And for all you people complaining about how invincible SF is; I would just like to point out that before SF people used OBSFLESH TANKS. It's the same nonsense, just took a little longer.
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1). While true that Obby Flesh tanks did do UW before the SF-craze, they needed the help of Ursans in order to get past the Chamber and get to the entrance of the Mountains. Why? Because Obby Flesh tanks would get creamed by the Aatxes and Graspings. Also the Ursan team did Vale and Mountains. Then came along the Permasin, who could do all these areas solo (except Wrathful Spirits)
2). While Obby Flesh worked well for some parts of UW, for other aspects of the game like dungeon running it pales in comparison to the efficiency of the Permasin. Just yesterday, I heard about an all Permasin FrostmawSC team that could do that dungeon in a staggering 13 minutes! As Permasins can just run their merry way past all the non-essential stuff in a dungeon, I can see how this kind of time would be possible. No way in hell could an Obby Flesh tank (or any other class I imagine) ever achieve a time like that.
The key with SF is being able to run past all the stuff that's not necessary to kill, and thus allows groups to easily speed through not just UW but most other elite areas of the game.
Also, as others have stated, the unmatched speed efficiency of SF extremely limits playstyles, and so peeps are forced to either play Sins, H/H or attempt to team-up with others who don't use SF.
The above are reasons why imho Shadow Form is still broken and should see further updates (and not just a change to one zone ANet).
This being said, I've come to the conclusion that ANet won't touch SF any further, but the main point of my post here was to clarify that you really can't compare Obby Flesh (gogo 50% movement speed reduction and attacks still hit you) to SF...