Time to delete my SK, again?

[Martoof857]

<p> As a background, my wife and I Beta'd EQ2, then once it went live she quit after the tradeskilling went south and her Dirge was totaly destroyed. I started a Fury, then quickly got bored and decided to try the Shadowknight. For the next 6-8 months I became more and more ticked on how under-powered the DPS/Mitigation and overall class was. After being shunned time and time again by groups and only being solo'n "greens" I gave up and we left EQ2. We have just recently returned and I decided to give the SK another try. I was really impressed.</p><p>  This class is actually "fun" to play now with the adjustments and "fixes" that were so badly needed. Then I come here to the forums and hear that the class is going to get nerfed. (Course I ignored all of the whiney class that always scream for nerfs instead of having thier own class fixed) I've looked for official word of what to expect for the SK's but have'nt found anything, other than folks giving thier "opinions" and assumptions. Has anything been said from the devs? And if so, is my class once again headed for the delete button? Just curious and worried.</p><p>                                                                                                                                  Oneal</p>

[Bruener]

<p><cite>Martoof857 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p> As a background, my wife and I Beta'd EQ2, then once it went live she quit after the tradeskilling went south and her Dirge was totaly destroyed. I started a Fury, then quickly got bored and decided to try the Shadowknight. For the next 6-8 months I became more and more ticked on how under-powered the DPS/Mitigation and overall class was. After being shunned time and time again by groups and only being solo'n "greens" I gave up and we left EQ2. We have just recently returned and I decided to give the SK another try. I was really impressed.</p><p>  This class is actually "fun" to play now with the adjustments and "fixes" that were so badly needed. Then I come here to the forums and hear that the class is going to get nerfed. (Course I ignored all of the whiney class that always scream for nerfs instead of having thier own class fixed) I've looked for official word of what to expect for the SK's but have'nt found anything, other than folks giving thier "opinions" and assumptions. Has anything been said from the devs? And if so, is my class once again headed for the delete button? Just curious and worried.</p><p>                                                                                                                                  Oneal</p></blockquote><p>I would not worry.</p><p>SOE does not just "nerf" classes in the middle of the expansion.  Its a slow process that usually is affected by xpacs.  Example, in RoK everybody knows that Guards were massively OP'd the entire xpac.  However it wasn't until TSO that SOE nerfed their Mythical and buffed other classes MORE that things got adjusted.  Same thing with Enchanters that rocked out all of RoK and TSO as DPS machines.  In SF its not like they woke up with all these massive nerfs, instead they just didn't get as much from their AAs as the other classes.  And people can deny it all they want but the same thing happened with SKs in SF.  We did not get nearly as much in good AAs as the other fighter classes which is why they have caught up to SKs in a lot of ways.</p><p>Which is my second point.  SKs already saw the adjustment at xpac.  Most likely what will happen is that next xpac a couple of the other fighters will receive much nicer AAs and abilities while SKs will not receive quite as nice and those couple of other fighters will be OP'd until the following xpac when things can be brought back in-line.  My guess is watch for Brawlers and Zerkers being top of the food chain next xpac.</p>

[Diern]

<p>Honestly Sk's still are probably a bit OP in "certain" situations at least in the early game. But yeah I wouldnt worry about knee jerk reaction nerfs at this stage, they probably would have already happend.</p>