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12/11/2020 10:27:49 PM
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Stasis could use a bit more balancing

Stasis abilities are still pretty broken even with the nerf to freeze time, it effectively gives you at least 2 instant-win options in a fight that aren't difficult to land. To keep it short(ish) and to the point: Every ability being able to freeze/kill is excessive; freezes are effectively death sentences unless you have a buddy to save you. In particular, the glacier/shatterdive or glacier/slide combo is way too powerful for the cooldown and lack of risks (want to feel like a nuclear warhead without an arc titan super?), the duration on Revenant's Squall is oppressively powerful in capture point modes (and Silence is already as lethal as any other hunter super), and warlock melee is an instant win for almost any 1v1 situation. Instead of giving everyone the power of a lich king, could some of these abilities be changed to slows rather than freezes? Slows are oppressive enough, and the area denial stasis has is powerful enough to distinguish it as a useful subclass. Slows would be slightly less frustrating than making your enemy choose between breaking their V key in a vain attempt to escape or accepting the wintery embrace and leaving to go make comfort hot chocolate. Sidenote: as a little quality-of-life change, could you take a page from Smash Bro's book and let us mash any input rather than just your class ability key to break out of stasis? Spread out that wear and tear across the hardware? I get that you don't want to make stasis underpowered Bungie, but throw us a bone here. It doesn't feel like a fair fight when you face stasis right now. I bought Forsaken and Shadowkeep, and the only reason I haven't bought Beyond Light yet is purely because it feels like giving in to a pay-to-win setup. I don't care if I never get to use stasis at its prime, I just want things to be fair and fun.

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  • You can see the huge issue Bungie faces. Nerf stasis for PVP and have it be complete crap in PVE. They don't want to balance PVP and PVE separately and I doubt there is a happy middle ground. Most abilities in PVP don't one-shot, but being frozen is pretty much an annoying death sentence. I would rather just instantly die. I kind of wish they would just block some subclasses from being allowed in PVP.

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