I used to kill Bana queen in 4 to 8 minutes on my Speed Demon. It now takes over 45 minutes, which essentially means it's impossible since I don't have the stamina to fly a tight circle with no mistakes for that long.

I was also on a run where a Wattage Zerk augged DWatt CaZ CaL was unable to break Queen using Lion Breaths.

To the best of my ability, I have tried to establish that SD skills have not been nerfed, and that the RoF cap is still 10/s. This leads me to believe that at least one of the following is true.

1. Bana Queen's shield regen has markedly increased. From my damage readout I don't believe her resistances where changed, and her health bar fills up visibly faster which is not consistent with a simple increase to bank.

2. Fires are less effective on Bana Queen. I don't have a good way to test this for myself.

Its true, it's taking my SD a lot longer then it used to.

done bana queen on shm/wattage with 3 shots earlier it didnt seem much different but its not a very good test, after all 3shots on wattage zerk totally rapes her on any augging/spawn.

I have not just tested this once. Tested at least 4 times, and don't tell me that a "bad" spawn could increase the DPS time by a factor of 10 or more.

There might well be an issue with fires then. Thanks for the feedback.

Bana Queen does not have random augmenters as far as I am aware. She has a few Bana Augmenters equipped, but I don't think she has any spare augmenter slots for different spawns.

Takes the same time to kill as it took before in C1.

Heres a predicted admin response:

I have scanned her but it's possible she has exclusively T17+ augs in addition to the bana ones, right?

How long ago are you comparing against? A few months ago there was a serious bug/exploit relating to fires that was fixed.

Thank you for the response, SI. Before the fires were fixed, I would consistently do it in 4 minutes. After the fires were fixed, I upgraded my setup a bit and was still able to do it in 4-8 minutes. The major issue I am talking about definitely did not come up until near the end of the C2 beta test.

still could DPS it on my sniper with 3 shot at 30% ana
dont see much beef in regen/resist but it took some time longer then normal

This is what I'm talking about. The change wouldn't hit a well-made sniper too hard but it has made a straightforward fight impossible for me.