I'm not cowering from anything, I may be the only Sorcerer on the team but LSM are still LSM. They still move into whip range while shooting at you. Armor doesn't matter when they are too busy getting stagger locked to shoot.
It DOES stagger, you've killed me a few times and I'm like wtf am I getting staggered by this? Reaper shot to the face? No stagger. Little colored whippy thing? Mega stagger.
I'd like the whole shabang. Average scores by class, global kill numbers by class, KDRs by class (or even by weapon), class participation statistics, and an overall melee-ranged kill ratio.
And another table that's also contrasted by one faction vs. the rest, KDR of GA's vs. Slugga's for example.
Having more data literally cannot hurt the playerbase and can only help us make more informed opinions and conclusions about the game, the state of balance, and the direction to go. DATA FOR THE DATA GOD! SPREADSHEETS FOR THE SPREADSHEET THRONE!
The only class I was worried about being severely harmed by the rebalance was the Banshee - low HP made lower, guns got deadlier, less healers, more crossfire, ect. Honestly playing last night wasn't bad. I'm not even a good banshee and I managed to solo massacare 7 LSMs with a good flank. Stalker Bolter is really fun and matches the archetype of the LSM. Don't engage them in medium range. Nuff said. Haven't played WL or Sorc much. Really want to play Orks tonight. Overall things seem fun.
Just to add to this, I know Brent mentioned he thought the Hawk was to high on the K/D, but I have to wonder what % of Eldar kills are made from that as well as how much of that is just flanking kills vs head to head fights, as I'm sure if it was head to head they would be losing all of em.
It didn't help that there was a known exploit that had been around for months I had to contact the devs about in order to fix it. The Hunters Mark exploit was being used judiciously by a very narrow band of players. In fact it was being used so much other factions came to our faction specifically to see it and abuse it, just like the Autocannon.. Word gets around eventually and people want it. I would really like to know what weapons each class contribute to their K/D as well. I would imagine that this exploit alone is responsible for the way the hawk is. But playing as an LSM before the patch, they were really difficult to deal with.
