Quote Originally Posted by AlessaImpera View Post
My summary on why I like the Viper changes:

Dots and/or Pseudo-dots are lame and they don't add any difficulty anyway, just clunk during phases with changing targets.
On the other hand, the large majority of people arguing for the mechanic to come back don't do so because managing a DoT/Pseudo-DoT was difficult or particularly engaging on it's own. Rather it's the way it tied Viper's kit to be more than pressing the next button and how it added micro-decisions during combat. Should it have been replaced by anything of similar effect, I believe there wouldn't be nearly as much push back.

Case in point imo, much fewer people (though they exist) are arguing against the combo ender buff duration changes. Despite also being a 40 second timer you had to track, it wasn't nearly as much of a decision, since it's quite frankly a given that you will finish your combo eventually (even if you absolutely could drop it).