Shadow Form nerf is in... dun dun dum

[tanithryudo]

OK, so I predicted wrong and they did act on the forum whines. On the plus side, most of the changes were done to UW mobs so I care not.

All in all, it doesn't look like the raptor farm is nerfed by the changes.

From what I remember, it may make E/A farming harder but shouldn't kill the easier bosses to farm (and those are the only ones I know how to do anyway).

Comments

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

When will you learn the 'turds at GWG has more influence than they themselves think? Geebus, so much for not listening to the most vocal since they're not representative.

We should do a different game. GW is clearly not newbie friendly.

[tanithryudo.insanejournal.com]

Well, on the bright side, the whining people didn't get their way entirely with the SF nerf. It's still very much usable for farming outside of UW (ugly elite area that I can't think casuals care much about).

Also, it looks like they reset the favor from about 60 mins to 30k mins... o_O; So at least they listen to the whiners on the other side of the fence too.

And there's no hints about Ursan being even looked at when that's been whined about long before the SF buff...

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

50% less damage over all when under SF is not friendly to casual areas. It means sliver kills won't work. Nor will most A/Me builds. Not sure if daggers are affected, but I don't have much hope. SF is basically super-defense with very little offense, and thus not a very good for farming. (Then again, I'm sure someone will figure out a farming build soon. They always do.)

Meh. Don't care.

In fact, my response to this is not very violent. I can't seem to care anymore. :p

Ursan...you can't farm with ursan...

[tanithryudo.insanejournal.com]

Sliver should still work depending on the mob (size and attack rate). After all it works on vaettirs in HM which have elemental resistance and take under 10 damage from sliver anyway. I would think it works fine won raptors due to the attack rate w/ the double strike chance.

Most A/Me shouldn't be affected since the 50% decrease doesn't affect degen or indirect damage (empathy/wandering eye/clumsiness).

E/A and A/E builds are more likely to be affected. I'll have to checkout Darkroot and Scar Eater tonight. I'm thinking Scar Eater might not be farmable anymore. Not sure about Darkroot.

Ursan I mentioned since it's the much more whined about topic since EOTN came out.

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

The problem is, one has to kill the boss with one sliver round or else it's unfarmable (fucking touch skills). Sure, you can kill off raptor with a couple rounds of sliver, but before that you'll probably die first from the touch skill.

A/Me rely on a single aoe interrupt skill, which is direct damage and thus is probably also heavily affected. Their energy pool also probably hates them.

And I mention farming because I've yet to see an PvE change (one specifically geared towards PvE that is) that isn't because of farming whines. (Which is rather ironic, seeing as how the economy of GW is nonexistent and broken.)

[tanithryudo.insanejournal.com]

The first nerf to the sunspear skills were not due to farming whines. :P

ETA

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Oh and notice how no one bitches that the 55's need nerfing.