to take Lucid Dreaming if you don't feel like it. Same thing for new-divine-seal. You might never actually do that in practice due to their relative strength, mind you, but philosophically it's there.

There's no such practical option with cleansing debuffs, unless they redo potions/other consumables and expect people to start carrying them around to spam them on each other, or they make nearly every debuff only apply on failing at dodging a mechanic so you have a way around it. Currently that is not the case with fights like Dun Scaith Doom Spam Flyer that specifically have "Cleanse me or else" debuffs that regularly go out. You're not going to outgear Throttle. This is a basic part of the toolkit you now have to opt-in to receive that has already been designed around for 60 levels of content. There's no other practical way of performing that part of the kit without it.

Nothing's going to be rewarding about selecting to bring Esuna. It's just going to feel punishing if you don't.