Behemoth's quote: [quote]We agree with the general community feedback that the Behemoth could use some love in PvE. We're hoping these changes to Diamond Lance make this Aspect a top-tier PvE pick. Shiver Strike is getting a big damage buff during the Glacial Quake Super. The Whisper of Chains fragment buff here is also very spicy and should help the Behemoth’s survivability in pinnacle PvE activities. [b][u]Whisper of Chains can be used by all Stasis subclasses, but making crystals is kind of the Behemoth’s thing so we’re listing it here.[/b][/u][/quote] Stasis crystals quote: [quote]As far as PvE is concerned, Stasis crystals will still freeze combatants, and we’ve increased Stasis crystal detonation damage vs PvE combatants. [b][u]Looking at the numbers, it was almost always better to shoot directly at a combatant instead of at a crystal near a combatant. This change should help crystals better live out their explosive-barrel dreams.[/b][/u][/quote] Basically, bungie buffed diamond lance with the intent to give titans better stasis coverage in pve, but didnt address how awful the melee is at actually procing it due to its mediocre damage and slow not being capable of generating a diamond lance. Since stasis grenades now have a longer cooldown, getting diamond lance to proc at all (since the melee blows) is less reliable unless you build entirely into it. But if you build entirely into diamond lance, then you are going to be running howl of the storm with it, which gives cryoclasm and the buff to shatter damage no real place in the sandbox for endgame behemoth. And since shatter now also sucks in pvp due to the cooldown on glacier grenade, the only purpose to it is as a movement tool. So where in any part of their changes did they do anything that actually helped behemoth out? Because it's now worse at creating Crystal's, it's best build doesnt even let you shatter them, and in pvp its overall utility besides movement was crippled beyond belief (for good reason because the whisper of chains spam was so annoying). If they made cryoclasm a default effect of behemoth instead of an aspect and buffed up the melee in pve, it might actually be quite Formidable. Probably broken even, but that beats literal garbage that requires a full build to do what warlocks do with 1 aspect.