Please remove trances

[Kyloz]

This topic has been posted before but genuinely I do not understand why trances are still in the game.


-They are not fun to build your character around
-They do not have an animation or any visual effects
-Some of them straight up don't work every time last I checked. I remember the last time I played horizon walker they only activated sometimes and consumed a charge (not a problem for every trance)
-It is boring design
-Some builds require you to swap to a stat stick before activating a trance, this sucks! no one likes this.
-You cannot move around the UI so having to look every few minutes to see if my tiny trance buff icon is still active is annoying.
-They are required (especially in the newest expansion) for builds at endgame. This locks you into certain build paths and is completely a avoidable problem designed by SSG


Solution 1: Remove trances and bring down some of the stats of monsters to compensate.
Solution 2: Make them last much longer, 5 or 10m would be nice, it can have less charges.
Dark Solution: Give every class a trance and make it activate off whatever your highest stat is instead of a fixed stat.

 

[Ignition]

agreed remove trances please and reduce enemy stats to compensate

 

[woq]

The best way to explain this. If you use it while your strength is at 80 and the trance is 2 minutes, then you get fatigue or weakness and it's 78 and try to use it before the 2 minutes is up, it just consumes the trance because your stats aren't greater than the trance that's currently active.

This goes for everyone that is confused. If you click trance and it didn't give the buff, the previous trance is still active with a higher stat. Most of the time, this shouldn't be an issue for anyone but a Dragon Lord or someone who uses a stat stick. A monk can have this issue if they use the Touch of the Void Dragon.

Yeah, I'm not talking about the [str is now lower, so it won't overwrite the existing trance] -mechanic, but rather that my ui interface shows the button as pressed, ability displays cd, but the trance never activates - and if I press trance again a bit later, it'll activate fine.

Happens more during raids than solo questing. Could be related to me playing on a NA server from EU.

 

[Underflow]

Remove trances, or cap them to providing a maximum bonus of half your level.

I absolutely despise non-toggle 100% uptime buffs, and feel like they should pay their upkeep in a way other than 'mindlessly push a button on rotation'.

 

[Kyrr]

Yeah, I'm not talking about the [str is now lower, so it won't overwrite the existing trance] -mechanic, but rather that my ui interface shows the button as pressed, ability displays cd, but the trance never activates - and if I press trance again a bit later, it'll activate fine.

Happens more during raids than solo questing. Could be related to me playing on a NA server from EU.

That might probably be the case. I don't know how high your ping is but that issue only occurs for me during server lag spikes but I usually just double tab all abilities anyway.