Fate of Robe of Living Fungus?

[Glorindale]

I noticed that the bottom has dropped out of the price for a Robe of Living Fungus. Is this item due to be nerfed? If so will existing items be nerfed or just future items?

[Doors]

Nobody actually knows. I asked Hobby about it last night and he was basically sound and reiterated the fact that even if he did know, devs can't actually say.

Pretty sure they're not getting nerfed for at the very least a month. I've talked to a shit ton of people about it, some say mid-end june, some say velious.

I just hope they don't make it a retro nerf, I dunno if it was like that on classic, but its always cool to have items floating around that are one of a kind and no longer dropping. Makes owning one all the more interesting too.

[Enderenter]

Actually, as for the nerf of the item, it will be retroactive (if they follow live). As for when, no one knows.

[Messianic]

Nilbog seemed pretty affirmative about it being a < 6 month after kunark launch nerf IIRC when it was discussed a month or so ago. Some creative forum searching should yield that post...

[Doors]

Yeah I've read that. Theres actually a massive thread about the robe, OP shoulda just searched it, w/e. They don't follow things exactly like classic on here, which is a good thing, not everything done on classic was right.

[baalzy]

My guess is next patch going off Nilbogs comments in the other thread titled 'Robe of Living Fungus', which has been delayed heavily due to real world issues that some of the devs have dealt with (tornados ripping the shit out of their town).

[Glorindale]

My bad on not searching better..thanks for the info though.

[hablabba]

yup.. second info in this thread. If we assume according to the live timeline then we are overdue for a nerf so give +/- a month or 2 for p1999 due to limited dev capacity and other RL issues the nerf should be coming soon(TM).

That said, it is going to be retroactive but given how cheap robes are now it's still an incredible value. 4k for basically self-PL for a month or more is awesome. And you can probably still dump it for a few hundred plat later.. it's not a terrible item by any means 10ac 12sta /shrug

[Hottbiscuits Dreadmuffin]

My.. My robe.. No! You can't! I just got one! Oh, god, please no... I don't have to heal myself after mod rods, it makes a world of difference.. I loves it so much..

/cry

At least I got one while they were still useful

[Glorindale]

Saw two go for 1k last night

[soup]

My guess is next patch going off Nilbogs comments in the other thread titled 'Robe of Living Fungus', which has been delayed heavily due to real world issues that some of the devs have dealt with (tornados ripping the shit out of their town).

Pretty sure it would have been nerfed already if not for this. If you look in the thread about you can see nilbog acknowledging that it was nerfed about two months after Kunark came out.

[Barkingturtle]

I've only had about two weeks with mine, which I bought for 4k.

I expect it to be nerfed any minute.

So worth it, anyway.

[Dentalplan]

In one of the previous threads it was pretty definitively shown to have been nerfed within 2 months of Kunark launch, so its days are numbered. And it should definitely be a retroactive nerf, there was no such thing as a pre nerf fungi robe on live.

[Baa]

If I see one for sale for 1k on Sat I will buy, if it helps speeds up things to 20 before nerf it is worth it.

Knowing my luck I will buy then nerfed straight afterwards before I can even use it

[Doors]

In one of the previous threads it was pretty definitively shown to have been nerfed within 2 months of Kunark launch, so its days are numbered. And it should definitely be a retroactive nerf, there was no such thing as a pre nerf fungi robe on live.

Actually it wasn't definitely shown to have been nerfed 2 months after kunarks launch. If anything there was probably more data leaning towards a nerf sometime during velious, including a timeline by one of the devs with a plan on nerfs/content release dates.

Robe wasn't even on it so yeaaahhh someone is mad jelly of a cheap monk item right nao.

[baalzy]

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200011200652/http://eq.castersrealm.com/viewarticle.asp?Article=1750

Abashi.. saying it never had the effect whatsoever.

If he was wrong, it was still definitely gone by June 00.

How many times does a piece of evidence need to be presented before people stop spouting incorrect bullshit. Jesus, I swear the people who keep saying 'sometime after Velious' are just attempting to confuse people so they can offload their soon to be junk robes at a higher price.

And if you read that timeline posted by a dev there are 2 things to note.

1) It was a tentative timeline and shouldn't be held strictly
2) The mention of the robe and other items were placed at the end of the list because at the time of writing they didn't know when those changes should occur, not that they should happen 'sometime after velious' just 'sometime'.

Reading comprehension skills are a good thing.

[baalzy]

And for good measure: THE OTHER THREAD

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31990&highlight=robe+living

You can even see in the thread that I thought it was in Velious and was proven wrong.

[soup]

Actually it wasn't definitely shown to have been nerfed 2 months after kunarks launch. If anything there was probably more data leaning towards a nerf sometime during velious, including a timeline by one of the devs with a plan on nerfs/content release dates.

Robe wasn't even on it so yeaaahhh someone is mad jelly of a cheap monk item right nao.

As the post below yours shows, nilbog has directly acknowledged that it was nerfed about 2 months after Kunark's release.