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Honestly, shatter seems close to right for 1v1 (though I'm saying this without too much experience yet, only a little) so I'd hate to nerf it in any substantial way that impacts 1v1, especially without seeing it more in practice. It'd probably just make the most sense to make the 30 second roomdrain CD apply to the whole room. "This room has already been frozen too recently" kind of thing for the whole 30 seconds.

I was really sad about the analyze change. I'd be less sad if it lost its CD like some of the other classes' checks. It just seemed like a needless nerf of something cool about nanoseer, though. Maybe we could at least get the old analyze effect if they're enveloped?

Arista said:

I was really sad about the analyze change. I'd be less sad if it lost its CD like some of the other classes' checks. It just seemed like a needless nerf of something cool about nanoseer, though. Maybe we could at least get the old analyze effect if they're enveloped?

Ouch 10% more of our nanites tied up, just to achieve what we once had and im already having problems generating nanites now. Im pretty sure there was a nanite generation nerf somewhere hidden.
The only way ive found to keep up with nanite generation and have it feel like it used to, is to slowdown the room so my attacks go off slower and I have more time to build up nanites.

To be honest I half-expect our old Analyze to be an artifact or very-exclusive auction piece in the future. Could make a killing as cashout, among some circles. Regardless, I think it was the greatest loss in this patch. Even for PvE I liked checking health, subsystems of mobs etc if not for PvP. 

On PvE department I was too accustomed to hunt with Traveller, now it does not give any advantage but works as a lethal fast-forward button. 

Overally I did not feel too much increase or reduction in PvE performance, except Roomdrain is quite useful if there is only one mob in the room and we can upkeep Affinity easier now. 

Let's talk about bashing!

Following the changes (particularly to speedup affecting mobs), I tweaked my bashing a bit to this:

- swap or channel traveller
- speedup
- swap or channel progenitor
- multistrike
- freeze
- swarm 

--- reapply freeze if it fades
--- repair when health is below 75%ish
--- use negation to interrupt attacks

My time to kill is around 34-37s, after all that fiddliness. Meanwhile, in Engineer, all I need is around 350 lessons for bot claw, bot swing, stimjector, and qpc turret for a TTK of 18-21s.

A 13-second difference (minimum) is a lot. I get the allure of the challenge, but I sort of wish that after all of the necessary abilities needed for nanoseer bashing that it'd at least match up to other classes.

edit: my gear