has the highest damage among Claws, features the unique ability to Sunder, cost nothing to craft and -YOU CAN’T PICK IT UP IF YOU DON’T HAVE IT-.
This crafted item outclasses all Legendary Claws and even most weapons overall, to the point where you can go in with no armor and still destroy opponents due to its absurd stats.
This is what happens when you copy-paste a Legendary weapon, make it craftable, and only change the icon and name.
It’s a Twitch drop, it’s the same as a pay to win item, something unique that you can’t adquire, needs a nerf or at least being able to pick it if you don’t have it
I’m guessing it will get sledgehammer nerfed in ALL game modes, not just PVP. It happens to a lot of things that PVP gets all snarly about, but PVE certainly does not.
Claws are manky weapons anyway.
The only reason the stats look high is because Funcom, in their typical wisdom, capped the regular progression for claws/punch daggers/ect at hardened steel, rather than star metal.
Point of order, there are no craftable star metal claws/punch daggers that aren’t either from the Bazaar or a long vanished battle pass.
One easy, and sufficiently low effort, solution to this would be to just put a recipe for Rip and Tear in the library of esoteric lore.
But that’s just it. In PVP, there is always a “broken” META. After 6 years of various weapons that have come and gone, when does everyone fully understand that the META is an important marketing strategy to keep people playing as they figure out the new best in class items/ combos/armor/perk combo?
But yes, the current bugs and 'sploits on the table make those weapons even better than feroxic daggers were, for those who know how to game the system in dueling PvP.
Since the current “META” in PvP is running in circles and spamming sprint attacks, you might have noticed, that the “stuck in animation” time for claw type weapons is the shortest of all weapons sprint attacks.
Just try it out. You dont even need to animation cancel it with dodge rolls.
They should have been purchasable after a couple months.
There is another game that is f2p and online that does the earn it now for free during a certain window or purchase it later model for limited time types of rewards.
They should do that here too.
And don’t give us any of that stinks to be you nonesense either from the usual crowd that doesn’t want to share lol.
Either pass out the codes everywhere or not at all.
This you must watch these streams or these websites must stop.
They have an official forum and they should use it.
Same goes for any news or announcements, post it here first or not at all lol.
I don’t think anything that could be paid with “time” should make it’s way into the shop.
What they should have done like you’re mentioning, was actually inform the playerbase that there was a Twitch drop properly, via the respective launchers and the forums. And before baking the damn thing ensure the stats were properly aligned with it’s value rather than making it such a stupidly OP weapon.
But also, make Twitch drops repeat like the Watcher set.
The unwillingness to fix the weapon boggles the hell out of me. Sort of like how it took near to a year to fix the data table so that the Black Corsair faction could be KO’d on Siptah. Or how certain buttons in the UI still don’t work. It’s pretty much SOP.
There are certain items that need correction by simply Modificating values in their Datables (Itemstatmod for some armors) its crazy how a 10 min work can take them months
These items shouldn’t have real stats anyways and should be something people obtain for transmogrification purposes with other weapons.
I can’t really think of a game company other than maybe gacha types that would even consider allowing actual gear to be obtainable outside of their games because of what it could do to game balance.
As mentioned, it’s an easy enough fix though.
Just adjust the stats and be done with it.
My question to the devs is why won’t they?
