Heated Combat Issue

[Tobin]

Heated Combat
Tier II Skill

A Monk's toggle skill that behaves similarly to the Beatdown skill in that its effects become more pronounced with repeated combos. However, rather than accumulate power through enemy kills, Heated Combat is a skill that gains power through individual attack combos. As long as the Monk keeps striking the enemy with blows and does not get interrupted for more than half a second, their punches and kicks will gradually increase in damage. The aesthetic effect of this skill is that the skin around the fist or foot becomes hot to the touch, but this skill does not actually deal fire elemental damage.

It's a fine ability, but with the changes to all the animation times, it's become impossible to combo this move with most skills on the monks moveset, as as they generally have a animation time of 1.5/2 seconds, so that even with the full cooldown time applied, it's not possible to use this skill to combo normally.  Except from the obivous combo of heated combat + Bullet Punch/Inc Assualt and possibly counter break.

My suggestion is that the interuption should be increased to 1 second, so that with skill cooldown it would be possible to combo off this ability normally. Another suggestion would be to increase it to 1.5 seconds so that it would be possible to use it with certain, faster attack skills (Zoom Attack and Amazonian Tornado) can combo off it without having to take a cooldown perk, while still keeping it out of range of most Monk staples without equipment investment. 2 Seconds meanwhile would enable it to be comboed with the vast majority of monk skills.


Also, as a side quiry, how fast is a monks basic unarmed attack? I would assume 1 second unarmed but I wasn't entirely sure.

(PS. also as a wishlist I really want a Phantom Step Move. I've been a really good boy this year.

[Murasaki]

Fixed, it's now 2 seconds. As for attack speeds, I've been going with:

If you'd like my input into how weapon attack speeds really should go, generally speaking:

Punching / Small Weapons (under 1 foot): 1 second
Medium Weapons (1-3 feet): 1.5 seconds
Large Weapons (4+ feet): 2 seconds

This would make it so that skills, while they take a little longer to initiate, are used because of their special effects. Meanwhile normal attacks wouldn't be invalidated.