I'll start off with, players, let's try to avoid over-reacting to what I'm about to say. Yeah? Cool? Good!
This is particularly aimed at the devs to reconsider two of dragon's main abilities.
Several months back, Determination and Primal Roar were moved to the Gift Slots. This was done with the players anticipating its timer to either be increased or left alone.
Instead, quite the opposite happened, its timer was reduced to 30 mins from an hour, but it was left in the 'Gift' Slot.
I remember discussing with the team that many abilities that were originally going to be moved to the Gift Slots were originally about an hour long, such as Safety, Aura of Power, Shimmer Field, among others.
These were met with strong resistance and eventually we were able to compromise by reducing their lengths from hour long to either 30 or 45 minutes long, depending upon the buff.
As a result, we also expected Determination and Primal Roar to either get a boost in timer to make it a gift, or it would be taken out of the Gift Slot if its time was reduced.
The problem now is... these two abilities have been left as 'Gifts' but are only 30 minutes long. This has become, more often than not, a problem when getting into a party to say, fight an epic boss or something.
Myself, among others have more often than not opted not to activate either of those abilities, because they take away a slot from a Gift Slot.
A number of us believed that this was only a temporary problem and we had been told it would be addressed. This came about the same time as the changes to Gold Rage, so it has been quite a long while.
I'm sure many of us who feel the same would like the team to reconsider this change. Several months is more than ample time to fix a mistake and I don't believe this would be 'working as intended' because the two abilities in question are not worth a gift slot, certainly not with a 30 minute timer.
However, if you desire to keep it as a gift item, then please adjust the timer accordingly. Thanks for your consideration.