After seeing the proposed buffs to skills i was afraid of the explosive ones as i knew they with their AOE can trivialize Heroic difficulty which is the only end game co op content we have.
Didn't think massive would go as said in Tropic Thunder "Full ******" and buff both cool downs AND damage by a insane amounts while adding the BTSU gloves as a cherry on top. But here we are...
Now one build removes the ability in a CO OP mode to even participate as they constantly kill everything by proccing BTSU ---> use SEEKER ---> wave dead ---> pick up Demo GL ammo ---> wave 2 dead ----> rinse repeat...
No gun build has ever been this obnoxious and cancerous for what is supposed to be the real end game where you need to work together at least to some capacity. Having one build killing 80% of everything regardless of what other players are running where they can't even participate is wrong. Gun builds have never been able to do that
And it makes me angry. I could see the writing on the wall as one of our clan members had the season pass and got the gloves on his first try. He had been collecting skill gear all along so it only took him that first evening to have the build done. The novelty of him killing everything wore of quite quickly and by day two after the patch release we made a pact in the clan as to no one would use explosive skills when playing co op within the clan as the experience is miserable for the 3 others. The person agreed that it was stupid and stopped.
But sometimes to play a game you have to MM and then... 6/6 today looked like this
https://i120.photobucket.com/albums/...er/Heroic1.png
I played with an AR build that I have used the raid on Viewpoint Invaded Heroic. We had several people running skill builds. I had most kills and damage.
Of course the scoreboard after mission could have been busted.
And that's not even one of the worst ones. Issue is there is nothing to even shoot at.
I tried to raise the issue to warn people/Massive that they went to far but no one believed me or simply came back with childish comments like
"skill builds have been bad for so long so it's fine"
"build XYZ is OP so it's fine that explosive skill builds are also OP"
Because of this
1. Demo GL ammo needs to be restricted to MAX 2 ammo/mission not the 10-20 they now have or 5min cool down/shot
2. Destructive needs to go down to 5-10%
3 One of the two
- Nerf Seeker , mortar and bombadier
or
- Nerf btsu gloves to 5%
As with any cancer the quicker you cut it out the better. And i don't use the word cancer lightly. My mother has had breast cancer, my grandmother died of lung cancer, my grandfather of liver cancer and i my self will more than likely also go down to cancer at some point.
But make no mistake explosive skill builds are a cancer on the co op end game of Division 2