Palm strike nerfed 1/8/09. Still viable?

Uhm. You do know that the cripple effect is basically one of the few reasons people use the skill, right? It just means they can go with Trampling Ox, then Falling Spider, use PS again, other dual attack, PS and 3rd dual attack. All good and great to a person who plays like a retard.

I'd rather have the option of a utility skill with it as well. Hit a Warrior with PS skill and dash away. Or hit them with PS and cover the cripple with Viper's defense.

Right now, even with 33% cripple, you're only looking at a max of 5 second cripple, that's pathetic to try to control any movement with.

Since PS is so spammable, it's an easy target for Diversion or an interrupt so I see no problem with bumping the duration to 6 seconds at 10 crit strikes, and 7 at 14. That's something to at least work with.

*Sigh* Repeat after me: PS is fine.

Get [Recovery] up if you can't kite PS sins, then get cripple rune and cripple shield. Then just stand there unless your opponent is smart enough to kill the spirit first. Just because something has a counter doesn't mean it's balanced.

PS is almost as bad as SP pre-nerf. It doesn't teleport, but it deals damage, can be used every 4 seconds, slows down only by 16% less, you can immediately use a Dual Attack after PS...

Oh, and since you can't Protective Spirit against it, it makes it kinda... buffed now.

And what's Cripple good if you are going to get knocked down over and over? Or if single-target Cripple was getting removed so fast only bad teams couldn't deal with the condition.

The OPness of the skill is the skillbar compression. It's like adding a Poison condition to [Crippling Shot] or [Burning Arrow]. Sure you can remove Poison, it's only -4. But you don't need Apply Poison then.