Cyber_naut

This is one of the more ridiculous ideas I've seen in a long time.

According to z, this is being done to create parity between store bought ios and in game io's. So you decide the right 'fix' is to go with the brand new formula that has created so many problems, rather than the old formula that we know works well and nobody has a problem with? Seriously?

But it gets more ridiculous. The more you put into your character, the less effective the ios will be for you. Brilliant. "Buy this new fuel injector for your car, it will add massive amounts of horsepower!***" The "***" being that it works great on 1988 volkswagon beetles but only adds 3 hp to cars made in this century. The idea that you're going to make procs less effective on top end builds is insane. Your customers who actually care about performance are the ones making the top end builds, and this is a kick in the face for them.

Claiming it will actually be a buff in 'most' cases is deceptive at best, a flat out lie at worst. I'm sure procs will totally rock from levels 1-20 when nothing has plus recharge, of course nobody cares about proc effectiveness in those levels, most players are just trying to get past them.

And saying that it will only be a minor performance drop is a joke. Take the stalker proc for example. The devs were saying up and down it was 'working as intended', now, for top end builds (and again, most of your customers who give a damn about this sort of thing make top end builds...), you're going to nerf it by 40%. I'm not sure what world you live in where 40% is minor. Lets cut your paycheck 40% and see how minor that is.

I recently made a stalker because of the changes, and FINALLY I see stalkers as a reasonable alternative to brutes and scrappers (they're still not as good overall, due to survivability issues and inferior aoe, but they're in the same neighborhood now because of the single target damage boost). One of the main things that makes them competitive is the proc you're nerfing by 40%, the same proc you said was working as intended time and time again. Now I'm not even sure if I should bother to continue leveling the character until I know how much this will effect it's performance, and that aggravates me. So if the goal is to aggrivate loyal customers - mission accomplished.

This also effects all of my best characters that use procs in fast recharging attacks. This completely changes how the procs work and results in a nerf on every single character that uses them. Why are we being nerfed for putting more effort into building our characters? For what? Because you put in some half baked new system that caused an uproar because you were selling superior ios on the market that weren't available in-game? And now the plan is to expand the half-baked system to all ios. Great. This reminds me of the pvp debacle a while back - please learn from your mistakes and listen to the complaints here, and not your fan boys who praise your every move regardless.

Instead of angering a huge portion of your customer base, why not offer more options instead of one broken one? Let the store bought IO's use your new formula, and let IO converters convert in game IO"s to the store IO's with the new formula if players want to use them. This creates another use for IO converters, creates new shinies for players to strive for, and alleviates concerns that you have to 'pay to win', as you can get the same things in the store by using in game items.

Now if Z's explanation is BS and you really just want to nerf high end performance, then please man-up and admit it, then explain to us why it was fine for so many years, especially when at this point we clearly have more challenging content to contend with, and why IO's you claimed were working as intended just days ago, are suddenly so 'overpowered' that you feel they should be nerfed by 40%.

After comparing this set to others, staff looks pitifully underpowered on brutes and scrappers vs. just about anything. I'm shocked that it didn't seem to come up in the beta forums. How the devs could claim that staff is on par with something like titan weapons defies logic. I'm guessing they overvalued the rather pitiful secondary abilities vs. what the primary value of an offensive power set is - damage.

The only hope for this set is stalkers, thanks to the fact they get body for free along with build up, and can add AS to their chains. The aoe's on this set better benefit massively from the 2' added range, or this is going to be a fail of a set on the order of dual pistols.

I can understand not wanting to make each set better than the last, but c'mon, at least make it competitive, especially when you're selling them now. I'd suggest adding a bit of damage to sky splitter and one of the lower tier single target powers.

I'd love to see a temp jet boot power.

Anybody know how good this set would be on a stalker with all the stalker buffs? I would think it would do better dmg than scrappers and brutes due to the fact it gets body for free, and then build up on top of that.

Fanboys aside who are ragging on people who are rightfully aggravated for having to wait weeks for a set that was ready for release weeks ago - I hope the people who run this game will reexamine this strategy of stringing out releases.

The idea that releasing two sets at the same time would piss off customers seems pretty ironic in this case. I'd say you'd have a lot less upset customers if they had a choice between two powersets at the same time, rather than making a large chunk of your paying customers wait on a set you've dangled in front of them for weeks while trying to get them to spend points on ligers and blessing of the zephyr io's. And if said customer had a desire to buy them both, they'd buy them both regardless of when they were released.

I was very excited initially about this set, but the excitement turned to aggravation as it became clear the set was being held back from release even though it was fully ready to be implemented. At this point, I'm really not sure if I'm going to even buy it now, especially after hearing how mediocre the damage is from shinobi (and he's a guy who knows how to test drive a powerset). I've got a feeling it's another dual pistols, a set that looks nice, but is akin to fighting with spitballs, or in this case, a wet, rolled-up newspaper. So now I'm aggravated and disappointed - I'm guessing that's not what the people who run this game were going for, but that's where I am, and from what I've been reading, I'm not alone.

The reason I complain is because I like this game, and I want the people who run it, to run it intelligently so it sticks around for a while longer. So hopefully, the way this situation was handled was just a singular mistake, and not something that becomes commonplace.

If they're both ready to release then release them both. Can we at least get some kind of idea when staff will come out? I'm already getting sick of it just from waiting for it to release.

Nice trailer but I think it's bugged - it's got several scenes with staff melee in it.

Please tell me staff fighting is coming out this month...