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Noose

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Army of the Abyss

N/Mo

28 Dec 2006 at 08:22 - 1

I'm not really sure what this fits under, but here it is.

The curses skill, Depravity, used to read something like "whenever target foe casts a spell, all foes in the area lose x energy."

Now, it reads "whenever target foe casts a spell, that foe and one nearby foe lose x energy."

I think Anet was sneaky on us, I'm pretty sure there wasn't even an update.

EPO Bot

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Mo/N

28 Dec 2006 at 08:26 - 2

It sounded like a nerf WAS reqired tough.

leprekan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Posers and Wannabes [nubs]

W/E

28 Dec 2006 at 08:26 - 3

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noose

I'm not really sure what this fits under, but here it is.

The curses skill, Depravity, used to read something like "whenever target foe casts a spell, all foes in the area lose x energy."

Now, it reads "whenever target foe casts a spell, that foe and one nearby foe lose x energy."

I think Anet was sneaky on us, I'm pretty sure there wasn't even an update.

Just capped it today on my nec. Think Anet will give me 1k since they made it useless? **holding breath on outcome**

Why it was easy to remove. Yet searing flames lives on .. GG Anet.

**Turning blue**

LagunaCid

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

BHL

R/

28 Dec 2006 at 08:40 - 4

Thats Old News!

Cacheelma

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Ascalon Union

Me/Mo

28 Dec 2006 at 08:43 - 5

Are you sure they changed it?

*goes to wiki*

Noose

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Army of the Abyss

N/Mo

28 Dec 2006 at 08:43 - 6

really? I'm pretty sure it was done sometime today... when did you hear about it?

edit--yeah, i'm pretty sure, the Priest of Balthazaar had it the 'new' way

gwbbc code still has it as all foes, so i think something must have happened

sledgeunderhill

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Gathering of Friends [GoF]

28 Dec 2006 at 09:08 - 7

If you take the time to look at the talk page of guildwiki on the skill, you'll see it was changed back on Dec 6.

Clinically Proven

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

Australia

[MMAD]

28 Dec 2006 at 09:16 - 8

[Trex] did some rough testing on Depravity for a GvG build, the original skill description was incorrect. The target foe always lost the energy, despite the description saying otherwise.

Whether they updated Depravity to match the actual skill effect or changed both the skill desciption and effect I'm not sure as I haven't re-tested since they changed the description.

Terra Xin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2006

New Zealand

Me/R

28 Dec 2006 at 10:34 - 9

Doesn't this thread already exist...?

Avarre

Bubblegum Patrol

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore Armed Forces

28 Dec 2006 at 10:46 - 10

This thread has existed, indeed.

This is old news.

Depravity still works, I've run it successfully in HA.

Sab

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

28 Dec 2006 at 12:22 - 11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avarre

Depravity still works, I've run it successfully in HA.

Shh...don't make them secretly nerf it again...

But yeah, Depravity was changed a while back (with the Paragon nerfs I think?). There were no updates about the change, so the few people who used it were understandably upset. Though Depravity deserved the nerf (since it affected both the target *and* all nearby enemies), it would be nice to actually hear about it in the update notes sometime.

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

R/

28 Dec 2006 at 19:13 - 12

They didn't "Change" it.

They just fixed its desp to accurately show what the skill actually did.

Same with Lyssa's Assualt, in the same update (on Dec 6th) they changed its desp to where the energy scales from 3...10 when it used to say 10 at any attribute lvl. It had ALWAYS scaled if you actually had used it before the update - so it wasn't a nerf.

Orphan Anthem

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Kinetic Fusion [kF]

30 Dec 2006 at 04:22 - 13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clinically Proven

[Trex] did some rough testing on Depravity for a GvG build, the original skill description was incorrect. The target foe always lost the energy, despite the description saying otherwise.

Whether they updated Depravity to match the actual skill effect or changed both the skill desciption and effect I'm not sure as I haven't re-tested since they changed the description.

Same with Lyssia's Assault. Discription said 10 but it was doing 12. They edited description so that it acually showed what was happening