Spell Balance Suggestions

[Iceshadow]

Spell: Flux (Absorption Intermediate)

Suggestion: Go back to old Flux, add this as a basic (and still I'd see this as too awful for a basic)

Old Flux would swap the user's mana and their opponent's mana, being a spell that was optimal post set-up. It was a finisher ability that would OOM yourself once you managed (if able) to sufficiently sap your opponent.

Doing this would require several other trees.

I have occult, personally. I can black binding, aperture, drain their mana to SOME degree and then flux which would immediately grant them full mana back and punish me to where I need to regenerate now. Not to mention that Inverse Charge (absorption basic) heals you according to your MANA. Meaning I'm effectively destroying my heal ability which would be optimal if I was at full mana and used it.

Absorption builds are typically low CDR, and low crit rate. They have lower damage than most and win through attrition nearly.

This is my CDR PRE-WEIGHT
These are my stats with aura and stance. Absorption and Dexterity.
My crit rate and CDR are not impressive.

The flux change should have been introduced as a new spell, a basic and old Flux should have been kept as an intermediate.

It could have been called 'Mana Charge' or something similar. Right now, this ruins build ingenuity and will just turn absorption users back into agi dumps with everyone else and almost certainly return (IMO) absorption builds back to just 'another tree.'

I'm probably missing something, but definitely not happy with this change.