Obliterate's Cooldown

[Locus]

Anyone else think that Obliterate needs a slightly shorter cooldown? The initial CD is 1 min, which is clearly too long, but is brought down to 30 seconds by spending 5 talents points. Yet, even with the 30 second cooldown, it just feels a bit too short.

30 seconds means that I only get to use our best nuke once every other fight. It means i only get to use it once per rift stage unless there are only a couple of people at the rift. I don't think it should have no cooldown, but we already have to prepare for it by using Decay, and it's not like it's THAT powerful.

I feel like a CD of 15-20 seconds after spending the talents would be much more fair.

[TheQlu]

The damage would need to be lowered because obliterate in pvp, well obliterates them if it crits >;]

[Locus]

The damage would need to be lowered because obliterate in pvp, well obliterates them if it crits >;]

Obliterate does not gain much from crits, since Lurking Decay can not crit. Obliterate itself is probably 1/3 or less of the resulting damage from using Obliterate.

Plus, bolt of depravity is amazing when it crits, can be chain cast, sometimes instant cast, and guaranteed crit every 45 seconds with the right inq spec.

I just don't think the damage is high enough to warrant a 30 second cooldown. It's true that the LD goes off as AE, but i feel like Oblit is typically used a Single target burst.

[TheQlu]

Obliterate does not gain much from crits, since Lurking Decay can not crit. Obliterate itself is probably 1/3 or less of the resulting damage from using Obliterate.

Plus, bolt of depravity is amazing when it crits, can be chain cast, sometimes instant cast, and guaranteed crit every 45 seconds with the right inq spec.

I just don't think the damage is high enough to warrant a 30 second cooldown. It's true that the LD goes off as AE, but i feel like Oblit is typically used a Single target burst.

Well I can take 2/3 of someones health with an obliterate if it crits: / I don't think we need another sab role.