11-23-2016, 04:53 PM
Insulate in itself is a skill that ever, since it was released, I never saw being used at all.
I myself, with my bunch of 8123132 Ice characters, never saw a use in it either, because 30% Ice resistance for 3 rounds in exchange for crippling one of your turns is pretty useless. Mainly because it´s Ice resistance. Any Ice user who wants to rely on Ice damage either has IC to give 50% ice weakness or Winterbite. Insulate is not able to help against any of those cause Winterbite kinda simply hard counters it, making it flat out a waste of 3M and in case you are hit by IC, the last thing you want to do is sitting there using 3M to slightly reduce the damage coming your way.
(not triggering ice tiles during the duration is also kinda pointless on that class, since you have better options to avoid them. Like Shukichi, Crane hop or any other of the movement skills.)
So overall, while interesting in itself as a gimmick, it´s useless in praxis. So how about we make this skill actually useful?
Like we could make it a Passive/Active
Passive:
When equipped you can gain passively Rank*5% Ice resistance and rank*2 Ice Atk.
Active:
You gain additional Rank*5% Ice resistance and rank*2 Ice atk.
benefits from permafrost.
This way it´s use in power is comapreable to the enchantment buffs, even when still slightly weaker, and it doesn´t feel like a huge waste to use since you atleast have it open for a while, given you have put into permafrost.
I think that could make the skill actually good and give it a place for certain builds.