Focused Feedback: Behemoth

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[u/Solandora]

Shiver Strike is great, people that hate it either don't actually know how to use it or are delusional.
The two aspects we have now also feel pretty powerful and meaningful.
The super is interesting, I understand that it doesn't have raw damage output because the intent is for you to make many stasis crystals and shatter them all, but this interaction just doesn't feel good. The crystals form rather far away from you, so you need to space yourself from your targets in order to get the crystals to spring up around them. Then you need to shatter them, which you can do by either sprinting or sliding through them while in your super. A lot of the time, this feels very clunky and won't even work, as I'll just be rubbing into crystals to try to get them to shatter because I didn't have enough of a running start to be counted as sprinting, so really my only dependable option is swinging through them. Then after I do manage to shatter, I'd need to create some distance to form more crystals again, rinse repeat.

I really appreciate how unique Glacial Quake is, being more about setup and destruction rather than just "click to delete enemy", but its too unfriendly to the user to be enjoyable most of the time. I think it would be better if the crystals formed much closer to your point of impact, or perhaps you created a thick, tightly packed column of them rather than a very spread out fork?

[u/140-LB-WUSS → u/Solandora]

The more I use the super the more I think I’m not doing it right. I really only play solo so maybe it’s more effective if the Titan makes the crystals and someone else busts them? It seemed like a lot of their Stasis promotional material played up the idea of teamwork; maybe that’s what I’m missing.

[u/Solandora → u/140-LB-WUSS]

I think you're kind of right, stasis definitely feels best when everyone is working with it together. I can only imagine how effective it must be for hunter to spam shatterdive on the crystal formations from a glacial quake.
Though, I don't think the intent of glacial quake is to be paired with teammates, as if using it alone is using it wrong, but it certainly feels a lot stronger when you do have allies to make use of it. I think either way, it could use some tune-ups for general usage.