Well I don't like the idea of astral hunting slowing down, I personally link pretty often and pretty quickly. I'll probably not be killing/linking any faster than 30 seconds though. Minorly annoying, but until I have a chance to try it, I can't evaluate the change. I just hope that this isn't the start of more people abusing loopholes... *sighs*. Learn to RP, not abuse the system people... I hope the perpetrator was punished in some fashion.

Why not, gasp, link for two pulses, then kill two creatures?

Because some tougher spawned astral creatures I can't tank one of from first hit to death without expending large amounts of power. It requires a more sustainable balance, and linking two at once when alone isn't the best way for me to level. In teams that's another story however.

Apparently the change only affects the "superlinking", as some people call it.
You can still link for as many times as you want, it takes 15 seconds for one surge after you link, then another 15 seconds, so you can link again, then another.
What you can't do though, is what was done before, link, move, come back, link again, move, come back, link again, by the time your first link is supposed to Surge, your second and third come in too, this allowed people to get upwards of 8 or 10 links in less than a minute or so, I think.
So no, nothing's really changed except for that, if I'm wrong, well then, ignore this post.

oh so really it should be the same as before but you cant cheat it???

Kaervas says it doesn't slow down his bashing one bit, nor Eiru, I tend to believe them, since I'm experiencing the same. Just time your links well and you'll bash just as fast as before, but with less risk.

Yeah, I don't really see what all the fuss is about. I mean, granted, you can't do something that was an obvious cheat to make it speed up a bit, but it's still incredibly fast. I went from level 72 to 75 just yesterday, and I'm not even a very good Astral basher. Toughen up, cupcakes.

Thank you very much for changing linking back. It is finally again possible to remain linked. Thank you.

It was always possible to remain linked. Nothing has been "changed back".

Uhm..no?
Yesterday I got automatically unlinked a few seconds after the first pulse and it even caused me to 'look'. Now it doesn't do that anymore so I assumed that it got changed back.

There was obviously a slight bug in the way it worked to begin with and it was fixed.

To add to this meaningful discourse, I'd like to say that..

bashing sucks!

I had that problem too It was called .. a trigger.