Good stream. My highlights:
That's why I usually just farm for good/god rolls and exotics in general. There will always be 1-2 best builds for PVE content on Heroic/Legendary, those will shift over time, but honestly, they don't take all that long to put together and cornerstone pieces are almost always good.
- First off, props to Massive - they are working from home, have a toxic subset of the community this week and are still working on not just State of the Games, but also next week's patch and TU9 (coming end of the month!). Really think people forget this. Sure they get frustrated with bugs, but this is a dev team working during a pandemic with daily and weekly updates to the community and the game.
- It's possible they suspended an account that shouldn't have been, but to date, they haven't found a single case of a user being suspended wrongly yet (this is hilarious shade, I love it!).
- Focus won't work with shield down the line (I'm okay with this, I think it would be fine to switch to Glass Cannon, Obliterate, Vanguard, etc., or honestly, to just keep it - I still use the scope a lot when not shielded up). I do really like the feel of this combo though, the shield/rifle, and find that even before I'm getting the Focus buff, it feels good - so I hope the nerfs keep it somewhat viable. That said, so many of the pieces from the build are applicable to other DPS builds.
- Named item buffs/nerfs, this all sounds good to me. Sounds like some of the weaker named items are getting their bonuses doubled.
- Exotics are being looked at, those that aren't up to snuff will be re-tooled to be more powerful. I hope it makes them more fun too.
- Like that they said the ARs damage to health will get a buff. I can see them becoming a solid secondary weapon, because damage to health affects robots and heavies with armor that can be knocked off. I'm happy to see this, as ARs are always fun to use (previously a good combination of stability, damage and range).
- Any element where you're at full armor and get one-shot is not what they want. So fire/gas/poison and such will be nerfed at least a little bit.
That's why I usually just farm for good/god rolls and exotics in general. There will always be 1-2 best builds for PVE content on Heroic/Legendary, those will shift over time, but honestly, they don't take all that long to put together and cornerstone pieces are almost always good.