My issue with removing acrobat is that not all advies are ranged and using CSS. While CSS advies might be put in a proper spot by lowering DoF, this would be a very significant nerf to melee advies who use CC/CM (i'm ranged with CSS myself, but that doesn't mean everyone is).
The Coon change would be independent of advy build and would affect them all pretty equally.
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Yes, thats exactly what they should be, good/average at everything, but best at nothing. Now they have all but special blockers. In reverse, you are saying that advs should have same healing as docs with as good evades and damage as an MA ? (and they almost do, except for doc heals..)
Anybody, who has played 220 advy even for 10 minutes cant argue the fact that (especially ranged) advies are vastly overpowered and have been that way for soon 6-7 years (first melee, now ranged) and still some have the nerve to say "no no, no nerfs, we are good now !!1". But of course, who these days doesnt have 220 advy-alt/main ?
Why not just leave the whole acrobat line as it is but just lock out Dof to specific proffesions so advys cant use it , they can still perk acro 4 ofc for the static add . And yea those damn 80% perks are annoyng .
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Played Advy for about 4 years as main. Stopped it because it went boring. Def is not the problem, the problem is just the Troaler. With the common AS-multiplier of an advy its just OP.
Not many professions have the chance to crack advys def til a couple of capped AS´s kill them.
This ! Without AS Pistol, as Ranged, you can't kill anyone in BS, even if you are not easy to kill...
What strikes me here is that this "Nerf Advy"-like discussion, that , by the way, has been going on since Shadowlands was released, completely revolves around PvP.
I don't want FC to remove my Acrobat and BioCocoon perks , or nerf my heals, that serve me all the time in pvm just because some pvp'ers have ego problems....
I have a little under 3.3k static def on my advy. My problem when defending myself is not regular hits and specials, but everyone and their brother having an AS pistol. Getting along without DOF would be doable if we still had access to the other features of the Acrobat perks.
You summed it up well. In PvM, I can just stand around until a nuking alien shows up, then I need to heal. If I'm too lazy to heal, I can pop coon and pump out enough damage to end the threat long before it's up.
I'd say my one gripe with playing advie for over seven years, is there are two really profession defining skills we have: morphs, and being THE dual-wielding specialists. Morphs they are apparently going to do something with to make more distinct and interesting, so everyone isn't running about in wolf all the time.
The other thing I wish were possible is to make the multi-wielding mean -something- other than an IP saver. Numerous suggestions abounded on what to do with it from the ranged advies (who were fairly offensively gimped until that AS pistol), none of which went anywhere. I'd really love to have something that was unique to our double-handed weapon skills over the AS pistol any day of the week. Even over the FA pistol, if it were possible. Wishful thinking on my part.
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