Robe of the Living Fungus

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by baalzy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The article doesn't provide conclusive evidence that the nerf happened before June 19th, 2000.

He specifically refers to it as 'allegations' of a 'nerf', which would suggest that on/before June 19th there were rumors of the effect being changed, but doesn't prove that the change had gone into effect yet.

On the other hand in his list of retorts it sounds like the nerf had taken place.

I hardly consider it conclusive evidence though.

Did you read further than the "allegations" part?

The robe was incredibly imbalancing. Combined with Mend, it would make Monks totally independent of any class for downtime healing. The rate of healing would compete even with meditation for mana gain. It would be akin to giving Warriors the ability to Gate (fake Cobalt breastplate anyone?)

This is serious past-tense stuff. Had the nerf not happened, it would have been an argument of "The robe is imbalancing", and the monk community was very dialed-in because of how common the robes were and the fact that druids and clerics (the only other two classes which could equip it) didn't care much for the robe.

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And in context, he's listing a series of monk nerfs that already happened. Context makes it positive that the nerf had already happened, people were complaining about it, and he's responding to it.