Wraith nerf

The devs say they will monitor it and see about bringing back her power in other ways later, but this is a huge nerf to this legend. Closer inspection of the changes show the hitbox has been extended...

discussion

Deliberus

5 years ago

@OldTreeCreeper Good change for once. Nerfing a character with 2 get out of jail free cards (one for the team and one for herself) and a warning for traps and third parties deserved it.

xCranials
5 years ago
@Deliberus her port isn’t a get out of jail free lots of risk involved her pasive isn’t that great compared to gibby’s gun shield or lifelines Rez or caustics ability to breath in other caustic gas And also her tactical ability takes forever to activate so she’s an easy beam when she uses it because she’s easy to hit now due to the hitbox and the amount of time it takes for her tactical to activate. They can make her bigger that is not a problem if it makes people with bad aim he able to hit her I don’t care but her escape abilities went from the best to the worst even octanes jump pad is more viable now
- KelRiever
  5 years ago
  This stuff is, IMO, boring.
  So, yes, I agree, people who are taking her are going to keep taking her. Again, you don’t change core problems by making little adjustments, and that’s the problem with fane designers these days. Either don’t change her at all or get a pair and go big.
  All broken characters and weapons have the source of their broken-ness in the core game mechanics. In Apex and any shooter, not getting hit is the most important thing, therefore your smallest characters will always be favored. Stack on that another ability as a Tactical that lets them not get hit, a mobility ultimate and finally a solid Emo vibe and yeah nobody should be surprised.
  Want to change Wraith? Completely change her tactical ability and then make her stupid looking in game. Otherwise accept it and next time make a character that counters her, rather than making Fuse who counters one OP character and buries a bunch who needed help instead.
  Wattson Main flipping this off 🙂
- Deliberus
  5 years ago
  @xCranials "lots of risk involved"
  xDDDDDDDDD
  
  Good joke, thanks for the laugh. Anyway, she uses port, gets a speedbost, instant Q and even more speed when sliding. Even if you're using Q without port you can just hop around a corner and use Q or you can slide and Q to briefly negate the slowdown to the speed.
  
  Also, comparing her passive to something like Gibby's gunshield or lifeline rez is so dumb as they have completely different purposes.
  - Cro_Pittt
    5 years ago
    @Deliberus You're complaining about Wraith's abilities when she's made for that. She's a movement character, what do you expect her to do?
    Do you think the game will be better if they nerf her more? Don't you see that if Wraith becomes a trash character the game will be a camping simulator because she's the only character that allows fast rotations and a fast push?
    And before you say anything i'm ok with this nerf, we'll see how it goes, although seeing this first day i think that her low low profile (taking body damage on arms and legs) should be removed.
    If you think she's that easy to use, try her and come back here later.
    Oh btw, Octane can get faster if she slides while using his q, he should be nerfed 😮.