Changing Guardian Renewed Focus?

#1 - Nov. 30, 2013, 10:24 a.m.
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While other classes have an Elite cast skill cancellation cooldown of 4secs us Guardians gets the whole 90 secs making the skill completely useless. It seems a bit unfair, I understand that if you reduce the cancellation cd to 4secs like other classes people will just abuse the invulnerability cast.

So i just have a suggestion of making the skill cast time 3/4secs or 1 secs and that you receive the 2secs invulnerability and virtue renewal at the end of the cast.
Why?
- 3/4 sec/ 1sec is enough time for you to cancel the elite skill.
- 3/4 sec/ 1sec isn’t too long of a cast time to receive invulnerability in a do or die situation.
- Receiving invulnerability and virtues at the end of the cast time will make sure people don’t abuse the new cast cancel cooldown.
- If you dodge an attack while casting your Renewed Focus it will no longer go into full cooldown and allow you to use it again in 4secs.

This way your Elite Skill won’t go into a 90sec full cooldown if you want to cancel the cast and save it for later or if you simply dodge on accident while channeling the Renewed Focus

Or

As many people have already said make the Virtues Renewed upon activation of Renewed Focus

If anyone have other ideas of how to make the skill work out please post it!!

#21 - Nov. 30, 2013, 12:08 p.m.
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This is absolutely working as intended. The game wide rule (minus a bug or two that we are working on) is that once a skill has given you any of the benefits, canceling or interrupting that skill puts it on full cooldown. The alternative, in this case especially, is to be able to make yourself invulnerable for 2 seconds, cancel and then recast 4 seconds later which would be very broken.

Jon