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Solutions:

While I agree damage mods have been a bit much, I think only the complex damage mods need a nerf; from 10% to 7%. The severe nerf coming in 1.8 is too much, especially considering there are stacking penalties.

Tip the vehicle/AV scale in favor of AV more.

Thanks for reading.

The nerf to damage mod (3% basic, 4% enhanced, 5% complex) while necessary, goes too far. Higher tier damage mods are not worth the SP and fitting costs it takes to use them any longer; going from 3% at standard to 5% at complex is hardly a difference. We should not have useless modules that aren't worth the SP or fitting cost; all things must have purpose and viability.
This nerf will lead to a dual-tanking epidemic. Instead of damage mods, armor tankers will switch to using shield extenders. Dual tanking should never become the dominant strategy, it reduces the importance of the unique damage types (this unintentional effect also will further inflate TTK length beyond what CCP intends).
My biggest worry about about the damage mod nerf is the side-effects on AV. It is an indirect nerf to AV. The 1.7 AV is currently ill-equipped to effectively deal with tanks (in fact another tank is more cost-effective and cheaper when you factor how often AV players die), nerfing them even more through damage mods will have awful effects of vehicle/AV balance.

Solutions:

While I agree damage mods have been a bit much, I think only the complex damage mods need a nerf; from 10% to 7%. The severe nerf coming in 1.8 is too much, especially considering there are stacking penalties.

Tip the vehicle/AV scale in favor of AV more.

Thanks for reading.

The nerf to damage mod (3% basic, 4% enhanced, 5% complex) while necessary, goes too far. Higher tier damage mods are not worth the SP and fitting costs it takes to use them any longer; going from 3% at standard to 5% at complex is hardly a difference. We should not have useless modules that aren't worth the SP or fitting cost; all things must have purpose and viability.
This nerf will lead to a dual-tanking epidemic. Instead of damage mods, armor tankers will switch to using shield extenders. Dual tanking should never become the dominant strategy, it reduces the importance of the unique damage types (this unintentional effect also will further inflate TTK length beyond what CCP intends).
My biggest worry about about the damage mod nerf is the side-effects on AV. It is an indirect nerf to AV. The 1.7 AV is currently ill-equipped to effectively deal with tanks (in fact another tank is more cost-effective and cheaper when you factor how often AV players die), nerfing them even more through damage mods will have awful effects of vehicle/AV balance.

Solutions:

While I agree damage mods have been a bit much, I think only the complex damage mods need a nerf; from 10% to 7%. The severe nerf coming in 1.8 is too much, especially considering there are stacking penalties.

Tip the vehicle/AV scale in favor of AV more.

Thanks for reading.

The nerf to damage mod (3% basic, 4% enhanced, 5% complex) while necessary, goes too far. Higher tier damage mods are not worth the SP and fitting costs it takes to use them any longer; going from 3% at standard to 5% at complex is hardly a difference. We should not have useless modules that aren't worth the SP or fitting cost; all things must have purpose and viability.
This nerf will lead to a dual-tanking epidemic. Instead of damage mods, armor tankers will switch to using shield extenders. Dual tanking should never become the dominant strategy, it reduces the importance of the unique damage types (this unintentional effect also will further inflate TTK length beyond what CCP intends).
My biggest worry about about the damage mod nerf is the side-effects on AV. It is an indirect nerf to AV. The 1.7 AV is currently ill-equipped to effectively deal with tanks (in fact another tank is more cost-effective and cheaper when you factor how often AV players die), nerfing them even more through damage mods will have awful effects of vehicle/AV balance.

Solutions:

While I agree damage mods have been a bit much, I think only the complex damage mods need a nerf; from 10% to 7%. The severe nerf coming in 1.8 is too much, especially considering there are stacking penalties.

Tip the vehicle/AV scale in favor of AV more.

Thanks for reading.

I like the slated changes for damage mods. Complex damage mods are one of the major culprits behind next to non-existent TTK. Wasn't everyone complaining about how TTK was too short? CCP is finally addressing the issue and now people are getting upset about the fix?

You can't please some people.

Alot of those people who claim that TTK is too low are new players who don't have much experience playing games with higher TTK.

Also TTK was really low in Uprising 1.0 due to really poor hit detection. Hit detection has improved a lot since then and CCP did a 10% across the board damage increase at the same time, creating the problem of TTK being too low. In addition to all that, the poor weapon balance & the CR and RR exacerbated the problem (1.8 doesn't even fix that either).

Wouldn't new players with little experience playing FPSs with higher TTK not notice the short TTK issue at all? Please explain how this works. I really don't understand how that works?

This is true, but I don't get what point you're trying to make by referring to it?

Think about it this way:

The three biggest shooter franchises (arguably) are:

COD
Battlefield
Halo

Two have very low ttk's, one has a relatively high TTK.

I think enough people have played halo that they understand high TTK isn't such a bad thing.

However, going back to fanfest-build-esque damage profiles would be terrible.

I distinctly emptying my AR into someone's back, hitting every shot, and have them kill me while reloading.

Don't assume that new players to dust have little experience playing FPSs.

Also the aiming was harder and aim assist was broken, leading to a higher TTK. While adjusting to aiming in Dust, it increased feeling of it tooking to long to get a kill.

In the past TTK was higher; people complained about it and CCP overdid decreasing TTK.

Another thing to keep in mind, is that the Min Assault is going to be getting a racial bonus to the effects of damage mods.
+25% at level 5, meaning that every percentage higher you push the mods themselves expands the value of that specific medium frame over all other medium frames. At some level it becomes "the" medium frame to run and that's not where we want to be. I can't comment on what that threshold is, no one can clearly yet because the sheer volume of changes in 1.8 dashes the context on the rocks of uncertainty. Which brings me back to my common refrain, CCP, small granulated changes more often are better practice than huge pendulum swings every few months.

~Cross