Honestly vote with your wallets folks. If you want to piss and moan all day about ranged getting nerfed and inquisitive destroyed, then show them by cancelling your subs.

It's not that hard. Hell it might even get through their thick skulls, and if not we can all sit back and chuckle at what finally killed DDO.

FTL wrote on Jan 15^th, 2020 at 3:40am:



Dude, I'll be the first one to slam those incompetents assholes and even be quicker to flat out say the changes to ranged combat are mostly asinine with the only exception of removing the "standing still" from archer focus but inquisitive really needed a tone down.  It was greatly "over performing" compared to too many classes and builds

Anyone who expected SSG to keep inquisitive as it was (before selling it to as many people as possible, naturally) is simply delusional.

Is this a "what you see is what you get" Lama? Or a "things are still up for debate" Lama?

Rubbinns wrote on Jan 15^th, 2020 at 11:15am:


This is the real nerf to Inquisitive.

Also, Ratcatcher nerf, so you can't knock out heroic PLs as quickly as you're used to.

The hunter marked the target
So now he gets retired

Besides, ranged is support
Not part of the trinity

Hay, you got horses out of it

They got what came out of the horse.

FTL wrote on Jan 16^th, 2020 at 9:50am:


Word.
Not to mention that according to the moron in command, "IPS nerf has nothing to do with inquisitive being OP".

Yeah, okay that's an interesting point of view. Let's pretend inquisitive never happened so where does that leave us? What was the top ranged build before inquisitive? Was IPS even ever considered to be nerfed before?

I remember than even when monkcher was a thing, nobody even considered touching ips both in the devs and player base. Now....fast forward a few years and IPS is suddenly over performing (again, not counting inquisitive). Yeah, sorry not sorry, but I'm not buying whatever bullshit Severlin is selling. They have no idea how to fix things right now except to blindly swing the nerf bat creating the problem and, in a few months, they're going to sell us the solution with a new update for bow users.
FUCKERS

Teth wrote on Jan 16^th, 2020 at 10:25am:


I do, so did enemies hp values for enemies my good sir. My point stands perfectly. I find down right naive to believe inquisitive was not the reason IPS got the shaft. My sorc can blast for tens of thousands of damage with normal spells and yet, only my draconic breath is being nerfed with a longer cooldown

Nerf metamagics when? Oh right, we don't have a universal caster tree 

Come on, seriously?

If you think the only goal in this set of changes was to fix inquis, then why did Great Xbow get a 5% reduction in speed gain from Rapid Reload.  While light and heavy got a 20% and repeaters got 0%.   If the focus was strictly inquis, why modify a weapon type that doesn't relate to the inquis tree?   

Clearly they were trying to balance all ranged combat in several areas.   

It wasn't just about "oh they fixed inquis by hitting everyone because they don't know the game or are using an elephant gun to kill a fly"   It was we need to fix inquis and shuri and gxbow and repeaters all to different degrees.

The only people who really have a beef right now are bow users.  They did NOT deserve a 20% decrease in IPS capability.   Unless they just want to say "ranged is not going to be as good at AoE damage.  Period.  Full Stop." and then buff bows in some other way to compensate.  The 10% alacrity in DWS does not compensate.  And only benefits a subset of bow builds.  Work needs to be done there.

So the doubling of the Dragonbreath CD really doesn't matter, since you can still stagger DB > Energy Burst > Vortex > Meteor Swarm > Energy Burst > DB almost without issue, and if you happen to have Dragonborn breath attack that's essentially a baby draconic attack anyway.

It won't change how powerful Sorcerers are for deleting things and honestly after the Inquisitive nerfs it's plain to see that Sorcs will be the once-again kings of heroic and epic leveling.

Nerfs nerfs nerfs,this fucking company,even if someone can convince me that they are right and they need nerfs still yhey are not right but a bunch of idiots cause they are who released all this power so 2 things are happening
1) they don't know what they are doing and just release things and classes and them need to proceed on nerfs or
2) they know exactly what they are doing and doing these to sell before proceed to nerfs
Both are unforgiven for company who asks money for services especially if those things happens again and again and the ddo history is a loop,same things happens again and again
And why a player who payed and spend hours for a build must suffer for their stupidity
Just everyone don't log in for 3-4 days

mog wrote on Jan 17^th, 2020 at 2:21am:

They need to nerf so they can sell more power creep.

And whales will gladly buy it in the first day.