I was just watching a Houndish video and saw that dmg said something indicating potential stronghold changes coming and I just wanted to say that if blocking forever and reflecting damage with praxic blade is a problem then fine, do something about that, but please do not destroy this exotic or the aggressive playstyle capable with this exotic over this issue. The aggressive/risky/tanky playstyle this exotic is capable of is by far the most enjoyable playstyle this game has to offer in my opinion and will be another nail in the coffin for me if you destroy this playstyle over this issue. I have zero faith in y’all at this point to not mess this up but this playstyle is worth wasting my time voicing my feedback over.
Edited to add: I don’t even think the blocking forever is “broken” or needs nerfed. Is it safe? Sure, if you position yourself correctly. It’s also so much slower, it doesn’t clear rooms quick just holding block so there’s already a balance to it. What about other builds? You could just run around bonking everything with solar Titan. You could run around poking everything with Vexcalibur and wormgods. What about getaway artist? Pop a nade and run around deleting everything, you don’t even need to shoot anything or even pay attention to what’s going on… the build plays for you. What about dodge melee hunters? You can clear rooms so much faster with so many other builds and be just as safe in my opinion. So why are we looking at the build that allows you to infinitely block damage if you wanted to but means whatever it is your doing is going to take longer to do?
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8 RepliesEdited by Griever: 4/6/2026 10:51:16 PMI honestly can't wait for it to get nerfed. It may come in clutch with what's basically infinite God mode in PvE (and if you get ammo for Praxic, pvp as well), but all it does otherwise is hold everyone back because either their damage is scaling off of all the ads shooting them with Praxic Blade, requiring people NOT kill ads like they're supposed to when not doing mechanics/ boss damage, or the boss is always slamming and turning so much they can't do full damage due to all the crits they keep missing. So I personally just swapped over to a weapon like Barrow Dyad because I kept missing crits thanks to people like that. It honestly got to the point that the second I saw a titan with strongholds back when it first became meta in Heresy that I just booted anyone using it. They contributed basically no damage in a timed activity, that block is huge so they were getting hit instead of the boss at times, and again the constant slamming. If an exotic on 1 guy practically forces everyone else to play around them, it needs a rework. Yes, it needs something done to it because I shouldn't have to change my entire play style/ loadout just to do more than ad clear.