Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
Superbolide makes sense when compared alongside Hallowed Ground. Both abilities have the same end effect (become invulnerable), but Superbolide is on a minute shorter recast. There has to be something to offset this effect.

The first is the HP cost. The vast majority of invulns are used specifically to prevent death. So they're really supposed to be used on attacks that would bring you to 0 HP. This could because your healer is in trouble and your HP is very very low to begin with, or it could be because the upcoming tankbuster hits for more HP than you have total health. So when you use Superbolide in these situations, you aren't actually losing anything. The only time that this is really a penalty is when you read the situation incorrectly (i.e. you have a lot of health, there isn't a lot of upcoming damage, and then you lose a bunch of health that you didn't need to.

The second is a slightly shorter duration. This likely exists because if you do everything correctly, there isn't much in the way of "true" HP loss. You could make a case for increasing the duration to 10 seconds, I think. But I don't think that you can justify having a minute shorter recast on the same effect without having a penalty. Recast is the single most important factor when it comes to how powerful an invuln is. That's one of the biggest problems when you compare Living Dead and Holmgang - Holmgang has no penalty for an equivalent effect, but is on a minute shorter recast (and often has a longer duration in practice as well, given that LD's duration is determined entirely by your healer). The job with the penalty should always have the shorter recast.

What I do think could (and should) be done is to improve the execution of the ability. Make it happen faster after you press the button.
How is LD's duration determined by your healer?

Keep underplaying the duration of LD even when mechanics like tether in titania ex seems to be designed to make longer duration invulns more beneficial.

Id like to see you take 3 pulses in titania ex on a war and say that duration on holmgang is "effectively" longer than LD.

Keep spreading them misinformation Lyth.