Buff Durations

Buff durations should be more along the lines of this

Fortify Defense, Stances, Shields, Glancing Blow, Dodge, Evasion, etc - 5 min +

Air's embrace, Strength of Earth, Enlightenment, Aetheric Feedback, etc- 1 hour

Most of the potions (Might, Acumen, Wolf Speed, etc) should be 1 hour duration

 

I definitely would like to see potion buff durations increased. People might actually start using them if they did which might make some demand. As it stands they're just tedious to bother with so very few people do.

 

It is the short duration spells I would like put emphasis on.
Maintaining defence during challenging content requires you to keep up 3 or 4 spells that all do the same thing (increase defence somewhat)

With durations ranging from 30 seconds to 2 minutes, its ridiculous.

1) Maintaining these skills require an inordinate amount of time spent concentrating on your own character's stats rather than what is happening in the actual fight

2) Figuring out which buff is about to expire by sorting thru any of 20 tiny buff icons on the character nameplate

3) They change position on the nameplate so you cannot just quickly glance at it

4) Having to do this frequently since many only last a minute or less

5) the 3 or 4 skills all perform the same function and have no bearing on combat other than maintaining basic defence.
You are not casting dodge because a mob is raising his weapon


Many of these spells cost 0 or a trivial amount of focus. Increasing their durations would be a major quality of life improvement

 

Sure no, its very bad for economy. Also all who wants be effective use potions now, and have no problem with it at all.

 

Add musical instrument buffs to the list as well

 

Fighting the Dragon, the most annoying part of it is casting the 4 or 5 buffs that you MUST have active (to not get annihilated instantly) every 30 seconds. If they lasted even 3 minutes, I'd have to activate them only 3 to 4 times in that battle, and that seems much more reasonable than the current 25+ times.

 

This seems pretty silly in light of you being able to not only take on a dragon and survive but ultimately win!

 

I'm just the one tanking it... I have a friend doing DPS too, otherwise it'd take an hour. Actually, he does the tanking most often, and I DPS it. Our builds are nearly identical.

 

Here is what it seems like.

You have your combat, and then on the side there's this mini-game of buff refreshing.