Alena Ventrallis
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.11.22 19:40:00 -
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Infamous Erich wrote:But what does bob do when he has everything perfect then they do a massive nerf and make the class worthless start over again? all that time spent on boosters to gain more sp was wasted in a sense besides from core skills and in a game where sp is everything and takes a long time to get the amount needed something needs to be done.
I think this is a core problem, there are no core skills. All core skills are tied into the weapons skill tree. I cant do general improvements to all of my weapons, just one specific one. In EVE, we have different certificates we can get once certain skills are trained up. A lot of these are core skills, such as core capacitor, core fitting skills, core shield skills, core turret skills, core missile skills, etc.
Let's isolate core turret skills for this to be clearer. There is optimal range to skill into, falloff range (effective range analgram) damage increase, tracking (ability to hit fast things), and another that I cant remember. But the point is clear, if I train all these core turret skills to 5, then I will get maximum effectiveness out of any turret I use, regardless if its hybrid, projectile, or laser.
Lets say I get core skills to 5, and then lasers to 5. Lasers get a nerf, I don't like them anymore, I want to fly a ship that gets bonuses to hybrids, whatever reason you can think of. All I have to do is train hybrid turret to 5, and I'm back being just as effective as i was with lasers 5.
In Dust, If I want to do something else, I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN to use another weapon. I have to get the base skill to 5, rapid reload to 5, fitting to 5, sharpshooter to 5, max ammo to 5, all over again. If we take these skills, like fitting, reload speed, max ammo, and sharpshooter, perhaps even proficiency (the damage modifier skill) and made them apply to all weapons, then if we want to change playstyles, all we have to do is skill into the base skill for a new weapon, and bam, we're gravy. I can hear arguments about how this would make people spec into the FOTM, but to be honest, once you get core skills up, you really can make anything viable, even at the standard level. Plus it would remove a LOT of the grind to get a new weapon, because youd have those core skills that you dont have to worry about wasting sp on again.
Not sure if I got the idea across, but hopefully its understandable. |