Cobalt wrote:I wander in a gropho mk2 since some time now. I know what im talking about. Before sparks patch, i was a blue fighter using a mesmer. So i know at least 2/3 of the "so called" problem. And i tell you this; there is no balance problem. Gropho is strong in its role, that is different from a mesmer and a seth.
What do you want? All the same bots, with the same bonuses doing the same *** things? I mean, sandbox... diversity... choices... Id like to now your EP pool Calio, just to know how much "It's as simple as that" must be taken to the letter.
Come and *** my gropho 1v1. With a mesmer, or with a seth. Result is far from evident, in fact no one would be able to tell who win, even with same EP pool and fitting tech level. So do you call this balanced? Yes it is. Its as simple as that.
You dont think at what your doing. Its the stronger attack against a sandbox game, trying to remove slowly diversity and specializations by QQing for more mainstream ***. Your theory of "why this one got this and that one got that" works in mariokart, not in perp sorry. And despite all the "insight" and "knowledge" some of you think they got about this game... just leave my gropho alone! Leave her alone! *said by a hair discolored emo b1tch filming under his cover*
I respect your opinion because you actually use a Gropho, but I disagree with it. I never said the Gropho is weak. I said the shield bonus is not an appropriate bonus for a combat bot and such a PITA to use that next to nobody does. And, in answer to your EP question, I've been playing for ~10 months. You can do the EP math.
The fact that you've been able to use it successfully (and if you don't use a shield on your Gropho, why the hell are you saying it's good?) does not change that. Like I said before, I can turn a screw with a coin. That doesn't make a coin a good screw driver.
I'm willing to bet that if the devs scan the game's data base they won't 5 players in the entire game (including you, they'll only need to find 4 others) that have a shield equipped on their Grophos. That says a lot about what the player base as a whole (not the 10 people who are regulars on the forums) thinks about the shield bonus.
As for making them all the same:
1) It's the combination of bonuses that makes a bot unique. not the individual bonuses.
2) There are plenty of potential bonuses that haven't been given out yet that would be infinitely more useful to everyone but the <5 players who actually use shields on their Grophos. Such as:
ECCM strength bonus
Demob resistence bonus
Signal detection bonus
Explosion size bonus (maybe OP)
I don't know if any of these are practical in terms of balance and I'm not advocating for any one of these. My point is that there are unique and useful potential bonuses they can give the Gropho that wouldn't make it OP in 1v1 and still be useful in some capacity to the large majority of people actually using a Gropho.