Celerity should work in combat
Blarney_Stone
Join Date: 2013-03-08 Member: 183808Members, Reinforced - Shadow
It isn't all that useful if it deactivates when you're fighting someone. As it is right now it's pretty much not an option to go celerity first (despite it being the go-to opener on pubs for some reason). Allowing it to actually help you win engagements could increase the viability of a shift first opening.
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The ONLY reason I see that you would need to go Shift first is on large player number servers, where egg-locking becomes a problem.
Heck, I'm usually debating if Adren/Celery is actually better than Silence as a second upgrade too.