…is not the type of gameplay that makes the Tide games amazing. Ogryn and Arbites deserve better than this. The metas that have emerged for these two classes are some of the least inspired of the series. So much of the mechanical depth of this wonderful IP is lost to them. Please have a second look at these characters, you can do better.
Yeah, the Castigator’s Stance is game breaking. It lets you ignore everything which makes the game interesting. You can just facetank bursters and eat crusher overheads while refilling your toughness. You can enable it in the middle of a horde and just eat a sniper shot while you kill it.
I get what they were going for, but it’s just 10 seconds of near invulnerability and with the CDR nodes it’s up way too much. (Petition to remove CDR entirely)
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I’m still testing, but I’m quickly coming to the conclusion that Arbites broke the game.
Not even accounting for unintended dog bleed interactions. The class has just nullified all threats in the game, yes even trappers. When everything else on the screen is dead, the one threat to the class is no longer a threat.
Teams are straight up speed running past everything and leaving any non-arbites in the dust.
Spawns can’t keep up so Auric feels like malice. Newbs can loner-zealot-speed-run maels now.
Auric might not be broken itself mechanically, but it sure feels like it with even 1 Arbitrator, and only 1 is a rare sight.
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Exactly my feelings since the first day of release, the game up to Auric at least is just walk in a park with 2+ Arbites on the team. I know those who defend this broken crap often try to use ogryns being “too strong” as arguments - but no, it’s not even remotely like that, because never it was that easy with 2+ ogryns on your team before as with Arbites, ogryns may be too much, but Arbites are much worse still.
I saw people already saying they leave games with too much arbite players in them, as it’s frustrating and not interesting when you play a base class besides them. I started doing that too, with 1 Arbite on the team Damnation feels ok, 2 is already too much and I leave if I haven’t invested too much into that match already. I still prefer none, that’s best games I have these days.
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Adding this to the balance section of The Book.
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