MINA Longstrike
Kirjuun Heiian
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Posted - 2014.08.28 10:33:00 -
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Zatara Rought wrote:MINA Longstrike wrote:Zatara Rought wrote:how about a RoF buff? :) As long as the changes are placed directly on the assault rifle I'm more than fine with it. But if the changes are done to the assault suit to prop up the rifle I'm less than enthused. nah i like the idea of buffing the AR but giving the gal assaults a RoF buff personally.
I disagree with that, I think the current gallente bonuses are very powerful and useful but because they're not as say glaringly apparent as '+50% damage all the time!' people don't really value them as much. I firmly believe that Assault suits should be about improved performance and handling, rather than just going 'you do more damage in all situations', and that is how assault suits are currently designed.
To put it this way, I once saw a big 'game design' discussion from riot games, where they talked about 'aura' items - things that provide a benefit to you, and a moderate benefit to any allies around you. For example let's just create a 'dust' version of one of those - a module that when equipped, gives a passive +2 armor repair / -15% shield delay to anyone in your squad, no matter where they are on the map. People will go 'that's terrible' and 'it's not powerful enough!'... but when you look at it, it's giving the bonuses of two additional basic modules to everyone in your squad no matter where they are. Essentially what it boiled down to in the discussion is that for 'passive' or 'non-visible' things to be considered 'good' (even though statistically speaking the benefit provided from them is amazing) people's perception mandates that the bonus has to be absolutely overpowering to be acknowledged as being 'good'.
The gallente assault already gets two bonuses that are quite powerful (yay free sharpshooter 5 with plasma weapons just for skilling into a suit *and* kick reductions!) compared to amarr / minmatar bonuses that are really only regarded as so good because they cannot be found anywhere else. I know if I was offered a 5% kick reduction to rail weaponry on caldari assaults in addition to the reload I'd take it in a heartbeat because it is *very powerful*.
tl;dr RoF bonus on gallente assault is way too good.
Linking the riot thread if you'd care to have a read, I don't expect it to make sense if you don't play the game. http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=293417
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