Wraith... why another nerf?
In the upcoming patch notes it says that the phase ability will now take 1.25 seconds to activate including a 20% movement slow. Why? Wraith was in no way overpowered as a legend and this has just go...
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@Shmexxyyy It's not necessarily a nerf but a change to how her tactical is supposed to work, It's now much more effective as a repositioning ability than a getting out of tough situations ability
dude...... you clearly.... like not going to be toxic. im a d3 wraith let me educate you.
first thing a good wraith player already knows where his/her enemies are in phase. a bad wraith player has no idea and shouldn't play wraith solely for that reason. portal was a repositioning tool, phase helped with that but was not purposed for that. phase was purposed so that you can do damage to a team then after taking damage phase away and let your team then do damage while you then heal or in certain circumstances come out at whatever health and help kill. those are literally the two purposes of wraith. now with the 20% reduction in movement speed you cant even use wraith's phase while youre portaling or youre going to get lit the heck up.
the extra second in phase, being able to see people in it, and the 30% movement speed are absolutely utterly useless to a good player. a good player will set up their engagement so that they do not need any of those extra buffs whatsoever. theyre purposed to help casual players or rather just nerf wraith worse than pathfinder was by a couple hundred miles. regardless any player with half a brain will shoot wraith the second she comes out of her phase while trying to "reposition". using phase to reposition any other way than a defensive get away tool is what noobs do. and i absolutely love it when they do that because it is a free kill point.
these changes literally destroyed the legend worse than any nerf i have seen in this game. the only time you will actually now be able to use phase is behind cover to get away which means you cannot play the class as it is supposed to be played anymore. you wont be able to use it to push people nor will you be able to use it while portaling.
basically every wraith main in ranked is going to switch to revenant or quit the game. i know i will be switching to revenant now.
- @squirtgunpumper That’s a little dramatic.
Also, now the devs have changed it so that it is a repositioning tool. It will probably work like one.
By your logic, Loba would be a terrible character, but she isn’t.
The extra second and 30% movement buff is not useless, and will be helpful to pro players.
“phase was purposed so that you can do damage to a team then after taking damage phase away and let your team then do damage while you then heal or in certain circumstances come out at whatever health and help kill.”
Well, that’s what people used it for. Not what it was intended to be. The devs specifically said they don’t want it to be a get out of jail free card.
I suggest you rethink your viewpoint.
Side note: the 20% reduction doesn’t apply while using her ult.You are missing the point my guy. We aren't saying that it being a repositioning tool is bad. Your argument of "oH bY yOUr StANdArDS lOBa wOuLD bE bAD" is also completely stupid. Sure Loba has that issue of not being able to instantly leave, but she goes 10x farther than wraith would and is super difficult to find if you aren't focusing on only the trail of the bracelet flying through the sky. Sure the 20% doesn't apply to her using her ult.
SO WHAT?!? We are supposed to use our ults in order to play wraith like she was intended to be played since day one? I have seen you in so many posts on people who talk about this unnecessary nerf and you don't seem to get why we are upset. I doubt you play wraith at all and didn't know what kind of legend she was prior to season 5. Wraith was always designed to be like a wasp. She would quickly go in for a few shots and get some damage off of someone, sometimes even a knockdown, and get the * out before she gets gunned down by an entire squad. Her tactical wasn't a "get out of jail free card" because you 1,) couldn't see your enemies 2.) you didn't go super fast in the void so you wouldn't be able to our run anything and 3.) You had this bright trail that let every single enemy know, oh wraith is gonna pop up in about 2 more seconds, lets gun her down. People like you however who just couldn't take the fact that good old Gibby wasn't able to portal out like Wraith and complained to respawn until they finally listened to you guys and made some unnecessary changes to an already okay legend. You should also mention how other legends like Lifeline now auto res with an shield that blocks out almost any type of attack besides Gibraltar/Bangalore ults and grenades. Why don't we mention how people who don't even play Wraith were saying that the nerf wasn't needed? Oh wait that's right. Players like you enjoy saying the classic "oH yOu Are MaD beCausE yOU dOnT hAve A gEt oUt of JaIL frEe cArD AnYmORe" when in reality, you still got killed if the player you were facing wasn't pre occupied by your team. Why don't we include legends like octane who move at such a fast speed that it is near impossible to hit a shot on him with a tac that comes back in 4 seconds. And sure, it does damage to octane, but the dude has auto heals so he just gets that health back in about 15 seconds.
In conclusion, All of your points are completely incorrect. We aren't mad that we cant phase out anymore. We are mad that they took a legend who was totally fine and made her the most useless legend to play as. Most wraith players now only play her because they have over 1.4k Kills with her and aren't ready to just give that up on a dime. Her Nerf was completely unwanted and is the reason why Apex isn't how it was before all of the noobs learned how to post about them complaining about dying to Wraith because they had no skill on the forums.
- @Hyuugajay0515 Calling that wraith was fine blows my mind and shows you have 0 understanding of balance at all...she was op and is still op and untill her hitbox is like this she will be op
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