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[Kalimaster]

We have seen the weapons of MWO reduced in effectiveness across the board during 2017. At present time I must admit that I don't agree with these changes and I would like to see our weapons buffed back up some in the coming year....across the board. We can have armor buffs, why not weapon buffs.

So lets hear it for 2017...the year of the Nerf

[K O Z A K]

I really miss the timber, gauss/peep gyr, 5LPL BLR2C

they wrecked 3 out of 4 of my favourite mechs

[justcallme A S H]

The Nerf of the year is undoubtedly....

cSPL / IS SPL / ERML

And then the spectacular backflip on the ML once people went ape-****.

That dart-board special has totally screwed with lights across the board. Already a struggling weight class hit even harder.

[TercieI]

Year of the nerf? Hehe. What's so different about this year?

[Khobai]

cSPL nerf was 100% justified though

that weapon was completely out of whack

but they shouldve just lowered it by 1 damage

instead of making it useless

[Bud Crue]

The year of the nerf.
I suppose. I prefer to think of it as the year they stopped pretending that their actions needed to have any pretense of a connection to actual goings on in the game.

Twas the year they claimed that a machine gun was over performing but ignored the fact that they were only over performing (if at all) on two mechs that could boat them. The year that gauss/ppc was over performing but all mechs were punished when only 4 were actually at issue. The year that ISML were over performing and Paul had the audacity to assert that the nerf was at least in part a consequence of player feedback (still waiting Paul for all those tweets and posts from players complaining about the ISML). Etc.

This just wasn't the year of the nerf.
It was the year they stopped pretending to understand their own game.
It was the year they just gave up on balance and decided they may as well nerf things at random to at least drive a cbill sink. It was the year they claimed balance was the best its ever been and then proceeded with 5 nonstop months of nerfs despite that claim of near perfect balance.
It was the year they claimed that the MKII was only 8% difference in performance from a Vindicator.
It was the year they made me stop caring or hoping for better.

[Deathlike]

The Dartboard of Balance had a record year! I mean, why go IS when you have Clan XL?

Seriously though, the strength of one's liver has improved greatly since there was zero mention of CW/FP @ Mechcon. Maybe there should be a reverse drinking game instead!

All we need now are New Years resolutions that promise the world and never barely minimally deliver!

[N0ni]

2017, the year of the strikes.

[justcallme A S H]

Khobai, on 29 December 2017 - 04:01 PM, said:

cSPL nerf was 100% justified though

that weapon was completely out of whack

but they shouldve just lowered it by 1 damage

instead of making it useless

It wasn't justified if it was dropped by 2 and you say it should've been 1...

You are literally contradicting yourself.

[Khobai]

justcallme A S H, on 29 December 2017 - 05:42 PM, said:

It wasn't justified if it was dropped by 2 and you say it should've been 1...

You are literally contradicting yourself.

no im saying a nerf was justified

but they overnerfed it

thats not a contradiction

[Y E O N N E]

justcallme A S H, on 29 December 2017 - 03:36 PM, said:

The Nerf of the year is undoubtedly....

cSPL / IS SPL / ERML

And then the spectacular backflip on the ML once people went ape-****.

That dart-board special has totally screwed with lights across the board. Already a struggling weight class hit even harder.

They didn't backflip on the ML. ML still got nerfed, 3 seconds to 3.5 seconds.

The cMPL, though, they backpedalled on. And now it's cleaning house.

[R5D4]

Between the nerfs to c-small pulse in 2017 and the previous nerfs to the entire Light class I only come back now every 6 months or so to see if anything has changed.

I also still contend the problem with the c-small pulse is, like most weapons, when it's boated by heavies and assaults.
Lights and mediums running 4pt damage c-small pulse weren't/have never been the issue.

[Y E O N N E]

Also, I'm pretty sure the most notable nerf of the year was the mass holocaust of IS quirks when they introduced the skill tree.

[justcallme A S H]

Yeonne Greene, on 29 December 2017 - 07:00 PM, said:

Also, I'm pretty sure the most notable nerf of the year was the mass holocaust of IS quirks when they introduced the skill tree.

Hmmm yeah that is another big one for sure. But then balance was meant to "get better" because of Skill Maze... And yet here we are.

[FupDup]

Every year is the year of the nerf around here.

[Deathlike]

FupDup, on 29 December 2017 - 07:34 PM, said:

Every year is the year of the nerf around here.

Would you like a small taste of that?

[ThreeStooges]

If you have a mech that didn't get a nerf either directly with its quirks being whacked, a pice of equipment your weapon needs to use like Artemis, at or a weapon it *use to* use got nerfed DRINK AND DRINK SOME MORE! For every c er ll spam and strike you saw used in the mwowc DRINK!

[Novakaine]

2017
The year of Sticking it to the Inner Sphere.
And Units over the size of 4.

[El Bandito]

2018 is just around the corner and it is not gonna get any better. Right off the bat, Assassin and a certain Clan 90 tonner will contract the nerf bat disease.

[Alexandra Hekmatyar]

New hashtag campaign to Russ!
#MakeGaussSnipeyAgain!

So I can compete with the ER large laser builds.