Why are TOD shadowfiends faster?

[Velexia]

except you need to be able to pass them before you can get 1 ring pushing newer casters away from the raid and the caster gear is ...........bland to say the least nothing worth the agro or nuisance of being solely responsible for part 2
completion. leaving only established players to run, as groups don't want to risk wipes on casters they don't know.

put some gear in their casters actually want and well talk.

Agreed. I haven't put boots on my Sorcerer (now Wizard TR) or Cleric because there is jack from ToD I want or need for them.

[Vengeance777]

Tested last night if I could handle standing in the Shadows on Elite on a Drow sorc. With a Tier 3 GS Cold Absorption item, a good dr shield, and spamming protection from elements on yourself a healer barely has to heal you. Its ridiculously easy just cast a firewall or cloudkill every 30 secs. So not to worried if they made them faster.

[Trillea]

except you need to be able to pass them before you can get 1 ring pushing newer casters away from the raid and the caster gear is ...........bland to say the least nothing worth the agro or nuisance of being solely responsible for part 2
completion. leaving only established players to run, as groups don't want to risk wipes on casters they don't know.

put some gear in their casters actually want and well talk.

I donno about you, but ALL my casters want +4 tomes.

[maddmatt70]

I wonder if this speed change (if it's real) is an attempt to make TOD2 work more like it was supposed to. The intention was that players would be killing the shadowfiends with magic spells, not running them around in a circle. The devs might've decided that since spell DPS is being boosted, it'd be a fair time to make kiting less safe.

I disapprove of that reasoning... at this point it could be better to leave TOD2 working the old way for nostalgia purposes. Or if they want to make you need to fight the shadowfiends, then shared aggro is the way to get there.

I do not know if I trust the testing exactly, but if the devs did change it I approve of and like the change. When the quest first came out we completed a couple of towers by kiling the shadowfiend via blade barriors - it was alot of fun. There are so few mobs that will really kill you if they hit you like the shadowfiends and this is the sort of thing that would make the game more fun and challenging. I would also enjoy more mobs like the shadowfiends in DDO.

[maddmatt70]

Tested last night if I could handle standing in the Shadows on Elite on a Drow sorc. With a Tier 3 GS Cold Absorption item, a good dr shield, and spamming protection from elements on yourself a healer barely has to heal you. Its ridiculously easy just cast a firewall or cloudkill every 30 secs. So not to worried if they made them faster.

Lol yes with special gear and constant spamming of prot elements you will not die. I love when folks talk smack like this. Lets see you do the same thing 10 out of 10 times. I double dog dare yeah.

[Warinx]

I saw that as well, but I'm thinking that it would make a lot of sense for Turbine to add the other elements as well. Of course, the fact that it makes sense doesn't necessarily mean that it will happen.

Well, fire and lightning is readily available through Fire Greaves and Djinn Ring(both unbound items). Cold is only in shroud, might be intentional.

[hityawithastick]

Air savants are now faster too....