Talk:Boltor Prime/@comment-67.188.246.24-20140604135011/@comment-17703786-20140609073728

As a solo player, I don't have to complain about kill steals since there's no one who can do that... and I still think the Boltor Prime is a tad bit too powerful. It's pretty much a straight upgrade of the Boltor with all of the strengths enhanced and none of the weaknesses. Difficulty in acquisition isn't an excuse either, since other Primes like the Braton are also similarly difficult to get, yet aren't nearly as powerful. The Boltor Prime has higher damage per shot, higher RoF, better accuracy, and a larger magazine than the Braton Prime, and in fact other primary weapons in general. Other weapons may have one or two characteristics better than the Boltor Prime, but the Boltor Prime pretty much has impressive stats all throughout. It's only supposed weakness is that it isn't hitscan, yet considering its power and full auto trigger that's not as much of a problem as it is on slower firing weapons like the Lanka.

Also, comparing the Ogris and the Boltor Prime isn't really fair since the Ogris does have massive disadvantages to compensate for its power, like its charge trigger and the fact that you can kill yourself with it if you're careless. The Boltor Prime doesn't even have those disadvantages.

Nerfing is part of the balancing process, of ensuring that every option is fair and viable against each other, where you don't feel you're gimping yourself because you're not using the most OP weapon available. It's not like we haven't gotten buffs in other areas to compensate, for example melee weapons getting buffed all throughout. And the fact is it's easier to nerf than to buff: buffing everything to be on the level of the Boltor Prime is just going to turn everything into power creep, and make an already (relatively) easy game even easier.