xaoshaen wrote:Treehorn wrote:Oh, and add some kind of snare for the love of Uther. Shouldn't be the only class completely dependent on what they cobble together with a tradeskill for some form of snare. Maybe a talent that adds a minor (30-40%) snare effect to consecration (call it Holy Ground). Cons is already mana intensive, and moving outside of the effect radius would remove the effect, it would be limited (read: balanced), but still better than nothing. Sort of like Caltrops in CoH (stationary, minor DoT and snare effect over a small radius)
As long as it's a tier five talent, with a base 10% movement reduction, increasing by five percent per additional talent point, and it prevents the paladin from using one of his other abilities (perhaps an aura or a seal?), nobody should have a problem with that.
Foregoing seals or auras sounds rather punitive, and really isn't in keeping with how things are being done currently. Look at it this way:
Consecration, Rank 4, (req. lvl 60): 565mana/cast, 0.0sec cast, effects 8 yd. radius, 8sec duration (48dmg/sec), 8sec cooldown.
"Holy Ground": 21-point talent, 1 rank, 30 or 40% base movement reduc. for duration of Consecration.
Avg. 60 pally is running 2-3k mana depending on equipment, and maybe breaking 4k if exceptionally geared. Nobody is going to be spamming Cons for a 30-50% snare, but at least it would provide them with
something native to the class (providing they're specced for it) for slowing down things >20% health.
I think given the cost/mechanics of the spell the talent modifies, the recent resist adjustments for lower rank spells (rank 1, lvl 30, won't cut it against lvls 40+), and foregoing 31-pointers in the other two trees would be plenty prohibitive as is.
Under 20% health, Hammer of Wrath would still probably going to be your best bet for dropping runners (rank 3, req. lvl 60, 425mana/cast, 504-556 damage, 1.0sec cast, 6sec cooldown, 30yd range), compared to trying to snare them with Cons., and getting it doesn't require making any tough choices about talent builds.