Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Outrage
Anyway now the accuracy on dx2's has been sorted i use this now, i actually hit low blow with them now.
Yes please rand, fight for this....
I have heard of nerfing items ina game....But simply taking away something that was bought *using the rules* at that time is rediculous, especially with no warning or compensation...
The problem wasnt with basic pistols but when a krayt tissue was used in the production of the handler, and a high velocity feed mech was added to the projectile feed mechanism ( both rare loot drops ) the damage and speed was considered too high.
You said "the problem wasn't with basic pistols but when a krayt tissue was used in the handler, and a high velocity feed mech was added to the projectile feed mechanism (both rare loot drops) the damage was considered too high."
Then you go on to say - "However nerfing them had little to no effect. In anticipation of this, weaponsmiths who could craft these guns made hundreds of them in crates."
Are you by chance getting a little confused here? How many HUNDREDS of krayt enhanced FWG5s did you crank out in your factory? I have made exactly one Krayt enhanced gun in my entire career. To make a factory run ALL THE Krayt tissues would have to be IDENTICAL.
I don't know which server you play, but I have never come across hundreds of identical Krayt tissues.
I did do several factory runs of the basic pistol, which you JUST SAID THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH.
These crated (NOT KRAYTED) basic pistols are the ones that were nerfed.
The reason the weaponsmith cor isn't making a fuss over this is because it hardly affects him, so he could care less.
RylanStorm wrote:
As a former master weaponsmith I'll give you the facts on this one.
Prior to about 2 months ago an FWG5 was made up of a barrell, a power handler, a projectile feed mechanism and some minerals. They nerfed the FWG5, the Launcher, and the Scatter because all three used both a power handler AND a feed mech.
The problem wasnt with basic pistols but when a krayt tissue was used in the production of the handler, and a high velocity feed mech was added to the projectile feed mechanism ( both rare loot drops ) the damage and speed was considered too high.
However nerfing them had little to no effect. In anticipation of this, weaponsmiths who could craft these advanced guns made hundreds of them in crates. The nerf effected newer smithswho started after the nerf or who didnt have the materials at the timebut not the more estalbished ones.
So they deleted them. Not the best way to do it at all but they had to get what they considered an overpowered weapon out of the game one way or another, and they werent decaying fast enough.
The reason that the weaponsmith correspondent isnt making a fuss over it is that it benefits about 90% of the weaponsmiths who could not sell an FWG5, launcher or scatter.
FWG5 overpowered? Its a heat damage weapon made worthless by anybody wearing composite armor, overpowered? lol!
Cant sell an fwg5? Sure the hell isnt because of prenerf guns, its because it is useless in this age of pvp. People wearing armor are impervious to it.
Pistoleers have no weapons that can bypass armor with any efficiency, anybody with doc buffs and comp armorcan regen the damage we do faster than we can deal it. Use a tangle pistol you say? They are complete and utter trash. They have low minimum damage and cant be made very fast or very high damage. I have perhaps one of the very best tangle pistols on my server made with looted components and it SUCK! 155 max damage without a powerup and 3.3 speed! The low min damage on the weapon coupled with the low maximum damage make it completely pathetic. Even using this pistol( which has a max range of 48m) it doesnt deal the damage fast enough to be of any use.
Every weapon we have is made completely useless by armor. Here's a question, why can a tkm with a kinetic VK waste me in 80-90% kinetic resistance composite and my blaster just tickles him? Why do rifleman have a weapon like the jawa ion rifle(from the marksman tree!) that can completely bypass the best armor made and on top of that be kraytable?!
Gee and people wonder why everybody coming and going is a rifleman/tkm with fencer thrown in to make them completely unhitable? LOL
All of this coupled with the fact all but 2 of our specials do nothing!
Pistoleer, the other white meat.
RemKoolhaas wrote:
This is more of a blow to price-gouging weaponsmiths who hoarded prior to the nerf. Not many pistoleers are storing entire CRATES of fwg5s.
/nod