AtomicMew wrote on Aug 24
th, 2011 at 3:50pm:
All I hear is WAHHH WAHHH I'M GETTING NERFED. You still have yet to make a point.
My point is, seeing that you infact seem to need to spelled out for you, and in little words, is that does it not seem a little suspicious to you... just a little... that hours after the Dev team just watched live for themselves Shades party of DoT/Divines make a mockery of their work put into the latest adventure pack, and pointing out all its obvious design flaws, that the Dev team announce a nerf to FvS.
And their explaination for this is a "Oh, well FvS are grossly overpowered because they can kite" and "Oh, yea... we were thinking about nerfing them for a while actually, we just never felt like mentioning until just now".
The timing of this nerf smells, and it aint like roses.
Devs fucked up on the raid design, and obviously badly if it was defeated so easily and in a way not intended; This will not look good for them and they want/need to blame somone else; and it was a FvS heavy party that they just watched assfucking the Lord of Blades on Lamannia.
In this case I think Hanlon's razor does not apply; because this nerf is pure malice, and based on stupidity on their part.
The Dev team failed, and it is far easier to blame the players for "exploiting" and bring out the big'ol nerfbat then to man up and say "Yes, our design is flawed, we need to fix this".
I hate nerfs, everyone does, and I bitch and whine about all of them, then eventually accept them because I know that it needs to be done for the good of the game.
But in this case the bitching and whining is completely justifiable because the Dev team themselves has yet to give one valid reason as to why FvS need a nerf beating.
They need to explain, and explain well why FvS, and FvS alone need a "anti-kiting" nerf. Because to me, and right now, it looks like nothing more then the Dev team trying to cover their sorry asses for this Raid design failure and trying to dish out a little revenge in the process.