It is just the perks man. And the fact that there was a huge explosion in the market with bis items for way cheaper. Attunement perks, thwarting strikes, keenly jagged, chain perks, most 50 attribute bonuses + more got buffed which results in more damage being pumped out
But my damage increased, in general and I didn’t change my weapon kkkk.
Of course, “personal insight” has little scientific value. But we are seeing more players with the same “feel”. Maybe there was some change that was not exposed by the devs.
They buff the intel and dex crit damage/crit chance multiplier, and a lot of weapon perks were buffed. For example, Empowering shooter stances went from a 23% damage buff on armor up to 40% damage buff on a weapon.
I think they partially increased everyone’s damage, so they didn’t have to directly nerf healing again.
Nearly every perk in the game had it’s damage increased. Do you run any of these buffed perks? Go through the patch notes and read up on anything you used because a lot has changed.
I don’t feel like anything changed that I didn’t expect to change from reading the notes. I haven’t mathed anything out but I’m hitting a decent bit harder and getting hit harder seems logical.