The overshield on a sunsinger is still not as powerful as a sunbreakers armor during hammer of sol. A sniper will put them down team shots will put the down before they can close the gap. So yeah its actually pretty fair. Because a HoS titan just pops around a corner and chucks a hammer and is damn near gaurunteed a kill which in turn will regenerate it's health to full. Not just tack on a paper thin overshield.
The overshield is just about useless though as I said a little above here, the overshield could almost completely be removed by a Single body shot of the last word in year one. That means 2 high fire rate auto bullets to the head or 3 to the body or 1 slow fire rate to the head or 2 to the body. And some pulse rifles will shred it so hard you won't even notice that it's there only needing 1 bullet to the head to remove it. So if the first burst lands all body shots and the second burst lands 2 head shots and a miss. The third burst hits either 2 in the head for the kill or 3 to the body for they kill. Thus the TTK is the same since nowadays pulse rifles are a 3 burst deal anyhow.
Tl;Dr surviving a couple more bullets once a minute really isn't that tanky, or impossible to counter. It just gives you a light edge over your next firefight and depending on what your next firefight is, it might actually not help at all.
This is true. And I believe in alot of situations self rez is alot more valuable than radiant skin a surprise attack could be more fruitful than a direct assault since the fire bolt gernade is not what it used to be.
If I sunsing in PvP granted it's going to be a rare occasion. I'll go to B, stay there till I die. Wait until no one is looking or they are focused on my team then pop up and clean house. It's very effective if executed properly and almost always gets B for my team.
Hos is a super. Warlocks get there overshield from a melee..... see how that comparison is more than a little off? God I would hope to one shot them with a sniper after they melee.
It's not really that much of an overshield though is my point, a single last word shot to the body pre 2.0 would darn near remove the whole thing. It just looks intimidating it's really not worth 2 shits.
But that overshield wins fights 90% of the time. If you can get that off in a fair gunfight, a competitive warlock will not lose. Whether it's weak or not.
The only time the warlock would walk away 90% of the time would be if you both weakened each other and went in for the melee duel. And seeing how warlocks are supposed to have the best melee in the game, it should go down like that 90% of the time.