Is this a Whitelion only topic or where are the unhappy MSHs
First of all I think it is important to point out, that when leap or pounce has this short range it needs to make you land on the target, and not the previous location. Or the traveltime from you take off and till you land on the distnation is pretty much same as it would take you to walk 45ft. If this ends up being a pounce spammed on top of a moving target and never being in range of using a melee snare, the ability is not really a gabcloser. Unless the intention is for catching backliners who are still standing and not a chasedown tool (charge fits this?)
Ive done about 50 scenarios so far split between my sorc, bw and MSH after this change.
I managed to "kite" one squigherder by simply turning and running while he was showing sign of trying to leap on me, as a result i couldnt cast anything but instans and it pushed me out of the fight as long as he was fixated on me. Yes i could still dot and do instans but he effectively pushed my safezone back by moving towards me and pushing the battlefront toward me, making me decite if i would detaunt and facetank while hard-casting or dot and keep distance.
Meanwhile on my MSH i could still reach a backline, but nolonger on my own terms. I now severely expose myself and my plan before i reach a maxrange freecasting engineer. Resulting in them having time to detaunt before i land, or setting up an offensive/counter to my attack. It never lead me to a feeling of unfairness, but it for sure forced me to play smarter.
Chasing down targets is not a garenteed kill and cleanup snowball from the Chaser's point of view, instead you push them to retreat while making any remaining frontliners stay overextended to be cleaned up. Is this then just greed making the chasing leapclasses want to play Cleanupcrew? or are we just hearing from solo/smallscale roaming WLs who cant suprice knockdown kill people without them detaunting leading to free kills.
In the even matches where both realms had a lineup where none of the sides would fallover and get stomped, the battlelines between back,mid and frontline were still intact. if a target on the front was getting pressured and a healer had to spam to catch the critical condition, they cant "uproot" and start kiting outside of pounce range without potentially loosing valuable hps. Still opening them up to be swapped to, but now at a choice of them accepting the swap they see coming or they prekite the poince and allow the pouncer to zone them off from healing as effectively potentially.
But as I said initially. for 45feet poince to work, the landing position needs to be on the target and not at the spot they stood when you pressed it.
