Thread: 3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

Originally Posted by Nalien

IDK about that, situations where that chasing potential works in my favor are usually situations where I want to kill someone as fast as possible, not Bind them and wait for my team to catch up... Waiting usually means their healer respawns and heals them... Bind would be more useful in other situations though, but I think I prefer a previous suggestion of effectively making Tar Pit reverse Mythril Tempest; Draws people in rather than pushing them out. Would have similar utility and make the Heavy slightly more valuable, since you're not only slowing people down, but pulling them away from where they want to be too... Plus interrupt potential...

That depends on what type of bind is in place.

Right now, there's not a lot of difference between a heavy and a bind, because they both essentially do the same thing: Give you more time to smack the victim around while your dps catch up. Most dps can, and will, catch up quite quickly because all melee have a gap closer and ranged are ranged. The only real difference between the two is that Heavy lasts longer, but that's why I proposed that Tar Pit be made into a Ground Based AoE.

The idea here isn't to simply hit the attack, do the dmg, and inflict an instant bind which falls off right when the victim gets struck. The idea is to make Tar Pit into a kind of pseudo-Holmgang. Using it would generate a literal Tar Pit around the Drk, and everyone within range of the Tar Pit is fixed in place. The only way out would be to use Purify. The potential party utility of such a move would more than make up for Drk's current shortcomings, because it could cause interrupts, snare targets for burns, couple well with plunge for chase potential, and even be used as an area denial to isolate targets from objectives or their other teammates.