After my 2nd slog through the ol Iron Banderino finishing the 2nd reset, I decided to do the 12 matches and then some on Stasis as opposed to Arc and boy howdy, I noticed a handful of things. TL:DR [spoiler]- Playing matches with crappy connections makes your freezes and tracking abilities very inconsistent and that kills the subclass, especially when it's happening a lot. Not being able to or consistently freeze people when the subclasses entire gimmick is to freeze kind of makes it an uphill battle while wearing roller skates. In other news, Iron Banner being Iron Banner. Shadebinder is good, but not when the connection are cheeks. I blame Crossplay- [/spoiler] 1. Cold snaps still suck balls even with the exotic gloves that "improve" them. So many times I toss one of these bad boys at someone it will literally zip away from them, zip back towards me or get confused and not even spawn a tracker at all. These are good for spamming turrets and that's literally it. Duskfields feel absolutely useless and Glacier grenades were fine, but usually didn't do much for me except slow my death from all the Golden guns running around. 2. Freezing in general seems to only work half the time. I've had countless instances where I'd hit an enemy with something that should freeze them whether it be from the grenade, the melee or even the Cyrothesis alt fire and they just straight up will not freeze whatsoever. They'd have the icy coating over their body meaning they got hit by the freeze but they'd just keep running around like nothing happened. I've even popped the freeze rift on someone, their body turns blue, I hear the "you freezes someone" sound, but then they kill me, they run away and then they freeze a full 4-5 seconds AFTER they got hit by the freeze AoE... 🤷 Or my favorite is when you shoot your freeze punch at someone trying to rush you and you watch your freeze ball zip and hit them, they turn blue yet they don't freeze and shotgun you only to fully freeze after you died. 3. The Super feels inconsistent at best and straight doodoo at worst. My issues seem to be the same as with freezing in general. Now for those who don't know, you NEED to freeze someone before you can kill them and there in lies the problem. The seeking snowballs you shoot just seem to have a mind of their own. Sometimes you'll shoot them towards people and they will do as the coldsnaps do and either zip right passed them or bugger off into the wall or the floor. Other times they will hit people.but they won't freeze until some time later. The tracking seems to have a very specific sweet spot before they actually track but the issue is your frost pulse that shatters has had it's range reduced a lot since release and it doesn't go as far as you think it does, meaning if you freeze people you're going to have to get closer than you should in order to pop them. Shadbinder is slow as hell and has no counterplay to fighting other supers other than "please god freeze them" and even so, when you duel another super, you need to freeze them twice and pop them twice. Sounds simple right? Should be, not it's irrelevant when your freeze balls choose not to freeze or not to track. Might as well but the controller down and die at that point. Now I know a bunch of people will swear by Shadbinder saying like "oh I main this and have a 4.0 KD and win everything ever" and right on, I'm happy for you. Care to tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've heard Shadbinder feels better and is way more consistent in 3v3 which would make sense. Maybe the super tracking is trying to account for a bunch of targets at once and they sh*t the bed or something? I dunno. 99% of these issues seem to be affected by how laggy a mach is (except coldsnaps, they suck even in PvE too), which is very often. Now when the stars align and the overall match connection isn't a dying hamster on a wonky wheel, Shadbinder feels great. Nothing is better than chainging freezes with Crypthesis and iceflare bolts or shutting down Arcstriders or Thunder crash mid air with the melee or cold snaps. Come to think of it, I didn't see much Warlocks in iron banner overall and if I did they were Well or Stormcaller. I saw a decent Nova Warp at one point. Tons of strikers, Arcstriders, Goldie's and tethers tho. Whatcha gonna do 🤷