Is this intended?

[Momolicio]

Brawlers Stance, Face of the Mountain (Perhaps some higher level ones) are now not starting the recast timer until the spell expires/cancels. What this means, at least for me. Is that if I FD its gonna be 120 seconds until I can get  BS back up and into tanking mode. (I dun want to hear any of the tank/anti-tank argument) I can no longer keep Face of the mountain up, etc. Should this be /bug'd or is that how things are supposed to be now? <div></div>

[woo]

<P>im not sure, but its quite annoying.</P> <P> </P> <P>staggering stance is also this way, annoys me i basically can only have it up every <EM>other</EM> battle..</P>

[Tully]

<DIV>I'm pretty sure it was bugged during the time we could have those spells permanately up.  I could have had Martial Discipline and Face of the Mountain up 24/7 if I wanted to.  I don't believe that was intended and i'd put my money on this being the fix.</DIV>

[Jezekie]

I don't know, but I always thought that my buffs should start their recast timer when I cast them and not any other time. So wether this is a fix or bug it's unwelcome. <div></div>

[Wiou]

It is intended. Was mentioned in last patch notes. <div></div>

[FamilyManFir]

As Wiou said, this seems to be intended. From the Live Update #5 Notes:- Toggleable maintained spells will now begin their reuse timer when cancelled. They should block any other spells that are upgrades/downgrades of the same line while active, and should begin the reuse timers on those upgrades/downgrades when the blocking spell is cancelled.Personally I feel that this was implemented without much playtesting as it has some nasty side-effects for several classes. As pointed out here, after a FD, you now have to wait 30 seconds before you can put up Brawler's Stance. If FD fails, then, you're going to get pounded on even worse that you were before.I understand the intention; it may not have been their design to have most buff spells like these up constantly. However, I think that this is one poor implementation of that design.

[Momolicio]

Well it seemed to screw up the barding classes with the stacking of spells, and much like how RUSE gets fixed ASAP when its broken, yet other attacks along the same lines are still bustified. The songs where fixed the next patch. Also has anyone else noticed special attacks effects showing in the Maintained Effects window alot. As in I had 7 stifleing kicks up once then they would randomly fade out (I hit it whenever it recycles, so every 8 secs the buffs should fade) A Swashbuckler was complaining about the same thing from an interupting attack (Kidney Blow) Had 5 of them up after one fight. <div></div>

[FamilyManFir]

I'm convinced that they had to rush this patch out to meet the deadline for the Bloodline Chronicles. Notice that they had it on Test for all of 4 days?I really, really hope that they go back to the kind of schedule they used for Live Update #4. That one was on test for 11 days and had much fewer problems when it was pushed out.