Is there a reason why buffs and nerfs are done so large in PS2?

Take the Wraith Flash for example, they nerfed the Wraith on it so it now has a cool down on cloaking which has ruined the playability on that with a huge 5 second cool down before you can cloak again which is 1 second too long, you guaranteed to get instantly shot off before you can cloak again to hide.

The wraith flash example is one of the worst things in my mind, because of how it went down. They gave all three factions a different gun that were supposed to excel in different areas, but the only one that really matter was the VS starfall which did more damage to vehicles. It was OP. During the whole time that the Starfall flash existed before the wraith flash I MAINED on VS, as somone who drives sunderers a lot. So im not biased against it, but I played enough of the other factions to see that it was absurdly broken.

People complained about it, legitimately. The response was that hey the other guns werent meant to be as good at killing tanks, they had their own niches. but basically that was bullshit. Instead of nerfing the starfall a bit, they nerfed ALL the flashes in a way that no one asked for and for no good reason. basically they threw a fit.

/r/Planetside Thread Parent