Return of Reckoning

rorswar wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 10:20 pm AOE Skirmish SW needed a nerf.

ST Skirmish SW did not need a nerf, or at least not such a heavy handed one, but got hit as a side effect of the AOE nerf.

Festerbomb Scout could be toxic in the right hands, but the 10s delayed weird version of Word of Pain just doesn’t cut it. You set up your FA, try to max your multipliers, and more often then not the target is out of range, dodges, LoS you or is already dead, and there goes your rotation.

Assault was already viable, but now got better. People just latch onto the 2x armour nerf and don’t look what else they got. I’ve been absolutely ripping up people in scenarios but, like other melee, you do need a guard.

What is odd is why Magus got buffed, and why SH got off with a light slap on the wrist, if SW was so egregious.

In general, I would say the meta got too ranged heavy and that is very apparent in scenarios, and even more so in T1 which is often a precursor of meta shifts.

If you can spam damage at 100ft, damage should be less as there is less risk. That was the rationale for some of the nerfs of SW, but that logic clearly doesn’t apply to other ranged classes, which is bizarre at least.

Farrul wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 9:42 pm You can tell in the scenarios how the power has shifted in favor of Destro. Filled with SH's Magus, RDPS SW's players have left the building, lol.

rip

Orontes wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 9:04 pm Despite the obvious folly, the Powers that live in an echo chamber, moved forward with the anti-Shadow Warrior Patch



"How lonely sits the class that once was full of joy! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the Order!" -Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 1:1

"All the splendor has departed from the Shadow Warrior, Her bow is like deer that finds no pasture; in weakness her arrows fail before the pursuer" Book of the Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 1:6


"The Devs. determined to tear down the wall around Daughters of the Shadow Warrior. The Devs. stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold their hand from destroying." Book of the Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 2:8


"The Devs have done what they planned; they have fulfilled their word, they have overthrown the Shadow Warrior without pity, the Devs. have let the enemy gloat over you, they have exalted your foes." Book of the Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 2:17


"Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning." Book of the Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 5:15


"Remember, Devs., what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace." Book of the Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 5:1


"Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the desert." Book of the Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 4:19


"The Devs. dragged us from the path and mangled us and left us without help. " Book of the Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 3:11


"The Devs. have walled us in so we cannot escape; they have weighed us down with chains." Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 3:7


"This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My arrows are as nothing because the enemy has prevailed." Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 1:16


"After affliction and harsh labor, the Shadow Warrior has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress." Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations ch 1:3


The Devs. have barred my way with blocks of stone; they have made my arrows crooked." Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 3:9


"For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me."- Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 1:16 Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 2:17


"In the days of her affliction and wandering Shadow Warriors remember all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her class fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction." Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 4:7


"Remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me." -Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 3:19-20


"I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is." Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 3:17


"The Devs. have made me dwell in darkness like those long dead." Book of Shadow Warrior Lamentations, ch 3:6