
Jack McReady
DUST University Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.01.13 13:50:00 -
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Alan-Ibn-Xuan Al-Alasabe wrote:Every time something gets changed people ask for a respec and the answer is always "no". My favorite example was the assault logi from a few months ago, where the Caldari logi suit had the ability to get insane eHP and became the standard combat suit for everyone, regardless of their intentions to fill the support role.
When CCP nerfed the logi suit back into its support role people demanded a respec and the rest of us laughed at them for wasting SP on an obviously broken mechanic.
What I'm getting at is, put your SP into what you want to do, not what is currently at the top of the metagame. If mass drivers, a weapon not seeing much use right now, are what you find interesting go ahead and invest SP there. They'll be rebalanced back into relevance eventually, and you can still have fun with them until then.
Plus even if you do throw SP into the current flavor of the month it's not like that SP is wasted. There's no cap on how much SP your character can have, so you can always get the suits and weapons you want later. Plus now you have whatever item you had before to use until then. balance changes is not the same as core mechanic changes.
balance changes every patch is fine, core mechanic changes every patch is not but they happen almost every patch because CCP devs still do not know which direction they want to go. a playstyle that you skilled into patches ago might be now unavailable or unviable (see scouts which got ninja nerfed patch after patch and it all started with movement speed normalization). CCP devalues SP investment choices and forces certain playstyles upon many players thus making the choice null and void from the beginning. beside that, many stuff was not available, a guy that wants to go minmatar heavy current only options are to suck it up and skill into amarr or just quit before he started playing.
also check latest blue posts, one of them confirmed that scouts get extra equipment slot but lose the sidearm. should all the players that went for scouts using sidearms only now ragequit again? full infantry respec is inevitable. |