OK I think ANET nerfed UW

Warrior of Orange

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

everytime i agro the aaxte, a nightmare pops out of no where, is that normal?

Guardian of the Light

Guardian of the Light

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Radicals Against Tyrants

W/

Yes and its been like that for a while.

Kitty Soft

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Me/E

guardian beat me to it...

Hidden in the Mist

Hidden in the Mist

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

Where have you been?!

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

And to think I would never see complaints about Nightmares anymore.

Jiao Yang

Jiao Yang

Lunar Rabbit

Join Date: Dec 2005

Do you actually mean there is one Nightmare for every Aatxe or were you just exaggerating? Because that wouldn't be normal.

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Warrior of Orange
everytime i agro the aaxte, a nightmare pops out of no where, is that normal?
Welcome to over 6 months ago. Those Nightmares have been in for ages

Russell.Crowe

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Warrior of Orange
everytime i agro the aaxte, a nightmare pops out of no where, is that normal?
I did do a run today, and it seemed like there were way more than normal, but still no big deal.

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

R/

What they DID nerf in the UW was Chest Drops (Chest Drops got almost a global nerf recently anyway).

Last 4 Phantom Chests opened were purple, back in the day it was WEIRD and UNCOMMON to even a purple....

Slainster

Slainster

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Former Ruling
What they DID nerf in the UW was Chest Drops (Chest Drops got almost a global nerf recently anyway).

Last 4 Phantom Chests opened were purple, back in the day it was WEIRD and UNCOMMON to even a purple....
*sigh* whats the point of doing a treasure hunter title if the chests are'nt going to give treasures??! Its meant to be half the fun dammit

Nexium

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

hmm didn't they improve the Qualtity of drop's in chest a while back???

Seissor

Seissor

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Squiggilyville. Population: Me.

[oRly] Hello Kitty Death Squad

R/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nexium
hmm didn't they improve the Qualtity of drop's in chest a while back???
And then chest runs became a very common thing, the more chests are opened (farmed) the crapper their drops. Ive noticed areas like eternal grove (huge chest farming area) pretty much so only drops purple crap for me now.

While other more difficult areas to run drop an ok sort of item.

Cherno

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Stars of Destiny

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slainster
*sigh* whats the point of doing a treasure hunter title if the chests are'nt going to give treasures??! Its meant to be half the fun dammit
I believe you were going for humor, but just in case that wasn't your intent, even if the chest drops a purple you get credit towards your treasure hunter title, just not the wisdom track. Treasure hunter is basically determined by the cost of the keys. If the key for a chest costs 600 or more, the chest it opens will count towards the title regardless of what color it drops.

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

I haven't noticed any more Dying Nightmares recently. All I can suggest is that you increase Dvine Favour and cast SB before aggroing so that you are safer from interrupts and have a longer Spell Breaker duration.

One thing I have noticed is that Phantom Keys don't drop anymore. I used to see about one drop per run (on average) and since the rare items were imrpoved these keys are nowhere to be seen. Also the phantom chests drop Phantasmal Armour now. The gold : purple ratio seems to be the same in Phantom Chests as it always was.

??iljo

??iljo

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

N/

yep..i got that phantasmal armor yesterday from chest and i was like wtf is this?...think they improved rare drops in UW..but lower ecto even more...

Amras

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Farmers Union [CASH]

Mo/

@OP

I had the same thought, in the aaxte chamber I had 6 nightmare spawns, whereas it used to be 3-4. I don't know if this is only happening to me, but my guildies had had more nightmare spawns the last week too.

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

Every 3 aatxes 1 shadow pops up.

Deacon Roswell

Deacon Roswell

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

San Diego

Absence of Evidence [AoE]

They added those months ago but I think they've actually taken some out now. I do spider runs and could tell if I needed to scout ahead to kill nightmares for my monk. We stopped for a while to play factions and when we started up again, about a month ago, it was strange to see so few nightmares. I kept running around trigger happy looking for them but they were gone. The best thing to do is run it a few times and learn the patterns. Spell Breaker isn't needed unless there are more than 2 nightmares in a group(which is very very rare). If you are running a 2 man team, the necro should be killing most all of them. If there are 2 in the same group, the necro can kill one and the monk can kill one.

Deacon Roswell

Deacon Roswell

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

San Diego

Absence of Evidence [AoE]

Quote:
Originally Posted by fiery
Every 3 aatxes 1 shadow pops up.
if that were true then there would be no nightmares out by the spider spawn because there are no aataxes there.
This is completely false. I've had none spawn in the first room and I've also had 6 spawn. There is no set number period.

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

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I go on atleast 2-3 runs per night, and I haven't any higher number of Nightmares - atleast not in a pattern that really threatens to hurt your run.

Again, like my previous post, The chests there have really started sucking.

True the normal drops and chest drops have gotten alittle skin improvement.....but at the cost of almost never getting a gold. (My partner yesterday even commented at the end of a smite run about half his inventory was blue and purple Eternal Shields and Ghostly Staves).

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

Um dude Deacon Roswell, I meant in the beginning ONCE IN, there are 3 axes to the left, right, and on bridge which equals 3 shadows.