Stasis is still outclassed by Strand because strand has better debuffs/buffs and better aspects.
Sever > Slow
Suspend > Freeze
Woven Mail > Frost Armor
On top of this, Strand has means for unraveling and threadlings across all 3 classes with higher uptimes on all Strand abilities.
Stasis desperately needs the aspects to be reworked because some of them are very underwhelming. For example, Winter’s Shroud (still), Cryoclasm (still), Diamond Lances, and Frostpulse. These aren’t all of the underwhelming ones, but overall, the aspects for stasis need to be changed so there are better uptimes on debuffs for PvE. My suggestion would be, at a minimum, to replace 1 underwhelming aspect across each class with better ones, and deprecate the old ones to fragments.
Example Fragments:
A.) “Defeating enemies that are slowed/frozen or using stasis weapons has a chance to create a diamond lance”
B.) “Using your class ability causes slow to nearby enemies and grants frost armor”
C.) “Sliding at stasis crystals or frozen combatants causes them to shatter” (combatants wording to not abuse in PvP)
Edit: Also why only 1 super? Same with Strand?
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Frost pulse gives frost armor and a freezing pulse like arc shockwave from vesper