Can the balance devs please try and consider skills and traits which they buff/add from both sides. Almost everything which sucks in this game has come from clueless buffs.
Let me continue by way of examples:
- Decap engis – Is this a FUN build to play against? Is full immunity fun to play against for a condition spec? Is immunity for immobalise/cripple FUN for other damage specs to play against (hard to land burst as melee on them)?
- Pistol whip thief – Is it fun to get burst and stunned out of nowhere for about 7k? Is it fun that they can teleport without line of sight over and over? Is it fun you can’t interrupt their heal?
Warrior – Is it fun when they are immune to everything which a huge up time (with stances)? Is it fun getting stun locked? Is it fun when they lay down a fire field which covers the whole map? Is it fun getting impaled and you can’t even cleanse it?
Spirit ranger – Is it fun not being able to see what is going on? Is it fun losing to someone who simply presses “1”?
Imo good game design should take into account how fun it is for the guy playing against the spec and the guy playing with the spec. Sure 1 shotting people might be fun for the guy using it but is it fun to play against? Some eles might find diamond skin fun to use at times, but is it fun to play against for a ranger/engi/necro who are pigeon holed into condi specs because many of their weapons do not scale well with power?
I believe that if you designed the game in this way then you would have more people who find the game to be fun. Currently the meta is in the worst state it has ever been in. Your balance changes (which you told us about months ago) are utterly insignificant and don’t seem to address most of the big issues like AR, spirits, immunities, etc.
In future, my advice would be to try and consider skills and traits from both sides. I have never seen a game fail so utterly in this regard. That is my honest view. If you were in charge of call of duty you would put in a “nuke” which wipes the battlefield as a 3-kill kill-streak bonus I expect. Really fun for the guy nuking, but really sucks for everyone else.
It is just shocking to see how the game has degraded in terms of its meta. I am not sure you can bring it back to be honest. Will things get worse or better?
Edit: Just wanted to say I think the devs are smart and talented. Jon Sharp always seemed clever and so does Karl to be honest. So I hope they can turn things round. I just don’t know what is going on and it makes me sad
(edited by Rickster.8752)