buff revamp

And yet if they don't have a cooldown they're up 100% of the time anyways, so you're "some skills are too good to have a longer duration" point is moot. That also goes for skills that have a "cooldown," (think Call of the Wild where when maxed it's duration = cooldown).

And then you have skills like Maple Warrior and Magic Guard that have really long durations for almost no reason. I don't think I've ever used all 600 seconds of Magic Guard before since I just recast it with Booster and Meditation. I think the few cases I have made it through were in bosses where I don't always use my macros./QUOTE] This is probably the main reason why buff duration of stolen skills were reduced in the first place. Phantoms were used for multi mule while grinding, 180 sec hs was too good for being a stolen skill, therefor it was nerfed to 108 sec (40% less duration) so it would have the same effect, but you need to cast it more. Do you want mules to be easy to use?

Example:
Person 1: Hey person 2, can you hs me for 4 hours?
Person 2: Sure, but I will be playing a different game meanwhile so wont be hsing you more than once every 10 min.
Person 1: Thats fine, it last 15 min anyway .

Thats what I mean for being too good to have longer duration. Selfbuffs can be debatable but skills like HS, SI, SE, Adv bless & all other party skills that make a difference should not be increased, they are already past 3 min atm and that should be more than enough.

I don't get what you mean by "the purpose of rebuffing." You would still have to rebuff, it just wouldn't be every two minutes. If you're not going to make buffs last longer, at least give party buffs full-party (so long as they're in the map) or full-map range.

Rebuffing takes time and can cause death if you dont do it in the right spot, an example of this is at root of abyss boss vellum. If you as a mercedes stand next to his tail and rebuff (a merc have an avg of 5 to 8 sec of rebuffing time) you can easily die, removing the purpose of rebuffing eliminates the fear factor of rebuffing since he can 1hko you within those 5 to 8 sec if you arent careful enough.

And if you people really want to remove the need of rebuffing too much, buy a pet that can do it for you. I have 3 pets that give me w.att bonus so I decided to buy the rebuffing skill on them since its my only main char. Obviously this wont be cheap to keep perm for GMS, but in EMS pets never lose their skills (they learn skills instead of using items) so all you have to pay for is the water of life. I put my longest casting spells on this and my rebuffing only includes decent se, booster, spirit surge and mw atm (Ignis Roar, Water shield & ancient warding on pets). This will also help your survivability, for some classes at least. You could almost say that these 3 skills I got on my pets are passive skills, since they will always be on, even if Im stunned.