Ever feel a bit confused? A little slow? Just stopping what your doing and standing there? Lately, this has been happening to me in WAR. I thought it was the ale, but that checked out fine. It turns out Destruction has discovered the power of the AoE disorients.
In WAR, disorient adds to the time it takes to fire off a skill. So a skill with a 2 second cast now takes 3 seconds and an instant cast now takes 1 second. On the surface, this sounds like a nice skill, but in practice the AoE version seems to have gone very wrong.
One problem is it stacks. When you get a couple Chosen running around with Corrupting Horror, it can cause some serious problems. Also, I wonder if this is the cause of abilities not being cast. Often when I am disoriented, abilities will just freeze until I launch another skill.
The fact they gave the AoE disorient to a tank does not help matters either. Chosen can be a tad tough to kill, with they big cool looking armor and all that health. So all they have to do is run into our lines and they can wreak some havok. Focus firing on the tank doesn't help much, as then we are ignoring the healers. Focus firing on the healers is tough, due to the AoE disorient in effect from the tanks. There are also the melee dps folks running around to still worry about...
Marauders do have a cone AoE disorient that is enabled with a tactic, Insane Whispers. Black Orcs also have a smaller AoE disorient that needs a tactic, Big Brawlin'.
Order only has 1 working AoE disorient. They gave it to the Archmage, Blinding Light, as a T2 Morale. Engineers are supposed to be able to use a tactic to add an AoE disorient to their Land Mine (Concussive Mine), but this has never worked. It doesn't seem like they have any intention of fixing it any time soon.
I don't expect much understanding from Destruction, as this is war. However, I suspect if they ever even out the AoE disorients, they will then understand how painful the abilities are.
My preference would be for no one to have AoE versions, only single target. If that is not happening, please fix Concussive Mine and give one of our tanks a long-lasting 30ft AoE disorient.
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