I'm 100% in.

I get the LGB romances, but what are the T romances?

I don't think I have the resources and time to perform these experiments properly. Depends on my skill and the Ops Leaders needs / wants / reservations. We're talking about the Arsenal changes so far? I thought what was being said was that Arsenal has been nerfed lower than MM & Lightning and thus all 3 were unable to be played in NiM. I don't have any opinion yet because I haven't seen all the changes, and so far I don't think the changes have been that drastic yet, up or down.

It is a coincidence that the 2 most mobile burst specs with the longest range are at the bottom? I get that these spreadsheets are important to help understand and calculate dps, but isn't each encounter unique? And different from target dummies? Do these numbers make the classes unable to complete content? Marksman to me seems like the best class at not being interrupted by encounter mechanics.

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Lightning Sorcs and MM Snipers can't complete NiM content? Since when are MM Snipers underpowered? Does that mean I can start playing mine again?

So far 1 class got buffed, and one got nerfed. are they? Yeah, they should mess with trauma (pvp), utilities and put it on the pts. If you're right about the healing they have to say it's for pve and it's on purpose; or adjust trauma. Is the consensus that mercs/mandos got an immense dps nerf or more of a light touch?

Well at least it'll have a compounding affect when teams stack mercenaries. I'm trying to calculate if the standard arsenal opening will be put above 40% heat because of blazing bolts. Also, we can't make a final conclusion until we see all the class changes, I mean, it is all relative.

Dam, just noticed. The decoy nerf is an unexpected dcd nerf, not bad, I thought they might lose it completely, but seems fine. Unload got nerfed all around (dmg, crit chance, crit surge, heat cost), and critical damage from their biggest hits are down. Hopefully it's enough.

I hope not. I hope this is the first step. I hope the class-balance-dev is back from vacation, or is done visiting their father or wtv. They can still nerf arsenal with just damage though (but not completely). I remember when arsenal had some set-up with dealing damage & heat signatures. Lower the damage, require more time to set up big damage and other classes just might be able to defeat them by the time the arsenal runs out of dcds. But i'm no game developer.

I'm going to be optimistic. How long can we agree that class balance has been needed? To me, it seems like we are right at the beginning of a first wave of balance changes, as apposed to having no balance changes in sight. Maybe they'll screw everything up, but I'm gonna try to stay positive. In the midst of all this transparency.

"Lastly, you might also wonder why there are not more changes to utilities and survivability for damage dealers in 5.3, and that is a fair question. We are first focusing on the damage and healing output for all Classes before getting too carried away with utility changes. This is because opinions about where a given Discipline stands among the pack can be clouded by high or low damage or healing output without anyone even realizing it. That is not to say we won’t tweak a utility here or there, but before we go making massive changes to a class’s utility toolkit, we want to make sure the damage or healing they can put out is on target and relatively similar to other Disciplines in their grouping. Once we are happy with the damage output, we can start adjusting utilities to give those that need it a boost and others that are too powerful a reduction."

A lot of reading comprehension issues in here. People think musco's class spreadsheet indicates what nerf/buffs are coming; the spreadsheet is indicating their targets, not their incoming nerf/buff plans.

Thanks, that was actually an interesting read. I have a question though; I know you said you wouldn't be focusing on utilities yet, but will there be any bug fixes to utilities? If some utilities just don't work or are bugged.

into the grind? god i'm getting tired of this rhetoric. I wish you played more of the game than push your disingenuous **** posting.

Your first chance at a mailbox is when you get to the Gravestone. You can then choose who you want to talk to and help out first, but you should be able to find a mailbox in that main area where Koth is working & fiddling.

I get off work soon, I ain't writing an article. I'm saying it varies so much from gametype to gametype. Also, class balance incoming eta: this summer, so it might not matter soon. Snipers are the best at OPG and Mercs are the worst.

@ doing what? flashpoints? uprisings? operations? arena pvp? huttball pvp? OPG? AHG? what are we talking about here, it isn't the same answer for each one.

I wanna know if they will fix the bugs/broken utilities that don't work properly.

Yeah, flashpoints have aged a bit; mounting & dodging mobs for long stretches of the map isn't fun for me. I much prefer how uprisings are structured.

buff trauma; make it stack up to 5 times

Guss is upset that he hasn't been mentioned.

I guess what I mean by niche is the combination of a story-driven fully voiced story (with companons, personal ships, dialogue wheel, etc) and an mmo. Which I don't think is very mainstream yet. I thought one of the biggest problems at launch was that a bunch of people went to end-game, and a bunch of people started a new character story, and it left us with so many different types of players who play the same game, but not the same content, adding a lot of divide. That's something I sort of appreciated, but wasn't successful.

Does eso have voiced player characters? -- I think swtor's issue is it it caters to the niche and one of it's standout endgame features was starting a new character. It doesn't even seem like an mmo to me (a standard mmo) and it's probably what makes it not for everyone, when mmos are supposed to be for everyone.

that's the one! I'm pretty sure, I recall it might have been on tatooine now. You could jump on your speeder and these guys would run along side you like they had super speed.