Are you telling me ice barrage got nerfed beacuse pvmers in wildy cant defend themselfs? Wildernes isnt safe place to pvm and people should know that. You just cant do like this.
A 1 pker vs 1 pvmer shouldnt turn out in 99% pvmer death rate.. There's pvm locations in the wilderness and it shouldn't be 'just be lucky you dont run into any pker at all' type of content.
You know nothing lmao. Why do you keep claiming it was impossible to escape pkers in prime pvm locations when barrage froze for 15 seconds? Do you even realize how easy it was to tank ~12 levels (from spectrals/revs/frosts to level 20)? Why do you keep saying it resulted in a guaranteed death? This is just a blatant lie. I've never seen you pvm in the wilderness/pk so how do you even know? It was all rng based before. You would go to spectrals and find a pvmer. You had no idea how much food he had left. If he had like 5 mantas or brews left then sure it was pretty much a guaranteed kill. But is this because freezing/pkers were overpowered? No this was because the pvmer took a risk. First he went to the wilderness knowing he could possibly run into pkers. Secondly he did (at least most pvmers didn't) not bring proper gear to tank. Heck most people at spectrals would use like black d hide. Is them dying a result of pkers being too op? No of course not. And lastly they choose to not restock when they reached a point where their supplies wouldn't be enough to properly escape. Then when you run into this person that is most likely going to die you still had to overcome splashscape and the pretty bad movement system. But in the end, yes, most people who would choose to stay with a low amount of supplies would die. But like I said before this wasn't because the pkers had too much of advantage. This was because they deliberately put themselves at a disadvantage by brining garbage gear with 0 tanking capabilities and bad supply management.
Now what you've done is reward these people by helping them out. That's just terrible and there's no way anyone should justify this. Do you know how short 6 second freezes are? That's like 2 whip hits. You basically have to catch a freeze, change gear and weapons because they are obviously praying mage, run up to them and attack. If you're lucky you'll squeeze in 2 hits with a whip/crossbow. If they know what they're doing they will pray against you and you've done like what? 30 damage if you're lucky. Then they get unfrozen, freeze immunity kicks in and you'll have to freeze them again. I consider myself a pretty good pker but right now it is IMPOSSIBLE to kill anyone at spectrals/revs or anywhere with barrage. Also you're argument about smiting their prayer is absolute bullshit because you have to do consistent high damage to smite someone and you can't right now (smiting someone was already very difficult before) because you're trying to catch a freeze every 6 seconds.
I've seen a LOT of terrible updates but this ones tops all of them. First I thought it was a bug, was already at the bug report section but then I was told it has been like this for like 2 weeks. The person who came up with the idea obviously knows nothing about mage pking AT ALL and should honoustly never touch the wilderness again without taking advice from people who actually know what they're talking about. I have said everything I wanted to say and if you decide to ignore everything I've said and keep thinking this is fair then I wish you good luck with this game but you ruined it for me and many others.
