It's the effin sharks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMxkRh7sx84

In other news the 3 day login requirement should be now off, we'll see the next morning if the change really worked.

shows that YOU dont know how it works.
DEV Zoom has explained it clearly how it works. (you can dig it up yourself, takes only a few seconds if you know how the game works)
I have explained earlier and later why syndicate protection is a useless bandaid mechanic at all.

The problem is the terrible patch not jump mechanics.

Mechanic is NOT the problem, the last ""REBALANCE"" patch IS.

- NSE blue napping 3/4 of playerbase

... slow boat it to the teleport in your quad plate demob-immune heavy,  jump through, and tank all damage until your flag's up. ...

... Assaults were given more reactor so they fit medium guns but of course nobody did, they used it to improve survivability. Demob resistance was given and so people capitalise on that for demob immunity.

if the devs wanted medium gun assaults they could have given assaults a percentage reduction in medium weapon cpu and reactor. IMO they still would not be used.

I know your saying that we shouldn't say revert the patch but that's where all the problems came from. We could spend the time explaining the couple of dozen issues that this generated but it would be missing the point. The fundamentals of the patch were adding demob resistance bonus' that cause issues, reducing the effectiveness of racial bonus' which caused problems etc

DEV Zoom wrote:

Nooodlzs wrote:

Well when you bring a patch out that leaves only 3 or 4 viable bots with no counters and the rest sub par.

That's also a problem when players say things like that, because I know that you're exaggerating. When the feedback is mostly about panicking and thinking in black or white, we can't do much about it. (See also "xy is useless now", my favorite feedback.)

There is honestly no reason to use any assault other than arbalast mk2. Its speed, inability to be demobbed and dps make it far superior.

Light ewar are fairly unchanged but now that the arbalast is so fast and undemobable they are very very vulnerable.

Mechs the tyranoss is useless and the artemis / kain are fairly equally good.

Heavies the gropho is useless and the mesmer2 / seth 2 are good for different situations.

Ewar mechs suffer the same problem as light ewar - they can be demobbed and are no faster than mechs and the arbalast and so they are very vulnerable. This makes them situationally ok for the bigger battles but when you can engage and disengage at will with anything below a mech they become underpowered.

Really the only three worthwhile combat bots in today's PvP environment are the arbalast mk2, the kain mk2 and the artemis mk2. Everything else can be engaged and disengaged at will.

Heavies have their place - you can get a mk2 mesmer up to mk2 mech speeds - but are all flawed and really are better at brawling.