You need to make a topic on this. Preferably general, since they're going to wind up moving it to the graveyard feedback anyway. Might as well give it some exposure. Just add a little more background on the situation, including the HMG, pistols, and all vehicles. All of the above suffered significant ninja nerfs.

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.

Personally, I prefer that CCP let us know of ANY and ALL changes to the stats and behavior of anything that happens in Dust. They are quite upfront with the information in Eve Online, yet they seem to be lacking in such capacity with Dust when it comes to things like ninja nerfs or ninja buffs. Since CCP has already setup a NEWS tab on the launch window of Dust, they might as well utilize it for EVERY change they make.

wtf is ninja nerf?

A "ninja" nerf or buff is when the function or stats of an in game mechanic is changed without documentation being provided to inform the player base.

oh , yeah that sucks indeed

u know before , you could see the % u get from damage mods when u press square on the fitting to see its stats

now u cant see that anymore

So I got the optional respec to dump all my SP into LLAV's... and discovered that it was easier than at launch to get into. Caldari LAV lvl 3 instead of 4. Was this in the patch notes? Cuz I didn't notice it there.