Talk:Pilfering Swarm/@comment-83.31.92.88-20150805213302/@comment-73.138.21.184-20150806155452

It does seem, very grim. They nerfed the powerstrength that scaled with pilfering swarm.

what many people fail to see and realize is that this augment mod basically became a desecrate ability from nekros, despite the 100% chance of extra loot you have a maximum of 12 tentacles randomly spawning trying to grab at enemies, and they're not all that accurate to be used at all even if you have a max range build with duration now with Hydriod, Hydroid was considered valuable pre-nerf because of the multpliers that scaled with strength, allowing him to produce triple if not, quadruple the amount of loot per kill as people spammed tentacles with large amounts of powerstrength, this+equinox power strength buff in Ophelia allowed hydriod to stir up a loot cave that Digital Extremes immediatly put a stomp on as they removed the strength mods from stacking with his ability to produce more loot.

That being said. RIP Hydriod, it was good while it lasted, I'd rather recruit 2 nekros than have hydriod in my team now.