TOP 13 worst abilities in the game that need a buff

[mmiracle]

Whirling Blade

Grade: 0/10
Why: low damage, no aim assist or homing, low rend and CDR values
very weak in PvE and PvP

Reverse Stab

Grade: 2/10
Why: animation lock, too slow, can’t turn, no homing or aim assist
very weak in PvP, can be used for CDR in PvE but that’s it

Flurry

Grade: 0/10
Why: no grit, too slow, low damage
Very weak in PvP, but in PvE there’s 0.1% of players who run it

Tondo

Grade: 1/10
Grade using it with FnF: 4/10
Why: no grit, too slow, animation lock
Stacking bleeds in 4m (melee) range while being animation locked and without having grit is too risky and not worth it

Incinerate

Grade: 2/10
Why: too slow, animation lock, ok damage
Extremely slow animation that makes it risky to use in PvEvP

Mighty Gavel

Grade: 1/10
Why: no grit, idiotic 2 step animation
Super bad in PvP as in melee range you are always going to be interrupted, is widely used in PvE for it’s damage where you can facetank and mindlessly smash buttons

Clear Out

Grade: 1/10
Why: too slow, poor hit reg, its funny
Bad in both PvP and PvE, I don’t see any bruiser running it and even tanks don’t seem to be using it

Rending throw

Grade: 1/10
Why: 10% rend is not worth it
Bad in PvP, 10% single target rend is really weak, just compare it to shockwave rend and you will understand why

Wind Chill

Grade: 1/10
Why: low dmg, long cd, can’t even crit
It’s worse than flamethrower

Ice Pylon

Grade: 1/10
Why: dies too quick, low damage

Baleful Tether

Grade: 0/10
Why: its weak
This might be one of the most unused abilities in the game

Essence Rupture

Grade: 0/10
Why: its weak
Oblivion, Scream and Orb are SO GOOD, that no one would ever consider using Essence Rupture

Cyclone

Grade: 1/10
Why: too slow, animation lock, poor hit reg
Push back is definitely redundant, compare it to GW or shockwave or wrecking ball or ice shower or sweep, it’s just bad. Stamina regen is redundant as it restores naturally while you’re animation locked and the same with it’s slow - it pretty much ends before you finish the animation. Leeching perk is bad because it’s hit registration is also inconsistent

[mmiracle]

Does anyone else feel like those are really bad abilities and need an urgent buff/rework.

I run OPRs a lot and rarely see anyone using these abilities (only returning players who haven’t yet figured the things out)

[newb]

Everything but pylon sure.

[mmiracle]

What’s wrong with the pylon?

It dies very quickly - it can’t survive more than a second next to a clump while it’s main upgrade is the 3m AOE burst(skill perk). It’s damage leaves much to be desired.

Current meta mages are using either
Ice Storm, Ice Shower, Entombed or
storm, spike, entombed.

I can see pylon working well in a 1v1, but that’s about it. Very weak ability overall imo

Pylon buff suggestion:
I’d give it a 5 second immortality upon cast, so that you can actually put it into a clump and it can do some damage instead of dying to 1 POD or 2 GA swings

[newb]

I don’t think the game needs an npc with an aimbot. It does a decent enough damage if you can’t ignore it. It’s very strong in 3s. I mean I guess it’s sever dependent but loads of mages use it. If you trait it’s, it takes 2 or 3 autos to kill it. It also doesn’t respawn when the player who placed it dies. It does about 1k damage per tick and you can get it to proc like 4 times in a second. And it’s an aimbot. I think it’s a dumb ability. Npc aimbot turrets are just a dumb idea imo.

[mmiracle]

Yeah, I agree on the aimbot part of it. It’s not a great idea, but in general pylon can be killed very easily it also can be easily LOSed.

All top tier mages on my server don’t use pylon.

I would be fine with making pylon a melee ability.
I’d remove it’s range attacks and make it sometimes like an ice bomb that you put on the ground, it does AOE damage every second and explodes after 3 seconds by slowing the enemies, for example.

I am still convinced that the current version of Pylon is weak in PvP. It’s out of the meta 100%

[PVX]

I agree, all above abilities need to just be replaced, i dont think ive ever used any of them in pvp, i mightve used cyclone for the heal when i was grinding bow mastery over a year ago.

[newb]

Yeah I think if you use pylon you simply aren’t good. That’s why your using an npc with an aimbot for help. Your idea sounds cool, but I’m def not voting for a pylon buff or rework as long as it stays as a turret, if it completely changes to something new then it be different.