Hardened Platinum Vest could definitely use balancing. Specifically, a buff. It was released months ago (2 years past being remotely useful in PvP) and no one uses it in ladder. It’s resistance is useful for Raid days but otherwise it’s underutilized due to bad stats.
Thank you for the first of many needed balancing updates @Alexander. Special thanks to all of the players who contributed much needed in-depth discussion about individual items.
Even with the buff Hysteria has a few advantages over Malice Beam - it's still the stronger weapon of the two, arguably. If it turns out hysteria needs a buff, it'll get one, eventually.
Also, general statement,
Please guys, stop going "why x not y" between weapons that aren't top of their class to begin with. The aim isn't to balance B-tier weapons with each other, we don't want the myth food you have to be balanced with each other.
Simply put, currently, phys is meta and every type has a few weapons that are very good and a majority that are useless. Goal is to bring that useless majority up to par bit by bit while creating a meta where all types of builds are perfectly viable for #1. if you're going to compare items of that majority, we'll never get anywhere 😛
fig reacted to Mechzilla in Balance Update 03-01-2020