Does a long Damage Reflect duration add depth to a fight?

Damage Reflect has a brief window similar to Weapon/Magic cancel where damage is reduced to 1, after which it has the added effect of doing a flat amount of damage to the attacker each ability cast. DR effects can last as long as 30 seconds, during which players will sometimes have nothing to do but stand around and wait for the effect to end.

I would argue, and I would imagine most players would agree, that the most “interesting” part of DR is the first 5 seconds, where the player has to transition from attacking to not attacking, and it is during this window that most players will die due to not reacting quickly enough. After the first few seconds, once everyone has stopped attacking, DR more or less just effectively functions like a Weapon Cancel.

My question to the server is, does this duration actually add any depth to the fight, besides effectively functioning as a timer burn and a pot burn for Buccs? What are people’s thoughts on instead having shorter DR durations but more frequent casts, such as 30 second CD but 5 sec duration for DR during PB main body? Or even transitioning back into a WC-like state after a few seconds to help Buccs save pots?

This discussion can also extend to Weapon/Magic Cancel but I’m more curious on people’s thoughts why DR lasts so long when the most interesting part of it happens in the first 3 seconds.

 

Because being forced to repeatedly smash your face into DR when every other class can stand there and wait isn’t really fair

 

Depends on the fight. DR is not an insignificant source of pot burn that other classes do not have to deal with in PB and Auf on top of normal pot usage. Even worse in Auf if you have a warrior controlling Auf as they do not get i frames from rush as warriors already have monumentally large pot burn

 

It also helps warriors for what it’s worth. Pot burn also isn’t the only reason DR is problematic.