Online:Time Stop

	Time Stop
Line		Psijic Order
Line Rank		2	Cost	7830 Magicka
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	–
Target		Ground
Range		28 meters	Area	8 meters
Morphs
		Borrowed Time Negates healing done on enemies that are stunned.
		Time Freeze Removes the cast time, but it takes longer to stun enemies.
Notes Magicka/Stamina Cost is based on a character of Level 50 160. Damage values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 7958, Max Health 8744, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1037.

Time Stop used on a pair of Goblins. Note the blue aura around them signifying they're stunned.

Time Stop: Cost: [8100 / 8010 / 7920 / 7830] Magicka.
Freeze the passage of time at the target location, gradually reducing the Movement Speed of enemies in the area during the channel before finally stunning them in place for 3 seconds when the channel completes.

Borrowed Time: Cost: [7830 / 7740 / 7650 / 7560] Magicka.
Freeze the passage of time at the target location, gradually reducing the Movement Speed of enemies in the area during the channel before finally stunning them in place for 3 seconds when the channel completes. Enemies that are stunned gain 5000 Heal Absorption for 3 seconds, negating the next 5000 points of healing done.

Time Freeze: Channel Time: Instant, Cost: [7830 / 7740 / 7650 / 7560] Magicka, Duration: 4 seconds.
Freeze the passage of time at the target location, gradually reducing the Movement Speed of enemies in the area over 4 seconds before finally stunning them in place for 3 seconds when the duration completes.

Time Stop reduces the movement speed| of all enemies in the target area before stunning them in place for 3 seconds. The spell has a longish (1.5 second) channel time, which can be negated with the Time Freeze morph (though it takes longer to stun the targets.) Alternatively, the Borrowed Time morph prevents affected targets from being healed for the duration. Note that enemies can move out of the affected area before the stun occurs and will be safe from the worst effects of this, so it's best to distract them into staying within range until the final stun, either by engaging them in melee (yourself or your allies) or knocking them back.

Patch Notes

 

4.3.5

• Increased the base cost of this ability to 8100 from 4590. Keep in mind that this is before the passive cost reduction from the skill line, or the passive cost reduction from the ability rank up.
  • Developer Comment: Time Stop is an incredibly powerful ability that allows large areas to be controlled by the caster, and we've noticed that a core contributing factor to the ability's strength is the low cost and high uptime a single user can have. With this change, we want to ensure Time Stop is still powerful, but incurs a high risk of loss of resources to prevent it from being used too often. The cost is based off our other PvP-based abilities such as Purge or Rapid Maneuvers, as this ability is primarily best suited for PvP environments. We will continue to monitor the performance overall to determine if additional changes are needed in the future.

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