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Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 6:11 pm
by WelshAvenger
Taken from the STO forum:
We will be making some changes to Carrier Pets (e.g. Peregrine Fighters, To'Duj Fighter, Klingon Bird of Prey Pets, etc.), separation pets (like a Galaxy separated saucer, MVAM Pets, and Tal’Kyr Support craft, etc.), as well as similarly related pets (like the Odyssey Work Bees, consumable device Scorpion Fighters, Gorn Healing Platform Drones, etc.). All these items are leveless items and all these pets were using incorrect data that was causing their HP, shields, damage and healing to be too high. In some cases, the sum of the players pets were far outperforming the player’s ship itself. The HP, shields, damage, healing and related values for these pets are all being reduced to scale more consistently with other player gear.

Pets that are not affected are those that deal damage based on the player, instead of independent data. Changing these pets would have no affect since they are already using player data (e.g. Andorian Wing Cannons, Avenger VATA torpedo, Bio-neural Warhead, etc.).

This change only affects pets, and not the playable versions of any of these ships (e.g. the playable Jem Hadar Attack Ship and Danube Runabout are not affected).

Here is a complete list of all pets that are affected. If a pet is missed, it is probably a mistake. Please let us know, and we will look into it.

Bleth Choas Fighter
Danube Runabout
Delta Flyer
Fer'Jai Frigate
Ha'feh Assault Warbird
Ha'nom Guardian Warbird
HoH'SuS Bird-of-Prey
Hull Repair Drone
Jem'Hadar Attack Ship
Jem'Hadar Fighter
Kazon Raider
Marauding Force Shuttle
Monbosh Control Craft
Monbosh Support Craft
N.X. Aquarius
Obelisk Swarmer
Oschu Shuttle
Peregrine Fighter
Plesh Brek Frigate
Power Siphon Drone
Qulash Frigate
Romulan Drone Ship
Scorpion Fighter
Shield Repair Shuttle
Shield Repair Unit
Stalker Fighter
Starfleet Chevron
Starfleet Saucer
Tachyon Drone
Tal'Kyr Support Craft
Tholian Mesh Weaver
Tholian Widow Fighter
To'Duj Fighter
Type 8 Shuttle
Vector Alpha
Vector Beta
Vector Gamma
Voth Heavy Fighter
Work Bee CMU
Xindi-Aquatic Mobulai Frigate


Look for this change to go live to Holodeck in about 2-3 weeks.


LLAP
Al “Captain Geko” Rivera
Bad news for the carrier captains among us.

Here's the link is you fancy trawling through several hundred posts
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showt ... ?t=1285341

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 6:19 pm
by Merlin
Doh, guess I need to up my kdf pets to the next level then.

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 6:57 pm
by Gabriel Lyons
yup looks like I'll be switching my main from the Narcine to another ship. Guess its good I was able to get my Faehl today for my Tac.

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 7:12 pm
by longshotnorth
Kinda glad I did not buy the Karfi carrier. Bummer...

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 7:14 pm
by Hevach
So I guess my swarmers eating tricobalts without losing shields wasn't intended?

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 7:58 pm
by Dancamvet
Well the nerf bat swings again. Needed to optimise my recluse build anyway, it's still a work in progress (like most of my things). There's going to be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the carrier dps'ers

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 8:05 pm
by Sysil
Umm... A nerf to something popular announced 2 to 3 weeks in advance...

I would have though Cryptic would not give advance warning, so that people continue buying new pets and new carriers...

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 8:21 pm
by Dancamvet
Sysil wrote:Umm... A nerf to something popular announced 2 to 3 weeks in advance...

I would have though Cryptic would not give advance warning, so that people continue buying new pets and new carriers...
True enough, maybe they want to gauge the player base reaction.....

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 8:37 pm
by venethus
So much for pulling 20k+ dps on my Engy Recluse. I have the best pets I can't get for my ship and they can't be upgraded. This sucks, but I will stick it out in my Recluse.

"Your pets are really effective? Let me fix that for you."

Re: Uh oh, the nerfbat strikes again!

Posted: Tue November 4th, 2014 8:42 pm
by Macha
Saw this coming tbh , when pets have more hp than player ships, something is wrong