While statistically those situations align with the cooldown, in practice they don’t.
Yes, 99% of the time you’re not fighting a dragon, so your dragonslaying move can be on cooldown for however long
However, during the 1% of the time, the same cooldown makes the move completely useless
These aren’t the same shipwrecks as those in the War Seas. These are “abandoned ships”, and they’re useless.
Not quite what I meant.
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you put lost knowledge on surge (not sure why you would but that doesn’t matter). Most people aren’t attempting to use surge the moment it comes off cooldown, and instead wait for a good opportunity to use it. That’s when the increased cooldown doesn’t matter as much.
to be fair, i think it largely depends on the nature of the ability, and dpurg is still technically straight stat upgrades. on top of that, running a bit of haste makes it a lot easier to deal with the cd increase (not like you should be using it on abilities you need to use very frequently anyways).
that being said, for how much effort you need to put in obtaining it, yeah it’s not very good at all. in pvp it can be worth it to have an ability that you can’t spam as much but is easier to land and/or more damaging when landed, but in pve especially it’s basically never worth eating the cd increase, and for i imagine a good portion of the playerbase that’s all that really matters for them.
also dslaying surging in value right before the dragon update only for it to be absolutely garbage against them was hilarious
glider was so broken on release they had to nerf the hell out of it and even now it’s a fairly consistent way to avoid fall damage on high ping without having to pop a featherfall
i was considering putting it in either underrated or useful but i figured there’s better picks for those and i thought other people would say those too, didnt expect it to end up in useless
Just remembered you cant get to Skyhall without them, but the fact i forgot says everything about how often i visit.
Ive never used them to avoid fall damage, when it comes to dark sea i just occasionally grab onto the cliffside to stall. Even i4 dragon cliffs i just use some movement skills to stall on the way down from the upper arena like rush.
I also never use them for actual gliding, they cost too much stamina and theyre slow. Theres no main sea places that i feel the need to use it, and flight/spirit flight is better in every way in dark sea. Maybe once global downscaling comes in. .
Not entirely true but your point still stands. Most people can’t get to skyhall without them
Useless: no synergies on Infuse dagger/blood disease
you can technically synergize with the status on blood disease, the problem is the status is applied after synergies are considered and blood disease status effects last like, no duration for whatever reason so it’s super difficult to synergize
i probably should’ve put blood diseases in useless tbh but i kinda forgot about it (which speaks to how useless it is)
oh my god i HATE this feature so much
it makes sense for some ships like jorund but theres no reason to have it on a dumb ass sailboat when i can just attack their crew to stop them from sailing anyway, it does NOTHING except
- making merchant ships annoying as hell since you have to wait for them to stop to buy something
- make zero sense especially when an npc is sailing past a dock and you just get slammed into the wall at mach 5
five hundred navy ships docking at the amarut port but still having the anti boarding blast despite having already stopped and conveniently preventing you from accessing the banker at the port (should’ve set your spawn to monos bro)
underrated
(Bronze and Nimbus) Sealed chests
overrated
headless
useless
Wind (mechanic)
useful
Food
i like to use lost knowledge on ults cause i feel ults are a bit weak, putting dragon-slaying on ults just benefits to the dmg and size making it feel even more impactful since i cant use it a bunch plus i have others moves
oh yeah plus darkness purging is a nice thing to put on ults if u wanna hit it easier
the dragon glider uses alot less stamina and is a little bit faster so thats a plus i guess
also i love having customization for it from character to character
underrated
dunno, towers?
overrated
fleet
useless
more profession lvls = less xp
useful
also fleet