Hello,

I, like others, have asked for a skill respect. I would not be writing this request if it had not been for a poorly phrased mail I received after i submitted my ticket. This mail was an automated message given to all players who asked for a respec. In this respons CCP stated "Please ensure that due care is taken when spending skills and ISK as we will be unable to reverse ISK/SP spending in future. "

As you can see the phrase "due care" stings a bit to those who used their SP carefully but got smacked in the face with the severity of the changes. For example. How where HMG users to know that their precious gun got such a nasty nerf on range? How where the mass driver users to know that the nerf on damage and splash radius would affect the weapons so horribly because of desync issues and shield buffs to suits; The list goes on.

The meaning of this post is to kill two birds with one stone. The first bird is an apology because even when we knew some of the changes done to some of the weapons there where others, like keyboard / mouse changes, range changes that where posted after most people had put skill points into their weapons, changes to the mass driver, etc. that where not announced and had great effect on the overall gameplay. The second bird is patch notes. I would like a formal apology from CCP because they have not provided complete or at least a comprehensive list of changes that make the player base able to choose with "DUE CARE" what to invest their hard earned SP into because of the simple fact the there is no information on any of the changes done to some of these areas.

You should have spent your SP on core skills so that no matter what happens you'l at least be able to start speccing into the FOTM.

there will always be changes - nerfs, buffs new weapons or just some player figuring out how to neuter the current OP fit with existing weaponry.

Just as what you've specced into might be UP, as the balance changes it'll come full circle in a while as one thing or another is tweaked or a new weapon is added.

If you find the current state of the game distasteful you do have the option to not play for a while and then come back to a nice pile of passive SP that you can use to try whatever weapon you want.

HTFU.

You should have spent your SP on core skills so that no matter what happens you'l at least be able to start speccing into the FOTM.

there will always be changes - nerfs, buffs new weapons or just some player figuring out how to neuter the current OP fit with existing weaponry.

Just as what you've specced into might be UP, as the balance changes it'll come full circle in a while as one thing or another is tweaked or a new weapon is added.

If you find the current state of the game distasteful you do have the option to not play for a while and then come back to a nice pile of passive SP that you can use to try whatever weapon you want.

HTFU.

You should have spent your SP on core skills so that no matter what happens you'l at least be able to start speccing into the FOTM.

there will always be changes - nerfs, buffs new weapons or just some player figuring out how to neuter the current OP fit with existing weaponry.

Just as what you've specced into might be UP, as the balance changes it'll come full circle in a while as one thing or another is tweaked or a new weapon is added.

If you find the current state of the game distasteful you do have the option to not play for a while and then come back to a nice pile of passive SP that you can use to try whatever weapon you want.

HTFU.

clearly you sold out to the AR side.. some of us have more integrity than that

You should have spent your SP on core skills so that no matter what happens you'l at least be able to start speccing into the FOTM.

Yes, this is what CCP means by due care. They mean use your brain.

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On behalf of the DUST 514 team please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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