[Dev Update] Shadow Form Balance Changes - 2 July 2008

Nah, still getting more ecto with my solo sin, even after the update.



Got to admit one thing, was still hoping to be able to use my A/Me build, guess I will have to be happy with 3 to 5 ecto per run now.

Never sold anything to the rare material trader, players paid better prices, but I am tempted to start just to do my part to drive the ecto price down so I can listen to the ecto horders complain about there e-p**** shrinking again.

And thanks ANET for removing those nasty elementalist from my raptor farm.

Those Eles were the ones supplying my gold ids for my wisdom title. Guess i'll have to go back to buying gold ids from bots and RMT companies, instead of the standard rapter farmer.

So it looks like I'll be seeing less of my little assassin friends, and that makes me sad. Oh well, times change, people move on to bigger and better things, and we must adapt to an ever-evolving world. We all knew this day was coming. Allow yourself time to grieve, and then move on with your life.

I've got this new [skill]Hex Breaker[/skill] thing, and a few new dream rider friends (although they're not really my type, if you know what I mean) to make up for it, though. There's no use crying over spilt elite, as the old saying goes. I'm sure that some of my more devoted friends will still find a way to come visit me. Thanks guys, it's nice to know that even when the going gets tough, your real friends will stay by your side.

On a lighter note, I'm really looking forward to this year's Dragon Festival. I don't usually get out of the Underworld too much, but this looks far too entertaining to miss, as I wasn't able to attend the last time (Grenth made me work overtime again). I hope to see everyone there, especially all the Assassins with whom I've formed a bond with over the past several weeks.

Thanks for playing everyone, good luck, and most importantly, have fun!

I farm raptors on my ele without SF, and it's at most 20 seconds slower per run.

rofl

I come back to find this... shit I should have played more gw and farmed ectos QQ

Heh..sorry, eles aren't leaving the raptorcakes alone...

my ele has never used sf and has slaughtered Rekoff and her motley family many a time...e/me kicks at that run we don' need no stinkin shadow form...

on topic, good nerf. It's been swell, but the swelling's gone down.

Why is it when ever we get these great farming builds and I start to enjoy the game again they nerf it?

1. AoE gets nerfed. Sure that was ok, made it a little more real I guess.
2. Drops get nerfed. Why because solo farming is bad? Dont see how that is.
3. Both Visages skills get nerfed. I didn't think those were even used in PvP. So much fun farming with my ele and rit.
4. Now this BS with SF. Ectos are actually becoming a reasonable price and regular players can make money or even get the FoW armor they have always wanted. Thats bad?

I mean all these people whining about game economy. It has been out of wack for a long time and who even cares ITS A GAME.

I thought games where suppose to be fun thats why the are called GAMES!

DAMN IT ANET LEAVE PvE SKILLS ALONE!

WHY DON'T WE JUST REMOVE ECTOS AND THE UNDERWORLD ALL TOGETHER.

check out the new SF farming build.. still works like a charm http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0304481&page=2

Thats not the only one that still works for UW. It hasnt really changed anything for the UW farm. Laugh now at the QQ's. It did however screw up many many other farms for sins. Adding in the 50% damage reduction just neutered the other farms and basically left the UW one intact.

QFT.

ANET just completely killed a bunch of other farms with the 50% damage reduction and left the ecto farm there. I hope they remove the 50% damage thing since since ecto farmers have switched to degen (at the least change to to 25% damage reduction)

Shh, don't ruin it for everyone.

Nah, on a serious note, I KNEW that given time someone would create a build with nearly the same setup. I actually respected the way they nerfed it even though I wish the elite ecto users would have jumped off of a cliff and left well enough alone. Seems like their "careful" nerf did more harm than good again, but hell what do you expect. Personally I think they should have left it alone.

And people said anet didn't listen to us... You got your nerf now, and now you're upset again. Make up your damned minds. See you at the dragon festival

Exactly
If anything, this build reduced the option for people who used to farm with sins BEFORE the update (like me), and left them with only the UW farm as the last profitable solo sin farm with SF.

lol gg anet if they cared about the "high-end economy" they would have nerffed ursan

Thank you A-Net for nothing, I can still farm the plains without any trouble(cleared plains and pits in 45 min after nerf), Permasins can still go wild making $$$. This nerf has done NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH, but nerf the ele green farming build. What don't you get about this????? If that was your intention good job, otherwise try again.

oh well..at least i sold a few ectos today at good prices. Looks like the uw farm is alive and well. Back to 3k again. And my ele got the shaft instead with raptors during special events. cant win for losing...

Oh, hello there Mr. Spectre. It's been a while, I haven't visited that side of the Underworld in ages it seems.

I am truly jealous of all the attention you have all brought up, but your offerings cannot be refused I must admit. It has been very boring and hard over here - mostly civil wars between Coldfires and other Smite Crawler groups, as most of our old time friends should know about.

Unfortunately in regards to the Dragon Festival, Grenth has all of us pushing Ice Crystals over time for the whole entire weekend - it is truly a shame as I would have loved to make it to the Dragon Festival, I hope that you bring back tons of stories and fireworks for us all.

It seems half the Perma-SF's switched up their builds and carried on as usual, and the other half are QQing harder than the Anti-SF's ever did.

Hi there smite crawler. I know you don't like me that much and I apologise for killing lots of your fellow comrades. I tried to intervene in those civil wars you talk about, but it seems I'm not that good a negociator as I thought I was and things got messy sometimes. Oh btw, are the nightmares going to the Festival? I think they deserve a break.

Maybe if you could convince Grenth to push over more of his ectos instead of ice crystals, your boredom might end soon.

I'll see you later,

Gunah San

Yeah, so why didn't they nerf that? Nothing makes sense anymore. They add the 30k min of favor back 7 months later(not bad, just....interesting), they wait forever to nerf SF, and Ursan is still out there.

Lol sucks for the QQers...sins are here to stay. The new burning SF = same run time as pre-nerf SF. So expect the A/E's to start flooding back once the build starts spreading

P.S. In case you're wondering what it involves...[frigid armor][glowing gaze][burning speed] HAVE FUN FARMING ! Make sure to spend your ectos and have your mindblades neutered