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Nobody knows anything about the combat revamp.

Well actually some information has come out on the plans for the combat revamp for certain professions. Knowing that a total HAM rebalance is happening doc buffs, wound packs will be affected.

Granted most of it is rumor from Fanfest but at this point its better than nothing. As for buffs getting lowered think about it all being relational not pure numbers. If you currently buff for X percentage over base stats my guess is that will not change only the numbers. . I actually rarely if ever buff publicly, for me there is more to being a doc than buffs, so let's not cry nerf yet. Just because the numbers maybe lower the percentages are actually what's important.

We're also looking at a complete Armor rebalance soon which will also affect how we buff and or experiment on our buff packs and stim packs.

And yes Docs wil lbe needed, we are not a one trick pony, there is more to us than simply a buff bot in my opinion.

Message Edited by Aeron-Blackthorn on 06-08-2004 01:11 PM

Buffs will surely be affected since the whole way the HAM is dealt with will change.

What that affect means..that is what we dont know

Well, from what I am hearing from the Fanfest and other official statements, it sounds like it is going to be a major combat nerf. My alt is a MCH and we got creamed with the nerf bat the end of last year as part of the "Balance" we were told. They then put off the rest of the "Balance." MCH went from being a marginally useful profession to useless. I would not be surprised to see the combat balance go the same way the crafting balance went. They had so many accounts canceled that they backed off of it the next day. I suspect they put off the "Balance" because it would have come at about the same time as City of Heroes hit the market. I think they are waiting for a safe time, market wise, to try it and see how it goes over.

Someone mentionned them saying at the FF that docs will have the long lasting less powerful buffs and smugglers the short powerful ones... whatever it implies.

One thing I've heard slung about is specials will no long use ham. There will be some other kind of point system for specials. This eliminates buffed characters from spamming specials till the cows come home.

This implies, that buffs will be similar to what they are now. I expect values to be tweaked, but since they are making specials work differently to stop special spam instead of outright nerfing buffs, I don't think they'll be tweaked down too much.

However, this still makes buffs "slightly" less desirable, as the buff no longer affects the ablility to use specials.

Of course 90% of everything said at this point is just rumor, and even if it came from a dev still subject to change.

Interesting, though I'd still want to be buffed not so much to spam specials but my regen rates on my primaries are always more important even with damage than the actual primary buff.