So I am seeing a lot of discussion how stasis sucks, or that a couple of classes are booty checks and are worthless. Stasis is definitely not what I thought it was going to be, but I got to say I think people are not giving it a fair shake. This is not telling you are wrong in your opinion, but I think stasis needs a defense.
First things first I think stasis is great DEFENSE subclass. A lot of the ability is to freeze or to slow down the enemy (No duh), but I think we thought we could damage the enemy more. I think most people are surprise how passive it feel or that it’s not the destruction that expect. Here is the thing though I think we have played with the light so much (Arc, solar, void) that’s expect this AGGRESSIVE play style.
I mean think about all the light subclass have all theses ways to Damage, even the support class of Well of radiance, is damage based. I know this may sound dumb, of course they do damage, if they don’t then all of my ability are duds. The thing is I think we compare this to stasis, when stasis isn’t to damage things, but to CONTROL the battlefield.
I mean the icewall grenade, is practically like a titan barricade, if you look at it that way and has a lot versatility. The other two is to slow opponents down, with dusk field and the scatter grenade. And all the melee ability freeze enemies in place, allowing you to do a quick combo or seek shelter to heal. Even the super is all about slowing or freezing others (and do big damage, but not as much as others)
This may I sound like no surprise, but I keep on using stasis as this OFFENSE subclass when it is more DEFENSIVE in nature. Once. I realize that I had a better time with, and felt not as puzzle or upset with it. Now there is some fundamental problems such as...
All the stasis mission support this AGGRESSIVE playstyle which makes sense it would be really hard to do it the other way, but it does get people into using it AGGRESSIVELY.
I’ve said this before, but it’s the comparison to light subclass. All of the light subclass have this OFFENSIVE playstyle and even me who have been playing for 3 months (i think?) have trouble with using this new playstyle cause it is vastly different from those subclasses.
Lastly it just doesn’t have much support. It has great potential, but as far as I can see nothing supports it a whole lot. While all of the other subclass has exotic armor and weapons that support it. I think over that next couple of season they are going to be more support for it as we explore the darkness.
Although I might be wrong, I would love to hear opinion and discussion cause it’s interesting to hear.
TL;DR
I think that people are using stasis subclass as OFFENSIVE subclass rather then a DEFENSIVE one, also the game is not supporting stasis in the way that it is played and the not a lot of exotics that support it.
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The shatter damage is pretty big imo as an additional damage source that was not around previously. I'm still underleveled for the content I've played though so I won't be able to confirm its effectiveness in PVE for a little while anyway.