Nil Crystals

[Aeralik]

Just thought I would pop in and let you guys know of an upcoming change that affects you.  Nil Crystals are being removed with GU45.   This means spells wont give them out any longer and they are no longer required as a component.  The Abhorrent Shroud line used to only take a nil crystal as fuel so this will now require a small amount of power.  Also for the coercers and necromancers who are jealous, the Essence of Anguish and Thoughtstones have been removed as well.

[CelebornXI]

Huzzah!

[CoLD MeTaL]

<p>WOOT!</p><p>That is the best SOE news I have seen is months.</p>

[Eriol]

As someone who has ALL THREE of those classes, I gotta give a big "woot" on this change.Now we just gotta get swarm pets changed to DoTs (and thus affected by all +int and +spell dmg gear correctly, as well as not nerfing DPS due to mob AEs) and I'd <i>almost</i> be offering to be SoE's office-boy.

[Pestis]

about [Removed for Content] time :/

[XFnarX]

aaaawww but I have like 90 stacks that just don't stop growing... oh wait. Bag space... WOOT!

[madha]

<p>Not to derail but umm..</p><p>Coercer thought stones need removing too </p>

[Rijacki]

*faints from sheer joy*

[LazyPurp]

/FAINT!   My Warlock and Necro thank you kindly!

[Wrapye]

<cite>Aeralik wrote:</cite><blockquote>Just thought I would pop in and let you guys know of an upcoming change that affects you.  Nil Crystals are being removed with GU45.   This means spells wont give them out any longer and they are no longer required as a component.  The Abhorrent Shroud line used to only take a nil crystal as fuel so this will now require a small amount of power.  Also for the coercers and necromancers who are jealous, the Essence of Anguish and Thoughtstones have been removed as well.</blockquote>Well, in the meantime, we still have spells that are using them.  The coercer line that ends in Hostage has stopped producing thoughtstones.  Shouldn't have that been implemented <i>after</i> GU45?

[cxp1]

<p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">On a scale of 1-100 with 1 being the most important, I give this a 95 for fixes needed for Coercers.  It was, at most, a very minor nuisance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">Vixn </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">80 Coercer</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">Befallen</span></p>

[Jorel7]

<p>Actually, how important this change is to the coercer community belong in some other forum. My first thought would be the coercer one. </p><p>This is the Warlock forum and for us this change is awesome and long awaited.</p><p>/Jorella</p>

[Errolflynn]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SS <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Andurill]

This is great as long as SOE doesn't nerf our damage in return for this little gift.  Seems too good to be true.

[Daine]

I have to laugh at the timing on this, my baby warlock just produced her first nil crystal the other day.  Looks like it's going to be her one and only!  I may save it somewhere in her bank just for the sake of irony.  Thanks for fixing this SOE, I've been hearing people complain about this stuff for a long time now.

[WasFycksir]

<p>I tried giving my pet an Essence of Anguish as a treat for following me closely enough to be of use in PVP, it didn't work.  Thanks for a very very minor fix SOE /yawn.</p><p>Next you will anounce an enhancement that makes the fly graphics around my pet, will fly in formation.  The pet will still be a half a zone away, but his flies will be better.</p>

[Roukai]

I was pretty sure this morning when this post was linked that it said "Warlock" at the top of the page. Hmm.. yep. Still there, ok, moving on.

[Windowlicker]

This is long overdue.  Now if only we could get a fix for our less then stellar RoK instance and solo damage.

[Grimlux]

<p>Yep. Very good change. Aeralik, No chance we can Coerce you into hinting at what may be in store in the future for coercers? *nudge nudge*</p>

[Talonis]

So with the long overdue death of nil crystals, will the Curse of Darkness line be looked at and made into something remotely useful, since nil crystal production was the only real purpose of this line?

[Slako]

YIHA =)

[Hellswrath]

About time.  Thank you for the fix.

[Obviousman]

<p><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: verdana,geneva;">I also hope that the curses line takes a good looking at instead of just going in, removing the Nil Crystals, then shimmying on out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: verdana,geneva;">Nonetheless, this is a very good change and I sure hope LU45 means we actually get to improve ourselves. Thanks, SOE!</span></p>

[ke'la]

<cite>cxp1 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">On a scale of 1-100 with 1 being the most important, I give this a 95 for fixes needed for Coercers.  It was, at most, a very minor nuisance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">Vixn </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">80 Coercer</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;font-family: Times New Roman;">Befallen</span></p></blockquote>Maybe you should check out <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=415011" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this </a>post instead... I am not saying what is thier will solve Coercers "issues" heck it may just remove some, make others worst, and/or add new ones... but they are being addressed as well.

