Engineer is the new fixer?
Seems to me I read somewhere that the fixer was the master of transportation. From what these patch notes say it looks like funcom has decided the engineer will take the place of the fixer. Guess I'll be starting up an engineer and ditching my fixer. Wish we could make up our minds as to what professions get what unique skills.
People have forgotten something...
People who like the 15 seconds of invulnerability only for the person using the grid, have forgotten something very important; Griefers are constantly looking for ways to grief.
First, I have never grid or wompa camped. My PvP has always been in the open.
Lets say I have a high powered PC, a DSL connection, and I turn the graphics settings down. I should get a decent load time (most of the time anyway) when gridding. With this change, I can have up to 10 seconds where I cannot be attacked. Since the notes don't say anything about movement breaking the invulnerability, you would need to be more than a few seconds away from the grid to not get ganked if you are green to me and I come your direction hitting [TAB].
Yes it is a war zone, but I shouldn't get the right of first attack, even if you can see me, just because I gridded in. Keep in mind, you were there first. Establishing beach heads in war isn't easy (and thats basically what gridding in is, establishing yourself on foreign soil). Unless you are asleep, I shouldn't get to unleash the Alpha strikes just because I gridded.
Like I said before, the griefers will be the ones using the grid instead of camping it. Imagine 10 members of a griefer clan gridding into 2ho. Now they will wreak havoc, almost equal to what the campers were able to do.
The person zoning shouldn't be able to attack or be attacked for 15 seconds. That is the only way it will work. I get the impression from some of the posts, that people are looking for a little payback (even if someone else dishes it out) because you have been ganked trying to grid. Think about it some more, leaving behind the bitterness of getting ganked yourself. This is NOT a good solution. It is better than the way it is now (only slightly because at least now you will have control of your character when you get ganked), but the griefers will still look for ways to grief, and the door is being left open for them with this change.
Skara
fixer not wanted anymore?
"Engineer Changes:
Engineers have received a Summon line of nanos. One will allow them to teleport any person in their team to the current location of the engineer. The other will allow them to teleport every person in their team to the current location of the engineer."
Well, this surely sounds like a fixer nano, rite?
Funcom, for the last time, are you trying to kill the fixer profession? The way its seems now are you trying to remove this professions, and make people change to a new non-fixer character! Why? WHY??
I LOVE MY FIXER? GIMME SOMETHING!
And dont give us som crappy "summon grass nano" or "summon lightbulb" or other useless summoning nano, otherwise will the fixers summon ANGER upon you!
IT'S ENOUGH NOW, FUNCOM!