Moonbeam (And Epic Snipe) Changes

[Epsilon Assassin]

To be clear, I'm a PvPer. Mainly a zone one. This is my perspective so that you can understand;

 

During the last patch, there were a multitude of changes to how the epic snipes worked. Including their timing/root duration. I'm curious as to why this was necessary because it made both Moonbeam and Zapp nearly unusable in their current state. Prior to the change, there was a small root animation during the 1.1(?) second activation time for Snipe. Likely less then half a second, perhaps as little as a quarter. Now the root duration of the skill animation is the full 1.3 seconds and it causes severe gameplay impact. Negatively. It went from a passably good skill to use while having access to Shadow Meld, to being effectively unusable.

 

Given I do not believe removing/lessening the root duration for the quick snipe animation(s) would impact PvE in any way, would it be possible to request the change be (Partially) reverted to a point where the root does not make the skill nigh-on useless as a ranged attack for a melee character?

 

Appreciated