Pistoleer Archive

ok we are about to enter our 3rd month with the game.. alot of changes have been made..

I dont agree with most of the changes but that isnt the issue because its not about what i agree with its about how the devs want this game to turn out to be

In my personal quests, when i was a fledgling brawler up to when i mastered tka i saw doom on the horizon.. several things the devs refuse to comment on.. like moving while attacking for the melee guys being one of the biggest gripes. matter of fact devs duck this question everytime its put to them

so they nerfed my main profession to near uselessness.. tka will never be viable in an open field battle.. no big surprise and i dont even care about that.. what i do care about was that i was forced into taking another combat profession just to survive

now the devs are on a nerf spree again.. making kd useless for most.. 5 second timer means that you get to knock someone down and they can get back up in the time it takes the animation to stand up.. cant use it again for 30 seconds

not really sure where that leaves melee because our posture changes was about the only thing that allowed us to close the gap on ranged opponents

now with pistoleer.. i am getting better with soloing again.. (i cant really stand loot whores or people that are just to dumb that you wonder what type of thought pattern allows them to move around.. you know the guys.. go to fort tusken you tell the group to camp and one guy runs to the top of the fort and trains a whole mess of them on your delapatated group)

now from what im reading it sounds like pistoleer will have to take a back seat as the weakest ranged character in the game..

so it seems that maybe taking a pistoleer profession was a mistake.

i mean we master the pistol meaning we studied the weapon in all aspects, probably slept with it under a pillow.. definately prayed to it and all that.. but again you have to ask what is the point, because bounty hunters are better with pistols than we are but dont spend half the exp we do.. yet there is no dehibilitating nerf for them only the promise of more power.. (knockdown shouldnt even be in the BH line since they have so many other cool things they can do)

tka is now the weaker of the melee classes.. when they should have remained the top according to continuity anyway..

its extremely sad when smugglers have skills that make the enemy turn tail and run and they have a knockdown with a pistol.. they just dont get any pistol mods i dont think yet a master smuggler can own any pistoleer master with relative ease

so basicly this game is limiting our choices down to two.. bounty hunter or smuggler... i swear if i had known it was going to come down to this i would have saved my self alot of grief by just passin this game by..

but now im entrenched i have many responsibilities to my PA and friends.. i feel trapped in this game..

I used to have alot of fun but lately the serious nerfs and the over powered favoritism of few professions has made this game into:

melees cant tank

CH's can own anything with the right pet

BH's are end game gods with ego trips

Pistoleers will become cannon fodder

Riflemen finally get thier one shot kills back

carbineer sails the seas of cheese

commando when and if they do get fixed will probably be sub par anyway

im really starting to see no way out of this box that the devs created for themselves.. I have tried to be objective.. I have tried to be constructive with suggestions.. It all falls on deaf ears..

Now i do like our correspondant for pistoleer.. out of all of them jaegan is the only one who seems to be level headed and not asking for unrealistic things

i dont even want to get into what thunderwulf wants for a tka.. 2 wasted posts.. anyway

most of the people i used to play with have quit the game because they were unable to deal with the imbalances or nerfs.. i had thicker skin but now i wonder..

I dont want to give up on the game but we have been in a long dark tunnel for along long time and i have yet to see a light at the end

It is in my most sincere hope that a dev stumbles upon this poorly written, ill thought out post, written basicly with a fist in defiance of all that has gone before and of what is to come in the following weeks..

no more bs devs... tell us all that you have in store.. this half truth mushroom talk you been throwing at us seems to be more of a cover up than any real course of action because it is getting very random..

remember the damage you are doing to other professions that need certain skill sets that you are nerfing for everyone.. ie: melee lunge lines

i know this is easier said than done.. but if you had some idea of the goal you are aiming at perhaps all of us as a community could help out instead of constanly making you guys feel like complete crap for your efforts

i certainly never wanted any profession to have a great advantage over the other.. ranged vs melee > 10 meters ... ranged wins.. melee vs ranged < 10 meters melee wins.. but even that isnt the case

the time has come for all this nerf nonsense to stop.. fix everything or dont bother..

dont take skills away and substitute them with other useless stuff because you then have come full circle

return dynamic content to the game... remember that twilek slave girl with the stolen imperial data?? yeah what happened to stuff like that..

now if we want content we go to fort tusken to grind exp like a generic eq dungeon.. except with worthless loot.. or none at all

i dont wanna be one of those guys in less than a month who will write a long and drawn out good bye.. because thats a tired scene.. and i try to excel at everything i do even when odds are stacked against me.. but i do also know when to say enough

im near the breaking point

i am also a huge starwars fan, which is the main reason im holding on to the hope that you might be able to make this game great

I know these games are supposed to evolve and grow but as far as ive seen you **edit** near taken every profession back to formula.. and if things are really that bad and you do not know where to go next.. why not set up a single server that we dont have to pay to play on just to test out random ideas that you may have.. and when they work implement them into the live servers.. im sure you would get tons of fresh minds to help you out unbiased in thier opinions

i guess what i am really saying here is throw us a bone (us= the players) we really need to know whats going on even if it has to come from a csr id be happy with that..

giveus a strong sense of hope that all will be well because it has been long since we have seen any

please just make it well for us all again

wow i can't believe i read all of that. umm... i'm going to wait and see what happens. i only want to use pistol. if i have to pick up the smuggler line for a bit to be good with pistol i will....i refuse to get BH, and lose all my medic skills.

well i mean one ofmy huge gripes is why should we have to take alternate routes in combat professions to be viable..

and as one person stated once it doesnt matter really what you are as long as youre not rebel because then an at-st will kill you in one shot anyway

I like posts that are 3 sentences long. The developers are obviously lost and never had a well concieved idea of what they were shooting for. I'm just going to play less, and if the game doesn't improve in a month two I'll quit for good.