Bonds of Weakness Change Followup (MEGA)

"Sunnie1978;d-177122" wrote:
Finally, we’re also going to continue to monitor the live environment to make sure the 20 stack limit to Bonds of Weakness is the “right” amount. Initial raid completion data is showing that Nightsisters are still one of the dominant strategies in the Sith Triumvirate raid, but we will continue to observe. We will be investigating early next week, what game implications it has to bump the limit a bit further and whether or not we should move the limit up.

Yeah, here's the thing: yes, Nightsisters will still do good damage in P4. Of course they will, they're pretty much the only strong team there, and this didn't completely kill their strategy.

That's beside the point though. You reacted to a very specific problem, the Acolyte/Traya combo creating an infinite loop, with a fix that has reduced the effectiveness of a perfectly legitimate team that most of the player base interested in completing the raid has built up. There were definitely ways to handle the former without impacting the latter, either at all or at least much more minimally than this change impacts them. That is what ticks people off - that it has become harder for guilds still struggling to reach the level of power needed to clear Heroic Sith to get there, as a totally unneeded side-effect of you dealing with combo that players couldn't do unless they were already beating it to begin with.