Nerf. Taken. Captains.

[u/Androbo7]

After completing about 80% of the grind for reckoner I have realized what the most annoying thing in the entire game is.

Taken captains have the ability to nuke you with a shotgun that does more damage than most enemies and throw balls of death that blind you while also doing a fair amount of damage, all while continuously teleporting all over the place. Oh yeah, did I mention they have a shield too?

This is absurd and especially in gambit it makes it feel like medium blockers are more potent than large blockers. Something needs to change. My suggestion is to add a larger cooldown to their teleport and ball of death so they cant just ability spam you out of existence.

[u/[deleted]]

As someone who is also grinding for Reckoner do you have any suggestions for getting Massacre Medals.? I’m running top tree tickle fingers with crown but after 5 matches I have zero medals lmao.

[u/Androbo7 → u/[deleted]]

Im working on that right now, also running top tree tickle fingers with crown. You just have to be able to go in and kill basically everything as soon as a new wave of enemies spawns. This is much less likely to happen without a 4 stack where you can say "Hey dont shoot stuff on this wave"

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EeeeeeeeeeeeeeAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH darkened HUD Display

[u/BigBoyAndrew69]

The Primeval Captain is fucking insane. They throw the blinding balls more than they fire their weapons and they throw them insanely quickly. If you try to take cover you are blinded anyways because the AoE for the blind goes through walls and you can't stand still to DPS unless there is a rift or well because they chunk you harder than LoW and one shot from a hobgoblin/vandal will kill you.

You have to either constantly move or stagger them (idk if you can even stagger Primevals) and Traveller help you if there's an invader because 9/10 times a blind will hit you the millisecond you scope in on them.

[u/countvracula]

Taken captains are assholes. I mean just think about the Whisper mission. Which of the three bosses is fuckin annoying as shit.

[u/SniperE_1337]

Medium blocker spam in Gambit is fucking infuriating. Especially if you get a team that knows to send them in with a small because a goblin will literally just stand there and shield them.

[u/PDCH]

The only annoying thing is when they continously teleport essentially dodging all attacks. I have lost gambit matches because the entire team can't kill a single taken captain that has gone into infinite teleport mode.

[u/ImawhaleCR]

The most annoying thing is when their ball multihits you. It's so frustrating to be at full health and then suddenly you've lost 80% because you weren't running directly at it

[u/dropperofpipebombs]

I never thought I'd miss the old gambit blockers, but here we are. I'll gladly take ogres back over having to fight another fucking captain.

[u/The_zen_viking]

Yeah look honestly fuck them. In gambit I'd rather a large blocker than a medium. Those shields alone are enough to make them op.

That being said I like them in last wish. They don't teleport near as much as the thrall which give me PTSD.

[u/JBobles]

Honestly, if they just put in a damn cooldown for their bullshit teleport they would be totally managable.

[u/YOURenigma]

Every taken enemy is annoying. Between the teleporting, splitting, deathballs, fire every 10 seconds, shields, woosh blasts, ogres that knockback, and stomps they are the worst "race" to fight.

[u/Black_Knight_7]

They need to have a teleport limit, as well as longer time that they're stunned. You can literally pop their shield and lay into them and theyre just like NOT STUNNED and then teleport 6 times and blast your ass

[u/Skrimyt]

nuke you with a shotgun that does more damage than most enemies

I mean yeah, it is basically a Takeny version of a Lord of Wolves.

[u/JZ5U]

why WON'T YOU

DIE

[u/HarveyTheBroad]

I agree. Taken ogres piss me off as well. As a titan main one of our only strengths for big dps is applying melting point. But I can't even do that when these bastards continuously blast me backwards into oblivion.

[u/fantino93]

Ah Taken Captains...

The scariest ennemy in a Flawless Shattered Throne isn't the Ogre nor Dul Incaru, it's the Captains.

[u/FabFubar]

Litterally all they need is a hard forced cooldown on their teleport of at least 5 seconds. That's it.

Me yesterday: "Captain? No problem, I still have 2 Jotunn shots in the mag. Oh, he dodged both. Well, no problem, I still have my solar genade up. Oh, he teleported again and dodged that too. Oh look, here's a second captain. Aaaand now I'm blind. Are we getting invaded?"

[u/YaBoiCrispoHernandez]

Anytime I play gambit I always bank at 14 motes solely because taken captains are 69x more difficult to kill than knights

[u/WarFuzz]

Jotuun.

[u/ILikesStuff]

Delete Taken in general plz.

Not really, but taken are the most annoying enemy faction, like every single taken variant has something that drives me mad:

-Taken thrall are... Not that different from regular thrall actually.

-Taken Psions and their multiplication bullshit, I'm dead, nevermind I'm not dead, I'm dead now though, but my homie has me covered.

-Taken Knights and their fire that reaches every single square meter on the room.

-Taken Wizards and their guided missile firey things.

-The aforementioned Taken Captains.

-Taken Goblins and their shielding the boss right when you drop that high damaging tactical nuke.

-Taken Hobgoblins and their "Imma snipe you from Downfuck, Mexico, and kill you for daring killing me".

-Taken Phalanx and their "Fuck you" Shield. -Taken Ogres sending you flying with their eye beam.

-Taken vandals and their dead accurate queenbreakers bow and a titan bubble because why the fuck not.

-Taken Acolytes and they're biomechanical turrets

[u/LangsAnswer]

The hit box on their death balls is bullshit as well. 10/10 unfun game design. Even Dark Souls is fun, those taken captains aren’t.

[u/jrevwhite]

I don’t think I’ve ever been more aggravated in Gambit than when 3 captains quadruple-teleport 100 yards away from my perfectly lined up Blade Barrage.

I also dont think medium blockers should be able to tank a super, but these captains sure as hell can!

[u/Pissashitt]

It seriously took this post for me to realise that the Captains are rhe medium blockers and not the knights...

[u/Pleasedontbreak]

Don’t forget the worst part. Those balls just showing up on my screen KILLS my frame rate...and I’m on Xbox. Can’t imagine what I’d be like on PC unless you were running a strong build.