Will ION Insulator remain nerfed? Destro or Rarnok confirm.

[Lamar Kendrick]

didn't bother doing the pursuit since it's untradable and got better shields than it

[Grandpa Ace]

Hey All,

A "nerf" would constitute something that was changed after it went live. In this case, we put a shield on PTS for testing, and found in that testing that it was a bit too strong comparatively. The final product that you see on live is where we intend to keep it, and if that changes we will be sure to let everyone know!

As always, remember that PTS content is never final, and can change prior to Live release.

Well I hope it does change, and that the shield gets returned to the level we saw on the PTS page because as it stands now--its worthless. The idea behind a Pursuit or Special Event Jackpots should be that they are better than what's already available in some way. Otherwise they are not worth the effort--period. E.g., after seeing the Shield on the PTS page I was ready excited, however, now that the capacity has been lowered, it will just sit in my inventory taking up space--and why, because now I have "NO" reason to Supreme it. Srry.
V/R
GPA

[Ronin9572]

may i point out that this is a classic case of not listening to your customers?
you can clearly see the response on this thread all indicate that while it may have been " too strong " ,it is now " too weak "

will this be looked at after seeing your customers thoughts?
and if not,why not?

The reason, crying whales! Lol

[Kuroro]

maybe its capacity has been changed for a few persons complaining on a shield wich takes like 10 minutes to fill

[Octo]

may i point out that this is a classic case of not listening to your customers?
you can clearly see the response on this thread all indicate that while it may have been " too strong " ,it is now " too weak "

will this be looked at after seeing your customers thoughts?
and if not,why not?

Well, they're listening. The Ion was "too strong" for a few players on PTS, they cried because it was stronger than their Darkest Hour. And because everyone can get the shield from the pursuit. So, well, now it's just a regular shield.
So, make up your mind guys.

[hempman]

ty for the explanation.

so its basically the same situation it was with the piper mission shields?
everyone cried bout the cap even tho they could go get themselves one?
did they nerf those as well?

we keep thinking about playing again,but seeing the posts here are a bit...scary.
usually i would read the pts server thread first but lately...

[Bentu]

Hey All,

A "nerf" would constitute something that was changed after it went live. In this case, we put a shield on PTS for testing, and found in that testing that it was a bit too strong comparatively. The final product that you see on live is where we intend to keep it, and if that changes we will be sure to let everyone know!

As always, remember that PTS content is never final, and can change prior to Live release.

There are very few things in game that I waste forge on, do you think I'll bother with this Ion sheild?

No I won't.

[Ryu Soba JP]

I spent 500 Arkforge thinking maybe the shield was just bugged on cap. Guess I wasted the Arkforge.
I've watched a lot of livestreams and all the gear they use when demonstrating is modded up with their cool dev tools. Then when it gets released to live it's junk or not even an existing item. Kind of like that syphon detonator a while back. Why demonstrate an item that is subject to change? Isn't that false advertising? It must be Trions way to get the few remaing gamers to stay interested in playing only to let them down when the achievement is met.

This game seems to be run by PC gamers only and the changes that get made are request from PC gamers or as I call some of them, pc elitist. The content that gets released might work on PC/PTS but runs like poo on console. The gear is awesome in pts but junk when released. My theory is the development team doesn't actually play the game and if they do it's on PC. Not consoles. But that's another rant for a different thread.

[Chump Norris]

Hey All,

A "nerf" would constitute something that was changed after it went live. In this case, we put a shield on PTS for testing, and found in that testing that it was a bit too strong comparatively. The final product that you see on live is where we intend to keep it, and if that changes we will be sure to let everyone know!

As always, remember that PTS content is never final, and can change prior to Live release.

Did people actually test or was this a case of non PTS testers giving input on something they hadn't tried?

Thanks for actually responding btw Destro.

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added since we want to keep shields fair and balanced or w/e the excuse is..
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screw it and sorry DH users..




so..

33784

and..

Firewall version.

[1]: On shield break, restore health and shields for 5s to surrounding allies. (Cooldown: 30s)
[2]: On shield break, repair 1 armor plate. (Cooldown: 30s)
[3]: On shield break, +20% outgoing healing for 10s (Cooldown: 30s)

or..

Wetwork version.

[1]: On shield break, grant 15% damage for 5s to surrounding allies. (Cooldown: 30s)
[2]: On shield break, gain 15% armor penetration for 5s. (Cooldown: 30s)
[3]: +10% damage when shield is down.

These EXL shields should be brought inline with other shields or whatever excuse was used to justify nerfing the ION..thanks.

Maybe bringing the ION down to the cap of the DH would have been a more fair approach instead of just neutering the ION?

[Riyo Chuchi]

Can we just get a good jp shield? Its been forever and you trashed the Ion shield