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Mii4lyfe
6 years ago

Re: Wraith Buff/Debuff Ideas; Tactical Timer, Clear Mind, and Trail Render Distance

I do not agree with the 3 seconds of peace requirement to use her tactical due to the obvious fact that her tactical is used to get out of situations. I love playing Wraith and I'm usually using her to push toward an enemy squad, deal as much damage as I possibly can and phase out just before I am down. Yes, the enemy squad can see my phase trail but by that time the rest of my squad is already attacking the seriously weakened squad and if you use her phase correctly, you can slide around a corner, take a zip-line or hop up on top of a building and be perfectly safe to heal up. The only time I really get gunned down after phasing is if I'm phasing in an open field with no cover and I simply just would not recommend phasing in an open field.....just something a wraith player has to deal with.  

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  • billybobbjoebob's avatar
    billybobbjoebob
    6 years ago

    @Mii4lyfeWell the Clear Mind debuff was more to balance out the other change I recommended which is a lower render range for her trail. If you take away her trail after a certain range, her ability becomes too overpowered. You're basically giving her Mirage's ultimate, but as a tactical, except you can't take damage during it but it doesn't last as long. But the way her ability is now, with the trail, you can really only use it if you have like a corner you can get around, while all other legends have uses for their tacticals in pretty much any environment. Or in your example, if you have a team there, backing you up as you escape. But that's assuming you're not the last one left on the team and they haven't already been downed. You just not supposed to use your tactical if you're the last alive? All other legends have their tacticals help them in some way when they are the last alive. And that's also assuming you have some pretty coordinated randoms with you if you're not playing with a full squad. If you don't have a coordinated team of randoms, should that also keep you from using your tactical? I don't think so.

    Now could 3 seconds be too long? Maybe. Maybe just 1 second? I just think buffing her trail without doing anything else to debuff the ability would make it too powerful. But keeping the trail how it is makes the ability only useful in too niche of a situation to be fun. Now could you still use it as recklessly as you have been? Probably not. But maybe you're not supposed to be so reckless with it. Maybe you need to be more tactful with it and not be putting yourself in dangerous situations, relying on your ability to get you out of them.