Caustics nox gas ability needs a little buff
So Caustics gas is supposed to be used as area denial from what i can see, but the dmg it does isn't enough in this high ttk game (hope it stays with this ttk PLEASE). People will still run through ...
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I agree with you but there another problem with caustic gas traps it's the ranges it's very short range. I'm main caustic and i love him to use his ultimate because of passive it's very strong i understand his gas traps are bad dmg but *keep on mind his passive has same way as bloodhound ultimate.*
@MELLOWautomata67 - caustic's passive is *not* the same as blood's ult.. blood's ult can see *through* smoke, including enemies on the other side. Caustic's passive can only see enemies IN smoke. There is a huge difference.
I'd like to see.
1. take away the trap damage and slow entirely, but massively increase the smoke range. So it becomes more of a "trap triggered smoke". Add a clear emote and hud marker when a trap is triggered, so he can use it to track enemies behind him.
2. make trap model small and flat on the ground, so someone in a frantic fight might not actually notice they are going to step on one. currently they are huge and easy to avoid or disarm by shooting the base.
3. make his ultimate IGNITE existing nox gas into flame (think napalm) that burns for ~50 dmg over a few seconds... not sure if this should damage everyone, or only enemies.
Taking the damage away wouldnt make any sense, You want a smoke ability Bangalore has it. Caustic is an area denial gas trap character. A tweak to the damage to make people decide if its worth it to run through it or go around. Nott having it disable teammates would be great. In open spaces his traps are difficult to hide but you can strategically place them behind rocks and trees, around corners etc to show when enemies cross the path aswell as provide a smoke like cover/damage tick on them.
I get the idea of gas trap dmg.. but if the damage is buffed enough to matter, and it doesn't affect teammates at all, he could quickly become OP.
I like the idea of massively increasing gas dmg (10-20-30 hp per half-sec), eliminating slow, and making it damage *everyone* (except caustics with gas masks on)... Then going through it will really hurt, but you can't use it on top of your team... This would solve another problem, which is not knowing which caustic gas is friendly vs enemy (and thus which will damage you), because it will always damage you.
