Doctor Archive
Thread: Combat Revamp nerfing buffs?
str8mix
Sun May 16, 2004 4:30 am
#14
Really hope they nerf buffs.. that and armor has complety dumbed down the game.
Songe
Sun May 16, 2004 5:05 am
#15
The problem is, as it was said, there is nothing in the game right now that makes it necessary to bring a doc. I too became one for being able to revive at the time when almost nobody wanted buffs yet, and we were really useful in groups. Now, a CM does a much better job at keeping a group alive and doing nothing but rez would seem a bit of a waste as far as I am concerned. After all, it's not like you can't come back in swoop in 2 minutes.
Also, how will docs make a living? By counting on tips? Come on. More than half of us make a living by selling buffs or buff packs, and if I had only counted on tips given when I hunt I would be broke right now.
Message Edited by Songe on 05-16-2004 08:26 AM
Draccuss
Sun May 16, 2004 11:37 am
#16
I have been pondering this for a while now and for the life of me I cannot see how the devs could ever nerf buffs. Think about how much of a part of this game buffs have become, I know it sucks that you need a buff to compete but alas that is the way of things. Imagine for a moment how lame PvP would be with no buffs........or how useless a group of even 10-20 would be against a Krayt or the Geo cave,even in the best armor that group stands a high chance of death.
Iknow the Devs havemade some silly decisions in the past but Ireally can't see them nerfing buffs.
Unstable1
Sun May 16, 2004 3:00 pm
#17
as a doctor who i think does give us a good name, i sell buffs in coronet to make my money. if they remove the value of buffs, then i will for sure drop doctor and become a full-time resourcer artisan/merchant. honestly, if there isn't any substantial value in a prof that requires so many skill points, why do it?
other than selling buffs, the most valuable thing i do with the prof is heal myself in combat.
Freshy
Sun May 16, 2004 4:49 pm
#18
The answer is simple: no mitigation and penalties for using armor. Leave the buffs alone.
Starpilots
Sun May 16, 2004 7:08 pm
#19
let them nerf it , there is no team play and with lower buffs team play wil come back, and yes I make a lot of buff packs dont know where to sell them to if the nerf it but on the other side the Stim market wil go to the lvl of what is was a half year back or so. a plain simple shift of pronduction
to the beter of the game
Its not good that you can solo a krayt with 3 people of 400k ham but it heapons , people solo a Giant dune Kimogila easly whay buffs and armor and food
Let them please nerf it or rebalance it because its a MMORG where people need to play togeter in groups not do every thing alone
bennybanglong
Sun May 16, 2004 8:02 pm
#20
they already have a penalty for armor, it's called encumbance. of course with buff, who cares about penalty
BountyHunter97
Sun May 16, 2004 9:10 pm
#22
I say we lower armor resistance.... buffs must be left alone...
I mean i used 2 b a BH, with some nice 2100+ buffs, still savage quenkers when 4 attacked me and i was armor less id get incapped pretty fast...... but then armor jus ruins PvP.... come on 80%!?!?!?!!?!?!?! i was in some small fight outside theed 1 time and me and my buddy KD+dizzyed a dude.... i whip out my LLC..... i start doing like 200 cause of the armor instead of around 400-700 range.... dont nerf buffs, nerf the armor
just-wondering
Sun May 16, 2004 9:56 pm
#23
Dont we think its about time to stop the nerfing??
Really stop it please. Let people decide how they play and what they do with what they can..humm like buffs..if you dont like them then dont get them.
If you want to speed all your skill points on combat or solo player then by all means do it..It should always be the players desion..Not anyones elses...So dont tell me i can or cant be solo or how to do combat or crafting for that matter. Its a game to have fun the way we want to!!
-scuzzy-
Sun May 16, 2004 10:48 pm
#24
Legende wrote:
Too often lately I see a buffer sittin in the starport [no surprise here] and someone will get to the front of the line and ask if they can heal up wounds first, andthe doctor replies "sorry, I don't have any wound packs"... and not as often, but more often than it should, I see a doctor mouthing off to the customer for even asking. These are the people that saw a doctor buffing in the starport, apparently making tons of credits, so they decided to "jump the bandwagon" so to say... they're too busy making their credits to heal some wounds. Before the buffing craze, the drive to become a Doctor was to help people, and that's the way it *should* be.
You make good points that I agree with. Although for the above statement, I'd suggest that it was more likely the doc didn't want to hold up customers in line. Healing wounds for all 6 stats is very time consuming. It's generally good manners for a client to heal wounds and BF first, giving experience to novice meds and entertainers.
RemoMoxey
Mon May 17, 2004 2:05 am
#25
Alllllllrighty then. From what I've read so far, the combat balance is going to be ONE BIG NERF! Everyone and everything is gonna get hit. Read the jedi revamp page. It says they are adding behind the scenes modifiers to lightsabers (to make up for the power loss UNTIL the combat revamp).
I think the whole damn system is screwed. Buffs, armor, weapons, HAM costs, ect. made the game too easy.
I've said it for a while now and I'll say it again, this game was released too early. They had more stuff not functioning than was functioning at launch. Then as they hurried to get everything working the messed a screwed up system up even worse.
1 year after launch and they are revamping a MAJOR game system (combat)......that's not a good sign 
Legende
Mon May 17, 2004 2:37 am
#26
Having thought about it abit, I still welcome the oncoming nerf... it's almost guarenteed to happen. But for awhile I'm just gonna drop Doctor... it won't be easy, but I need a break from being a buff whore to the community. I make alot more money selling resources than buffing people, so I guess I'll try some pvp a bit while I wait out the combat revamp.
Sorry to get everyone so worked up about this... it's something I feel pretty strongly about, and I still feel that buffs are sending the game to hell in a handbasket... armor is hand-in-hand with buffs on that too.
Guess all we can really do is wait and see... if the devs screw up the rebalance, they're gonna have alot of cancelled accounts on their hands.
Sorry to get everyone so worked up about this... it's something I feel pretty strongly about, and I still feel that buffs are sending the game to hell in a handbasket... armor is hand-in-hand with buffs on that too.
Guess all we can really do is wait and see... if the devs screw up the rebalance, they're gonna have alot of cancelled accounts on their hands.
