The MD was the only weapon with bullet travel back in Chromosone, meaning you had to predict where your enemy was going to be and lead the target, and also aim it higher because of the bullet drop. So yes, MD does require skill, it was one of the few weapons that required skill, and still is.

Yeah, the MD has gotten hit pretty hard:

MD Specific:
1) Splash Radius
2) Misleading Smoke Trail
3) Damage nerf
4) Range Nerf

General, but hits MD hard:
1) Nanohive Nerf (my smg kills have gone way up.)

This has changed the weapon entirely. People can hide behind obstacles and be safe, People can run from cover to cover at a distance and be safe. People can charge at me and absorb my damage while taking me down (easier than before).

I've adjusted my playstyle to this. And am now finding myself charging into groups of enemies and using the MD like a blind man's shotgun. It works, but i'm not sure that's the weapon's intended role.

If the 10% damage buff is across the board, then bringing back the splash radius and increasing the range will bring this weapon back up to snuff.

Even if you have AR operation/sharpshooter/proficiency 5 and you log in the next day to find all your fits are invalid because your Gallente logi, along with all logis get restricted to sidearms and no forewarning from the devs?

I always keep thinking you run Gallente logi for some reason, my fault. But anyway, you're missing my point. If you invest your SP into something you should be rewarded for what it brings. But the cutoff is that we have bugged skills, skills that don't work as described in the text and things that are changing overnight without any indication or forewarning like the series of ninja nerfs vehicles are going through. I'm with you on you should life with your choices, but if those choices are misinformed or baited and switched by CCP's influence breaking the 4th wall of New Eden's rules, all bets should be off if it's so drastic that you would have never made that choice to begin with since the outcome was altered.
It's like buying an apple but it gets turned into an orange when you bite into it and the vender you bought it from tells you to deal with it.

I'm so pissed off, I don't even want to AFK because it'll give them the satisfaction that there's one more person going towards their projected server turnout.

Laser nerf was in the patch notes, MD nerf wasn't and no info on bugs because they obviously didn't test it. Also, laser still gets kills, play with Jaden once in a while...

So they wanted Roadkill Rampage and Pot Shot Safari

Shouldve put that in a Devblog

That has to be one of the worst and most random analogies I've ever seen....

All I'm saying is that the only thing to do in this game is shoot people in the face.

Since the SP grind was increased without giving any real content in between, you have to literally spend months and months and months (less, if you open up your wallet) in order to play any other meaningful playstyles. New players have NO way of knowing how these will perform, hell, even vets are often left in the dark and forced to search through third party software to try and plan out builds that may very well be ripped apart with little notice.

There is no meaning behind what you do. You shoot people. It's a lobby shooter. There are virtually NO mmo aspects that give this game anything fresh. The mechanics and graphics are basic and even subpar at times. The game modes are horrifically boring, and we've been playing them for over a year now.

People acting like your build is "a choice that matters" are still caught in the lala land that CCPs admittedly small marketing devision has trapped you in.

Tell that to people that have to focus on fighting to controls more than the guy in front of him, die to getting stuck on terrain more than the guy shooting back at him, spend SP on bugged skills that don't work or don't do what the text dictates what they do, have guns that shoot ghost rounds, have to hard reset their PS3 wondering if this is the reset that's going to kill it...

Bugged weapons, misleading skills that don't do as advertised, stealth nerfs SP sinks... is there any other way I can spell things out for you so you can understand?

Why should there be no more respecs? I don't understand your mentality. Bringing flexibility and the options to try out different loadouts in an FPS is as important as allowing grass to grow with sunshine and water.

I was reading an E3 review on this game and they brought up that this game did not yet have a release date. I think people tend to forget this game is in open beta.

Respecs with major changes are probably warranted until "release."