Hunters can jump in any direction pretty quickly, this used to allow for a hunter to jump around at close range taking on multiple opponents with a Hand Cannon paired with a shotgun. (A Titan/Warlock jump is only good in the direction they are a running towards, otherwise you make for a great clay pigeon, scene does not include air-dodge.) Stomp-EE5 boots increase the height of a jump making it harder to track where the bunny... I mean Hunter disappeared to. Dodge also works in any direction, but having a reload dodge is way better and gives an instant advantage someone else might not have, like actually reloading aside from funky perks. Hunters might identify as [i]Agility[/i] rather than Mobility. Hunters exist for close range engagements and being able to quickly hop in and out of combat.

Who knows since Hunters have the best of everything including the devs favor

Lmao I saw a Titan moving towards me slide 90 degrees to the left what the actual -blam!- hahaha

Hunters are the agile class. If you ever played Warframe, hunters are the Loki's of the Destiny universe. Agile and cunning, deceitfully skillful yet squishy to an extent. A hunters job is that similar to a burglar, get in and out as efficiently as possible

Titans were futuristic soldiers. Defenders of the city. Amazing strategists. Unrelenting forces of might against the enemies of the Last City. They used the light to empower themselves and their team. The way they used the light through striker and defender reflected that. Now, bungie hasn’t quite gone outside of this identity but they have quadrupled down on punch and it’s just unimaginative. Hunters were scouts, trailblazers that directed people to the city and discovered new worlds. They used the light to empower their weapons. Gunslinger, and Bladedancer reflected that. This has bled into Titans through Sunbreaker and Warlock through Dawnblade and Shadebinder. Now, Hunters still use their powers in their weapons as we saw with Nightstalker, Arcstrider, Revenant and Threadrunner so much hasn’t changed in their department. I think the problem lies with other classes adopting their identity. Warlocks were the wizards or priests. They studied the light unlike anyone else and used it in creative ways, like throwing a black hole or resurrecting themselves or using their body to channel lightning. There is literally a sect of warlocks that kill themselves to gain knowledge. Now, warlocks have become an amalgamation of all the classes. Voidwalker and Stormcaller line up with their original identity. Shadebinder, dawnblade and the new strand subclass all use weapons which is what the hunter identity originally was. Warlocks also stole air dodge from titans and pretty much nullified bubble with well of radiance. Don’t get too caught up in the class identities. They aren’t static and change whenever bungie wants them to.

Mobility is an armor perk Hunters are agility/nimble Spec-ing into the mobility perk enhances the above trait of a hunter. Faster dodge cool down, fast strafing, and boost to initial jump/s(Ie double jump) So if I were to describe… We ALL get the same benefit of boosting a stat. A hunters 100 with 100 resilience gets the same damage resistance… but a titan has their barrier tied to it. A titan boosting their mobility to 100 gets the same strafe speed and boost initial jump… But HOW the classes play out see benefits to their traits.

According to Warlocks, the class identity of Hunter is "Thief"

Funny how the dodge worked when they brought it in. Tried it a few times to actually dodge then quickly ditched that after dying repeatedly. Now I just run 6th coyote and use it to trigger invisibility and recharge melee.

So here's the thing about that. Overall hunters HAVE the most mobility in the game, are there classes that can get places a little faster? Yes, and there are plenty of examples of how particular warlock subclasses and titan subclasses can outpace hunters in terms of holding down the W key. But when you think about the actual amount of good omnidirectional movement the hunter has at its disposal it's just better, I rarely play my hunter but I can tell you with certainty that the gameplay feels that much more fluid to me when compared to my main character.

It really just comes down to the identity is whatever the devs want it to be when they want to make something new for a class. It's purposefully open ended so it can be flexible when the devs want to make classes have more distinct abilities. I've always seen Hunter's movement represented in the class ability/specific kind of class jump they have. But to the devs that movement could exist in other ways. Like being very stealthy with void hunter. Or constantly rolling and sliding for melee's on Arc hunter. When it comes to the titan controversy I don't think people really take issue that it's a melee super. I think the problem is really they don't see the attractiveness of being a melee focused character. As historically it's been inconsistently viable in hard content. Also doesn't help that when Titan's do find success with strong melee damage it's been nerfed. Strand titan seeks to make Melee more viable but not in the "I do more damage." Titans are going to have easier access to woven mail which gives damage reduction. They also regularly sever targets. Meaning that on top of woven mail should allow them to close in and do melee things. But they also have an easier access to suspending targets. Which in theory should be more valuable since it's an on/off thing unlike Stasis needing to build stacks to freeze. I can see where they're going with Strand titan. It really just comes down to the numbers. As all the theory crafting in the world is effectively meaningless if you cannot close the gap in master/GM or basic raids. At the same time if Sever ends up hard nuking the enemy damage output on it's own Titan's basically return to the "good" old days of being a melting point bot. But would have a worse knock on effect of making the whole team be much harder to kill.

Hunter is fast kid. They have unbelievable straf speed, high jumps, bouncy, sprint speed and dodge. They are very agile. Titans are clunky same with warlocks but warlocks are worse.

That's a whole lot of nothing you just wrote lol dodge really is essential, even in PvE, though one major issue with hunter is that we have to worry about the mobility stat in order to get the most out of our dodge. In PvE this stat kinda sucks, I think a cool way to make this stat more attractive across the board would be to introduce a "miss" chance for PvE combatants (not bosses), making it so the higher your mobility stat, the more likely an enemy projectile will land as a "miss", or a "immune.". Obviously this would have to be done with balancing of some sorts, like still keeping it a less then 30-40% chance of missing at max mobility, or cooldowns ect, but here's some food for thought when it comes to implementing identity.

so they nerf the dodge it used to be hard to target and hard to kill while dodging and now its just as easy to killing a dodging hunter. Hunters haven't been about speed since they took away destiny 2 vanilla system.

Hunter has more of a identity crisis then the other 2 because it's basically a jack of all trades With some random pointless exotic doesn't help Support- void,arc DPS - solar,arc,stasis Tank- arc