Originally Posted by
Saetos
Balancing the skill drains is going to be, bar none, one of the hardest parts of this entire rebalance. We rely on stacking drains not only in PVP, but in PVM to equip large QL weapons and to cast high-quality health plunders and Hagglers and other spiffy things. If we lose this, we lose offensive power, our support role in PVM is all but shattered, and combat becomes a monotonous affair of Deprive-Ransack-Q.
Not only this, but how they'll update all our other nanos. We have an alarming fraction of our toolset that dates back to AO's fledgling days, and the game has changed thricefold since then (SL mobs and humongous ACs, AI aliens and their tendency to swarm and drain nanopool, LE and the research system and Silverback). Draining Watchers in SL missions with 2298 ACs - and sometimes with 18000-25000 ACs - does diddly-squat.
As I've said several times over, it's the Trader nano document I'm looking forward to next.