Limit Eye of the Tiger to talents with shorter cooldowns

[comrade raoul]

I took Eye of the Tiger on my last winner (a Shalore marauder) and found it basically useless. The problem was that it was likely to effect one of the many high-cooldown active buffs marauders use (Perfect Strike, Greater Weapon Focus, Track, Bloodthirst, (for non-Shaloren) Blinding Speed) instead of my attack talents. The effect was that, despite the very high crit rate of an endgame character, I don't think it ever happened that Eye of the Tiger let me use a helpful talent when I'd otherwise have been unable, despite what one might've hoped would be a powerful synergy with Timeless.

Maybe I've misunderstood the prodigy's intent. If not, a simple fix would be to limit it to talents whose current cooldowns are relatively short--12 or lower, maybe.

[Davion Fuxa]

I think the prodigy's intent is pretty clear - to reduce a random Technique or Cunning talents cooldown by 2. The game doesn't pick or choose which of those talents gets reduced, though odds are if you are using the higher cooldown talents more heavily then your short term ones then you'll see it effecting your high cooldown talents more.

One thing to note though is that perhaps Marauders aren't the best candidate for the prodigy to be taken on - they have a lot of high cooldown talents as opposed to say a Rogue, Berserker, or some other short term action-heavy class that can see a lot of physical criticals happening.

[SageAcrin]

It's not meant to be universal.

Only a very few Prodigies are, and those are usually meant to be universal because their unlock is very rare. The exceptions to that are there so people have an option in case of decision paralysis.

At least, this is my impression of the system.

In many ways, this Prodigy isn't that great for those with just short cooldowns, either, as they often have cooldown cycles. Optimally you either plan your talent use around it, for optimal resetting of a key skill quickly, or you're one of the classes that has a lot of talents in a moderate cooldown range, like Doomed, Summoner or Bulwark.

[comrade raoul]

Thanks, that's helpful.

[Furey]

I've used eye of the tiger on both my summoner and doomed, and you are correct, they are awesome for builds with a large number of moderate-short cooldowns.

I used it on my last necro and was very unimpressed, because as noted, it often triggered many of the long cooldown powers, and changing a cooldown from 30 to 28 is, in most fights, not very helpful.