Because Rites of Fire had a 22 pages thread of complaints about it. People fight against LSM 50% of the time, so were much more exposed to it. Meanwhile, flaming choppa and the Armless Disgrace, which are both far superior weapons, still have the full dot.
I disagree this kind of weapon is garbage on any classes. Just 1 light hit and you kill everyone that's absurd. And yes Scorpion's DoT weapon are more balanced. Btw i have my RoF's owners hunting weapon now, and that is priceless.
Superior? How is Flaming Choppa superior? It's a weaker tier weapon. The "nerf" that RoF received just brought it in line with other flaming weapons ie - NO MODS. Which is identical to the burnin choppa.
I'd start laughing at you for the thought that AG is a superior weapon. The dot is trash on it. The damage comes 90% from the fact that IT IS AN AUTOCANNON. Can cannons hurt a lot. The dot just helps a little. Burny choppa is pretty dangerous but it wasn't as ubiquitous as the RoF. You can only get burny choppa from the 12k boxes
It can be equipped on jetpack class, ground smash applies AoE dot, and being lower tier doesn't mean it's worse. My jpa has access to both power maul, power axe and power sword... I'm using power sword 99% of times, and would doubly do so if I had access to a fast weapon able to stack that kind of DoT. Heavy weapons only takes you so far (that is, they're better if you're a fast attack spammer), against a competent sword user you're dead unless he royally screws up. Edit: RoF got its mods slot taken away (absolutely fair) and its dot reduced to a third of what it used to be... which MAY be fine, but why only RoF?
oh there ya go it made the ground slam not a completely useless suicidal attack its gonna get nerfed immediately. but seriously abbadabbas gross miscalculation needs the same treatment .... and the burny choppa.
Burny Choppa is actually already confirmed to be getting its burn nerfed to the same level as RoF is now (from 60 to 20). It might be in today's hotfix, but if it isn't it will be in next week's patch. No idea on the poison chainsword though.
Devs play chaos, its why they made LSM the best "mid range" faction and then built the entire game around melee, where LSM are at a disadvantage against...pretty much anyone that can play melee with some semblance of proficiency. Fuck, I see fire dragons and dire avengers out-melee JPAs and shieldbros with disturbing regularity just by jumping around with their combat knives and fancy stun kick.
This is why it shouldn`t be released yet. We are testing things after release. Alpha and bete were suppose to be testing phases. But no... why the hell waste time on it? Let`s better launch game, implement every idea we can and see how many angry shouts will rise. We will be too busy to notice community reports couse will be fixing bugs and d-bash... "Hey guys I have idea... lets give fire damage for some weapons that are already OP... If they can kill you with 1-2 hits, noone will really notice but this could solve a problem with that 1000 weapons we made." "Damn! This is briliant!" This is more chaotic then Eye of terror.
