Opifex genom perks review

**Alceona** · Nov 25th, 2009, 17:58:39

Solitus will get better heal ability, Nanomage will get good nanodmg bust, Atrox will get MR without debuffs. What will get opifex:

1) Nerf of Blinded by Delights perk and dmg perk from Opifex Primary Genome. We will lose some AR on this perks after rebalansing (ATM double offence check works) and duration time on blinded by delights.

2) Small Deffence debuff.

3) Small deff buff.

4) Pure attack absorber, that will not improve our vitality.

There is one way to do Opifex Secondary Genome useful. It's to add 50% reflect to Adapt perk.

With this changes Opi sold will be a common chose and it will not be a bad misstake like ATM. Other professions will feel protection from this perk with rrfe only, but it's much better than nothing.

Ps: After rebalansing opifex will be the last brid in pvp recomendations, becouse possability to put on QL 300 symbiants isnt advantage anymore.

**Digitization** · Nov 25th, 2009, 18:15:52

I agree that opifex genom doesn't have much to offer

**Towerblock** · Nov 25th, 2009, 18:27:09

Originally Posted by Digitization

I agree that opifex genom doesn't have much to offer

Ditto. It need some love. Not sure about 50% reflect tho.

**Xenotric** · Nov 25th, 2009, 18:40:40

50% reflects would be rather too strong ¬_¬, a simple upping of the blockers to say, 3 per refresh would make the blockers work to a reasonable standard, even if its duration was halfed :P

Other then that the lines fairly ok, only other major meh point is init buff, but really not sure what would be a good replacement, though hopefully FC have something in mind to make inits worth while

**Ashes2Ashes** · Nov 25th, 2009, 18:48:07

Adapt really isn't that great of a perk atm. That being said, I wouldn't loose hope over it. Thats what this forum is for, to discuss, and suggest changes to the current balancing act going on. Maybe adjusted to x5 special/normal blocker with a duration of 24s. By saying that, I don't mean 5 normal + 5 special, but rather all together 5 blocks whether they be special or normal attacks within that 24s duration.

It seems with the exception of Solitus / Atrox, they wanted to do each defensive beta genome a bit diffrently from the others. So this would be in keeping with the theme, but made a bit more dependable / reliable of a defense.

**srompu** · Nov 26th, 2009, 04:48:33

On the topic of Opi perks, I'd like to mention that Brimstone lacks usefulness. To make it viable, I think it should be scaled up significantly.

**Parranoid1** · Nov 26th, 2009, 07:16:36

id like to see maybe 3 norms and 2 specs, or 3 specs 2 norms instead of 5 that could be either, cosue they are most likely gonna just block reg attacks, and maybe 1 special.

anyways, a 50% reflect would be OP, massively. yes solds might go opi.... couse they will be able to use this in AMS downtime and still hit over 90% reflects so they will then be able to do like 3 mins of 90ish% reflects instead of 1:20

also means that any1 with RRFE will be able to have an AMS like defence for the duration...which isnt wat the game needs

**Sterva** · Nov 26th, 2009, 08:20:01

Bump.

Troxes have had MR and sphere.

Solitus have had Survival and tacky.

NM have had their absorb.

Opifex have had... well, not much, unless you count BBD, and most people still chose to roll other breeds for the more obvious advantages.

I'd hate to see it get even worse when everyone can breed switch, and no one stays opifex.

**Fifty50** · Nov 26th, 2009, 09:08:03

Opisex used to be cool for tl5 with Blinded by delights, now there is no reason have one at any level imho.

**Alceona** · Nov 26th, 2009, 22:44:00

Blockers of special attacks are not a good defence, becouse main dmg will be a perk dmg. So any attack absorber will not be as effective as atm. 50% reflect isnt beter than nanomage absorber, becouse it's effective with rrfe only.

**Klodovik** · Nov 26th, 2009, 23:18:59

Simple solution - other genome perks should get nerfed.

**Kinkstaah** · Nov 27th, 2009, 11:26:23

Originally Posted by Alceona

Blockers of special attacks are not a good defence, becouse main dmg will be a perk dmg. So any attack absorber will not be as effective as atm. 50% reflect isnt beter than nanomage absorber, becouse it's effective with rrfe only.

Blocking special attacks is a good defence.
You don't notice it because you're an opifex engineer
Extra passive evades are as good a benefit as any, see tower wars in regards to how much people would love 100 def.

And seriously, blockers arent defence? What?

**Amickson** · Nov 27th, 2009, 13:03:14

There's very big difference between 7 special attack blockers at once and 1 special/regular blocker every 4 seconds. The second one does not stop any alfa. Only use I can see is defense against nerfed 3sec AS, but still need to be used before actual shot.

**sweleviathan** · Nov 27th, 2009, 13:15:40

Originally Posted by Kinkstaah

Blocking special attacks is a good defence.
You don't notice it because you're an opifex engineer
Extra passive evades are as good a benefit as any, see tower wars in regards to how much people would love 100 def.

And seriously, blockers arent defence? What?

hmz + 1500 add all off with no drawbacks VS 1 special blocked every once and a while
seriously that doesnt add upp at all
yay I blocked a flingshot, then: hit by burst, FA, a ****load of perkdmg and a few regulars --->dead zoning to reclaim new blocker ready
point is ONE blocker doesnt mean anything and all other breeds > opifex if changes go live

**Gridpain** · Nov 27th, 2009, 13:20:07

wait for "your regular attack has been absorbed by a blocker"
launch specials in less than 4 secondes (pressing some keys in less than 4 sec is not that hard ...)

laugh at the opiflex that put 10 AI perks and got alpahed 1 sec later than if he hadnt put any points ...

**Nevo-RK3** · Nov 27th, 2009, 13:48:53

I want Blinded by delights back!

And some proper evadebuff or special blocker!

Opisex is supposed to be the best evadeclass ...
But up to now.. Troxes had the evadebuff (Wit) - Now fix it for Opifex!!!

**Sonikeep** · Nov 27th, 2009, 14:34:08

Thats payback for easy symb equiping, working as intended.=)

**Hacre** · Nov 27th, 2009, 20:43:37

Originally Posted by Sterva

Bump.

Troxes have had MR and sphere.

Huh? Sphere is a Solitus perk...or have I missed something?

**Sterva** · Nov 27th, 2009, 21:19:27

Originally Posted by Hacre

Huh? Sphere is a Solitus perk...or have I missed something?

I meant wit.

**monk13** · Nov 28th, 2009, 06:58:28

i had it perked until i realized just how useless it is unless you're trying to equip something.
as it stands, perking opifex breed doesn't make sense

here's a thought

on primary line
evade perks (mild ones, nothing too beastly)
since that sort of thing is what opi's do best

on the secondary line
a (mediocre) add all offense perk, maybe with an init buff
could call it something to reflect the concept that it's caused by an increased focus of the mind, resulting in faster more accurate strikes for a short period of time
unnatural focus or something like that

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