Perenti

They could leave it the way it is, and make future drops Crusader only?

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Layra

No changes to Enduring Wall or the Stormbringer shield that I can see from comparing with test.

To be honest, GDS should never have had more protection that Enduring Wall so a nerf was pretty much to be expected.

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Madb

Very accurate statement, the sad thing is it's taken then 9 months to fix it.

Cyrdemac

To be more accurate and its even worse: it took them 9 months to REALIZE that there is something to fix.

Tharinor

I'm seriously contemplating retirement.

We lose a significant portion of our block advantage against other fighters. Our mythical epic still lacks avoidance and gets some bullshit upgrade to +spell to go along with the completely useless +ca damage. It remains 2% less melee crit.

A shield I've carried for months gets nerfed, and even if they other shields get upgraded, it doesn't change the fact I've been declining to bid on them for months becuase they were useless to me and now it may be months before I get a better shield again, and by then the next expansion will be about ready.

Vainamoinen

Ancient Shield of the Green Dragon?

Just like they did with the Dreadscale Greaves - this way, those who have been passing on much better shields don't get fucked over.

I know this has already been suggested, but I think the logic of the idea eludes Fyreflyte at this point.

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Oizen

This is his zing to us for griefing him about the Greaves.

Vainamoinen

Revenge is a dish best served cold, on a nerfed shield.

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Oizen

At least I made him numnum his words back then. So Paladins and Itemization Lords are all squared up now right, fyreflyte?

I'm considering going to ff just for giggles because, I have a feeling this misunderstanding could be cleared up if I bought him a few rounds.

Cyrdemac

Tested yesterday an alernative with the SoH shield. Its close to the block of the nerfed Green Dragon and the result was: terrible.
I was hit harder and mor often, as expected. Named fights resulted in hunkring down with Soulfire and defense stance instead of offense, due to those heavy hits I got.
After the RE2 run, I was explaing my healers, why it was so heavy to heal me. They did, we stayed alive but it was really hard to heal me.
They did the same run with an guardian the day before and it was a piece of cake.

I don't moan about obvious nerfes on OP items. But here we have an item that really helped us gettin on par with Guardians (which are not effected at all). After this nerf, we are back to our brothers..the Monks

Our guild didn't made it past Nexona so I'am expecting to do those two after the patch again. Thanks SoE for putting itemisation over needed class balancing.