Stampede is Clunky [Suggestions]

After playing a Stampede Titan to 95 I have to say I love the concept of the skill, but it really needs some tweaks. It can be really frustrating to use, and I had to work Leap Slam into my build for moments when using Stampede was just too aggravating. Stampede gets stuck or redirects your character in a locked animation way too often.

It needs to push through mobs in the direction that you pressed the button in - and it should NOT redirect you into some totally random direction. I feel like I can't use this skill for Trials of the Sekhemas at all - and sure you could say that I could just avoid ever doing those trials on a Stampede character, but this also makes it dangerous in situations while mapping as well. You're basically losing control of your character, and running off in a random direction.

I understand if the devs feel like it shouldn't push through the huge mobs like mammoths, etc. In those cases maybe the movement halts on them and have to stomp in front of them (like how it seems to act in most cases with most mobs). But for the majority of the mobs, the skill really needs to push through them (maybe with some combination of inherent phasing/knockback) to feel better. I should not be getting stuck on mobs that are my size using a skill like this. Not only is it frustrating, but it looks silly.

And this is compounded by the fact that melee skills just get stuck on terrain everywhere all the time. This is one of the game's most significant issues, and it makes playing melee feel bad. Fixing this issue needs to be a priority imo. It would go a long way to helping melee feel smoother.

Finally, there is a wind-up for 1-2 seconds (it feels like an eternity) at the beginning of the skill. This feels BAD. Can't this be removed? Or at least tone it down significantly? I'm not 100% sure on this, but it feels like attack speed affects that initial delay and not the rest of the animation. Can't we just remove the delay and have attack speed affect the speed of the entire animation? That would make the skill feel a whole lot smoother.

These are my notes on the skill. Let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. The game needs some tweaking to improve the QOL of melee skills, but Stampede has a list of its own issues.

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