Not the best way to go about this, but I do agree completely removing it's damage mitigation completely from NPCs attacks is short sighted. It would have been one thing to nerf it but this complete removal feels more like a punishment, especially when you hear their reasoning and how they talk about it. Nerfing the damage mitigation or designing the content to work around the ability is a better way of going about it than outright removal from the vast majority of the game. It costs too much to be worth the stun and immobilization immunity in PvE, the stage 2 passive doesn't last long enough to make Mistform a viable option of procing it, and you can't sprint in Mistform making it double worthless in PvE as it's slowing you down! So much for a "disengagement" ability. Elusive Mist is slower than sprinting to.

I set up this [snip], waste a lot of time, and then you screw up all my efforts! Soon you will lose your most loyal fans! Look at the forum, how much disappointment here.

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I made my build based on mist form and now they flushed it down the toilet. And this has happened many times already with many builds. My patience has run out

[snip] They didn't even think about Mist form until the Rockgrove trial. Many content creators suggest the Blood Mist vampire skill because there is no other way to defeat certain bosses. Instead of fixing the trial, we are being punished for a vampire skill.

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It is done, and will go live. There have been weeks of the change on PTS and time to add thoughts without the need for a last minute yell on the forums with no kind of argument.

I don't agree with the mist form change and I think is should still have had some kind of use in a PVE environment. As it stands, there is precious little reason to be a vampire now(apart from niche uses I am not mentioning). The whole vampire changes (and the push to showcase the 'New Improved Vampire', have been rendered kind of moot, with the new form of vamp being less useful than the original form.

I have no idea how vRG will go now, which was probably the primary use for mistform. The damage reduction on Bahsei still leaves you with a hell of a lot of incoming damage. I guess time will tell.

I do strongly wish that they would not nerf things in to oblivion when they struggle to fix things. Making something useless, is not a fix, it is the easy way out. It is why we will not longer have the soft taunts we had, why stranglers are a distant memory and why I will be reverting all my tanks back off Vamp this patch.

it does seem to be a recurrent theme that is is easy to remove than fix. It does not make the player experience better, or more fun.. This is a game, right? Fun? Players paying to have fun?