Nerfing Sentry was a bad idea!! | Forums

[Neumeusis]

Mix in a team a good buffer and a good DPS guy, and Falcon Lost Hard mode almost becomes a joke : enemies melt down. Litterally.
We experienced that two days ago with a friend.
Yeah, not a new find, but once you make it yourself, you understand...

I buff him with capped Pulse and Smart Cover, he shred enemies. One shotting most of them with his sniper rifle. Two-Three shotting the others. Sentry's 4PC is almost unused with this setup.
I do 100k+ damage on critical headshots with my SMG (and i'm the buffer).
We did a run in just above 30 minutes, with two randoms guys doing almost nothing.
Hell, we could 2 man the incursion with this setup and a tiny bit of organization.

So the nerf will not impact PvE too much.
And it's the only impact there could be, as Challenging modes were already doable and farmable before sets.

[db_Hooligan_db]

But its not a nerf when its doing what it wasnt intended to do and they change it to do what it was meant to do. Called fixing what was broke.

[Creative5p]

Yes but for how long has 1.1 been out?? A whole month and only now they tell us that it's broken. If they would have told us that it's broken from the start then people may not have spent hours upon hours trying to grind FL for sentry pieces. This is what pisses me off the most. If something is broken let us know instead of us trying to get the perfect build by grinding for days and only then finding out that the build you were trying to go for is going to be useless in a week or so.

[LonigusEze]

Was? As in past tense? It didnt even happen and yet you already jump into conclusions... Some people...

[SupaSkrub]

Sentry call 4x set is severely op particularly in the pvp environment, i use it myself and will hold my hand up i use it because of it being op, i don't use it because its the meta and everybody who has a 4x is using it, i use it because it is op, simple as that, it needs fixing.

I will also be using it after its been fixed, i wont be running a MR with it though, it will be shotty and a pistol for sure, then switch to smg, if they are close enough it will be pistol and move in with the shotty, just been practicing with that combo in dz, its a fun build!

[LonigusEze]

Sentry call 4x set is severely op particularly in the pvp environment, i use it myself and will hold my hand up i use it because of it being op, i don't use it because its the meta and everybody who has a 4x is using it, i use it because it is op, simple as that, it needs fixing.

I will also be using it after its been fixed, i wont be running a MR with it though, it will be shotty and a pistol for sure, then switch to smg, if they are close enough it will be pistol and move in with the shotty, just been practicing with that combo in dz, its a fun build!

we dont know yet the new gear sets and if the rumors are true about atleast one, the tank set, then I might mix that in together with sentry or strikers. I cant wait! 20% exotic damage resiliance with 75% armor mitigation and strikers 4 piece bonus might be the way to go all that with a good shotty and boom!

[DarienStegosaur]

Nerfing Sentry is a fantastic idea.

That being said, some people are probably owed a stack of parts as compensation for their gear being drastically changed.

[SpazzticZeal]

Not working as intended, fix was needed. I do blame Massive for releasing it this way though....

[blkbumblebee17]

Sentry's call was op but what they did to fix it makes no sense... People have collected and built their gear around their playstyle and weapons based on the bonus they set up. Its not the same as a glitch in the weapon stats where it was doing something it wasnt suppose to be doing in the first place. We have to spend credits on these items and then re-roll and craft these items grind the incursion and hope to get the roll we want. Then when people cry like babies about how something works it gets nuked not nerfed. Chaining the amount of damage, or adding a slight clause like all the other sets would have been fine instead of saying no autos. This dev team is just completely without direction they dont think in advance and when they mess up they over fix rather than slightly tweak. Every time i want to like this game more the devs find someway to muck it up.

[DarienStegosaur]

Sentry's call was op but what they did to fix it makes no sense...

They made it not work with machine guns.

It was clearly designed for Marksman rifles, and now it will (Mostly) only work with Marksman Rifles. It actually makes perfect sense. Massive did good with that decision (as much as it hurts me to say so).