Buff Caustic
Caustic is way too slow and needs a movement buff to be able to fight respectfully since his gas isn’t respected at all. I love playing him but nobody respects his gas it’s too weak
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@joshmiller2329They want to make players run out of caustic’s gas but without increasing the damage, they don’t have any plans right now but are planning to buff caustic
I agree caustic is weak, weaker than he's ever been since just about the launch of the game
but they're trying to stay conscious of a few ideas I think
- can't make the damage TOO much otherwise they're in "Overwatch territory" of using abilities to kill
- can't make the slowing effect too severe because slowing effects aren't fun
- can't make the blindness effect a full blind because then the blinded player really is just a free kill
but
you also can't take away ANY of these things without just completely reworking him from the ground up
I think they should increase his max placed trap limit to 8, and increase his carried trap limit to 4
and lower the cooldown for a trap by like a single second or two
it would make it hurt less when someone destroys your trap after placing it down and getting nothing back
- @Eurlannd I think the easiest buff would be an increasing damage vulnurability buff.
Lets say it starts at 15% and increases 5% every second. - @AddSolossRespawn Garbage meaningless attitude
"Hey, when is Rampart going to be buffed? She's still among the least picked legen-..."
"Screw her, Caustic Master race!"
"But shouldn't we equalize the Legends? How about Wattson, she's also very rarel-..."
"CAUSTIC MASTER RACE"
Just sayin'... However, there are so endlessly many Caustic fix ideas, all of them pretty much want the same thing. How about we make one thread a central thread so we don't have 100 topics about literally the same thing?
@Peri_Longbow_plzYou know something that's a great idea, why don't someone make 1 topic for each legend. Discuss what changes can be made to them.
Then Respawn picks it up and throws it away. (lol)
If all they do is stare at Winrate/pickrate Apex will stay the same. How about make a topic based on pickerate/winrate. Every suggestion isn't going to do much, unless every Apex player admitsbalancing based on tracker is useless.
- @XLnarrator What else do you want to base the balancing on? Just on pure feel?
I do agree that going purely for winning and picking rates isn't the best idea. In fact that has never truly worked out. But if a certain weapon or a certain legend remains among the top picked for an extended period of time, then it's worth investigating. I like to remind that Octane is still the most picked legend. To whom I agree a nerf. Wraith is the second, however in this case I do think she's fine as she is. Next up is Bloodhound, to who I agree for a nerf again. At least according to unofficial Apex Legends stats, mind you.
I consider Caustic to be the least in the need for a buff. There are legends who have been begged to be buffed over the course of several seasons and haven't seen any. In that time span, Caustic fluctuated back and forth several times, going from needing a buff to needing a nerf and everything in-between. - @Peri_Longbow_plz Yeah, it should be based on pure feel where the Community is the democracy. And the creators makes a common idea out of it.
Common sense and feeling. What the majority says she be done. Make polls every now and then, then the final idea should be based off the common idea - @XLnarrator I can tell you right here and right now that this would cause more imbalance compared to what we have already. Because things which are already very popular will be demanded to be buffed, which narrows the viable choices for weapons and characters even more. Even back in Season 4 a lot of people wanted Wraith to be buffed. When her hitbox was the size of a paper with an almost instant-cast ability, endlessly holding portals and whatnot. Now project that to your suggestion of the community deciding for buffs and nerf.
@Peri_Longbow_plzAlright not everything is perfect.
Make a poll if Wraith was powerful and most agrees why change her? Then the creators would suggest nerf or no change to her. That would be said and done. Make sense out of the senseless.
Like if Caustic was at the bottom, they would make a poll and Devs would be consent on how to buff him
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