The Potency/Tenacity Problem

I did not see a question @leef , but rather a statement from you that “modding for tenacity would still not work, since the other would just mod for potency”. To “answer”, that statement of course is correct and also completely wrong. One team could mod for potency, and the other team could counter that by modding for tenacity. Strategically modding to counter the strengths of your enemy in a balanced system of customization is what I call balance, and you call it “not working”. However, not every team is going to stack potency to counter tenacity, because in a balanced system, you have to choose between stacking said potency to counter that tenacity, or stacking other things like protection, offense, etc. If the only two moddable stats in the game were tenacity and potency, then yes it would “not work”. But there are more stats than that, which forces player decisions and works to balance the game.