[CoLD MeTaL]

I am waiting to see if our damage gets halved, or just reduced by 25%.  (was a useless mechanic though)

[Feneant]

Wow, that is great news!! I detested constantly having to replenish my stock of them.

[Dracot]

<cite>WasFycksir wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I tried giving my pet an Essence of Anguish as a treat for following me closely enough to be of use in PVP, it didn't work.  Thanks for a very very minor fix SOE /yawn.</p><p>Next you will anounce an enhancement that makes the fly graphics around my pet, will fly in formation.  The pet will still be a half a zone away, but his flies will be better.</p></blockquote>So sad to see this [Removed for Content].  I don't whine about needing the component for a rez.  I [Removed for Content] cause necro's ahve no defense in pvp at t7+.  Once again Aeralik is 100% ignoring the needs of the pvp community and leaving us as fame/writ/token vendors. Stupid move with AOC on the verge of release also.  Yes the necro population on pvp servers is slim, thats cause you gave us no means to PVP with. Dieing in 1 secon to multiple classes b4 we can even try to defend is utter [Removed for Content].   MAybe if you fixed the class we'd see more playing it and we'd get the attention scouts and healers and sorcerers get EVERY UPDATE.  Oooo yay i can rez someone now, or oooo my invis dont break while zoning now.....what did that do to improve survivability?  Not a [Removed for Content] thing.

[Aneova]

Why not turn those fuel spell items into an in house item for those of us who play Coercers/Warlocks/Necro's , as a way to remember what once was.

[Ashkanar]

Wow, we don't need Nil Crystals anymore, and that is going to improve my gameplay by enabling me to do... what?.

[Wildmage]

<cite>Ashkanar wrote:</cite><blockquote>Wow, we don't need Nil Crystals anymore, and that is going to improve my gameplay by enabling me to do... what?.</blockquote>clear bank space so we can harvest more shinies?

[CoLD MeTaL]

<cite>Ashkanar wrote:</cite><blockquote>Wow, we don't need Nil Crystals anymore, and that is going to improve my gameplay by enabling me to do... what?.</blockquote><p>Save hours of Runnyeye Goblin Genocide?  Or you just go wipe out the zone for fun?</p><p>I know when i farmed crystals, I hacked a ton of people off.  Wiping out entire zones for crystals.</p>

[Dracot]

<cite>Roukai@Kithicor wrote:</cite><blockquote>I was pretty sure this morning when this post was linked that it said "Warlock" at the top of the page. Hmm.. yep. Still there, ok, moving on.</blockquote>Then maybe you can convince Aeralik to not post necro BS in his update notes?  Not out fault this upgrade pisses us on pvp servers off to no end.

[Aerendor_Shadowbri]

<cite>Aeralik wrote:</cite><blockquote>Just thought I would pop in and let you guys know of an upcoming change that affects you.  Nil Crystals are being removed with GU45.   This means spells wont give them out any longer and they are no longer required as a component.  The Abhorrent Shroud line used to only take a nil crystal as fuel so this will now require a small amount of power.  Also for the coercers and necromancers who are jealous, the Essence of Anguish and Thoughtstones have been removed as well.</blockquote><p>Champagne !</p><p>Ok, this is not the only issue we have but it's a most welcomed change, and it proovesthe devs have found back the path to our forum's section.</p><p>If only this was the beginning of some warlock love, that would be marvelous!</p><p> (I must admit, when i read this post from Aeralik, i checked twice to see if it was an April's Fool ...<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />)</p>

[Roukai]

<cite>Dracot72 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Roukai@Kithicor wrote:</cite><blockquote>I was pretty sure this morning when this post was linked that it said "Warlock" at the top of the page. Hmm.. yep. Still there, ok, moving on.</blockquote>Then maybe you can convince Aeralik to not post necro BS in his update notes?  Not out fault this upgrade pisses us on pvp servers off to no end.</blockquote>I guess what i was trying to say was that when the post is made in your forums about the essences and thoughtstones with the post to the warlocks about the spell components is this: Warlock forum, warlock info, warlocks for the most part happier for the change and we warlocks have alts. The added infor im sure was to stave off the others from crying "well what about us". Being that your a Necro posting on a warlock thread and crying that this is not what you wanted in a change for PvP... im pretty sure the thread had nothing to do with it. Try asking if there are other changes in store for your class rather and assuming that there will not be. This thread was titled Nil Crystals, not changes to classes in GU 45. Try asking on your Forum if there are other changes for your class.