Sundance Nerfs and it's impact on Mastery (Concern)
Hello there;
I am here to discuss the recent nerfs of Sundance's grenades. First nerf was a delayed detonation to give people a chance to get away. This is of course acceptable. It was only a soft nerf.
But it is concerning to me that DICE then decides to nerf her further by giving her 1 grenade instead of two!
Nevermind the fact that she has two choice of grenade so it makes no sense that she only has one to throw all of a sudden. Secondly it makes her Mastery challenge even more of a nightmare to achieve. On top of this, Irish's defense system already hard counters explosive spam. It has been tested and it destroyed every grenade with no exceptions and no limits to how many are thrown. And he even gets two of these available to him. So good luck getting the kills for the Mastery.
If you are unwilling to restore her grenades to two; then at least lower the Mastery kill requirements. Getting 1200 players killed with only one grenade is simply too much compared to how easy it is to get Falck Mastery as an example. In that case you need to revive OR heal. So make the Mastery requirements for Sundance into damage done or kills with nades.
Or give Irish's defense system a limit to how many grenades it can destroy at any one time. I think Irish should be invaluable on defense since it is his role. But getting rid of one Sundance's best offensive tools makes her a weak Assault character. She is neither anti vehicle or anti infantry at this point. The homing grenade does abysmal damage to vehicles and doesn't lock on half of the time because of counter measures. And even if they do hit it is nulified by instant repairs.
I hope you will take these things into consideration. Sundance has been the most nerfed Specialist in the game. First EMP grenades are removed. Then the grenade counter is lowered twice and one of the nades have their effectivity reduced. On top of this the scatter grenade is only mostly useful in CQC. Since 85% of the maps are usually on open terrain it makes them redundant in most scenarios. They are more of a tool to flush people out of cover. But the problem then is; how are you going to ever complete your Mastery.
Rant over <3 love the new season!
