I never understood nerfing. Why is it considered a good business model to TAKE from happy customers when in some cases they could GIVE to other customers to achieve a balance. Taking away from customers/people creates anger and frustration. Giving to customers/people often inspires happiness. Plus it costs absolutely nothing to give to customers in DDO, pixels and what not.

Digimonk wrote on Jan 31^st, 2020 at 9:20pm:

See, there's the issue. It goes from "It's right where we want it to be. 100 hours of playtesting. Same as a great xbow mech.", all the way to a bucket of nerfs at once.

I am assuming the reload nerf will not touch NHB speed, since that bypasses the reload animation all together ( hopefully ). The law dice, scaling, doubleshot, and mech tree nerfs are more than enough. Doubleshot nerfs bolts fired per attack from 4 to 5 shots, down to just 2-4. Droidz on mobos did some math and said that the reload nerf is around 3% loss on a sustained rate.

Fury, Shiradi, and Fatesinger times won't be too much slower, relatively, due to them already being so low on pre-nerf times. But LD and SD times are going to feel it, immensely. A shuri or dagger thrower become better ranged builds because the dps is now higher, on either burst EDS, or sustained dps EDs.

Nerfs in DDO are especially problematic, from a mechanical perspective, because the game has almost zero tools to assist the players with anything. And we end up having no way of knowing if what is being done actually works correctly. Like alacrity on lamania with throwers and bows. Devs are silent on the vile alchemist thread. The one with the tier 5 alacrity lol. Also, Daggers and shuris seem to be capped at 5. So do bolts on inquis on live. 

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2020 at 3:33pm:


Yeah well the devs are completely devoid of the latter and utterly incapable of the former, so that is pretty correct!