I guess I'll have to be THAT guy.
-rose was over nerfed. Period. She's my least played class in the entire game and I find her painfully boring so I'm not defending my "ez win n00b class". In the interest of fairness and future balancing changes, let's have a discussion that doesn't incite a flame war.
If rose is supposed to be a CC Mage, why was her CC hit so hard? Granted, the duration on them was much too high in comparison to the rest of the games abilities. She now can't even do her intended job of being a cc Mage. Thematically speaking, a Mage shouldn't be focused around close quarter combat, which she isn't. And they shouldn't be snipers with honing missles either. They should be somewhere in the middle. But rose now can't do short, midrange, or long range. She feels bad to use. She's just kind of eh. It feels like the outcry of rose has caused the balancing team to just obliterate her instead of tuning her.
Like I said, I don't play Rose. But I'm worried that if this is how the team balances then what can we expect in the future for other classes? Rose just seems like a half-assed design mess where the creators had an idea of what they wanted, it backfired, and now they're just trying to figure out what to do with her.
The game feels better now. Matches are actually semi competitive now, though I have a feeling in the coming weeks people are going to notice some zombie variants are out of line.
Overall a good patch.
EA Staff (Retired)
