Developers, Brigands have been consistently nerfed since the EoF LU. We were the hardest hit class with nerfs in that initial EoF patch (9-10 huge PVP nerfs), our PVP abilities were hit hard once again in the past LU..and now looking on the test server notes, we're getting nerfed even more! Leave us alone, please! You buff AA's that are considered useless by most PVP brigands (and we still won't use after the buff), but nerf the only good AA's that we get as a brig! The only reason I continued to play a Brigand was because I loved solo PVP, and Safehouse was my only hope when it came to me vs. a x2 or a x4 of people. I had to purposely stay out of combat in order to survive by teleporting away (which is perfectly reasonable). But now, safehouse becomes COMPLETELY useless in PVP. When someone "kills" you, you just sit there unconscious bleeding, and they lose their target? Big deal! They can leisurely switch targets, hit you with a small auto attack, and you die? How useful is that at all in PVP? Could be considered more useful in a raiding situation..but it makes the skill completely worthless in PVP. The only other end line EoF AA ability we got was tenure. And that's being nerfed too?! Being reduced from 15%, to 12% durations? So you nerf our only really useful endline EoF abilities, just so you can buff abilities that any real PVP brigand would never use anyways? What's with that? We would have been happier had you just left us alone completely, and changed NONE of our AA's. After that last liveupdate, there are PLENTY of classes that can kick our butt. We are no longer the powerhouses we were pre-EoF. Monks, Swashbucklers, Bruisers, Berserkers, Shadowknights, plus a lot more, can all kick our butts with relative ease. Every LU feels like we're getting our teeth kicked in, and there is no end in sight. Please rescind these changes, and just don't touch our AA's at all! I'm sure any Brigand who ever PVP's will tell you that they would rather have safehouse and tenure untouched, than to have the small worthless AA's buffed by small amounts. This is not a tradeoff by any means, it's a complete gimping of our class in PVP. No longer will we have any chance of staying alive while PVP'ing solo. It was the last hope for anybody who actually liked to PVP solo (a rare breed indeed). People who liked to solo PVP could roll a brigand and actually stand a chance at escaping from huge groups of players coming after them. No longer is this the case. Instead, it just puts us on the ground bleeding to death, so that they can re-target us and hit us for a few hitpoints to kill us. The change to safehouse also helps cement the idea that there is no reality in solo PVP. The biggest gripe solo pvp'ers had was this game always benefited those with the most numbers. This change makes that even more of a reality than it was before. This is just a plea to the PVP dev- please remove these test changes. Anybody on a PVE server might be happy with these changes, but for any brig on a PVP server, it's completely DEBILITATING.
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