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

Depends on how many Mindflayers are spawned. If it's just one, a cover enchantment should be enough (eg. Aura of Restoration). If it's 3+6+9, gg.

Yaay finally all the QQ'ing can stop
Back to the ursanwhine? or maybe they'll find something else to whine about.

Empathy/Backfire technically are not damage dealt by the caster. Neither is Wandering Eye or Clumsiness. So if ANet follows their wording (doubtful) then Me/A and A/Me can still solo at full efficiency

Sliver Armour is though, I think. Since it is effected by Intensity/EBSoH/etc.

When's this being implemented? I thought they did skill changes every thursday if its tonight, not enough time for me to farm all the difficult bosses' greens

damn

good job anet

unfortauntely, I didn't get to take advantage of this, oh well.

This is so dumb. Yes, SCREW US for complaining...a basic right in the producer & consumer relationship.

Tomorrow, when the DF starts.

I totally should have farmed a little before this.

Damn hero battles! drawing me in with their tempty-temptyness!

Nice for some...

I sold half of mines for stuff to trade right before the drop a couple of weeks ago. That worked out well since I got cash and ectos back in trade. Bought the rest back for 3 - 3.3k each over the last few days and now just sold almost half of those for 3.75k, then 3.8k, and 4k each. Now it's easy 3.8k+ and rising just on speculation. The funny thing is that prices didn't move that much at merchants over the past day(s), but people perceived value went down and up like the tide. They 1st thought the favor running out would spike the ecots, but favor never did run out, and it bottomed out around 3k each or 33 ectos for 100k. LOL. I didn't know they were definitely going to nerf sins or I would have bought more ectos instead of buying for the lowest I could get them.

This permasin thing might have caused a spike in interest for fow armor. Prices could go back up to 5k+ for ectos and stay high for shards. Everyone has a set and you know how that goes...

Anyways is ursan next? Time to get back into Armbraces or something.

Why did they nerf Afflicted Assassin ?

Poor guys.

LOL, I almost fell off my chair when you said that. Do you honestly think the QQ'ing will stop. Now Anet will get 2x the complaints from all the SF farmers. Give it 2 weeks, with all the new QQ threads that are gonna be on guru and every other GW webside, Anet's gonna realize they made a pretty dumb mistake.

just use Asura scan, and problem solved.

Expected a nerf, so not shocked. Very creative. I will miss the speed runs. It was very fun trying to get faster. I farmed very little but did sin farm some.

Hm...I'm not so much against the update as I am at Anet appeasing the crowd crying about how they lost money on ectos. If they're going to balance the game based upon a commodity and the players which invest in it, it's not a good sign.

Better late than never... too bad i just gave away 88 ectos to help a friend get fow armor :*(

Yeah because a build that can farm UW in record time easily gaining around 2-7 ectos per run is balanced-.-

I like nerfs, i dont think there was really a bad nerf in the 2 years i've been playing (inc. AoE, lootscale etc.) havent been playing much attention though in the last month or 2.

I can see why they were in place, (from a pve point of view, cant find the right pvp guild)

but yeah, Anet shouldnt have broguht it in in the first place.

Funny, that's what the other camp was saying when they buffed SF to make farming easier. Fancy that.

wow that really sucks with SF like this..its going to be so hard to Chest run now

Nobody, has really pointed out, but the changes to Choas plains should also effectively nerf Terra-Tanking and Fast UW runs depending on how many and where they spawn.

lucky I bought my chaos gloves yesterday when the price was 3.7K per ecto, now 4.7K per ecto, and I bet will soon be higher.

So ANet thinks it's better to address a skill that makes farming ridiculously easy rather than a skill that makes the game ridiculously easy? I don't follow the logic but okay...

The problem is that no skills were specifically changed to suit that crowd, they were simply supporting the change after the skill split. This is a skill balance based on the wants of the other side of the fence.