... Was just about to break 4k wp for the first time as a scout then I get fatal errored...
I love you too dust...

NUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PANCAKE!!! xxo <3 *Hugs you tight and strokes your back whispering* "Everything will get better hun" even tho we both know eventually they may but soon it may all be over for the both of us.






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I THE DARK FLAME MASTER (no one picked up the reference so ill change it) THE MAGIC DEVIL GIRL HAS RETURNED!!!!

lol nah ill think of a name today....

Even with the new Gal Assault bonus, i still see a small influx of GalRR happening. Someone tell me, all rail weaponry are getting range buffs, right? I am unsure and am too lazy to find the dev post. If that is true, i will be happy about my baby being useful again. I may even spec Cal stuff.

Even with the new Gal Assault bonus, i still see a small influx of GalRR happening. Someone tell me, all rail weaponry are getting range buffs, right? I am unsure and am too lazy to find the dev post. If that is true, i will be happy about my baby being useful again. I may even spec Cal stuff.

Quoting for still wanting it to be answered

Why?

Caldari Assaults have the kick bonus to it as well as reload. I see no reason to have that kind of combination apart from switching tank choice.

Hell, shields are being buffed...

Adapt or die, it's the way of dust.

All in all, I feel like assault and logi's got buffs and scouts got nerfed some again.

How so?

Most of the shield buffs I can see to suits are innate.

The locus grenades are bad for everyone but worse for scouts who are going to be insta killed by them 99% of the time their within the blast after the changes.

Shield Changes - I completely agree (though I don't think it's much to do with TTK). I'm glad they listened to feedback regarding the regen and delay. What I'm a bit upset about are the depleted delay stats. I provided lots of ideas and very in depth feedback regarding the CPM shield proposal, which left out consideration of depleted delays. In that thread Breakin' Stuff was very dismissive of me and quite rude. Considering the effort I'd put into my feedback I felt kind of pissed off about it.
Apparently he'd been given the task of working on depleted delays, though I'm sure other CPM members worked on it too. But we never got a chance to give feedback on their proposal. I kind of pre-empted this a bit by explaining how I felt about it when the ideas were hinted at, but there was never a proper feedback thread about it.
Now we've got a strange situation where depleted delays are, counter-intuitively, shorter than non-depleted, and shorter the heavier the suit. I've been talking to some guys in game today, and nobody seems to get why. It's nice for sentinels, who lost out on their comparatively good rege stats compared to mediums, but why do scouts now have the worst depleted delays?
OK, it's nice to have a neat pattern, and I guess scouts can be brought back to balance with other changes, like cloaks, but how is massively buffing medium suit depleted delays a good thing? Kind of nice for shield tankers I suppose, not that they had particularly long delays before, and not that they are (or should be) going into armour very often, but isn't this a large buff to dual tanking and armour tanking? An armour tanker is going to have their shields depleted very often, so is going to reap the benefit of this a lot of the time. It's not a major deal, it just seems kind of silly, kind of poor for balance, and kind of irritating that the community were barely consulted. It seems too late to do anything about it now. All anyone's interested in is the endless AV vs V debate (which I caved into commenting on here ).
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Depleted Delays were a hard thing to balance. Breakin spear-headed it, absolutely, as I was busy with the overall regen changes. But it wasn't without the rest of the CPM looking over the numbers and considerations and providing feedback in kind. We're not isolationist except in speciality areas (mine is Lore, Kevall's is NPE, etc)

By the time Depleted Delays are considered, a dedicated shield tanker is likely dead anyway. It doesn't make much sense that depleted delays should be -longer- than normal shield delays because that just adds unnecessary time that a shield tanker is going to have to wait before seeing any gains on their primary defense method.

So the thinking was that: "As EHP goes up, Regen goes down. As Regen goes down, Delay must also go down to maintain a healthy recovery rate." Sentinels are primary to this thinking (and thus received lower regen times) but it takes them much much longer to recover. With low fitting variability due to slot counts, this only further contributes to that philosophy.

As far as dual tanking, the CPM is pretty much unanimous in that other modules need to be brought up in viability as a means of encouraging primary tanking. Something you're seeing the beginning stages of with the biotics over-haul.

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I agree (though I think "ridiculously" is maybe going a bit far). Rattati has even mentioned a desire to buff it not that long ago. I hope he still feels this way, and it happens in the not too distant future.

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