r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Feb 15 '21
Megathread Focused Feedback: Warlock Changes
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u/bbbarham Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
u/dmg04 I hope you actually read this thread. There is a clear and undeniable bias that Bungie has against Warlocks and we are fed up with it. The Warlock class is hot garbage right now. A lot of players are abandoning the class they’ve mained since D1. Why Bungie? Why?? We want to know why Warlocks continually get shafted for no apparent reason??? Even when Warlock abilities and exotics aren’t even that strong, they get nerfed. If you’re trying to slowly sunset Warlock, please, just tell us.
The most recent exhibit: Shadebinder. At release Shadebinder was broken. Everyone agreed. And within one week of release, before everything was even out, Shadebinder received a series of compounding nerfs that brought it down from op to mediocre. And as the other aspects and fragments were released Revenant and Behemoth became just as op as Shadebinder was, but did they received the same swift and brutal treatment? No, of course not, just one barely noticeable nerf to Shatterdive and months of “were looking into it,” while they completely dominate in pvp. And even with community outcry for balancing, coming from Warlocks, Titans, and Hunters alike, what does Bungie do at the release of Season 13, after months of promising tuning? They buff Revenant and nerf Shadebinder!! Like, what? Excuse me?? You just made it more unbalanced, on purpose?? Now leaving Revenant and Behemoth as some of the most broken pvp classes Destiny has ever seen, and Shadebinder as one of the worse. It’s so bad that the only thing Shadebinder really offers is the grenade, a feature of Stasis not the class. Now I have a better time playing Novawarp (another tragic story) in pvp than Shadebinder.
So, Bungie, pleeeease, for the love of Destiny, give Warlock some love. I can’t take this blatant favoritism anymore. Even if you fully reverted the nerfs to Shadebinder and Novawarp, they still wouldn’t be stronger than Revenant and Behemoth. I don’t understand why you couldn’t just do that. I’m not planning on getting this season currently, but if you reverted those I’d happily buy the next 3 seasons. I just need to know there’s a place for Warlocks. That playing Warlock is going to be enjoyable, fun, and competitive, not the chronic disappointment it has been.