Symbiant Changes - No profession with just one symbiant line

[Tanana]

This has probably been posted already but...

In the interest of balance I beleive that no profession should be restricted to one set of Symbiants. There are some professions that can access two or even three lines so I'd propose opening up another option for those professions that can currently only use one symbiant line.

OP'd?

Thinking along the lines of-

Doc - Support and Art
Engie - Control and Art
Soldier - Art and Infantry
Enfo - Infantry and Support
Agent - Art and Support
NT - Exterm and Control

[Dancingrage]

I'm gonna tweak that list a bit.

Docs are more casters than ranged bombers so...


Doc: Support and Extermination (comes with all that pistol/Multi-ranged goodness docs want)

Engineer: Artillery and Control (heavy weapons, grenade, etc)

Why Infantry for Soldiers? (infantry is for melee fighting, which isn't Soldier bread and butter) Support at the very most, I think.

Enfo, Agent and NT look ok, but I'm thinking NT could use Support instead.

[Maxisolja]

why don't we cut the crap and just give everyone support?

[Etyris]

Yes. On so many levels, yes.

[randomalpha]

nice idea but as Dancingrage said soldiers Art /support we have G pure support perk !

[cbus97]

Why Infantry for Soldiers? (infantry is for melee fighting, which isn't Soldier bread and butter) Support at the very most, I think.

Support plz. Save me billions on HD foot implant

[Tanana]

Yeah, decent tweaks. Not really too much experience with Docs and Soldier so not too sure what they'd benefit from/miss out on atm.

Only reason I picked Inf for soldier was the connection with Infantry Soldiers..bit lame I know

[Grafter]

I'm gonna tweak that list a bit.

Docs are more casters than ranged bombers so...


Doc: Support and Extermination (comes with all that pistol/Multi-ranged goodness docs want)

Extermination symbs suck so hard though....

Really, i think Doctors should have Artillery opened up, if anything.
(It's only fair, if people want the HD love that comes with Support)

[cbus97]

Really, i think Doctors should have Artillery opened up, if anything.
(It's only fair, if people want the HD love that comes with Support)

It's a deal! Heck, I'll even throw in EoE for docs

[Kazeren]

I don't want docs to have art symbs, cookie cutter is stupid enough as is. Gief inf symbs <3

Control/Extermination would be best for doctors if we got more symb options. Though they would only be used where they added pistol for lvling.

[Armus]

Yes plx support for solja.

[Mamman]

I think enfs should have control instead of support. Fears and taunts are crowd control tools

[navycut]

The symbs are pretty much fine the way they are now, I guess agents can get support symbs but maybe after rebalancing they mightn't be a support-y prof

[Marinegent]

Yes to this. Everyone should have options.

[Xenotric]

Bring back implants!

Say no to blanket stat buffs! :P

[Hacre]

but I'm thinking NT could use Support instead.

Control makes far more sense. NTs aren't a Support profession.

Then again, neither are Enforcers, if anything other than Infantry were added for Enforcers I think again, Control makes more sense.

Having said that, having absolutely no gaps to bridge with custom implants is a bit meh.

Given that Crats have absolutely no reason to equip Extermination over Control surely they should get access to Artillery too! Using the reasoning for Engineers getting Artillery and Soldiers getting Support, etc etc.

[Tazalanche]

Bump for a minimum of two symbiant line options for every profession.

As to the lines chosen, I'm not sure.

Heck, just remove all profession restrictions & let us pick & choose, like we do with almost everything else involving our toons. If we decide to do something crazy like imping an enforcer to dual wield a pistol & SMG, why not let the insanity continue when the toon is using symbiants?

[Swardbearker]

I think enfs should have control instead of support. Fears and taunts are crowd control tools

The main Control prof is Engineer (as we are the only prof that can only use Control), which has pretty much no crowd control ability (all we have is OMG PET AOE SNARE and SNARE MINES). It has more to do with being a pet profession than with being a crowd controller.

And Traders are technically a pet profession, too!

[Kinkstaah]

I think symbs that lack some area should be given more in another area.

For example, Artillery left arm has no AAD. Why can't it suddenly add 150 AAO? Don't equalize them all, mix them up and let people pick and choose what they wish to use to customize their character.

[sultryvoltron]

Given that Crats have absolutely no reason to equip Extermination over Control surely they should get access to Artillery too! Using the reasoning for Engineers getting Artillery and Soldiers getting Support, etc etc.

Here's where this argument becomes VERY slippery slope. Some of the combonations literally make no sense at all.