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3/12/2021 7:13:29 AM
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Another Penumbral Blast Nerf?
[quote]Decreased Penumbral Blast damage against players from 80 to 30 damage.[/quote]
What's the point of this? It already travels slow af, and freezes for less than 2 seconds. Is anybody really dying to this with any consistency?
Titan melee: Does half damage, slows, and kills you by the architects if you're anywhere close to a wall.
Hunter melee: Does half damage, slows, chains multiple targets, and has a double charge.
There's absolutely zero reason listed in the TWAB, I'd love to see the metrics behind this. Warlocks already have the shittiest neutral game of the 3 stasis classes after the first nerf. No movement, no shatter ability, no stasis exotic. What gives?
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8 RepliesI'd assume it's to balance the power freeze still has. With the hunters damage buff revert and a nerf to the stacks of slow they can apply, the overall utility of it will have drastically decreased, making it significantly less potent (although still really really annoying to get hit by). The titans melee basically couldn't freeze so it's damage is tuned around the effects I guess? Think of the hunters smoke bomb. It doesn't hurt very much, but it can screw you over pretty hard. Probably their thinking with penumbral blast too. That's the only REAL guess I've got.
