Evasive Stance

[Lheann]

So I have not seen much about the incoming nerf of Evasive Stance.

As it is with one perk you get 50 AAD for 60 secs.
As it will be with one perk you get 50 AAD for 20 secs.

As it is fully perked you get 1000 AAD for 80 secs.
As it will be fully perked you will get 1000 AAD for 30 secs.

Ok the overall nerf is pretty big as it reduces the duration by 55-66% depending on your perk level. I will agree that poping evasive stance and enjoying most perks not landing for 80 secs is nice and that the special needed some antention. I just find that this rebalancing takes it from a big part of your tool set to a panic button. Ok so the recharge is lowered to 200 secs and that helps with PVM some.

So I am torn about this one. Since I have not seen much about it I am opening this thread to discuss it. I beleive the changes at low levels TL1/2/3 will be felt more in PVM than PVP and that at endgame it will be felt in both.

[McKnuckleSamwich]

imo, with a 30 sec duration, the recharge needs to be lowered to 1:20

If the total buff is lowered slightly to compensate, thats fine, like, I'd settle for a 600AAD boost for 30 sec with 1:20 recharge.

[Notcrattey]

It was fine with it's original duration, why in the hell did they change it.

It's not like it had a 45 second recharge

[mr_road]

I think I prefer the shorted duration / shorter recharge. But thats just me.

[Kinkst44h]

It was fine with it's original duration, why in the hell did they change it.

It's not like it had a 45 second recharge

Awesome abilities with crap recharges is crap design, really.

[Phargus]

I'd like to see a second special that locks the same skill with a lower aad amount and recharge instead. Keep the original 1000 aad for 1:20 with a 10 min recharge, and add a new perk that gives 300-400 aad for 40 sec with a 2 min recharge then make both lock Careful in Battle 1 so you can chose...

[Sterva]

I think it should have a 1:20 duration with a 40 second downtime.

Anyone want to argue with me?

[Kinkst44h]

I think it should have a 1:20 duration with a 40 second downtime.

Anyone want to argue with me?

There's really no need to, it does fine on its own

[McKnuckleSamwich]

The two button approach actually sounds kinda cool. like theres good use for both.

[ShadowHunter]

MA defenses are really bad at the moment, we can hardly evade anything, FA, AS almost never misses, and to make things worse, we are being perked with not so much effort at TL7 with all the AR additions for the professions.
It's no secret, our evades are nerfed.
As a response to this, i think they should lower the recharge time of evasive stance and keep the 1000 AAD with the current duration.

Enough nerfing MAs please!