Botulism = Stone curse, without the stun. It's a single target skill.
Snap Wind/Razor Gale = Mana ring type skill (0.5s cast, 3s cool) with slightly more power than wind blade. Fast cast but the range is like lvl1 mana arrow, meh. It IS powerful tho for it's fast cast, and the damage also factors MA and AC. So in some cases it can be slightly stronger than Raging Storm. SUPPOSEDLY it's supposed to lower water resistance too so water skills can do more damage but i just don't see that happening.
The new mana shield is supposed to be a Diablo implementation of mana shield so... meh. No real details on ratio or what not yet. But yes, it would make dark hybrids in general near impossible to kill. Even moreso if they're 1414.
Death Constriction or whatever that new gravity addon is called only prevents using POTIONS iirc, which makes it a pvp only skill. I don't think it prevents SKILLS else Fear would be somewhat mooted (somewhat, gravity still has a 3s cast). Remember there's another addon coming out for Dark Lance that if it hits, it causes Blind status (think, night cycle in tapasco fields, just worse).
Wind Gate, that teleport skill... we have no idea how it works, lol. My best guess atm is just you cast it, click somewhere on the ground and you warp there.
With the pure dark 2nds ALONE, a Dark Lord would be able to totally, systematically dismantle anyone when fighting 1:1. Even Charms... Picture this:
1) Fear, now you can't use skills. Fear chain till Mana reflector wears off.
2) Dark Distractor, now they can't run away if they don't have a sprint.
3) Dark Lance + Blind, blinded, makes it really hard to judge surroundings.
4) Gravity crush, since they can't see it coming OR run from it if they can.
5) If they're still alive at that point, they can't use potions...
If it ever got to #5, by that point they can't use skills, they can't run, they can't see, they can't pot... It's literally like having all of your 5 senses disabled.
But yeh, exactly what you said is pretty much what i've been thinking too. The small print i suppose is how much TM would you need to get all that? By the time you have ALL those skills you'd have to be lvl300+. By then you'd be crazy strong anyway.
BUT, we knew PvP in this game is made of fail so lets not worry about it, pfft. Most of the stuff i've said is just based on hearsay so definitely break out the salt shaker.
