I'm not holding my breath
As the changes are being done with basically no regard for Pve, its a complete after thought. Mean how is that good game design?
It might effect pve, we'll look at it later
Should be making intelligent design decisions taking both pvp and pve into the equation from the start. Not AFTER you do it for one, at some unknown point in time that may never come.
I liked the mention or story arcs for operations going over a few content patches. God forbid we actually know whats going on with the endgame story.
Appears to be a post 1.1 interview, but many of his answers make it seem like it is almost pre-launch. He is quickly becoming my least liked game representative. I really think that he needs to step away from at least 1 of the 3 things he is so called "Lead Designer" for, preferably he gives up PvP to someone else.
Its not that they are having no regard for pve, they made the op change because it was doing to much damage in pvp and the knockdown was too long. If you payed attention and not taken quotes out of context Gabe actually mentions that the damage of said abilities are still actually in the appropriate target range for pve dps.
Prove it.
Oh, wait, you can't, because developers and fans alike are against the idea of knowing how much damage they do. Sure, it's easy to tell when a tank or healer is bad, but giving DPS the same treatment is a big no-no.
There is no way in SWTOR to definitively prove that a particular class's DPS is too low. There won't be until damage meters are a thing. And there won't be damage meters until heads are removed from asses.
There will be vocal spurts here and there of people who claim they arent doing enough dps. The devs say its where they want it.
I'm all for damage meters as well. I do think they cause uneeded and illogical arguments when thrown around in raid chat. But having self, noncomparative meters (team meters for ops leader) would fix some of the strife with dps as well as lets others improve their rotation.
In this case, there honestly isnt a need for any fuss esp when it was breaking pvp and is now minimally changing pve.
I'm not taking anything out of context. We are getting nerfed for pvp purposes, pve is an afterthought on it. He even said if it turns out to have negative pve effects they’ll look into it.
But you’re right I should totally be fine for doing Nightmare mode operations. It’s not like Op dps isn’t one of the worst dps uptimes of any dps class in the game right now for Operations(melee with zero gap closers outside of cloaking screen movement speed on a 2 minutes cooldown, but don’t worry rifle shot will more than make up for it /sarcasm). And not like Operations aren’t riddled with anti-melee mechanics making it already beyond favorable to run all ranged dps to meet enrage timers for nightmare mode.
I also forgot the part where he said Ops dps in Pve was very high as well and needed to be toned down. Those combat logs should prove I’m still viable dps for nightmare operations right? Oh wait we don’t have combat logs? Oh that’s right; I’ll now be playing the perceived and only nerfed melee dps class. It doesn’t matter how minor a nerf is, when all we have to go off of is perception, people will make wild speculations.
So next time we hit an enrage timer, there will be even more rumblings to drop the Op dps. Because not only is he not ranged, he’s been hit with the nerf bat. “Sorry lag, we need you to reroll sniper”, that line is coming.
Combat logs need to be put in this game, so not dealing with people and how they perceive how much damage people are doing.
TB is an accomplished "shock jock" on British radio. So annoying you is kind of his gig. I think he's a fun to listen to, especially when I know he's annoying people that take themselves way too seriously.
Not a big fan of this interview; I didn't really glean anything I didn't know already from it. Hopefully TB can start extricating a bit more information from them soon.
Via another post on page 2, he did actually make a comment on Reddit about the lack of concrete information that came out of the itnerview:
http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/commen..._totalbiscuit/Sorry folks, but it's rather hard to get interesting answers out of Bioware especially when their PR guy is in the room stopping him from talking.
I think this'll probably be our last Bioware interview. As much as I like the company and enjoy the game, we can't really provide any value if we can't get any straight answers out of them. We tried our best
Stating an opinion as fact does not make it fact. Opinions are not fact. So don't be stupid and make a fool of yourself by trying to pass off your opinion as fact.
That is certainly a possibility. Here was his response to a question about why the comments where closed:
http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/commen...iscuit/c3ks7ne
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