Currently right now I feel like there is really no point in wearing this helmet anymore in crucible. Before the golden gun damage buff, this helmet was quite good. I loved being able to go into a mayhem game mode (which everyone and their mother seems to be using gunslinger in that game mode) and act as sort of a police force with my nova bomb. I would use high armour with lance nova bomb + skull of dire ahamkara to ensure i can tank through and shut down any super quickly. in the past i could tank through a golden gun shot and still be able to survive. Now as i play mayhem I've noticed I can no longer tank through a golden gun shot with skull of dire ahamkara, even if the gunslinger does not have deadeye on they can still kill me in one shot.
As it stands i dont see really any point in wearing the skull over the ram, or even obsidian mind for voidwalkers. here are some possible solutions, i like the first one better because I feel that a buff, not a nerf, is better here:
1. Buff the skull of dire ahamkara so we can tank through more damage during a nova bomb animation (also so it will hopefully see more use).. Definitely make sure we can tank through a golden gun shot. now if the hunter has deadeye on maybe then it should be able to one shot even with the skull on? up for you to decide.
2. Nerf golden gun damage in pvp slightly so we can tank through it with the skull on during a nova bomb animation, but not too much to ensure it can still reliably one shot targets you deem fit to be one shot. again if the hunter has deadeye on then maybe they should be able to one shot regardless if the opponent has the skull on.
heres a few things i remember in the past i could tank through that i found to be the most important, keep in mind this is with high armour AND full health:
[spoiler]golden gun shot (before the damage buff)[/spoiler]
[spoiler]ability to survive 1 bladedancer hit + the blast radius of your own point blank nova bomb ( basically u get hit once by a bladedancer while casting your nova bomb at the ground in order to shut down the super, this one would leave me with a VERY small sliver of health left)[/spoiler]
[spoiler]a hammer to the face during nova bomb animation[/spoiler]
[spoiler]takes even longer for a stormcaller to kill u[/spoiler]
[spoiler]can survive the outer edges of a fist of panic or nova bomb better, but of course a spot on hit will kill u regardless[/spoiler]
[spoiler]have a better chance at getting your nova bomb off when getting shot by multiple people[/spoiler]
A buff to this helmet would really be great!
***Edit- good to see lots of positive feedback about this, I've seen some excellent ideas in the comments and most people seem to agree this helmet needs to be given a buff. For those of u who would like to see the helmet I currently have it equiped. It should be on for a good while so plenty of time to see it
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4 RespuestasI dont think it should be buffed as if you are killed mid super animation you don't lose your super so the only negative to that is that you die. If the novabomb warlock could tank a golden gun its use would sky rocket as this problem plagues most supers including FoH. If you asked me FoH should be able to tank as it requires someone to run right next to a golden gun to slam. A novabomb can be thrown from FAR away and still grant a kill.
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4 RespuestasThe company doesn't separate PvP and PvE skill and damage. You cannot buff or nerf something in PvP without it happening in PvE as well. Something allot of people need to understand. Golden gun was buffed for PvE because it was almost useless. Because of the PvE buff PvP seen a buff too which was very needed. Honestly warlocks are just paper thin right now. Reason I say that is because my Golden gun can one shot during super any lock. But I cannot always one shot stop Titan smash or quiver. I think locks just need a complete survivability rework
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1 RespuestaI'd be okay with a buff to the Skull
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6 RespuestasWas with you until the "nerf golden gun" part
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1 RespuestaA buff would be good but I feel that it needs to do something more than what it does now. Mabey recharge your grenade and melee after nova bomb. It's one of my favorite looking helmets but in my opinion it could use something extra.
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Yeah I'm not sure if I have ever used skull of dire ahamkara and a buff to it would be well deserved
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2 RespuestasYo listen. The golden gun is the real police force that shuts down supers, so don't complain that u can't. The purpose of nova bomb is to deal tons of area damage
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It's honestly just punishment for using your Super on 1 person. Congratulations.
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42 RespuestasNo thanks
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2 RespuestasThe problem here is that you are playing mayhem. why don't you play 3v3s instead
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Golden gun was buffed because it couldn't kill most of the time, they stopped sunbreakers because we could get kills 99.99% of the time.
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Bump. Skull was my first exotic and I loved rankin everything with it.
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2 RespuestasYeah it's ridiculous now, They need to make one shot supers hella strong. It's stupid a hunter with a roaming super can one shot you. Bungie catering to the -blam!-ing noobs in order for them to get easy kills in Mayhem I suppose.
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1 RespuestaAllow the helmet to have ashes to asset for pvp, and inverse shadow for pve. Those perks are the only good helmet perks. SoDA cant roll those. So it loses out to other helmets. And on the same note, why can the ram not perk ashes to asset?
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Unstoppable/Eternal Warrior suffer the same problem, and Eternal Warrior doesn't even do anything similar to the Skull's energy drain buff!
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The exotic perk for SodA is "Delusions of Grandeur", so I think the effect should change from giving you added armor to factoring in damage after releasing Nova Bomb. I feel that's more in keeping with the kind of deal an Ahamkara would strike. I think the improved Energy Drain effect should remain the same
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4 RespuestasWhat exactly does it do with the improved energy drain?
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7 RespuestasMega -blam!-ing BUMP!! Ram is better, & it shouldn't be. I was having this convo last night actually. Skull needs to be able to eat a g.g. , & much more while casting n.b.
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3 Respuestasi had one in year 1 but it never carried over to year 2 and hasn't dropped yet
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6 RespuestasEditado por Erijian: 8/5/2016 9:42:10 PMSkull would need 70% damage reduction to live a shot from Golden Gun w/o Deadeye; I doubt Bungie would ever consider giving anything that much DR in the game.
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6 Respuestasyou still get improved ability cool down and just for one playlist i dont think they will make changes.... remember normally your tanking weapon or melee damage, if they buff it that much it would be impossible to kill you in your super therefore eliminating any kind of counter to your nova.
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3 RespuestasI feel your pain. Heart of the Praxic Fire has been rendered useless as well. I think it would make sense for you to withstand a golden gun shot if you had that helmet on. Its so situational that i don't think it would do any harm.
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1 RespuestaEditado por Dialog: 8/5/2016 10:01:19 PMAs a main gunslinger I am ok with SoDA allowing voidwalker to tank one GG shot. It's not even a win situation for voidwalker. I have enough time to shoot twice before nova kills me. They definitely need to revert all changes made to gunslinger in the last patch except for life quality ones like scavenger and circle of life.
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Other than looking cool, yeah, this exotic has no real purpose. They should not only give it a buff to tank through more damage but this extra armor should last afterwards. Maybe 5 seconds or so.
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1 RespuestaI feel it's rendered useless by other voidwalker exotics