Jack McReady
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.01.23 21:09:00 -
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your theory is nice and all but his maybe applies to some diehard mouthbreathing scrubs that no one cares about. we want a respec because it is time that CCP takes responsibility for their flawed design decision at the beginning and slow development cycles. 1.8 will screw alot of players, players that grinded SP to get into a specific kind of playstyle and fits just to see it changed. your decisions where you spend SP into have zero weight in dust, your decisions are thrown into a lottery pool and if you are lucky then you get what you wanted in the long run or you get to use it for a month and it gets changed next patch.
e.g. I invested alot of SP into minmatar logi, to have a speed hacker with the ability to support my squad. when 1.8 goes live all of it will be gone. no speed hacking any more and all equipment gets nerfed thus I will not be able to do the same without a racial bonus. playstyle is completely changed and forced upon me by again bad dev decisions. basically all support logis get a nerf, slayer logis remain almost unchanged?! the playstyle I decided for will no longer exist in 1.8. it does not only affect my dropsuit skills, every other decision I made regarding my SP was based on the fact that I wanted to play a speed hacking full time support. my initial decision to play this suit will be null and void in 1.8.
my minmatar sidearm specialist will also be gone. again, alot of SP that I cannot utilize.
this does not happen the first time, my scout suit was destroyed by CCP devs already. long time ago scouts were actually not that bad. they were actually able to evade damage with speed. I wanted such a suit that can evade damage with speed at the beginning. I invested in scouts and what happened? CCP decided to "normalize speeds" (atleast how they called it) because they could not fix hit detection in a reasonable timeframe. what they have done is decrease the speed across the board and it hit scouts the hardest. several months later, to add more insult, then they added aim assist. my initial decision, why I invested my SP into a scout is again made null and void cause I can no longer evade damage with speed, I get hit anyway and with the introduction of scanners I am perma scanned unless I invest my slots into dampening which results getting me killed in 0.5s by all those 500 and more dps weapons on the field.
and I am not alone in this boat, many others suffer from this too and a respec is the least that CCP can do. if they do not refund them, sane players will leave not bothering to grind nonstop because of ever changing core mechanics. |