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How they work:
- You need to use your Class Ability NEAR Enemies to get any energy back. If you are not near an Enemy you get back nothing.
What the Mods say:
DYNAMO:
Legendary / Armor Perk
Reduces Super cooldown when using your class ability.
Requires 3 VOID energy
DISTRIBUTION:
Basic / Class Item Armor Mod
Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability.
Requires 4 of ANY energy
Nowhere in their Descriptions is it explained you need to be by an Enemy.
These Mods were nerfed to require you be near an Enemy, because in Crucible it was possible on Hunter to just Dodge repeatedly at Spawn & get a Super so efficiently it was considered broken.
Before the Nerf:
- You could cast your Class Ability anywhere to get the CD Reduction.
After the Nerf:
- You must be near an enemy when using your Class Ability or you will not get any Cooldown Reduction.
This change was made on October 30, 2018. It is now, currently, April 4th, 2020. As of this post that was 522 Days ago.
Changed the Dynamo and Distribution perks
- Players will need to activate their class ability in proximity to at least one enemy to gain the benefit.
- Increased the energy gain by 20% to compensate slightly for the new requirement
- Fixed an issue where Dynamo’s effect was not scaling based on the player’s class type; the Distribution perk had this, but it was unintentionally left out of Dynamo
Here's what is happening in-game today:
New Players will see these 2 Mods & think they can cast Rift/Barricade/Dodge safetly away from combat for a reduction. They are going to be 100% unaware of the change made 522 days ago with 0 mention in-game.
Veteran Players will 50/50 understand how the Mods work. They will either have a good enough memory to remember this nerf or they'll read the in-game Text & incorrectly assume they work anywhere.
I've been bringing this up for literally over a year. Bungie.net Support Forums get ignored. Reddit usually gets a ton of Traction,(heh) but not noticed by Bungie. I finally got some semblance of notice from Cozmo 2 months ago here.
"I spoke with the team and they are updating the description in a future update. Thanks for the post!"
That was Jan 23rd of this year. Still no update on it in-game.
It's not the problems with Trials, Bunkers, Seasonal Content, Season Track, Disabled Exotics, or whatever the hot-topic of this week to complain about is that makes me lose faith in Bungie & this game.
It's the small issues like a simple Text Change being consistently ignored that make me lose faith in this game & Bungie. This is probably the stupidest thing to be so passionate about getting changed that no one but me cares about it. The fact still stands that it has almost been 2 Years & a Text Change can't even be passed up as Feedback successfully.
TLDR,
These 2 Mod Descriptions suck. You need to be near an Enemy or they do nothing. The Descriptions say nothing about being near an Enemy. Text in Descriptions needs to be updated. It's been 522 Days since Mods were changed.
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