[Nanovelich]

You do realize this doesn't stop the nuking factor, right? Charge Mind and HSDW are Skills. Charge Mind has a 4 round effect with Brainstorm; HSDW has a 3 round cooldown. So.

Round 0: Charge Mind
Round 1: HSDW...
Did your opponent preemptively Silence? Congratulations! Throatopener time, then you invoke next turn. Otherwise, you're free to use that 4m for whatever to help you stay alive longer.

Now, what if your opponent has slower turn order than you, waits until Round 2 to silence?
Well, don't you worry about that, One Punch Man. Popping the Throatopener now is even better, because now you have 4m this turn to start your invocation and on the next round, you get a full 6-7m to be able to do the one thing you were prevented from doing by a preemptive Silence: Blink. There's no escaping your nuke on Round 3 now!



Now let me get into the root of why this is a problem, starting with a question:

Can't the same be accomplished with Silent Prayer? I don't see what the problem is.

The problem is there's a reason no one simply plays Evoker/Priest. Because every other class they could pair with Evoker has the potential to give them way more versatility while they're Silenced, make them live longer, and/or raise their damage potential substantially.


Let a Verglas/Evoker pull off one Intensify Cold, and Silence is no longer a problem.

Exgalfa and Overload are both capable of ending a fight by themselves against the tankiest of characters. And if they're not the tankiest characters, it usually only takes one, and if it doesn't, you just need a way to throw out an extra 100-200 damage.


And let's not even get started on people running Evoker with Boxer for Geist Schritt alone, guys.

A damage reduction is probably the best way to balance this. At least then there's the potential for someone fighting an Evoker to not die because Silence is so easily bypassed.