Everybody is now on same level now thet the skills work correctly. As a result no more respects. Getting your skills right is an important part of the game and rewards players who take a risk or gamble. In dust u need to learn to live with your choices

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.

No more respecs,if you have put your sp to wrong place stick with that,in uprising i put my sp to wrong places put dident ask respec i just stick my mistake

In my opinion a weapon takes more skill if you have to actually hit your target who is strafing while you're also strafing, not just hit their general vicinity, I will will you credit that a mass driver takes more skill to use than a the flaylock pistol which does virtually the same splash damage as direct damage which is complete BS.

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.

all noob tubes have travel time in any game, they are still NOOBtubes...

Any gun with approximation is skill-less

Says the guy that QQed about the TAC AR nerf and Fused Locus Grenades while using a CaLogi suit as an assault +1

I dunno how it actually works, but could it be a lot easier to simply give a global respec with the new patch?

As opposed to doing one merc at a time?

Many are still waiting and I don't really see a problem with respeccing those that haven't asked for it, it only takes minutes to buy into the same skills.

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I personally mean that when changes are made to the game, such as new suits, weapons, vehicles and large nerfs/buffs, a respec is in order.

I was clever enough to check the MD's stats before speccing into them at release, if they get fixed I'd rather like to spec into them again. I really don't wanna grind 3 months just for that....

Chromosome?

You mean Uprising...

I found the MD much harder to use than the AR (I'm told the AR takes skill). I couldn't kill anything with the MD, but with an AR I can hit the target's head with ease. When a MD user kills you, it's OP, and when an AR user kills you, it's skill? I don't think so.

The MD was a feared weapon in Chromosome as it should be, but not anymore. As long as you MD users don't kill any AR users, CCP won't nerf it to death.

To be perfectly honest, I'm a little baffled at what's happened with the Mass Driver. The reason for the splash and blast range nerf was that in playtests we found the MD to be so effective that at one point almost half the people in the office were using it in battles. Clearly, that's not been the case with Uprising and after getting the engineers to go elbow deep into the code it appears there may be a few reasons beyond dry numbers that are contributing to the MDs underwhelming performance.

One, there appears to be a de-sync between client and server so that (more often than it should) the server and client think the projectile exploded in different places. They're not far off, but enough so that shots you *think* are spot on are off the mark enough to do only minor splash damage. And two, I'm told splash occlusion is getting blocked by a single player character more than it should, contributing to the "randomness" of the damage dealt and the sometimes smudgy feeling of the weapon.

I'm hesitant to rebalance the weapon until we get these issues looked at (which is happening right now).

Wow, I thought we had moved on from this "more respecs" topic. I suggest starting a "DUST is doomed" or "I am leaving" much more current QQ subjects.

Not all of us are as convinced of CCPs infinite wisdom, I guess

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?

Well, this is not something that feedback(QQ) will change. It is a design choice. Here comes the snarky bit. If you want a different game, feel free to start your own game company.

i don't run logi. i run the raven suit. Ar on lvl 3. scr on 5 with prof 4 which i use only in good squads and non pub matches. (using the auto variant of the scr, b/c the single shot is too op and it feels like cheating)

usualy i run raven with exile ar, and some other bpo's. if it gets nerfed, which i doupt, so be it.

I am agianst Respecs because i think you have to live with the consequences. If you screw up because you used a obviously broken tool, its your fault.
If you screw up because you did not read, or did not understand the tooltip of a skill, its your fault.

Choose wisely and live with the consequences.

Eve pilots dont get to respec their skills every now and then. if a ship gets nerfed, like it happend to the drake recently, they have to live with it.

Well, this is not something that feedback(QQ) will change. It is a design choice. Here comes the snarky bit. If you want a different game, feel free to start your own game company.

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.

see i agree with you to some point, BUT let me tell you a story.

In Chromosome i loved the laser rifle. Then came uprising. I didn't jump into lasers just from the start because lasers were kewl in the last build. I looked at the stats first. i invested 1 lvl, which won't brake your legs, into it and saw the sight range etc. The changes led me to the point where i decided not to spec into lasers anymore.

My point is: Don't jump into stuff just because it was good in the last build.

Second.

If the AR or the SCR get nerfed, or the new guns (Caldari, MinmaTard) prove to be superior, then its bad luck i guess. i hold about 1.5 mil sp on the side for such events. Why you ask? because thats what you do if you know that stuff may change.
And if those 1.5 mil won't be enough well then its bad luck for me and i start to grind.

Now you allready know that stuff may change over time. Harden up and prepare for it by saving SP or don't if you feel confident that your stuff won't get nerfed again

Now you allready know that stuff may change over time. Harden up and prepare for it by saving SP or don't if you feel confident that your stuff won't get nerfed again

So just like AFK, the best way to play DUST is to not

Got 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.

I've never AFK'd because if I did I would quit this game.

Despite my constant negativity around here, I would really like to see something become of this game. A few of you might remember back towards the beginning, even partway through, I was a CCP fanboy through and through, defending them through thick and thin.

Yea, the times, they are a changin'