Asheras wrote on Oct 8
th, 2015 at 12:15am:
I guess after they "fix" this, Great Xbow > Repeater?
Players who favor repeaters will notice they can alternate between repeater & gxb without much difference in dps. For them, that will be a nerf.
Players who favor gxb will keep using gxb, and their dps will stay the same (though now outperforming repeaters), due to their play style and ability to maximize SA opportunities.
Players who switch between both play styles will notice the different balance. They will stop using repeaters.
Toons specifically built around broken repeater doubleshot will take it in the shorts, but they're the ones who chose to wear the gimp suit in the first place, so we can only assume they will enjoy it.
Meursault wrote on Oct 8
th, 2015 at 3:48pm:
I run mostly an artificer so yeah, that was pretty much saving my gimp butt. I wouldn't mind them fixing it after they had the clases all balanced, but doing it now is just mean.
I've got alt-itis, so I play all the classes, but Arties are 1/3 of them. You'll get by. The whole period between MotU and the Mech pass was worse. Just remember the positives. For example,
the fucking reload animation.
harharharhar wrote on Oct 8
th, 2015 at 9:47pm:
the game is WORSE when repeaters work correctly?
How would we know? Repeaters have literally never worked correctly. It took them until the Mech pass to fix the fucking reload animation. At least Turbine didn't Turbine repeaters as badly as they did handwraps.