i really want to state here, that there's a LOT of frustration with the upcoming patch.
EPS consoles will be useless, take them out of the game, since noone will use power switching when i can choose +6 powersetting consoles.
DPS Energyconsoles Nerf is just stupid. you already nerfed dps enough, it takes 3 min for a defensice cruiser to take out a ship.
in addition u NERFED defensive as well, cause i can only use 1/3 of the defensive powers than before.
the only positive change is, that i can shuffle my 2 eps consoles to 2 other ones, but this makes no sense
@all since theres a DR on defensive consoles. thats the only good change cause now weapon power is more constant.
and what is much more annoying: you do not give out FREE RETRAINS for those who have to totally redo their ****ing setup now, i have to change 7/9 angi abilities now, i must farm new boff points and i have to completely repsecc now to have full usage of the "new" powers i HAVE to use now.
i predict the end of this game if any of those changes go live, and like in every other MMO i say: PVP is NOT all.
perhaps you sjould really look over to other games, here is so much lack in everything, cause after these changes every class will use the same powers, only with different amount, cause "specialising" is now totally obsolete, i have to use stupid powers, cause i have two empty slots ...
other games put cds on VERY powerfull powers, but not on EVERY power. healers can heal through, and you have to counter them (eg stunning the healer to kill the tank) here everyone can heal, but only 1 time in 1 minute, what a ****. redo the complete system, 2 more patches and everyone will perform the same in this game.
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Any thread like this is being moved, also they are testing this in great detail before this makes it live.
If it does make it to the live server, it will take several weeks. I suggest you post on those forums about these changes, they are following it closely.
This is the wrong section for this thread
Yea I agree with the EPS. I must say though that cruisers already look pointless to me as they are severely underpowered compared to Science and Escorts.
This isn't feedback.
Go over to Tribble.
Start a new thread, or post in one already there, with specific details (numbers, not feelings and opinion) about why a certain change is bad taking the big picture into play.
I can tell right now you didn't bother to test it very much. Weapon power is refunded AUTOMATICALLY now after they discharge, negating the reason to use EPS to keep weapon power high.
My cruiser is more survivable than currently on Holodeck because I took the time to alter my playstyle to match the new mechanics on Tribble.
And you complain about having to farm new BO points? I'm sitting on 20k and I regularly try out new abilities. I don't even play all that often with my Engineering Captain. I really don't know why you are flipping out to this level.
Let me see if I can help. The changes are unneeded, counterproductive and are creating more problems than they solve.
Some of the changes works and some don't (powers/CD ) The point is instead of nerfing damage, buff defense. Instead of modifiying the cool downs look at each power in relation to each other and, this is the important part, how it is used in Pve AND Pvp.
Yeah. Welcome to my world. Sympathy doesn't exist, here.
in PVE or PVP ???
i undertsand that through the power changes dps in PvP is reduced DRASTICALLY. but: i dont play pvp.
in pve nothing prevents the borgcube from critting me with 44k uber-crits. and now i have halv of the heal abilities as before.
not to mention that i have to completely respecc and reequip my whole cruiser. im using tetryon beams now, i have to go down to phaser then to save skillpoints to max out the science team again (cause its the only second heal in science), cause i have a "free" science console now, since i cannot use Hazard 1,1, and 2 anymore. so i have to make free 200x9 and 400x9 skillpoints now to max it again. so i will drop quantums as well and only using beams now, overall 8xbeams will do better than a bad placed quantum. so i have to farm 7x8 new badges to reequip my cruiser (not to mention the consoles, cause theyre quite cheap now)
i have to get new badges for deflectors, now i use a emitter only one, to max hazard, since i must se all spells then, i must farm badges for a deflector that has emitters and def.
not to mention that this change will force players to use every power ingame, so everyone will have the same powers, only with different max outs, wow, really i like specialising over this all can do the same were all equal ****. thats poison for a game.
for respec i have to farm 20k merits again, with each char, cause every char wmust adapt now.
these changes do nerf cruisers again, i will not be able to tank pvE anymore, cause, as i said: borg make dmg a lot without stacking alpha and omega. and they cause really really a LOT of work to be in line again. its like you get a class change in wow and your equip is not changed with your new mainstat, and you'll have to farm everything again.
and if cryptic does this every 2 weeks, im really ****ed up with it.
this will be a typical PVP patch that TOTALLY IGNORES the pvE players. really i need 2 mins to take out a sphere, and i will loose dps AND defense after this patch.
edit: i just realised that i have another idea of playing, most cruiser fight against single ships and don't mind -->real tanking<-- (that means flying into a combat and dealing with 5 groups (eg 2 cubes and some probes and spheres) so its right, that you dont see any differences @ all ...
but I am tanking 5 groups very well now, beeing a real valuable tank with all my defense, i can really take those ships so that escorts can take them out one after another.
THAT will be impossible if i can use my abilities only 1/3rd of the times than now live.
so the Tanking role will be broke (assumed that there was one intended ...)
so i dont see what to do with a cruiser then, after the patch. if they would add some valuable dps engi abilities, it would make sense, nerf defense 4 cruiser but giving them more offense (aux to weapons is senseless until weaponpower is capped @125)
i really think i should get back to wow, where classroles are not totally crapped within ONE patch, and if major changes are made, equip will be adapted and i get a free respecc ...