Oskill: SMG
Review: The damage is great. However it has several issues I talked about earlier already. 1) It takes a lot of time to start the attack. It seems it is affected by faster cast rate, but to me it seems it doesn't make a noticable difference. I haven't experimented with it much though, so I might as well be wrong about this. So take this with a grain of salt. 2) There seems to be a delay of somewhere around 1 second after you stop casting SMG. You can move in that time, but you can't use any skills. If you still do, the casting animation will be played and if it's a cooldown ability like Blink, it will shortly go on cooldown, but you won't get any affect from that skill at all. That makes reacting to enemies attacks a lot harder. Those 2 issues seem to be normal for channeling abilities, so it's not a bug of SMG per se. It's rather a mechanical issue and I don't know if it's even possible to change that in upcoming patches. 3) The projectile is a little bit too big. That causes issues on corners, where projectiles of the usual size can hit the enemy, but you can't hit them. These things are especially noticable when there are enemies that attack you from a certain distance. Tran Athulua for example. There are cases when amazons can hit you, but you can't hit them back, even if you aim slightly around the corner.
Mana cost is no issue, even with a skill level 30 SMG from
Riot (Xis)
. Not even once did I have any issues with his skill regarding mana cost.
Leech is also okay, even with values as little as 30-35%. Using it back and forth will also increase your killspeed against crowds instead of aiming at 1 point only.
This skill is very good against enemies that charge at you, since the packs usually line up behind each other, allowing you to attack them all at once. However, due to the nature of a narrow attack line, its killing speed is still worse than other AoE abilities. Against bosses it's okay, but there are better skills against them.
It has its uses, but there are better skills out there.
Rating: 6/10