DRK Fix Salted Earth Please

[Seraphor]

Agreed - Crater already explained it very well.

While I understand that there were people who had issues with the skill before and had to macro it, I don't think this would still be an issue with all the changes to ground targeted abilities which we got in 6.0. You can just pre-place your cursor and then double-tap the hotkey for easy manual placement.

Although it would also be nice to have Salted Earth's uptime increased back to something closer to what it was prior to SHB, so that those good placement moments can really shine like in some Stromblood encounters.

Unfortunately this alienates all console users.

You can still anticipate movement and stand where you want to drop it.

[Satarn]

Unfortunately this alienates all console users.

You can still anticipate movement and stand where you want to drop it.

This would work on a ranged dps/caster, but it's not really an option when tanking, or even just fighting as melee in some cases.

Gamepad users can still use a macro for either character or enemy-based placement, depending on preference.

[Danelo]

Just get rid of it in the DRK rework unless you are going to do something cool with it - not salt and darkness. Like a defense up or a self-buff, self-sustain hot dot… almost anything but the current.

The only way it should stay is if they can have it out for 10 or so seconds and if an enemy goes through it then they get a defuff that gives them a dot for x seconds. It’s a pain to use in its current state. It’s even more of a pain when you factor in the weakness of the dot itself…

[shao32]

Unfortunately this alienates all console users.

You can still anticipate movement and stand where you want to drop it.

I have to say i always been playing with a gamepad and never have issues with placing salted earth, the skill places where the virtual mouse is, so if you activate it and place it on the middle of the screen and deactivate it, salted earth and any skill of the same design will alwais apear in a perfect position to aim with it with your right jostick easily.
But at the end of the day is mostly about we haved 3 ways to place the aoe before, all of them perfectly viable and offering no problems whatsoever, and reduce it to 1 alineating all players who preffer any the other 2 for no reason since you can't macro it on target foot or have any control of his placement without move your character wich reduce a lot his versatility.