Destruction of Protective Spirit as a farming tool is inevitable

Move it into divine favor. that nerf is a buff.

anyways leave the skill alone. if you want to stop the farming, then all you have to do is stick one little necro, or mesmer, or ranger with interrupts in the groups. gfg, i lost all my enchantments.

don't know if has been stated or not but if they really wanted to end all the 55/ what ever builds all they had to do was change PS to Target other Ally. And BOOM you still have the everything except the ability to cast it on your self. Then you would need to take 2 copies of prot spirit in PvP, most guilds use a 2 monk backline, and the heal monk usually does not have the room on the bar to add prot spirit. This is a bad decision, because it would limit skillbars even more then they are now. Restricting skillbars in PvP = bad plain and simple.

Too many PvPers would rage if PS got nerfed. I love how everyone glosses over the often suggested and obvious change of "cannot take more than 60..40 damage from a single attack" or similar. This would be a *buff* in PvP. Leave PvP out of your "I love my farm cheese" arguments.

no need to kill skills..just take out one control options (F11 - control)
"Targeting: Item - Nearest"
this way bots cant pick up any drops. That would be the funniest shit you ll see, when the botters look after hours of farming and they get absolutely nothing. LMAO, nice one CE Devilman.

As for Abnaxus, think of loot scaling as the fed raising the interest rate to quell inflation.
Alot of the casual farmers these days farm for items, not gold.
The fact that there is less gold and more items, in combination, caused prices to drop.
Not one or the other.
It really is simple economics, supply is up, demand is low, funds are limited and rare items aren't rare anymore. Those factors have caused rock bottom pricing for everything, from "rare" skins and boss weapons, to materials and runes. Ok, so the is the economy good or bad now?

Most players complained about the fact that prices of everything were unaffordable, because of 55hp farmers which produced a massive influx of cash in game, causing inflation.

Then A.net introduced hard mode and loot scale. The effect has been what you describe, less cash, more items, and consequently dramatic price reduction for most items, but also for runes and materials.

Now, players again complain that farmers ruin the economy. In what sense?

Do they mean that 55hp farming (or farming in general) are causing prices to be "too low"?

If this is the sense, I can only say WTF do players want? High prices again? "Medium" prices? What is a fair level of prices, and who decides what is a fair level?

Who made you the "farming authority?" You can take your "membership card" and....



Nerf PS...take a big fat bat...preferably used by the HGH freak known as Barry Bonds and smash it into McCovey Cove.

Make it so it cannot be self cast.
Increase the recharge time.
Make it unable to be stacked.
Move it into divine favor.
Just do something.
55 farming is horribly boring and to easy to be setup in a bot program.


As for Abnaxus, think of loot scaling as the fed raising the interest rate to quell inflation.
Alot of the casual farmers these days farm for items, not gold.
The fact that there is less gold and more items, in combination, caused prices to drop.
Not one or the other.
It really is simple economics, supply is up, demand is low, funds are limited and rare items aren't rare anymore. Those factors have caused rock bottom pricing for everything, from "rare" skins and boss weapons, to materials and runes.

The notion that taking away the "tools" needed to do a deed is the simplest and most effective way to stop anyone or group of people.
So I would agree with taking away the tool that is the cornerstone to most of the solo farming builds. Correct me if I am wrong but dont people in [FU] Farm using the 105 famine Titan farm all day, yes they do, I know this for a fact since I was once the leader of the alliance between our 2 guilds [BEER], but anyways, not flaming here, is it overpowered, YES, BUT they will not nerf it or change it for the foloowing reason's...

a. Hard mode would be almost impossible without it, (DOA anyone?)
b. It would put a big hit to both PvP and PvE in so many diffrent ways, it would make a great many of people just quit the game...Do you think Anet is really going to bite the hand that feeds them (they might have already done it with lootscaling, but I am in favor of it)

FU: Say hello to Matt for me, hope everything is going well, and I took Torin away from you =D

I love how everyone glosses over the often suggested and obvious change of "cannot take more than 60..40 damage from a single attack" or similar. This would be a *buff* in PvP. Leave PvP out of your "I love my farm cheese" arguments. Because that would be a significant nerf to PvP for the exact reason why Prot Spirit works for farmers. A player with PS on him at 0 DP takes 10% of his life in damage. A player with 60% DP--and 40% of his health--takes 10% of his current health in damage when PS is on him.

Prot Spirit can keep a player that has been pounded for a long match alive for a little while longer. It can be the difference between them contributing to the game in its end phase or staying on the ground and being useless.

If prot spirit is going to be nerfed for farming, then all the other farming builds should be nerfed as well. This won't stop bots at all. It would just stop them from using monks to farm.

Thats my opinion any way.

And if PS is to be nerfed, it should be nerfed the way SB was. It only works on the next X attacks. That made SB useless in farming but made little impact in PvP.

GGs

I love how everyone glosses over the often suggested and obvious change of "cannot take more than 60..40 damage from a single attack" or similar. This would be a *buff* in PvP. Leave PvP out of your "I love my farm cheese" arguments. I love how people fail to have any common sense. That is not a buff in any way, people die in PvP and get DP, as soon as their health drops below 400, the skill is severely weakened. There will always be bots, no matter what skills the nerf, and there are many other builds people can use. The complaining will never stop because another build will get put into the spotlight, and the cycle repeats itself.

@TideSwayer - This skill is no way overpowered, it is required because if this skill did not exist there would be no counter to spikes. All a pvp match would come down to, is who can spike the other first, and that is exactly why this skill is needed.