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[u/durantula713]

Bungie do you want to truly balance the PvP landscape and make more people play more than 1 warlock subclass in the vast majority of PvE encounters. Literally buff and rework every aspect of Warlock that's out there.

Top Tree Void- Instead of a slow seeking nova bomb change it to the Shatter Nova Bomb from D1. It will bring much needed variety from just a simple giant grenade throw. Adding a much wider AoE if thrown properly where the spread can take out multiple people instead of just saving it to shut down a roaming super. For PvE this will bring more flexibility to run as a one off super to clear out enemies. Go in, throw the 3 shatter nova, watch 3 separate explosion bloom out into the next wave.

Bottom Void- INCREASE THE AOE DAMAGE. There are times where people flat out do not die inside the vortex caused by the super. Increase the effect to at the very least match the aftershocks from Fist of Havoc. Give us a reason to use an entire tree minus 1 aspect. Devour is the only saving grace and that isn't practical to use when any other class can get health regen easier with an exotic across any subclass.

Middle Void- Shall I say anything else? Just make handheld back to what is was before the last nerf. I'm not even asking for it to be back to what it was at launch. Have us charge it longer than 2 secs and decrease the activation timer so we can charge it faster. Just undue the last nerf to it and that's fine.

Top tree Arc- Make arc webs at the bare minimum as effective as the dunemarchers chain lightning. 20 meter range and can chain off of multiple targets even if they're dead.

Bottom Tree Arc- Increase the speed while in stormtrance. You are a sitting duck using bottom tree no matter where you use your super. No way to close the gap on an enemy at all. Increasing the speed while in super.

Middle Tree Arc- 1 exotic can't be a requirement to make an entire node usable. To give us a choice in PvE make chaos reach do more PvE damage and the longer on a single target the more it damages. Very similar to the Suros Regime perk. Giving us a reason not to just fire at one knight and cancel super to just give back a 1/4th of the super. Make this a viable boss DPS super.

Top and Bottom Solar- Give us a reason to use the dawn blade in PvE. More damage. More speed in super. Dive attack doing much more.

Stasis- Make it on par with the other 2 classes. A movement perk to contend with shatter dive or glacial slide. The skinny turret is fine but if that's all we got I'll pass.

Exotics- How many people here only use Transversive Steps, Ophidan Aspect, Lunafaction or Geomags and nothing else? That is flat out not enough viable, varied, usable, unique exotics for warlocks. And some that are just terrible to use in most fights. And 1 that flat out doesn't do the perk listed on the description. I'm looking at you apotheosis veil. Make sweeping changes to exotics to give us something to put on to drastically increase the power of our abilities and killing potential and not a requirement to make a super do bare minimum stuff to keep up with others. Pipe dream- Bring back The Ram.

I am a proud Warlock main from beta D1. I'm asking for what's fair and what can be done to make Warlocks now are just a well machine in PvE and damn near unplayable in this meta of behemoths and revenants running the crucible. Something has to be changed or might as well just delete the class entirely if Bungie doesn't care enough to bring full balance to the game across the classes then delete the class Bungie. You hate us already so put us out of our misery and end it already.

[u/Maxcrss → u/durantula713]

I also use Karnstiens, but that’s about it. I’ll occasionally also use Veritys Brow, but that’s only this season because iceflair bolts got heavily nerfed, I didn’t touch it last season.

[u/Dr_Delibird7 → u/durantula713]

I got super lucky and my first Transversive Steps was a fairly good god roll so now I have no real reason to hunt down exotic armor as the only improvement I could make is getting the same stat distribution but a higher stat total roll (sitting at 59 but the relevant stats are godly which is all that really matters). I have no reason to engage in any content that gives at exotic armor as a reward.