DUST Search - why did CCP remove the passive bonuses associated with most skills?

xprotoman23 wrote:

Dusty Sampson wrote:

xprotoman23 wrote:

Dusty Sampson wrote:

Having passive bonuses is what made Chromosome so unbalanced. Now that bonuses are geared more to passive bonuses when equipping the related module, you can't just throw points into a ton of passive as an "I win button." SP still matters, but fitting matters just as much now.

DUST is more unbalanced now than chromosome or any other build before it ever could have hoped to be.

That's because everything got nerfed to the ground except for the AR and the TAR is an "I wind button." Has nothing to do with whether or not your passive are connected to your character or fitting when a douche with a modded controller can cut you down in half a second. Actually, if passive a were connected to characters instead of fittings, the TAR would be gunning you down in 1/16th of a second.

Please explain to me how TAC's would still be dominating if people had stamina and armor regeneration connected to their character versus being associated exclusively with a module. Explain to me how people wouldn't be able to dodge LAV's if they still had the passive stamina bonuses?


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Mobius Wyvern BetaMax. CRONOS. 1647	Posted - 2013.05.27 23:43:00 - [1] - Quote xprotoman23 wrote: Dusty Sampson wrote: xprotoman23 wrote: Dusty Sampson wrote: Having passive bonuses is what made Chromosome so unbalanced. Now that bonuses are geared more to passive bonuses when equipping the related module, you can't just throw points into a ton of passive as an "I win button." SP still matters, but fitting matters just as much now. DUST is more unbalanced now than chromosome or any other build before it ever could have hoped to be. That's because everything got nerfed to the ground except for the AR and the TAR is an "I wind button." Has nothing to do with whether or not your passive are connected to your character or fitting when a douche with a modded controller can cut you down in half a second. Actually, if passive a were connected to characters instead of fittings, the TAR would be gunning you down in 1/16th of a second. Please explain to me how TAC's would still be dominating if people had stamina and armor regeneration connected to their character versus being associated exclusively with a module. Explain to me how people wouldn't be able to dodge LAV's if they still had the passive stamina bonuses? The idea is to try and make the game more based on player skill than SP, something a lot of people have been campaigning for since the beginning. In this case, that player kill is being expanded to how well the player fits their suit, which again removes the prior imbalance of more time in the game making you better at everything even without spending a single ISK on better gear. You could go into Ambush with all Militia gear and still be absolutely better than everyone else simply because of your passive bonuses. As you and your buddies are so fond of reminding us over and over, this isn't EVE.
Mobius Wyvern BetaMax. CRONOS. 1651	Posted - 2013.05.28 05:12:00 - [2] - Quote Khal V'Rani wrote: So wait, if I spec'd into armor repair modules that last week gave me a % bonus to armor repair, that bonus was removed during downtime this morning? I haven't played since Satuday night and everything was working the way it was described in the discription, as far as I could tell. No, no, we're talking about a trend over multiple builds. Don't start freaking out.