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8/17/2022 7:36:48 PM
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Warlocks got shafted again in Arc 3.0

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/51678 TL;DR Hunters got 7 paragraphs of info, a new super, and 3 new abilities Titans got 8 paragraphs of new info, no new super, and 7 new or reworked abilities Warlocks got 5 paragraphs (the least), 2 new abilities (the least), no new super (tied for the least), and their ionic traces is has now been ripped out and given to everyone. Honestly, I'm getting kinda tired of being shafted every time a new thing is announced. Chaos Reach still sucks. Stormcaller was combined and it sounds "better" on paper, but ask yourself, where was stormcaller ever useful to begin with? It's been a dead super for years, useful only in queenswalk when you're playing with LFG groups who can't kill enemies. Oh, but ionic blink and landfall together makes it better, you might say. Lol, there's nowhere to use it. Nobody needs add clear in lesser activities. Wading into a cloud of enemies in Master/GM level activities is still gonna get you killed, and it doesn't do any appreciable damage to bosses. It'll still be super easy to counter in PvP (and gambit if you try to use it as an invader) because its damage resistance is among the worst (I believe golden gun is the worst, but golden gun has range and OHK capabilities and stormcaller does not). Stormcaller is a tool without a job. No one needs it for anything. Chaos Reach was mentioned literally one time as an acknowledgement of its existence, so I'm not very confident that it'll get the buff it needs to be competitive. Imagine spending 7-9 seconds in a super and doing less damage than a 1-2 second thundercrash or a 3-4 second orpheus rig tether. Thanks for nothing. Goemags are already dead, so that's a super without a good exotic. Hunters get a cool new super to play with and Titan mains prove that death threats actually work with their new intrinsic "basically Twilight Garrison with some modifications" ability called Thruster. Titans and Hunters have a lot of new and reworked stuff to look forward to. What to Warlocks get? *checks notes*, an arc soul that'll shoot 1% faster, a slide melee that will 100% get you murdered in a GM, and Electrostatic Mind, an ability that will only be useful for dropping ionic traces for the more powerful hunters and titans in the party. Honestly, this sucks. Another 3.0 refresh, another giant dose of lame crap. It's dawnblade 3.0 all over again. I don't know why Bungo thinks that warlocks are happy with nova bombs and throwing grenades inside of a well when everyone is clearly asking for the same treatment hunters/titans got (new supers, reworks to how subclasses work). If you're a warlock main, you might as well change now. When the next subclass comes out, we're going to get shafted there too. Four FULL subclass reworks in 18 months, and warlocks STILL don't have a SINGLE DPS super that competes with orpheus rig tether, thundercrash with chest piece, blade barrage (with star eaters), and golden gun (celestial nighthawk or stareater scales). What did we get? More add clear, in a game where add clear is dummy easy. GG Bungo, thanks for nothing. I can't wait for your metrics people to be like "why isn't anyone playing warlock anymore". This is why. Arc 3.0 isn't a "rework", it's a mass nerf so your 50% hunter player base can feel even more powerful than they already are (and they'll comment and say some fake -blam!- BS like "we get shafted" when they literally don't).

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  • Hunters got blink and a super cuz all 3 arc supers were the same that all they got every other thing that hunter got for arc is applicable to all three classes its not crazy or op it's the same hunter arc class with shared fragments across classes we had blink first so yeah we are getting it BACK not getting something new no new melee or ability one aspect is new but that's it titans got the good an arc warlocks are looking just fine too but no better or worse than hunter so if you are gunna complain complain about titans as the (slowest) class now has even more mobility options leaving hunters even farther behind as the slowest class in d2 every class is getting speed boosts warlock an titans are getting easy access to ion trace and all classes are getting acces to jolted this was a chance to make hunters the end all be all of mobility but the are middle of the pack at best now brought up only by blink otherwise they would be right back down at the bottom with the rest of hunter classes

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