I started this game about a week ago and I'm loving it so far. I usually wind up in end game PVE and PVP with only one character I actually play. I rolled a Shadow and specced Kinetic Combat because the skill tree really appealed to me and I've been having a great time with it- except for one ability: Kinetic Ward. I've never played a class in an MMO with an ability that is so essential to a spec that is also more of a headache to properly maintain. Maybe I just don't have the practice with it yet, but this ability seems to be something that should be a toggled or constant buff that was inexplicably made into a constant refresh. To compound the problem, Kinetic Bulwark makes the last half of charges the most effective, so just constantly mashing the KW bind now becomes suboptimal. Also, it has limited charges- which brings up a few more problems such as it falling off after the charges are spent but before the ability becomes available again, leaving me without the buff and spiking my damage until the timer ticks down. So I've found myself trying to practice micromanaging this ability, constantly scanning my buff bar, just to practice tanking at the optimal level and I've found this is really detracting from both my ability and enjoyment of tanking as a Shadow. So I guess my questions are: 1. Is there an easier way to keep this ability up? 2. If not, with practice, does this become "second nature" or is at always a bit of a pain in the *** to properly maintain? 3. Are there other tools I'm not using such as buff bars or user interface options I'm not aware of? Any other suggestions would also be appreciated as well as any other suggestions for this lvl 30ish Shadow. Just wanted to get some feedback early on before I commit more seriously to the class. Thanks.
