Bioware caved in to the forum whines, prepare for the start of a doomed pvp game.

Since people are complaining about every single class, I guess any nerf would have been a cave in...

OK, I'm sorry, but there's no way they should be taking that long to kill on their own. This is a case of you either need to try other classes for something that suits your style better, or there's something you're doing that you're not thinking through. No healer should be difficult on their own for a burst class in this game.

Sorry if you've seen this post in another thread. I just think it's too good to not be posted here too (plus, the guys who wrote it is really handsome):

Here's the real reason for this nerf:

Bioware wants more time to fix the stuff in the game that is broken. There are a few things mind you. Everything from PvP to PvE has major issues in one way or another. Bugs, loot system not working, no UI customizations. They need to keep the subscribers happy enough to stay until the next major patch.

So, how to do this? You cater to the masses. Right now there is a HUGE majority of the players rolling Sorcerers. The Ops nerf at this time, is only to keep them happy enough to keep paying, until the game is fixed. I think we will see a buff again, later on. When balance is the real issue.

Think about it:

1. The adrenal/buff stacking was the major issue. Why the numbers were so big. That is fixed.
2. I've read stories of 450 exp tanks getting taken down in 2 seconds. Just not real - NOT without other people shooting/damaging that player too. But the ops (right there behind him) gets the "blame". No combat log - so no proof that there were other nukers as well.
3. IF Bioware did this for balance purposes; they would have fixed the brackets (done) and the adrenals (done) and tried it out like that first for a few weeks. But this is only to cater to the masses. No balance here, only greed.

I agree, some sort of adjustment was necessary. The dmg IS a tad high; but this nerf is a total knee-jerk just to please the masses. Like I've said so many times on this forum: People that are getting nuked down while stunned by the ops are getting nuked by a whole friggin team. Ops gets the blame for being the one stunning and surprising with that nasty stealth. Happens in every mmo. Usually the developer knows this and handles it well. Mythic doesn't; as seen with Warhammer too.

Need to keep people playing?

5% Ops
60% Sorcs
Screw the Ops!

Oh yeah, the PTR's; The nerf is there now for testing. So feel free to Start a new character - LEVEL IT TO 50 - Get PvP gear from the ridiculous bags - and try it for yourselves! LOL Mythic - Maybe make a character copy function for your "so called PTR"?

Sorry if you've seen this post in another thread. I just think it's too good to not be posted here too (plus, the guys who wrote it is really handsome):

Think about it:

1. The adrenal/buff stacking was the major issue. Why the numbers were so big. That is fixed.
2. I've read stories of 450 exp tanks getting taken down in 2 seconds. Just not real - NOT without other people shooting/damaging that player too. But the ops (right there behind him) gets the "blame". No combat log - so no proof that there were other nukers as well.
3. IF Bioware did this for balance purposes; they would have fixed the brackets (done) and the adrenals (done) and tried it out like that first for a few weeks. But this is only to cater to the masses. No balance here, only greed.

Yes, should, but in practice healers are extremely hard to kill right now. I admit that you force them to stand in one place and spam heals on themselves, but they have plenty of spell variety to work around interrupts and stuns aren't long enough to matter, especially against heavy armor healers.

And I know the class I'm playing (scoundrel) very well to tell you that there's no way a scoundrel can currently kill an equally geared healer off the opener, best you'll do is 50% and then the healer will just either keep themselves at that number, or top themselves off depending on the state of their cooldown, all this regardless of how hard you're trying to dps them (which once again shows that operatives/scoundrels have horrid sustained dps and burst is all they have).

did you buy the tinfoil hat from his ebay store too?

How do you know they didn't test it themselves? How can you think 7-8k crits is fair against most classes 3-4k crits max. Please behave and have evidence of everything you say. They've so far listened to noone suggestions about illum, world pvp, champ bags etc etc and just because they make one class balanced you start crying on here.

Sorry if you've seen this post in another thread. I just think it's too good to not be posted here too (plus, the guys who wrote it is really handsome):

Here's the real reason for this nerf:

Bioware wants more time to fix the stuff in the game that is broken. There are a few things mind you. Everything from PvP to PvE has major issues in one way or another. Bugs, loot system not working, no UI customizations. They need to keep the subscribers happy enough to stay until the next major patch.

So, how to do this? You cater to the masses. Right now there is a HUGE majority of the players rolling Sorcerers. The Ops nerf at this time, is only to keep them happy enough to keep paying, until the game is fixed. I think we will see a buff again, later on. When balance is the real issue.

Think about it:

1. The adrenal/buff stacking was the major issue. Why the numbers were so big. That is fixed.
2. I've read stories of 450 exp tanks getting taken down in 2 seconds. Just not real - NOT without other people shooting/damaging that player too. But the ops (right there behind him) gets the "blame". No combat log - so no proof that there were other nukers as well.
3. IF Bioware did this for balance purposes; they would have fixed the brackets (done) and the adrenals (done) and tried it out like that first for a few weeks. But this is only to cater to the masses. No balance here, only greed.

I agree, some sort of adjustment was necessary. The dmg IS a tad high; but this nerf is a total knee-jerk just to please the masses. Like I've said so many times on this forum: People that are getting nuked down while stunned by the ops are getting nuked by a whole friggin team. Ops gets the blame for being the one stunning and surprising with that nasty stealth. Happens in every mmo. Usually the developer knows this and handles it well. Mythic doesn't; as seen with Warhammer too.

Need to keep people playing?

5% Ops
60% Sorcs
Screw the Ops!

Oh yeah, the PTR's; The nerf is there now for testing. So feel free to Start a new character - LEVEL IT TO 50 - Get PvP gear from the ridiculous bags - and try it for yourselves! LOL Mythic - Maybe make a character copy function for your "so called PTR"?