Oh yeah. I know. I used to be like that but it was true. I know they have a lot in their plate but it's a huge mess.
Please I love DCUO so someone show them how OP two face currently is But I've gotta agree with Eminence. The devs really need to start playing PvP a lot more with high end players so they actually see the tactics that are being used first hand. It'll help a lot going forward.
Personally I'm ok with AoE BB being a thing. Lots of interrupt moves are AoE, why should non of the BBs be? I don't think screen blocking should be the "win them all" move. Why not to have a counter like AoE BB? Personally i liked when Full Auto was AoE BB. I did not use it myself, liked shield's utility more. Why i liked the AoE BB was because it made DP feel different. Damage on it was horrific but because of AoE BB weapon still had some uses for support. Lose damage - > gain utility. 2nd thing that is important with moves like that is the interrupt window. On Full Auto case back in the day you could see the move, go AFK, eat a meal, have enough time to finish your coffee, come back and still interrupt it on reaction. I like idea of AoE BB's but i think every single one of those should be high risk high reward. Missing it on reaction or having it baited out should be punishable every single time, even by people on Taco Bell connection. *Do i think all BB's should be AoE? No. No reason to completely destroy the idea of screen blocking. Personally would prefer only select few weapons to have it. At the same time would love to see some kind a balance around utility VS damage. *Do i think they should be removed all together? No. *Do i like that HB is the weapon to have it now? No. It's already all around good weapon. *Do i trust DCUO devs to make good decisions on balancing weapons and pull off the whole utility vs damage? Sadly, no. Easier fix would be probably to just throw AoE BB's out of the window and have one less variable to balance around for the devs...which is kind a sad...
It's great that you can check which of the people who claim to want balance in PvP, are in fact using things like an outlier weapon for the advantage it gives. Then when a light is shon on it, they go all coy... "I don't think it's that imbalanced" Pfft!
In my opinion, all AoE ranged weapon attacks SHOULD be AoE blockbreakers, if this isn't possible, handblaster's should be removed. Handblaster also has an AoE lunge that not every weapon has. Even with the weapon mastery damage from handblasters nerfed, the weapon is still a favorable choice for 2s+ because of it's amazing immunity farm capability. My personal opinion, all AoE counters should be removed from the game - but if they aren't going to be removed, at least give other weapons/powers the ability also.
You know I gave up trying to post my thoughts about PvP, there's 1 answer/months on this section form the devs. They should attribute us a "PvP dev" who will stay in touch with us & discuss things in a more deep way, that would be really amazing and a step in the right direction.
...what the. Unless they have ninja nerfed it, it definitely was about a week ago. It doesn't continuously AOE BB while holding down the spit. It will only AOE BB upon activation and only at that exact moment. It was broken when they released the Nature Bug Update where it would continuously AOE BB while holding down Acid Spit but they have since fixed it.
Yea well it doesn't aoe bb at all now, which leads me to believe that the handblaster aoe bb is broken.
Wait, Hive Mind needs to be active for it to get the AoE? I don't main healers so this is somewhat news to me if it is.
Yea, I didn't think it would function like that, but I don't know. Let me know what happens if you can test it.
Well when I was running the vault on my Nature alt, I noticed Acid Spit was only breaking one at a time, until I activated Hive Mind, then it hit in an AoE.
