Spectral blades right now is a bit too strong. The nerfs to it's regen with gwisin vest was good, but it's still too effective and hard to deal with in my and many other's opinion.
First off, a damage reduction to other supers is badly needed. A left click-right click combo instantly kills someone in their super, roaming or even in something like thundercrash for example. That pretty much makes considering using most other roaming supers like Fists or Arc staff a bit pointless, since they don't kill nearly as fast. I think Sentinel shield takes like 3 bashes to kill another super, and spectral is pretty much instant. Perhaps make it so two right-click heavy attacks would just be enough to kill instead, which would make sense for the heavy attack super cost.
Many folks have said that the super needs a duration reduction nerf, I disagree. I think the super needs a speed nerf. The distance at which you travel with spectral blade's left click after shot hopping is too far. There should either be a re-nerf of it's super energy used when left clicking, or reduce the distance traveled from it. Maybe even both depending on how you look at it, but in it's current state, it's very difficult to both run away from the super, or track it with how quickly the sprite dashes across the screen. Other than that, maybe a fix for the hitbox or AOE on attack being too big would be nice, but Perhaps that's why hit registration was so bad with it at forsaken launch.
Either way, I think the recent proposed changes would make it less frustrating to deal with and require a bit more thinking to use. For example with a duration or speed reduction, instead of chasing one target across the map, an intelligent player would have to think of where they're going and go another route to cut them off instead.
Thoughts?
EDIT: I forgot to mention it's damage against one-and-done supers as well. Why am I dying to a roaming super in my thundercrash? That's like, the opposite of what should happen, in my opinion.
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32 RepliesFun fact...all tian /warlock ranged supers can 1 shot spectral. And sentinel /FoH only needs 2 hits as well. So they are balanced. FoH can also SC -slam to 2 hit kill. Sentinel can throw-smack.