Had an interesting discussion with my friend last night. And we discovered that all titans could use some improvements or changes. The titan balance right now isn't awful. It's actually rather nice. But that doesn't make it perfect. So what this thread is going to do is go over each titan and i'll briefly explain what change should be made and why. Let's jump in. Ion: The titan is fairly well balanced. And it's energy system is cool. But it's got 2 glaring issues. Energy management. and vortex shield. Currently in order to get energy back at a reasonable rate you need to use the perk that gives you energy back based on critical hits. this massively overshadows the other choice options. And then with the vortex shield. instead of it draining energy based upon how long you hold it up it drains based on what you are blocking. Which can end up leaving tone with no offense or defense if you block the wrong thing. it's got 2 specific kit abilities that need changing as well. What would we change? Ion would naturally get energy back from crits. and the perk would just allow you to get even more energy from crits. Vortex shield would be changed to draining energy based upon how long you hold it up. the perk that lets you do more damage with caught bullets would change to taking less energy when using the vortex shield. And lastly grand cannon instead of lasting longer would let you move around a little faster in your core. the core damage would be bumped up slightly since currently legion can survive a full duration of the core. Next up scorch: Honestly he'd receive the least amount of changes. I would change some of his kit specific stuff. the default one would get a better description and be changed to allow your primary fire to cover more radius. It currently just adds an extra tick of damage which isn't worth it. Then to his flame shield i'd either reduce it's damage or change it so his kit perk only increased the duration of it and not the damage. Trust me when I say it does a metric ton of damage. and it shouldn't for how easy it is to use. North star: Probably my current favorite. However she's far from in a good spot right now. Her viper thrusters don't effect the vetol ability. her trap is clunky. and her core is underwhelming. What would change? I'd make viper thrusters effect her vtol hover. and also allow the player to cancel the hover before the duration ends. But you'd still have to sit up in the air for a period of time. that way players could still punish you for a bad hover but it's still in the player hands to use tactically. With the trap i'd add an on screen notification once it tethers someone. and remove the duration on it. It should stay on the ground till the titan is destroyed that deployed it or someone triggers/destroys it. Ultimate wise i'd grant her the ability to use her boosts in the ultimate. the boosts could either be less effective or you won't get boosts back until you land. But I feel this is fine because all other titans can boost in their core. and it would help make her core less of a death trap. Ronin: his basic kit overall is in a really good spot. But i'd change a few of his kit abilities. for one i'd allow a player to execute doomed titans in his core. but you'd have to press the melee button to do so. currently when you doom a titan they get plenty of time to eject or nuke on you. this would prevent that. With his kit that decreases his cooldown on the phase shift i'd instead change it to giving him 2 of them. The cooldowns would have to be tweaked but i'd make it similar to how double melee or double nade cooldowns work in destiny. that way a player could dump both at once and be super powerful. But be stuck without a phase shift for awhile. or they could be tactical about the use and always save one for emergency situations. Ronin is all about being manuverable to do damage. this would increase his surviviability which would also increase his dps. highlander should be changed to work off of dooming titans. since as I mentioned it's near impossible to kill a titan with your sword core. Tone: his kit is fine. The fact that we can't counter his tracking is not. So i'd change it so that eletric smoke would break his tracking. i'd also remove his ability to see tracked targets through smoke as that ruins the point of smoke to begin with. Oh and i'd increase the cooldown on partical wall. 2 every 30 seconds is nonsense. especially when you run the reinforced version which is damn near impossible to pop. This would make it more of a tactical decision. Tone already has good mid range engagement and utility. this pushes tone into broken territory. Legion: Everybody's problem with him is that he puts out too much damage. To an extent I agree. However. He's also very clunky and awkward to play with as well. So what would change? To fix the DPS issue they could either lower his base magazine or reduce his damage in general. Either would work but would really need to be tested over and over so it doesn't kill his job as a titan. Next i'd change it so when you press Y when firing you'd actually stop firing to switch and then you can continue to fire. Currently you have to stop firing manually to switch. This forces legion to predict his situation which isn't possible in a fast paced ever changing combat arena. Adding this change would let people change reactively which would in tern let people use the short range mode more often rather than sit back and sit in long range. Let me know what you think of these changes. If you've got any ideas of your own i'd love to hear them. Keep in mind the changes we want are supposed to keep the utility these titans posses to stay without over complicating things.