Ok guys i know you all have your own little play test server. Small scare play testing does not cut it in a MMO and you guys should know that unless you are very new to MMO's.
The most successful MMO's out there have all had large scale play test servers where a number of players are allowed access and invited to test out and or break things just as bad as possible.
I played Everquest (the original) for over 10 years way back when my bills only consited of a car loan a credit card and insurance.
On the play test server we were all buffed up in level and nearly handed all new iteams and spells in the game. It was a LOT of fun and it provided valuable feedback to the devs as to what spells or abilities were simply broken or overpowered. Nothing from the play test server could be transitioned to the regular servers.
With a game like dust i think that a larger scale play test server is called for not just the very small private one that you all have. Sure you can test function but can you really see how weapons will work? Past experience says no. Just as a small example lets look at flaylocks and the Tacticle AR. Both weapons shortly after deployment to the user group were greatly nerfed because they were considered over powered. I won't use any weapons not yet changed or with proposed changes because i prefer to use history as a teacher.
I can only imagine that you guys must know you need a bigger test pool.
I think the only fair thing to do if you want to refuse to give respecs for major changes is to not do major changes. I dont even use a flaylock or tak ar but i understand how they feel. People look up the specs when the weapon is deployed and say wow thats great yes i will spend my sp's on that! Then a month later the weapon is changed greatly making it far less effective and ccp is saying o too bad we replaced your colt 45 with a nerf gun. Not cool people invested time in the form of sp's into those weapons as they were advertized. The fact that YOU ccp did not play test the weapons enough to realize how overpowered they were is not the players fault.

I really hope that one of you read this and take it seriously. Players even casual players dont like to waste time. Wasted SP's = a waste of time. So put a little more thought into deploying things to the general population of the game and think even more before you whip out that gigantic nerfing sledgehammer.

That being said I totally agree with the nerfs to the tak ar. Not sure how i feel about the flaylocks.

TL; DR

HTFU

Stop picking FOTM.

. . . next.

WWWDWOAB?
I hope you understood that as much i understood the garbage you posted.