Well this the third phase in a 10 year release. You have Alpha, Beta, then Initial release. The PvE content was and is lacking due to lame and predictable marketing strategy which i don't mind personally. The goal of a development team is to achieve a stand bell curve. Seeing as over 50% of the player based used a same weapon ( the AR / SG ) by adjusting the weapon coefficients you shift the tempo and style of game play. Lower SG range and tweak AR'S now allow the SR to fill the medium range niche. Its also a global adjustment, the the vex it still superior to most AR's As a heads up, this game gets weekly patches, so adapt or sink.

Currently sinking until I get my floaties from MCC

Lol. My heart goes out for pve people. I do find it ironic though. This hot fix did show how much of the gaming demographic relies / hardcore loyal to AR's. New content is coming soon. Trust me, this game is a cash cow. They need to keep pvp going in order to keep the games replay value up. If i am correct activation owns blizzard, i would assume they learned something in 10 years of WoW class balancing. The current and future PvP format will never deter avid PvP or competitive player.

I'm taking in everything that you've been saying even for my lack of responses. They've been with Blizzard for 6 years, and that game was much better when it came out. This game is a cash cow, but there are still plenty of things wrong with it. This game is going to get destroyed next month and forever after, except for the brief day or two people will come back to play DLC.

Vanilla wow was great but that still had issues. A naked sub rogue with a lvl 1 skinning knife was soloing people. I don't think they will kill it at all. I reserve my optimism for a positive out come. WoW turned out pretty solid, and diablo 3 turned out epic as of 2.1 There are some glaring issues with the game, but I see it more on the PvE side, but I am bias :-/ But agree to disagree my good sir. What would you change in a pvp format ?

Late reply incoming The only thing I would change/add to PvP is: 1. Make a playlist without super abilities that has a [u]visible[/u] ranking system. 2. Custom games/ I think 90% of the population can agree on these simple requests and that it would make the game 10 times better.