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I'm hoping changing the stats from anomaly power, cooldown reduction, skill life leech to firepower, close range damage, status power was a mistake and these changes were meant for another legendary set that is actually firepower focused.

While the set bonus didn't directly benefit from the stats on the armor because it's not considered a melee skill, the playstyle the set bonus wanted you to do most certainly did. That play style being; stack armor, take damage, punch some dude.

Stack armor- While there are armor mods such as damage absorber and rolling guard that are easy armor increases, devastator's most important armor stacking mods are for his skills Bolder Dash and Earthquake. Primal Armor just straight up doubles your armor value while Armor Boost steals a great deal from enemies. You want these skills to be up as often as possible so you can keep your armor high and since you're constantly using them against enemies...

•anomaly power

•cool down reduction

Taking damage- Do I really need to explain why this one made sense?

•skill life leech

Punching some dude- Like I already said, the set bonus doesn't benefit from anomaly power but the way you activate the set bonus does. You activate the set bonus by using your melee skill and with mods such as Martial Artist and Chip off the Old Block it's obviously a melee set. The only thing that melee scales off of is, drum roll please...

•anomaly power.

To be honest, I'm not angry I'm just bewildered and confused because of this change. When you added status power to technomancers ordinance sets I had many issues with it but it made sense. Depleted core needed status power to get its bonus and those two legendary sets didn't have access to that. I would have preferred if PCF went about it differently but the change made sense. Here, it just doesn't. They changed the stats on a set that wants you to be in the thick of it spamming your abilities and constantly taking damage to stats that seem to think your guns should be your primary damage source. It's like they tried to turn it into an extremely bad version of death proof.

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I've commented on this matter in this duplicate thread.