The problem is that the movement subs/exotics allow to compensate for bad positioning without enough cost. Cryoclasm doesn't really have this issue anymore. But Icarus allowing for free getting out of "oh shit" scenarios and getting halfway across most maps for a 6 second cooldown is INSANELY powerful in PvP. So we'd either need non-movement based ability builds to be buffed out the ass, or make movement cost more.

Movement speed should be nerfed except for hunters they deserve it

Taking an exotic slot isnt enough of a "cost". You can just have the best movement in the game by deciding to equip an exotic, it needs to have an impactful downside to it. Thats just good game design. Very good movement but you trade in air accuracy for it, as an example.

Movement is king in this game. Sacrificing an ability from another exotic for the sake of massively improved movement plus 1-2 other benefits on top of that is 100% a profit. Hunters with Stompees are a plague on this game because it takes their already busted movement and amplifies everything good about it even further. Titans with Dunemarchers can 1hko 3 or more people at once. Warlocks with transversives NEVER have to reload. That's time they can instead use to reposition and know their gun will be ready to fire when they stop. The sheer utility of these exotics are WHY they have no downside. Hunters can pop in and out of engagements as easily as breathing which gives them the upper hand of controlling how, when, and where you fight them which is CRITICAL in this game. Titans being able to 1hko any group of 3 or more is insane given that's a full team wipe in trials, survival, and elimination in the right situations, and given how often people clump up in 6v6 it grants them incredibly devastating power in quickplay. Warlocks not needing to reload anything, ever, gives them an advantage in gunfights that no other class can get. Sure you can emulate it with certain weapon perks, but that's a perk slot you could have gotten something better on. If you can't see why these things need to be reeled in, you're not playing the same game as the rest of us.

Well, I would exclude Titans from that. Dunemarchers aren't silly because of their movement speed, is all I'll say.

[quote]They said, running the three exotic boots, transversive, doonies, and stomp-EE’s have no downside.[/quote] Can that not be said for basically every exotic armor piece? I dont think any of them hinder you?

Are you kidding me? I wonder what they have been smoking lately bc they've been making stupid decisions after stupid decisions. This season should be renamed "Season of Bad Decisions"

Yeah that's pretty obvious that there is in fact a tradeoff. You sacrifice other options for even greater speed/jumping.

To be fair, in pvp you likely aren't going to wear any other exotics in the first place. So yes, it does take your exotic slot, but you are using it for something valuable. It's like saying using wardcliff is a tradeoff because it takes an exotic slot when I could be using last word instead. You are purposefully using something that Grant's you something powerful...that isn't a trade off. To be clear, I'm not saying they should give exotics trade offs, but that argument you made doesn't make sense.

For clarification, did the dev actually say they were nerfing the exotic mobility boots?