I was under the impression that the Kheldians versions of phase did both, anyway? You had like 30 seconds of phase with a gradually increasing end burn. I could be wrong, I never take them.
I would prefer they just take off the nophase, and made the recharge longer to compensate. That way, if you built for recharge you could use it more often, but it's base would be about what we have now.
Issue 5-ish. I know because I used to use it to go and do things like tour the Hive.
Some of the reasons given were "Phase Tanking." Hit taunt, get stuff's attention, phase. Of course, this was also pre-ED.
The Kheldian self-phase with end burn was changed to the 30 second timer a while back, as well. Current reasoning had something to do with chaining phases (the temp, the PVP zone one, and phase shift) to be untouchable in PVP zones - which apparently either still happens, or can be countered by the other person phasing or some such.
So, I think it's long past time to remove the 30-second timer on Phase Shift.
As I recall, the timer was added 'round Issue 0 because players were somehow abusing the power, just leaving it on all the time?
If we want to stop this, why not take a page from the self-phasing powers of the Kheldians, and just put an endurance burn on it? When the burn becomes too strong, the effort of keeping oneself Phased means you just run out of endurance.
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