[Feedback] Forcing new abilities into combos w/ utility CDs is bad and unsustainable

[NegativeS]

I mean, I use it when everyone else uses their 2 minute buffs on the first W2W trash pull, and it's usually up by the time we reach the boss again? Most people use their 2 minute CD buffs at the first W2W pull in dungeons and don't just save them for the boss. (At least I find this optimal when people don't "save" big buffs only for boss fights meaning they use it 3 times a run only).

This depends on the group you play with, and is not always a guarantee. I have been doing this during my time leveling SCH, and not only does it feel awkward using CS on a single trash mob, but maybe 50% of the time CS was not ready by the start of the next boss, or expired by the time others started using their 2m cooldowns. Whether this is due to my own error or not, it does not feel good trying to sync up abilities this specific with randoms.

[ZephyrMenodora]

This depends on the group you play with, and is not always a guarantee. I have been doing this during my time leveling SCH, and not only does it feel awkward using CS on a single trash mob, but maybe 50% of the time CS was not ready by the start of the next boss, or expired by the time others started using their 2m cooldowns. Whether this is due to my own error or not, it does not feel good trying to sync up abilities this specific with randoms.

Well before it made no sense wasting time using CS on a single trash mob, so before I did absolutely nothing until the boss with the skill. Now I have motivation to use it as the opener to the first big pack, like everyone else does, and then all of our buffs are up again at the same time for the boss.

[NegativeS]

Well before it made no sense wasting time using CS on a single trash mob, so before I did absolutely nothing until the boss with the skill. Now I have motivation to use it as the opener to the first big pack, like everyone else does, and then all of our buffs are up again at the same time for the boss.

It's okay for abilities to have niches, not everything on my bars needs to be squeezed out for only minor DPS increases. That dog at the start of Everkeep that was unlucky enough to be targeted with CS is still probably going to die in the same amount of GCDs as the DPS, because they're all vomiting AoEs anyway.

Maybe we have different opinions on how CS should be used, and that's okay. But there's still no point for Baneful to be locked behind CS when you could just perform the same interaction with them separate, with the freedom to use them in their own situations if you so wished.