Virus Nerf - Possible silver lining or suggested change

[ArcaneNova621]

For reference, the change;

'When the effect of Virus expires, enemies will now be granted the effect Antibody, making them immune to the effects of Virus for 60 seconds.'

Possibility: Antibody is a beneficial effect that can be dispelled.

Result: Keeping Virus on a target requires abit more co-ordination and abilities which dispel effects are actually useful in PvE.

I suspect this probably isn't the case and Antibody is probably gonna be undispellable but one can hope.

[Chiramu]

It's only 60 seconds... Work on your dmg rotation in the mean time?

[ArcaneNova621]

60 seconds is still a fairly long time and is going to make some encounters a lot more difficult, but perhaps that's their goal, to not allow Virus to trivialize mechanics (e.g. Death Sentence). It's a fairly key widespread cross-class ability for casters though, and now that's one less.

[EvokerKeii]

Death Sentence.

[lyndwyrm]

What happens if you refresh virus before it expires? IIRC, if another application of virus is cast before the previous one wears off, then it just extends the duration back to 10sec.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

If you need virus for every death sentence you are doing it wrong.

[Malamasala]

If any silver linen is needed, it would be if the spell would refuse to be cast on a monster with antibody with the message "This spell can not be cast on this target". I rarely used it due to long recast so I often forgot about it. If it now would have long recast AND fail occasionally I'd just completely stop trying to remember it and use the other skills I know have no ridiculous limits.

[Shikiseki]

it's pretty much the same as raising the cooldown from 90 seconds to 120 seconds if you want to use Virus on Raids
person 1 casts Virus, 60 second immunity
person 2 casts Virus, 60 second immunity but person's 1 Virus will have wasted 30 seconds since his CD is over but he can't use it due to the 60 second immunity.

they should have reduced the immunity to 30 seconds, 1 minute is way to much. That way you can have 2 other virus casts before you can cast it again yourself without losing any of your own Virus CD

That also means unless you have 2 bosses, most casters aside of Arcanists/Summoners/Scholars shouldn't use Virus when they are around.

[OdinTheTainted]

Maybe one ilm punch will disable anti-body.

[OdinTheTainted]

Maybe one ilm punch will disable anti-body.