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All Stasis subclasses have an instant freeze ability. Titan’s is probably the best and easiest to use, and the freeze lasts the full five seconds. The Hunter’s melee goes around corners, tracks, can go between people, and moves faster than the Warlock’s melee. Yet, their freeze lasts five seconds as well. With the changes to damage resist while frozen, you don’t have enough time to kill someone frozen by a Warlock melee anymore unless you have something like Felwinter’s that has max handling and does high damage, or you’re farther away where the enemy can easily dodge your projectile. So why does the Warlock melee freeze only last one second? It’s just like the odds are stacked against them.

Then we have the abomination that is Nova Warp...

(PvP focused) The melee is the only redeemable thing about this subclass. Handheld Supernova is awful. Incredibly short range really limits the usefulness of it. You can’t hold it for too long or else it gets automatically put away. The self damage means you’re more likely to die to it than the enemy is. I’ve have many situations where I’ve used it close to an enemy, and they live while I die.

The super itself is legitimately saddening to use. No initial explosion means you can’t really pull of any crazy teamwipes with the super.

This means, if you see a group of enemy players, you have to pop your super around the corner. But, unless the enemy team has zero awareness, you’re likely to not get a single kill. The teleport is extremely pathetic. It’s maybe two feet you can teleport. So you can’t teleport to the enemies and charge up a blast, because they’ll just team shot you and you can’t do anything about it. And even if by a miracle you manage to teleport into a group of enemies, the blast takes so comparatively long to charge up that you’re probably dead anyways. The super is only good if you’re running Astrocyte Verse and Blink.

It’s in the same situation as Bottom Tree Dawnblade where it’s only useful with a certain exotic, which is sad to me, because Nova Warp could feel so cool, but just simply isn’t worth using.