Why is the SP cost of Leap of Faith being doubled?

[Schmoe]

The best part is, everyone is just going to equip their 30% striders, get a shroud absorption item that they need to reduce whatever elemental damage, and dot/kite still. The nerf doesn't fix the problem, it just shows the devs have no understanding of their own game. Which, to be fair, is understandable. If they actually played their game at an endgame pace, maybe they would actually have a better idea.

People have been kiting in this game, and every other mmo out there ever since variable run speeds and DOT effects came into play. The silly idea that is all just people with "wings", is just that, silly. Bosses will still be kited in solo fashion. Good job devs, on fixing nothing.

I think that's a very valid point. There are a lot of tools you can use to make it so that kiting is not an easy button in the game. Ranged enemy attacks, root attacks, less powerful DOTs, faster enemies, better enemy defenses (dispel the DOTS on me, please!), etc. Nerfing kiting speed is only one of the tools, and a big, blunt tool, at that. If Turbine wanted to nerf kiting speed, they should have done it across the board. Clipping FVS wings is a meaningless drop in the bucket that just further divides the game from its PnP roots and angers people with a long-standing love of the class.

[Boromirs]

I'm pretty sure this nerf happened because the Aritificer was introduced. In theory you could wing around/fire your colt 45 <cough> I mean the 'artificer weapon' at the same time becoming in essence un-killable/solo everything.