The meta it was designed for has passed. We’re not under as much pressure now and we have significantly more survivability options that hard CC isn’t useful.
The main issues:
- Stasis is too slow to put out damage
- Stasis abilities are curbed waaay too much by crucible.
My suggestions:
- make “Stasis Mines” a core feature. Small shards of stasis that detonate when approached and deal Shatter damage.
- Create more offensively oriented weapon perks for stasis weapons to compete.
- Stasis weapons now instantly shatter Stasis Crystals when damaged. (Increasing viability of Headstone as well as a major QoL for Behemoth.
- New Supers and grenades with a more heavy focus on damage.
- Increase the Radius and Damage of Frozen enemy shatters.
- Slightly improve base duration of Frost Armor and remove Stasis shard cooldown lockout
- Heavy Reworks to underperforming aspects in PvE: Frostpulse, Shatterdive, Winter’s Shroud, Howl of the Storm, Cryoclasm. With small buffs to others.
Frostpulse
- Now grants Frost Armor based on the number of enemies frozen.
- Shattering Frozen targets grants bonus class ability energy.
Shatterdive
- Increased Shatter Damage scalar in PvE.
- Animation grants DR in PvE
- Shattering a crystal or frozen enemy creates a Stasis Mine for each.
Winter’s Shroud
- While you have Frost Armor, defeating a target with your melee fully recharges your dodge.
Howl of the Storm
- Increase the number of summoned crystals, now spreading out in a 3-wave spread.
- Gain 3 stacks of Frost Armor on cast
Cryoclasm
- Shattering a stasis crystal or Frozen Target with this creates a stasis mine for each.
- Increase shatter damage scalar for PvE.
- Cooldown is reduced when you have Frost Armor.
Fragment buffs:
- Whisper of Chill - Now additionally grants “picking up a Stasis shard heals a portion of your health”.
- Whisper of Hedrons - No longer increases Recovery, Mobility, and Resilience. Now applies a 15% damage bonus to your weapons and abilities. (5% in PvP)
- Whisper of Reversal - Now includes the effects of the current Whisper of Fractures.
- Whisper of Fractures - Now grants “Shattering a Frozen target creates a stasis mine”