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MMOFTW - The Great SWTOR Companion Nerf
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MMOFTW - The Great SWTOR Companion Nerf
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The companions are worst now than they have ever been since 1.0 at launch.
Maybe if you are in full high end Raid gear and/or (un)intentionally exploit the Main hand weapon bug, I guess you could care less.
But you have to understand that the vast majority of the playerbase is not running around in Raid gear, nor has millions of credits to twink their ALT's during leveling! /shrug
And you also okay now that a rank 50 companion is hardly better than a rank 10? /Facepalm
They put so much work in 4.0 and it was a great update! Loads of people came back and had a blast leveling again! Finally the tedium was gone due to more powerful companions!
And then with one fell swoop, they broke everything and nerfed everything into the ground with 4.0.2! Undoing all their work for 4.0! /Shrug
No one was denying companions were a tad OP, but not THAT OP as some of you claim and were crying and spamming the forums about for a month!
They just had to be toned down a little and that was that! Not a whopping 75 - 80% Sledgehammer! /FACEPALM
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If so, forget it. Was bad enough as it is with the specialization crap they took wholesale from WoW that ruined hyrbrid, aka solo, builds, which all my characters were.
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So don't worry, they were so overpowered before it wasn't even funny. Now they are just demi-god overpowered.
And no I'm not raid geared. I restarted just for 4.0. I craft all my own gear, implants, weapons and ear pieces and practically never group. Heroics are done solo.
I would be surprised if they did not undo it this tuesday.
When they create a precedent of how companions play for 4 expansions, you can not simply change it over night. Also no systems to better support that change. Just change.
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LOL you guys are arguing about a game that died 3 years ago.
LOL IKR
Yes the companions were nerfed. Yes you can still faceroll things. Companions are still way way way tougher than the were before they became godlike. Tank companions only take a little bit of damage now when going after heroic bosses, 2 days ago they didn't take anything.
So don't worry, they were so overpowered before it wasn't even funny. Now they are just demi-god overpowered.
And no I'm not raid geared. I restarted just for 4.0. I craft all my own gear, implants, weapons and ear pieces and practically never group. Heroics are done solo.
They're hardly "way, way tougher than they were before they became godlike". In 3.0 and before you could basically let your companions solo champion mobs on the low levels if you had the presence bonus, now they can hardly compete with a single elite on that level.
Unless you immediately go nuts with gifts and spend a few hours feeding those to get them to rank 50 I suppose, which no new player has the money to do, nor the patience I imagine since it's mindnumbingly dull. And that's not even counting the fact that those same players don't have the massive presence bonus that Legendary (veteran) ones have. So I can imagine things sucking quite a bit for them at the moment.
So yes, they actually did nerf them to the point where they are weaker than pre-4.0. It doesn't go for all of them though, in tank mode they seem more decent now, it was mostly DPS and Heals that got obliterated.
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Tank stance has 0 defences. So its just really bad DPS.
The only one semi viable is DPS stance. And even that is much worse than 3.0
So theyre buffing at least healing considerably on tuesday. But IMO they lost A LOT of goodwill they got for KOTFE. And yes, its their own fault.
Ones touting that its great now - dismiss your companion in the future or stop whining "its to easy"
MMOs are increasingly becoming about eastern games because the west does not want to make anything other than F2P tinyMMOs.
Players complaining in SWTOR about their companions being nerfed so they are not untouchable gods. Thats were we are now, npcs are not allowed to inconvenience players. :D
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The companions were WAY WAY WAY too strong. Why don't we all just do an instant /65 command and spawn max level characters? Since when has the MMO genre turned into a bunch of whining, antisocial pansies? Pantheon cannot come soon enough.
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