Holy Magic Shell : wth ?

Retrolight

Hello
I don't get it. What happened to the skill ? 10% reduction on % damage as a buff sounds good at first, but is very situational. On the other hand, the skill seems to be nerfed to oblivion with the restriction to use it for 80 sec (not as cooldown, the basic cooldown is 90 sec), plus the duration reduction (15 sec only), plus the non benefit of buff duration skills / traits... I mean seriously?
Besides, the hyper skill "Holy magic shell - Colldown reduction -50%" is pointless as it reduces the cooldown to 45 sec, but you still can't use the skill due to the use restriction of 80 sec?
Very bad balance design, or am i missing something?
Thanks guys for your explanations in advance.

L4d2jpn

It keeps me alive through the initial lotus lasers when they're already active when you're just spawning in. That's a huge buff for me. Everywhere else I was just using it to block blockable instant kills so for me personally this was a buff.

scholar624

Holy Magic Shell was found to be too broken in more difficult content and needed some fine tuning for balance. Maplers were near completely invincible (excluding HP% based mechanics) facetank all touch damage while the buff duration stacking bishop sat nearby recasting the skill continuously.

The spell is now redesigned to be used more strategically requiring more foresight on the Bishops part to pull off a "Hail Mary" moment.

Retrolight

Thanks guys for your explanations.
I get that the skill could be abusive in more difficult content, but the problem is, imo, that's it's a 3rd job skill. This makes a 3rd job skill kinda useless until way later in the game. So you have to put points in a skill you won't use much, during like 70 lvls... That's no fun at all >_> And the hyperskill cooldown reduction (you get 10sec from it all in all now if i'm correct) adds to the feeling you're putting points in nothing till you're 220+...
I'm not a fan of this, but i appreciate your points of view though

SuperJonic

Rip -50% CDR for holy shell now.

https://imgur.com/AUUjwI3

Retrolight

Yea the CD reduction hyper skill is pretty useless AND misleading now, that's why i spoke about "bad design". The skill is nerfed mostly for end game balance purposes, i can hear that. But the skill has no real purpose until then, whereas you get it at 3rd job AND you have to put 20 points to max it. It's current design has nothing to do with a 3rd job one. I'd suggest to add something like knockback reduction as a passive effect to it, for example.

OdysseyTwo

Retrolight wrote: »

Besides, the hyper skill "Holy magic shell - Colldown reduction -50%" is pointless as it reduces the cooldown to 45 sec, but you still can't use the skill due to the use restriction of 80 sec?

KMS realized this and changed the Hyper Skill to increased %HP Damage Reduction in the following Skill Balancing.

riza

yo who ever did that needs to be back handed. who would do this to bishops its like we get no love screw over did this.