Devs called I24 "Fix Everything" in Coffee Talk... Lets hope that doesn't include nerfs

Just hearing that today got me thinking, what if I24 is another big balancing act like ED or GDN? Some powers could get gutted like Rage or Drain Psyche.

Thoughts?

It already has included nerfs. There are minor DPA nerfs to all the old crash nukes.

Great news, Ultimus. A_F and J_B have been hired as the new development leads at Paragon Studios. Everything's getting buffed forever.

One of the of the perks of being an "old" game is that we've gone way past the wild and desperate nerfbat swings that follow the launch of an MMO

Drain Pscyhe has already been guaranteed 'safe'.

Do I expect major re-balancing like GDN and ED? No. However I wouldn't be to surprised to see some powers changed. In particular I'm hoping that Drain Psyche is re-balanced to bring it into line with the other Blaster Sustain powers.

Or maybe it means that the outbreak of unwanted digital puppies caused by Beast Mastery's release will finally be brought under control.

Or maybe it's a team of assassins being sent after the most vocal complainers on the forums to "fix" them once and for all.

Or maybe it's exactly what it sounds like until we see evidence otherwise. Fear-mongering FTL.

Synapse has already said that Drain Psyche is safe as part of the Blaster Secondary discussion last month, by the way.

Ya know everytime I see ED I think of a certain dysfuction that men get and yes I do know that it stands for Enhancement Diversification, the devs couldn't have used any other abbreviations could they.

I am surprised no one has posted about how big of a nerf to Scrappers i24 is.

first they made brutes do more damage than scrappers
then stalkers did more damage than scrappers
now blasters will do more damage than scrappers

the scrapper AT is basically useless now. And it is the AT that pretty much defines comics - wolverine, spiderman, superman, iron fist, bat man, flash, wonder woman, etc.

if they do not fix scrappers in i24 I foresee massive numbers of people quitting in crit

I wish the devs wouldn't (presumably accidentally) use terms that have come to have their own meanings in forum-speak. A "fix everything" issue is a case in point. From what I've read, the devs mean, "Tweak lots of underappreciated powers and mechanics." But in forum-speak, judging from the past four years of posts, a "fix everything" issue means "go through and fix all the typos and bugs in the entire game, as well as whatever additions or changes I, the poster, want." I see a lot of disappointed forumites in the future once people realize the devs are doing their own thing, not borrowing someone's forum post idea. But then, disappointment is pretty much the theme of the fora, anyway, so I suppose it's to be expected regardless.

Oh, and what I've read of the changes look pretty good.