Why Smash Should Not be Nerfed

OK cool story. Now try to take a deep breath, relax and formulate an opinion instead of raving about like a child.

I find it amusing how you started dodging my post after a crystal clear argument.

If you wouldn't be so massively biased, then you might understand that marauders are they are are completely stupid.

You don't need a marauder to kill a healer or whatever ranged, my Assassin can do that just fine.
Without immortality cooldowns and without smash.

I simply can't keep going indefinitely. And that is the difference. And that is what needs to be changed ON YOUR SIDE.

Sorry there are so many arguments by so many people floating around that I lost track of what people were saying. To be fair, I've played sorcerer longer than I've played my smasher so I used to be on the receiving end of smash and I know how it feels.

Your right, in Arenas, Assasin/Shadow DPS needs to be looked at and should be buffed. Same with operative/scoundrel DPS. But I'm pretty sure I've been saying that they need a buff since the start. In 8v8s they were in a good place with the respec and node guarding ability. I don't know if that means they need better survivability, an overall DPS boost to all abilities or simply an increase in its burst. Assasin/Operative sure is deadly in 1v1s and 2v2s and can be effective in Arenas but the skill-cap is too high I think.

I don't need a buff hell I don't even want one. You need a nerf.

I was saying that I can fullfill my job without being horrendously OP.

I like it when my class requires the utmost from a player to be considered a good choice, was the same for rogues for a very long time. Teaches you to play on the edges of insanity.

Well how would that solve anything? Assasin/Shadow isn't even 2nd choice for DPS in Arenas...so nerfing Smash won't really solve anything for Assasin/Shadow. The really good players will thrive but I believe the average player will simply get passed over for a juggernaut/guardian DPS or a vanguard/PT hybrid or a gunslinger/sniper. And if Smash gets nerfed, it will only make Sorcerer/Sage that much more viable which will throw Assasin/Shadow even lower down the pecking order.

Different comps have different strengths. And even though you can rest assured that a marauder with half a brain won't be dying first.. they are not always the best dps to pick in every case. Thank god.

I hope you're right, and that there is no clear "meta" once 2.4 goes live, even though I think some classes will remain broken whether or not Smash gets nerfed (I just realized you're Evolixe from PTS lol hi).

Whatever the case, I think everyone has said everything that there is to be said about this issue and we're starting to go in circles I'm glad at least some of us had this chance to have a thoughtful discussion on Smash. I hope at least some people out of the 7,000+ that perused this thread saw that there are at least some difference in opinions and several potential solutions (including nerfing the Smash ability, nerfing DCDs, nerfing both, nerfing Op healer, buffing other DPS classes, doing nothing) to improving balance in this game. Most of you seem to think Smash needs a nerf of some kind, and although I would prefer other classes to be buffed first before talking about nerfs, I am generally OK with a nerf to the Smash ability, but need to think some more about the defensive CDs (my fear of ranged DPS getting too powerful).

This is an interesting psychological point.

The perceived "god-mode" makes players play especially aggressive ?

Which smashers do any of those things? (3 or 4 actions required for the first nuke which is the easiest, btw, + melee range.)

Considering I play a (lesser of course) melee class myself I quite know the difference between a RDPS and a MDPS. Considering I also am melee and get nowhere the same armor nor AoE and not even sustained damage of a mara, then what should I do?

/wrist?

No, I deal with it.

I still prefer figthing against 3 snipers than against 3 smashers. As melee.


You make it look like it's some heroic hard feat. I see it done constantly, every day, every WZ with smashers (that is, many). Maybe my server smashers are all uber skilled.