After playing a bunch of games and tinkering with left & center keystones, I have to say vet is still okayish on power level. Even despite several nerfs (some of which were entirely justified) and even with all the bloat in the tree it’s still okay. But the quantity of viable good builds (and especially good builds with a specific gun) went down for sure.
The auras choice is still terrible, with one pick providing unique value for yourself & team (although I admit the ammo situation became a little easier with P15 pickups distribution), and two others being minor bonuses that won’t be necessarily even helpful (unlike psyker crits aura, for example).
The ability choice became utterly terrible in P15. Volley Fire is now practically a non-choice given how much points you need for the “straight left” build and how little survivability you’ll have if you go with volley fire. Stealth is harder to pick for any non-“straight right” builds due to tree bloat and not having any points for any kind of side branching.
Not just viable builds but enjoyable builds too. I tend to use hybrid builds that try to be good at 2-3 things instead of amazing at just the one thing. I found this more interesting than singular focus playstiles, but the rework put a hard stop to that because it shifted a bunch of the talent nodes around. Most of them are now locked away at the very bottom of the tree and there’s no way I can afford them because it would be one step short of trying to buy the keystone.
Just a mock up of what I meant when I said I wanted more cross-tree junctions like the one before grenades, to make moving across the tree feel less taxing and more fluid. I cba to write up a full proposal post for it rn.
