Before reading this: I missed the fact that shattering blow is only available after casting symbiosis on a warrior!
Hailing from the main page:
Shattering Blow is instant, activates Catform, costs 50 Energy, deals some dmg and reduces armor by 20%. However, if a target is invulnerable (Bubble, HoP, Iceblock..) the invulnerability will vanish. Just like Shattering Throw from the warrior, but without the casttime. And it has 30 yards range O_o.
For PvE Bubble will not change a bit. But in PvP Bubble slowly becomes the most pointless ability of all.
Priests, Warriors and Druids can take it away now. That's like every Arenamatch or every BG, where you potentially meet at least one class capable of destroying bubble. And shattering blow being an instant attack is really really stupid on top of that.
I don't know.. They should just remove bubble from PvP.. This is getting ridiculous.. We are somewhat still being balanced around the bubble and yet bubble is getting worse and worse..
It's just too many classes that can take it away and I really don't see the need for that. A ret uses bubble to break cc most of the time anyway, due to the 50% dmg reduction and the little amount of healing our manapool allows. Only Holy Palas had a really good use of bubble.
Is another class really necessary to be capable of destroying Bubble and such? When you press Bubble, you expect to be invulnerable because otherwise you would probably have died. This is a stupid mechanic anyway: 5 min cd, 8 seconds of invulnerability and 10 specs being able to destroy it. It's not like that Bubble was really op.. Esp. not for prot or ret..
What are you thoughts on this? Or did I miss something? Just saw that ability on the main page and thought "Really?.. Yet another class? Whose idea was that?"
I honestly think they should take Bubble away and compensate us with a mechanic that is not prejudiced by the evil Bubble. Or simply make it a second insignia..
Ps.: I used the search function, but didn't find anything. Should this be discussed already somewhere else, I apologize. Didn't find it.
Edit: And when you think about HoP: Priests can take it away, warriors can take it away, druids can take it away and dispells (shamans, DKs with icy touch glyph, priests again, hunters and mages). It's like a real jeopardy to cast HoP. Kinda everyone can take it away. But srsly, for what friggin' reason? Will Monks be able to dispell or destroy invulnerabilities?... -_____-