Pathfinders passive is redundant in the current version of the game.Crypto passive never made any sense since it was part of his tactical.Wattson passive is poor to say the least.Caustic is in a similar place as Crypto’s.Fuse needs a complete rework but that’s another story.The reason is obvious these legends all have the same problem which is their passive is somewhat interconnected to their tacticals or ultimate in the case of Caustic, Wattson and Crypto their passives should already be part of their abilities.In the case of Pathfinder he practically has no passive nor is it unique.I’ll make another thread on Fuse because I think theirs better passives like him using grenades makes them better or being abled to cook grenades.

@DARAPTURE07 Caustics passive is almost nonexistent now that enemies can see inside the gas.

I’ll take advantage of this post and make some suggestions if you don’t mind.Pathfinder:I’ve seen this in twitter, as Path is a robot it would make sense that he could zoom in sight even more than other legends. Some kind of zoom in and out like Holographic sights that can be enables or disabled.Wattson:Wattson being able to stock 2 ultimate accelerants is kinda bad. That should be able for every legend. The ability to charge her ult with 1 ultimate accelerant and the shield regeneration is a nice touch. Maybe add her an ability to create a Heat Shield with her pylons on the storm, as she designed the Ring, it would make sense that she can counter it somehow.Crypto:I find that Crypto’s drone has a lot of tools, but as you said, that’s just his tactical. Maybe a good passive could be that golden sights can’t recon him (you know, appear in red when he is on smoke or caustic’s gas). This is a logical passive as Crypto is being constantly followed, and that may be his way of being “untracked”.Caustic:This one is for my boy hayhorCaustic’s a great character if you know how to use it, I’ve came across some really good and ofensive Caustic’s mains, but Caustic although being a strong character, it’s true he lacks of a passive. I belive he could add some sort of poision to certain weapons or bullets in order to one out of an x quantity of bullets that hit s target, can make some kind of recoil of 1 or 2 DMGI am open to criticism, so please make me know if you disagree with something and why. 🙂Note: I’m not a native English speaker, so sorry if I made any mistakes.

@MrCarri-XI do love your ideas especially the Caustic idea! The Wattson heat shield me and my friend said that also!Mine would be;Pathfinder:Being able to grapple teammates and pull them up or out of bad situations even in a down state.Wattson:A special revive that recharges two bars of a teammates shield.Fences doing more dmg in the radius of her pylons.Crypto:Bullet tracking would be cool, like if Crypto hits a target it would track the target in a similar ping like the drone for his teammates to see, but the effect only lasts like 2 seconds and the effect can’t be used on multiple targets at the same time.(It would speed up Crypto especially if he didn’t have enough time to get his drone out.)

@DARAPTURE07Pathfinder being able to grapple teammates would be like opening a jack in the box with 11 year old griefers instead of clowns.Increase Wattsons shield regen, that simple.Crypto should be immune from any location revealing effects, like scans. This should help him capitalizing on his scans and EMPs.Or just make his drone his melee weapon to slightly increase his damage and range, cause he already uses the drone he needs to rely on for info like a cave man.Caustic passive rework:"Monster in the fog"- Caustic now sees the outlines of enemies in the gas through walls (kinda like Bloodhound, he already can deduce your position on the damage tick numbers and Legend based on sounds so it would not be as great as one might think).-Enemies affected by Nox gas will hear Caustics loud breathing while affected by the gas based on proximity. This makes it harder to hear and focus while making use of some psychological warfare.Revenant:Give him fortified, his hitbox is almost as big as Caustic and the bullet slow removal would synergize with his passive.

@DARAPTURE07 I like your ideas.

You need to rework some passives.

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JonasDumac
5 years ago
@XLnarrator Wattson is a living hell to play if you play with randoms. You hace my compassion
SheepsKing
Rising Vanguard
5 years ago
For Pathfinder, remember when the devs made it so that you can't continually jump off and re-attach to ziplines? Just make his passive allow him to do that. It ties back to his abilities, and offers him slightly more survivability.
JonStriker126
5 years ago
@DARAPTURE07

Yeah, I get what you're saying. Due to Game or Legend changes, some passives are now redundant or useless.

There really isn't much point in Caustic's now. Path getting time off his Ult isn't terrible, but it does feel placeholder-y.

As for Crypto and Wattson, even the Devs see the problem there. They've talked multiple times in the past about potential reworks for those two. And, honestly, with how they're "balencing" Caustic, he's probably going to need one too, the rate we are going.

Also, I find it amusing that certain things are near worthless in Arenas as well. Like, what is the point of Loba's Passive there? Everyone already knows there's a Phoenix kit in the supply bins. And it literally tells you what's in the care package at the buy screen. So, her passive is laughable in that mode. Yeah, I get you don't have to "pay" for it, but still. Honestly, that mode needs a lot of rebalancing and changes, on multiple fronts. But that's another topic for another time.
DARAPTURE07
5 years ago
@JonStriker126I just think they need to make class based passives that act as a buff.

Remove Ultimate Accelerants, add White Backpacks as part of the starting gear, remove White (Helmets, Body/Knockdown Shields and Backpacks) from the loot table.
Freeing up the loot table for better possibilities of better/fun gameplay.

All Recon Class Legends: Should get the same buff just like Pathfinder by using the Survey Beacons.

All Damage Class Legends: Should get a cool down buff on their Ultimate through damage/kills.

All Tank Class Legends: Should get a cool down buff on their Ultimate through damage taken.

All Healer Class Legends: Should get a cool down buff on their Ultimate through amount of healing/revives.
Even if the percentage was minimal it would incentivise more to the gameplay than not.

Personally I would move/change certain roles of legends to support this, like Wattson for example should be considered a Healer rather than a Tank.

Don’t get me wrong I just like throwing out ideas and these are ones I see and talk about when playing the game, I think the gameplay has got stale with age.

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You need to rework some passives.

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