TEMPORAL CHAIN

Do the devs take an unhealthy satisfaction when players are perm chained??? What was their motivation otherwise?
-40% mov speed and once you caught you never recover, during the whole map you are targeted by the course. Where is the fun in it, except for the laughing devs??

I don't like the new curse implementation. Perhaps they are just trying it out for now. I hope they revert it or think of something else. The constant ground casting adds needless terrain clutter.

For your specific problem: Wanderlust boots allow you to ignore the Chains (also Chilled Ground).

Curse circle instead perma curse - OK !
But WTF , Why -40% ?!...
seriously, when you're cursed by temporal chan you can leave the map. it's just unplayable.

The prior constant 20% slow was far more tolerable and didn't contribute to the severely unoptimized bloat on the screen.

Or you can play as a Pathfinder and completely ignore it.

No one can ignore the new implementation's constant ground casting. Less is more.

Ground casting would be fine if it lasted 5 seconds and gave a couple seconds of immunity afterwards. There was no need to increase the temporal chains from 20% to 40%. Maybe there is a way to keep the ground casting but get rid of the ground spam

GGG wants to make balanced changes but they are doing it to fix a game that is imbalanced ... so adding a negative in with a positive just keeps the balance where it already is and is counterproductive to them balancing the game

Hard disagree. The constant casting is bloat. The permanent slow could be 99% and I would not care since Wanderlust exists.

changing my boots to account for a stupid map mod doesnt make any more sense to me

The stupid map mod not contributing to the mile-high pile of unoptimized assets is a win in my book.