Thank you for the gear update
Not sarcasm. Also, this is entirely about the gear update and not the expansion.
Now everyone has to rebuild with new gear. You lose your good rolls that most people didn't have. I'm cool with that.
I'm honestly glad the gear changed the way it did. It makes the game more challenging and you can't be good at everything. There is sacrifice involved now as there should have always been.
I'm also happy about fighting other people that just happened to have better rolls than I did. The pvp is on a more even field than before. I threw a couple builds together and stomped teams because they had their God rolls as a crutch and now they're gone.
Another thing to be happy about is the inadvertent and indirect nerf to booster hive. It doesn't really do much unless you are a skill build which is also pretty much halted the dancing around people have been doing.
I know some people will be upset with these changes, but I think it will mostly be the people that were taking advantage of how broken the gear was. I farmed just as much as the next guy if not moreso and I still didn't have the best stuff and it sucks going into anything having spent so much time to still be weaker than you should be.
However, my only complaint is regarding PVP. When going into pvp the stats change so much it is hard to say what is actually good or not. From what I can tell though, assault rifles have a clear advantage because the old PVP normalization values are still in place. So AR's don't really take as much of a hit as the other weapons.
Overall though, very satisfied with the gear update.
P.S. You guys finally, FINALLY put Shotgun damage on the first bonus just as I had suggested many times months ago. Even though you totally screwed over every non double barrel shotgun in pvp, still.
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