Tired of benediction fail

[AishaK]

Anyone else feel like this is the most underwhelming 5 minute cooldown spell ever? With the animation I'm as likely to save a tank with a benediction as i would be just chain casting cures?

either reduce the cooldown to 3 minutes or make the heal take place before the animation is finished. Or at the very least dont eat my cooldown if it fails to save the target

[saeedaisspecial]

That is the most fustrating thing ever. Wasting the cooldown but not saving target.

[dragonflyseksparade]

Hallowed ground suffers from the same issue - so I've heard.

SE needs to fix their client/server latency period. This is just a side effect of their laziness to do so.

[Shurrikhan]

Hallowed ground suffers from the same issue - so I've heard.

SE needs to fix their client/server latency period. This is just a side effect of their laziness to do so.

Hallowed Ground almost feels like an intentional delay rather than a latency issue. I've never seen Rampart or Sentinel take that long to start.

And a death during HG effect / target death within 1 second of Benediction cast resetting the CD would be awesome, but I doubt we'd get that, and I'd rather just have them actually work.

[Tlamila]

Yes it's terribly annoying, and especially annoying when it casts too late and your cd is wasted...

[dragonflyseksparade]

Hallowed Ground almost feels like an intentional delay rather than a latency issue.

If an instant cast ability goes on cooldown, and you don't gain the effect, it is a latency issue.

[Estellios]

If an instant cast ability goes on cooldown, and you don't gain the effect, it is a latency issue.

It is intentional, they just have the effects happen after the animation when we want them to happen instantly (since they are emergency abilities). The cooldown starts when the animation starts and not when the actual effect happens is the issue.

From what I understand they moved Hallowed Ground's effect sooner in the animation (when the barrier appears around you - which makes more sense than when the whole animation finishes) and they moved Spirits Within's effect sooner (when the sword is thrust into the enemy instead of after it's been pulled out).

[coffeeking]

COMPLETE support!

[RetroGackto]

It's not even instant. It's like a 1 second cast! lol

[Kerwin]

Or get gud and press it half a second earlier. Learn to adapt to the delay.