Up to preview, alchemist:

All of the casting entirely outclassed by sorcerers
All of the ranged utility is better in a typical post-nerf inquis
The buffs are nice to have but really not enough to justify anything

Maybe useable splashing 6~ levels into inquisitive, but that's pretty much it

Dissolve is a poor man's hurl

Mostly useless. Please change my mind.

5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 28^th, 2020 at 9:52am:

Well Steelstar probably created it so, yeah.

raybob wrote on Jan 28^th, 2020 at 4:19pm:

My plan is to not play it at all.

The energy needed to play it just to make it "yeah it's sorta okay you know it's kinda new with some decent stuff" means that the plebs and whales will never master it or contribute in any significant way with it, and the perpetually angry assholes who play this game while loathing it (you, dear reader) will still run Sorc lives for racials/epics and whatever FOTM is best for endgame.

To think I was actually hoping for an additional "healer" class in this game.

wtf is wrong with me

NOTpopejubal wrote on Jan 29^th, 2020 at 4:33pm:

There are just too many insurmountable nerfs, and all at once, coupled with a shift away from the ranged playstyle itself, with the IPS nerf.

Inquisitive could have been nerfed slightly less. It is not even worth dps testing as is, because it is not worth playing it over all the throwers or the Volley Mech core 18 with NHB build. I believe adjusting the reaper debuff for ranged and magic would have been the more elegant solution. If they wanted to balance for heroics or epic elite then Sorc should be illegal.

Caster testing only, since first preview they made heal flasks terrible.
They were ok  on first round, on 2nd they are not usable, noone will wait for that animation in r10s to hit you, also slas suffer hard targeting so you can missfire it into the roof.

Damage spells,multi vial nerf was bad, really bad, ccs are okish since they had like 2 and half minutes duration on r10 for whatever d fk reason.
Damage was okish, amazing for aoe, for single target it was decent at most.
Melle poison spells did not work, ambition dice was worded incorrect, always assumed it was a dot but its just a on hit, cds are all over the place, the actual dots do not work so no proper dps test can be done.

Biggest problem is lack of any kind of proper cc for reapers, any kind of healing like divines do for spot healing.
Class feels unfinished and all the feedback we gave them during first preview was ignored for the 2nd.
I like the free 3 frog dc and free 60 sp from it, feels like a ok class for heroic trs, has potential to be very strong if they fix stuff and improve it in all the places we pointed out to improve it.

Linker wrote on Jan 30^th, 2020 at 4:43am:

Mech tree nerfed.
Reload speed nerfed.
Law dice and their scaling nerfed.
Doubleshot halved.
IPS nerfed.

Inquisitive post-nerf is a giant pile of dogshit. Like the combined creativity of all SSG devs.

Rubbinns wrote on Jan 30^th, 2020 at 12:16pm:

Don't forget Ratcatcher nerf which is essentially an additional nerf on Inquisitives from 8 to 26, if not 29.

Digimonk wrote on Jan 30^th, 2020 at 1:51pm:


For some reason this is the one that pisses me off the most.  It took me like 7 times through the dog shit quests of Threnal to get this and it was so nice for leveling.

Ulysses wrote on Jan 30^th, 2020 at 5:10pm:


Ratcatcher Crit profile:

*On Live - 14-20/x4
*On Lama - 16-20/x4

Everyone getting mad over nerfs and i'm here getting mad over the xbow instaopener bug lol

Halfmaniac wrote on Jan 31^st, 2020 at 4:45am:

This, biggest nerf in the game since dupe and recycle fix.

Rubbinns wrote on Jan 30^th, 2020 at 4:43pm:


I didnt like inquis meta much, but that sounds too rough. ill test it sometime.