Celtic Heroes

That was one of my long list of complaints about the shield in beta along with the fact the shield skill sucks badly. The skill does 150 damage in a form of a cloak but really its 50-100 and guess what? The lux shield will always hit for 50-100 and its constant damage sure less armor but just talking about the crap skill. Also i believe the cds on some off hands were changed but some stayed the same making in balanced. Also another sudden change was how mages skill suddenly does another affect which i believe its a lure. This was never in beta because divine damage wasnt resisted then suddenly changed.

offhand skills don't cost energy, regardless of how much damage it does, it's "free damage". Isn't it insta-cast too? Even if it wasn't, there's plenty of time between iceshards/iceblast rotation to cast it so I don't know really know why you say it's not worth casting at.

Yea it's not. And it's not also an "insta cast" since if u in rush to boss like snorri or sreng riding a mount, u need to equip it on ur hotbar and it will start its damn slow cooling down first bfore mage can cast it. And killing snorri or sreng only takes about 8 minutes max with 5 to 8 ppl. So the mage probably can only cast it once or twice at the end of its 1 to 5% health. Which iceshards with more damage could be casted many more than that (very fast cooling down compare to that offhand). Not to mention when u arrived at snorri or sreng with the adds following u behind and when u were on the effort to equip ur weapon and put that offhand skill on the hotbar, (2 different actions, first> menu-inventory-wep-offhand, then second> Menu-skill-scroll down to the bottom to find the skill (lucky if u can put it on the ur first layer hotbar, i doubt it for mage) or click the second layer of hotbar-drag it to the free slot-finish-and u found urself dead killed by the adds . After u rez, u still cant use this "insta cast" waiting for the cooling down. By the time it's ready, snorri or sreng only left 15% or 20% of its health lol. So u tell me if its worth or not to use it for making some damage. It's only helps to boost the stat. But not on damage. Just my humble opinion thou.

Its still free damage, and DL weapons are really for big bosses like Hrungnir, Mordris and Necro, although they are quite underpowered. At this point in the game when you do have your offhand, killing Snorri and Sreng is pretty much routine and I dont really use them as measuring sticks anymore.

If Dragonlord Boon was meant to keep Chaos resistance up for a group of people fighting Priestess, Sentinels and Mordris, we really shouldnt need 6 druids to keep it up constantly for a bunch of people.

I think OTM needs to re-evaluate the offhand druid (and mage) long cooldowns or extend their duration to justify it.

Your thoughts Admin or Wulver?

It's a little sad that this thread seems to have been swept under the rug by placing it in the Druid forum. I can't even remember the last time I saw a red forum name reply to a thread in the Druid forum...

It was perfectly valid in the General board, where it could be talked about more freely, and be seen by many.

Simply because it deals with a Druid skill doesn't mean it should be moved to the wasteland of this board... This concern affects all members of a group or clan.

As it is, it is now likely to be tucked neatly away between "Recommend me a build," and "Should I use a staff?"

Has anyone actually tested to see if this skill even works. I feel like it does nothing when using it. Some chaos mobs even hit more with it on.

It does lower the aoe damage, the part about chaos damage being built into auto attacks i dont believe this. I have never notice any difference with or without the chaos resist boost the only thing that has changed the damage i take is when my armor increases through bark.