My Steam Blaster Review
This upgrade is very frustrating and I believe it's OP. I LOVE playing the scientist and i feel like it takes a lot of skill balance out killing and healing. This upgrade, I cant consistently get v...
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@mikepal19 I haven't got the Steam Blaster yet, but when fighting against it, it seems pretty strong. Kind of annoying that scientist could be even more powerful now.
I was playing Citron and decided to use the Peached upgrade for the first time in a while. Turns out Peached is really great way for catching aggressive scientists, even when fighting against steam blaster 🙂
Also I learned that at close range, Citron can't out-damage Stick Healy Thingy's heal rate at all...
Pretty sure SHT has a better heal rate than self regen
I was playing Citron and decided to use the Peached upgrade for the first time in a while. Turns out Peached is really great way for catching aggressive scientists, even when fighting against steam blaster 🙂
Also I learned that at close range, Citron can't out-damage Stick Healy Thingy's heal rate at all...
Pretty sure SHT has a better heal rate than self regen
- @Pheesley If a scientist chooses to go all aggressive and use sticky healy thingy, best to just fall back
- I still feel like steam blaster is really op, to the point where it’s annoying and almost anyone can use it! Think it needs to have slightly reduced dmg or something
@Ninja2BladeYeah that's usually the best option. What's so dumb about it is that I can get a scientist low on HP and sacrifice some of my HP in the process, and then they get healed by SHT and they can't be killed unless I react quick enough with a high burst damage ability. It's ridiculous how much survivability a scientist has.
- @Pheesley The sad part is that scientists should be giving others survivability, but almost no one does that, especially with the steam blaster upgrade
@Ninja2Blade wrote:
@PheesleyIf a scientist chooses to go all aggressive and use sticky healy thingy, best to just fall back
Pretty much. I was playing scientist pretty much exclusively since I actually like being an aggressive scientist but also trying to see if i can find any weaknesses. So far, the only weakness is if the scientist has bad aim then you can exploit its low ammo. But then again he can just warp away and be at full health in 3 seconds and a rematch ensues while your at a weaker state.But I haven't really tried citron like @Pheesley has. Take off some health then spam stun and spin.
- @Pheesley Yeah I also notice that steam blaster goes threw the citron shield. Another head scratcher.
I can deal with rapid fire soldiers but an sb scientist is almost unkillable. Oh and the sticky heal needs to be nerfed back to 20hp/s x 5s Instead of this 33hp/s x 3s. He heals way too quickly. Maybe compromise at 25hp/s x 4s.@mikepal19Yeah, I'm not too sure what to think about steam blaster going through shields.
I agree that sticky healy thingy needs to be reverted back to its previous state. I think they wanted to lower the active time, so I think the previous SHT with a lower active time would be good.I haven’t unlocked the upgrade myself just yet but by your description and gameplay footage I am reminded, in a general sense, of the Chemist in GW2- short range, wide spread, high damage, low ammo.
The “balancing” factor for Chemist was the high risk-to-reward ratio since you pretty much needed to be in your opponents face to be effective, but I’ll need to get hands on to see if the Steam Blaster is similar in that regard so I’ll likely weigh in with an actual opinion later.
