WolfingHour wrote: »

Why are you talking about world bosses? The topic is collecting skill shards. Also, what is the problem with changing gear? It's not like you are permanently locked in combat on something?

It sounds to me that your tying your own hands there, friend.

I'm not sure where I mentioned this earlier, but I'll say it again. I like using rapids for both combat and exploration, personally. I know people who use rapids because they have trouble clicking in thumbsticks on console to sprint (I even read a comment on the forums about someone who had that same problem). Some people just use rapids for farming nodes. Some people use rapids for combat. Others still only slot it in Cyrodiil to spam in large groups. There are other reasons besides these I'm sure people slot it. The point is, this topic is about the nerf to rapids, and skyshard running is just one example of something that will be much more frustrating post-nerf.

As for me, I would rather not have to take on the extra work of farming for a speed set, improving it out, and wasting precious inventory space on it, when I can instead either simply swap out a single ability or just keep the ability equipped and be down just a single ability slot. Not to mention it takes an annoying amount of time to swap your entire gear set repeatedly. You might not feel the same, but not everyone has the same values as you. Maybe you couldn't care less about fast movement. Maybe you don't care about rapids in particular because you don't use it, or don't use it in a way that the patch negatively affects you. Maybe you're on PC and have an addon that makes gear changing as easy as a single button press. I don't know, I'm not you. But it's arrogant to assume that because you feel a certain way means others should feel that way as well.

What I'm saying is that there are people that are negatively affected, and whether you understand it or not, they and their concerns matter too. I don't know if I agree with the idea that this is some big ZOS conspiracy, but the nerf is definitely a bad thing and a fairly big deal for many people, is the idea.

Aurielle wrote: »

You’re reaching so far, you might just grab hold of a star. WBs (and dolmens, since you mentioned that earlier) are not typically engaged in when one is speed-running from node to node. In fact, stopping your resource farming to do a WB or dolmen is...unproductive, to say the least.

Dolmens are usually run when on a Dolmen run. World bosses are usually hit when on world boss runs. Mat farming is usually only done on mat farming runs. I thought it was obvious, but I guess I'll explain it: the rapids nerf affects a bunch of farming, whether it's WB farming, node farming, dolmen farming, skyshard farming, or some other type of farming. It also affects other exploration that isn't farming. You don't need to be farming world bosses in the middle of a resource gathering run for the rapids nerf to affect you.