Mobius Kaethis
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.07.20 15:33:00 -
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[quote=Kallas Hallytyr
People used to respect Sentinels because they were weak and thus hard to use well. [/quote]
This line right here is what showed that you have no idea what the OP was talking about. Your clearly too new of a player.
No sentinels were not feared because they were hard to use. In closed bete sentinels actually were more expensive both sp wise and isk wise. They were respected because they represented a much larger investment of time and isk than most other suits and their killing power (which was amazing) was acceptable because of these inherent costs. It had absolutely nothing to do with sentinals being harder to use, that came later, much later actually when the sp and isk costs of all suits were equalized.
Now that your history lesson is over I'd like to point out that I do agree with the first part of your post. Yes, people are annoyed with sentinels right now because there are so many of them on the battlefield. That really is all that it comes down to. The OP has failed to see that while heavies are not the easiest play style in Dust in numbers that have a massive advantage over other suits.
There are times currently when we see as much as 1/3 of a team spawning in as heavies. Mind you this is nothing compared to the number of people spawning in as scouts, but it is still a high number. When this happens. When the enemy has so many heavies. It feels like you can't get away from them. You spawn in, you get insta-blapped by an HMG. You turn a corner, three heavies are waiting there to meet you guns a blazin'.
So yes, the proble with heavies isn't the suit or the TTK it is the number of heavies. They, like scouts are simply far too numerous leading them to recieve hate by the bucket load. Hopefully this will change as medium frames are made more viable, which will let many vets move back to our cherrished assaults which have been collecting Dust for the last few months, thus bringing diversity back to the battlefield and tamping down this "x suit is amazing QQ-fest" in we are currently engaging.
Fun > Realism
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