why do people call any rebalance a nerf? this is ridiculousness

dylanjaygrobbelaarb16_ESO · May 2014

somehow any change at all is being hailed as a nerf these days. so far i havent seen anything changed that wasnt a bug or oversight except maybe vampires ability reduction, and seeing that vamps are still very powerful and worthwhile... I started a vamp after the "nerf" its very powerful still.

Maverick827 · May 2014

Nerf : Rebalance :: Janitor : Custodial Engineer

ZiRM · May 2014

Garbage Man : Waste Removal Specialist :: Fry Cook : Master Chef

kewl · May 2014

In general, people don't like change.

Soliss · May 2014

How is rebalance a word? So it's been "balanced" then re-balanced? Sounds like it wasn't fixed the first time.

A nerf is a change that reduces the effectiveness of something. So yeah, nerfs.

dylanjaygrobbelaarb16_ESO · May 2014

Soliss wrote: »

How is rebalance a word? So it's been "balanced" then re-balanced? Sounds like it wasn't fixed the first time.

A nerf is a change that reduces the effectiveness of something. So yeah, nerfs.

but if its a bug making it effective, then fixing the bug... they say that shild bash wasnt working as intended and changed it. thats not a nerf thats fixing it.

dylanjaygrobbelaarb16_ESO · May 2014

rebalance is a word because they didnt intend for things to be unbalanced when they balanced it in the first place. because of this they have to continually rebalance. which people generally call balancing

vicNBitis · May 2014

Luckily both 'nerf' and 'buff' end in an 'f'. I've been trying to get "buffixed" into the lexicon but 'nerfixed' should work as well. They're a portmanteau so very intuitive and easy to understand. Pass it around. No attribution necessary.