You guys complaining about damage havent thought big picture here yet then clearly. Youre comparing damage done now vs armour values now and saying its too high. Too high for what? Too high to pvp because the guy is gonna get ganked before he gets his gun out?
this might well be the case but just zoom out here for a second and think of things from the bigger picture. That value is with current armour values and current implants. I think that at this stage all they really want is to see the ratios and values per TL working correctly.
At the end of the day who is to say that they dont bring out a load of chips which nerf the shit out of one main stat but boost the hell out of the other. Say -5 dex and +5 strength for example and then they bring out armour and implants to boost the defence of a player using the lower tl damage guns?
What if tank armour suddenly got made to be dexterity based? If they had high damage and high constitution but were forced to wear lower level armour (which was less restrictive to their bodies if you want to stay with the lore and rp) or lighter armour which lowered their defensive bonuses from armour then you would have a class with high damage, high resist from con and low resist from armour. There would be the tanks weakness.
Likewise they could add some armour for spies that gave them really high resists if they specced the right chips for it, but these chips could lower their dex drastically so that they had to opt for a lower level weapon to do damage with.
Saying everyone will go for the highest level gun is just an nc2.2 way of thinking because youve been forced down that path by the current mechanics in play.
what if psi buffs from the pe gave you double the damage resist they do currently, so that the pe would need to choose between fighting and rebuffing himself again, like he could do in nc1?
What if buff mechanics changed so much that the buffs were 10 minutes long so that the PE could buff and fight for longer without any issues like he has now? this extension in time would be a massive boost to the PE in terms of 1v1 fighting as he could be a capable fighter - possibly even THE fighter to have for duels once again.
Just because something hasnt happened yet doesnt mean it wont.