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Illium Quality of Life Feedback:

StaconaStacona
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edited October 2025 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
This is just going to be simple quality of life features for Illium enjoyment. There is more things that can be done, but this is just going to address two things.


Start with the simple one:
Crystal Gate:
Increase the duration of the gates themselves to 900 seconds (15 minutes) from 110 seconds.
- Additional function, let party members also use the gates, gate usage cooldown applies for each target rather than to the gate itself.

Remove the cooldown for placing the gates down.
- Mild function change, when placing down a 3rd gate, the 1st / oldest gate will be destroyed. Meaning only two gates can be active at a time, teleporting between each other.

Having to set up the gates constantly, especially for mobbing gameplay, is annoying to do and making it where you have to very infrequently refresh the gate positions will make it a lot more enjoyable to play as Illium and make the skill a lot more usable.

Removing the cooldown is so that Illium can easily correct gate mispositioning without annoyance and inconvenience.



Crystalline Spirit:
Before the most recent change, Illium was able to summon two extra crystals at a time and now got reduced to one only which makes the summoning of the crystal mostly pointless and always better to use the passive form (Crystalline Essence).

Change:
Either: Allow for up to 2 Crystalline Spirits to be summoned at a time, making one mode effort mode for more damage or lazy mode for easier play.
Or: Increase the duration to 900 seconds (15 minutes) for Crystalline Spirit so that this mode functions properly as a Mobbing Mode and Crystalline Essence will function as a Bossing Mode.

Further add for duration increase to 900 seconds is so that it is not an annoyance to play as Illium while mobbing, you set everything up and then you can chill and relax without the annoyance of needing to set everything up again frequently.

Either direction works depending if you like Illium to offer more skillful play and be rewarded for doing so or if you want to create a distinct reason to use one mode or the other given the situation - like using one mode for bossing and the other for mobbing with a very long duration Crystalline Spirit.