Report 1447

Special Report #1447
Skillset: Knighthood Skill: IceDelay
 Org: Serenguard Status: Completed Feb 2016
Furies' Decision:
Already implemented
Problem: A number of insta-kills require an ice affliction to be present when
striking. With smart prioritizing, you can always ensure that a dangerous ice
affliction is targeted before a warrior's next hit. Ice delay at critical wounds
is 2.5-2.6 seconds or so, and the average ice balance time is 2 seconds. In
addition, warriors do not do wounds when afflicting. While theoretically, you
may find your opponent with the respective affliction on your next balance if
they were off ice balance prior to you delivering it, this is somewhat risky.
Let us compare old skewer to this for example. It required severspine or
crushedchest, both of which were regeneration affs, and regeneration affs cured
on a delay of about 4 seconds. It may have merit to raise the ice delay at
critical wounds to make associated insta-kills more viable.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Raise the ice curing delay at critical wounds to no
 more than 4 seconds.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: If the stun on mutilatedlimbs is a balance concern
 because of solution 1, remove the stun from
 mutilatedlimbs.
Player Comments:
---[Shuyin on 2/15 @ 19:21 writes]:
Increasing the scaling of ice wounds to 4s at critical wounds should do the
trick, but I would agree that we should monitor this as necessary
---[Tredian on 2/16 @ 23:06 writes]:
How about raising ice delay for specific affs instead and not generally?
---[Wobou on 2/19 @ 01:37 writes]:
One alternative to solution 2 would be to subtract the stun time from the
calculated balance time in the case of mutilates. If I recall correctly
mutilates already take 4s to cure when accounting for the stun so this would
mostly be bumping up other afflictions to a similar delay.
---[Rivius on 2/19 @ 06:03 writes]:
Mutilates from my testing take 2.5-2.7ish seconds to cure, not including the
stun. The stun on mutilates could help with Maul, but other kills such as the
bonecrusher insta also rely on ice affs.