Talk:Mesa (Warframe)/@comment-222.165.65.6-20151003073721/@comment-17703786-20151005064434

It's really a thing in Warframe where people see a change to a once overpowered ability and just proclaimed that it's been "nerfed to the ground" or "it's useless now", despite not really thinking through the actual effects of said changes.

The only thing that's changed about Mesa now is that players have to aim Peacemaker in the general direction of the enemies they want to shoot. Peacemaker still deals awesome damage against enemies, and it still kills them up to 50 meters away. The important thing though is that Peacemaker is no longer an ability where you can activate it, scotch-tape your LMB down, and then cook dinner and clean the house while she kills everything in sight; now there's actual player involvement required to use her.

My old Peacemaker build for defense was only really useable in a team defense setting since it foregoes the protection of Shatter Shield for power efficiency. For normal missions, my Mesa is specced for Shatter Shield and Shooting Gallery duration, since Peacemaker isn't the best ability to use for when you need to get from A to B.