Conduct/stance dancing

Alikat

Heya,

I'm finding the stance dance aspect of Spellblade to be a clunky and unfun mechanic, specially in any zone experiencing lag.

My recommendation is to make the cooldown on Conduct 20 seconds, or whatever you feel is appropriate for balance, and remove the stance dance aspect of it, just let us stay in which stance we prefer for the circumstance. Our overall power level wouldn't change it would just become far less annoying to use.

Sylphy

I fully agree. I'd much rather have conduct have a CD tied to it rather than constantly swapping stances to get the most of the spell.

Morfien

Also fully agree. Conduit* should have a 20-30 second CD, and NOT take you out of stance. I think the spellblade community generally agrees on this point... hopefully the devs can acknowledge this feedback.

Olo

Llujoo

But isn't the whole point of Conduit to be great reward for giving up the stance?
If you keep the stance Conduit will be yet another simple button to push.
I like stance dancing because it makes the class more alive.

Krycek

This, please. Any zone with lag and it can become unclear what stance you are even in at the time because after switching stances the buff icon doesn't update for a few and sometimes not at all making you relog to fix.

Crow

I think the stance dancing suffers from a couple issues:
1) MnM's basic gameplay is not fast-paced and we don't have the responsiveness of an action game for stance dancing to feel good
2) The stances themselves lack any sort of significant VFX or SFX which would give them some sort of punch. My entire awareness of what stance I'm in comes from staring at the aura bar and watching the cooldown timer.

Until both of these things are corrected, I'm not sure stance dancing will feel good. I do like that I have a decision-making process to work through in real time about which stance I want to be in for the next time Conduit is up and how that will affect my DPS and usage of other abilities that are coming off cooldown.

Another significant concern for me is that SPB has entered WoW rotation territory and with the increased regen there is basically no downtime. I'm now doing my WoW-rotation for 3-4 hours straight while I grind. It's pretty exhausting.

Krooguh

I love the stance dancing. Play a sandwich class if you don't wanna push buttons and have a higher skill ceiling.

Raybane

Krooguh Pushing buttons in a rotation doesn't take skill and is mostly tedious. But I guess it's fine that some like that play style.

Alikat

Krooguh it isn't difficult to do though it's just annoying. if I want to arcane conduct something every 30 seconds just for dps while keeping the other two available for interrupts I have to press 3 buttons to do one attack. It's just needlessly cumbersome and unfun.

Name

Melee hybrid is my most natural fit but stance dancing is so anti-fun that I don't look at Spellblade at all.