NL QoL: Increase Shadow Star's Duration Back to 3 Minutes

The difference is skill toggles have never once been implemented. 3 minute Shadow Star was implemented 2021-2022. I'm not asking for an overhaul. It's a simple change, don't overthink it.

Is that why I suggested a star count nerf as well previously? The intent is to keep star set capacities a multiple of Shadow Star's cost to prevent sets with leftover amounts.

Another solution could be to simply increase star recharge costs by 50% instead of changing Shadow Star star cost and star capacities.

I'll make it dead clear since it's apparent you struggle with understanding my posts:

Alternate Proposal:
Shadow Star duration increased from 120 seconds to 180 seconds.
Ilbi Throwing-Star, Balanced Fury, and Magic Throwing Knife recharge costs increased by 50%

Edit: I’m also well aware that this would impact Rogues, Assassins, and Hermits that use these stars since they don’t have access to Shadow Star. Personally, I don’t favour this option, but people seem to love getting behind nerfs to the Night Lord path so why not?

 

In what way have I flip flopped? The singular suggestion remains the same. Shadow Star duration change to 3 minutes. Everything else is meant to preserve meso sinkage and minimize impact to the class. People see a tiny Night Lord buff suggestion and instantly disagree, so I’ve provided alternative ideas to discuss while preserving my intent, yet you call that flip flopping and invalid?

Macros are the least of my concern. The intent is to clean the buff bar up so that more buffs can be in sync. I’ve been very clear with that thus far. It’s you that has been misunderstanding what my goal is, like suggesting that my hidden agenda is a star capacity buff or macroing. The ability to macro the three buffs is a result of the change, which is why I have it listed as an Impact in my original post as a discussion point and not a reasoning.

If I wanted to macro buffs together so desperately, I would despite the difference in durations. I couldn’t care less about the impact on macros. Personally, I rarely use them outside of their shout capabilities.

I’d appreciate it if you would actually address the things I say in response to your statements like a real conversation instead of sliding the discussion with a different topic, painting me a misunderstood light, or worse, a meme.

 

The difference I see in that is the fact that there is no precedent for an active skill being made into a passive. I’m simply suggesting to revert Shadow Star to its values from 2021-2022 with some tweaks to adjust for meso sinkage, the cause of the 2022 change.

 

I understand that you’re arguing that this is a minor change and isn’t worth pursuing. That is different from the logic that “QoL is neverending and thus not worth pursuing". By that logic, no QoL change will ever happen. It's flawed to think that way because QoL often feels like a small, inconsequential change, but the aggregate of them will go a long way. If Kimmy felt like "QoL is never ending and thus not worth pursuing", we wouldn't have gotten things like the HD client, beautiful HD map backgrounds, faster rope climb speeds, infinite chat log, dark modes, smega mute, etc. Legends is in an amazingly polished state today because of the push for QoL.

You're entitled to your opinion that this is not worth pursuing. People have voiced that they feel like aligning buff durations is not important to them.

But arguing that QoL changes are neverending and thus not worth pursuing is completely illogical.

 

You’re right, it’s not a change worth pursuing. Thanks for the feedback.