Carbineer Archive

I want to bring up this issue. I think its relevant to all groups, but I'll bring it up here.

How do we, as non-Devs, know whether something is working? broken? not working right?

We can't unless the description of the skills is 100% accurate. I am seeing post after post by people asking what a skill does, is it supposed to do that, debates on whether a skill should or shouldn't be AoE, etc. Really, we should not be having these discussions. There should be only 1 simple question, is the skill working right?

I think this is a serious issue and it can be solved in one of 2 ways. The first way would be for the Correspondent to suggest that SoE make every effort ASAP to be sure the skill descriptions are 100% accurate. The second, and possibly better mainly because it could probably take place sooner, would be for a SoE respresentitive that is intimately involved with carbineer design have a short...perhaps30 min discussion with the Correspondent.The Correspondent can ask how the skills that we are questioning are supposed to work and we can see if that is or isn't true.

I say this as a poster child for the carbineerproblems. I am a 0,0,0,0 novice carbineer. I am frustrated with HAM costs. The damage on carbines doesnt even seem to be superior to pistols (I have a 55-115, 2 sec scout blaster...the typical laser carbine on my server is 15-200, 4.6). The skills may or may not be working depending on how you define working. Basically, I am second-guessing my decision to be a carbineer in favor of pistols and I cannot even make an educated decision because I don't even know what the class is supposed to be!

Lastly, I want to add that in suggesting this am I am no way attacking SOJ or saying SOJ is doing a poor job. I make this as a specific suggestion to carbines but at this point in the game, it is relevant to several professions.

Thank you.