First Prophet
Jaguar Empire
525
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Posted - 2013.07.14 01:05:00 -
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There's a lot I can say about respecs but I'll just say this:
I'm a pretty dedicated Minmatar player, my plan to build this character was to go strictly with Minmatar gear. Now I've stayed focused on that for the most part. Specialized into Minmatar light/scout with Mass Driver and SMGs. It's a decent setup. But there's a few problems.
There are no minmatar AV weapons. I tried to get by with just AV grenades but I was forced to be at the mercy of every vehicle from LAVs to even dropships until I gave in and skilled into Swarm Launchers. Now I realize this is a somewhat self inflicted problem, but it points out a flaw in the "Save your SP" argument. The game gets really bad really fast when you're not able to spend your SP. Now I'd like to be able to put my SP from my SL into whatever the minmatar AV weapon is when it gets released. I'm not sure it will happen, I doubt it will sometimes, but it reflects very bad on CCP when players are punished because they released an incomplete game.
The minmatar scout racial bonus gives a damage bonus to nova knives. While that sounds nice and all to most of you, the nova knife is CALDARI. The MINMATAR scout gives a damage bonus to a CALDARI weapon. CCP showed off a slide of all the racial knives during Fanfest, which was cool, now we know racial knives are coming. But they released the Minmatar Scout before they released the minmatar knife variant, so they couldn't give the scout a minmatar knife bonus, so they gave it a caldari knife bonus. Meaning we minmatar scouts are FORCED to specialize into the Caldari knife, or not use our racial bonus. Which again, BAD CCP.
No Minmatar vehicle variants, or even minmatar turret variants.
These are issues that go on for almost ALL suits, vehicles, weapons. I get that people are concerned about the issues that respecs might cause in the future, but what about all the issues that not getting a respec will cause/are causing right now? |
First Prophet
Jaguar Empire
525
|
Posted - 2013.07.14 03:24:00 -
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Maken Tosch wrote:First Prophet wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:Even though technically the nova knives are Caldari, the server doesn't see the knives like that. Not yet at least until the racial variants come in. does that mean we'll get our Nova Knife SP refunded when the other variants are introduced? Probably not. If CCP does to Dust what they did with the Eve skills, it's more than likely that CCP would allocate the SP for you into other racial variants depending on which racial skills you have. That would also mean you would get extra SP without needing to grind anything at all.
Kind of dumb that it gets done without your choice, but it would well work in my case so I won't complain if that's how it goes down.
Still, not being sure how they plan to do this makes it hard to plan my skills. Really tempted to get those proto knives, but those kalamari knives are so smelly. |