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Edited by UmbralHunter: 6/29/2016 4:29:43 PM
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No, you don't need an evade. No, you don't need blink

Jealousy over your fellow guardians' abilities is not a good reason to strip a class of what makes them unique. Look at each class, you'll notice they all have a unique ability and an ability they share with only one class. Titans+hunters- evade Hunters+warlock- blink Warlocks+titans- overshield Titan- shoulder charge Hunter- invisibility, thrown melee Warlock- self revive, energy drain Can we try and keep that dynamic so the classes remain interesting and not 3 identical clones? edit: any abilities that are subpar should be buffed to more competitive levels. More edits: it seems this topic is finally dead, so i don't have to worry about this post getting too long. I'll just add some of my opinions on things that came up in this topic. This list is not comprehensive. It does not list every ability available to every class. Exotic armor [spoiler]some people mentioned that exotic armor shouldn't count for what a class is capable of doing. This makes sense because the abilities granted by armor, like twilight garrison, isn't an intrinsic part of the class. The class needs help from that outside source to function. However, when looking at a class, don't you take into consideration what exotics are available to them? Exotic armor is a tool available to that class and only that class. That tool impacts your decision on what class to pick and how best to play it. As an (atrocious) example: if bungie released an exotic that granted self revive instantly after every death to titans, people would be more likely to play as a titan because of that tool that is only available to them. [/spoiler] Equality of powers [spoiler]the abilities listed above are not a perfect one to one relation. Titan's overshield occurs on kill and the warlock gets theirs on hit. A titan's overshield generates orbs, regenerates, or improves weapon handling. A warlock's overshield does none of those things. The abilities also use different aspects of a given class. Self revive requires a super and shadestep/shoulder charge don't even use up a standard melee or grenade. I'll admit i honestly don't care about either of these points. An overshield is an overshield regardless of how it got there or what extra things it might be capable of. As far as i'm concerned a unique ability is worth mentioning regardless of its source. [/spoiler]

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  • Self revive is the only super you mentioned, so that's not a fair comparison. I think one subclass each should have an evade of some kind. Obviously not sunsinger, and not voidwalker since they have blink. But adding it to stormcaller would just be too much. Maybe a fourth class some other day. Titans could have it on defender. I'd be okay with that. Twilight Garrison is not a subclass evade, it is linked to the exotic armor. Evade on a Titan could be a sideways dash from boosters just like TG. Would make sense lore-wise, since they shouldn't be able to learn something like that. But they could build it easy. I think melees are pretty balanced. Shoulder charge is a tad too OP with its tracking. But hunters long melee (knife and smoke) equal flame shield and shoulder charge, in my opinion. Stormcaller melee range is way too much. As it stands, I think the classes are all pretty well balanced, with just a couple small tweaks needed.

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