It's a Scope. It increases your vision. Start from there. Be realistic. It's a tool. It plugs into your eyes and brains. That's why it needed technical skills to equip.
Traders were considered Tradeskill people and weren't expected to turn out like they did in combat. Engineers go in the same mold. Ever wonder why 'their' weapons were low damage high crit?
So let's assume that the Nerf is going to be a straight reduction in Crit percentage. That's fair. The Vision Enhancers are fine I think so use that as a starting point. 8% Crit for top quality level item.
What can you expect from something that fine tunes the hell out of your eyeballs?
- Greater range
- Higher chance to hit (think of the Soldiers Automatic Targetting Nano)
- More damage
- Increase chance to Evade or Dodge, mebbe not Duck (Explosions supposed to be AoE)
- Small buffs to certain Tradeskills that might be dependant on vision (ever see what a Jeweller has on his eyes?)
- It will help you make an Aimed Shot
- It will increase your awareness of monsters in a greater range of vicinity
- It will give you an increased chance of detecting hidden players
- It might help you break open a chest or door lock
- It could potentially increase your Sense. (But not 'Sensory Improvement. That's a school of programming knowledge)
What WON'T it do?
- It won't make you hit faster
- It won't increase your experience
- It won't give you life or nano or skill with using a weapon
- It won't increase your NCU's chances of blocking a hostile Nanoformula
- It won't increase your skill in executing nano programs.
Just think of what you could do better if you had vision like Superman. Then you'll see what I think can be added to offset the Nerf of the Crit%.
Then again, I tend to like things that make 'sense'.
Now, what kind of skills would it take to wear one of these things? I'd go off the top of my head and say ... oh, Weaponsmithing, Electrical Engineering, perhaps Computer Literacy. In the real world, what skills would be required to equip and operate a highly technical apparatus that goes over your eyes and enhances vision by feeding optimized data to the visual center of your brain? Treatment, mebbe? Definately Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
Perception as the requirement for the VE never made any sense to me. It's a tool. What, you need really good eyes to read the instruction booklet?