jared96 wrote:I don't see how anyone can state what was "intended" unless they are speaking of their own intent. I will say one thing.....meeting even the smallest kincher in Scorched Corridor or PR when in dig gear has been auto-death in each encounter for me so far.
Previously fear would hit 75% of the time, now it's 25%.
Previously fear would hold as much as 8-10 seconds, now it's 3 or 4
Previously after hitting, I could turn and run, now by the time I turn, I'm getting back stabbed.
I used to be able to kill yellow / orange bosses solo by fearing then using elemental (well as long as I avoided double missles). Now that ability has been severely diminished as the second I cast the ele spell, the mob is homing in on me usually arriving before I can finish and get a second fear spell cast.
Finally, the root / ele solo tactic also doesn't work anymore. By the time you finish ya spell, no opportunity to root 2nd time....especially since the mob walks 30-40 meters with the tree wrapped around him.
Again, I wouldn't presume to state as fact what another individual intended, but I can say that I am looking at afflictions as I alwyas did with ranged skills.....something I wasn't gonna bother with until I was too bored to do anything else.
As an example: few days ago a guild team were in PR for a trek. Once we got a KP, we moved in different directions I got a kirosta following me and, once i was near the tp, i start fearing it. I feared the kirosta all the time, i never missed it, always got link up, at the point that my guildies had time to go back where i was and finish it.
It's not working? 25% of the time? i feared it all the time. And this is only one example, i could tell more.
Last thing.
A control power is not meant to be a solo power.
Afflictions are control power, meant to be used in team: I control, YOU kill.
That's the rule of afflictions. Yes, u can be able to make some use of them in solo, but, if this could be good in PvE, it's not good in PvP. Better: it's not correct. Too much overpowered. And i am master DA and got lvl 225 OA spells, so would be easy for me just joining the people complaining, but this would be wrong and unbalanced for the game.
This is my opinion.