Bungie have openly admitted that this class is seen as the 'support' option for hunters, however this does not sit well with me.
To me, pve is the main component of this game and I find myself (especially in high level content) running a bladedancer with a full invisible spec perk tree. I regularly find myself having to go invisible and take laps around Poe arenas because my teammates have all died and I need to go clutch and stealthily revive them all. To me bladedancer is a support class plain and simple.
I know this is when people get up in arms about the amount of times they've had ToO cards ruined by aggressive bladedancers but hear me out. A sunsinger with radiance is just as deadly if they run radiant skin instead of the predictable fireborn, while I'm sure everyone has encountered those Titans who camp on B in control with ward of dawn and are effectively invincible. To think of sunsingers and defenders as purely support classes is wrong.
I think everyone deep down knows that Nightstalker is the most underwhelming class of TTK and it looks to be the only class which is weaker than the current class's on offer for hunters. I wish Bungie recognised that Bladedancer is used primarily in a supportive role nowadays and made a more offensively minded class, similar on level to both the sun breaker and stormcaller.
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Tbh i get what your saying but im still extremely stoked for nightstalker. I main a hunter and like you, use blade dancer defensively in PoE. I use gunslinger for any offensive play. But have you even seen the perk tree for the nightstalker? There actually some pretty AMAZING things, for both pve and pvp