Some of us have acquired nerf immunity
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Originally posted by Tekhead
And beware, if you cry nerf long and hard enough, it may well be you who gets whacked with the nerf bat.
I agree with all your points Tek, except this one. Some profs are pretty much immune from nerfing of any kind, I can't think of a single thing that FC could do to Crats for example, not so they'd notice anyway.
I agree that calling nerf is indeed childish and immature, but the problem is that VERY often when an under-privileged prof asks for something for themselves, the blessed ones see that as a nerf too. After all, if pets became reliable and powerful weapons, the pet classes wouldn't get owned so much in PvP anymore, and so the peeps who rule the battlefield now would cry out that they have in fact been indirectly nerfed.
Anti-smurf nuke is a very good example of this, NTs were given something good, only the Fixers (quite naturally) didn't quite see it that way. Sols were given the CH shutdown, bet the Docs weren't too happy about that either
Check out the 'Grid evac for the great unwashed masses' thread, the Fixers were in fact calling that suggestion a nerf call, even though it would have NO impact on their gameplay in any way.
Even so, I backed away from my pro-grid-for-all stance, because I agreed with Lilnymph that original solutions are much better.
Which is what I believe FC thinks too, hence they didn't nerf GA at all, they just made it so that any high lvl NT can take a smurf out of play with a minimum of effort.
Re: Some of us have acquired nerf immunity
Originally posted by Revelator
"Check out the 'Grid evac for the great unwashed masses' thread, the Fixers were in fact calling that suggestion a nerf call, even though it would have NO impact on their gameplay in any way."
Lol , yes Revelator we came into the streets by the thousans opposing this, just because a handfull of selfish individuals complained you start making silly genaralisatins, maybe if you read a bit closer you would have noticed this fixers post in support of others having a grid option.
But maybe you just like to read between the lines.
Re: Re: Some of us have acquired nerf immunity
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Originally posted by Alantria
Originally posted by Revelator
"Check out the 'Grid evac for the great unwashed masses' thread, the Fixers were in fact calling that suggestion a nerf call, even though it would have NO impact on their gameplay in any way."
Lol , yes Revelator we came into the streets by the thousans opposing this, just because a handfull of selfish individuals complained you start making silly genaralisatins, maybe if you read a bit closer you would have noticed this fixers post in support of others having a grid option.
But maybe you just like to read between the lines.
Hmmmm... well, you sorta kinda got me on that, as there WAS indeed Fixers who supported it in the thread. 3 to be specific, Ilythia, Rubirango and yourself Alantria. However, by my count (which I do urge people to check, it was danged hard because not everyone proudly announce their profs in their sig) 12 other fixers did voice their opposition in no uncertain terms.
I think that in the English language 12 people are more than a handful, but even if not (it's not my 1st language), the fixer nay-sayers was outgunning the yay-sayers 4:1. I'm also willing to bet that if someone brought this up in the Fixers forum, the nay ratio would be the same or higher.
The ironic thing being of course I myself no longer support 'all-prof-gridding' because Lilnymph (a fixer) actually convinced me that it would be better to come up with something better and more original than the old-school grid. The issue for me is dead and gone.
I was using that thread as an example of suggestions for things that do not remove playability for anyone, do not threaten you in either PvP or PvM, and one prof still would do best of ALL the profs, still gets called a 'nerf'.
If you can't call nerfs (and I think you shouldn't), and if you can't suggest new things and fixes (which I think we should) without that being called a nerf, what are we left with?
That was the point of my post, I see that it came across badly, for which I apologize. I hope I have clarified a little bit, and if not I will try harder next time.