Tu8 Broke the (base) Game
So I thought I was just imagining things/maybe was just me last night but after checking out the forums, Reddit etc. it's clear as day that the game is a hot mess right now.
Let me preface this by saying overall I like Gear 2.0, especially the reclibration and UI changes. But the balancing for 30 is just beyond the pale and utterly unacceptable. What the F*** DID YOU DO, MASSIVE?! Trash (Red) enemies are as deadly as named bosses were pre-patch now. The majority of my mods were outright deleted or turned into duplicates of each other, and my skills are largely worthless.
Oh and the Firewall was fun to play while it lasted. It too, is now a casualty of this update as for whatever stupid reason, when you set enemies on fire now they just keep fighting as if nothing is wrong. It doesn't force them out of cover, they don't flail about helplessly for a few seconds they just keep attacking you/stay in cover the same as if you inflicted Bleed status. So basically using fire is completely pointless (oh and the Flamethrower itself is worthless as well, as not only do the flames not do much of anything but it actually takes several seconds of direct fire now to even register whereas before I could do a quick spray into a group and they'd all be dancing)
I'm still excited about WoNY and want to get it (eventually) but holy hell there needs to be some major hotfixes NOW. Not a month or 2 weeks later, RIGHT NOW. Unless this is some deliberate attempt to force people into buying the expansion, in which case I will call for a boycot (I know it means jack these days but still it's the principal of the thing). It is utterly unacceptable to break the base game to push an expansion pack, no sane developer does this because it's bad for business.
Also probably maybe should dial back the gear depency for skills just a bit. I noticed there's quit a lot of skill repair/damage/status effect stuff you can get which is cool, I like being able to actively boost that through gear but the base effects of skills need to remain passable without those. Obviously you should have to specialize for Heroic and higher, but baseline stats should be fine up to Challenging or at least Hard, especially with how drops are weighted towards difficulty now. Like outside of 8-man raids or Legendary missions there really shouldn't be any need to hardcore optimize your build.
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